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Japan's dilemma: getting entangled in being a victim and victimizer

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-11-03 11:32

A conversation with Japanese writer and commentator Kato Yoshikazu on his 6-year observation here in Beijing on the ups and downs of Sino-Japan relations and the way how both nations look at history, where the divergence originates. “It’s hard for the Japanese to face up to history properly because they have a hard-to-swallow history of being the victim as well as the victimizer during the war.”

Video by Xu Yang, script by Zhang Xin