Seven decades of bitterness A dispute over islands in the east china sea has
inflamed relations between japan and china for the last two years but they were
tense even before.The bbc's mariko oi visited both countries with a chinese
journalist to find out why the wounds of world war two refuse to heal. "Do you
feel guilty about what japan did to china during the war? "It was a question
that i had to translate more than once during a trip to japan with haining liu,
a former reporter for china's state broadcaster, cctv. It was haining who posed
that question to some of our interviewees the oldest of whom would have been a
child in 1945. "I feel sorry for what happened,"Said one man. "There were many
regrettable incidents,"Said another. "But maybe my regret isn't enough? "Added
one of them, a japanese nationalist, who argues that most school textbooks
exaggerate the abuses carried out by japanese soldiers. "No,"Haining responded.
"It's not enough. " There are some undisputed facts.Japan was the aggressor,
occupying manchuria in northern china in 1931.A wider war began in 1937, and by
the time japan surrendered in 1945, millions of chinese had died. A notorious
massacre occurred in the city of nanjing, which was the capital under the
kuomintang government.Atrocities were also carried out in other asian countries.
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uomo polo a righe made me feel uncomfortable every time i had to
translate the word"Guilt"Into japanese.And none of our japanese interviewees
would use it. Prisoners of war in manchuria, 1931 Should today's generation bear
the responsibility for past mistakes? I put that question to haining on our
second day together, asking if she thinks i should also feel guilty.She didn't
say"Yes"Or"No". Mariko and haining Mariko oi is a bbc journalist who spent six
years as a business reporter in singapore she was brought ralph lauren donna up
in tokyo, but moved to australia as a teenager Haining liu works as a media
consultant but formerly reported for chinese state broadcaster cctv she was
brought up in zhengzhou, though her family comes from nanjing Both were born in
1981 Listen to missing histories china and japan(Bbc world service, 15 february)
"I will keep asking the question while i'm here,"She said. "Because that is how
many chinese people feel. " I personally became interested in the history of
world war two as a teenager.Over the years i have researched the topic quite
thoroughly.Many ralph Lauren outlet online of my holidays have
included a trip to war museums across asia, in an attempt to understand the
damage and suffering japan caused. I have long felt that i was not taught enough
at school, so last year i wrote an article about the shortcomings of japan's
history education.It pointed out that the syllabus skims through more than a
million years of japan's relations with the rest of the world in just one year
of lessons.As a result, many japanese people have a poor understanding of the
geopolitical tensions with our neighbours. My article made many people in my
home country, including some of my own family, uncomfortable. It was not a
foreigner criticising japan, it was a japanese reporter openly criticising japan
in front of global audience. "Traitor"And"Foreign spy"Are just two of the many
names i was called. "Don't you love your own country? "One person asked on
twitter.Of course i do. When i confronted japan's past, it was like experiencing
a bad breakup.I went through similar stages shock, denial, anger and sorrow.I
eventually came to accept that i could not change what had happened. Japanese
soldiers celebrating, 1941 But especially after watching violent anti japanese
protests in china in 2012, i wanted to ask two questions. Is there anything we
can do to improve our relationship?And why don't other asian countries, where
the occupying japanese army also killed many civilians, hate the japanese as
much as china and south korea do? "Hate"May be a too strong word but it seemed
to me to describe the feelings of chinese protesters who were burning ralph lauren uomo
tuta japanese cars. More from the magazine"It turned out only 19 of the
book's 357 pages dealt with events between 1931 and 1945. "
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