“they hate the chi-coms.”?
\The Chinese people are very aware still of the murderous way they were treated by the Japanese military during the rape of Nanking.
Some of them. Some of them remember Manchukuo. So what— generationally these are not memories of the population (those generations largely disappeared by several huge Maoist famines, killing millions). They are only “aware” of it only to the extent of current chi-com propaganda telling them this.
Maoists have done far worse-— to their own people, than the Rape of Nanking, while obscuring the history for their own purposes. Japanese got rid of the samurai/shogun meme in the death knell poetic movement of Misima, and channeling this new stoicism in the manner of W. Edwards Deming. The Japanese post WWII economic miracle of Deming is what these later generations of Japanese grew up on. And they, btw, are the major lynchpin for economic engine of the chi-coms dependency.