Posted in: Chinese newspaper posts map of A-bombed Japan See in context
Why don't we have an actual image of this map, before it was "conveniently" taken down? I would like to see what it looks like.
That being said, using something like mushroom clouds to mark the bombing areas in Japan is clearly in poor taste, but we have to keep in mind that both countries have done something to spark outrage towards each other. What about the yearly visits to Yasakuni Shrine by the Japanese Prime Minister, despite his awareness of the tensions it places on Japan-China relations? It's important to pay respect to Japan's war dead, but that respect shouldn't extend to its war criminals. These countries need to talk things out. The east of Asia could be a world power all its own if they would just TALK with each other and settle their differences.
As it is, having studied and enjoyed life in BOTH countries, I do understand China's perspective here. China faced a genocide at the hands of the Japanese military during WWII, that went and continues to go silenced. It's important to move on from the past, but I feel China is correct in that Japan has never really faced-up to that particularly massive war crime (even leaving it out of several history books that Japanese students learn from).
There's a lot of work both countries need to do, but Japan is far from innocent. Just hoping both countries can talk things out, that's all.
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So much for free-market capitalism
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Or what? He will sell to someone with the proper temperament to be CEO?
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