Postcards From A Furious China

Quote from icarus618:

Americans don't understand how hated the Japanese are by its neighbors.
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Really?

My grandfather was captured on Sumatra in WWII and was a Japanese POW until the end of the war and my step-mother is Nisei Japanese.

The idea that all Americans are ignorant about Japan and its regional history is BS.
 
Quote from Grandluxe:

The Japanese ambassador to China is dead..hmmmm

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's ambassador-designate to China, Shinichi Nishimiya, died on Sunday in a Tokyo hospital, the Foreign Ministry said, three days after he was found unconscious on a Tokyo street.

Doctors were looking into the cause of death, ministry official Takashi Ariyoshi said in a statement, but no other details were available. Nishimiya, 60, was found unconscious on a street near his home on his way to work.

Nishimiya was to have left in mid-October to take over from Uichiro Niwa as Japan's top envoy in Beijing.


"I am concerned that when these countries engage in provocations of one kind or another over these various islands, that it raises the possibility that a misjudgment on one side or the other could result in violence, and could result in conflict," Mr Panetta said, when asked about a clash between Japan and China.

"And that conflict would then have the potential of expanding."

-Defence Secretary Leon Panetta
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A decade ago, I could not understand why W. and the zionist clique around him, were busy doing you know what to invade Iraq, when it was clear to many of us that such war would allow China a wonderful time to rise without worry. Now the chinese are flexing muscles, and sending ships.

I hope that the conflict between china and japan would not lead to a nuclear Japan --- but I would not be surprised if Japan were to go that route using nuclear china as a reason/excuse for doing so.
 
Quote from 377OHMS:

Really?

My grandfather was captured on Sumatra in WWII and was a Japanese POW until the end of the war and my step-mother is Nisei Japanese.

The idea that all Americans are ignorant about Japan and its regional history is BS.
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I was speaking in general terms and did not say "all Americans," which wouldn't make any sense since I am the one making the post. Look elsewhere if you're intending to pick a fight. I'm rarely on this site nowadays and rarer still do I feel the urge to post anything.

The pics from China were interesting as I have spent a lot of time in the Far East and have a second home in Seoul. My intent was to add a bit of color to the reporting. Japan has a similar dispute with South Korea over another set of islands called Dokdo by the Koreans and Takeshima by the Japanese.

About a week ago, the Japanese government took the bizarre step of advertising in Japanese national and regional newspapers of Japan's sovereignty over Dokdo/Takeshima. That's not a good way to make friends and gain influence, especially since Koreans (I mean Koreans in general; note the absence of "all") are still hot over a Japanese company's attempt to patent Kimchi.
 
Quote from icarus618:

I was speaking in general terms and did not say "all Americans," which wouldn't make any sense since I am the one making the post.
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I see.

Japan is still despised, particularly in China. Some of the military incursions are still referred to as "rape" like the "Rape of Nanking" (that one happens to be the title of a book by Iris Chang so it is widely known, even in America). The Imperial Japanese Army was brutal throughout Asia due in large part to its attitude towards prisoners.

I was surprised by the movie "Empire of the Sun" and its depiction of the IJA officer corps. It seemed like an attempt to accurately describe what occurred in Shanghai and it was pretty shocking.

I guess China is expressing some hostility it developed when it was much weaker than Japan. Now the tables have turned.
 
Quote from tradingjournals:

Dictators love riots when they are in their interests.
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Thanks for the information. No wonder Obama is quite sympathetic towards the riots of his brethren in the Middle East.
 
Korea also protesting against Japan but different island.:D

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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak visited last Friday to the islets at the center of a long-running territorial dispute with Japan, ignoring warnings from Tokyo that it would worsen the neighbors' already strained relations. The sign on left written in Japanese reads " Dokdo is South Korean territory."
 
Quote from Grandluxe:

Thanks for the information. No wonder Obama is quite sympathetic towards the riots of his brethren in the Middle East.
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President Obama is not a dictator. He is a democrat and he was elected. So stop your zionism nonsense.
 
A few more interesting pictures of the protests in different Chinese cities.

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A demonstrator chants slogans while holding a sign saying, "Japanese dogs get out of China", at Tianfu Square during a protest against Japan's decision to purchase disputed islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in Chengdu September 16, 2012.

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Chinese demonstrators raise national flags as they confront riot policemen during a protest against Japan in Shenzhen, China Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. The sign on the right, says,"Revive the Chinese civilization."

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Chinese demonstrators clash with policemen at the barricades during an anti-Japan protests outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. The placard writes," Declare war on Japan. I will donate ten thousand. Protect the Diaoyu Islands. I am Chinese."

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A Chinese demonstrator kicks a broken police vehicle during a protest against Japan in Shenzhen, China Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012.
 
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