中国の反日デモ

Who said Chinese ask Japanese youth to apologise? It is the Japanese government attitude here we are angry about. The Japanese government is intentionally whitewashing the contents of atrocities done by Japanese army during WWII. Many of the soldiers are still alive and well.
Zhou, Shanghai

It is understandable that some Westerners doubt the protests against Japan due to their poor knowledge of Asian history. But for most Chinese, Korean and other Asians, it is difficult to trust Japan if the country still tries to gloss over its wartime atrocities.
Zhao Rongchun, Cape Town, South Africa


Such hypocrisy from China. The rise in government-sponsored anti-Japanese sentiment has risen sharply with their own human rights abuses, perpetuated on their own people. Japan has apologised nine different times for incidents in World War II - and each time China has asked for further apologies. Rampant nationalism fostered some of the problems of that war - the kind of nationalism China is fostering as seen in recent anti-Japanese riots. China is in severe danger of over playing its hand with Japan - who are looking increasingly tired of their political manoeuvres
Kraig Donald, London, UK

Japan has already apologised for its acts in World War II. It should not be like you have to every time repeat your words. My opinion is that Japan suffered so much loss in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that it is better to say that was the past.
Akhil, India, Hyderabad

If a nation or can only voice her anger when all her history texts are correct, then no nation in the world will ever be able to protest. The Chinese are not protesting against the reasons for the events e.g. Nanjing massacre, they just want the facts made known to the Japanese. They are not quibbling over minor details, they are angry at the total omission.
Kwok, Sydney Australia.


I went through Japanese education, and I can fairly confidently say that every pupil does learn about our disgraceful past

Y. Katakura, Manchester

I went through Japanese education, and I can fairly confidently say that every pupil does learn about our disgraceful past. Since this textbook issue has come up, I've even checked the content of the so-called "distorted" textbook, but it was clearly saying that the Japanese army has caused a lot of misery, mainly in China. I wonder what kind of a "nationalist" textbook in, say, Britain, if any, will mention the "Opium War", which led to the annexation of Hong Kong?
Y. Katakura, Manchester