Q: Since you did not experience the Sino-Japanese war, why do you feel strong resentment towards Japan?
A: Before 2000, people were not so sensitive about Japanese issues. [It only emerged] after 2000, when the Japanese government and rightists repeatedly harassed China by making revisions to Japanese textbooks, issuing public denials of the Nanking Massacre, and attempting to amend the Japanese constitution.
There were also Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine. They went further by choosing not to face their history of invasion. These are all danger signals to us, and make us concerned about the future.
Q: Why are Chinese asking Japanese to apologise for what their grandfathers did seven decades ago?
A: We are only demanding the Japanese government - as representatives of the country - apologise for the war, as the German government has done.
Q: But the present mainland anti-Japanese sentiment not only targets the Japanese government, but is also aimed at the Japanese people, as shown at the Asian Cup soccer final in Beijing in August, and the rejection of Japanese products.