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Japan's point of view about the rising tensions between Japan and China.
Vipper (Movie) ^

Posted on 04/22/2005 7:02:39 AM PDT by Wiz

East Asia countries have continued to criticized Japan for the ignorance of the war crimes during World War II. The tensions have rised between China and Japan for the escalation of violent protests in China against Japan. Meanwhile, Japanese government officials still visit the Yasukuni Shrine every year to pray for the dead soldiers, which the shrine also includes the top officials engaged in war crime during the war, Japan has continued to apologized in public about the war crimes by the Japanese government in the past, which the victims of other countries in Asia has not recognized. The people of these countries which were victims by the invasion by Japan have also criticized Japanese text books of schools for fabricating the truth of the wars to justify the invasion during World War II, but these claims by the victims do not seem to be true. A Japanese activist has created a video to notice foreigners, especially to Chinese, about the fact that Japan has apologized for the war crimes of World War II. If you are interested, you may take a look at this video. It is also a useful resource for the studies about Japan.

Vipper - movie about Japan's response to the war crimes


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Japan; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: asia; china; fareast; japan; northeastasia; warcrime; wwii

1 posted on 04/22/2005 7:02:47 AM PDT by Wiz
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The protests are escalating in China as a result of the anti-Japan education, according to intellectuals. Meanwhile, the people below living standards are increasing to be unsatisfied about the communist government. However, the freedom of speech were denied with violence in the Tienanmen incident and the Chinese people have sought reasons to justify their protests to release their stress of their living standards and lack of rights. Chinese shout slogans "Act of patriotism is innocent (not guilty)" to avoid arrests. However, the government of China aware that the increasing violence of protests may result another attempt of Tienanmen revolution that the government have begun to criticize the protests and began to threat any unlawful protests to be a reason for arrests. The rising tensions have also started a new generation of warfare between the Japanese and Chinese. In the recent polls on CNN, both Chinese and Japanese have attempted to engage in war of polls regarding about rising tension between the two by selecting the answer that reflects the views of each side. Both sides have used programs that allows multiple casting of votes in a short time. As a result, more than millions of votes have been casted. However, the cyber war did not end there. The Japanese citizens are engaging in a cyber war against the Chinese government using Chinese BBS and forums in China owned by Chinese citizens by spreading the words about genocide by the Chinese government and asking to stand up against the government that is abusing the history of war to stabilize the Communist regime, and to stand up for democracy. Aware or not, the Chinese government have also attempted to block these posts by Japanese fearing the propaganda from Japan may add flames to the feelings of Chinese increasing the tensions that may result for the anger to be redirected against the government. Meanwhile, there are also reports about attacks on Japanese government site by the angry Chinese. Japanese are unhappy about the Chinese Communist regime abusing the history to brainwash the citizens with nationalism and anti-Japanese motivations by the war and directing their anger against the Chinese government. What we see now is a new generation of wars, cyber war at a citizen level, fighting a silent war on Internet.
2 posted on 04/22/2005 7:28:00 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: expatguy; AmericanInTokyo

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3 posted on 04/22/2005 10:13:20 AM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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