LOL! Good one VROOR!

You know, there's this great concept out there called forgiveness. Sure, that stuff happened, but it's all in the past now. Why does an average 20-something Japanese person have to be held accountable for something that happened before s/he was born? That would be like me hating all white people and western European nations because of their participation in the Atlantic slave trade. Or, what if I decided to hate Germany because of what some NAZIs did to my great-grandmother? But I don't hate them or anyone else. Those are things of the past and I'm over them.
Holding on to grudges is unhealthy.

Personally, I am not the one who has issues with the Japanese people. However, the fact of this racial hatred been addressed by me here is, its actual existence amongst many chinese people as well as its depth and intoxication. Note that, when I accuse of the war crimes, I accuse the Japanese Government, I did not (and do not, will not) accuse any individual who has nothing to do with these events (be they japanese or nay).

The only accusation I made against the Japanese Government is, their failure in apologising for those crimes as well as the denials of parts of those crimes. Beyond those, I am not as zeal as some of the more active zealots, who are usually being used by the politicians in one way or another.

OK. But, the current Japanese regime is not the same as the one that committed those atrocities back in WWII. Would their hypothetical apology really mean much?

I think the point is on the denial. Nanking Massacre becomes Nanking Incident, an unimportant footnote in their textbooks. (You can see the change in the textbooks here.)

I think it would have great symbolic meaning, given that the current Japanese regime infamously glosses over that part of their country's history.

What denial? There have been various statements by Japanese leaders in 1972 and 1985 to China expressing remorse & apology. The Japanese government has acknowledged the crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of Nanjing. Japanese Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi offered a verbal apology to Chinese President Jiang Zemin in 1998.
That doesn't sound like denial to me.


Which textbook are you referring to? The one from 1984 (over 25 years ago), the one from 1999 (over10 years ago) or the one that was used by only 16 schools in all of Japan in 2004?

I'm at university waiting for my Mandarin lecture. It is so boring that I managed to transcribe this song into Chữ Nôm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nKOcaQ6FDI






Here is a ratjer quick translation by me into English:

A Silenced Love

When the sun fades at the end of the field
My heart feels as if it misses you
My love, when the heart has mistakenly loved someone
The lonely nights are when it (love) overflows
An abundance of news, my love!
Loving you my heart shall not fade
Our love I hope that forever more
My love, our one love shall not fade

The heart yearns to say that for the whole of this lifetime
It swears to forever love you completely and never change
Love is hard to describe, it abounds in wind and waves (ups and downs)
Who would have known that on the path of life there’d be so many changes?

What is love? What is life?
Why is it full of suffering
Love shall die, life shall fade
One chokes in sadness when the heart is full of bitterness

So many months and years shall forever go on
Our love is entering a plain of nothingness (void)
Why must loving you bring so many wrongs?
The love you give to me makes my heartbeat hasten
An abundance of news, oh my love!
Loving you my heart is intoxicated
Now though that the love is gone between the two of us
The words of parting are cold and withering

The characters I chose were to conform with a few of my friends who are doing their own standardising. I, however, still use my own variants (some of which make more sense) for some words.

Awesome!

I still cannot get over this it's incredible!

The song is great =DDDDDD

Matching the radicals with the meaning is fun, but some strokes in the chars merged together, making the chars look weird.

Let's write the lyrics by hand XD It looks very nice