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Q: My wife's primary school taught her to hate Japan. Why?

Here's where it gets really ironic: Japanese people donated a lot money to have her primary school built, and to hire teachers for it. Yet, she grew up -- along with everyone else -- hating all Japanese. The teachers moved in and just kept repeating the same anti-Japanese garbage. In time, everyone seemed to forget what the Japanese did for them.

 

It's ironic to me that Japanese people brought us together, since that's where her love of the English language began. She just remarked this to me. Not being constantly bombarded by the CCP message, the brainwashing is wearing off...

 

So why in the heck would something this pathetic happen? Hating someone who only did good for them? If the Japanese didn't donate to those children, including my wife, they would've grown up in the mountains without a school.

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Across the globe today, there are many countries or regions that at some time in their history have been invaded aggressively. Exactly how many of the countries and regions enact policies and even teach young school children to hate these aggressors decades or even centuries afterwards? It's xenophobia for the sake of politics and it's small mindedness. Strong nations move on and even embrace their former enemies. In China, various government departments spout the phrase "harmonious society". I wonder how many of them even know the meaning of their own propaganda?

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China's problems are immense. If China is going on like this, it's not impossible it will be aggressively invaded again in future, with majority of Chinese with any disobedience being killed. The purpose of keeping reminding the tragedy in history is to learn lessons from it and to prevent similar tragedies happen again. As Marxism points out: internal factors are the fundamental course to determine one thing's destiny. The basic way to prevent such tragedies happening again is to have China itself changed.

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So what you are saying is by teaching small children to hate the Japanese, it will reduce the chances of China being invaded in the future? That is truly bizarre.

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No Kaiwan I didn't say that. And I didn't mean that.

I said the basic way to prevent it from happening again is to have China itself changed. By that I mean to introspect why China was so weak at that time that a large country with 400 million population got defeated by a much smaller country. Even if Japan didn't exist, there would be another country that would have aggressively invaded and colonized China.

Change China how? Make it strong. What is preventing China to become strong? Internal factors are the main reasons. The govt, and the people.

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The question raised by HULK relates to school children being brainwashed into hating the Japanese. Maybe many of them have never even met a Japanese person. But they are being mind conditioned. This is the issue and the frightening aspect is, if it happens at this small country school, then it happens everywhere. It resembles the antics of Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984. The people in Airstrip One are mind conditioned into hating an enemy in a war that they don't even know is really happening nor that the enemy really exist. They hate because they are told to hate.

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Of all the 800 Japanese who are in service to their military and married with wives from foreign countries, 600 of them are Chinese.

In Northeast part of China Japanese is taught as a foreign language as well as English.

In the college entrance exam any student can choose between Japanese and English as their foreign language subject.

Anyone holding a Japanese passport doesn't need a VISA to entry China if they stay less than 15 days.

Hate much?

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Less than one year ago in the city where I now live, Japanese cars were wrecked, anti-Japanese slogans were daubed on the front of restaurants, burnt remains of Japanese flags could be seen in the street, crowds of angry young Chinese marched through the streets chanted anti-Japanese bile, at least three Japanese owned factories were torched or completely wrecked, Japanese businesses were looted, Japanese citizens that had nothing to do with WWII atrocities fled the city in fear and a well known Japanese supermarket was destroyed beyond recognition. Nobody is going to tell me these people have any kind of tolerance to the Japanese. Not before last October National Day, not since. Every argument has two sides. There were riots in my country not too long ago. The difference was the overwhelming majority of the population heavily condemned what happened. To this day, I have not heard a single condemnation from any person in authority for what happened in this city!

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You haven't heard doesn't mean it didn't exist. You didn't read Chinese editorials enough.

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After last year's anti-Japanese protests, I did a search on the internet because I wanted to send some of the pictures and news stories back home. I found a few interesting articles that had been published in Hong Kong with graphic photography of the damage. I showed my Chinese staff in the office. After all we live in the same city and saw the damage with our own eyes. Strangely, the only computer in the office that could open up any photographs or articles about the events was mine. A VPN was needed to access any material about the events. Could it be that somebody didn't want facts to be known?

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I read them, The Editorials were castigating Chinese for buying Japanese cars and products.  They called for a boycot of all japanese products.

 

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Why!!!??? Because they are evil imperialistic thugs bullying all other nations around them.

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With that being said, i do love eating sushi. 

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does she know its existence ?do you ?

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When you are a totalitarian state you need to provide your population with all the answers. Since most of the answers would make you look like you suck you need to make up scary stories about how much worse everyone else is. 

It's just like the bible really, force people to believe by providing a scary alternative. 

The Nanjing Masacre might have something to do with it too, but still that is nothing compared to what China has done to it's own people. 

xinyuren:

Correction: not like the Bible.  It's just like religion.  There is a big difference between the two.

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yes, I did think about "just like religion" but I am not sure Buddhism uses fear as a motivator, but I am not fully aware of that. 

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Invading China is a  bad thing. Killing Chinese is a bad thing. Name a country invades China for China's good ?China did a bad thing to Chinese. Japan did a bad thing to Chinese. two bad things don't eliminate each other .

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Japanese killed more than 20 million Chinese soldiers and civilians. More than 15 million injured.  Japanese made more than 42million Chinese  homeless refugees. Japanese enslaved hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Korean women as their sex slaves. Japanese tested bacteria on alive Chinese people.

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I will chose not to fact check you numbers, but China still comes out ahead when it comes to killing Chinese people. 

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There is nothing that can ever justify Japanese invading, colonizing China and Korea and killing , enslaving Chinese people and Korean people

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And yet, Chinese killed many more of their own countrymen after 1945.

 

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Take that, straw Christian!

 

Thankfully, China rejects Christianity, making it a beacon of reason and enlightenment.

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Looks like we got a wumao bomb, fellas. Ignore him. Downvote this reply too, because it doesn't contribute to the discussion.

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yeah im sponsored by Japan communist party . please don't hate us !here are very good Japanese people around us ,with a deep regret of history and sincere condolence to the victims of wars and masacre.

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Across the globe today, there are many countries or regions that at some time in their history have been invaded aggressively. Exactly how many of the countries and regions enact policies and even teach young school children to hate these aggressors decades or even centuries afterwards? It's xenophobia for the sake of politics and it's small mindedness. Strong nations move on and even embrace their former enemies. In China, various government departments spout the phrase "harmonious society". I wonder how many of them even know the meaning of their own propaganda?

ohChina:

China's problems are immense. If China is going on like this, it's not impossible it will be aggressively invaded again in future, with majority of Chinese with any disobedience being killed. The purpose of keeping reminding the tragedy in history is to learn lessons from it and to prevent similar tragedies happen again. As Marxism points out: internal factors are the fundamental course to determine one thing's destiny. The basic way to prevent such tragedies happening again is to have China itself changed.

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So what you are saying is by teaching small children to hate the Japanese, it will reduce the chances of China being invaded in the future? That is truly bizarre.

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No Kaiwan I didn't say that. And I didn't mean that.

I said the basic way to prevent it from happening again is to have China itself changed. By that I mean to introspect why China was so weak at that time that a large country with 400 million population got defeated by a much smaller country. Even if Japan didn't exist, there would be another country that would have aggressively invaded and colonized China.

Change China how? Make it strong. What is preventing China to become strong? Internal factors are the main reasons. The govt, and the people.

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The question raised by HULK relates to school children being brainwashed into hating the Japanese. Maybe many of them have never even met a Japanese person. But they are being mind conditioned. This is the issue and the frightening aspect is, if it happens at this small country school, then it happens everywhere. It resembles the antics of Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984. The people in Airstrip One are mind conditioned into hating an enemy in a war that they don't even know is really happening nor that the enemy really exist. They hate because they are told to hate.

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Of all the 800 Japanese who are in service to their military and married with wives from foreign countries, 600 of them are Chinese.

In Northeast part of China Japanese is taught as a foreign language as well as English.

In the college entrance exam any student can choose between Japanese and English as their foreign language subject.

Anyone holding a Japanese passport doesn't need a VISA to entry China if they stay less than 15 days.

Hate much?

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Less than one year ago in the city where I now live, Japanese cars were wrecked, anti-Japanese slogans were daubed on the front of restaurants, burnt remains of Japanese flags could be seen in the street, crowds of angry young Chinese marched through the streets chanted anti-Japanese bile, at least three Japanese owned factories were torched or completely wrecked, Japanese businesses were looted, Japanese citizens that had nothing to do with WWII atrocities fled the city in fear and a well known Japanese supermarket was destroyed beyond recognition. Nobody is going to tell me these people have any kind of tolerance to the Japanese. Not before last October National Day, not since. Every argument has two sides. There were riots in my country not too long ago. The difference was the overwhelming majority of the population heavily condemned what happened. To this day, I have not heard a single condemnation from any person in authority for what happened in this city!

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You haven't heard doesn't mean it didn't exist. You didn't read Chinese editorials enough.

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After last year's anti-Japanese protests, I did a search on the internet because I wanted to send some of the pictures and news stories back home. I found a few interesting articles that had been published in Hong Kong with graphic photography of the damage. I showed my Chinese staff in the office. After all we live in the same city and saw the damage with our own eyes. Strangely, the only computer in the office that could open up any photographs or articles about the events was mine. A VPN was needed to access any material about the events. Could it be that somebody didn't want facts to be known?

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I read them, The Editorials were castigating Chinese for buying Japanese cars and products.  They called for a boycot of all japanese products.

 

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I cannot answer your Q, but when I hear similar statements I try to clear meaning (value) of 'hate'. 
'Is hate good or bad feeling? Do you hold something good or bad in your heart when you hate?'

Answer is almost always 'hate is bad feeling'!

 'So, why would you store something bad into your heart because somebody is not good? Just forget it, and move on.

 

Obvious Chinese push 'bad Japanese' because of last WW.

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blah blah blah, you cannot cling on to the past just to use it as a tool for making someone else look worse than you. It was a different world back then, plenty of bad stuff went down. Consider why the Japanese was able to move on and today have a good relationship with the US, why Germany and France are best buds etc. while Chine has disagreements with everyone around her. 

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Too difficult to 'consider why....' at this time. I'm fresh back from almost 3 days train ride. No water in my area (apartment), because of construction works nearby. Just Hennessy and Cubans from HKat the moment.

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Good topic with stupid,ignorant,arrogant and "pretend to know it well"style "comments",oh by "comments" I mean craps.Sorry I'm just being honest and I'll tell you why.

Of course if you feel offended by the words above,try to be careful about commenting on something you don't know well,especially when it comes to history,please show a little basic respect.I would never comment on the relationship between German and Poland if I don't know it well,although I'm a normal Chinese who was educated by so called "brainwash" stuff.

 

First question,Japan has moved on while China keeps hating Japan?

 

22 June 2012-Interesting news item:84% of Japanese have a negative impression of China and 64.5% of Chinese have a negative impression of Japan, according to an annual bilateral survey translated by Japan Real Time's Yoree Koh.WOW!A slap on the face! 

In fact there is a similar question on www.quora.com.Foster Winans has a perfect answer.Check out this http://www.quora.com/China/Why-do-the-Chinese-generalise-the-Japanese-as-being-evil

 

I don't think I could make a better reply here.So I would try to say something according to my life experience.

 

There is no book in China telling the students to hate a nation or a country.I would bet anything with everyone here if you can find one.And believe me it's absolutely forbidden to teach the "political incorrect" thing in class,especially in history class.Anti-Japan war is a important part of our history book and the most important part in teaching is to describe the horrible war and praise of heroes who lost their lives in the war,and CCP as well of course......

On the other hand I can't guarantee every teacher would keep calm about that since many schools in mountains don't have good supervise system.The first 9 years of my education was in small village schools and the teacher never told us to hate Japan.I think the convey mentioned above can prove this.

 

Also there are some Japanese helping China in education and something else,for example the earth quake.But China also donated much money when the tsunami took place in Japan.And let me ask a question here,how much money we paid for Sino-Japanese war and how much we get for WW?Just google it.

GuilinRaf:

All I know is that last year, an entire class was openly hostile to one of my students, only because her mother was Japanese.

If this were to happen in Japan or the USA, the offended student would have the protection of the law. here in China, it was not until I walked out of the classroom and refused to return that my student was treated with dignity and moved to a class where she had friends. Before I walked out, the attitude of the school was that it was her fault for having a Japanese mother.

Can you imagine if the entire European continent hated Italy for what the Romans did 2000 years ago? What China is doing is just as stupid.

 

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"Can you imagine if the entire European continent hated Italy for what the Romans did 2000 years ago? What China is doing is just as stupid."

 

DING DING DING DING DING! WE HAVE A WINNER!

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Raf,this is even a larger issue.

 

I was called "SPARKY 4.0" on this forum only because I'm a Chinese. Yet I don't know what it means but I guess it would not be a good word.I don't think I've done something wrong but it seems many people here mix there hatred towards CCP to some ordinary people.If they can do that why can't the Chinese students mix their hatred towards the Japan gov with that student?So another trick about a double standard?

 

To be honest comparing the history 2000 years ago with the war and massacre 70-80 years ago is a lack of logic.I don't know any Chinese who would hate British,German,French and other countries for the invasions and robbery,known as BaGuoLianJun.We are not a nation who would live in history.Most of us just let it go in this case,right?

 

But,Ladies and Gentlemen here,let me ask you a question.HOW CAN YOU FORGIVE SOMEONE WHO DON'T APOLOGIZE TO YOU?Many guys here criticizing China for dishonesty.But could you please tell me what kind of honesty does Japan show after the war?Denying the massacre in 1937?Manipulating the history book like CCP?

 

Every wound needs time to recover.But does Japan gov care it?How would Europeans feel if German visit Hitler's tombstone and regard him as a war hero?

 

After all I don't think teaching somebody to hate others is correct.But you should realize for many alive victims and their offsprings in China the war suffering is about blood.torturing and death.Not just chatting on internet.And something Japan did and doing is not helping but rather hurting.China can't lei it go on its own without the apology from Japan.

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But the simple fact is that even had Japan made a full and unreserved apology, it would not have made one iota of difference to the situation. In fact, it could have even made things worse. China would have used it as a tacit admission of guilt and an excuse for pouring more scorn on your neighbours. As for rewriting the history books or omitting/changing/revising certain events in history, I don't think China can hold the moral high ground in that respect either!

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So, that justifies mistreating and abusing a Chinese girl just because her mother is from Japan?  Destroying cars that belong to fellow Chinese citizens, just because the car was made in Japan?  I cannot  agree with you.  

 

And for the record, I never called you Sparky.

 

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No Raf you kind of misunderstand me.

 

By the "SPARKY" I want to show that there is no difference between "Some people here mix the hatred for CCP with ordinary people who just doesn't agree with them" and "Some Chinese also mix the hatred for Japan war criminals with ordinary Japanese people".Do you think so?

 

And by the comparison I want to say it's quite easy to be controlled by hatred and revenge.Even many adults here can't handle it well.What Im doing here is to explain the reasons for those things since there is a "WHY" in the question.I hope you can understand it and although Im Chinese I have to say I don't support it.

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Last year around National Day, some Japanese citizens left Qingdao for their own safety. They were not Japanese war criminals. As far as I know, none of them were even born during WWII. They were nothing more than language teachers and local business owners. They were warned that if they stayed here, they may get attacked. It doesn't seem to bear out your claim that the hatred is aimed solely at those Japanese directly involved in the atrocities, does it? Some of these quite innocent victims came back to find their businesses wrecked and their property looted. There was another very apparent aspect to all of this. The authorities knew well in advance what was going to happen and the likely targets. Yet on the days that the riots took place, the lack of riot police, armoured vehicles, water canons, even tanks that the Chinese government have certainly used in similar disturbances were conspicuous by their absence. If the authorities so desired, they could have quashed these riots with ease. Why, on this occasion, did they choose to take a soft line? Why indeed?

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Good thought Kaiwen.I wish I could give you a vote up since you are reaching the place near the heart of this issue.Im glad to talk about that according to what I know and as always from a local's angle.I've seen the stupid and crazy riots last year.yeah I was a witness.Check this.http://answers.echinacities.com/question/can-chinese-open-their-minds-outside-world-and-be-more-everyone-else?&showid=161844#answer161844

 

No doubt sometimes gov is behind many kinds of parades or riots.I have own experience as evidence just like yours.Some shops selling Japanese stuffs were told to close in advance.Since I'm a fan of  the novel1984 I know what it means.

 

But trust me please.I never supported or agreed to this kind of behavior,and I'm sure I won't in the future.Most Chinese I know were also criticizing the insanity.You can prove that on some Chinese forums if you want.

 

What I'm trying to do is to answer the "WHY" in the post.Everything happens for a reason.right?My opinion is I can understand the reason but I don't accept it.And as always be careful about your words when you discuss some sensitive history problems with a local,right?

 

 

 

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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. Eleanor Roosevelt

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-Ezra Vogel non exact quote...book is in storage "Nothing has been as effective in raising nationalist feeling in China, as the anti-Japanese propaganda" See Deng Xao Ping Biography.

-As Alexander Solzhenistyn said "Communism require an enemy, a continual war." That enemy is Japan. In addition as the modern leaders of China have no revolutionary chops, and are all related to powerful men, and their own children are educated abroad, they lack a certain 'authenticity that the earlier leaders had. This propaganda is designed to distract the masses from the total lack of credibility as "leaders of the people". Anybody who sees this for what it is...wagging the dog...is called a race-traitor, and unpatriotic.

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And the locals are stupid enough to fall for it....

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they are not stupid, but when you live in a close society with misinformation then that is what happens, the people are not at fault, it is the "elite" that is at fault

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Because this is the most ingrateful nation in the world. And the next time they have an economic collapse followed by a civil war and famine we should let them rot.

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Every time I take  trip in China rural areas I see old building still having graffiti from WWII in red paint. I know some of it says don't be afraid to die for China, I imagine some of it says Japan sucks. I look at this and wonder, how can you go for seventy years and not paint your dam house.

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After my wife told me this story, I wanted to post it here and discuss it, even though I already knew they taught everyone to hate Japan in school. I just wanted to see what the wumaos thought about this post. I wanted to see if my theory could be proven: no good deed should go unpunished in China.

 

Not one of you mentioned anything about the kind-hearted Japanese folks who donated lots of money to pay for that school -- for poor rural children --  including hiring their teachers -- only to have their gifts turned against them. It was all a non-issue to all of you. All you could focus on was what Japan did to you in the past, and how they've never apologized.

 

With that said, since the CCP doesn't allow you to see this, I will paste: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

 

September 29, 1972: Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka said to the people of the People's Republic of China: "The Japanese side is keenly conscious of the responsibility for the serious damage that Japan caused in the past to the Chinese people through war, and deeply reproaches itself. Further, the Japanese side reaffirms its position that it intends to realize the normalization of relations between the two countries from the stand of fully understanding 'the three principles for the restoration of relations' put forward by the Government of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese side expresses its welcome for this" (Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China)

 

August 24, 1982: August 24, 1982: Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki said: "I am painfully aware of Japan's responsibility for inflicting serious damages [on Asian nations] during the past war." "We need to recognize that there are criticisms that condemn [Japan's occupation] as invasion" (Press Conference on Textbook issue).

 

August 26, 1982: Chief Cabinet Secretary Kiichi Miyazawa said to the people of the Republic of Korea: "1. The Japanese Government and the Japanese people are deeply aware of the fact that acts by our country in the past caused tremendous suffering and damage to the peoples of Asian countries, including the Republic of Korea (ROK) and China, and have followed the path of a pacifist state with remorse and determination that such acts must never be repeated. Japan has recognized, in the Japan-ROK Joint Communique, of 1965, that the 'past relations are regrettable, and Japan feels deep remorse,' and in the Japan-China Joint Communique, that Japan is 'keenly conscious of the responsibility for the serious damage that Japan caused in the past to the Chinese people through war and deeply reproaches itself.' These statements confirm Japan's remorse and determination which I stated above and this recognition has not changed at all to this day. 2. This spirit in the Japan-ROK Joint Communique, and the Japan-China Joint Communique, naturally should also be respected in Japan's school education and textbook authorization.

 

November 26, 1998: Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi said in a declaration: "Both sides believe that squarely facing the past and correctly understanding history are the important foundation for further developing relations between Japan and China. The Japanese side observes the 1972 Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China and the August 15, 1995 Statement by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. The Japanese side is keenly conscious of the responsibility for the serious distress and damage that Japan caused to the Chinese people through its aggression against China during a certain period in the past and expressed deep remorse for this. The Chinese side hopes that the Japanese side will learn lessons from the history and adhere to the path of peace and development. Based on this, both sides will develop long-standing relations of friendship" (Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development).

 

August 30, 2000: Minister for Foreign Affairs Yōhei Kōno said in an address during his visit to the People's Republic of China: "I believe that Japan's perception of history was clearly set out in the Statement by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama issued, following a Cabinet Decision, on the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. As a member of the Cabinet, I participated in the drafting of that Statement. The spirit contained therein has been carried forth by successive administrations and is now the common view of the large number of Japanese people" (Address by Minister for Foreign Affairs Yōhei Kōno During His Visit to the People's Republic of China)

 

Now, if you want to argue those, you can scroll down to "controversy." Quit demanding COMPENSATION, COMPENSATION, COMPENSATION! for something that today's Japanese aren't guilty of. Japan doesn't need to apologize anymore, but for some reason they keep doing it... probably because so many Chinese people still aren't over it. Gee... I wonder why.

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actually there is also a Chinese version of it but I don't think that china wants just an apologize, is more about cash...and anyway those idiots shouting all japanese must die and at the same time taking photos with their made-in-japan mobile are just a bunch of morons, brainwashed not only by those schools Hulk mention it but also from the whole society. There are also anti-japanese cartoons actually....

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"With that said, since the CCP doesn't allow you to see this, I will paste: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan"

 

HAHAHAHHA.You regard me as a Wumao and I will tell you why I look you as a "typical google historian" in return.DEMONCRASY DOESN'T TELL YOU TO NAME SOMEONE WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU AS  A "WUMAO".RIGHT?

 

Let me ask you a question.What would Europeans feel if German issue an oral "apology" and then visit Hitler's tombstone where regarding him as a war hero sacrificed for the country?Would anyone consider this as a real apology?or just a  

two-faced trick?

 

ANSWER ME PLEASE.

 

If you agree with my definition of "apology",I would be very glad to communicate with you about some deeper reasons.

 

1.Tanaka Kakuei is highly praised in China history book.You can buy a middle school book to prove it.And what you don't know is the detail in his conversation with Zhou Enlai.

If you know Chinese well enough,check out this

http://club.kdnet.net/dispbbs.asp?id=656102&boardid=1

He is very appreciated for his attitude and this is part of the reason why China started a good relationship with Japan in 1970s-1990s.MOST NORMAL CHINESE JUST WANNA GET OVER IT.

 

Some evidence here.

A) General Nie Rongzhen adopted a Japanese orphan left in China.And search "Japanese orphans left in China" via google you will learn more.WHY THE HELL CHINESE RAISED THEM IF WE HATE THEM?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_orphans_in_China

B)The first concert by foreigner in China after cultural revolution is the show of Sada Masashi,yes a Japanese singer.And Takakura Ken was the most popular star for that moment while Japanese was quite popular language in society.A lot of Chinese go there to study and work.

 

2.After Japan failed the war in 1945,Yasukuni Jinjia remaind because Japanese agreed to the theory "Separation of church and state".In 1966 Ministry of Welfare in Japan wanted to add the war criminals to the Yasukuni Jinjia but Tsukuba,who was in charge of it refused.And in 1978 the war criminals' names were on the list and this was the beginning of many arguments.AND IT BROKE THE RULE AND PRINCIPLE THEY MADE.Since then Hirohito stopped visiting there and this helped building the relationship between two countries.

The most terrible crisis of that happened in 1996 and this was regarded as the closure of the friendship lasting almost 20 years.TRY TELLING EVERY JEW THAT YOU ARE A BIG FAN OF HITLER AND HE WAS A WAR HERO.I'm surre you would understand the feeling.

 

Oh yeah you seem to be an American!!!So what will you feel if I'm planning to celebrate 911 this year and I think Bin Laden is absolutely a great warriorindecision.

 

THINK ABOUT IT.AMERICAN IDIOT.YES I'M BEING RUDE AND I THINK YOU DESERVE IT WHEN YOU SAID THE MOST STUPID CRAP DUE TO YOUR LACK OF HISTORY.

 

As always,feel free to vote me down and keep living in your imagination that"ALL THE CHINESE WHO DISAGREE WITH ME ARE BRAINWASHED",this makes you feel better I know.

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nicholasba:

perhaprs djianglee you should do more research about what yasukuni shrine really is and also read something more about scinto, before doing some ridiculous comparisons. And also you seem to forget that usually who pays visit to that shrine are japan most conservative party's officials: remember?Japan has more than just one party.... I dont see besides that many japanese knows what actually that Shrine is or/and gives a fuck about it..You should also consider that in the eyes of uighur and tibetan people, and even mongolians you are not less than an invader. You know your own history?

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nicholasba:

if chinese want really to be coherent with their beliefs(and hate) then why buy japanese products (even Iphone), dont watch Japanese movies and dont work for japanese.indecision

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Hulk:

Again, the wumaos can only talk about their hatred for Japan, and not about the kind-hearted people who gave an education to poor Chinese children, which allowed some of them to become doctors, etc.

 

Good going, Mr. Wumao. Whether you're paid or not, you are a wumao spouting the same party-line BS day in, day out. They succeeded in fully brainwashing you. Have a good day.

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If they are teaching hate in school that just means the people doing the teaching probably weren''t qualified to lead a group of kids being raised this day and age to begin with.

Hulk:

Right... but... this happens everywhere, so...

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Kaiwen:

Good old Silva!

 

 

So wonderfully naive.

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There are cookies, bookies and too many rookies for me to sit here trying to be a hooky! Looky Looky don't call me a wooky. Touchy Touchy Feely Feely Spicy Spicy Nicey Nicey & that's what the doctor Ordered!!

 
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