Japan has never really seen the horrors of real war. The two nuclear bombs dropped on them was only a fraction of the suffering they have caused throughout East Asia, and they have viewed it as a defeat to the U.S and not to the Chinese. In order to make war unattractive to them in the future, I believe China will have to defeat them unconditionally this time around, and fought on their soil if they choose to again go down this path of imperial ambitions.
The U.S have always used Japan as a bulwark against "communism," and later for U.S interests in the region after the 2nd world war, and in the process, denied the Chinese and Koreans the injustice committed by Japan, which is why many of these war criminals were released and rehabilitated into U.S proxies. Ideologies are nearly impossible to eradicate, but can be managed, similar to how nazism is managed in Germany today. In order to manage it, China will eventually have to dismantle Japan politically, similar to how the U.S dismantled imperial Japan.
I have always defended the U.S' decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan, and if necessary will also support and defend the Chinese decision to use nuclear weapons on Japan, if the Japanese decide to act on any imperial ambitions. They can be the first country to get nuked and the first country to get nuked again by another foreign power--that will be a great start to destroying their psychology for imperial wars.
The U.S have always used Japan as a bulwark against "communism," and later for U.S interests in the region after the 2nd world war, and in the process, denied the Chinese and Koreans the injustice committed by Japan, which is why many of these war criminals were released and rehabilitated into U.S proxies. Ideologies are nearly impossible to eradicate, but can be managed, similar to how nazism is managed in Germany today. In order to manage it, China will eventually have to dismantle Japan politically, similar to how the U.S dismantled imperial Japan.
I have always defended the U.S' decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan, and if necessary will also support and defend the Chinese decision to use nuclear weapons on Japan, if the Japanese decide to act on any imperial ambitions. They can be the first country to get nuked and the first country to get nuked again by another foreign power--that will be a great start to destroying their psychology for imperial wars.