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Thank you for the education, Nyororin.
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No problem.
One of our family friends has a son who is going into high school this year. His mother is from Taiwan, and she was actually uncomfortable with how very negative the presentation of Japan was. She actually said to me that they should have at least balanced it out with information about Japan building schools and railways, and introducing better agricultural methods to the countryside. I guess they cover that in depth in Taiwan, so it sort of upset her to see only negatives about Japan and barely if any mention of other stuff done during that period.
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Just FYI, Sino-Japanese relationships are warming. There are sticky issues but if Sino-Japanese relationships survived for 2000 years, longer than the history of US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand combined, I'm sure it can survive another 2000 years more.
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I agree with this. In the past few years, I think the general attitude of Japanese toward China and the Chinese people has been warming (can`t comment on the other side as I`m not familiar with attitudes in China). Before, it seemed that a lot of people held the attitude of "China? I wouldn`t even want to visit!", but these days I hear a lot of "China is really looking up. I have high hopes for their future." This attitude has also been made really clear through the amount of sympathy expressed toward economic issues in China - in the past, I don`t think that the regular person would have really cared all that much... But now, you will hear people actually worried about whether people are suffering in China with the closing of factories, etc. And not just in an economic sense, but caring about the real people.