Anti-Japanese Sentiment - Philippines

Philippines

Anti-Japanese sentiment traces back to World War II, and the aftermath of the war. Where an estimated one million Filipinos, of a wartime population of 17 million, were killed during the war, and many more injured. Nearly every Filipino family was hurt by the war on some level. Most notably in the city of Mapanique, survivors recount the Japanese occupation with Filipino men being massacred and dozens of women being herded to be used as comfort women. Today, the Philippines is considered to have un-antagonistic relations with Japan. In addition, Filipinos are generally not as offended as Chinese or Koreans are about the fact that these atrocities are given little, if any, attention in Japanese classrooms, a consequence that some historians and sociologists feel is a result of the Philippines never fully recovering from the war.