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1.Based on the cruel Japanese war of aggression in China, south Asia and the attack on Pearl Harbor, do the Japanese deserve this fate?It is hard to answer this question without firstly defining in this circumstance who we defined as “Japanese” for this question.From the microscopic view, the Emperor of Japan and the General (“Shogun”), the Commander in the war are Japanese, but there are also many common citizens in Japan. Based on the regime of Japan, the decision for Japanese aggression in other countries was directly made from both the emperor and the commander. Soldiers had no choice but to obey it. They were trained to kill people, believing that this is the best way for people in other country to liberate themselves. War fanatics used citizens to achieve their ambition to conquer the world. Thousands of Japanese Soldiers was sacrificed in the wars, although we can’t say that they are all innocent, but they are also victims of war too. The citizens and most of the soldiers don't deserve these two bombs.From the macroscopic view, it is Japan who started the Second World War, invaded other countries and tortured the people there. The American detonated two atomic bombs in Japan to end the war as quickly as possible, with the cost of more than 200,000 Japanese dying in the bombing. This avoid the need for a ground invasion of Japan, which would likely to result in even more military and civilians deaths for both side in the conflict. We can’t estimate how many people (regardless of people from other countries) would still die if the war had continue. Therefore, the question here becomes a question regarding the ethics of the war: Can we justify the use of violence to prevent more violence? If the sacrifice of 20,000 people can save millions of people’s life, would it be worthwhile to do this? Furthermore, it is the fact that Japan did launch the war for its own sake, therefore in this context, the rest of the countries who were invaded by Japan (China, south Asia and USA were treated as enemies of Japan. In this case, Japan deserved to be bombed because they attacked others first. It is not a question about morality, but more about winning and losing, and about defending the thousands of lives in our countries. Although it is sad to see that thousand of Japanese lost their families, parents, children and friends in the war, this is the same could be said for other countries, where millions of people died (1700 Mio.) because of the Japanese invasion.2. Based on the Japanese history, is it reasonable for them to start and participate in the Second World War?Yes. 1) Lack of resource.Japan is as large as Germany with a population of about 64.5 million people up till the 1930s. However, about 73 percent of Japan is forested and mountainous, which made the land unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use. It is also a country with more than 1000 times earthquakes every year and based in a highly volcanic region, with threats from volcanoes as well as typhoon. They have a huge demand of resources from outside world. 2) Culture difference. Though Japanese and Chinese share almost the same characters in the written language, the pronunciations and meaning of the words differ from each other orally. To some degree, Vietnamese, Indonesians, Malaysian and Singaporean may agree that parts of their cultures are derived from Chinese culture. However, Japanese do agree that Chinese culture has an impact ontheir own culture, but they also believe that their culture is greater, unique and more special. That is also the reason why they want to establish “Greater East Asia Co-Pros perity Sphere”, so that their culture can dominate this region of Asia. Due to this reason, the Japanese didn’t felt that they are killing their brothers in the war, but to conquer these area, spread their best culture and offer the native people a better life (if they could still survive). 3) Samurai & ぶしどう（“武士道”）. In the 13th century, Hōjō Shigetoki (1198–1261 AD) wrote: "When one is serving officially or in the master's court, he should not think of a hundred or a thousand people, but should consider only the importance of the master."Samurai emphases the duty and absolute loyalty until death from the warrior to their master. This belief remained rooted in most of the Japanese, which may mean that the soldier in the war would kill people cruelly and blindly without knowing whether it is right or wrong to do this. They only obey the order from their commander. By fighting in the war until the last minutes of their life, they believes that they are fighting for their country, their people and their maste r. “Kamikaze” forces may be a very good example to understand this belief, sacrificing their own lives to attack the Allied naval vessels in the war for the greater good of their country.3. Do we over condemn or properly understand the past of Japan?Firstly, what we actually condemn nowadays is not regarding Japan past, but in fact the present. That said, most of us don't over condemn Japan. Though as a Chinese, I feel hurt every time when I heard about the Nanking Massacre, but this is war. In war the stakes are high. As Robert E. Lee said, "it is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it." What I can’t accept is that, nowadays the Japanese Government whitewashes its wartime atrocities by manipulating its history textbooks. Furthermore, there is also a series of behaviors of denying war crime from the Japanese Government, such as making official visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which listed the name of thousands of war criminals. I can’t imagine what the people of Europe would react if the Ger man prime minister Mrs. Angela Merkel visits the place where the war criminals are enshrined and worship them. Actually, such a “noble” place doesn't and could not exist in Germany. People, whose parents or grandparents were killed or raped by the Japanese, may strongly condemn the crime of Japanese. However, we don't have the right to judge whether they have over condemned the Japanese, since they are the direct victims of the war and we do not have firsthand experience of their suffering. Still, there are some people who take the historical fact as an excuse to boycott and resist everything related to Japan, burning Japanese cars or smashing Japanese restaurants. I think those activities are not sensible at all. Should the descendant of a criminal be treated as a criminal too? If this is the case, then everyone would be guilty of their ancestors’ wrongdoing. It becomes a great barrier for the better understanding between the two countries. We can’t understand the past of Japan properly if we don't know the culture and characteristic of Japan well. But what everyone could do is to make judgment without prejudice. Empathy is an important intercultural competence nowadays.As Chinese we don't expect any compensation from Japan, what we expect is that they can remember the history and learn from it. Just as the retired United States Air Force Charles W. Sweeney once said, “One can only forgive by remembering. And to forget, is to risk repeating history.”。