Why does it matter?
What happened 60 years ago matters not in the world of today - we should be past that, looking for
ways to move forward. Why should China need to harbour such a grudge against the Japanese
civilians? Why do the ancestors of the Japanese war-time people have to pay the price for decisions
made before they were even born? You're only seing things one dimensionally, you are making it
sound like these are pressing issues that NEED to be resolved. How exactly are they going to be
fixed? Are the Japanese citizens expected to grovell eternally at the feet of the Chinese? Do they
want the Japanese to make a time machine and go back in time to fix the mistakes that made? This
situation is extremely unreasonable and can constitute as nothing more than PETTY nationalism - and
that makes me sick, if you can identify with it then go you, but to me this is nothing more than a
petty grudge against a group of people who don't deserve such prejudice against their ethnicity.
All I can say is that whatever anger the Chinese have against the Japanese after all this time
should not be directed at a group of non-political rock musicians. If you really think that
refusing X Japan permission to play in the Beijing National Stadium is some sort of deep political
statement and anything other than a crude piece of prejudice I really do doubt your capacity to
even be involved in this debate.
What price does X Japan have to pay because of their ancestors? Um, play at another venue IN China? Oh no, what a heavy price to pay! Shame on the Chinese!
And knock it off with the whole Japanese begging for forgiveness thing. No one's expecting them or asking them to, not even the Chinese.
Seriously, you're making this sound a lot worse than it actually is. No one is saying the Japanese deserves to be hated nor is anyone saying the Chinese should hate them. And you know what? You're making it sound like every single person in China hates the Japanese and it's giving X Japan such a hard time, which is not true.
First off, it doesn't matter whether a Japanese band or an American band wants to play in Bird's nest, ANY foreign bands can't play there YET because they want a Chinese artist to perform there first. If a Chinese artist had performed there already, there probably won't be this problem. And it's not like China's banning every single Japanese from performing within its state. X Japan is allowed to perform in China anytime and anywhere but Bird's nest because of he reason stated above. Heck, you're right, there's no deep political statement behind this whatsoever.
Second of all, why do you think X Japan even wants to perform in China? Because there's a fanbase in there that's big enough to be lucrative. I'm sure there a lot of people in China who likes Japanese idols, fashion, etc. and aren't the grudge-holding Japanese haters you're making them out to be. Heck, there are even some Japanese-(mainland)Chinese collaborations between artists that were well-recieved (note that the performance was performed in China). It's only a group of people within a huge population who are showing prejudice yet it sounds like to me you're associating the Chinese government's decision with its entire population (but didn't you just say people has no right to associate government decisions with a specific group of people?).
If X Japan really do love their fans in China, they should just play at another venue as the odds are against them in playing in Bird's nest.
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Besides, I find the different symbolisms/meanings pretty interesting. It's always good to learn new things!
And who knows, Yoshiki's got some pretty impressive persuasion skills, maybe he'll be able to charm the higher-ups into letting X Japan perform, lol. 