[Gay State Conservative]

1937 is fresh in collective Chinese memory.

That would be the excuse.But the reason would be....wait for it...OIL! And/or shipping lanes.

[vetvetdoug]

I viewed a documentary about Nanking and the Japanese occupation of 1937. There were multiple interviewees that remember how they were brutally treated by the Japanese. I think the treatment given to the Chinese by the Japanese would take multiple generations to decrease the animosity. From my own family's experience, it took six generations to forgive the Yankees for the damage they inflicted upon our family.