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Originally Posted by HelloHockeyFans
These views stem from World War 2 when the Japanese military at the time commited many atrocities against the Chinese in China. There is still anger in today's generation of the Chinese, but mostly due to the unwillingness of Japan to admit the crimes and apologize. However, the Japanese did apologize, I believe 3 or 4 years ago for the things they did.
I don't hate Japanese people for crimes their ancestors commited. Having said that, I'm sure you could find other 20-something year olds or even 30 year olds who weren't around to witness said crimes, but will hate the Japanese anyway.
A story:
I was watching DragonBall-Z once with my bestfriend back when I still lived in Calgary when we were around 14 years old. His Grandma came upstairs, saw what we were watching on TV, and proceeded to throw a glass at the TV, breaking the TV and the glass, and screaming at us for watching a Japanese-produced TV show. She was in China during the Japanese occupation so I don't blame her at all.
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I'd like to chime in, the Japanese never apologize EVER! They attempted to change their school book to say whatever happened in China during WWWII never happened. Imagine, if the German now deny holocaust ever happen and it's just a myth, what kind of uproar it would be. If you have a chance, go get this book "The Rape of Nanking", it's written by a lady who was born in US, Iris Chang.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rap...ing_%28book%29
For Hellohockeyfans and Bruce, cos I don't think anybody else would understand this. This song was written in response to Japan officially changed their school book on history of the war in the early 90's
I don't hate the Japanese here, I've met a lot of nice Japanese. But I hate what they did, and I hate it more for not admit to it. I apologize if my post sounded like I'm out swinging. Just want to set the history straight, I was raised by my grandparents, and they lived through that horror.