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Hmm..not sure why this article popped up again here. I am curious about what people think though. What are relations like between China and Japan these days?

Most Chinese people will still think Japanese people did a big crime against Chinese people in the past. Of course, most Chinese who have a brain will also agree that not all Japanese people are bad and there are many good things from Japan too. The problem is big because there are so many people in China.

I personally think that the hate/anger is held on to mostly out of envy. For decades Chinese were inundated with images of Japan's economic magnificence. Fashion, technology, money... Japan lost the war that shamed China, and yet they were still on top in the region. It's bound to leave some bad feelings.

Hanging on to that hate gave Chinese a way to put the Japanese down a peg. Sort of an "Our country might be poorer, but we were never the devils that you are" mentality.

But now we begin to see more and more youth, despite the indoctrination in school, simply not care about past conflicts. There may be some residual knee-jerk responses, but I think a (non-vocal) majority don't pay any of it much mind.

I think this is intimately tied to confidence as a nation, and is likely to strengthen as China continues to grow in its global influence, not just economically, but culturally as well.