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1970s September 29, 1972: Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. "The Japanese side is keenly conscious of the responsibility for the serious damage that Japan caused in the past to the Chinese people through war, and deeply reproaches itself. Further, the Japanese side reaffirms its position that it intends to realize the normalization of relations between the two countries from the stand of fully understanding 'the three principles for the restoration of relations' put forward by the Government of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese side expresses its welcome for this" (Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China).[
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
I take it you're Japanese?
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The apologizing game will be endless on ALL sides if we mankind of this new generation continue to cling on past atrocities, which can rationally be argued back to the days WHEN man was CREATED.
Japan atrocities was real during the war. But they weren't the only ones whom were barbaric. War makes all mankind revert back to the jungles where barbaric laws rule.
Originally posted by SeekerofTruth101
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
I understand you animosity.
But what would have change with an apology?
Can the atrocities of war done by the military on ALL sides be reversed? None.
What has happened, happened. We can no longer change the past, but we this generation can still change the future.
It need not be one with grudges forever held, as NO apology can reverse anything, espacially after what the japanese had paid in cash and blood.
It can be one whereby we seek to comprehend those atrocities, learn from them and never make those mistakes again.
Still, it is one's choice to live in hatred and be stagnant or worse, seek for irrational vengence, or to live in a brighter future of accepting our past, learning from it to progress and evolve. And that's a piece of better beef bigger than a prized bull, for it can feed future generations.
I understand you animosity.
But what would have change with an apology?
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by SeekerofTruth101
The apologizing game will be endless on ALL sides if we mankind of this new generation continue to cling on past atrocities, which can rationally be argued back to the days WHEN man was CREATED.
Japan atrocities was real during the war. But they weren't the only ones whom were barbaric. War makes all mankind revert back to the jungles where barbaric laws rule.
We can't agree on everything and I disagree here. This is the last place in the world relativism belongs for behavior. I don't care if Japan endured 50 years of cruel, brutal occupation by devils on motorbikes. I don't care that we ended the war by obliterating two of their cities before their emperor would finally quit. None of that makes ANY difference to what the Chinese have for reasons to hold a VERY deep grudge.
Nothing that happened after Nanking changes the rape of that city and over 200,000 ...think of that number... civilians. Tokyo papers covered one specific event that was carried as a sports contest with scores and everything. It was a contest between two Imperial Japanese Officers for who could cleanly cut through the most living people with a single smooth stroke of the sword. It wasn't lined up..just one at a time. They were alive though and those swords back then? Well...they really were keeping score for single swings to cut from side to side and literally sever the torso.
This was the rape of Nanking. That is what CAN NEVER EVER be excused. Nothing Japan endured since or during the war changes a thing. Until they own up to that unthinkable slaughter, China will have a beef the size of a prize bull. They have good reason, too.