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[meisui]

HI I'm Japanese collage student
What do you think of Japan
Recently, between Japan and China, South Korea have not good relation The cause is maybe war
But, Japanese likes China and South Korea

What do you think of it

[yyayya]

I do not know if you really like china or Korea.
Once I graduated from university, I worked in a Japanese company. I made several Japanese friends there, and our relation is really good.
I had met many Japanese and got along with them, mostly they are kind (at lease on the appearance), polity, serious.
But many Chinese do not like Japanese before getting aware with them. That because,
1. Japan had made unforgivable mistakes not long ago.
2. Prime minister always pays respect to war criminal.
3. Try to beatify the aggression history in textbook.
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In fact I do not know the try thought in young Japanese mind about history and China.
So I want to discuss with you more.
thanks

[laiyi]

Hi,meisui
I am a Chinese student.It is a pity that the relation is not good between our country.I don't think it will invoke war.All Chinese people love peace.
as a Chinese,we can not what your country had done to us.We hope you can understand our feeling.Hope that wo have good relation from now on.

[RedRose]

When people mention Japan and Japanese, I always can't help thinking of what Japan did to our Chinese people. that was so inhuman and cruel.

About 3 years ago, I went to LvShun of DaLian for a medicine conference. I visisted a Prison built by Japan, and the guide told us:"see those bamboo cages? in those years, Japanese soldiers forced Chinese youngmen to weave these cages, and after Chinese finished their work, those Japanese soldiers bended Chinese people into half length and stuffed them into those cages one by one, one cage for a Chinese, actually, then those chinese were still alive, those Japanese soldiers threw those cages into a huge pit which had been dug by Chinese themselves, and then Japanese soldiers covered those cages with soil!"

Listenig to her explanations, I felt very hurt and couldn't help crying, and I asked:"those buried Chinese people were all men? what about their families?" the guide told me:"their wives were raped by Japanese soldier. Japanese even cut open some pregnant Chinese women's bellies and fetched babies out, they cooked a kind of soup named delicious babe soup. of course, those pregnant women died."

Then I just felt like someone was tearing and smashing my heart! that night I even couldn't fall asleep. very hard night. I won't visit that cruel Japanese prison anymore, I can't stand that.

[laiyi]

My motherland

[wendy_kb8]

hi,meisui
when i talk about japan and japanese with my classmates,most of us don't like japan or japanese.not only because of what ur pa or grandpa did to our chinese people,but also the attitude of japanese goverment towards the history,the reality,the truths. they told the young japanese kids,"our country has never done sth like that before,chinese are lying!"

do u know the feeling of the oldmen and oldwomen who were harmd deeply by japanese in the war when they heard this?!and we chinese youth also felt sad and indignant.

on the other hand,japanese work hard ,we should study from u at this point.

[asterix]

That story about cutting open pregnant women's bellies and eating or killing the child within has been around for centuries.
It is merely an attempt to de-humanize the enemy, so that it will become less disgusting to kill them, and it is part of the standard propaganda used by governments during wartime.

[element105]

[wing]

[asterix]

Militarily, the Japanese were extremely effective in WW2. Their culture was not the same as that of Europe, America, or even China.
Today, Japan has moved away from that glorification of war and warriors, and today's Japanese are not responsible for what their grandparents did, so why don't you all just drop the subject.
You cannot change what has already happened and an apology will not resurrect any of the dead.

[wing]

So what? Don't you think that it's too easy to let 'it' go?
As far as most people in yellow skin concerned, the apology is needed, and the country should have established a charity to take all these matters in its own hands in helping the aged Chinese and Korean women who had been sexual and physically abused during the time.

It is not the matter like you say they are not responsible for killed people just because they are a new generation and didn't involve the massacres and inhuman treatments in the bygone era.

Humanly, the Janpanese government cannot shake off the responsiblity. It should pay off that it owe.
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[asterix]

And so this lack of a few words, which, in any case mean nothing, promotes anger on the side of the grandsons of the dead Chinese.
It is this kind of unenlightened thinking, driven by ego, that will lead you into war some day.
But of course, if you are angry at the Japanese you may not notice the shortcomings of your own leaders.
For example, how is democracy faring in Hong Kong?

[RedRose]

asterix, You are messing everying!

[element105]

Ahhhhhhhhh,though I don't like you I have to say,you finally say somrthing nice rr.

[element105]