Last posts on Shanghai

New view of Shanghai on skyscraper

2008-08-28T16:45:00+02:00

A view of the city of Shanghai from the 492-meter-tall Shanghai World Financial Center under construction on August 26, 2008. Observation decks on 100th and 97th floors of the 101-storey tower, overlooking the city, are set to be finished and open to the public at the end of this month, providing visitors a spectacular view of downtown Shanghai and the winding Huangpu River.The skyline of Shanghai's lujiazui financial area is seen in this picture taken on August 26, 2008. Observation decks on 100th and 97th floors of the 101-storey tower, overlooking the city, are set to be finished and open to the public at the end of this month, providing visitors a spectacular view of downtown Shanghai and the winding Huangpu River.Undated file photo of a view of the Shanghai World Financial Center (C) at night in Shanghai. Observation decks on 100th and 97th floors of the 101-storey tower, overlooking the city, are set to be finished and open to the public at the end of this month, providing visitors a spectacular view of downtown Shanghai and the winding Huangpu River.

Why Chinese are angry with Japanese!

2005-04-15T12:30:00+02:00

I've heard from one Japanese student living in Shanghai that those who participated in the demonstration march were small portion of Chinese. China has a big population. Even 20,000 demonstrators is not big scale.

It is said Chinese government is using anti-Japan sentiment to distract people's attention from failures of the government's economic policy that created wider gap between the rich and the poor.

But yes there are problems on our side which provoked such riots.

One is Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine that enshrined A-class war criminals of WWII. A-class war criminals were political leaders of that time including PM Tojo who ordered to attack Pearl Harbor. They are the invaders for Chinese but heroes or victims for Japanese right wingers. Koizumi and ruling party is backed up by such right wingers. The right wingers claim Tokyo tribunal that convicted A-class war criminals was unfair because the judges there were all from victors' countries. Also they claim Japan's war in China and against US was just war.

The other reason is related to the right wingers' interpretation of the history between China and Japan. They believe Japan is always right. They believe we should deny any unfavourble facts in our history such as atrocities in Nanjing, 1937. They've been campaigning to delete such facts from textbooks with politicians.

As a result, this year's newly published textbooks reduced such facts telling from previous edition.

This is outrageous. The right wingers believe it is good for our country. No. They are wrong. They are just embrassing our country.

As for A-class war criminals, I agree with their claim of unfairness of the court at that time, but we have to be aware of their responsibilities of the wrong corrupt war.

The below picture is taken in Nanjing (Nanking) last September. I was at the grave of victims of Nanking Masscre. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people were brutally murdered by Japanese army.

I do not support the riots but I understand the anger of Chinese people.

I will be flying to China!!

2005-03-20T07:00:00+01:00

Dear Bloggers,

Thanks for reading my posts!

I am flying to China for a few weeks. I might not be able to add any post until I come back home.

I might be able to add a post from China.

Anyway, I'll be reporting my trip to China to you. Please look forward to reading new stories.

The attached picture is Southern China's biggest city, Shanghai, where I went last time.

This time I am visiting Beijing and neighboring cities.

6 days to go

2005-02-02T11:01:40+01:00

Because New Year Holidays HAS to be 7 days, but we only get 3 days off SO we have to work this weekend and get the days back on 14th and 15th. This basically sucks. Would be better to get the weekend off and then 5 days of holiday. Coz nothing will happening at work this weekend anyway, all our customers who have their own business are already gone.But now it's six o'clock and I'm off work. Catch you all tomorrow sweeties.Happy birthday to my aunt Ingrid today!!!!!