Not true, history is one of the subjects I find most interresting.

Before WWI Serbia dreamed of uniting a lot of slavic areas into a Great Slavia, and after WWI Yugoslavia was created. But it didn't work out too well because Bosnians, Croatians, Serbians, etc, didn't get along and it fractured. Still Great Slavia =/= Serbia because Serbia was just one part of it, IMO.

Japanese politics are complicated in that sense. Younger Japanese tend to be global-minded and more pacifist and apologetic. The trouble is that Japan is a gerontocracy to the hilt, and the older guys who run things tend to be more nationalistic.

Indeed, Shinzo Abe is trying to retract the only "apology" Japan ever gave out in 1995. But he does not speak for all Japanese in this (they don't vote for the LDP because of the LDP's frightful foreign policy aspirations, they voted for the LDP because they tried the DPJ and the DPJ didn't do anything worthwhile, so the LDP's crap does not have the popular mandate behind it).

It seeems like your the one who is EXCITED about war here.  If you read my OP, I wish nothing to come out of this; since it would most likely hurt my gaming hobby (and a lot more things) if shit hits the fan.  I am just saying that from history China is not beyond stepping into other people's territory and claiming them based on antiquated history.

Yeah... anybody who thinks China haes the US more then Japan hasn't really paid much attention to history or internal chinese politics.

I mean i'd suggest he wikipedia "The rape of Nanking".

That alone has caused more bad blood... not to mention the various wars and then the Puppet state of Manchukuo.  

Though they are quite economically tied, the masses of both countries can't stand each other.

Hence, my worry it might develop into an armed conflict. Which it will hurt not only my gaming hobby but innocent lives in the process.

Looking at the sales of the 360 there, i would say the vast majority is nacionalist.

McDonald's/Apple products/Windows/Star Wars

The Xbox's disconnect with Japan is based around culturally incompatibility, but not because "it's bad because it's not made by a Japanese company." Many Western products and ideas fit Japanese sensibilities. Xbox does not (for the very reasons that i myself and many who are not Xbox fans dislike the brand: it tries so hard to be cool that it ends up being a parody of itself, like Mountain Dew).

Serbia is a political succsesor of Yugoslavia. In 2003, FRY was renamed to Serbia & Montenegro, after Montenegro declared independance, Serbia was the only state left that was a part of original Yugoslavia. It even kept the same capital city

China has much more ways to reduce the influence in Asia than to risk their economy at a war. The track record says the same, China has started in the last decades far less wars than the US had. They usually use economic influence to push their political ideas.

And I don't believe in the situation with Taiwan will be used militaric force. They didn't in the past and will not do it now. Taiwan actually is the Republic of China, the predecessor state to the Peoples Republic of China. They also claim the China mainland, that these communist rebels have taken over. Not realistically at this point. And that's fine for the PRC, as this states the idea of one China. I think the solution with Taiwan will look like the one with Hongkong.

Who cares about some stupid islands, if China and Japan seriously want to war over it, then neither country deserves it. And i fought the age of colonialism was far behind us now!