Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "What The Chinese Think Of Japan l ASIAN BOSS" video.

  1. I suspect there are museums in China dedicated to events like the Nanjing massacre and the like. Are there any tourist agencies dedicated to Japanese tourists to visit such museums? I think the younger generations in Japan would be curious about learning more, but their government and education system is run by older generations who refuse to admit fault, so they don't teach students thw history about it. Many people here in Europe travel to the holocaust museum located in the former Auscwitz concentration camp to learn more about what happened. I think japanese visitors to such a museum would be beneficial for the relations between the chinese and japanese people, and influence public opinion in Japan about getting the government to admit what happened instead of trying to sweep it under the rug.
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  2. Simon William. They don't "neglect" it, they just don't know about it. I don't think you understand how tightly Japanese authorities keep a lid on events like the Nanjing massacre. Aside from the nukings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the japanese education system and media pretty much gloss over the whole of WWII. It's hard to become curious about something if you don't even know it exists or has happened. The language barrier also plays a part. It's not like the average Japanese person can just stumble across it on google, like a European citizen can do with the holocaust.
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  3. Mathew Tawhem: Then cite those textbooks. Every Japanese person I've talked to have claimed that history class is very meager when the subject of WWII is brought up.
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  4. Haiyang Zhang: Try to keep in mind: the Japanese who did those awful warcrimes in Nanking and other places are not the same Japanese that are alive today. And the Japanese got their due punishment during WWII. Several cities burned to the ground in allied fire bombing attacks and two nuclear bombs destroying Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It might not have been China that did these bombings, but suffice to say that the Japanese were severely punished for partaking in the war. They unconditionally surrendered and have since changed their ways for the better. There's no point holding onto a grudge for things that ones ancestors did or suffered. You wouldn't want to be hated for things that your grandfather or great grandfather did, right? You have to let ancestors be responsible for what they did, and people of today be responsible for what they do. We'll never see a better world for ourselves or our children if we hate and fight eachother "on behalf" of ancestors. They won't thank us for it from the other side of the grave.
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  5. taylor1fung: Ok, so it's eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth? Japan can never be considered "properly punished" until an equal amount of japanese are killed? Also, it's not the blast of a nuclear weapon that's the worst, but the after-effects of nuclear fallout (which has killed far more than a "mere" 300.000 - 400.000)
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