70 years after the massacre, the Chinese are still scornful of the Japanese?

Question

Soviets killed 100,000 Polish and Ukrainians in 1941.
Americans killed 220,000-500,000 Japanese in 1945.
The French killed 500,000 Algerians in 1954-1962.
Anglo-Americans killed 600,000 Germans in 1945.
Pakistanis killed 250,000-3,000,000 Bangladeshis in 1971.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres

Do the Polish and Ukrainians hate and criticize the Soviet? Do the Japanese hate and criticize Americans? Do the Algerians hate and criticize the French? Do the Germans hate and criticize the Anglo-Americans? Do the Bangladeshis hate and criticize the Pakistanis?

The Japanese killed 200,000-350,000 Chinese in 1937-1938. All of the massacres listed above occurred more recently than the Nanking Massacre, and most of them have taken a larger toll than the Japanese have. But still, the Chinese continue to emotionally avenge the Japanese by making them look bad globally.

The U.S. has called for an official sex slave apology by Japan to China. Japan has apologized numerous times to China on this issue, and the Chinese have even made the Japanese government pay them a huge sum on the pretext that we massacred their people. And what does Japan get from that? Worldwide discrimination.

The Japanese strongly feels it this century, especially since China has successfully brought the western countries on its side and managed to further publicize Japanese cruelty which they had committed seven decades ago.

Answer 1

You omitted the German Nazis k1lling millions of Jews in Europe during the same time Japan occupied China. The Jews still haven't forgotten that slight either. I'd suppose one way of looking at it would be the fact that a lot of Chinese who suffered under Japanese occupation are still alive today due to the high Chinese life expectancy compared to western lifespans. My immigrant grandfather lived to be 95 and died 3 years ago not due to old age, but complications from diabetes after surgery to amputate his right foot because his toes were afflicted with gangrene. Most of his contemporaries are still alive today and all they talk about were the hardship they suffered during those days of the Japanese occupation. I guess ten years from now when most of the old timers have passed away, maybe we will see a little slackening of animosity between the two countries. Or maybe not : D

Answer 2

errmmmm ...

there is a polish proverb: 'it is not enough to love poland; you must also hate russia'.

in algeria the city of 'oran' (in some senses the country's second city) has been closed to french natives for over twenty years, because the police cannot guarantee the safety of any french national who travels there (and would rather not have the phag of trying to).

bengalis loathe pakistanis - you should talk to one sometime.

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the rape of nanking was probably the worst atrocity of the entire war, and certainly the blueprint for all the other ones. but as you point out, almost nobody alive today can still remember it.

china has its own agenda for keeping memories of japanese atrocities alive (it deflects attention from china's own atrocities against its own people). i think most westerners are aware of this.

there is more race hatred in the world than i think you are giving the world credit for. in the first half of the twentieth century japan was an execrable country (including for its own citizens). but that was three generations ago. these day the villains are places like iran, zimbabwe, and burma.

Answer 3

I lived in Nanjing in 1984-1985 and a Chinese person talked to me about what the Japanese did to them. In the nine months that I was there, I only heard about it once.

I lived in Los Angeles, Montreal, and now on a Mohawk Reservation, and I never heard about it again.

That did not change my opinion of the Japanese people, because I made the distinction that what happened was in the past.

The Japanese have an excellent reputation of being really disciplined, and being ahead in technology, and one of the richest countries in the world.

I do not know where you got the idea that they have a bad reputation. There is always going to be someone criticizing something.

If I were you I would not worry about it.

Answer 4

This question is wrong in so many ways.

1) you are comparing apples and oranges-there is a huge difference between bombing deaths during war and the intentional raping and pillaging and slaughter of the population of an area after capture during an aggresive invasion on an area;

2) I bet there are poles and unkranians, just as there are armenians and jews, who have never forgiven the slaughter their people endured;

3) The Japanese have never really apologized or admitted what was done was wrong. The best that has happened is a statement on the lines of we are sorry that the chinese people are upset about what we did.

Answer 5

Hello. Yes, the older generation are still scornful of the japanese. I am a Chinese and my grandmother told me of how young unmarried girls had to run or hide in temples as nun unless they would like to be raped.
The japanese also murdered people in cold blood, such as asking people to dig their own grave literally and shoot them down, or cut off their private parts and shove in the victim's mouth. They did many horrible things. It's something that's hard to forgive, particularly the last leader of Japan ignored China's warnings and went ahead to the temple to pay respects to 'war heros'

Answer 6

I think it was the nature of the torturing and not just the killing that bothers the chinese.

Answer 7

i dont know man The pakis killed a lot more than everyone else. And they sound so much like abuncha assholes right now to the world. We cant help them being assholes. phuck them all

Answer 8

Yes and that is history my friend its the same with Paki and India

Answer 9

I though it was the A-bomb that hits Japan?