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Japan asked countries to skip China's WWII commemorative events in Sept.

english.kyodonews.net Japan asked countries to skip China's WWII commemorative events in Sept.

The Japanese government asked European and Asian countries to refrain from attending a military parade and other events that China will hold next month to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, diplomatic sources said Sunday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/47136741

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Gee I wonder why it would have anti-japanese undertones.
- It's kinda surprising how few people know about the atrocities that Japan committed in WWII. Germany gets most of the focus.
  
  Yep, we don't get to study the Nanjing masacre, for example unless we go out of our way to learn about it.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
  
  Another interesting bit of knowledge is that we consider 1939 and the attack on Poland as the start of the Second World War. However at this point Japan had been fighting in China for a couple of years already.