I really have no idea, since I also don't live in either country. I do know there are a lot of Chinese (mostly older) who still vehemently hate Japan, mostly because of the massacre of Nanking. Apparently Japan has tried to pretend the whole thing never really happened. One of the Japanese girls my girlfriend works with was telling her that she doesn't understand why Chinese people hate them, as she was taught at school that the only reason Japan invaded China was to save the people from the government. She was also told that it was the Chinese government that massacred the population of Nanking so that they could blame it on the Japanese.

From: United States

That's all you people care about

Sorry about the miss! Wrote my last post while you posted yours, didn't see it. Anyway: Just getting my information from wikipedia(where else to look? ), it just says that the idea was to produce bombs and drop them as soon as they where finished.

Wikipedia again, click, under "Depiction and Public response".

I couldn't find a single mention of racicm in that text, even thought I only read most of it I seached the page for possible words that would be significant. Any specific part of the text I should read?

I doubt there is a conspiracy among all japanese people to somehow distinguish foreigners who are just visiting from those who are staying and ridicule only them . I'm sure those who are staying will face problem with getting somewhere to live for example, but I'd like to think such problem arise from the fact that most of the these so called racists think the foreigners aren't familiar with the customs of their society and will be trouble(like not being able to pay the rent) and not because he is of another race.

I don't know.. I just don't buy the whole conspiracy thing.

The fact that a lot of japanese has a thing for american culture(breaking my heart) is another factor that makes it hard for me to accept a relative wide spread dislike for foreigners, peronally I wish they wouldn't accept any foreigners, I don't want their culture to be tainted.

Japans goverment is publicly(inside japan) strongly talking about how japan is accepting of other cultures(they are in fact bragging about it), while I don't think they are the most accepting country on earth I'm pretty sure they are highly ranked, and the fact that the goverment is using it as propagana proves(to me) that the general social norm is to be accepting of other cultures.

While I have never talked with a japanese person on the net I've met a few when they come here, japan has a direct flight from somewhere in japan to kiruna which is a very popular turist attraction. While I was there I felt the japanese where very nice and talkative, however, I must admit that they seem somewhat ignorant of our technical experise as every japanese who askes if we could take their picture thought we knew nothing about digial cameras and tried to give instructions on standard operations . hilarious.

Like the enemy? I know I would.

I consider a lot of countries technologically inferior and would probably give random people there the same instructions, but I don't think of them as apes.

Meaning: I don't think thinking someone can't operate a camera because they come from a specific country means you're a racist.

It certainly means you think you are superior in that regard, but not racist.

I was in Okinawa in '77, there were a few out-of-the-way bars you'd go in, and they'd hold their hand up, palm toward you, meaning "You're not welcome here". It was probably to avoid the aggravation of USMC n00bs asking all kinds of stupid questions in a language they only knew a few words to.

On the whole, though, I'd say a large percentage of Japanese people look down on other races, but they keep it to themselves. They hold politeness up as a virtue, probably because they're way too crowded to get along any other way.

I'm in a very touristic city, and I hate tourists. I don't see how Japanese people would suddenly love them. It's annoying! Specially since you have to pay much more for all the normal groceries because of them.

All those text walls and with this flu that makes me feel like my head is about to explode? No thanks. I'm fine for reading small chunks today.

Yes, everyone hates tourists as such (that is to say, when you live somewhere where there are lots of tourists you hate the extra noise they make, the wide-eyed wonder with which they walk out into the middle of the road, the fact that they tend to suddenly stop walking to take a picture of some random building; or, my particular annoyances coming from Amsterdam, tourists getting on bikes and cycling around as though they're on a nice calm field trip as opposed to in the middle of city traffic, and if they don't do that they'll walk on the bike path because they don't realise it's part of the road rather than the pavement. After a while you stop caring when you run into them). However, that doesn't make you a racist.
If you're living somewhere were you never see people who are not like you (say, black, white, asian), then people who look different become a whole lot more scary just because you're unfamiliar with them. That's before anything else is even taken into consideration.

Is it just me, or is that kid looking straight down her top?

I didn't notice there was a kid in the picture. He must have a better view than we do. Yes, we are all looking down her top, including the kid.

Do you want to see the pictures I have on my camera?
No... I mean, sure! >_> <_< >_> ... >_> >_> >_> >_> >_> >_> >_> >_> >_>

Then I think we're still on topic.