Eine Reihe von Dramen des Zweiten Weltkriegs über Chinas Kampf gegen Japan zieht das Publikum auf die Füße und in einigen Fällen zu Tränen. Einige sagen, es hilft, die öffentliche Unzufriedenheit abzulenken.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/world/asia/china-japan-wwii-nationalism.html
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[In case of paywall / Archived Article](https://archive.ph/2025.08.30-061451/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/world/asia/china-japan-wwii-nationalism.html)
Daily reminder that the China that actually fought and defeated Japan is not the China that actively engages in ritualistic performative Japan-bashing.
Overcompensation mixed with stolen valour.
Japan did bad things in WW2. Really bad things. Things so incomprehensibly bad that your imagination probably can’t comprehend them.
All the Japanese people that did those things are dead, a handful are very old and almost dead.
Japan has apologized and expressed remorse. Japan has also had some of it’s politicians indulge in revisionism and visit shrines that commemorate convicted war criminals, amongst other war dead.
Politicians on both sides find and create narratives that suit their own personal agendas.
You can’t just tell China to get over it.
If Japan wanted it to cease they could send the Emperor and the prime minister to Nanjing and formally apologize and take full responsibility.
After the Tiananmen Incident in 1989, “patriotic education” was promoted to uphold the legitimacy of the regime, with the memory of the Anti-Japanese War placed at its core.
In recent years, with Japan’s economic decline and China’s economic growth, the movement seems to have intensified in a highly ritualistic way.
There was a period of historical whitewashing in Japan and the US was perfectly willing to go along. By allowing that hatred to fester, they gain another tool for their massive anti-communist propaganda machine.
With the attacks on Japanese tourists in China, and how China’s tourists behave nationalistic when visiting; the concerns are valid.
The CCP is intentionally working the populace into a fervor on purpose….
which is toxic for everyone that has to deal with it.
If China were to make films about the abnormal deaths caused by domestic policies between 1959 and 1989, warning future generations not to forget that history, then it would not be a double standard. Otherwise, such selective remembrance serves only to foster nationalism.
Japan is, of course, not perfect, and its reflection on wartime crimes remains ambiguous in some respects. But clearly, honesty on **both sides** would be far better. The past should remain a warning, not fuel for hatred. What truly matters is preventing history from repeating itself, not teaching young people to inherit hostility.
Never forget Unit 731
The people who so readily buy into nationalistic propoganda are absolute idiots.
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