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  • Japan is making claim to a string of uninhabited Islands they call the Senkaku Islands, and

  • China is making claim to a string of uninhabited Islands they call

  • the Diaoyo Islands. The problem is these are the exact same islands.

  • The dispute is putting extra strain on the already tense relationship between China and

  • Japan. The question is why are things so tense, and why have they been tense for the

  • last hundred or so years?

  • Well, there is a shockingly long history of military conflict between China and Japan.

  • The first recorded battle dates all the way back to 663 AD, but the incident at the heart

  • of this conflict is the treatment of the Chinese by the Japanese during the Second Sino-

  • Japanese War. A war that continued deep into World War Two and included one of the

  • largest atrocities of modern times: the Nanking Massacre, also known as

  • the rape of Nanking.” I should mention now that this section of our video is going to

  • be graphic, but describing the scale and cruelty of the Nanking Massacre is crucial to

  • understanding the relationship between China and Japan.

  • In 1937 Imperialist Japan, which is a very different country culturally than current

  • day Japan, invaded China and captured the Chinese capital of Nanking. During the

  • invasion and the first six-weeks of occupation, the Japanese army committed countless

  • shocking and heinous war crimes. According to the International Military Tribunal For

  • The Far East, that the war crimes tribunal later established, Japanese soldiers raped

  • approximately 20,000 women including infants and the elderly. Many of these women

  • were mutilated, and left to die. This period also saw widespread looting, arson, and the

  • murder of between 40,000 and 300,000 Chinese Civilians, including the extrajudicial

  • killing of Chinese prisoners of war and a highly publicized murder spree between two

  • Japanese soldiers to see who could be the first to kill 100 Chinese citizens by sword.

  • They both surpassed this mark on the same night to great fanfare at home. Those are

  • the general details of the massacre, but the stories from the survivors and Western

  • observers that were there at the time are much worse than what we were able to

  • mention here and the long term effects of this atrocity are still having an impact today.

  • The Rape of Nanking is why a large percentage of the Chinese public still hates

  • Japan. They also hate Japan because, since the Nanking Massacre, Japanese officials

  • and schools have downplayed the Nanking Incident, making it seem like less of an

  • atrocity than it actually was, in many of their textbooks and public statements.

  • The two nations also have enormous political and cultural differences. China is a

  • communist nation with close ties to Russia and a history of siding with the USSR during

  • the Cold War. Japan is a free market economy with close ties to the United States and a

  • history of siding with the US during the cold war. They are also both making aggressive

  • gains in military strength, and both fighting for greater influence in the region. The issue

  • over the disputed Islands mentioned at the top of this video, is a microcosm of the

  • greater dispute between the two nations over influence and resources. The situation is

  • tense, but China and Japan are also trade partners and as such both their economies

  • benefit from keeping open negotiations and a continued peace.

  • If you’d like to hear more about tensions between countries, check out our video on

  • the rocky relationship between Serbia and Albania.

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中国が日本を嫌う理由 (Why China Hates Japan)

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    Weihao Lu に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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