This proves my point exactly.well, its very age distributed.
Young Japanese are more pro Chinese. Not that it matters, since Japan isn't a democracy.
I believe Chinese can forgive Japan if the Japanese Red Guards (日本赤军)took over, abolished the monarchy, and swore allegiance to China.
The elderly generation who lived through WW2 believe to this day that Japan never truly lost to China. Chinese are, in their minds, a defeated people and rightful slaves to the Japanese.
The younger generation, on the other hand, have only ever known a rising China, and because Japanese curriculum only skims over/outright omits Japanese aggression towards China in WW2, consider Chinese to be a relatively strong, independent and proud people.