In order to understand the predicament that Killer 7's Japan is in.
You must first educate yourself about the current geopolitics of the Asian hemisphere. Out in the
east, almost all social ills,& problems within their society (Mostly China & Korea.) no matter how unrelated the events may be, are usually erroneously attributed to Japan.
Why you may ask? Because it is a political maneuver meant to divert negative attention away from the "Eastern governments", and place all the blame on
Japan, the scapegoat of Asia. For the collective will of Asia still feels that Japan must pay for their
transgressions during WW II.

Although it may be the year 2006 (50+ yrs. after WW II) the Japanese are still villainized for such acts as the "Nanjing Massacre", "comfort women", History revision, attempted genocide, insufficient apologies, etc. In fact it's actually considered cool & hip to defame Japan in some communities with in Asia. The following .jpg is a post I saw of the type of behavior that I'm referring to.

Click url to see the quote where it was originally posted. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/raldanash/114563791507339701/

Notice how he seemed to be elated that such songs actually exist.
BTW here's a couple of links that express the anti Japan songs in detail.

Occidentalism
Mutant Frog
That's enough about the subject for now, I'll get back to the anti-Japan songs later as I'm only trying to illustrate a point about how cool & chic it is to hate Japan. You could say it's similar to the left wing style America bashing that's currently popular in the United States, except only more radical, ridiculous, and crazy.


South Korean Members of Parliament demonstrating what they feel about Korea/Japan's 2005 Friendship Year.
(It really makes you ponder what is it about Japan that makes their blood boil.)

Well you're about to find out or at least I'll attempt to try & further explain the whole situation of the so called
"Eastern Threat".  The following are the main aggressors of the eastern pacific.

CHINA: The Chinese have always been the center of Asia ever since the beginning of time.
The Chinese dynasties of ages past were said to be the Eastern equivalent of the Roman Empire.
All Asian nations in the world have originated from either China or India.
The Chinese take great pride in this fact, and often gloat about it to their asian neighbors.
As followers of the religious Confucian doctrine they have been brought up to believe that they are the fathers of Asia.

However during the 19th to early 20th century their status as a global power began to diminish due to a combination of both foreign invasion, and a string of corrupt/weak imperial Chinese dynasties that were emperors at the time.
China longs for the days when they were the most dominate & only political/economical power in Asia.
Many individuals have speculated that China might rise back to power within this century or the next.
They are a communist nation that happens to regulate most if not all info that can be seen by the public.
(Many websites are blocked out in the Chinese internet.)
China only has one sanctioned history book that is used in the education system.
Much of it is fabricated propaganda to further the Chinese agenda.
China has a legitimate case to antagonize Japan since they were directly affected by the "Nanjing Massacre".

JAPAN: An Island nation of dubious origin, though it is believed that the earliest ancestors of the Japanese were once inhabitants of the Korean Peninsula.
Through out the history of asia the Japanese have always been considered feudal savages, pagan,& nothing more than a backward nation that would amount to nothing.
If the Chinese are considered the Father in Confucian belief, Korea would be the Son. Japan being the youngest would be forced to follow the whims of the elder nations that came before her.

However Japan chosed not to comply, and they even had the gall to ignore the authority of both Korea & China during the Sengoku Jidai period of war.
This brings us to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, successor of Oda Nobunaga.
After uniting most of Japan underneath his banner. Hideyoshi decided to go on a conquest to invade & consume Chinese territory.
However there was one nation that stood between them and it was Korea.
Hideyoshi sent envoys to convince Korea to stand aside for the Japanese war effort.
Korea being the son of China refused & denied Japan access to China.
This resulted in a war between the 3 countries.
The Japanese were pushed back to Japan with the aid of the Chinese reinforcements.
Decades later Japan became the only Asian nation in the world that was strong enough to confront Western imperialism.
Coincidentally this made Japan the most dominant force in Asia.
Which pretty much means that they completely disrespected the Confucius belief to always follow & stand below their elders.

A century later due to a lack of natural resources, and an embargo imposed on them by the United States, Japan again pursued conquest of Asia.
It is during this period of time where Japan gains the majority of their infamous noteriety.
After their defeat in WW II, Japan reforms as a pacifist nation, and has become an economical power thanks to the efforts of the USA.
Currently they are being ostracized by neighboring Asian countries for deeds they have committed during WW II, and even the Sengoku Jidai.
(Which occurred a couple centuries earlier.) Asians also accuse Japanese of being wannabe American, because Japan  seems to care more about their relationship to the United States rather than the other Asian countries.
Many Asians fear that Japan is planning to remilitarize, and unleash hell amongst the Asian populace once again.
They are accused for revising history within their history books.
Although it is true that some Japanese history books teach revisionist history that serves as propaganda for the interest of remilitarizing Japan.
It should be noted that as a democratic nation the Japanese have access to more than one "history' as Japan carries many history books that allows students to decide for themselves which history is the "true" history.

KOREA:
Korea is perhaps one of China's most loyal tributary states. Unlike Japan, Korea actually respected their father, son relationship with China.
However it is this relationship with China that probably causes Korea to be so erratic with all foreign nations.
Unlike Japan, Korea hasn't really achieved anything of much merit, and pretty much spent their whole history in the world being invaded by foreign countries (Russia, Japan), and paying tribute to countries mightier than them. (China, Japan)
In my opinion the collective will of Korea feels cheated, because Japan a nation that was often regarded by both the Chinese & Koreans as barbaric pig footed monkeys are actually much more respected & recognized in the world than Korea is.
As such Korea has currently had one goal in mind, and that is to be a more powerful, recognized & respected country than Japan will ever be.
The Japanese & Koreans often share similarities with each other, because one of the royal blood lines of Japan happens to be of Korean descent.
It's due to this fact that Korea believes that all things Japanese are actually Korean. (Anime,manga,J-pop,Karate,Samurai,etc.)

Korea's eternal grudge first began when Hideyoshi invaded Korea in order to gain access to China.
In the beginning of the 1900's Korea was annexed by the Japanese, but today's Koreans believe that the japanese usurped control of Korea. Well actually I should stop here. Much of Korea's current history has been fabricated so it's hard to tell the difference between the fabrications & the reality.
The only absolute truth that I can come up with is that Korea is a living paradox that proclaims to be democratic yet happens to be anti-Japan & anti-American.  (Mostly for illogical reasons.)
The United States is usually their next target, whenever they're not busy defacing Japan.
They're conditioned to believe that all zapanese are short legged imperialist midget monkeys, and Americans are immorally corrupt barbaric baboons. What's quite ironic about South Korea is that they spend the majority of their time worrying about an Imperial Japan that no longer exists when the dictatorship of North Korea should be the far more immediate problem to Korea's national security. (Actually it's because most Koreans are taught in school to revere Kim Dong
A reoccurring theme about Korea is that they seem to antagonize every country that tries to help them out,
EXCEPT CHINA.
For a country that is so opposed to "Zapan" one wonders why the educational system mirrors that of the Japanese WW II wartime propaganda that was being taught to Zapanese during WW II. Than again this is the same country that makes anti-America songs utilizing American styles of music. (Rock, Rap)
Note: In Korea, it's a popular insult to pronounce Japan with a Z, because Z is the last letter in the English  alphabet.  Don't ask me for the logic on that one, as nothing they do seems to make any logical sense.

EASTERN AGGRESSION The following are a list of disputes currently occurring in Asia.

CHINA is a country that is living in the past. Often reminiscing about their glory days back when China was an isolated super power. They seem hell bent to get revenge on the Japanese for both the "Nanjing Massacre", and for replacing China as the most influential country within the Eastern region. Simply put they just want to put Japan back in their place as a back water country that amounted to nothing.

The Nanjing Massacare"

Iris Chang author of the best selling "The Rape of Nanking"

This link believes that she is a fraud. http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2004/11/11/iris-chang-dead/

1.   See ya later said:
    November 11th, 2004 at 5:41 pm

   She probably realized that her books were propaganda not journalism and she couldn't get a job anymore because everyone knew. She wanted to make it interested not right. Maybe she was threatened with being exposed as the fraud she really was.

This link believes that it was a Japanese conspiracy to make Iris Chang's death look like an apparent suicide. http://www.quicktopic.com/28/H/a8RsjNiknPd6y

Carlos Marks  294 07-06-2006 06:31 AM ET (US)

I recently found out that Iris committed suicide. I spoke with Iris after she gave a talk here in Hawaii at the University of Hawaii. And I asked her if she feared for her life. And she said yes. After meeting Iris, I feel she had too much integrity and too much to live for to commit suicide. I could be wrong but this is how I feel. As we all know, Japanese are experts at committing suicide. And it is not that difficult to make a murder look like a suicide especially for the Japanese. If anyone would have a motive to have Iris killed, it would be the Japanese. I have lived in Japan several times and knowing their character, they would go to any extreme for revenge.

Personally I'm of the camp that believes that Iris Chang was a fraud. I've also lived in Japan for many years, and I have no idea what Carlos is referring to regarding their behavior. I find it extremely comical how Japan is always portrayed as an "Evil" entity especially when the days of Imperial Japan have long since diminished.

The wealth of information that us English speakers are usually exposed to came from a historical fiction novel called "The Rape of Nanking". Many observers of the book take what they see at face value as the absolute truth. One must take into account that Iris Chang had no first hand experience with Nanjing Massacre at all. Rather all that she knows are what her parents told her. While the events are grounded in truth, the magnitude of the ferocity & the statistics of the causalities were grossly exaggerated.

The following are assorted quotes from the San Francisco Chronicle that accurately describes the reactions of several political parties that the book has caused in the United States.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/07/26/SC77214.DTL

``The Rape of Nanking'' has won virtually unanimous praise in major U.S. papers, and is regarded almost as a bible by Chinese American activist groups lobbying for Japanese war accountability. Meanwhile, American scholars are sharply divided over its merits, and a group of conservative Japanese professors held a press conference in June attacking it as grossly exaggerated and containing fake photographs. The Japanese ambassador to the United States called it inaccurate and one- sided, provoking a sharp response from Chinese officials.

She calls her book the first in English to document the Nanjing tragedy (although one critic says that distinction belongs to ``What War Means,'' an account published in 1938 by H.J. Timperley, a British reporter for the Manchester Guardian).

One problem for Chang is that she didn't conduct research in Japan, making her vulnerable to criticisms of her portrayal of how modern Japan is facing up to the war. Another problem is the question of whether she is primarily an activist or a historian. At her appearances, there are often leaflet-distributing representatives of Chinese and Chinese American groups, including the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia, which sponsored the Cupertino conference where Chang saw the photos that inspired her book.