89 years ago on this day, Japan launched their full scale invasion of China. Their aim was genocide.
89 years later, most Japanese are still not acknowledging the genocidal nature of their war. Many Japanese call the war. "The China incident".
The idea of portraying Japan as the victims of World War 2 seem preposterous for any person with a brain, but this is the mainstream view in Japan, in public at least. They may be smart enough to know this is total nonsense, but in public they either feign ignorance, or outright lie about the war their country had started.