Asian Defense News: DTN News - JAPAN NEWS: Japan Protests Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Organ Report Challenging Tokyo’s Claim On Okinawa
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Amrutha Gayathri - International Business Time(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 11, 2013: Japan registered a protest to China on Thursday over the Chinese Communist Party’s main propaganda organ, the People’s Daily newspaper, questioning Tokyo’s historical claim on Okinawa, Japan's southern-most prefecture, which is also considered a key strategic asset for the U.S. in the Asian region.
In a lengthy article in the People's Daily, two academics from China's top state-run think-tank said: “History’s unresolved questions relating to the Ryukyu [which includes Okinawa] have reached a time for reconsideration,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
Citing treaties from the Sino-Japanese war and from World War II, the article argued that ownership of the Ryukyu islands should be discussed.
One of the authors of the controversial article, Zhang Haipeng, argues that Japan robbed China of Taiwan and its affiliated islands, including the Senkakus, the Pescadores and Okinawa, when the two nations concluded the Treaty of Shimonoseki following the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), as reported by Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
He wrote that the Senkaku islands were returned to China after World War II ended in 1945, but the issue of sovereignty of Okinawa is yet to be resolved.
Okinawa was a major battlefield during World War II and a U.S.-administered territory until 1972. Some 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan, of which a significant number is based in Okinawa.
Japan and the U.S. consider maintaining American soldiers in Okinawa bases critical to counter-balance China's rising influence in the region.
On Wednesday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying indicated the country may have rights to Okinawa.
“The history of Ryukyu and Okinawa is a problem that the academic society has long been paying close attention to," said Hua when asked about Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa during a news conference, the BBC reported.
In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Japan will not accept China’s claim to rights over Okinawa.
“If the article represents the stance of the Chinese government, we can never accept that,” Suga told a news conference on Thursday.
He also said Japan has voiced its protest against the article to the Chinese government. The official response from Chinese officials, according to Suga, was “the researchers have written the article in their private capacities.”
The controversy over Okinawa has come amid a longstanding dispute over Senkaku, a small group of uninhabited islands known as Diaoyu in China. Tensions have been simmering ever since the Japanese government signed a contract worth 2.05 billion yen ($26 million) in September last year to buy three of the five main islands from their private owner.
The islands, which lie some 200km (124 miles) off Okinawa and beyond China's 200 nautical mile (370km) exclusive economic zone, are surrounded by an area rich in fisheries and are believed to contain significant hydrocarbon resources.
China has laid claim to the islands since the U.N. returned them to Japanese sovereignty in accordance with the Okinawa Reversion Agreement that ended the U.S. occupation of Okinawa.
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Asian Defense News: DTN News - CHINESE PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAPAN: China's Hollywood 'Killed' Nearly 1 Billion Japanese Last Year
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources WCT - Want China Times(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 11, 2013: A popular TV drama about the Second Sino-Japanese War. (Internet photo)
Nearly one billion Japanese soldiers or enemies were killed off in TV productions filmed last year at Hengdian World Studios, the studio facilities known as the Hollywood of China, the Guangdong-based Yangcheng Evening News reports, suggesting that Chinese TV audiences like to achieve some degree of catharsis for their anti-Japanese sentiment with a high body count of enemy combatants in historical dramas.
As this figure breaks down as 2.7 million deaths per day for 365 days — a rate of over 30 per second — it seems reasonable to assume that most of these "deaths" occurred off-screen — or that this represents the cumulative total of every death in every series broadcast on myriad domestic networks. Put it this way: somewhere on Chinese television right now, Japanese people are being killed. And probably in large numbers.
In 2012, out of the more than 200 TV series broadcast on national networks, more than 70 of them had a wartime or anti-Japanese theme, more than any other "genre." The trend is definitely set to continue this year, said the newspaper.
The volume of shows where Japanese invaders get their comeuppance clearly reflects a general sentiment, but internet users have been criticizing the liberal use of historically inaccurate and exaggerated plots to get the nationalistic point across, the report said. TV shows have veered increasingly towards dehumanizing Japanese characters and imbuing Chinese characters with fantastic superpowers to satisfy the revenge fantasies of local viewers.
People who grow up in China are exposed from an early age to negative depictions of Japan and Japanese people, a reaction to what is seen as fifty years of national humiliation from the late 19th century to 1945, a period which saw two wars between the two countries with massive loss of life and territory, coupled with the perception that Japan has not shown sufficient remorse for the wartime atrocities committed by its troops in China.
The offspring of such resentment manifests itself in terms like "little Japan" or "Japanese devils" and is perpetuated by the media, teachers, parents and even textbooks.
Long-simmering anti-Japanese sentiment exploded again in September last year when protesters rallied in the streets in several major cities, objecting to Japan's nationalization of a group of islands in the East China Sea called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu or Diaoyutai in Chinese. The islands were handed over to Japanese administration by the US along with Okinawa in 1972.
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Asian Defense News: DTN News - CHINESE PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAPAN: Nude Scene In Anti-Japan Drama Slammed As Naked Bid For Ratings
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources WCT - Want China Times(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 11, 2013: Sexual Liberation Army? The woman offers a comforting salute to the sex-starved Red Army soldiers. (Internet photo)
A scene from a Chinese TV drama in which a naked young woman salutes Red Army soldiers heading off to battle in the Second Sino-Japanese War has gone viral and been widely criticized on the internet, reports ifeng, the website of Hong Kong's Phoenix TV.
The scene portrays a village girl removing her clothes and saluting the soldiers after she learns that they have not felt the touch of a woman in a long time. Internet users feel the scene is an example of anti-Japanese nationalism going too far and many have called the scene a "naked" attempt to grab more viewers, saying such series should be more serious in their treatment of the historical material.
The note of sexuality introduces a particular problematic resonance. War crimes committed by occupying Japanese troops between 1937-1945 included the systematic rape and murder of Chinese women during the Nanjing Massacre and the use of "comfort women" — women from China and other countries forced into prostitution at Japanese military brothels — crimes which are still a major source of bitterness. The nude scene on one level thus seems to suggest the reclaiming of Chinese women's bodies from Japanese tyranny and restoring them "correctly" as vessels for Chinese men.
One netizen described the drama as "anti-Japanese porn," while another asked how the scene got past the censors. Others said the scene twists history, which would confuse viewers as to the facts of the conflict — though historical accuracy has rarely been a strong point of such dramas.
In 2012 alone, Japanese soldiers were killed off thousands of times over in Chinese TV dramas and there are signs that audiences are becoming tired of increasingly overwrought Tarantino-esque revenge fantasies, including a man tearing a Japanese soldier in half with his bare hands or another blowing up an airplane with a well-timed grenade toss.
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