How long had you been learning Japanese when you passed JLPT N3/N2/N1? How many hours had you spent on Japanese learning at that time?What's your suggestions for an n00b?Thanks!

The complex nature of Sino-Japanese relationship Part 8 6.Individual Chinese’s feeling toward Japan are diverse,complex,changing,sometimes even conflicting and absurd. I recommend you to visit this Instagram account:@eyesonchinaproject • Instagram photos and videos Within 5 minutes,you will understand how diverse China is.I think you may agree that each individual Chinese has his or her own opinion on Japan,which is based on his or her education,hobbies,experience,bias and so on. When a Chinese people told you that he or she doesn’t like Japan,it’s not necessarily mean that he or she dislike everything from and about Japan.Maybe he or she is a fun of Japanese porn,cartoon,food or cars. Chinese state media Huanqiu published a report about an Chinese anti-Japan activist [16] .He once landed on the Japan controlled Diaoyu/Senkaku islands.He said: Although I try to purchase Chinese goods only,I have to buy Japanese cameras.There is no other choice. Japanese people is very polite,conscientious,punctual and neat. The Diaoyu dispute is another issue.We can not mix them together. As I already discussed,many Chinese people’s attitude toward Japan can be affected by different national policies,cultural and geopolitical events. After Japanese government purchased the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in September 2012,widespread anti-Japan demonstrations took place in China [17] . Some innocent Chinese were hurt during these protest,just because they had or sold Japanese goods. Cai Yang,a 21-year-old protestor in Xi’an,broke a Japanese car owner’s skull (both of them were Chinese)and was sentenced to 10 years in jail.The car owner was paralyzed forever due to the injury.A Toyota dealership was sabotaged by angry protestors despite the owner beg them on his knees [18] . Concluding Remarks The meaning of “China don’t like Japan” is blurry. China is a diverse country with some 1.4 billion people.Japan is a big country with rich historical legacy, advanced technology and distinctive culture.Again,each individual Chinese has his or her own opinion on Japan,which is based on his or her education,hobbies,experience,bias and so on.

The complex nature of Sino-Japanese relationship Part 7 6.Individual Chinese’s feeling toward Japan are diverse,complex,changing,sometimes even conflicting and absurd. I recommend you to visit this Instagram account:@eyesonchinaproject. Within 5 minutes,you will understand how diverse China is.I think you may agree that each individual Chinese has his or her own opinion on Japan,which is based on his or her education,hobbies,experience,bias and so on. When a Chinese people told you that he or she doesn’t like Japan,it’s not necessarily mean that he or she dislike everything from and about Japan.Maybe he or she is a fun of Japanese porn,cartoon,food or cars. Chinese state media Huanqiu published a report about an Chinese anti-Japan activist [16] .He once landed on the Japan controlled Diaoyu/Senkaku islands.He said: Although I try to purchase Chinese goods only,I have to buy Japanese cameras.There is no other choice. Japanese people is very polite,conscientious,punctual and neat. The Diaoyu dispute is another issue.We can not mix them together. As I already discussed,many Chinese people’s attitude toward Japan can be affected by different national policies,cultural and geopolitical events. After Japanese government purchased the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in September 2012,widespread anti-Japan demonstrations took place in China [17] . Some innocent Chinese were hurt during these protest,just because they had or sold Japanese goods. Cai Yang,a 21-year-old protestor in Xi’an,broke a Japanese car owner’s skull (both of them were Chinese)and was sentenced to 10 years in jail.The car owner was paralyzed forever due to the injury.A Toyota dealership was sabotaged by angry protestors despite the owner beg them on his knees [18] .

The complex nature of Sino-Japanese relationship Part 6 4. In the 21st century,Japanese comics,cartoon,food and porn are popular in China.Japan is a popular destination for Chinese visitors. From 1980s on,Many Chinese people became funs of such Japanese comics and cartoon as Doraemon,One Piece,Spirited Away,Dragon Ball and Detective Conan. The popularity of Japanese comics and cartoon can also be proved by the web traffic data(the amount of visitors) of the bilibili.com, which is a video-sharing website.According to Alexa Internet,a web traffic data provider,bilibili ranked 26th in China and is the second most popular Chinese video-sharing website [14] .The Japanese comics,cartoon and related contents are important part of this website. Some Chinese really like eating Sushi and other Japanese food.You can find many Japanese restaurants in Chinese cities. Japanese porn is extremely popular in China,especially among younger generations.From my personal experience,I think more than 60% male young Chinese have watched Japanese porn at least once. According to Japan National Tourism Organization,some 5 million Chinese tourists visited Japan in 2015,representing 25% of all foreign tourists(1st).

The complex nature of Sino-Japanese relationship Part 4 China and Japan were very close in the 1980s.This honeymoon ended in the first half of the 1990s when anti-Japan education campaign was launched. 1976 marked the end of ten-year-long devastating and chaotic Cultural Revolution [6] .Ironically,most Chinese people experienced a cultural vacuum during this revolution.A Chinese writer A Cheng recalled that many books were banned and he could only find these authors’ book in the local bookstore:Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels,Vladimir Lenin,Joseph Stalin,Mao Zedong and Lu Xun.The amount and themes of movies during that period was very limited. Many Japanese movies and TV series were imported into China in the early 1980s and became extremely popular immediately.Japanese movies and TV series were new to Chinese audience eyes.Ken Takakura,Tomokazu Miura,Momoe Yamaguchi became household names in China. Besides entertainment and cultural products,Japan also provided China with tremendous economic aids and technological supports in the 1980s. According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan [8] ,The aid program Official Development Assistance (ODA) to China began in 1979 and from that time to the present, approximately 3.3164 trillion yen(32.5 billion USD) in loan aid (yen loans), 157.2 billion yen(1.5 billion USD) in grant aid, and 181.7 billion yen(1.7 billion USD) in technical cooperation have been implemented. The turning point was the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 [9] .Protestors,most of whom college students,were unhappy with the widespread corruption in the ruling Communist Party of China and wanted a new government.The protest was crushed in 4th of June when Chinese soldiers opened fire against protestors. As a result,Chinese government was sanctioned by many countries.(Japan was the first country to resume its aid program) Five days after the Tiananmen incident,then Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said this to high-ranking military officers [10] [11] :”I told foreigners that the biggest mistake we made in the last ten years was education.I’m mainly talking about political education.”Mr. Deng believed that the partial reason of tens of thousands of students took to the street was a lack of political education. Political education in China is mainly about the Communist Party’s achievements and ideological theories. Deng Xiaoping’s logic is this: if young Chinese know more about Communist Party’s achievements and ideological theories,they tend to become more patriotic and less rebellious.

The complex nature of Sino-Japanese relationship Part 3 Japan and China fought two wars in the last 150 years. Japan and China were both traditional and almost closed country in the 1850s.Both of them launched reforms in the 1860s. In Japanese history,the Meiji Restoration(1868-1912) was a period of political,social,economic and militarily reforms.This period saw Japan change from being a feudal society to having a market economy and was responsible for the emergence of Japan as a modern country in the early twentieth century [3] . In China,Qing dynasty was in its final days when the Self-Strengthening Movement(1861 – 1895) was launched.This movement was mainly focus on industrial,militarily,and educational reforms.And the defeat of China in the First Sino-Japanese War marked the total failure of this movement. The First Sino-Japanese War [4] (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought primarily over control of Korea,which was a vassal state of Qing Empire of China.And China suffered a humiliating defeat.The Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed on 17 April 1895. The Qing Empire recognized the total independence of Korea and ceded the Liaodong Peninsula, Taiwan and Penghu Islands to Japan "in perpetuity". In Chinese history textbooks,the Treaty of Shimonoseki was described as unequal treaty.I believe that many educated Chinese know the existence of this war. The Second Sino-Japanese War(July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945),known as Anti-Japan War in China,is far more famous in China than the first one.Chinese people suffered a lot during this war. Many Chinese TV series depict this war. Japanese army and people in these TV series often seemed foolish,weak or brutal.Shi Zhongpeng often act as a Japanese solider.He said that his secret was acting as creepy as possible [5] .Actually,Japanese army was better trained and equipped than Chinese army. Some Chinese people failed in distinguishing current Japan and the World War Two Japan.This maybe the reason why some Chinese dislike Japan.

The complex nature of Sino-Japanese relationship Part 1 The real situation is complicated. Several books can be written on this issue(Sino-Japanese relationship). First,we don’t have a comprehensive statistics on this issue.i.e.We don’t know the exact number of Chinese people who don’t like Japan and their degree of dislike.I don’t think polls can give us a whole picture. Second,many existing answers overgeneralised this issue by just telling their own stories or listing historical facts. Third,you can find 100 reasons why some Chinese people don’t like Japan.But I can immediately give you 200 reasons why some Chinese people like Japan.