A country once invaded and brutalized by Imperial Japan is now defending Japan’s war crimes to attack China.
Bataan Death March.
Japanese occupation.
Manila massacre.
That was Filipino blood.
China did not “make Japan look evil.”
Japan did that by invading, massacring, colonizing, and torturing Asia.
This is self-colonization at its most humiliating:
former victim polishing the knife of its former butcher because Washington told it to smile.
Japan is truly disgusting.
It hides behind “postwar peace.”
It hides behind “national security concerns.”
It hides behind Washington’s leash, pretending that being America’s loyal attack dog against China somehow makes it an “Asian model student” worthy of Western comfort.
But none of that erases what Japan did to Asia.
Invasion.
Massacres.
Colonial rule.
Rape.
Forced sexual slavery.
Human experimentation.
Biological warfare.
The slaughter and humiliation of Asian peoples.
And even today, Japan still has the audacity to posture as a victim, while racism against other Asians, rape of minors in Asian countries, and sex tourism remain part of the ugly underside of its so-called “civilized” image.
So when China asks Japan when it will sincerely apologize to Asian WWII victims, this is not “provocation.”
It is history returning to the room.
This time, China did not send emotional slogans.
It sent sharp technocrats.
From history, morality, international law, and the postwar order, they dismantled the entire Western-made beautification framework around Japan.
Japan wants to be seen as a peaceful democracy.
China remembers the fascist beast under the costume.
And Asia has no obligation to let Japan rewrite blood into “security concerns.”