- This no shame Nippons wanting to keep our Diaoyu Island; should we let them or we give them total war and our Gentleman Revenge?
Defense plan prepared for remote islands
The Defense Agency has prepared a plan to defend the southern remote islands off Kyushu and Okinawa from possible invasion amid rising security concerns about China, according to documents obtained Saturday by Kyodo News.
The agency compiled the plan in November on the assumption of an invasion of the islands located within a 1,000-km zone between the southern end of Kyushu and Taiwan.
Thousands of islands are scattered in the area. The Senkaku Islands, claimed by both Japan and China, are among them.
The plan calls for a dispatch of 55,000 troops from the Ground Self-Defense Force as well as planes, warships and submarines from the main islands in the event the remote islands are attacked.
"The Self-Defense Forces do not have troops stationed on most of the southern remote islands and they are a vacuum in terms of security," a senior Defense Agency official said.
"China has been expanding its scope of activities as seen in the case of an incursion of Japanese territorial waters (by a Chinese nuclear submarine) in November. We need to monitor its moves," the official said.
Under the plan, patrol planes of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and the airborne warning and control system of the Air Self-Defense Force would collect information on the remote islands.
Fighters, submarines and destroyers dispatched from the Kyushu and Chugoku regions would be divided into two groups to prevent aggressors from landing on the islands or block their supply routes.
Of the 55,000 GSDF personnel, 9,000 would be assigned to recapture invaded islands and the others would provide rear-area support.
The GSDF would mobilize its Western Army Infantry Regiment based in Nagasaki Prefecture, which consists of specially trained soldiers in charge of defending remote islands, and members of a planned rapid deployment force. They would descend onto the islands from the air.
Troops stationed in several bases in Kyushu would be sent to the islands on MSDF transport ships.
The infantry regiment was established in 2002 as part of the Defense Agency's review of its unit deployment plan. The agency used to place heavier emphasis on the northern island of Hokkaido to repel a Soviet invasion during the Cold War.
The agency is also scheduled to launch the rapid deployment force, which will consist of Airborne Brigades, to boost the security of the southern remote islands.
In September, the agency presented scenarios of Chinese invasions of Japan. A report listed possible attack scenarios by China, including a territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands and illegal operations by Beijing over maritime resources in the East China Sea.
The Ground Staff Office of the GSDF previously drafted a plan to cope with cross-strait military conflicts between China and Taiwan. But the new defense plan is the first penned by the agency on the assumption of an invasion of the southern remote islands.
This message has been edited by Anglophile26 on Jan 16, 2005 7:54 PM This message has been edited by Dragon369 on Jan 16, 2005 6:52 PM This message has been edited by Dragon369 on Jan 16, 2005 6:49 PM
Scoring disabled. You must be logged in to score posts.
This is why Chinese people needs to boycott Japanese goods.
" I think it is important for Chinese people to boycott a country which not only invaded China and murdered millions of Chinese but which is today is calling China and the Chinese people enemies.
I haven't bought anything Japanese in years. My electronics - tv, cellphones - are from Phillips, Mintech, Konka, Haier and other Chinese, Korean and European and American firms and my car is Hyundai.
Fellow Chinese, there is nothing the Japanese make that you can't buy from elsewhere. Have confidence in your own products and those of friendly nations. Never buy from the Japanese who declare China a threat."
Scoring disabled. You must be logged in to score posts.
- In fact; we should goes one step further, we should bar and embargo any Nips company doing business inside China! Makes their multi-national company hells to do business inside China; until their Nippon Government admit and apologized for WWII crimes liken the German, these Nips should not be get off easy.
- In fact; there is now a massive Chinese Internet movement to stir the public awareness and dislikes towards this nips. I urge all my Comrades to spread the messages all Internet boards about the Nips and to stir public awareness of their crimes.
- This pictures is from Comrade Xinhui @CDF; I don't knows where he got this from. From the looks of it; looks plenty goods to me, specially these Japs bow in shame!
- Damned Japs on this picture; I can still see their evil grim, with one hand holding a sword, and the other hand holding a dead babies dripped with blood from their mouth. These Sub-human trash needed to be punish!
For future reference, use of the term "nip" will not be tolerated.
United We Stand.
"Now, while still pursuing the method of realising our overall strategic concept, I come to the crux of what I have travelled here to say. Neither the sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of world organisation will be gained without what I have called the fraternal association of the English-speaking peoples. This means a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States. Thus, whatever happens, and thus only, shall we be secure ourselves and able to work together for the high and simple causes that are dear to us and bode no ill to any. Eventually there may come—I feel eventually there will come—the principle of common citizenship, but that we may be content to leave to destiny, whose outstretched arm many of us can already clearly see.
Winston Churchill
Scoring disabled. You must be logged in to score posts.
The Japanese are planning to develope something akin to a marine corps, interesting. They could easily acquire the hardware, since the most important assault ships are already in place. One brigade would not be enough, though.
Scoring disabled. You must be logged in to score posts.
if the Japanese even decided to take gloves of they would have the best forces in the region, hell even with there hands tied they do have the best Navy in the region
"Fear God, Honour the Queen
Shoot Straight and Keep Clean."
Scoring disabled. You must be logged in to score posts.
The Japanese are planning to develope something akin to a marine corps, interesting. They could easily acquire the hardware, since the most important assault ships are already in place. One brigade would not be enough, though.
I think the right term should be Sempaku Kohei.
In anycase, the Senkaku island group, or as the chinese like to call them "钓鱼台", is about 175 km north east of Taiwan. This places them about 300-something km off the coast of the mainland. That is right at the limit of the operating radius of the Su-30 and out of range for most of the other PLAAF aircraft. The PLAAF do not yet have the number aerial refueling assets sufficient to mount a large number of aircrafts via mid-air refueling. So, it'll largely be a naval duel. At this point the JMSDF has better equipment -- this is especially true of in terms of the Kongo class AEGIS destroyers and the Harushio & Oyashio class SSKs which are in the running for best destroyer and SSKs in the world respectively.
This message has been edited by dwightlooi on Jan 16, 2005 8:56 PM
Scoring disabled. You must be logged in to score posts.
"In anycase, the Senkaku island group, or as the chinese like to call them "???", is about 175 km north east of Taiwan. This places them about 300-something km off the coast of the mainland. That is right at the limit of the operating radius of the Su-30 and out of range for most of the other PLAAF aircraft. The PLAAF do not yet have the number aerial refueling assets sufficient to mount a large number of aircrafts via mid-air refueling. So, it'll largely be a naval duel. At this point the JMSDF has better equipment -- this is especially true of in terms of the Kongo class AEGIS destroyers and the Harushio & Oyashio class SSKs which are in the running for best destroyer and SSKs in the world respectively."
- I read that Su series fighters have a range all the way to Spratly Island chain; so I am much doubt about your above claims. Also, we have plenty of mid air refueling plane now! Thanks.
- Actually, the new PLA fighting concepts is to expand the role of PLA to fight and hole up to the First Island Chain into the Pacific Ocean; PLAAF and PLAN are now gearing up for this tasks. Massive re-armaments boys and girls; only ways to stand up to bully boys.
- This is a formal complain about you; for the original topic of this thread is "The Nip Boys Wanting War With Chinaman"; but, instead you abused your mod power and changed my title to "The Jap Boys Wanting War With Chinaman!"
This message has been edited by Anglophile26 on Jan 16, 2005 7:54 PM
This message has been edited by Dragon369 on Jan 16, 2005 6:52 PM
This message has been edited by Dragon369 on Jan 16, 2005 6:49 PM
- You better have a proper explaination for your use of Racial Jap term and your abuse of your Mod power! This is very bad! Now explain yourself in the S&C form!
also, you might want to check that mad vietnamese guy who constantly calls chinese dogs. l1o1l1ol (Yes, we did too but only after his unprovoked insults).
May God Bless China!
Scoring disabled. You must be logged in to score posts.
- STFU, Japs! (BTW: Mod Anglo asked us to the use the JAP Word!)
China warns Japan against 'unilateral action' following new defense plan
BEIJING (AFP) Jan 18, 2005
China Tuesday urged Japan to refrain from "unilateral action" following reports that Tokyo has developed a plan to defend islands in disputed parts of the East China Sea.
"China always advocates that the disputes on this issue between China and Japan should be resolved through consultation," foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan told a regular briefing.
"Both sides should refrain from any unilateral action."
The Japanese plan calls for the dispatch of 55,000 troops as well as warplanes, destroyers and submarines from Japan's main islands in the event of an attack on Okinawa and other remote islands, Kyodo news agency said earlier.
The islands include the Senkakus, known in Chinese as the Diaoyu islands, which both countries claim as their own.
"China takes this seriously and has reaffirmed on many occasions that Diaoyu island and its related islands have been part of Chinese territory since ancient times," said Kong.
In November Japan made public its new defense guidelines which for the first time explicitly point to China as a potential threat, along with North Korea.
- Time to come clean, Ill Japs! (Mod Anglo's Asked Us To USE The Jap Word!)
TEA AT THE EMBASSY
Every December, John Franken travels from his home in Montreal to the Japanese Embassy in Ottawa. Every year he mounts a personal protest, calling for an official apology for his time spent as a POW in Japanese slave labour camps during the Second World War. Franken will go again this year, but will it be any different from the last?
During the Second World War, Franken spent three and a half years as a POW in Japanese slave labour camps. He has spent the last 50 years in the tireless pursuit of an official apology from the Japanese government. At first he was ignored, but eventually the embassy invited him inside for a cup of tea - but nothing more.
These days, the term "activist" usually calls to mind the image of a young demonstrator, rushing forward, impatiently pushing for change. But what if the activist is an octogenarian, moving forward in small steps, whose patience has allowed him to keep up his struggle for over 50 years? What would such an activist look like? Meet John Franken.
Franken is a Jewish-Canadian who grew up in Indonesia. He was captured by the Japanese during the war, forced to work as a towel boy in a brothel filled with Korean "comfort women." He then worked as a slave labourer in a coal mine. Franken was in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped - surviving because he was deep underground. When he emerged on Aug. 9, 1945, the charred landscape was completely barren; the smell of burning flesh was overwhelming. The day 70,000 people died, Franken was set free.
Franken works tirelessly on his cause - in addition to his protests, he talks to schoolchildren and travels to conferences about Japan's conduct during the war - always calling for a public apology from the government of Japan. For many ex-POWs time is running out, so Franken continues his quest to preserve the memory of those men, women and children who suffered so much horror during the Second World War. John Franken plans to return to the Japanese Embassy on Monday, December 8th.
Tea At The Embassy is produced by Cine Qua Non Films Inc. in association with RDI and CBC Newsworld. It is written and directed by Catherine Hébert; produced by Josée Roberge.
hmm,my dear chinese friends...you don´t have any good awacs...the chinese have some of the best world wide.Plus you have only some 300 really modern fighters(su-27/30,J-10)aginst the 250 F-15/F-2...difficult!
Scoring disabled. You must be logged in to score posts.
"hmm,my dear chinese friends...you don´t have any good awacs...the chinese have some of the best world wide.Plus you have only some 300 really modern fighters(su-27/30,J-10)aginst the 250 F-15/F-2...difficult!"
- What kind of Opium do you smoke, dude? For I wanting some! Haa! Haa!
- From your above used of English Grammer, I am all but confused; are you interchanged and mixed up with the word Chinese and Jap in your above statement?
- Per chance, you means the following remarks as your original posting? ROFL
"hmm,my dear chinese friends...you don´t have any good awacs...the JAP have some of the best world wide.Plus you have only some 300 really modern fighters(su-27/30,J-10)aginst the 250 F-15/F-2...difficult!"
BTW: Mod Anglo wanting us to use the term JAP to decribe Nipponese!
- Jap Sucks in weaponary! Mod Anglo asked us to use the term Japs! He say, this is fine and ok! ROFLMAo
Japan's Lunar Dream Hit By Technical Snags, Cash Crunch: Space Officials
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 25, 2004
Japan's struggling lunar programme is plagued by money shortages and technical hitches, the country's space officials attending an international conference say. "We're strapped for cash. To solve problems we need an additional 10 million dollars every year," said Hitoshi Mizutani, chairman of the Department of Solid Planetary Science at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
He was speaking on the sidelines of an international conference on lunar exploration in the northern Indian city of Udaipur this week.
Japan's space programme has faced a series of setbacks since the mid-1990s, including a spate of launch failures.
The launch of Japan's Lunar-A mission intended to shed light on the moon's origin and evolution using a module to land on its surface was set for August 2004 but no new date has been set, Mizutani told AFP.
The launch of the second Selenological and Engineering Explorer or SELENE, named after the goddess in Greek mythology who is purported to drive the moon across the sky each night, has also been delayed.
It was due to be launched next year but that target has been pushed back to late 2006, said Manabu Kato, scientist at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
For the Lunar-A mission, Mizutani said a government review panel told the agency to improve the "robustness of communication" between the penetrators, which will drill three metres (yards) into the moon, and the spacecraft.
In addition, the expert committee told the agency to improve its propulsion systems, but to meet them the agency required "time and money," he said.
There was also a problem with valves used for propulsion of the spacecraft.
The Lunar-A mission will study the seismic activity of the moon and the varying temperatures. The cylindrical-shaped spacecraft will whizz into an elliptical lunar orbit and rotate around the moon for about six months.
Later, two penetrators carrying seismometers and "heat-flow probes" will be separated from the spacecraft to land on the moon.
"The seismic observations are expected to provide key data on the size of the lunar core and the heat flow measurements will provide important data on the thermal structure and heat-generating elements in the moon," Mizutani said.
"The SELENE mission was originally planned for 2005 but due to the delay of completion of launch vehicles H2 and H2A now it has been rescheduled for late 2006," Kato said. "It will be launched by the H2A rocket."
Japan's next generation domestic rocket, the H2-A, capable of carrying about four tonne satellites, has had five successful launches despite various mechanical failures and delays.
"Another source of worry is money. Due to the current financial condition of Japan, funds have dried up. A year ago, we proposed a SELENE-II but the committee never cleared it," Kato said.
Japan's space budget was cut by 0.01 percent in 2004 to 273.2 billion yen (2.7 billion dollars) from 2003, a space agency official in Tokyo said. The Cabinet Office which manages the satellite programme got 63.1 billion yen in 2004, two percent less than last year.
The SELENE-1 mission will be one of the largest missions to the moon and will circle it at an orbit of 100 kilometres (60 miles).
The 2,885-kilogramme (6,347 pound) spacecraft with a payload of 300 kilogrammes will carry scientific instruments for global mapping of minerals and studying radioactive elements and a terrain camera and is due to remain in orbit for an year, Kato said.
Scientists say the next decade will witness a race to conquer the moon among the United States, European nations, Russia, China, Japan and India. They will be scrambling to build outposts on the moon and use it as a base to explore space.
"Dude...I really dig your style of conversation!Like another forumer said,you are really cute!"
- You are most welcome, dude; for Ol' Dragon Boy is very popular on WAFF, many member here well dig and enjoy reading my daily trashy! Specially them British and American members on WAFF; they love me to death! ROFLMAo
"Dragon do you know the links to any Boycott Japan websites?"
- I don't fully understand your question; but, if you are asking for a web sites which encourage to boycott Japanese goods, this is one to start.
- This is legit site, and not some radical hate the Jap site; but rather decent folks wanting Nip_Porno to admit to war crimes and to make apologize for their past.
- I urge you to tell all your friends and family; ask them not to buy Nip_Porno goods, I stop buying Japanese goods now. Spread the message, brother.
Click Into My Mouse Trap Below; It Hyper-Link You To A Good Korean Site, Where Korean Anger Over Nip_Porno Rewrite Their History Book!
Newly Approved Japanese History Textbooks Anger Asian Neighbors
Tokyo Urged to Rectify Textbook Distortion
Photo shows members of south Korea's National Campaign Headquarters to Deter Japan's History Textbook Distortion on Apr. 3 calling for a joint action with Japanese civic groups to voice their strong opposition to Japan's history distortion.
Voices of protests and denunciation from the international community are growing stronger after the Japanese government authorized a controversial history textbook to be used in junior high schools, which Pyongyang, Seoul and Beijing claim glosses over atrocities by the imperial army in the first half of the twentieth century.
Despite strong opposition to and request for revision of the textbook at home and abroad, Tokyo said that no further changes would be made following the screening of the text by the authorities.
The textbook, written by a Japanese rightwing group named the ¡§Society for Writing New History Textbooks,¡¨ was officially approved on Apr. 3 by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology after 137 passages were changed or deleted, while seven other textbooks submitted for the ministry¡¦s screening were approved for use in Japanese junior high schools, beginning in April next year.
Although the authors of the textbook accepted the ministry¡¦s request for revision, China and South Korea say the final 337-page version continues to justify Japan¡¦s colonial rule over Asian nations and its war of aggression in the 20th century.
Upon winning the government¡¦s official OK for its textbook, the ¡§Society¡¨ has stepped up lobbying for the use of its textbook in middle schools.
Asian countries urge the Japanese government to stop the release of the history textbook in question and re-revise the passages in the textbook which openly advocate the ¡§empire history concept,¡¨ deny and whitewash the history of Japanese aggression.
Korean Peninsula
Pyongyang urged Tokyo to immediately stop its moves to justify its ¡§crime-woven¡¨ history when the DPRK Foreign Ministry released a statement which condemned the ultra-nationalistic history textbook finally approved by the government.
¡§Their impudent moves to tamper with history are another grave insult to the Koreans and many other Asians who underwent unspeakable sufferings and misfortune at the hands of the Japanese imperialists in the past and an intolerable blatant challenge to the international community and human conscience,¡¨ said a spokesman of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Apr. 7.
¡§It is the need of the times and the unanimous will of the international community to prevent the repetition of such a history of aggression in the new century and to force Japan to make a sincere apology and compensation for those crimes,¡¨ he added.
South Korea also expressed its strong protest against Japan¡¦s approval of the controversial textbook, while recalling its ambassador to Japan. The south Korean Foreign Ministry said that Ambassador Choe Sang Ryong will be back home to hold talks on how to respond the coming release of the rightist-authored history textbook.
Lawmakers of north and south Korea agreed to work out countermeasures on the issue in cooperation with China when they met on the sidelines of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference held in Havana, Cuba.
The opposition Grand National Party urged citizens to launch a campaign to boycott Japanese products. Protests have been escalated into civic campaigns nationwide, including calls for a boycott of Japanese goods.
Local civic groups started on Apr. 8 a nationwide campaign to boycott Japanese goods in protest against Tokyo¡¦s authorization. ¡§We should not remain mere spectators on the issue. The boycott drive will be the most effective way to express our resolution,¡¨ said the Citizen Movement Center of Anti-Over-Consumption (CMCAOC), a coalition of 40 civic and religious groups.
Former ¡§comfort women¡¨ who joined a protest outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul issued a statement accusing Japan of hiding the truth.
South Korean Internet users also expressed their rage against Japan¡¦s ongoing attempts to gloss over its wartime aggression by revising middle-school history textbooks, as they staged a large-scale cyber rally on Mar. 31 on the homepages of six organizations of Japan related to the initiative. Some web pages were paralyzed due to flood of massive protest massages and log-in attacks.
China
China¡¦s official Xinhua News Agency said the text showed that ¡§a handful of ultra-rightist forces are still trying by any means possible to reverse the verdict on Japan¡¦s wars of aggression, a verdict based on conclusive evidence.¡¨
On Apr. 3, Chen Jian, Chinese Ambassador to Japan, expressed deep regrets on the Japanese government¡¦s approval of the textbook. ¡§We are shocked by and deeply regret the approval of the history textbook,¡¨ Chen said, adding that the textbook shows no remorse at all over the great sufferings inflicted upon Asian people before and during the World War II by the Japanese aggressors.
Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan on Apr. 4 met with Japanese ambassador to China, lodging solemn representations over Japanese government¡¦s approval of the history textbook. Tang said that China strongly demands Japan take effective measures immediately to remove the bad impact arising from the textbook issue and safeguard the general situation of Sino-Japanese relations.
Vietnam
Meanwhile, Vietnam also urged Japan to have a correct perception of history. Hanoi¡¦s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh said: ¡§Vietnam is of the view that Japan should have a correct perception of history. This would make a significant contribution toward further developing friendly and cooperative relations with its neighboring countries in the region.¡¨
Jewish community
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights agency, said that it was deeply distressed that the Japanese Education Ministry had approved a junior high school textbook written by nationalist historians, which failed to fully deal with Japan¡¦s World War II aggression against its neighbors in the Asia-Pacific region.
¡§The Education Ministry¡¦s approval does a great disservice to the younger generations of Japan who can only gain by learning the full truth of Imperial Japan¡¦s actions during the 1930s and 40s,¡¨ said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center.
Singapore
Zaobao, Singapore¡¦s major Chinese vernacular daily, reported on Apr. 4 that the passage of the controversial Japanese history textbook through the authorities¡¦ screening was a falsification of historical facts and relapse of history.
Back Home
Copyright ? 2001 The People's Korea. All rights reserved.
- I believes, these Nip_Porno outrage is at a dangerous high level at home; it is only a matter of time, before the entire citizenship raise up and demanded a strong action against these Japs(Mod Anglo ask us to use this words) Boys at home!
- Boycott of Nip_Porno goods is the first start!
The Xi'an incident: No love affair
By Katsuo Hiizumi
"It was scripted as a gesture of love; it ended up generating a lot of hate," is how Asahi Shimbun writers Kazuto Tsukamato and Kentaro Kurihara characterized the incident. They reported that on October 29, three Japanese students and a Japanese teacher at Xi'an's Northwest University performed a "bawdy skit" at the university's cultural festival.
The incident and its aftermath were significant in a number of ways. Through it we have once again been reminded that - large-scale Japanese investment in China and fast-growing economic relations notwithstanding - even small incidents can quickly fan the flames of Chinese antipathy (hatred?) toward Japan that still burn more than half a century after World War II. But perhaps even more important, the matter has given us insight into modern Chinese governance and its attitude toward protest as the precursor to democracy.
"Most of the other performances, such as traditional dances, were of a serious nature," wrote the Asahi Shimbun journalists of the Xi'an incident. "For their skit, however, the four [Japanese] wore red bras over their T-shirts and paper cups in the front of their trousers, apparently to suggest male genitals. The phrase 'What are you looking at?' was written on their hats. Some of the four apparently removed cut-up pieces of paper from their bras and tossed them into the crowd. At the end of the skit, the three students reportedly intended to turn their backs to the audience to show they had written the words 'Japan' and 'China' as well as [a] 'heart sign' implying 'love' [on signs on their backs]. By expressing the phrase 'Japan loves China' or 'China loves Japan', the four apparently wanted to promote friendly relations between the two countries."
Alas, the Chinese audience and newspapers saw it differently. The skit caused an immediate uproar and was halted in the middle of the performance by a Chinese teacher. According to Chinese press reports, the "Japan" sign was worn by the person with the fake penis, the "China" sign by the person with the red bra - and that, of course (if true), makes it a somewhat different story.
"Japan loves [or whatever?] Chinese whores," became the message. Recall that not very long ago, a group of about 280 Japanese businessmen on a company trip to Zhuhai (in southern China near Hong Kong) reportedly engaged in a sex orgy with about 500 (!) Chinese prostitutes in a resort hotel - to the outrage of all of China and unprintable venom in Chinese Internet chat rooms. To say the very least, the Xi'an skit displayed some very bad timing.
The October 29 (a Wednesday) incident touched off violent protests over the "deep insult to China" that continued through the following weekend. Protesters also called for the boycott of Japanese products. Several Japanese restaurants were besieged. A Japanese man and woman suffered slight injuries in skirmishes prompted by throngs of protesters at a dormitory for foreign students. Police transferred all students in the dormitory to local hotels for their safety.
Since then, Northwest University authorities have expelled the three Japanese students and dismissed the Japanese teacher and they have returned home after writing a letter of apology. The protests have ceased rather than spreading to the rest of the country as had been feared.
Arguably, had a Xi'an-type skit been put on at any Japanese university, its lewd nature would not have caused offense - though I'm not so sure exactly how Japanese students would have reacted to a skit like that put on by Chinese students and with reversed signs and symbols. In any case, China is not Japan and at least the Japanese teacher should have known better.
But there is also another angle to the story. The anti-Japanese protests after the Zhuhai and Xi'an incidents remind me of similar protests in Thailand in the early 1970s. When then Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka visited Bangkok in January 1974, he could not even leave his hotel because of the huge number of students protesting Japan's increasing domination of the Thai economy, shouting "Boycott Japanese products" and "We don't need Japanese in Thailand." But these nationalist students were the same students who were fighting military dictatorship and demanding democratic freedoms. Nationalist anti-Japanese protests were the spark; but by the end of the 1970s democracy had won.
Northwest University in Xi'an is not Peking University. But it is one of the most prestigious universities in western China. I do not know if its students are critical of the present government. But elite students in China to one degree or another usually are and want to see more rapid progress toward democracy. The fact that large-scale anti-Japanese nationalist demonstrations could quickly turn into pro-democracy demonstrations is not lost on the Beijing government. It is therefore not surprising that Xi'an authorities, after letting the students blow off some steam, quickly moved to contain the local demonstrations to forestall larger nationwide protests. Patriotism, no matter how sparked, has a tendency to lead to reflection on social and political basics and - historically - that's not necessarily to the advantage of a nation's rulers.
As for the Japanese students and teacher who caused the Xi'an uproar, I can only pity them. They studied, taught and lived in China. How could they have been so insensitive to their fellow students' and teachers' beliefs and feelings? Probably by keeping their distance and mostly talking to each other or themselves. Any way I look at it, as a teacher of Chinese history at a Japanese university, I find the whole affair more than a little unsettling.
Katsuo Hiizumi teaches modern East Asian history with special reference to China and overseas Chinese at Aichi Prefectural University, Nagoya. From 1983-85 and from 1988-92, he served in Bangkok as a special assistant to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His publications include Kakyo Konekushon (The Overseas Chinese Connection), Kyogeki to Chugokujin (Peking Opera and Chinese), and The Past and Present of Chinese Economic Area.
(Copyright 2003 Asia Times Online Co, Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact content@atimes.com for information on our sales and syndication policies.)
Yea I was just looking for websites that encourage boycotting Japanese goods. It is hard to try to stop buying Japanese goods because they are everywhere.
I have 2 Hondas and a Sony TV.
E Tan, E Epi Tas! on loan! 
