Mr. Singh, your country was never occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army!

…while many Japanese understandably have bitter memories of World War II, many of us throughout Asia, whose countries the Japanese occupied during that war, have our own searing memories

writes F Sionil Jose from Manila.

Some 20 years ago, my wife and I were in Kawazaki near Tokyo for a writers’ conference. In the first plenary session, a delegate from Calcutta started excoriating the U.S. for incinerating Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I was incensed, I stood from the floor and shouted, “Mr. Singh, your country was never occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army!”

Meanwhile, readers to Le Monde complain about the partisan attitude of the daily's article.