South Korea’s favorability toward Japan exceeded 50% for the first time since the survey started being held in fiscal 2014. The favorability rate reached 56.4%, an increase of 15.8 points from the previous survey.

What about as the older population inhabits mech suits?

My confusion when I learned dead people place their bowl of rice on the right side. And Samm lettuce wrap everything.  Good culture thought. Love Jimm Dakk. Steamed soy sauce chicken my beloved

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I would think its less of a "time healing wounds" and more of a "Well shit...China, the US, or Japan? Which one will screw us over the least?" type situation

By the way, ygz123 here is a resident of the Chinese sub.

There haven't been as much deliberately flame setting to the issue for domestic voters recently. As the world enters the period of geopolitical rivalry, politicians on both sides realize they need each other not as caricatures to punch against in the domestic political theatre, but as partners against the triple and coordinated threats (but not necessarily allied!) from China, North Korea, and Russia. This is why, despite having left-nationalist government in Seoul and the right-nationalist government in Tokyo, which is otherwise a recipe for confrontation, are doing generally fine despite some problems and inertia on the unresolved issues. Note: the left in South Korea (and by extension North Korea) is traditionally ethnically nationalist and anti-Japan alongside being economically and socially progressive. This makes an interesting situation, because the South Korean right, which is civic nationalist, has better attitude to migration, though recently they pivoted to aggressive anti-China stance.

Japan does teach about war crimes, numerous public figures have apologized and the issue South Korea took was that this was done at Prime Minister and not parliament level (parliament passing resolution to apologize), and Japan post-war pacifism has been direct result of the experiences in the war, including what Japanese militarism itself produced. Foreign reporting misrepresents a small vocal minority on active but limited campaign to reshape education with a silent majority and less visible liberal and left leaning organizations that resist them being largely not covered. The problem is that Western reporting focuses too much on Tokyo, elite institutions, and certain expensive hotels rather than the reality on the ground, so the nationalist right (who are supported by pro-US security oriented conservative factions within elite society) gets more attention than they would otherwise have, and there is little actual visibility of Japanese society beyond entertainment export and some select reporting.

I'm curious if the recent twitter changes will reverse the poll for this exact reason. Seems like people are finding out that there are actually quite a few Japanese revisionists online who are refuting Japan's war crimes.

It's crazy how sheltered people like you are from the rampant racism of east Asia. It is centuries old. You can blame recent wars on their current grudges, but they'd find other reasons to hate one another absent that.

You haven’t seen Korean schools bruh. Also Japan and Korea only really have been conflict 1 time before modern times. (Hideyoshi invasion)

This is the dumbest comment I've read all week. So when Korea and Japan has animosity towards China like now, that's inferiority complex, got it.

\> South Korea has essentially caught up to Japan in nearly every regard, and surpassing it in others. lmao I wouldn't say that.

To the commenter asking about Japan's war crimes in Korea, I don't know if your comment was deleted or I can no longer see it for another reason, but here was my attempted reply: The colonization of Korea, I feel, goes without saying. But in the post-colonial era, much of the bitter and hostile feelings Korea has toward Japan was Korea's inability to exert influence over Japan directly or through the international stage. Korea remained under successive military dictatorships, while dealing with an antagonistic North Korea, while watching as Japan rose over four decades to become the second largest economy in the world. Japan was both celebrated on the world stage, while also being feared for its economic might. Because of Japanese strength, Korea had to suffer what it perceived as continuous humiliations from Japan. But since the 1990s, as Japan began its three decades-long stagnation, and as South Korea emerged from military dictatorship, and began its rise, things have leveled out drastically between the two countries. For example, South Korea recently overtook Japan on GDP per capita, which would have been unimaginable decades ago. Militarily, for good reason, South Korea's is more robust, while also having one of the world's largest arms industries. For soft power, an argument can be made for either. All of this is to say that in the minds of South Koreans, Japan is no longer the big, evil, scary monster that comes out when the lights go out. It is now just a peer country that's c**** to visit for a weekend trip. It's much easier to have favorable feelings when a formerly hostile country no longer looms so large over you.