Museum of Resistance and Resilience

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As mentioned in the previous annotation, the Chinese and Koreans, who were on the opposing side against Japanese army during WWII, tend to underscore the war’s brutality and their people’s sufferings, which is completely different from what the Japanese would do. Being educated with history textbooks full of detailed information, younger generations in these countries have a demonized portrait of wartime Japan planted in their common knowledge. And this explains the reason why the Chinese netizens would react so drastically whenever celebrities visit the Yasukuni Shrine (where some of the WWII war criminals were enshrined, though for the Japanese, people visit Yasukuni to honor their families and friends who died during the war, but for the rest of Asia Yasukuni is the site of an extreme and hardline view of the Japanese imperialist past).

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