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Originally posted by Hack&Lube+Aug 25 2005, 09:56 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Hack&Lube @ Aug 25 2005, 09:56 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-red '00@Aug 24 2005, 05:18 PM
Can you really buy square watermelons over there?
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That's Japan. Please stop confusing us. Japan is really not very popular in Asia for their refusal to admit and atone for wartime attrocities (and also plenty of non-wartime attrocities commited by Imperialist Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries). [/b][/quote]
List of Japanese Apologies to Asian countries to attone for war crimes
Most of the Asian backlash against Japan has to do with the fact that the governments of Korea and China took reparation money from Japan after the war, and invested it on infrastructure. It never made it down to the people directly affected by the wars, and in the case of Korea, was managed irresponsibly.
War Reparation Payouts
It happened, it was horrible, but to what extent can you blame the current generation of Japanese for something that happened before their parents and grandparents were born? I think it's time for the region to move on.