Chinese businessman John Li's parents fought against invading Japanese troops during World War II and have never set foot in Japan. But Mr Li fell in love with Japan after visiting it and cannot stop going back.
Many elderly Chinese still have vivid memories of Japan's wartime atrocities and recount to younger generations those horrors, which are unambiguous in Chinese textbooks.
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