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As I remember, Japanese investments and products were very welcomed 10 years ago, anti-Japan was not so heated up then. There might be a bunch of people who hate Japanese a lot, mainly live in the areas which were heavily slayed by Japanese military including NanJing, Chongqing and North-easten provinces.

Internet offers a good facility for those anti-Japan guys to spread the idea, but the idea was not so popular at the beginning because Internet was mainly accepted by educated Chinese at the time and those crazy people were just shitting dirty words and vague slogans at that time.

As Internet is used by more people, the anti-japan idea is spreading more easily among the think-less brains; at the same time, the Japanese (either the government or the people) have done some silly things, like releasing biased textbooks, which is unacceptable by most Chinese people becasue we Chinese feel we are insulted (and to let japaneses who read this know, all they/we want is respect, not money or sympathy).

Another fact that people seldom mention in this blog dialogue after the protests in Shanghai is the fact that China and Japan share a border that has a lot of resources under the sea which both are eager for. Many reasonable people attended the demonstration or support anti-japan, in the hope of supporting the government to get better position in the negotiation of sharing the resources.

Anti-Japan gains more support and smart people join and help build the idea on solid facts ( and probably intentionly ignore the facts of the opposite side) . The idea is getting even more popular, and objections on anti-japan becomes kind of unwelcomed even among friends’ conversations, you can only express anti-japan opinions, otherwise you will be pushed aside.

This is a very dangerous sign for the peace loving people of both countries seeing the similar atomosphere also exists in Japan because of ignorance, this indicates the people of both sides wither reasons and are ready to fight against each other very soon.

Blogsphere offers a very good free space for peace loving people, if they can spread the idea of anti-jpan or history-ignorance, we can also spread the idea of ’show me the facts’. We should do something to prevent a conflict or even a war before we are not able to. So please do it.

For japaneses, you should say sorry to asian people officially, you should protest agaist ignorance of history and biased testbooks. Please let the facts free in a democratic society. For Chinese people, don’t make no destructions any more, waste your time on making better cameras and offering better services on your job. And for both people, sit down and talk, open up a blog and write, to communicate, don’t let ignorance taken advantage of.