China and Japan. Who is right?

Right...lets get down to business. In recent weeks as can be seen from the regional papers and several international ones, China has been feeling mighty agitated by the behaviour of the Japanese establishment. What Japan considers to be well within ther rights is viewed as being a trangression of Japan's own pacifist Constitution by China. China is arguably Japan's biggest rivals in terms not only of political clout in the East Asian region, but also of economic expansion, resources and military dominance.

Their history together both goes a long way back, and although I myself is a self-confessed scholar on Chinese history (I study myself), I do not claim to know all there is to know about how and why their relationship sour to this state. However, judging unbiasedly from the published public documents and my own knowledge of the historical interplay between thos two giants, one can surmise that China is akin to Europe (minus Russia) and Japan akin to Russia (European Russia). Why do I make such an assertion?

Look at how China developed from its thousands years old of history. If not for some fortunate fate and circumstances, China would be divided like Europe does; sharing the same basic culture but divided along political ideological lines. Russia has always played a significant role in Europe although its influence only reaches such magnituded in the last hundred of years. As is Japan to China. It stays in the mind of the Chinese thousands of years ago and only in the last hundred of years did Japan began to excert such prominant influence on China.

Early in the last century, Japan started the First Sino-Japanese war. Then before the advent of WWII, Japan launched its second war on China; the war that is known as the Second Sino-Japanese War which started in 1937 when Japan invaded Manchuria and only ended with the surender of Japan in 1945. The period between these years are tough to say the least on the Chinese as they are tortured more often than thay are regarded as true adversary. And one such incidence, the Massacre of Nanking (then the capitol of China) by Japanese troops pillaging and raping and wantonly killoing hundreds of thousands of civilians left a deep scar among the surviving Chinese peasants and political memory. And to have somebody denoucing that this Incident did not happen is an insult of the highest order to the Chinese people, and when these denoucements are made by the Japanese; the perpetrators; it is insult in the surpreme sense of the world. And hence the trouble starts here...

Facts:

1. Japan refuses to acknowledge of its violent wave of invasion in China and SE Asia.
2. Japan denounces the Nanking Massacre ever happens.
3. Japan wrote history books by saying Japan is the victim instead of the aggresor, thereby whitewashing its hands in current world affairs.
4. Japan contines to aggravate China by insisting that Japans was right to do what it did and to continue building up military capable of opposing China.
5. Japan forces thousands of women to be sex slaves to the Japanese troops.
   
6. Americans nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki to bring an end to WWII.
7. China deserved a sincere apologies and acknowledgement of Japan's wrong-doings towards China in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Look at it. Better yet, find out the facts for yourself and make your own conclusions. But remember this...if Japan says that the Nanking Masascre did not take place, how would the Chinese feel? Consider now how would the Japanese would feel if the Americans says Hiroshima and Nagasaki was never nuked in the first place? Would their feelings be the same?

We are afterall... only humans.