Does anyone have anything to say regarding the resentment (and in a lot of cases plain and simple racism) by people in Asia toward the Japanese, due to some of the crimes committed during their imperial occupation of China, Korea etc at the earlier part of last century. I remember reading some stuff about how the Chinese economic reformer Deng Xiaoping and his advisers (at the time he was chief executive of the communist party) highlighted Japanese atrocities and brought them back into media and effectively pushed these acts into the collective thought as a means to encourage and perpetuate Chinese nationalism. I also know that certain groups, such as those Korean ladies who we're used as comfort women still camp outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul every Sunday demanding an apology and reparations, though neither of which seem to be forthcoming. Some very inhumane and grotesque acts we're carried out by the imperial Japanese armed forces, civilians having their tongues cut out in Hong Kong being just one example. But can anyone throw some light on how much, or how little Japan has made an effort to atone for these crimes. I'm often made to feel like a Japanese war crime apologist when trying to objectively discuss such matters.
