Old Scores Not Yet Settled

Among the worlds oldest civilizations, past feuds are never forgotten:

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese smashed windows and threw rocks at the Japanese embassy and ambassador's residence in Beijing on Saturday in protest against Japan's wartime past and its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat.

Protesters pushed their way through a paramilitary police cordon to the gates of the ambassador's residence, shouting "Japanese pig come out."

Some 500 paramilitary police holding plastic shields raced into the compound and barricaded the gates. "Chinese people shouldn't protect Japanese," the protesters shouted.

Many Chinese resent Japan's wartime aggression and anti-Japan sentiment has been running high in China since Tuesday Japan when approved a textbook critics say whitewashes wartime atrocities.

Demonstrators, who said they had been organized mostly through e-mail and instant messaging, had been marching peacefully under heavy police guard.

One group began throwing bottles and stones when they passed a Japanese restaurant, smashing windows with tiles they had ripped from its roof before police stopped them. A second restaurant was targeted later in the evening, with rocks thrown through the window, terrifying kimono-clad waitresses.

The Chinese were ravaged by the Japanese during the thirties up until the end of WWII and can never forgive the country that inflicted so much on them. Here's a link that describes the utter brutality visited on the capital city of Nanking by the marauding Japanese army. Caution-link contains graphic pictures.

I imagine the Chinese will take their revenge on Japan sometime this century.