I'm Japanese, and I only have respect for the Chinese, for without China's heavy influence on ancient Japan, today's Japanese culture would not exist.
I have studied Chinese Chi Kung and a martial art called Yi Chuan since 1987. My master in Yi Chuan (a native of Shanghai) always told me how he liked the Japanese compared to Americans because "Japanese are honest people,"
and marveled at the beauty of Japanese calligraphy which is completely different in form and spirit than Chinese calligraphy.
After about a year of study, my master formally admitted me as his formal "Chinese" student. We had a small ceremony with lit incense and we both sat on our knees and bowed down to the photo of Grandmaster Wang Ziang Shai, the founder of Yi Chuan.
My master told me that during the 1940s in China, a Japanese Judo and Kendo expert came to challenge grandmaster Wang and was soundly defeated. The Japanese, named Kenji Sawai, got down on the ground and bowed to Wang and begged to be accepted as his student. Wang was impressed by the Japanese fighter's humility and did accept him, even though at the time the Japanese were enemies of China. Sawai later went back to Japan to spread the art of YiChuan there.
There are many heartwarming stories of today's Japanese' acts of good will toward China. Japanese scientists have gone to China to teach agricultural techniques to grow a better strain of rice, or to re-forest areas threatened by desert conditions. I saw a show about a Japanese family who had live in Manchuria during wartime and were nearly killed by Chinese, only to be saved by a Chinese military officer. This Japanese family went back to China to track down that officer to thank him. They got on Chinese national TV to appeal to the masses to help them look for him. Some of the Chinese viewers of that show were interviewed and expressed that they saw a different side of the Japanese whom they had assumed were savage people. Recently, a Chinese female softball player was given Japanese citizenship in order to be allowed to play for the Japanese national Olympic team, which has a better chance of winning a medal than the Chinese team. I could go on and on, but it's all meaningless if you're convinced that it's propaganda.
If anyone has a bitter attitude toward Japan or the Japanese, do yourself a favor and go to a forum where there are only people like yourself.