Listen, my friend, I understand your feelings, and I really empathize with you and other Chinese. The actions by Japanese soldiers in China during that war was very regrettable, in fact, it is very shameful to many of us. I blame not Japanese people , but I blame the military government for using the armed forces in a quest for military expansion. First the failed campaign in Russia in 1939, then the improper decision to invade China proper in 1937, then the futility of Ten Goh. In those days the military government had utilized propaganda, there was no freedom of the press. In fact, many democratic politicians in the Diet were either imprisoned or summarily murdered if they even chose to go against the military government. Those who paid the price for the military government's rise to power in the late 1920s were the Japanese people (who suffered the insufferable) , and the many millions of Chinese who were killed in the China Theater.
There was trade between Japan and China for over two thousand years, and to say that China did not benefit from this relationship is unfair. Surely there were economic benefits on both sides. In the current era, Japan had helped China develop financially, and a conduit to capitalism. Japan had, early on, invested in China's infrastructure and manufacturing as early as the 1980s, and helped China become the manufacturing power house that it is today. Japan, too, benefited from China's efficient chain.
I'm sorry this issue of the war is sensitive for you, but I hope we can try to evade such topics in the future. I don't want to cause or make unnecessary pains when it is not intended or even thought about. Gotta think positive, my man. We can't hold on to past grudges, else we will never heal and progress. Positive mind, positive thoughts, leads to positive actions. Remember the Confucian culture...!
Thanks.
