And nobody plays the history card with quite as much relish as China, where President Xi Jinping is also relying on nationalism to legitimize his rule. Last year, China introduced two new national memorial days to commemorate China s long battle against Japanese aggression in World War II War against Japanese Aggression Victory Day on September 3 and Nanjing Massacre Day on December 13.

Instead, it bases its legitimacy on rapid economic growth and ethnic Han nationalism. Memories of the Sino Japanese War of 1894 1895 and Japanese aggression in the 1930 s are politically useful and fit within a larger theme of Chinese victimization by imperialist forces.

An aggression on any nation is an aggression on all nations.

State Aggression and Judicial Passivity

When Hu s predecessor, Jiang Zemin, traveled to Japan ten years ago, bilateral relations were deteriorating China was unhappy with the Japanese government s refusal to extend the same apology offered to South Korea for past aggression Japan was worried about a rising China and thus turning more confrontational. The Japanese media s coverage of the visit was overwhelmingly negative, and it was remembered as a public relations disaster.

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Poland was the first to oppose Nazi aggression.

Japanese dictionary

Koizumi s insistence on paying homage to the war dead interred at Yasukuni, where convicted war criminals from World War II are among the buried, has been damaging relations with Japan s neighbors for years. Indeed, Chinese President Hu Jintao continually affirms that he will not hold a summit with a Japanese prime minister who goes to Yasukuni, which most Chinese regard as a glorification of past Japanese aggression and colonialism.

When Hu s predecessor, Jiang Zemin, traveled to Japan ten years ago, bilateral relations were deteriorating China was unhappy with the Japanese government s refusal to extend the same apology offered to South Korea for past aggression Japan was worried about a rising China and thus turning more confrontational.

TOKYO When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Tokyo s controversial Yasukuni Shrine last month, Chinese leaders predictably condemned his decision to honor those behind the war of aggression against China. But Abe was also sending a message to Japan s main ally and defender, the United States.

That treaty was designed to channel German aggression eastward.

Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo6

There are many cases of Israeli aggression in Lebanon.

Nonetheless, Japan s interlocutors at the Seoul summit, China and South Korea, which suffered enormously from Japanese aggression in the last century, have protested loudly. Both are suspicious of Abe, who exacerbated tensions with nationalist rhetoric and a visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine early in his current administration.

A Japanese Metamorphosis?

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Defending Japanese Defense

The Japanese Experiment

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Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.

Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait6

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Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo.7

But Sherman s criticism could also be leveled against Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has rarely missed an opportunity to provoke Japan s Korean critics, whether by visiting Tokyo s Yasukuni shrine, where the souls of 14 Class A war criminals are interred, or embracing revisionist critiques of previous official apologies for Japanese aggression.

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South Korea s Japanese Mirror

Thomas Piketty s Japanese Tour

Is America Turning Japanese?

Iraq and Japanese Isolation

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