TOKYO, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- China has become the center of East Asia thanks to its tenacious drive for reform and opening up over the past 30 years, and how to play its due role in the region is a major task China is charged with in the coming years, said a senior Japanese newsman in an interview with Xinhua.

    Kiyoshi Nakagawa, who heads the international department of Kyodo News, has found himself linked with China by an unbreakable bond since the early 1980s, when China had just adopted the policy of reform and opening up and foreigners began to be allowed entry into China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

    "In the early 1980s, the Japanese media focused mostly on China's domestic affairs and Japan-China relations, notably its leaders," said Nakagawa, who, as a Kyodo News reporter, went into Tibet with a Japanese mountain climbing team in 1981 and later served as the agency's bureau ...

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