And I think it made a marginal but real contribution to the possibility of normalization of relations there.

我觉得我们的贡献不大，但实实在在，帮助实现了两国的重新建交。

Occupying a large part of Japanese “old friends”, they were added another title “well digger in the normalization of relations”.

这些人占日本人中“老朋友”的大部分，他们还加上了另一个称呼“两个关系正常化的推手”。