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it is sad that Japan is not sending any more military flights with aid to China. I think the chinese people should stop living in the past. Japan is just trying to assist.

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The good news is that the 2 governments saw the potential problem and have figured out a way to avoid the issue and keep the aid coming. The article states that they just wont use military planes. They will use commercial cargo planes instead, so the aid will still flow.

Unfortunately, Japan has themselves to blame for their reputation with nearly all their asian neighbors. To begin with, the crimes that were committed were horrific. Since we are talking about China, let's review the taking of Nanking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

It is definitely worth a read to understand why there might still be some bad blood between the 2 countries. However, for those on a tight timeline, Japan's 1million strong military sat outside the gates of Nanking and demanded surrender within 24 hours. No news came back so they took the city by force. The chinese military that was hiding in the city was rounded up and summarily killed with little to no resistance. The city was then attacked. 2 Japanese soldiers had a contest as to who could kill the most people in a given period of time...when that time was up...they were so close they raised the target. Of key note, all that were killed in the contest had their heads chopped off, as was the perferred method of the Japanese Soldier. All of that was covered in the Japanese Newspapers. The women were raped and killed in brutal ways or were turned into comfort women (sex slaves) until they normally died. When some of the Foreigners (westerners) that were in a safe zone complained about what was being done to the Chinese women, the Japanese military sent over Korean comfort women to be abused, somewhat missing the point that this shouldn't be done to any women. Citizens were rounded up and buried alive as well.

Read the book...The Rape of Nanking. It is very enlightening to understand why Japan is still looked upon by their asian neighbors with less than esteem.

Now there will be no way of apologizing for that behavior...just none. However, admitting that it happened and teaching it, might be a place to start. Japan's history teaching leaves large swaths of their Meiji/Industrial period out of teaching. This has been routinely topped off by a visit to a War Shrine by the Prime Minister of Japan every year. Now what is remarkable about the shrine is that some of the guys that did these things are immortalized in that shrine and every year that the PM visits the shrine it is like having him spit on the memories of all the Chinese and Koreans (among others in the area) that Japanese soldiers killed. Now I have to give credit to Prime Minister Fukuda. He has said he will not visit the shrine while he is in office.

Oh and by the way, it is in the new about every year, the Korean comfort women that are still alive (and yes, there are still a few) picket and hold a demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy. They are still waiting for their apology!

Their neighbors all want apologies for the autrocities that the Japanese committed during their time of colonialism/expansionism. The Japanese basically (due more to cultural reasons) will not give them this needed apology, so it hangs over Japan. Also, Japan, as I have said does not really teach the full history of WWII to their students. THis is unfortunate and leaves their young people somewhat ill prepared to go outside of Japan into the asian business world.

Edited: Vincenzo on 30th May, 2008 - 2:08pm

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