4 April 2016 - stuck in the past 1

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And Those Outside East Asia Don’t Understand

The Korean peninsula gives thumbs down to the Japanese archipelago. Why do nations misunderstand each other? It’s because each sees only the past that it itself is stuck in, not the pasts everyone else is stuck in. South Korea fears the past warlike Japan and Japan, turned pacific after its Pacific war, also fears the past warlike Japan. Neither accepts that the world has moved on.

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