[DTogo]

Some experts suggest that China's leaders permit the venting of nationalist anger at Japan to divert attention from problems at home, including a widening gap between rich and poor, environmental degradation and the repression of views critical of the Communist Party's 56-year monopoly on power.

I agree. The war's been over for 60 years. Learning about and from it is one thing, continuing to hold a grudge over it is nationalistic nonsense.

[Sam the Sham]

There would be forgiveness if Japan were the least bit sorry. But it isn't.

Japanese school textbooks teach that Japan selflessly fought to liberate Asia from Western imperialism. They insist that the Rape of Nanking never happenned. Comfort girls ? What are they ? It is as if German history textbooks were written by Holocaust deniers.

[Cronos]

The war's been over for 60 years. Learning about and from it is one thing, continuing to hold a grudge over it is nationalistic nonsense.

well, the civil war's been over for around 150 years....