Hostility toward Japan runs high in China. The history of the harsh occupation during the 1930s and 1940s is neither forgotten nor forgiven. So it should come as little surprise that "City of Life and Death", a new film about one of the most gruesome chapters of that history, the 1937 Japanese assault on the city of Nanjing, has done well in China, earning $10m in the first week since its release. But it must have irked Japan's prime minister, Taro Aso, that the film was released on the eve of his first visit to China since taking office last September.
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