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Originally Posted by Nyororin
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).
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General attitude still negative, i.e. if you ask a person do you like Japan, chances are, it's not going to be resounding yes.
However, in practice, once they actually MEET a Japanese person, all the bad sentiments seems to go out the window and everyone gets along pretty well. I have met expat Japanese in China and the feedback I got is they get treated really well by their Chinese colleagues and everyone have a facination with their phones... anyway.
Here are a few fun facts:
- There was a large number of Japanese expats in China since the early 1900s
- Due to the war, many of them had to abandon business and go back to Japan
- Peace times come again, the Japanese are slowly coming back again to trade
- Largest expat Japanese population in the world: Shanghai (good opportunities, cheap, none of the pressures of Tokyo)
- China is Japan's largest trading partner, China needs technology, Japan wants cheap goods. Done deal.