In Japan, Where News is News Again

When the news is not news anymore in China, it is a BIG news in Japan.

Something like food poison, anyone in China can tell you the tap water is not drinkable, as it is not treated, and without boiling the water, it can cause you a forced diet therapy. It is nothing new as most developing countries have the same thing. But how about vegetable vendors wash their merchandise in nearby polluted river, and orchid farmers spray pesticide on the apples. (My college classmates whose family runs a orchid, told me never eat an apple without peeling it).

Then there was the dumpling incident, meat buns incident, Pork cutlets incident, and related news appears on every Japanese media outlet every day and night, still no sighs of unwinding, far more coverage than Beijing Olympics.

Today, there is a news about a Chinese student in Japan who profits from making and selling fake diplomas from well-known Japanese universities, such as Tsukuba, Keio, etc.

Again, this won't make a news in China, especially in Shenzhen, where people from all over China come to get a job, diplomas are priced to sell, semi-underground, or a public secrete, and there is even a discount for a less known school's diploma compared to one from Beida or Qinghua.