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They didn't even acknowledge it was a massacre. Not sure.

You should just have left her at Shibuya. But then that might've cost more :P The Communists had a lot of help from the Soviets, and they let the Nationalists take the brunt of the Japanese attacks for a long time, while they consolidated their position.

Erm. Due to the language barrier and the nature of my trip (backpacking holiday, not cultural exchange/immersion) I didn't broach such topics with the Japanese I talked to. I considered replying, when people asked me where I was from, "Syonan-to", but I didn't want to get stabbed with a...

Re: My visit to Yasukuni Shrine III That I will agree with. Racism in Japan is well-documented. There is a difference between the "Gaijin must die" sort of racism and the "Gaijin are strange. Stay away from them" sort though.

Re: My visit to Yasukuni Shrine III Err, no. I did not say you said Japan should be excused. I said you said that I said that: "Like trying to imply that hey Japan may behave like this but so does China and sort of making light of the attrocities committed by the Japs" "I don't know where...

Re: My visit to Yasukuni Shrine III From my research I found that most Japs consider Yushukan strange, right-wing and revisionist. And I visited two other museums (and a few quasi-museums) but they weren't politicised or slanted like Yushukan. I said China was bad, but not as bad, but...

Yep, I'm Agagooga. Did you buy anything at the shrine? It may finance the next Greater East Asia War! Anyway as I said the museum's views are hardly mainstream. Even the textbooks which China always protests at are but one or two out of more than a hundred. What China itself does is much...

Re: My visit to Yasukuni Shrine III I believe the views propounded in Yushukan are not shared by the majority of Japanese historians (indeed, Japanese). The only museums I've seen which approach this level of bias, misinformation and lies are... in China. If anyone wants pictures of the...