Anti-Japan protests in China: Any solution?

[Prophet of the Way]

The immediate cause of the recent outburst of anger seems to be Japan's
bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. But I'm
not sure.

Japanese TV news repeat pictures of men hurling stones and the resulting
debris. There are not many interviews from the ordinary Chinese.
Not all of the placard slogans are translated. Japanese commentators and
politicians get much more time to express their views. They tell us of
anti-Japan education in Chinese schools, social unrest as a consequence
of a widening income gap and a government trying to distract attention
from problems at home. I am sure these trends apply to Japan also,
to a certain degree.

I'd like to know of any efforts outside government diplomacy. I have
been working on this issue since November 2003:

Time Asia on student riots in Xian, 2003:
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501031117-538988,00.html

I understood the significance of this happening in the ancient capital:
http://www.issho.org/xian

This led to the Issho Bunka project:
http://www.issho.org/bunka

Douso, The Prophet of the Way

[Prophet of the Way]

This is a poem by Chinese politician, scholar and poet Guo Mo Ruo (1892-1978) on
the air raids suffered by the city of Chongqing (Sichuan Province. along the
Yangtze River) by Japanese planes in 1939:

http://www.issho.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1377

Poem in three formats: original Chinese, marked Chinese text, Japanese
transcription. Some notes in Japanese.

There must be other works of literature, on civilian hardships during the war,
that can be brought into Japanese with the method used in the above article.

Post by Prophet of the Way
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501031117-538988,00.html
http://www.issho.org/xian

Correction to the above URL:
http://www.issho.org/Xian-2003

Douso, The Prophet of the Way

[Farkow]

Ataturk said this. Peace in world
I think Japans must be together with Chinise people
If Japans walk together there will be a very big power
Your peoples will be happy about this
I am a Turk and I gave an answer becasue i love Japan

[Jim Eckman]

I can't imagine the Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere until every
Chinese leader who experienced WW2 is dead. Americans have a short
memory, but other countries nurse grudges for hundreds of years.

On the other hand, the younger generation just may not care, Korean and
Chinese bands along with the Korean soap operas appearing on Japanese
TV are an encouraging sign.

Even when it was banned in Korea, young people pirated Japanese anime
like crazy.

Maybe all we have to do is be patient, very unAmerican ;)

Jim Eckman

[m***@netMAPSONscape.net]

Post by Jim Eckman
Chinese leader who experienced WW2 is dead. Americans have a short
memory,

Sorry, not really true. For more than a century, no foreign nation was
hated here more than Britain. And there are Southerners who seriously
believe the North started that nasty ol' "War of Aggression".

Post by Jim Eckman
but other countries nurse grudges for hundreds of years.

When politically expedient. Otherwise, they're as forgiving as
anyone.

Few nations have been as traditional enemies as Germany and France,
eg. Now?

Post by Jim Eckman
On the other hand, the younger generation just may not care, Korean and
Chinese bands along with the Korean soap operas appearing on Japanese
TV are an encouraging sign.

Yep. Prosperity has a way of healing all wounds.

Post by Jim Eckman
Maybe all we have to do is be patient,

Yep. Just take our part in the ol' World Economy.

Post by Jim Eckman
very unAmerican ;)

No, just very unmodern.

Mike

[k***@gmail.com]

Japan has the organizational dicipline, China has the resources and
manufacturing ability. If those two countries got together, they could
overtake us economically. (I'm in the USA)