The fierce Chinese reaction to the new Japanese textbooks has been matched by some circles in Southeast Asia. The Federation of Chinese Associations of Malaysia led a petition drive, and the Johor Baru Chinese Federation conducted a ceremony that burned a Japanese soldier in effigy. Read the story in The Japan Times. Guns of February becomes an even more important book in this context, with its highly nuanced look at the actions of particular Japanese solider and officers, and they way they dealt with the legacy of their actions after the war.