The wartime invasion and attempts to distort history are one thing; modern Japan and its people are another. One can be condemned while the other is embraced
This year, China marks the 80th anniversary of its victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression – part of the broader victory in the World Anti-Fascist War. Across the country, commemorative exhibitions, television documentaries and a wave of summer blockbuster films have been rolled out to mark the occasion.
Educating people to hate is a huge project. It is the deliberate, systematic cultivation of hostility towards another country or people, often through distorted information or selective memory, with the goal of making reconciliation impossible.
But China’s remembrance of the war is something else entirely. It is about truth, not distortion; reflection, not vengeance. It is about remembering what happened, not dictating what people must feel today.
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