Japan–Taiwan relations "The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out and Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine." Statements and principles set in the Joint Communiqué of 1972 were written in the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China in 1978. Japan and the PRC agreed to continue abiding by the treaty when former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe visited Beijing on 8 October 2006. In 1998, Japan and the PRC signed the Japan–China Joint Declaration on Building a Partnership
Sada Abe her disappearance, Sada Abe continues to draw public interest. In addition to the documentary in which Abe herself appeared shortly before she disappeared from the public eye, and the 1976 Japanese-language "In the Realm of the Senses", at least three successful films have been made based on the story. The 1983 film, "Sexy Doll: Abe Sada Sansei", made use of Abe's name in the title. In 1998, a 438-page biography of Abe was published in Japan, and the first full-length book on Abe in English, William Johnston's "Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan", was