Japan has always been a thorn on the side of China. The Kingdom of Wa's pirates would raid both Korean and Chinese coasts. The time when Japan and China had better relations was during Himiko's reign. That was the time when they would send most delegations to China. Japan attempted to invade China first, during the Tokugawa Shogunate, back in the 1600s. Then we fast forward to WW2, and Japan killed over 22m people in China. And I am obligated to say, that Japan owes much of its culture to China. If anything, Japan should be seen as a rude and ungrateful little brother, and nothing else. There have always been tensions, and all have come from the Japanese isles.
Japan has always been a thorn on the side of China. The Kingdom of Wa's pirates would raid both Korean and Chinese coasts. The time when Japan and China had better relations was during Himiko's reign. That was the time when they would send most delegations to China. Japan attempted to invade China first, during the Tokugawa Shogunate, back in the 1600s. Then we fast forward to WW2, and Japan killed over 22m people in China. And I am obligated to say, that Japan owes much of its culture to China. If anything, Japan should be seen as a rude and ungrateful little brother, and nothing else. There have always been tensions, and all have come from the Japanese isles.