I like Japan a little but they are scared shitless because of what they did to China pre WW2, nobody remember the rape of nanking? I bet you the Chinese didn't forget. Japan doesn't have many friends in the area tbh because they made lots of enemies with their neighbors like S. Korea when they planned to wipe out Koreans by raping all their women and forcing them to bear japanese children. History is fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes