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Apr. 25th, 2005

  • 10:49 PM
naanima: (id - lady_silver)
The whole China-Japan situation makes me angry and very close to hating people. It isn't pretty, it isn't nice, and it is too damn complicated for people to throw mud in any direction. But I am Chinese, and I'd be lying if I said the whole situation isn't getting to me. It is all nice to say that you can't live in the past, that you have to move on, but you can't do either when the past is not even acknowledged. So, stop making damn judgements about China when you don't have relatives who still remember the Japanese occupation. Don't make damn snipe comments about the past actions of the Chinese government when, at the present time, it is the Chinese people who are angry. And for damn sake don't compare the China-Japan situation to Germany and its treatment of the Holocaust. Japan have not acknowledged the actions of its own army during WW2. Several generations of Japanese does not know their own history because their government decided to delete a section of their history. There are people in China, in Korea, in Thailand, hell, in most of the South East Asian countries who does remember. So, please, don't make a damn judgement when all you know is that 'Japan did some bad things to other Asians during WW2.'

I'm so sick of the people who don't know anything, who have no personal investment, being all high and mighty. Forgiveness does not come from you. So, back off.

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[identity profile] code-renegade.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 26th, 2005 04:49 am (UTC)
From what I see of the papers, everything has gone to hell. The Japanese Foreign Minister has turned around to attack the Chinese textbooks for perpetuating the mindset among the Chinese only one perspective - that of the sufferings of the Chinese. Whatever Koizumi has said is going to be spit in the wind if the Foreign Minister doesn't retract what he says soon.

Personally, I find that remark to be very wrong. In the first place, China was invaded by Japan. Because of the war, they had little outside communication and all that and had to deal with the brunt of the Japanese forces during the early days of the Pacific War. It's unrealistic to expect the people to think and consider - "oh, the Japanese civilians must be suffering too!" when you see your own daughters being taken away and your sons drafted into a futile battle. Furthermore, Japanese civilian sufferings never reached any significiant proportion to the amount of killings they had done of civilians overseas until the 2 A-bombs were dropped.

To be fair to the Japanese, though, they are the only nation to have experienced the A-bomb first hand, so perhaps in that way it'd not be fair to neglect saying that their civilians had seen hardship. But the whole glossing over of the wartime atrocities? I'm not going to stand for that even though my grandparents were quite safe and most of my PRC relatives I just don't really know them really.

But just... urgh. Why on earth did that stupid guy have to turn around and accuse Chinese textbooks of being biased? It's among the stupidest diplomatic moves since the new century, I swear.

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