Madam - Anne Nolan (April 13th) thinks that, due to their biased schooling, the Chinese are too eager to protest about Japan's human rights record without acknowledging their own suspect history in this arena. She then lectures the Chinese on their treatment of Tibet.
But it is the selective schooling of the current generation of Japanese children that causes much of the ill will felt by their populous neighbours.
A recent Japanese textbook airbrushes from history references to the atrocities visited on the Chinese by the occupying Japanese forces before and during the second World War. Imagine the outcry if, for example, the Famine was similarly dismissed by the UK authorities.
It is believed that between 10 million and 30 million Chinese died during the Japanese occupation. Having lived in China and visited Unit 731 - the germ warfare museum in Harbin where 3,000 are believed to have perished - I find the Chinese attitude regrettable but understandable.
Yours, etc.,
SIMON O'NEILL, Sutton, Dublin 13.