Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.japan
From: liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu)
Subject: Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:11:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.204502.1796@news.iastate.edu> zzuo@iastate.edu (Zhiqi Zuo) writes:
>In article <903@hobby.ukc.ac.uk> mhs@ukc.ac.uk (M.H.Smith) writes:
>>In article <17AUG199211495637@vxcrna.cern.ch> ikeda@vxcrna.cern.ch (IKEDA,M./EP) writes:
[......] 
>
>>The situation is exactly the same with regard to Japan and her
>>neighbours. We have seen plenty of hysterical rants over the past few
>>days from Chinese and Koreans. They display a deep-seated
>>anti-Japanese feeling. No apology will destroy this racism. Japanese
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>war crimes are just an excuse for racism.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>I can't understand this completely. For me, a war-hate person, many 
>Chineses and Koreans still hate Japanese, for the simple reason that
>the lies are continuing floating in Japanese history books. We see no
>honesty in doing this, but potential threats. It is better to be prpared 
>than to be sorry again. Once I came across a Japanese girl who absentmindly
>said that Manchuria STILL should be Japanese. A Japanese history book even
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>went so far as to say "the (Japanese) troops came to the capital (Nanking), 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>because they were defeated." I think this sorta thing is the most important 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>cause that induces the bad feeling.
>
This is really shocking.  The "water-down" version of Japanese history 
books are already start to erasing history.  The century old ambition
of conquering the continent is still there.  
 
>>Japan must aplogise for the crimes her people committed during the
>>Second World War.  What difference will it make? None. Chinese and
>>Koreans will still hate the Japanese; though maybe they won't be able
>>to fill various newsgroups with racist diatribes.
>>
>>Malcolm Smith
>
You realize Chinese, Korean, and Japanese are similiar culturally, 
there is really no reason to be "racist" to each other.  The only
reason of causing this tension toward the Japanese is their conquest
of Korea, and the Sino-Japanese wars it waged against Korea and China,
and its unwillingness to admit anything, using evading words like
"entering" instead of "invading", "regret" instead of "apologize".
"Regretting" what?  Didn't finish us while it got the chance?   

>The apology is not the real aim. The history books should tell people the
>truth. For many Chineses and Koreans, the apology does make difference. Many 
>reasonable people are afraid of the kind of things, happening in the 
>ex-Sov republics and Yugoslavokia (?), will happen again to us. The war
>is over, it is unfair to revenge young generations for the past. The really 
>important thing is to learn something from it. Covering the crimes can't lead 
>us to this goal.
>
>
Ditto.  

Newsgroups: soc.culture.china