Japanese politician: rape was necessary during WW2

[Anomalocaris]

I wouldn't go there. The 2008 Szechuan earth quake ranked right up there with the 2011 tsunami in death and property destruction.

Maybe so, but if you look at the population of Japan and China for example, there's no question that relatively speaking, Japan suffered much more, and economically as well. But you're right, I don't think it's wise to traverse that path.

Schadenfreude is unbecoming of china where natural diseasters are concerned, even if the epicenter is in Japan. Even relative to her population, china lost far more people to natural disaster since 1900 than Japan did. Just the 1976 earth quake at Tongshan killed more Chinese than did all of Japan's natural diseasters since 1900 combined, including the 2011 tsunami and the much more deadly 1923 Kanto earth quakes. Yet despite kill more than did all of japan's natural disseasters in the last century, the tongshan quake would not even rank in the top 5 most deadly natural diseasters to strike china during the last century.

For what past chinese crimes and misdeeds do you suppose this superabundance of deadly natural diseasters is the comeuppance?