Last week, Akio Takahara, a professor at the University of Tokyo currently visiting Peking University, wrote a New York Times Op-Ed praising recent diplomatic efforts by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and Chinese President Xi Jinping to deflect power from their nations’ nationalists. But it is in people-to-people contact that sustainable peace between the two northeast Asian powers lies, Takahara said, prompting the question, “What must China and Japan do to get along in 2015?”