China, Japan, Korea: The Uses of Anti-Japan Sentiment · Global Voices
Jose Manuel Tesoro

Two contributors at Japundit hold a frank conversation about why China and sometimes South Korea find anti-Japanese sentiment so useful: “It allows people to indulge their emotions…It has nothing to do with today’s reality. Imperial Japan no longer exists. It was annihilated, and everyone in Japan knows it.”  It's a long “intraview.” But a thought-provoking one.