Original sentence: However Western countries still saw the Japanese as only "monkeys" imitating the West, based on an earlier Chinese sentiment of identical verbiage.Japan was intent on adopting Western ways in an attempt to join the West as an industrialized nation.There is also some anti-Japanese sentiment due to business practices used by some Japanese companies such as dumping.Today, anti-Japanese sentiment is mostly attributed to Japanese military aggression in the early 20th century and the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II.While passions have settled somewhat since Japan's defeat, tempers continue to flare on occasion over the perception, on the part of some critics, that the Japanese government has made insufficient penance for the Pacific War, or has sought to whitewash the history of these events
Edited sentence: Japan is now the second largest economy in the world and it's unique culture and arts are deemed superior and perfected, while maintaining global  personality of humility and perserverance.Japan was intent on adopting modern Western ways in order to prevent colonization and pillaging by European and American powers.Today, most anti-Japanese sentiment is attributed to jealously of the global social and economic success Japan has created.Western countries still saw the Japanese as only "monkeys" imitating the West, based on an earlier Chinese sentiment of identical verbiage