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2011 Japan Tohoku Earthquake, Chinese Netizen Reactions

by on Friday, March 11, 2011 308 comments comments

Smoke rises from a fire in Tokyo.

Note from Fauna: A magnitude 8.9 earthquake hit northern Japan this afternoon at 2:46 pm, the largest earthquake in Japanese history. A tsunami followed, causing major flooding in many areas of Japan, as well as many strong aftershocks. The death toll so far is in the hundreds. When news of this disaster reached China, many Chinese netizens expressed condolences and their support for Japan and the Japanese, remembering that Japan eagerly helped the Chinese during China’s 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. At the same time, many others celebrated Japan’s misfortune, citing their grievances from past history.

Below is a collection of photographs of Japan following the earthquake and tsunami and a selection of Chinese netizen comments on popular Chinese online video sharing website Tudou translated into English:

Tsunami swirls near Ibaraki.

Tsunami waves crashing through palm trees in Natori, Japan.

Tsunami flood waters along the coast of Japan following a 8.9 magnitude earthquake.

A video of a Chinese news report on Tudou:

Comments from Tudou:

Essien M:

Because its Japan
I’m so happy

关内帅哥:

The entire world will look at the reaction of Chinese people, can you please not make us lose face? Don’t forget that only yesterday Yunnan had an earthquake, do you want to completely lose face for Chinese people?

gf:

I don’t want to be like the mental retards on 2chan Futaba channel. The Japanese government has its faults, but the people are innocent. I hope they can recover quickly just like China.

血的诅咒:

I won’t say anything other than 2012 is almost upon us. Everyone quickly do some good deeds, so at the least after dying you will be able to enter heaven, instead of dying and going to hell, its not worth it.

Collapsed houses in Iwaki, Japan.

fsy1987:

First, I hope there isn’t too much damage. Second, I really regret seeing some people taking pleasure from this disaster. Third, the Japanese are surprisingly calm and orderly when facing an earthquake. I saw photographs on Sina of people coming out of the subway station, and they were still lining up. Fourth, one must learn common earthquake knowledge, to be prepared. Fifth, treasure every minute every second of life.

潘小腊:

Yeah, if there’s a quake so be it. I hope in the next few years earthquakes will have a new impact on scientific development. Bringing even more new discoveries!

楼猪缺心眼:

Japanese people are so blessed!!!

天空白云的彼端:

Good!! Excellent…

Flooding in Iwaki, Japan.

deviljianxian: (responding to gf)

Our compatriots will get better, and have already gotten stronger. But history will never be forgotten! This is where we and the Japanese are different, we can separate who is right and who is wrong, we won’t lump them together. However, the more we post this kind of stuff the more we will remember Japanese fascists cruelly murdering thousands upon thousands of Chinese compatriots!

土豆小工:

I wish the best to every single kind-hearted Japanese citizen, but I like to watch the ugly behaviour of Japanese politicians (may those beasts quickly die off).

皎月·孤影:

The people of Sichuan send their congratulations!

╮(╯_╰)╭ Yo:

Hope the broadcasting of anime won’t stop [be interrupted by the earthquake].

Debris and vehicles swept away by tsunami waters in Kesennuma, Japan.

怪道々基德: (responding to 天空白云的彼端)

The era of resisting the Japanese has already passed. Stop gloating at others’ misfortunes. No matter what, the Japanese are also people!!

noname11: (responding to 天空白云的彼端)

What’s wrong with you?

zfw09:

One earthquake allows us to clearly see the problem:
First, we should wish the best for the Japanese people! Second, we should learn from the Japanese government, for being able to organize and train the Japanese people to be so cool-headed and well-trained. Third, reflect upon Chinese people’s foolish conceit and despicable narrow-mindedness.

自然免疫:

@ PhoenixTV’s chief reporter Li Miao in Japan: During the Wenchuan Earthquake [Sichuan Earthquake], many Japanese ordinary common people organized donations on the streets, while restaurants, 24-hour convenience stories, and many other places all had donation boxes. Japanese rescue teams deployed at the earliest time possible (waiting for the “yes” from the Chinese side), waiting an entire night for orders at Narita Airport; Apart from the government, various political parties also did what they could, the Liberal Democratic Party chartered planes to deliver supplies to Chengdu, and as the only Chinese journalist in the same industry, I can confirm this.

Fires in Natori, Japan following the earthquake and tsunami.

beatbox’Steven:

Their buildings are so sturdy.

死氣之焱: (responding to zfw09)

Fuck..are you still a Chinese person? You must be from some other country, right? You’re not qualified to be a Chinese person… (#‵′) Fuck.

露C娅:

Only after going to Japan did I realize that it’s not that Japanese hate China, but rather that Chinese like to curse the Japanese, truly sad.

你的小牙: (responding to above)

You’re talking shit~! I beat you half to death. Of course I won’t hate you~! Do you know what national shame is? You don’t even know what shame is, and you’re still talking shit~!

Sendai Airport after the earthquake and tsunami.

谎言遮住你的眼:

I despise those people who pretend to be compassionate!!

多库洛: (responding to above)

I despise people like you who take pleasure in others’ misfortunes. Fuck off! Let’s see what you say the day an earthquake happens where you are!

谎言遮住你的眼: (responding to above)

I suspect you are the descendant of a little Japanese who was left behind! Why don’t you go and take a DNA test and make sure you are Chinese before you come and talk to me, because right now you are not qualified!

鮮果園寶寶:

Please don’t bring nationalism into views on a disaster.

A truck resting over a crack in the road in Iwaki, Japan following the largest earthquake in Japanese history.

面包LL:

Okay, I admit it, I did it [caused the earthquake].

雨滴||划过天空:

Serves them right, may Japan be destroyed by earthquakes.

wudihei`:

Little Japan, good!

屠灭小日本:

Good that they died, best if all of them died.

谎言遮住你的眼:

There are now two groups here, those that are celebrating the Japanese earthquake type 1, those that are praying for the Japanese type 2. Don’t spit [argue with] at each other. I’m a 111111111111111111111111111111111111

A bus stop in Sendai, Toky that was destroyed by the earthquake.

没事扫一眼:

Why wasn’t it a 20 or more [on the Richter scale] earthquake? My heavens, the earthquake was too small, no fun.

多库洛:

I want to ask, those who are cursing [saying bad things against the Japanese], have you guys experienced a major earthquake before? If you have, I suggest you go to Japan right now and experience it before coming back and cursing them! No matter what Japan [did, these] are still ordinary common people! The ordinary common people are innocent, despise the Japanese warmongers.

19921119zx: (responding to above)

Innocent?? Are you sure you are saying this word? You say innocent, then how innocent were the hundreds and thousands of people that were killed by Japanese? And you don’t allow people to gloat at others’ misfortune, that’s so funny, truly so funny. I just know a life for a life, retribution paid in kind.

多库洛:

Sigh, those who were in war I think have all already all died off! War shouldn’t involve descendants!

Tokyo crowds after public transportation was stopped following the largest earthquake in Japan's history.

关内帅哥:

The character of our country’s people [can be seen here, is embarrassing], the way everyone is laughing at the Japanese now is how others will look at the Chinese [later].

耶路撒冷的猫:

I won’t say too much, but did the Japanese government donate money during the Wenchuan and Yushu earthquakes? How many Japanese people donated money? Apart from Teacher Sora Aoi who donated a little…weren’t the other Japanese also looking and laughing at Chinese people…?

马甲No.1:

Those Chinese students studying abroad in Japan and those overseas Chinese living there, I just don’t know what to say now, it seems a lot of people here wish you were all dead.

aliceinsun:

No matter where an earthquakes occurs it is always a scene of tragedy, and through these natural disasters we can see certain people’s shameful mentality. When a disaster strikes you or your family you will truly know the value of other people’s help.

Light planes, cars, and debris swept away by tsunami flood waters near Sendai Airport.

A smouldering house amongst debris swept away by tsunami flood waters in Sendai, Japan.

A house burns amongst flood waters in Sendai, Japan following an 8.9 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese history.

Fires continue burning into the night in Sendai, following the largest earthquake (8.9 magnitude) in Japan's history.

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  • Bo Wang

    Sofa.

    Hope for the best for my Japanese brothers and sisters!

    • http://www.facebook.com hugo san

      bo wang saaan, haha dude this is such a hater site wtf, this is like the backfire of what happens when kkk meets japan lolzz. But, seriously yo, i donated $50 to help japan. shits gettin worse than three mile island. peace bitches!!

      -oh and i thought that china japan were bros, psh ha! i was wayy off!

  • Bo Wang

    With regards to the netizen comments bashing Japan for not donating to the Chinese earthquakes: It’s totally understandable. For every dollar donated, 90 cents probably gets pocketed by all levels of corrupt officials. I would personally not and did not donate anything.

    What I don’t understand is why people donated to Haiti, arguably one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Now, all those idiots are butthurt about how their aid money was embezzled.

  • Yurp

    Are these comments taken from serious websites, or ar they just an equivalent of the chans?

    It’s hard to tell whether the comments in favour of the earthquake are trolls or not.

    • Meh

      I was thinking the same. Some of these comments are obviously troll comments.

    • cdn icehole

      Serious or not, you can’t expect everyone to be on the same page. Watching this on CBC and so far no problems from the Cdn West Coast. There’s the nuke plant in Fukushima that I’m concerned about. It would suck if the SDF can’t get the cooling system back up and running. I’ll definitely feel it when the ‘Big One’ hits North America’s West Coast.

    • dim mak

      Every single forum on Chinese internets is like 4chan’s /new/ dude

  • Gary

    So an 8.9 earthquake in Japan kills a few hundred people while a 7.9 in China kills nearly seventy thousand. I don’t think the Chinese who pretend to be happy this is happening to the ‘bad Japanese’ are trying to forget their own country’s poor condition.

    • Chris

      The death toll currently are only confirmed death. There are reports of 200,000 currently missing and/or unaccounted for.

      Never the less, shame on my country for wishing harm onto others.

      All the best to Japan.

      • dia

        What is wrong with you people? I cannot believe the heartless comments coming from some of the Chinese. When your country is afflicted with tragedies such as earthquakes, the world rushes in with compassion. (Japan rushed in with aid) Meanwhile, over 60 years after WW2, you behave like a spoiled and misguided child wishing harm on innocent people. What is wrong with you??How can you be so heartless and ignorant as to be glad when innocent people die?? China’s immaturity regarding the Japanese is truly astounding. THE ENTIRE WORLD HAS MOVED ON FROM WORLD WAR TWO, and yet you feel the need to perpetuate hate…

        • bob

          The feeling between the Chinese and Japanese is mutual. You should listen to the some of the language about China on Japanese TV shows. Idiots are not exclusive to China.

          • Deeply saddened

            bob,

            The feeling is not mutual. I say that because I lived in Japan until two years ago. I donated money for the Chinese Earthquake relief in Tokyo. Like many Japanese people did. When I told my Japanese friends that I was coming to live in Shanghai, most of them were happy for me; because I was going to be able to learn from an old and rich culture! People in Japan today are very interested about China. They hear about China overcoming Japan’s economy. They see tons of Chinese tourists shopping in the most prestigious boutiques in Ginza and Omotesando. They wonder if China is going through some of the cultural evolution that Japan went through in the 80s. They know that time changes the culture. People in Japan today do not have the same mentality as they did 50 years ago. The same goes for the Germans, the Italians. So why not the Chinese? It makes me deeply saddened to hear comments like this. Just because YOU hate Japan, don’t assume the same. Just because you saw something degrading on TV, don’t assume everyone thinks that way. Don’t you know the nature and sensationalism of Reality TV, which was created in the US, and the whole point is to create sensationalism by showing the ugly sides of human pshichology?

          • http://www.foarp.blogspot.com FOARP

            Crazed Chinese hatred of the Japanese >>>>>>>>> Crazed Japanese hatred of the Chinese.

            Like some of the other commenters here, I’ve lived in both countries. In Nanjing I woud regularly hear people say things like “one day we will massacre in Tokyo the same as the Japanese massacred in Nanjing”. Admittedly, most of these people were lonely young men of university age.

            In Japan, the worst I ever heard was someone saying that Japan should break off relations with China because “there is no benefit” in maintaining them. Oh, and a weird guy who decided to start singing WW2 era army songs in a Snack Bar I went to (although the fact that Japanese karaoke machines have these songs on them should be food for thought).

            Part of this may be that Japanese are much more reserved about their opinions. It is also very understandable that people in China, which was on the receiving end of Japanese war crimes, should be more angry. Still, a lot of it comes down to the crude propaganda which Chinese people are exposed to which basically propagates an image of the Japanese as being crazed murdering beasts without a hint of humanity.

        • Freakboy

          you behave like a spoiled and misguided child

          You have pigged China with that line.

          Lets hope they can see it for them selves before some immature spoiled brat in power pushes the button over a failed negotiation.

          • Zen Master So So

            Erm, I think you meant “pegged”, not “pigged”.

            “You pegged it” is approximately the same as “you nailed it” – implying that you so accurately described something, that your observation, definition, or opinion prevents the thing observed from “wriggling away” and being reasonably viewed by any objective observer, in any other way. The phrase has a lot more “punch” than saying “your observation is correct”.

            I have to agree with dia, from the point of view of us in the West. But while such observations are good for making over drinks at the bar, if you think you’re going to “shame” the Chinese into changing their attitudes or behavior, I’m afraid it’s not going to work.

            I’ll be the first to call “Chinese exceptionalism” here. I think that the Chinese are exceptional. Their philosophy and attitude towards everything is different from those of us from The West.

            Many Chinese people live under a constant dark cloud of paranoia. They have been convinced that they are in constant struggle against evil forces out to kill them. These are exceptional people we’re talking about here. Exceptionally fucked up. They talk their shit on Internet forums only because they don’t have any other way to vent their anger.

            Why are they so angry? They fear that they missed out on a lot, or are still missing out, and that they are unable to integrate with the modern world. They fear that history has left them behind. That’s why they’re trying so hard to be “modern”.

            For the older generation it hurts knowing that all the “battles” they went through in earlier times are soon to be forgotten, whether their previous sacrifices were chosen or imposed is irrelevant. As the winds of change blow, China’s past is being covered over with the sand of time, and a new cultural landscape is taking over. People want to forget The Cultural Revolution, and all the mistakes made and time wasted. On the one hand, they welcome this, and on the other, they mourn the loss of all that is to be buried.

            So yeah, basically spoiled and misguided children, like most of the rest of us, and exceptionally fucked up.

        • Spanky

          When bad news/problems at home, governments like to blame outsiders and forment hate of outsiders. As the song from Beauty and the Beast goes, “Tale as old as time…”

          • an

            The Chinese leaders have expressed sympathy and even went to the Japanese embassy to sign a book of condolences. Over $4million in aid has also been donated, along with fuel and a concrete mixer. The government is hardly acting in sync with the anti-Japan posters.

        • Anna Rudashko

          totally agree with you! esp the part of moving on from ww2

          • moody

            well, if Japan had the honesty to accept and apologize for all the hideous things they brought upon Chinese Civilians during WW2, then China should move on.
            Until then, I see no reason why Chinese should stop hatin’ their guts ; it’s only common sense.
            Germany made public apologizes for WW2, didn’t they ?
            Japan still deny what happened and those facts are not even brough up in Japanese student’s history books.

            Now i agree it is no reason to wish harm to others
            hell, sunday in shanghai subway, a lot of people were laughing and pointing at those terrible images

            And I remember the day of 9/11, most of my colleagues -local sh ppl- were making fun of what happened; openly saying that it was well deserved.
            Compassion is not something the locals have been blessed with.

          • gatesofbabylon
          • Truth Speaker

            Nuff said? lol, apologies are meaningless when the LDP consistently goes back on its word by:

            a) covering up atrocities
            b) diminishing said atrocities
            c) making dirty deals with the US over issues involving war victims (cover-ups and political support, amnesty for Unit 731 mass murderers)

            You don’t know shit.

          • Truth Speaker

            And Anna moving on from WW2 is one thing. I’m like the vast majority of Chinese people in that we have no grudge against innocent Japanese, especially moderate and liberal Japanese.

            But why do Westerners constantly moan about the Cold War era and tell ever Chinese person that they should never forget Tiananmen, the GLF, etc?

            Hypocrisy at its finest.

          • gatesofbabylon

            It’s difficult for all politicians in a single party to align completely, I’m just suggesting that the official stance of the LDP has always been that Japan accepts its faults.

            It’s not really fair to judge the whole based on some screw-ups by individual politicians.

        • cdn icehole

          I dare you to explain that logic to the Israelis. Anyone that criticize them is automatically labelled as anti-Semitic. A better example would be that proposed Islamic centre to be built near ‘Ground Zero’. You’d think the Americans would know the difference between terrorists using religion as an excuse and honest working people of the Islamic faith. And let’s not forget the recent shenanigans of Congressman Peter King.

          People need to realize that hate is part of life where it can NEVER be eradicated. I’m always amazed at these pot-smoking, tree-spiking, bible-thumping hippies going on some god damn crusade to ‘apply’ the North American ideology onto others. If SOME Chinese people want to make some insensitive remarks, let them. I’m pretty sure there were some Japanese people making the same kind of remarks during the 2008 quake in China.

          • Jones

            Peter King…shenanigans…haha I get it. That’s clever work.

          • Jones

            Wait…you did mean to use the word “shenanigans” in reference to his past support of the IRA, right? Let me believe that you are clever like this, please.

          • moody

            I think what gave a lot of NY citizens the “itch” on that Islamic center thingy, is that Islamic centers and mosque are well known recruiting spots for muslim terrorists ; and Imam preaching hate and violence happens.

        • Meh

          China still has some growing up to do clearly.

        • Chad

          Can I ask what country you come from Dia so I can stereotype your folk as a bunch of ignorant, judgmental tools? “China’s” immaturity regarding the Japanese? Good grief. If you check out some Facebook or Youtube comments, you’d see there are a TON of non-Chinese people making disgusting comments about this disaster.

          And no, the entire world has not moved on from World War 2 seeing the huge number of people saying this was karma for pearl harbour.

          Stop assuming everyone thinks the same way you do.

          • Ryan

            A TON of people laughing on Facebook or Youtube? Karma for Pearl Harbor? Where are you coming up with this stuff? Pearl Harbor happened over 70 years ago. That grudge died decades ago. As for Facebook, I haven’t been back to the states for a while, but I’ve never met anyone there who would laugh at people dying in an earthquake. That’s disgusting. Maybe a few fools here and there (no country has the corner on idiots) but they would quickly earn the scorn and derision of all the people around them.
            Throw up some links if you’ve got them; it sounds like you are talking out of your butt.

          • Ryan

            Sorry, typo, over 60 years ago

        • worldlove

          That’s not the mainstream. Most Chinese people feel sad for the victims. I made a survey among people around me, none of them feel happy. They all feel compassionate for the victims. It’s true that we need to move on. There are misunderstanding and racial prejudice between people in the world, it needs time for people to learn the lesson of forgiveness.

        • Matt

          I just can’t stand pretentious air-headed pc bullshit artists like you who don’t seem to understand that sometimes…. PEOPLE HATE!!!
          ffs, can’t you understand that???
          Japan committed arguably the worst atrocities in human history upon the Chinese for purely racialy-based motives. They never said sorry (apart from a few shallow mumblings) or officially acknowledged their wrong-doings and continue to hold racial superiority as an important moral value.
          People are allowed to get upset and hate; it doesn’t mean they are bad or even wrong and I for one completely understand how some Chinese must feel about the Japanese.

          • Kong

            “They never … officially acknowledged their wrong-doings”

            That is simply not true. It can be debated to what extent Japan has truly admitted wrong-doing, but despite various rightist politicians, Japan HAS officially apologized many times, as well as doling out massive amounts of money and supplies.

        • cosmoplitan

          don’t blame chinese people, every nation, every race on this planet is the same. everything is not it seems.

    • mistyken

      well the epicenter of the wenchuan quake was pretty near to the surface so the shaking could be much more intense. this 8.9 quake occurred offshore so i guess most of the casualty was a result of the tsunami instead of falling building.

      • Teacher in China

        Have you seen the video of the skyscrapers waving in the wind like willow trees? It’s unbelievable. Kudos to Japanese earthquake-proofing.

        • vince

          Could you post a link? Would like to see that video. It would have been so much easier to find if youtube wasn’t blocked.

        • Truth Speaker

          Those were in Tokyo if I’m not mistaken. Sendai was completely devastated, and nuclear plants built in the 70s and 80s were compromised. I hope Japan will impress the world with her recovery.

  • Alikese

    As I was going through the comments my first thought was “Huh, there’s a lot less retardation here than I expected.”

    Then about half way through the idiots started chiming in and celebrating the disaster, stay classy Tudou.

  • http://www.gamerfocus.net Loriquero

    I swear to God I’m thinking on making myself a shirt saying something like

    抗日死亡人数：20百万
    毛主席死亡人数：35百万左右

    • Koji Kabuto

      then I swear to god you are as dumb as the trolls on youku.

    • cs

      see maybe some would argue but dying cuz there is no food better than watching ur mom and sis get raped and u get speared and shot.

    • Sunshine

      If you made that shirt, you will only be laughed at……
      what the hell is 20百万， even? It makes no sense at all.
      And 毛主席死亡人数？ A noun followed by a noun?

      I find it hilarious that you’re comparing those two things.

    • Truth Speaker

      Except Mao didn’t kill 35 million people (a lie an exaggeration by your favorite oligarchs). At most he increased death rates to a point where they might have matched modern India’s.

      By increasing life expectancy he probably “saved” 4x as many people as he “killed” according to you.

      • slim

        It is worth remembering — or learning for the first time — that Mao’s body count WAS bigger than Hirohito’s (or Hitler’s, for that matter).

        • cs

          and they didnt die by being gassed or shot. famine some would argue is his fault but not his wish.

        • Truth Speaker

          Are you implying no one in Japan starved during WW2? Because those aren’t counted in “civilian casualties”. If you include famine, the death toll in WW2 increases tremendously. 4 million dead in Northeast India alone.

          By those standards Imperial Japan is probably guilty for even more deaths.

          If Mao killed “35 million” the US probably killed 10 million in Vietnam, 2+ million in Iraq, 20+ million by supporting Suharto, 100+ million by interfering with India’s development.

          Using a theoretical increase death rates over a span of 27 years and attributing it to one man is pretty stupid. Compare that to gassing or shooting 12 million civilians like Hitler in 6 years and you can see why Chinese people aren’t as pissed at Mao.

  • chloe

    all i can say is that i’d rather be in japan than anywhere else on earth when a 8.9 earthquake hits, especially not in china.

  • Anonanon

    Times like these, I fkn hate being Chinese. Disgusting.

    • 曹正华

      I totally agree with you. I am disgusted, but at the same time, proud because although some of us Chinese love that the Japanese is dying, the majority of the people are praying for the safety of the Japanese.

    • bomber

      Hey man / woman, I’m not Chinese, but I know there are a lot of good Chinese people out there. These internet thugs are just morons. They can’t realize that the same collective hate they feel towards the Japanese is identical to the insane nationalism that caused the Japanese forces to commit atrocities in WWII. They’re just bitter, unsuccessful victims of divide-and-conquer propaganda.

      Wanna see a fenqing’s head explode? Tell them that the only reason the CCP exists today is because of the Japanese imperial army. Had they not decimated the GuoMinDang’s forces, the CCP would have been completely crushed in it’s infancy.

      • Anonanon

        That’s right. It’s the anti-Japanese sentiments from WWII that carried on with the old generation (like my dear old pa), and so this gets propagated to the newer generations (me, you). I’ve sat down many a time with my pop where he rambles on Nanjing, rape, pillage, plunder, Japan, rape, Chinese victimization, etc.

        I agree, the old Japanese imperial war party that governed Japan did many terrible things, but that was over 50 years ago. Japan’s apologized profusely, they offered aid (monetary, trade options, investments), they don’t have a national army anymore, they fly WWII vets to visit (all expenses paid).

        But in the end it’s nationalistic pride, and racism’s just a by-product.

        • Strangerland

          Hm….although majority of Japanese nowadays has been kind and different from their grandparents, you have to admit that more than few Japanese still cherish their old propaganda as well. Why I know this? Because I’ve been to Japan and I can tell you how annoying those stupid youths in the streets moaning about the Glorious past of Japan. Not to mention, their hatred for foreigners, several of Japanese that I met there also told me how they wish foreigners to leave their ancestor land.
          I’ve also noticed from my interaction with the Japanese and Asians in general, some Japanese do have tendency to look down on other Asians. It becomes apparent when I study in China for several years as well, there is this distinct lack of consideration by the Japanese over the Asians they consider ‘beneath their level’. I can’t exactly explain it, it’s just that these certain people bring the air of arrogance in their way of interracting with the other Asians- just like how a rich snob behave to the poorest class. Ofcourse, it’s just minority of Japanese who did this. But then again, such kind of arrogance is not something I’ve experienced from Germans. Again, just simple observation. I might be wrong because one of the nicest Asian friends I have back at China is a Japanese girl, but the girl is only one out of many Japanese girls that I met there.

          • Jones

            No, we don’t have to admit that, because out of the many, many Japanese I’ve met in and out of Japan, I’ve never met a nationalist. Not once. I’ve never met one that was hateful towards non-Japanese, either. You can’t compare it to China in this aspect.

          • lol

            @Jones

            New to the internet?

          • Jones

            Nah, lol, I’ve had it since ’94.

    • Eric

      Dude, you can’t be serious right?

      I’m assuming your Chinese? Do you not feel the pain of your own people? The tens of MILLIONS of Chinese deaths of at the hands of the Japanese?
      This is not completely directed at you but just a large majority of the comments here are incredible. I am not saying these natural disasters are not devastating, I am not a heartless person. The Japanese that have been killed or injured are for the most part innocent. It is expected of a person to react with sympathy and condolence after all that is the right thing to do but why is it so wrong for the Chinese to have an opinion that justice/karma has been dealt to the Japanese? Are you saying that those thoughts of justice are one hundred percent without a basis?

      I read above that this reaction from some Chinese is in relation to “long-past history”…World War II ended in 1945, it wasn’t even a life time ago.
      I now can see why they call it the Forgotten Holocaust.

      • 吴兰

        Dude, I see your point but I also see how WRONG it is. My parents are Polish political emigrants (from the Cold War era) – they come from a country that lost 15% of its total population under nazi occupation, a country whose capital was ordered to “disappear from the surface of Earth”(Hitler’s words) and 92% of Warsaw got systematically burnt to the ground while the “liberating”"Soviet army stood literally watching it happen from the other bank of the river. My paternal grand dad spent 2 years in Auschwitz before it got “liberated” by the Soviets, my maternal grandma witnessed a nazi patrol shoot her two brothers and her younger sister, I spent two years in a Polish high school reading and discussing the shitloads of historical material and literature talking of dr Mengele, torture and all the atrocities imaginable. And trust me – the Polish learned from the experience. They learned to forgive but not forget, they learned that inferiority complex and self-victimization lead them nowhere and they learned all they need to turn the flippin’ page and begin anew. Not even my grandma, not even my grandpa who weighed 42 kg and had not even one tooth left at the age of 25 at the end of the WWII taught any of my parents to hate anyone. Not even the nazis. Between the Germans and the Polish at all level things ARE ALL RIGHT. You, dude, seem to confuse compassion to your own kind with pure, narrow-minded hatred. I see no conflict between compassion for your own kind and compassion for people touched by a tragedy like this one. If you hate them, if you downright hate people touched by the tragedy – the compassion is not a compassion but a tool to feed your own hatred. Karma. Dammit, karma – what a bullshit.

        • Chef Rocco

          Dude, I may believe what you said about Polish’s forgiveness of German atrocities during WII, but how about Russia? Have you guys forgiven Katyn Massacre? Why are we still seeing a lot of hostility between Polish and Russians?

          • 吴兰

            With Russians it’s different for a very simple reason: even a much younger generation than mine experienced them first-hand, that’s one thing, another being that on top of experiencing them, they were told lies into their faces and denied the right to speak the truth. Up until 1990 Katyn was officially attributed to Nazis and everyone who dared to say out loud it was the Soviets ended up in big shite. Up until 1990 Warsaw Resurrection of 1945 didn’t officially take place and 200 000 underground soldiers and civilians who sacrificed their lives were to be forgotten, plus their families who knew and could testify of how the Big Red Brother falsified history were considered potential enemies of the state with all consequences the title carried. But that’s what it boils down to: even the young 20-somethings still remember the Russians, the blackouts and failures of central heating (during the bitterly cold winters) as all the coal available was “given” to the Eastern friends. The fact is tho that politics is one but on the people’s level, even the Polish acknowledge the existence of the “common Slavic soul and brotherhood.”

          • Chef Rocco

            Your reasonings seem to be applicable to Chinese/Japanese too, 1) there are not only historical memory, but current irritants, such as territory conflict, Yasukuni Shrine etc. 2) There are somewhat denials or diluting of history truth on Japan side. 3) despite of hatred and dislike, there are feelings of cultural closeness between them, especially they share some common ancient culture.

      • Sunshine

        “Are you saying that those thoughts of justice are one hundred percent without a basis?”

        First of all, I’m pretty sure that’s not what he’s saying.
        Secondly, justice and basis are so wrongly used in your comment.
        Let me put it in the crudest way possible:
        Executing the sadistic fucks who were involved in the Nanking Massacre and whatever else = justice.
        A natural disaster killing all their children and grandchildren, who weren’t even born at the time /= justice, far from it.

  • Rar94

    Life can be so harsh. Spending a life reconstructing your house is terribly gloomy. Good luck to casualties

  • lalaland2188

    I am glad that half of the mainland Chinese commentators are still having their common sense between the politics and the effects of disasters on human beings.

    I wish both of the Yunnan and Japanese earthquake victims and their families well and stay strong ahead.

    • Nam

      In natural disasters, innocent lives were taken; happens all over the world. Political issues and wars are caused by some people, not everyone wants it. Thus we should not get “mixed up” here. I pray and wish for all earthquake victims around the world, regardless what nationality they are.

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  • kay

    what was up wiht teh site? was down for a couple days… .

    • pervertt

      Another DOS attack? Has happened to Chinasmack before.

    • Pvt. Joker

      somebody forgot to pay the bills…

    • cdn icehole

      “Looking 4 experienced & trustworthy part-time/freelance server admin…”

      LOL Me thinks Fauna has fired chinaSMACK’s server admin according to the latest Tweet.

  • Foreign Devil

    Would be interesting to know what % of Chinese feel genuine sympathy and what % are rejoicing.

    I recently actually went to visit Wenchuan. . the epicentre of the big Sichuan earthquake. . You wouldn’t believe what they’ve done there! They’ve turned it into a kind of tourist theme park. A lot of money spent and a lot of rebuilding and landscaping. I’m just not sure if it will be a practical place to live in . . anyhow time will tell. All the new buildings were kind of deserted when I went there. They are all built in a Chinese minority styile architecture . but “Disneyfied”.

    • Truth Speaker

      I know ZERO Chinese people who are happy about the quake. Also ZERO who did not donate money.

      YMMV, male foreigners don’t hang around the good folks in China. They beeline for the massage parlors, corrupt officials and unscrupulous businessmen to get what they want, and leave.

      • GodsHammer

        Riiiiight… you may collect your 5 mao and fuck off now.

        • Truth Speaker

          I’m not going to, now that I know the CIA and Fox News are paying you more. Maybe I’ll work where you do.

        • Joe

          I must say, in my experience, this is true. Because China is not yet a top tier country in any sense other than economic, most of the foreigners it attracts are quite trashy and rude.

      • http://nikiwonoto.com Niki

        thank you!
        it’s so relieving & glad to know about this!
        I myself am chinese-indonesian,..but NEVER I’ve felt that the japanese deserve the “karma” or whatever
        we are all HUMANS, and it’s only NATURAL for us to feel compassion & sympathy for such terrible natural disasters killing so many innocent lives like this,..regardless of ANY border, nation, race, ethnicity, etc etc.
        it’s time for us to move BEYOND BORDERS! (which I believe is also the current tagline of CNN International news channel now, kudos!)

  • pervertt

    So much schadenfreude from some Chinese netizens. These nationalist idiots have obviously never experienced a natural disaster before. I can’t recall the citizens of another country gloating over China’s misfortune during the Sichuan earthquake.

    China could learn a great deal from the Japanese response to this disaster. School buildings were not the first to topple over. Tall buildings shook but most of their occupants lived. Where time permitted, disaster plans were quickly put into place. There was no widespread looting after the quake. People formed orderly queues for basic services.

    Will Chinese citizens and their government show the same preparedness and social maturity when another natural calamity strikes?

    • Alex

      And also juts after the earthquake no soldiers getting all the press out instead of helping. Also using soldiers against the protest of the governments .

      And no need to send the constructor to death sentence while the governor of the area who is the corrupt one is still around…

    • Truth Speaker

      The Anglosphere equivalent of the tabloids being scoured here, youtube comments, had 99% of Westerners laughing and gloating about the Sichuan Earthquake (and hundreds of thousands more regularly calling for nuclear holocaust for China, or all of Asia) and maybe .5% expressing a neutral stance. The rest pretended to care and did nothing.

      You even had Western celebrities going on air saying the quake was karma, and Western pastors posting about how god hates the “heathen” Chinese.

      And this is the product of your liberal, PC education. Imagine if the US was a developing country like China, and yet China has 0 religious figures and 0 celebrities publicly ridiculing the victims and survivors and hoping for more deaths.

      You also have 0 Chinese trying to turn the tragedy in Sendai about how evil the West is.

      Take a look at THIS:

      http://www.pwsnt.com/2011/03/12/karma-for-pearl-harbor/

      A bunch of white Americans talking about PEARL HARBOR and wishing for more Japanese deaths. And these are REAL PEOPLE, and ADULTS, not anonymous trolls that are probably 13, retarded, or on drugs.

      • pervertt

        Care to back up your stats, Truth Speaker?

        • Sunshine

          I think those numbers were probably there because they’re more convenient to type.

        • Truth Speaker

          No, this is a forum filled with Westerners, who needs to source anything?

  • cdn icehole

    @kay [Monday, March 14, 2011 at 9:48 am]

    “what was up wiht teh site? was down for a couple days… .”

    Tried to reply to your comment but my comment disappeared. Anyway, the latest Tweet from Fauna suggests there was a problem with chinaSMACK’s server admin.

    Looking 4 experienced & trustworthy part-time/freelance server admin…

    I LOL’d after reading it. I know Fauna’s pain. It’s really hard to find good people these days.

    • guobao2

      Right after Spring Festival is “Quit Your Job” month. Tens of thousands Chinese never return to their work place.

  • Charlene

    I like to hear what chinasmack have to say regarding Japan’s prime minister comment that this tragedy is worse than WW2. I wonder also what the Chinese netizens reaction to such statement…:(

    • http://www.ethansenglishcafe.com Ethan

      Did he seriously say that?! Can I get a link because I see lots of articles about him say it was the worst disaster SINCE World War II but none saying it was worse than World War II. Very big difference.

      I’m hoping you’re wrong not because I’m an ass but just because I really hope he would not have said something so insane.

      • Sunshine

        I’m pretty sure he said worst SINCE.

        • HKXXXPAT

          He said worst SINCE FOR THE JAPANESE PEOPLE, yes, that’s correct.

          Looking at the happiness of some Chinese morons about what just happened in Japan, as being a sort of punishment for WW2 60 years later, makes me wonder. Do the the same people think that the last earthquake in Sizchuan was the punishement for the crimes commited by the Chinese communist regime?

    • Chef Rocco

      chinasmack is the heaven of trolling, both in Chinese and English, why do you want to know what it has to say about something?

  • Ciyin

    It should be noted that many people on Facebook and Twitter were rejoicing as well, saying the quake was karma for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Trolls and douchebags live everywhere.

    For the most part I’ve been encouraged by the responses I’ve seen to the disaster. Most Chinese people seem genuinely concerned, and the government did offer to send relief workers

    • tony heaney

      hi Charley sheen

      i agree with you, people should leave the Japanese karma out its not karma, japan bombed Perl harbor which a military base and the states bombed two city’s in japan out of existence with 2 nuclear bombs…. what was that about??? over kill id say.

      if there was justice needed then karma was served then?? innocent men women and children died back then and again now. people going about their daily lives and not deserving this.

      what happened in japan is not karma mate

  • http://password larry h

    To the Chinese going on about the second world war… you were never harmed by Japan, and none of these people killed in Japan did any harm to you. Get the hell over it. Maybe concentrate on Mao Zedong’s murder of 60 million Chinese over the years instead.

    • Kong

      By the same logic, Mao never harmed the netizens who are posting either. Why is one catastrophe better to dwell on than another?

      • Alikese

        Mao’s policies probably directly affected each of the posters.

        • Kong

          Again, using a similar logic, each of the posters were also affected by China’s long history of foreign imperialism. China’s insecurity and wildly nationalistic/self-hating outbursts didn’t come from nowhere.

    • Bob

      Comparing Mao’s policies to WII Japanese Atrocities is like comparing dying in the cold due to incompetence in life with getting strangled after you’ve been raped and robbed.

  • J

    I hope the people of Japan can recover from this horror. To any person leaving disgusting comment about how good it is the Japan is suffering: You are the reason China loses face. You bring shame to this great country.

  • Gut

    Shit…

    I wish nothing but the best for those afflicted. We need to remember these are all mothers,fathers,sons,and daughters.

    The casualties are going to keep climbing. Highest population of elderly people. Astronomically high numbers of people without power and just as high a number without drinking water.

    This should be a reminder to anyone in the pacific or the world for that matter to be prepared. To all Chinasmackers – Have a little emergency kit, maybe some food and water just in case. In a natural disaster money is worth shit and the only person you can truly rely on is yourself.

    My friend, Mr.Onodera is dead. Rest in peace mother fucker, I love you man.

    My fellow human beings at Chinasmack tell your friends and fam. to be prepared for whatever bullshit might come our way.

    Much love to everyone. Peace.

  • Jones

    I knew there’d be a lot of ignorant comments celebrating this tragedy, with lots of references to long-past history that none of the netizens experienced in the first place. It’s still sickening. Oh, but how they bleat and moan during their own earthquake. It’s baffling how anyone could be so audacious.

    • guobao2

      It’s human nature to nurture the idea of “the enemy” to reap the benefits of pack mentality. China has been promoting this to enforce internal stability under the CCP to a large degree. The US, Japan, the USSR, Vietnam, India and Korea have all played the diren at some point or another. Japan was always the easy target partly due to their behaviour during WW2 but certainly also due to the fact that compared to China it’s a small nation, it doesn’t have a real army as such and no nuclear weapons. Furthermore Japan was the envy of many Chinese since regular information became available during the early days of the opening up. Suddenly the Chinese (of which 90 percent lived under the UN poverty limit) heard about the development, the respect Japan had around the world, the materialistic progress and the general wealth the Japanese had. It was almost too much to bear knowing that your old enemy was doing so well.

      With that in mind I much prefer a communist government in China than a fascist/nationalistic one. That’d be real trouble real quick.

  • Hongjian

    Nothing special.

    During the sichuan earthquake, lots of japanese netizens also rejoiced that the dirty shina-jins will finally be wiped out for oppressing them poor tibetans/fabricating the ‘nanjing-lie’/selling poisenous dumplings etc.

    Now, let them taste the same medicine. Arrogant, elitist bastards with racial superiority delusions had it coming.

    haters gonna hate.

    And I’m hatin’

    • dim mak

      Aw c’mon, Asians would be much better off with GLORIOUS UNITY
      Save the hatin’ for someone else

      • Sunshine

        How about let’s extend the scope a bit to include all humans?

        Maybe I’ve been watching too much sci-fy.

        • dim mak

          Well let’s start step by step…
          Right now it’s good east Asia hasn’t been entangled in the conflicts between the West and Islam, let’s keep it that way

    • some_guy

      Hongjian is one of the very few people on this site who is able to see through Japan’s facade. I don’t want to celebrate the deaths of innocent Japanese, but knowing how happy the Japanese were when the Sichuan and Yushu earthquake hit, it’s hard for me to sympathize with them.

      • dim mak

        Dude there is no facade, seriously
        If I felt they were just putting up a front I’d tell every other Chinese person this
        But for the most part they do seem genuinely nice, I think we’re imagining an enemy that doesn’t really exist

      • Bo Wang

        Are you talking about idiots/trolls on 2chan or Japanese in general?

      • an

        So easy for some to overgeneralize and demonize an entire group of people. Chinese like you are just as guilty as fundamentalist China-bashers with pretty much the same us versus them mentality. I’m sure you feel maligned when westerners say no Chinese can be trusted, etc.etc.

  • some_guy

    Chinese netizens are actually very kind hearted about Japan. I go on tudou and stuff, and the vast majority of the comments said that they wish the best for Japan. I’m pretty amazed that chinasmack is able to find so many hateful comments. Truly, Chinese people (for the most part) have forgiven Japan, while the Japanese people cheered at home during the Wenchuan earthquake.

    The innocent people do not deserve these sufferings. May there be hope for them.

    [Note from Fauna: Why are you amazed? It is not so amazing. I am not the only Chinese netizen who has seen many hateful comments. However, it is also true that there are many good comments too. It should be very clear that there are both and that there are different types of people on different websites.]

    • Akim BI

      how do u knw they were cheering?

      • vince

        lol yea how would u know they were cheering? Were you with them in Japan doing the same? There are warmongers and idiots on both sides. Nobody has taken a headcount yet to see which country has the most.

        • some_guy

          How do I know they were cheering? Do you guys even understand Japanese? Have you guys ever seen the Japanese media coverage on the Sichuan earthquake? The answer is obviously no, because if you have, you wouldn’t be saying something this ridiculous. If you guys do understand Japanese, I would gladly give out a few links to prove my point.

          • vince

            Do know a bit but not enough, but do give the links i have some Japanese friends who are willing to do the translation.

          • vince

            Also it is a fallacy to believe that the media could possibly represent the thoughts and feelings of the common man, you think that CCTV mirrors the thoughts of all Chinese? Or whether that joke of a publication the people’s daily does the same? What exactly is your agenda? Are you saying that Japan shouldn’t be sympathized with or that Chinese are more forgiving than the Japanese? Come out with it instead of beating around the bush. Right now the situation is that there have been multiple earthquakes and tsunamis with the possibility of more, people are dying, hurt and missing. I doubt this is the best time to be posting this rubbish. What about the efforts taken by the Japanese people and their government during the Wenchuan Earthquake?
            A lot could be learned from the way the Japanese are handling the situation, it would have definitely prevented much unnecessary loss of life that happened in Sichuan.
            In such situations just offer your support and if you feel like it a donation to help them out.

          • Akim BI

            I don’t understand that much of japanese but japanese do speak english, no? Unless they only use japanese to diss u guys (chinese), which will actually mean they are scared of u. But seriously, am living in china, have many jap friends, as well as chinese friends who have been obviously able to keep history in the context it happened. They obviously, unlike u, understood people shouldnt poisoned their relations because of what happens once upon a time. Deal with your pain, there is a whole nation under huge ordeal. I’m not chinese and even though I know many chinese (not all) do not like either my kind of people, I still feel the same pain during sichuan earthquake and was on the verge of crying while ur prime minister was galvanizing u guys. Ultimately and anyway, if u can still hate jap today because their forefathers hated yours, then i believe u r even worse than them and you would’ve probably did worse than them if you were them. You need sum self criticism before u criticize other…

          • dim mak

            Can i see the links? I remember the same dull, monotonous reporter reading the news like they do for everything. Or do you mean one of those variety talk shows?

          • some_guy

            For some reason, chinasmack keeps identifying my posts with links as “spam”. Why is this happening?

            Anyways, search for 青海地震　中国の正体. It should be one of the videos on youtube. It’s hosted by Channel Sakura (btw, for more proof that Japanese hate the Chinese for the dumbest reasons, just watch any of Channel Sakura’s videos), and the guest there is 鳴霞。 I’d post more links, but someone needs to tell me why chinasmack won’t accept my posts with links.

          • dim mak

            Yes someone has linked me to that vid before, thanks for the info though

            Interesting video for sure, and I know the bias is clear, as it is on all channel sakura casts. But I think we both know channel sakura is fringe nationalist media, relying mostly on online streaming. I mean, this is some Alex Jones level stuff right there.

            I wasnt in Japan during the sichuan quake, but I did see some coverage of the qinghai quake and it seemed to me mainstream Japanese news were plain, sober readouts with little spin or sensationalism

            Obviously there are Japanese who will cheer for disasters in China, but I don’t believe it’s common enough to generalize.
            I’m aware they often act polite but think differently inside, and I dunno if you’ve been there – but I didnt get the impression that Japan in general is a bogeyman out to “get” China. They seemed pretty normal to me, so I’m not gonna exaggerate things to fuel more tensions

    • dim mak

      I have seen some pretty assholey cheering on 2ch during the Wenchuan earthquake. But then again there were quite a few sympathetic ones as well, which is pretty decent considering 2ch is nationalist central. It’s no surprise people in every country will have differing opinions.

      • vince

        Yeesh you should see the cheering done on FB by a group called pearl harbour about the earthquakes in japan , but i assume they forgot about hiroshima and nagasaki. Point is let bygones be bygones, far too much hatred in the world today for the mistakes of the past.

  • Akim BI

    I’ve always been astonished by how bad many chinese could hate on japanese. I have many jap friends, and one was always complaining how her classmate would call her (chinese word for devil). The same way they will call black people . On the contrary I had also quite lot of chinese friends that do not judge based on the past or the color of ur skin. The point, there are over 1 billion if chinese and that makes a lot of bad chinese as well as a lot of good one. Can’t judge chinese people on these few rearded people. Let’s judge them by the position of their governement instead since it is supposed to carry out their opinion. No part of the world is now spared from such disaster. So don’t be too happy about it happening to other. A bit of restrain chinese fella

  • C&C

    I build for China!

    • Jones

      We stand together!

    • http://www.foarp.blogspot.com FOARP

      “THEY CANNOT DESTROY CHINA!”

  • Rick in China

    One translated comment is very true:

    “Only after going to Japan did I realize that it’s not that Japanese hate China, but rather that Chinese like to curse the Japanese, truly sad.”

    It’s unfortunate in this day when information is so freely available, even behind the great firewall, that this kinda propaganda still has so much weight. It’s unfortunate to see so many young minds buy into bullshit, especially knowing full well that it will only affect them negatively in the end.

    I think many in Chengdu and area have changed their minds after the Sichuan quake, which happened when I was 13 floors up in my office downtown, seeing how much effort and sacrifice came from common Japanese citizens to help out..it’s too bad this can’t be spread across more of China.

    Good luck to the victims of this natural tragedy.

    • Akim BI

      Nice. And u know i use to love all chinese tv. Kinda help me to improve my chinese. But for a while now, I watch chinese tv on seldom basis. Cause the ugly jap is always killing the chinese angel. Really boring after few years watching the same scenario, and young brain are being seriously washed with this cliché. Good thing tht there all these young chinese out there, seriously open and that don’t give a crap about what happens before they were born ;) we need more of these

      • Jones

        Collective-victimization does well to justify PRC rule.

    • some_guy

      Rick: I guess you’ve never seen Ganbare Nippon, Channel Sakura, or read anything published by Fujisankei Corporations when you were in Japan, eh? Plenty of anti-China garbage in Japan.

      Seriously, I’m amazed that everyone insists that Chinese hate the Japanese, while it is clearly the opposite. Japanese food, anime, and even porn are very popular among the Chinese. Nothing Chinese is popular in Japan; in fact, anything associated with China is considered low-brow and crappy.

      • Little One

        I’m Chinese and all of my family considers stuff from China as low-brow and crappy. However, this opinion is based upon how low-quality and sketchy the goods from China can be sometimes, like how a few years back, China’s milk producers added chemicals to their milk and caused a lot of health problems for babies. So maybe the Japanese don’t like Chinese stuff for the same reasons.

      • http://www.foarp.blogspot.com FOARP

        Yeah, because Chinese food, womenfolk, and culture are totally not popular in Japan . . . oh wait.

        Look, at the very least what other country in the world, or even in Asia, would large retailers specially target Chinese visitors by offering special deals in every shop for people paying by Unionpay (i.e., the Chinese credit card system).

        So yes, crazed nationalists on various websites talk smack about China, just as they do in every country in the world . . . except China. This doesn’t mean that these opinions are widely held – in fact, from all I’ve seen, they aren’t.

        In the firm I used to work in in Osaka the boss actually made a habit of praising Chinese work ethics in our monthly “meetings” (i.e., everyone stands around listening to the boss). Chinese food (which, of course, tastes nothing like Chinese food) is very popular, which 中国料理 being as common a sign as 居酒屋 in most towns. Holidays in China were advertised everywhere and very common, and most people know at least one person who is married to a Chinese citizen. In fact, I found Mandarin to be a more commonly heard language on the streets of both Shibaura in Tokyo and Kyobashi in Osaka than English – with most companies employing Chinese people in at least a few professional positions.

        Compare this to China, where Japanese I knew in Nanjing would claim to be Korean to avoid trouble, where taxi drivers often refused to serve people who they suspected of being Japanese, where local people with Japanese girlfriends/boyfriends lived in fear that their family might find out what they were doing, and where many people I knew refused to even eat in a Japanese restaurant out of hatred of the Japanese.

        • some_guy

          First of all, Chuuka Ryori (Chinese food) in Japan isn’t even Chinese food; it’s been so Japanized that anyone who knows real, genuine Chinese food would find it insulting to call Chuuka Ryori “Chinese Food”. You might as well say Panda Express makes gourmet Chinese food. What a joke.

          Second, Chinese culture is popular in Japan? I strongly suggest you to talk to your Japanese friends about chuuka shishou (中華思想) and see what kind of reaction you will get. Chuuka shisou is seen as inheritly backwards, an ideology that the Japanese have abandoned since the Meiji era and have no intentions of reviving it.

          Finally, you do know how Japanese insult Korea and Koreans, right? They call Korea, 小中華, which means “Little China”, because Koreans love to cling on to Chinese culture.

          • Rick in China

            I’ve never felt an inherent hatred for any culture in Japan.

            I feel it constantly in China.

            I have not personally met people who have spent time in both places who disagree.

          • http://www.foarp.blogspot.com FOARP

            1) Whether or not Chinese food in Japan tastes like it does in China is nothing to do with Japanese attitudes to China.

            2) I’ve heard about “Chinese thought”, but people seem to use it in both a positive and negative way.

            3) Met plenty of Koreans in Japan, none of them complained about people calling them this. My suspicion is that this is not common.

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  • KopyKatKiller

    Terrible to see Chinese celebrating. It is a face loss for China. My gf, a teacher, told her class of 13 and 14 year olds about the earthquake, and a lot of the students laughed. Likely a lot of the comments online celebrating this horrific event are from spoiled brat rich kids. Any Chinese over the age of 25 with any sense are not spreading this hatred. I suggest punching any dumb ass Chinese kids laughing about this event square in the face!

  • 又一次失望

    oh, how much a free press could help to expand so many narrow minds…

    • lol

      Or make them even more ultranationalist…have you seen the american conservative “free press” with the likes of bill o reilly and glenn beck?

      Don’t be so naive. The same celebrations are happening in korea and many other parts of the world with free press.

  • Fman

    Typical comments from the Chinese peanut gallery…

  • DZ

    Let’s make it clear..one comment from a hater does not represent the whole nation’s..this incident is unfortunate as well as that of Sichuan..Donation funds are always embezzled, i believe the people who raised the funds definitely know about it..The least they could do is to make sure “most” of it are put to good use..

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  • zagny

    the deaths of any human beings, any of their torture or anguish, should never, EVER, be faced with happiness. that is sick, immature and simply wrong.
    regardless of what you think other people may do, don’t forget your humanity. a natural, or any, disaster should never be a cause for rejoicing.

    • basilea ton romaion

      This is what you get for salughtering innocent whales and dolphins, the sea rose up and exacted vengeance against the japanese criminal nation.

    • Anonanon

      This.

      Lives aren’t to be taken for granted. We’ve seen a load of Chinese nationalistic racism and also comments from Americans (search ‘pearl harbor’ on FB). People are using the word “karma” to justify their stupidity, when in actuality, 2 wrongs don’t make a right.

  • tony heaney

    to those people who left nasty comments about the Japanese stop saying bad things and leave them alone. I though many Chinese children and teenagers and was shocked how they hated the Japanese

    here in Ireland we were ruled and beaten and even killed on a large scale and after 700 years off being slaves to the British we are free and we celebrate our 100 years free in 2016

    we hold no grudges coz the people of today are not responsible for there grandfathers work

    hope the Japanese can get through their darkest hour.

    • Puzzled Person

      @Tony Heaney I am not Asian, so when topic and feelings carried over from WW2 are brought up in discussion I try to avoid voicing my opinion out of respect for both party’s. That said I just have a side comment to make… from your writing I see your Irish and (I’m assuming) you were born and raised there, YET you write “we hold no grudges”?! Now I don’t blame Ireland for hating England but YOU know thats SHIT to say there isn’t sore feelings still! The subject of whether North Ireland belongs to the Irish or the English is very emotional! Don’t forget feelings between Catholics and Prods.!

  • PRC

    congratualations
    but to be honest, the magnitude was not high enough
    this is nature’s punishment for them

    • pervertt

      And what, may I ask, did the residents of Beichuan do to offend nature so as to deserve a 7.9 magnitude earthquake in 2008?

      • PRC

        they didn’t do anything wrong they were innocent and that’s why we call it a tragedy but in this case it was more like justice and good news

        • pervertt

          That doesn’t sound like good logic. In fact it doesn’t sound logical at all. It sounds like good old fashioned prejudice.

        • vince

          Dont ever have kids…please!

    • laowai

      To those people that celebrate the dead of innocent: i don’t like to lower myself, but those who claim history to justify the suffering of japanese who are not responsible of what happened in China back then should remember, for that matter, how many chinese other chinese people killed in past in the name of communism, nationalism or whatever etc. The enemy sometimes was not outside, but inside, within your own borders… But going back to the past is always easier that facing your own prejudices.

    • tony heaney

      on behalf of the peoples republic of china i say these are innocent people, do not blame them for something they did not do.

    • Sunshine

      Obvious troll is not obvious enough for you guys? (The above posters)

      • tony heaney

        can you enplane please or expand on that

        • Sunshine

          PRC made an obvious troll comment… how much more do I need to elaborate?

  • guobao2

    The Chinese mentality is truly disgusting. No wonder basically everyone thinks the population needs to be controlled. I was looking at a regular mainstream Chinese forum yesterday and I swear that 8 of 10 comments were Chinese retards praising the disaster in Japan. 1 in 10 was people being indignant while not forgetting to point out something that happened 65 years ago. The remaining 10 percent were normal, caring, horrified people.

    The Chinese government ought to strike down on the raging xenophobia in this country. It’s bound to end really, really bad one day.

    [Note from Fauna: Which regular mainstream Chinese forum? Can you give me the address of what you say you saw?]

    • PRC

      i’m amazed at ur iq, i mean if u havent been on chinese forums before u should know that 90% posts/comments/replies w/e u call them are posted in a relaxed way, its more about humour being relaxed kidding around trolling etc.
      srsly u actully thought they mean that? what the f**k

      • guobao2

        Sorry buddy. Your text speak combined with your lousy spelling and grammar leaves me baffled. May I recommend some English classes?

        • PRC

          may i recommend an iq test and post ur results here

      • laowai

        PRC, eve if some comments could be ironic, the fact of having any sense of humour over the dead of thousands of innocent people who are not responsible of what happened back in the past shows an underlying truth. Sense of humour sometimes is not that isolated from reality. These days, i could see some CCTV anchors asking if today’s still hatred towards Japan could have any impact on China’s response to the earthquake. Do you think this is something even media should think about when a tragedy occurs? Why not analizing a bit more how China can be more ready for earthquakes in the future? Fortunately, chinese leaders, although they sometimes get some benefit from appealing to nationalist feelings (the same as in the Japan), now they have to be with Japan as japanese had been with China before.

        • PRC

          in fact we do make fun /trolling on serious issues
          the post i’ve just read today was about a guy saying he is still living in the tents after the 512 earthquake, this was related to our own country but yet ppl still discussed through it with some humor.

          for the cctv broadcast if it was true in the first place then i’m sure we are all expecting the same and the only answer for that question.. its a rhetorical question to bring up the next topic

          chinese buildings are only made to stand for 30-40 years then they’ll get teared down, too much stuff to explain to ppl who have never lived in a country with 1/5 the world population

          • John

            Black humor I suppose

          • John

            this is so wrong

  • basilea ton romaion

    Japan is a nation of war criminals who did brutal things to the chinese and then deny it ever existed! Lets hope the sea claims their inbred chinese island colony

    • tony heaney

      these people never did anything to anybody, if you must blame any one blame the government that rules them. the children of the children have done nothing.

      my wife is Chinese and i am Irish she is from shenyang, you as as bad as the people who did do the crimes all those decades ago.

    • KopyKatKiller

      Lets hope all Chinese like PRC and basilea ton romaion have their negative Karma payed back 10 fold!

      China ought to be ashamed to let you people call yourself Chinese! You’re not Chinese, you’re evil.

      • vince

        PRC and basilea ton romaion might be the same person, also I believe i know what they look like http://www.macdoctor.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/troll.jpg

        • PRC

          u can’t be serious, im chinese and that guy is like italian

          • tony heaney

            china had an earth quake too the day before what was that karma for???

          • vince

            wow u deduced all that from his screen name? Good work Sherlock.

          • Jones

            PRC, you forgot the “I” and “K” in your name.

  • Wondering

    My heartfelt sympathy for all of the victims of the three recent earthquakes: New Zealand; China and Japan. The horror in Japan is much bigger, but I imagine that if you’re in it, the size of the quake doesn’t matter. I hope for a speedy recovery to all three countries with the least loss of life possible.

    Glad to see that so many countries are pitching in to help.

  • itsamazing

    What’s wrong with you Chinese??? This is a tragedy and yet you use it to make fun of Japanese. ARE YOU ANIMALS??? IS THERE NO SHAME?

    • Sunshine

      SOME Chinese weren’t the only ones.
      Go look at SOME Americans’ comments.

      • vince

        you must be referring to the Pearl Harbor group…would have thought they should know better, but guess not.

  • Kong

    After reading the comments section again, I am finally convinced that no one here actually knows what “karma” means. I guess it’s easier for people to say something is justified when they are also shitting all over someone else’s religion.

    • 平凡人

      Karma? We have a nuke plant emitting radiation which will affect the rest of Asia and you call this karma? Are we saying so many people in Asia deserve this? Get real, we are having serious pollution issue here.

      • Kong

        I didn’t say it was “karma”, you retard. “Karma” is what Hindus believe happens when you are born again in a different level of existence. “Karma” does not mean “justice” or “you get what you give”. The only reason why people (like you) think they mean the same thing is because they are ignorant.

  • John

    Very Disturbing. Most people in this forum get off on other’s people death. Only psychoes get off on others people death. Seriously disturbing. There is evil here

    • Sunshine

      This forum? I don’t see anyone rejoicing in this misfortune other than the two trolls who are obviously not to be fed?

  • Sunshine

    “Third, reflect upon Chinese people’s foolish conceit and despicable narrow-mindedness.”

    “The character of our country’s people [can be seen here, is embarrassing], the way everyone is laughing at the Japanese now is how others will look at the Chinese [later].”

    I couldn’t agree more. It truly saddens me to the point where I want to cry.
    I highly suspect those “kill all japs” are some hot blooded 90′ers. If not, absolute shame on them.

    In other light, rather than screaming “WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU CHINESE”, is it not more appropriate to replace CHINESE with simply uncompassionate people? I’m sure they are just as obnoxious/inhuman in other situations as well. Uneducated clusterfucks. Nothing more.

    • Sunshine

      Oh, right 粪青 is the current term. How I love the versatility of the Chinese language!

      • Sunshine

        *CORRECT term.

        Yes I love replying to myself.

    • dim mak

      Exactly, in a country of 1.3 billion there’s bound to be assholes

  • Gut

    Potassium iodide tablets – look it up, just in case.

    Peace

    • vince

      Also look up Betadine.

  • So Yey

    All these alleged “chinese” telling other chinese to feel ashamed of themselves for rejoicing at the earthquake, should go to a mental hospital for a checkup and take a visit to Japan to see how well those Japanese treat them, after they’ve been called “shina ren”.

    I seriously doubt your chinese, or you guys must be westernized chinese, either you don’t have common sense or you don’t have brains.

    • some_guy

      Yeah, Japan uses the ugly “shina-jin” as scapegoats for all of their problems. As Hongjian has posted elsewhere, Japanese people should actually beg China to remain an evil communist empire; that way, Japan can continue to blame all of its problem on China instead of blaming themselves.

    • vince

      at least they have their humanity jackass.

    • KopyKatKiller

      So Yey,

      Maybe Japanese do call Chinese names when they come to the peaceful civilized nation of Japan because many Chinese people act like animals. And it’s the same in every other country that mainlanders visit, including Taiwan. If mainland Chinese were civilized, they wouldn’t be called names. One great leap to being perceived as more civilized would not be posting racist hate on forums about Japan’s tragedy!

      No wonder Japanese propaganda claimed they were bringing civilization to the backward animals of China in WW2… they had a lot of proof to back it up and still do today it seems…

      If it acts like animal, sounds like an animal, smells like an animal, hates like an animal, it might be an animal, or it might be Chinese xiao ren like you!

      • So Yey

        China isn’t the one with a multimillion dollar porn industry, consisting of av stars performing disgusting acts with feces, underage hentai ( would be banned as child porn in the USA), porn anime and manga, or the pedophilic relationship between a grown man and a teenage girl practiced in Japan called “Enjo kōsai”, or the “love dolls” used by single japanese men for sex, which japan also exports to taiwan

        Japan practices all of these disgusting and despicable practices, so it appears that the Japanese look like animals, and smell like animals- no wait, even animals don’t produce disgusting porn or engage in pedophilia! they are sub animal.

    • pervertt

      If you want respect, you have to earn it. Tourists from mainland China must be the only ones who ware cautioned by their own state supported travel agencies not to shame their own country because “public spitting, slurping foods and jumping queues merely disgust people at home. But is intolerable in other countries.”

      Ask other “westernised” Chinese in places like Hong Kong and Singapore what they think about visitors from mainland China and you will get some rather unflattering responses. So if fellow Chinese think poorly of mainlanders, how do you think the Japanese, who live in a well mannered society, would react?

      The fact is that 60 years of Communist rule has decimated the Chinese literati and other flag bearers of refined behaviour, and allowed the uncouth and the unwashed to roam unchecked. Learn some manners, see how others behave, be moderate in what you say when others are in strife, then the world might treat with a bit more respect.

      • lol

        so it’s ok to be prejudiced against over a billion people because a large percentage of them don’t have manners?

        You could use this kind of logic to justify all sorts of things…

        • KopyKatKiller

          No one’s prejudiced here against the Chinese.

          [Note from Fauna: Where is here? Are you sure no one?]

          • Truth Speaker

            HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

          • KopyKatKiller

            @Fauna
            Here = This forum. Yes I’m sure.
            If my child chews with his mouth open, I tell him to stop and not to act like a pig. It is not because I’m prejudiced, it is because I care. I want him to grow up and act like a human being, not a barnyard animal. It is a similar thing when most laowai point out Chinese animal like behavior. It is not because we do not like the people, it is precisely the opposite, we do like them and therefore want them to improve their poor behavior.

          • Truth Speaker

            “Here = This forum. Yes I’m sure.”

            HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

          • Truth Speaker

            “It is a similar thing when most laowai point out Chinese animal like behavior. ”

            How about some “love” from the Chinese side- first of all, you need to collectively stop weighing 300 pounds each. You’re barely recognizable as human, your body odors are foul, and you’re just vile to look at. Second, clean up your act when it comes to education- you’re the world’s most poorly educated and classless, backwards people.

            Next, stop worshiping the super rich. It’s pathetic. You have the largest WEALTH disparity in the world (not income), and yet you lick the boots of your overlords.

            Fourth, stop being hypocrites and murdering people overseas so you can afford short-term pleasures. Stop propping up dictatorships as long as the dictator gives you oil. Stop laundering money, stop destabilizing sovereign nations.

            Lastly, kindly rescind your disgusting and puerile “culture” from the rest of your world.

            Love, civilized and intelligent people of earth.

        • pervertt

          Please read my post carefully. Nowhere did I say that it is OK to be prejudiced against 1 billion Chinese because a large percentage lack good manners. Those are your words, not mine.

          The point of my previous post is that some mainland Chinese demand respectful behaviour from others, but fail to show reciprocal behaviour themselves. If these individuals insist on using disparaging language over the internet, if they insist on behaving the same way overseas as they do when they are at home, then they should not be surprised if others take offence and throw a bit back at them. And it is not only Japanese that are offended – fellow Chinese accustomed to more polite standards can be put off by uncouth behaviour.

          Remember – respect is a 2 way street.

          • lol

            I was just offended that KopyKatKiller would say “If mainland Chinese were civilized, they wouldn’t be called names.”

            If that wasn’t an assumption that mainland chinese are somehow inherently inferior to “other chinese”, then sorry for the misunderstanding.

            It’s also funny that he said “One great leap to being perceived as more civilized would not be posting racist hate on forums about Japan’s tragedy!” Do you know how many Japanese right-wingers would and did the same on online forums during the 2008 Chinese earthquake? I hope you know that ultra nationalism goes both ways and it has nothing to do with being civilized, or Japan’s no better than China. Sigh, such naivete…

          • KopyKatKiller

            No one’s superior or inferior lol, but many, too many, mainlanders don’t have the first clue as to how to act in a civilized fashion. Thus they get a bad rep. Another example would be posting anti-Japanese statements at this time. this is uncivilized and gives mainlanders a bad rep.

            I have lived in Japan and china and various other countries, and yes there are hate filled xiao ren everywhere, but China’s education system has produced far more than other countries. Nationalism is a disease with which the Chinese are heavily infected. And what makes matters worse, is the government has been promoting anti-Japanese sentiment through their “Patriotic Education” brainwashing program. The only other comparison I can bring up besides Nazi German education doing that, is pre-WW2 Japan, and we all know what that led too.

            As for Japanese posting anti-China messages during the 2008 disaster here, I’ve never come across it, but I’m sure it exists, unfortunately… I can tell you one thing though, small pre-teen school children in Japan do not tell me how much they hate the evil Chinese, but Chinese school children sure have a lot to say about Japan. It’s downright scary how mentally fucked up the government has made many vulnerable children in China!

          • lol

            @KopyKatKiller

            Actually, South Korea does the same thing in their schools. And yes, you will see South Korean children in primary school wishing death on all Japanese.

            I don’t see why you need to think China is somehow an exception. Humans are all the same-the Japanese are only the best at covering it up. Thus, you will see as much hatred coming from Japan online but almost none in real life. Maybe you’re new to the internet, but I suggest you go on Japanese forums and social media sites (if 2ch is a bit extreme) more often to see what Japanese are really like without their facade.

          • KopyKatKiller

            @lol
            Many South Koreans also hate China. So do many Taiwanese… And no, I’m not new to the internet, I’ve been on-line longer than the www has been around! And no, there isn’t nearly as much hatred in Japan as there is in China. Japan is the last best hope for China. If the Chinese can copy Japanese behavior, it’ll be good for everyone.

          • So Yey

            this is hilarious, kopykatkiller suggest china should “copy japanese behavior”

            Japanese men tourists have been visiting SE asian countries like cambodia and thailand, paying for sex with underage girls-

            http://vodpod.com/watch/5717774-pedophilia-by-japanese-sex-tourists-in-burma-and-cambodia

            http://www.aplecambodia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1317:august-12-2010-japanese-mans-pedophile-trial-get-postponed&catid=103:2010&Itemid=356

            many more japanese men were caught visiting underage cambodian, burmese and thai girls, paying for sex

            kopykatkiller apparently also wants china to adopt the sick pedophile practices of enjo kosai, hentai, lolicon, love dolls, and pornography from japan too!

          • KopyKatKiller

            ^^ Be careful your stupid is showing. Now off to the local KTV or massage parlor with you… I wish you Happy Ending everyday ;)

          • dim mak

            How about instead of justifying hate with someone else’s hate, we all stop the bullshit together? I’m sure most people in China, Japan or Korea aren’t total jerks, so why point to a minority and say hurr durr i’ma hate because they hate?

        • Sunshine

          KopyKatKiller: If you think NO ONE on this site is prejudiced against the Chinese, you are seriously, seriously undermining the range of people for which this site harbours.
          Read all the comments in at least 50% of the articles posted here. You will have a different opinion. If you don’t have the time/want to read that much, then there is no ground for you to make that statement.

          • KopyKatKiller

            ^^Been reading this site for years, mostly picking up on Chinese hate of foreigners from the translated posts of other sites. FYI When I wrote “forum” I meant this particular one of all of those on this site, not the whole site.

          • Truth Speaker

            Want to stop being hated? Stop deserving the hatred. Funny how you act like a tool and claim Chinese people only hate blameless perfect foreigners who never hurt China or Chinese people ever and never do anything bad on “Nationalism”. What’s the source of Chinese nationalism?

            It’s people like you who want to play the victim when you’re the aggressor. Chinese Nationalism exists to repudiate and reject you. Chinese Nationalism must grow.

          • Sunshine

            Oh, you meant the comment section of this particular article, I see. I didn’t know people referred to this as a forum.

    • dim mak

      I have actually, have you? They treated me exceptionally well, no one has ever called me shina-jin. I expected to get into a few arguments – never happened. Not sure why some people insist on stereotypes… if they aren’t as bad as the rumors go, why keep fanning the flames?

    • Sunshine

      See, in this situation, there are two types of Chinese people.
      The first believes that because the Japanese hate our race, have wronged us in the past (and apologized to some extent), we should hate them back, and be content that they are now suffering, because this is the extent to which our heart is capable of opening.
      The second looks past the fact that the “Japanese” are suffering, and sees only that “people” are suffering. Some of them may call me shinajin. Some of them may hate me. It doesn’t mean that I want to “return the favour” and bring myself to the same level. It doesn’t mean that it will make me feel good to rejoice the fact that thousands of people are either dead or dying, regardless of which country they live in.

      You and some Chinese belong in the first category, many other Chinese the second.
      The first has absolutely no right whatsoever to condemn the second.
      Please bring your pathetic little mentality elsewhere.

  • Yipeng Du

    As a Chinese, I do feel sorry for those who lost their love ones, meanwhile I do shamed by those who make fun from other miserable misfortune. that’s embarrassing. However it doesn’t mean most of us are apathetic. whereas I definitely understand there are still some gap between us in various area such as history and sovereignty. howbit everyone is innocent in front of disaster. as a individual person. I believe we are all the people with dignity and honor, along with fath. please pary for the death.besides, death do not worth to celebrate.

  • slimboyinhk

    Disgusting reading some of these comments. How soon we forget our own tragedy just a few years ago. And when Sharon Stone suggested it was Karma that China was hit with the earthquake because of poorly treating the Dalai Lama every asshole speaking shit on this forum probably cursed her a million times. Now the same fools speak the same garbage. Fuck you all, you embarrass us Chinese.

  • r

    I think that the comments by Chinese who gloat over the deaths and misfortune suffered by Japanese citizens are a good reflection of all that is quick sick about Chinese society today. Its mainly urban Chinese who have received a rubbish education based on nationalistic, fascist beliefs. The “victim” mentality promoted by the gov for so many decades is also truly sad, and does nothing at all to promote peace, understanding or forgiveness. So many people seem to lack the ablity to engage in logical thinking, and feel empathy for others. I guess that’s why nearly everyone I know who has the capacity for independent thinking in China wants to move to the west. No wonder.

    • John

      A lot of you guys need another great leap forward and thats finding a soul because to wish massive deaths and rejoice on innocents misfortune. That is just not human. You all should be ashame of yourselves

    • r

      The continuing ignorant comments by Chinese continue to reflect on exactly the things I wrote above. Truely a sad place – the mainland. But John, the Great Leap Forward that they need – namely finding a soul – is likely too great a leap forward. They will continue to live in close-minded inspired hatred.

      Another commented that children and people in general seldom spout ant-Chinese hatred. Its only the odd internet wingnut in Japan who believes and espouses such rubbish.
      But China is another story. Im sure all foreigners have heard a great deal of anti-japanese hatred coming from not only adults, but small children as well. This is truly a scary sign.

      Its a sign of a society made sick by the lack of civil society and the breakdown in social trust and mutual communication. Its the result of having lived in a cultural system that does not espouse equality, but rather crushing each other down in an attempt to gain power and advantage over others. That’s why there’s not really anything to do in China for young people. Even children don’t play outside. People just go home and watch TV or go online and wonder or complain why their jobs are shitty, why they are paid so low when their boss drives a BMW and spends all his days at the wash centre with call girls. Its easy to brainwash such a population with anti-Japan rhetoric.

      (Confucianism is partially to blame- and why would anyone defend Confucianism anyway- there were many wonderful competing philosophical systems that arose prior to and after Confucious).

      But I do see signs of hope. Many mainland friends are free thinkers, realize that they have a soul and thus extend kindness to others in need, and employ logic in making clear decisions and judgments that enable them to recognize the lies that others believe to be true. There is hope for this country, but it certainly does not lie with the hate-mongers who visit this site.

      • http://nikiwonoto.com Niki

        As a Chinese myself and of a Generation Y (I’m chinese-indonesian to be exact), I have to totally agree and hats off to your comment.

        People in China, especially the youth, have to be VERY extremely careful of the amount of the *Brainwashing* done *constantly* by the government, media (yes we’re even talking about the ‘danger bias’ of TV, newspaper, magazines!) that seem to supported their *own* nationalistic agenda/propaganda.

        Luckily nowadays we have the Internet. I myself am a free-thinker, and I have to admit that Internet does really help a LOT in shaping me and sort of *maturing* me into seeing all things from all sides/perspectives, not only from ONE side, especially the *brainwashed* one!

        It’s time for a CHANGE now, with all the world currently seems to be undergoing many huge, drastic changes too everywhere!
        I can only hope there will be more people (especially young people) who think and have heart/empathy like you. It always inspires & encourages me to see one!

        “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has” – Margaret Mead

    • Sunshine

      “the comments by Chinese who gloat over the deaths and misfortune suffered by Japanese citizens are a good reflection of all that is quick sick about Chinese society today.”

      Let me rephrase that for you:
      the comments by some Chinese on some forums on the internet which are known to gather disparaging trollers, which I’ve had the misfortune to come across (and I acknolwedge that there are many more of a different nature for which I have not visited), who gloat over the deaths and misfortune suffered by Japanese citizens are a good reflection of all that is quick sick about Chinese society today, because only the Chinese society is largely populated by trolls, fenqing, or otherwise uncompassionate clusterfucks.

      Did I make myself clear?

  • bando

    I was hoping their dolphin killing village of taiji was swept away. Such a pity.

    • KopyKatKiller

      I was hoping you were killed. Such a pity. (Sound nice?)

      • So Yey

        China isn’t the one with a multimillion dollar porn industry, consisting of av stars performing disgusting acts with feces, underage hentai ( would be banned as child porn in the USA), porn anime and manga, or the pedophilic relationship between a grown man and a teenage girl practiced in Japan called “Enjo kōsai”, or the “love dolls” used by single japanese men for sex, which japan also exports to taiwan

        Japan practices all of these disgusting and despicable practices, so it appears that the Japanese look like animals, and smell like animals- no wait, even animals don’t produce disgusting porn or engage in pedophilia! they are sub animal.

        http://vodpod.com/watch/5717774-pedophilia-by-japanese-sex-tourists-in-burma-and-cambodia

        • KopyKatKiller

          ^^So, what have you been watching…?
          I’d rather have a Japanese sex industry than the melamine milk one we have in China…

          • lol

            the melamine milk is one careless man’s mistake

            the Japanese sex industry reflects Japanese mentality and sexual tastes in general (or there wouldn’t be a market for it)

          • KopyKatKiller

            ^^You are so wrong. Melamine milk shows Chinese business inherit disregard for human life. It was no mistake. And it’s just one example. More examples: Sichuan schools collapsing and killing thousands. Recycled cooking oil on everyone’s table. Lead paint on childrens toys. Fake medicines being sold at hospitals. Buildings falling over when it rains. Highways collapsing. People burning to ddeath in Shanghai’s towers. And there are many many more examples. To generalize, Chinese mentality is that it’s ok to kill people so long as you make a buck in the process…

          • r

            the melamine milk scandal was not “one careless man’s mistake”. It was a cross-the-board carefully planned exercise to try to maximize profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people. They did not care about anyone except their own profits which they no doubt need to pay for their small harem of “little wives” and various girlfriends.

            The Japanese sex industry is not a good thing for anyone. Doublessly now, the sex industry’s biggest customers are all in mainland where overly-conservative ideas about sex have messed up and ruined the lives of generations of men and women. Please don’t moralize about the “virtues” of Chinese society. If there was much morality left, there would not be so many mainlanders wishing death and suffering on the innocent farmers and fishermen of Japan.

          • dim mak

            Those things have nothing to do with each other
            Lots of countries have sex industries, and they aren’t any worse off for it
            If anything China should have our own porn industry, it could be a very lucrative business

          • Truth Speaker

            So what’s worse, melamine milk or the US butchering over 1,000,000 Iraqi and Afghan civilians to steal their natural resources?

            Your one sided, laughably biased worldview showcases the West’s pig-disgusting, hypocritical mindset that has earned it the eternal hatred of Muslims everywhere.

          • Kong

            I’m sorry, but whose decision was it to open China up to a global market? Where did current Chinese economists and businessmen learn economics? This is just standard practice for the West saying “We gave you a perfect system and you are messing it up”. Same thing the World Bank and IMF do every day.

            Now I’m not saying that it’s all the system’s fault (systems do not exist without the people that keep them going), but if y’all want to talk about “blame” and “responsibility” in a capitalist market economy, well good luck. It’s pretty much DESIGNED to evade such a question.

            All people are really saying when they ask these questions is “Why aren’t YOUR people more like MY people”. Looking over the majority of KopyKatKiller’s posts, the impetus for most of them is this same ethnocentric line.

        • vince

          wow you seem to be well versed regarding japans ‘japan’s disgusting and despicable practices’ odd for someone who is so averse to it, lol.

      • bando

        Well, keep hoping. I doubt all your intense hatred can materialise into any action that can bring about any harm upon me.

        But that’s not to say that Japan doesn’t have my condolences for what happened to their country. Yes, I dislike a small part of their culture for their disregard for animal life, but I also know many of their people are not in support of it either. Just saying how unfair it is that the earthquake and floods causes death and pain indiscriminately.

  • cantabileloves

    it’s horrible how people can take pleasure on other’s misfortunes. seriously if you look at it carefully, japan actually helped china a lot when china faced an earthquake. and now? everything that has happened before is already a past. get on with life!

  • BR

    These are exactly the type of comments I expected.

    • r

      Yes, I would venture that most foreigners who have been in China for a long time would really come to expect these types of ingnorant, hate-filled comments. They don’t surprise me at all either.

      The level of general brainwashing and mindlessness was much worse in the 90s. Fifteen years ago, it would have been worse in that there would likely have been no dissenting voices and nearly everyone would have displayed the shocking callous attitudes that we have seen here.

      At least some of the Chinese citizens leaving comments here clearly showed their are concerned, educated, and clear thinking people with a deep sense of concern for other human beings. Unfortunately, these voices seem few and far between.

      • Capt. WED

        what are you talking about? Are you taking about the translated comments or comments from the page? Have you looked over the actual comments?

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