The Han Chinese play victim better and the Japanese disdain that role so I find the Japanese more acceptable. But that is just personal opinion.
I have to admit I loved living in Japan. Especially at the time I did which was the 80s. There were still enough of the old people who remembered how things were before 1945 and they were willing to talk to the little American girl who wanted to listen.
I got the impression that many of their grandkids were not interested at all. Why look at the past when the future is before you? I regret not writing more down. I really regret not taping the stories. Not stories about the war. That was a horror show. But stories about how they lived and what they did outside of that.
That must have been something, to live in Japan. I’ve never been to the Far East at all, though I’ve known quite a few Chinese and Japanese people over the years, and read a fair amount about that part of the world. But that’s not at all the same as being there.