My perspective on this has been formed out of my many business trips to Japanese factories located on the China mainland. Usually, these are LCD manufacturing sites.
Those trips include social outings (translation: heavy drinking at KTV hostess clubs) with the high level Japanese managers at those facilities, then separately opportunities to chat privately with the Chinese who are working for those Japanese employers. Those Chinese engineers actually do the grunt work to implement my engineering requests at our LCD lines in the Japanese factories in China. Curiosity has me often asking probing questions to each of these groups on how they view the other.
CONCLUSION: the HATRED between these groups is so deep, I view it as inevitable that China will eventually find an excuse to throw all Japanese business out of China, even possibly seizing all Japanese factories. It won’t happen this year, or next year, but when you talk of ten-year time frames, now the odds are higher you’ll see some significant action.
I view the attitudes of the Japanese towards Chinese to be the root cause for how Chinese view Japanese.
It is outrageous how badly the Japanese corporate facilities in China treat Chinese workers.
I figure the only reason China doesn’t immediately toss the whole lot of Japanese out of China is China needs their manufacturing technology for a few more years.
