Another email from an acquaintance (American Caucasian) who has ties with China, and been there a few times.
"My Wife and I talked about this a lot last night and
we think that the Japanese are dead wrong on this.
Here is why:
The leader of Japan still complains (and rightfully
so) about the atomic bombs used in 1945. He also
still complains (and rightfully so) about the northern
island being captured by the Russians in 1944.
However, he seems to forget about the same terrible
actions that his own troops committed (the occupation
and brutal massacres during the same period of time
against Chinese, Koreans, and others). He also seems
to forget that his still not returning of money stolen
to China, causes there to be more poverty, today, and
greater deaths today.
Finally, the average Chinese person I speak with and
have spoken with knows about Tiananmen. Whereas the
average Japanese does NOT know about Nanjing, nor does
the average Japanese know about the fact that today,
they have more weapons of mass destruction than any
other country in the world, in clear violation of the
Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, nor about any of the
issues of them still killing innocent people in China
and Korea due to the unexploded chemical weapons that
their government has still refused to clean up
(although it agreed to do so as a condition of ending
WWII). (I also do not know how many Americans know
about our own massacres in Vietnam, in Kent Ohio, in
the Nevada Desert, etc.)." |
