What do Japanese people REALLY think about Chinese people today? No, I mean, like, really.?

Question:

Okay - tell me honestly, any of you, preferably native-born Japanese, what do you think about China and Chinese people? Is there great admiration and love for them generally, or racism and hatred?

Answer:

Since the establishment of a flourishing trade between Japan and China the relationship between the two countries has improved dramatically.

From some of the comments on the net some Japanese are interested in Chinese culture, some regard Chinese people as distant as the Americans across the Pacific, but some disapprove of China's relentless pursuit of Japanese war crimes during the Sino-Japanese Wars, most notably the Second one around the time of WWII.

Some Japanese are annoyed some Chinese people are still stuck in the past, whereas some other Japanese people simply think Chinese estimates of the casualties of the Second Sino-Japanese War are over-exaggerated, some thinks Japan has been degraded ever since their defeat in WWII and they think they victors (China, America, Allied powers) are exaggerating Japanese war crimes in order to subjugate Japan forever.

And then there's those Japanese who thinks even well-documented history such as the Nanking Massacre never happened in a wave a paranoia against American and Chinese sources.

All in all most Japanese have a neutral point of view toward the Chinese, but some have...... unusual perspectives on the actions of the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII, and thus the historical debates around WWII continue to be a block between Sino-Japanese relations.