But excuse me, the body count resulted from CCP's rule (esp. from 1955 to 1976) far exceeds the death toll under 8 years of Japanese occupation. Granted, one'd be insane to whitewash the egregious crimes committed by Imperial Japan, but what makes PRC government and average anti-Japan Chinese so contemptible and unworthy of any sympathy in the eye's of the world is their total inability for introspection. For Chinese to condemn Japanese for refusing to face up to her own past sins, is akin to pot calling the kettle black. It's an oriental cultural thing. Let those Chinese bitch and whine about Japan until the cow comes home, unless they become brave enough to look at their own warts and spoils in the mirror.
There is difference between "starvation" and "war crime". The failure of Mao's economic policy led to the death of many Chinese people, but it's like what Japnese army did in WWII. The Japanese killed civilians for fun.