francois,
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There is a neat museum of war there, very good!
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okay, even ignoring the whitewash about japanese atrocities against chinese, the museum there claims that the Pacific War was instigated by the americans for putting sanctions on japan and by the west for trying to colonialize asia. noble japan was there trying to protect her fellow asians.
yeah- that's neat.
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You are educated to hate Japan, that is it.
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one need not hate japan to point out that the way the japanese have dealt with their past history is very poor, to say the least. and that their policies (thankfully recently changed for the better) demonstrate their own myopia about how the rest of asia thinks of the japanese.
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Never heard of Phil say something bad about Japan. Not in this part of the world.
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i have. in fact, some of the most vehement japan-haters i know are filipinos and other southeast asians. i've heard chinese say that they would merrily bomb japan if they had the chance; however, i've not seen them become almost violently sick if the word "japan" is mentioned, and go on to spew an hour or so of vitrol about how they would relish personally burning down the house of every japanese in the world- preferably with the japanese in them. they honestly scare the crap outta me with that degree of hate.
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China and Koreas are fueling hate for their own agendas.
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it would be a lot harder for the fire to start if it wasn't for the fact that japan, by its words and actions, help heap sticks and provide the gasoline.
the thing is, many japanese are simply ignorant or unwilling to acknowledge what's happened in the past. thus, they simply do not understand why the rest of asia dislikes them so. because of this, they come to the conclusion that the other states just try to use history as an excuse to beat on japan. there is a grain of truth to this, but it is not the whole story, or anything close to the whole story.