Charm offensive marks Hu's Japan trip

By Naoko Aoki

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Badsey at 10:52 AM JST - 11th May

"it's not really work, -it's just the power to charm"
motown at 12:36 PM JST - 12th May

‘‘But I saw him on TV, and I like him. He has a nice smile.’’

So does a crocodile. You can't trust a man who would send troops to crack down on demonstrators and imprison members of Fa Long Gong and remove and sell their organs. What a lovely man Hu is. Who? No, Hu.
NeoJamal at 05:03 PM JST - 14th May

Chinese President Hu Jintao’s trip to Japan, the first by a Chinese leader in a decade, **was marked by less talk of the bitter wartime past **and a number of publicity events aimed at wooing the wary Japanese public.

It's called progress in that the Chinese people are leaving their cretinist past centred on their naive faith in the Communist party and afixiation on Japan's past. In fact I would detest the effect of Japan's full acknowledgement of war crimes as I fear it may impact the conscience of contemporary Japanese society in an adverse, as opposed to a positive way beneficial to common humanity.

If there's anything those atrocities could teach the Japanese youth is perhaps encourage more nationalism. Clearly, those pictures depicting beheadings, bayonetting and aftermath of rape carried out by the Imperial Forces would only re-inforce the notion that the fighting men of Asia and the British Commonwealth are too weak to defend their women and children from harm. Even now, many Japanese perceive that rape and mass murder are a natural consequence, if not a prerogative of the conqueror. whose drive for lust and blood cannot be mitigated. That is why many Japanese today make pledge for peace and disarmorment rather than reflecting on the atrocities.