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To: tejek who wrote (229640)	4/17/2005 8:04:40 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576346

"I too am puzzled....why now after 50 years have elapsed?" Partly it is just politics, nationism is a traditional way to distract the people when there are tensions. Apparently there is a running dispute with Japan over gas deposits and who gets to exploit them. Immediately after WWII, China was in a state of turmoil until Mao took control. But under Mao, China was very insular and had as little to do with the West as possible until Nixon. Since then, China has been more nd more engaged with the West and see themselves as the next big global power. But Japan was being groomed for that role when their economy whoopsied about 15 years ago. So both countries see themselves as the natural leader of the region, and they don't seem to be too interested in cooperating. Too much history between the two. To make it worse, China is still annoyed over the way Japan behaved in the years leading up to WWII. You know it is pretty bad when the Nazi ambassador to Japan complains about how brutally Japan is treating the Chinese... If you haven't looked it up before, google The Rape of Nanking. It doesn't help that in Japan there are some attempts to down play Japan's colonial adventures.