A sixteen year old Japanese soldier (and that is about the youngest such a soldier could have been at the time) would now be 91 years old. Most of the soldiers who took part in the incident would be older than that or--more probably--dead. A newborn baby in Japan at the time would now be 75 years old.
Yes, the Chinese despise the Japanese and, yes, actions have consequences, and, yes, paybacks are hell. But do the people living in Japan today really "have it coming?"
well, no, the particular people in Japan now likely had nothing to do with it, however,
listen, my dad, who is in his 80s was a 10 year old Belgian kid living in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded and he remembers it well. He was in a Japanese concentration camp for three years with my grandmother and grandfather and his brother. When he gets together with his brother it is all they talk about, how the Japanese took their houses, how they nearly died from starvation in the camp, showing us the patch that had to be on their clothes, talking about the reunions of prisoners they have been to. It isn’t over for them, and because of that, it isn’t over for their kids. Did you know that those who were in camps are sort of messed up in their minds and my dad still has effects of the malnutrition he endured? War’s effects go on and on.