> in 1960, when mao zedong spoke to a japanese literary delegation, he mentioned, "i spoke to many japanese friends about this incident, and some of them said that it was not good for japan to invade china. i said of course the invasion was bad, but we should not look at this bad side alone, on the other hand, japan has done us a great favour in china. if japan had not occupied half of china, the chinese people would not have awakened. in this respect, we have to "thank" the japanese imperial army. who is educating you japanese people now? it is the u.s. imperialists who are your negative teachers, and they are also our negative teachers. ......it is possible and necessary for our two peoples, china and japan, to cooperate because both are oppressed by u.s. imperialism and have common positions." > in 1961, mao zedong told japanese socialist party advisor shn kuroda: "......occupied most of china in the past, so the chinese people received an education. without the chinese war of resistance against japan, the chinese people would not have been enlightened nor would they have been united, so that we would still be in the mountains and would not be able to go to beijing to see peking opera. it was because the japanese imperial army had occupied most of china and there was no other way out for the chinese people that they became aware and started armed struggle, establishing many anti-japanese bases and creating the conditions for victory in the subsequent war of liberation. the japanese monopoly capital and warlords did a 'good deed' for us, and i would like to thank the japanese warlords if i need to thank them." in the conversation, mao also expressed the meaning that "the relationship with the people should be treated differently from the relationship with the government" and that "the monopoly capitalist government and militarists in japan should be responsible, but the japanese people should not be responsible."
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