U.S. scholar: Takaichi's revisionism sparks Chinese historical trauma

Recently, Jeffrey J. Hall, a scholar at Kanda University of International Studies, discussed in an interview with Deutsche Welle the remarks made by Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae regarding China’s Taiwan region. He noted that in the 1930s, Japanese militarism used the pretext of a "survival crisis" to carry out acts of aggression against China. Now, Takaichi, who holds a revisionist view of history, has once again invoked similar rhetoric, which inevitably touches upon the national trauma borne by the Chinese people from that painful period. It is therefore only natural that China has expressed strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition in response.