Tag Archives: Japan

Impressions of Japan

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. After anti-Japanese demonstrations fired off around China, this week’s digest proposes to take a … Continue reading

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The media should not exploit patriotism

The front page of yesterday’s China Youth Daily carried an admonition for the media in China in the current heated political climate: don’t exploit patriotism for sensationalist reporting to attain higher newspaper sales or television ratings. In other words: cut the hot air. Written … Continue reading

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Japan to release Chinese activists

The headline on today’s Dongguan Times: “Japanese illegally detain people on China’s protected Diaoyu Islands, our Minister of Foreign Affairs again urged Japan to immediately release the people and their boat.” The article describes China and Japan’s recent scuffle over the … Continue reading

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Chinese activists arrested by Japan on disputed Diaoyu island

In the midst of a complicated and ongoing political dispute involving China and a host of other countries over a number of islands in the South China Sea, various papers in China today carried front page stories on 14 Chinese … Continue reading

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Cute little Japanese devils

A compilation of Japanese cartoons of “Riben Guizi” (Japanese devil), a Chinese insult that Japanese computer nerds are trying to turn “into a beautiful young girl” to let Chinese people full of hostility become fans of anime beautiful young girl.

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Ninja vs. Panda

A Next Media news animation on the current tensions between China and Japan.

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Adult video star Aoi Sola writes to China fans on blog

On April 15, Aoi updated her Chinese blog with a piece for her Chinese fans, translated by a “friend from the Internet:”

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Blog anonymously to avoid Sushi

A-list Japanese blogger Akky Akimoto fear retribution in the form of unwanted Sushi deliveries.

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Disclosing the “1984 secret”

The Beijing News (新京报) today ran an article reviewing the 1984 visit of the Japanese to China.

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Mirrors of History

An essay by Geremie Barme about anti-Japan demonstrations in 2005 and nationalism.

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