Comments on: Japan: Earthquake aid starts healing process

By: jane tse

jane tse — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:00:58 +0000

Quote: “With this [development], the deeply-rooted sentiments of hostility toward Japan among the Chinese people, which the Chinese communist party creates in order to restrain [people] domestically, may finally come to an end.”

I must stress that it was not the Chinese Communist Party, which has created hostility toward Japan among the Chinese people. It was more appropriate to say that some Japanese politicians who have never stopped reminding the Chinese people their war time experience with the Japanese army by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine.

By: jane tse

jane tse — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:54:06 +0000

Quoted: “With this [development], the deeply-rooted sentiments of hostility toward Japan among the Chinese people, which the Chinese communist party creates in order to restrain [people] domestically, may finally come to an end.”

This comment might be quite wrong. The Chinese Communist Party does not need to create hostility toward Japan. It was those Japanese politicians such as the then Prime Minister, Mr. Koizumi who had not stopped to remind the Chinese the Japanese invasion by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine. It was a deliberation of some Japanese politicians to arouse hatred between people of the two nations for their own political agenda.

By: jane tse

jane tse — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:44:11 +0000

Quoted: “I’ve heard that most ordinary people don’t know that that after the war, Japan offered various forms of support to China as reparations. The Japanese assistance in this case, and in particular the extensive coverage of this humanitarian assistance, could I think have an influence that is very great.”

If China has not requested for a reparation after all its suffers and all the killing during the Japanese occupation, it is nothing more than normal that Japan has to offer aids to China, if Japan wishes to maintain that historical socio-economic tie with China.

By: jane tse

jane tse — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:33:49 +0000

It is so much cheaper to use love and fraternity to reduce hostility. It is really time for us to abandon the old power politics, which had led us into two devastating war. We should renounce the use of war to resolve international conflicts, as it has been written in the Japanese Constitution.

By: jane tse

jane tse — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:16:18 +0000

Throughout the human history, there is no indication that the people of different nations should be hating each other. Chinese and the Japanese people are no exceptions. There is no indication that the Japanese people have the tendency to invade China. Wars have always been the deliberate but wrong choices of political leaders. It is hope that political leaders of the new century would respect the independent choice of their own people. People do not want war. It has always been the political leaders who have led the people into war. It has always been the people (civilians and soldiers alike) who die in the war.

By: Lun Jiang

Lun Jiang — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:39:11 +0000

Thank you Japan and Japanese people for your help. Your action has spoken louder than any kind of political propaganda and reminded all the Chinese that we are brothers and sisters, maybe there were wars, maybe there were tragedies that are very hard to forget, but we have to move on. I believe Japan is no longer the same one as in WWII, China is no longer the communism country either. We should try harder to understand the other country and its people, that would surely improve our friendship and benefit both sides.

By: tornadoes28

tornadoes28 — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:22:34 +0000

It’s too bad it takes something like this tragedy for Chinese and Japanese people to come closer together. But it is a good that will come from something like this.

By: Knights

Knights — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:40:50 +0000

Growing up hearing terrible stories from my parents about Japanese’ brutal attacks on Chinese during WWII. I have never liked Japan. I refused to visit Japan.

I think the majority are ashamed of their past. There are a few extremists who are proud of the past. It looks like Japanese government is slowing trying to show its regrets. Let’s give them a chance.

By: ling

ling — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:50:56 +0000

I can never forgive Japan unless they apologize like German. But Japanese can never have such courage, that’s why I look down on Japan.

By: Eric hu

Eric hu — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:17:24 +0000

There are so many affairs related in the emotion which chinese people have toward their neighbor Japan. Some of them are historical, others are continuous updated. Just few months ago, a chinese student studying in Japan was attacked by some right wing minority during the Olympic torch reply in Nagano. Some pictures showed the harm in face.
When I believe the hard work by japanese police in torch reply and fully appreciated the assistance of japanese professional rescuers, other side of the story just can’t easily vanish from my mind. Anyway, more communication between youngsters are expected. It will generally build up trust as well as understanding among people. Again, Thanks for all of the support from Japan in this disaster and the excellent work to collect those words.

By: matthew

matthew — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:09:51 +0000

thanks for your report firstly,
BUT,
YOU shoud know the fact:TAIWAN IS NOT A COUNTRY, it’s a part of China. even the UN have not recognize the taiwan district is a country, why you people call it a country so vexedly. a.
quoted :”In total only two countries, Japan and Taiwan, were allowed to enter China by the Chinese government”

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By: Matt Y.

Matt Y. — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:46:11 +0000

I think the Harumonia SEED article has stated the painful truth of humanity that sometimes it does take a painful loss for people to realise the otherwise “unimportant” or “insignificant” meaning of the things that we take for granted.

I still have immediately related family members and close friends in Sichuan… Well, it’s an agonising experience that I’m undergoing these days to wait for their SMS’s or phone calls every day just to know that they are safe, due to the aftershocks still hitting the already hard-hit Sichuan Province.

The government is doing exceptionally well this time in the relief work and it’s the first time they have allowed foreign professional rescuers in. I personally want to express my gratitude to the Japanese rescuers because I appreciate the attitude like “(Japanese) shouldn’t take this as somebody else’s problem” that has been reported here in China.

I did hear that there are also some nasty comments on 2ch… Would any Japanese users here tell me that they are the minority in Japan? Thanks.