The Cold War Never Ended in Asia

... the overall attitude in Japan to WW2 remains more controversial than in Germany. It seems that at least some people in Japan have a strong feeling that in this war their country was more a victim than an aggressor. Andrey Kortunov: Decoding China: GSI and Beijing's International Role To some extent, this sentiment is justified—Japan is the only nation in the world, against which closer to the end of WW2 they used nuclear weapons; it remains an open question to what extent this use was necessary and appropriate. However, when top members of the Japanese government pay visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors all Japanese war dead, including convicted ...