New Japanese Patriotism, the locking up of memory, and Mr Abe

Japanese people and culture and very good and creative and quite beautiful, but also their history remained one of profound and vicious race aggression until they were totally defeated in WW2.

The current renewed patriotism within Japan, and the attempts by Abe to 'beautify' the history are worrying, for sure and quite obscene when seen from the Korean and Chinese perspective, or from the perspective of anyone who suffered under their brutal rule of war anywhere in Asia.

But what is to be done now?

I think Trade Sanctions may help, more than anything else. Anyone can apply Trade Sanctions simply by not purchasing Japanese items, and by not going there.

I don't think war will help. It never really has helped.  As time goes by, as China becomes even stronger and more profoundly stable for itself and for all of Asia, then the issue with Japan will still remain, I know, but it won't matter as much.

Already the Land of the Rising Sun is becoming the Land of the Setting Sun. In this way, perhaps time heals all wounds for Korea, China, etc. The only wounds remaining will be those of Japan, unable to acknowledge itself or reconcile its past at all, as it shrinks smaller and less significant than it was.