Ladies Hounded From Hanami for Wearing Kimono

Hmm, hating all members of a nationality because of something a small minority of them have done... What do you call that, if not racism?

Sure, but isn't time to get over it after over 60 years? I mean: Look at Germany, they are friends with their former enemies and even allied with most of them in serveral treaties.

Way to go, China. And Korea, too.

"people hate japanese because those things that japanese have done in WW2,like western people hate nazi."

OK, but this would be more analogous to hating all Germans because of what the Nazis did in WWII. And that would be bullshit. So is this.

Apparently Nanking needs to be raped some more for those peons to understand which country is the superior one.

Anonymous and MechaTama31 are completely right on this one. It happened more than 60 years ago, so get over it. We did it.

@Narcissist
I can't tell if you're a troll or an idiot.

I am pretty sure if some guys wears a Japanese military uniform and went to Marie Calendar on Dec. 7th..he's going to get a lot of love from all those in United States.and those rednecks...cuz we all know how diversed US is right? ..Pearl harbor is only 68 years ago... so he'll be fine....

I was unaware that a kimono constituted a WWII uniform. But I may be behind the times when it comes to blatant racism and bigotry, so I'll have to defer to the experts in that area.

Narcissist just won the comment of the year award

"I am pretty sure if some guys wears a Japanese military uniform and went to Marie Calendar on Dec. 7th..he’s going to get a lot of love from all those in United States.and those rednecks…cuz we all know how diversed US is right? ..Pearl harbor is only 68 years ago… so he’ll be fine…."

First off, there is no such thing as a Japanese military as they are not allowed to have one, the US is their military as according to the Post War Treaty, all they have is a small SDF, Self Defense Force...So your comment fails.

"there are no racist in china."

haha yeah, and do tell me more, no crime or hate in china too right? most peaceful country I'm sure. Fucking Idiot.

@cloner4000: and i'm sure that if somebody wears a Lederhosen Tracht in front of the Buckingham Palace taking pictures, the mob will lynch him :P

the difference between germany and japan is that germany has actually admitted to its war crimes, whereas japan is still trying to deny it. Surely this reaction was over the top, but japan should really start making amends

Jews got over it because the German government openly admits and apologizes over and over again for what they have done. Not the Japanese, apparently they think they didn't do anything wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

Dude, do you really think the Chinese government would let the Chinese people fully understand or even know of Japanese apology statements? Id highly doubt. In their eyes, combined hatred against other Asian countries is motivation to make more Chinese people follow or comply with the governments actions. They probably gave a mangled version of it to the people leaving out parts, i bet about Nanking or the particular wartime atrocities committed. Can't say I'm biased either, I'm chinese.

What can be done now, is to wait for the older WW2 generation to die off while we save their children from their pointless propaganda of anti-japanese.

Seriously, these people should get the fuck over with it and forget the past. If they're so anti-japanese then they should throw out all their japanese products which they live on for most of their lives.

apologies? no no, japanese never issued any thing on paper. read it, nothing on paper, only statements from politicians.
japanese did issue apologies on paper to koreans, but not to chinese.
so, all of you think the japanese did apology, go get your fucking facts right

I never understood why people need other people to apologize for something their ancestors did to their ancestors. Do they just want a reason to hate and fight? Those ancestors that did something wrong got what was coming to them. Hirohito fucked up and lost, and Japan paid for his evil, so why do China and Korea still ask for more?

@Those who said 60 years is enough

No it's not. Scars like this can last at least 3 generations, that's 180 years.

You cannot compare German to Japan, that's totally different, if you know anything about history.

Reasons as follows:

1) Jews victimized who lived in Mid Europe were nearly wiped out. There aren't many alive to hate.
2) holocaust everyone, including German people knew it's wrong. Nazism is seen as evil aftermath and banned from public after the war. The German people all fell ashamed. Japan militarianism did not have this much cleansing. I don't think any Japanese was ashamed of what they done, and seen themselves as victim still after the WWII (the atomic bombing). This apathetic view is the seed of hatred bred between China and Japan.
3) Holocaust everyone agrees it happened, who denied it get in to big trouble, like the Bishop who said it didn't. There are Japanese academic claimed the Nanjing Massacre did not happen at all. The scale here is totally different.
4) There is someone to blame for in Holocaust: Hitler and his right hand men. For Nanjing Massacre? Not so clear. When there is no figurehead to blame for, chances are that people would blame the race instead.
5) WWI and WWII are not casued by German people themselves. Adolf Hitler wasn't even German, he's Austrian. Hence it isn't even a race issue.
6) All German military officers alive and captured were sentenced in courts for crime against humanity. I have not even heard of any Japanese officers sentenced for crime against humanity in the Nanjing Massacre

As Iwane Matsui had been judged by the Tokyo tribunal; Prince Kotohito Kan'in, Kesago Nakajima and Heisuke Yanagawa had been dead since 1945; Isamu Cho had committed suicide and Prince Asaka had been granted immunity by General Douglas MacArthur as member of the imperial family, Hisao Tani was the only officer prosecuted for the Nanking massacre. He was found guilty on 6 February 1947 and executed on 10 March by a firing squad. All the accused were sentenced to death in 1947.

Idiot

Its alright a couple more generations and they'll all be dead.

Wait, I thought they ate WcDonalds and Pizza Huh.

i no that the us is almost never perfect but if a kid was marching around the park in a natzi uniform or japanies uniform u might get a few ppl staring at u but thats about it,

ok fine, u might get a fiew ppl asking 2 pose with u

You're able to say that because you're not the ones who was there when the Japanese started killing men, women and children with their bayonets, just stabbing them over and over again.

I mean, if that happened in front of you, what would you feel.

I'm speaking this from a neutral standing and just want you to know why the older generations feel such hostilities towards the Japanese and want you to stop being such an ass.

And I'm sure most of the people in China now weren't there either. Maybe there would be a few more if the Communist government wasn't so intent on slaughtering its own citizens.

When most of the people from the generation that lived through it are dead, its TIME TO MOVE ON.

The government is only pushing it so they can district the populace from complaining about the shithole they live in, and extorting "apology money" from Japan. Yea, what Japan did was wrong. And I'm sure there's a lot of stuff China did that's wrong too, before the colonial powers fucked them in the ass. Wounds won't heal if you keep picking at them.

Lol.

Sure Nanjing was brutal, but China would've been better off under Japanese occupation when you consider Chairman Mao ended up killing tens of millions of people.

This. It's about time someone takes a broader perspective than just "Let's pretend China and Korea are flawless."

I find it Ironic that the dumb kids in capitalism become rebels, while the dumb kids in communism states become nationalists.

Che Guevara T-shirts are sold, either way.

Chinese give you cheap POISONOUS toys.

I thought it was later found out to be a design error on Mattels part that caused yhe poisining.

Its not the ultra patriotism. Its what the Japanese did. During the invasion of China. But its hard to forget when the Japanese never atoned for what they did as the Nazi's have. My grandmother's grandfather was shot while taking my grandmother and her siblings out of the country to Vietnam. The Atrocities commited cannot be forgotten. Just as nobody will forget the nazi's in Germany.

lol, look at the history of Washington DC's cherry trees, heheh, they're a gift from Japan