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Japan invasion stays fresh in Chinese despite time
By Echo Shan (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2005-08-15 17:36 The past 60 years, seemingly, have not erased the
bitter memory of the Japanese invasion during the WWII among the Chinese, with
wariness and detest towards the Japanese still widespread, according to recent
surveys.
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Chinese President Hu
Jintao pays homage to Chinese war time dead in Beijing on August
15, 2005, the 60th anniversary of Japan's surrender.
[newsphoto]
| The result of a survey conducted
by a well read weekly "China Newsweek" via the Sina news portal shows that
nearly 98 percent of all the 76,000 respondents equate the phrase "militarism
and right wing force" with Japan in their mind.
When asked whether Japan should be forgiven for its criminal past, more than
half of the polled said no - even if the Japanese would repent on their kneels
just as the Germans did.
As for the direction of the future
Sino-Japanese relation, a percentage of 59.64 gave a dim outlook, foreseeing a
future war between the two powerhouse nations over energy resources.
At the same time, some 35.53 percent of those polled held the idea that the
relationship between the two Asian neighbors should be further enhanced on the
base of the Chinese pardoning Japan over its wartime atrocities afflicted on the
Chinese people.
It's self-evident by the survey that the great mental
anguish over Japan's invasion of China still lingers in the hearts of the
Chinese people, even in the hearts of those vigorously beating contemporary
young hearts who have grown up under an omnipresent spell of Japanese pop
culture ranging from cartoons to popular sitcoms.
The result of a China
Youth Daily survey released on August 15, the 60th anniversary of Japan's WWII
surrender, shows that nearly all 2,312 of the respondents, with an average age
of 30, voiced their great indignation over militarist Japan's brutal invasion of
China.
According to the survey, only half of those polled still have family members
who witnessed Japan's enormity to China and its people during WWII, despite the
very strong feelings left by the memory of that dark history 60-75 years ago.
An overwhelming 98.9 percent of the polled insist the Chinese people's 8-year
fight against the invading Japanese enemies be remembered forever.
However, a sheer outcry of wrath toward that disastrous history which has
caused irreversible pain to the Chinese, as some insightful historians noted,
can neither be held nor can remedy those sorrowful hearts. More understandingly
Chinese youth nowadays react with sober reason to Japan's war crime.
Nearly 70 percent of those who took the survey said they have forgiven those
Japanese wartime soldiers who had repeatedly expressed their deep remorse over
their wartime crime to the Chinese.
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