5 years ago, China Fails to Designate National Humiliation Day. Can the bill pass this year? Via AP:
A lawmaker has called for a national “Humiliation Day” on Sept. 18 to mark the start of Japan’s 1931 invasion and remind the Chinese public of foreign attacks, state media reported Thursday.
Chinese nationalism, especially among the young, has surged recently along with the country’s economy and international influence, stoked by a Communist government that regards Japan as its rival for regional superpower status…
The Sept. 18, 1931, attack on the northeastern city of Shenyang, then known as Mukden, led to the Japanese occupation of China’s northeast. That was followed in 1937 by the occupation of much of China that lasted until Tokyo’s 1945 surrender at the end of World War II. [Full Text]
