Saturday, May 23, 2009

Nanjing! Nanjing! Japan Missing To Dissing?

Chinese movie about the Nanjing Massacre-Nanjing! Nanjing May 23 was shown in Shanghai, and over 250 Japanese students and employees were invited to attend and voice their opinions afterward. 47 percent of Japanese participants felt the movie will be a hard sell in Japan,and one female Japanese said she was not sure how much truth to the movie.
(Asahi News)


Lawyer John Roos was reported to be the Obama's ambassador to Tokyo, the news has stirred up a short wave across Japanese politics. LDP OB Yamazaki Taku told TBS that the Roos has no Japanese experience nor Northeest Asian security past. One Japanese blogger called it a Japan Dissing, dubble from Japan Bassing, Japan Passing, Japan Missing. (Yomiuri News)


Japan becomes the fourth most Flu cases in the world, after Mexico, U.S., Canada. (Yomiuri News )
I wonder doese that mean Japan is too close to the U.S., physically and psychologically?


Chinese will send personel to the Moon around 2025-2030. (Mainichi News)


Wang Dan, the June Forth Tiananmen student leader criticized Japan for being half-hearted when comes to support democratic movement in China. (Mainichi News)


China proposes a Free Trade Agreement among Beijing, Tokyo and Souel. (Mainichi News)


Beijing asks UN to consider a sea shelf development zone between China and Japan, could lead to new conflicts between the two energy craving countries. (Mainichi News)


THAT's this week's China Japan News.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

New Flu, May Fourth, Children's Day

China and Mexico engages a diplomatic war over flu handling. China just sent charter plane to put 200 people out of Mexico, and Mexico government has asked citizens to leave China.


China quarantines 25 Canadian students even without them showing flu symptoms. (TBS News)


Hong Kong still quarantine suspects in a hotel, with security guards around the hotel.


Hong Kong's Baodiao group members were stopped by police from going to Diaoyu Island(Senkaku), where both China, Japan and Taiwan claim as territory. (Yomiuri News)


China marks the 90th anniversary of May Fourth Movement, CCP secretary Hu Jintao ask youth to be patriotic. (Yomiuri News)


May 5 is Children's Day in Japan. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a warm message, which is a unusual and extra gesture to Japan.(Yomiuri News)

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Flu Interrupts Golden Week For Japanese And Chinese

It is now Golden Week in Japan, however, no break for both Japanese and Chinese health workers. Even the two countries have not reported any confirmed H1N1 flu cases, however, they seem to all feel that is inevitable.

In Japan, as many as 50,000 travelers are scheduled to return home from overseas trips on May 6, the government is waiting nervously and making every possible measure to prevent virus landing to the island.

In China, president Hu Jintao held a first ever highest level official meeting to discuss the issue, after the 2003 SARS outbreak, no one can blame China for not doing enought this time. The current May day three day weekend is also not helping the matter, and it is traiditonal travelling time for millions. May day also starts a summer seasion where many migrants to go out to look for works and people get married.

At the April 30 meeting between Japanese PM Aso Taro, who was visiting Beijing, and Hu Jintao, both men confirmed the two countries to join hands to fight the new H1N1 flu pandemic togehter.

No Yasukuni and what so ever mentioned.

Will the flu thing bring the two contries together? the real challeng will be the end of the May, when a civil group Baodiao, Protecting Diaoyu (Senkaku) island, where both China, Japan and Taiwan claim as own terrotrity, will come from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macro to bound for a trip to the island. the group had asked both Chinese and Taiwanese military for protection from possible intervention of Japanese Marine ships.

Will it Diaoyu (Senkaku) become a trilate issue again?
 
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