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I was wondering why there were protest? "Despite anti-Japanese protests inside China"

Maybe the Chinese don't really know what they want. They protest over the Japanese war crimes and the dependence that the Chinese economy has on Japanese goods (Imports are at 22 Trillion Yen - more than what the US Imports from Japan) , yet they'll gladly watch a Japanese movie.

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Maybe the Chinese don't really know what they want. They protest over the Japanese war crimes and the dependence that the Chinese economy has on Japanese goods (Imports are at 22 Trillion Yen - more than what the US Imports from Japan) , yet they'll gladly watch a Japanese movie.

Dude, I really resent that. (I'm Chinese) Just because I think the Japanese did some horrible things in WW2 and I think they should apologize doesn't make me a hypocrite for liking their pop culture.

I mean, the ability to dislike what someone's done but NOT hate them for it...I think that'd be called, what, open-mindedness?

<sarcasm>If you think Chinese people SHOULD hate Japanese people to be "non-hypocritical," then i suppose you'll be happy to hear that there ARE such people in China, whom, I might add, would actually physically assault someone if they knew that person was Japanese.</sarcasm>

Korean release of Grave postponed


According to various sources, because of the strong anti-Japanese sentiment in South Korea, the Korean theatrical release of Grave of the Fireflies has been postponed for an indefinite period of time.

In South Korea, there are even boycotts and resistant movements initiated through the web against the release of the movie. Although the movie has very strong anti-war messages, some people claim that it "depicts the Japanese as the victims," and "shows sympathy towards the Japanese, who were the aggressors of the war."