RandomBananaHamac t1_jd2qxh9 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 12:47 PM

Reply to comment by shufflebuffalo in Japanese leader heading to Ukraine for talks with Zelenskyy by Auburn_Value_1986

Especially when you know how much Japan and China hate each other.

uoco t1_jd30p2l wrote on March 21, 2023 at 2:03 PM

Probably got to do with japan pulling a putin on the entirety of asia and then constantly rescinding apologies by visiting war criminal memorials.

RandomBananaHamac t1_jd4mexz wrote on March 21, 2023 at 8:15 PM

They've been hating each other way before WWII and even WWI. I mean Genghis Khan attempted to invade Japan twice from China and failed twice because of how awful it is to navigate the Japanese waters and got caught into typhoons. That was in the 14th century and they were already not friends.

uoco t1_jd55zel wrote on March 21, 2023 at 10:20 PM

You could use that analogy for every single country lmao.

France and the rest of europe all hate each other due to napoleon, there's no way the european union will last! /s

It's japan's actions in the first sino-japanese war(pre ww1) and ww2 that make them disliked by china and other asian countries.

RandomBananaHamac t1_jd73lbg wrote on March 22, 2023 at 9:20 AM

You can't compare 15 years of Napoleonic regime to several hundred years of hatred.

uoco t1_jd7gaff wrote on March 22, 2023 at 11:53 AM

Sure, then you've got hundreds of years of wars in europe to choose from besides napoleon, from hundred year war, thirty year war, ottoman-byzantine wars, russia-swedish wars, russia-polish wars, anglo-french wars, anglo-spanish wars, belgian wars, saxon wars, war of the roses etc.

There was several hundred years of hatred in europe too.

RandomBananaHamac t1_jd7kgpd wrote on March 22, 2023 at 12:30 PM

Yes, but those are not two countries singled out. This is a whole continent full of countries. If you want to make a somewhat similar comparison you could take England and France. Even then, there was no genocide between those two and no enslaving each other so it's not really the same situation.

giratina12 t1_jd5j1oi wrote on March 21, 2023 at 11:51 PM

It's actually only China and Old Koreans. Most countries in Asia and the young Korean population hold positive views of Japan.

Nice try though

uoco t1_jd5jwk1 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 11:57 PM

I mean, most young people in every country, even china and japan, hold positive views of each other. And this is especially true for asia, where invasion wars haven't existed for decades.

But that doesn't really change what I said