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Originally Posted by GirlySports
China and Japan are fighting over the Senkaku Islands so they still hate each other.
Anytime Japan comes to China for anything, sport, convention, academics they get attacked.
I don't think the Japanese were extraordinarily cruel. Look at places like Cambodia, Africa, former Yugoslavia and the genocide that existed in those place.
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Yea genocide exists in those places but with the Japense and Germans during WW2 it was on an entirely different level altogether, Japanese raped killed an murdered over 23 million ethnic Chinese not including military personnel. 30 odd million people altogether.
A large part of the why there is still conflict is how the government of Japan handles the matter. Asian society is a lot about saving face and since a fair amount of pre-war government officials survived post-war, there is a lot of white-washing and re-writing of history because the Japanese government refuses to admit or compensate victims of past atrocities. This leads to a lot of continual bad blood and attacks to bring light to the matter. Germans on the other hand have done a lot better in this regard.
As for the Senkaku Islands, these islands were originally Chinese territory pre-war with Japan, however they weren't returned following the WW2 and the Chinese have been raising a stink about it for years.