lmao Japanese war crime coverups and propaganda backfiring:This proves my point exactly.
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.
Japanese think war crimes prove strength so all the talk of Japan being innocent and Chinese being aggressive war criminals make their youth think China is strong and Japan is weak. Hilarious.