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wcang 's review for:
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
by Jared Diamond
The author did a great job in narrating modern history for Finland, Japan, Indonesia, Chile, Germany and Australia. As a Malaysian Chinese, I didn't quite understand the reason why China and Korea are still angry for the atrocities that Japan committed. One of my former Chinese colleagues defended Japan. In his opinion, Japan had apologized many times over the matter. The comparison between post World War 2 West Germany and Japan makes it clear that Japan apologies were at best half-hearted. As a Malaysian, I am also quite ignorant of the politics of our neighbour and I am surprised to learn about the 1965 coup and the subsequent massacre in Indonesia.