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Anti-Japanese banner in Lijiang, Yunnan 2013. The Chinese reads "Japanese people not allowed to enter, disobey at your own risk." Modern anti-Japanese sentiment in China is frequently rooted in nationalist or historical conflicts, for example, it is rooted in the atrocities and the war crimes which Imperial Japan committed in China during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Boxer Rebellion (Eight ...
Poster outside of a restaurant in Guangzhou, China. Anti-Japanese sentiment is felt very strongly in China and distrust, hostility and negative feelings towards Japan and the Japanese people and culture is widespread in China. Anti-Japanese sentiment is a phenomenon that mostly dates back to modern times (since 1868).
Communism was enumerated among the Western dangerous ideas. However, during the invasion of China, Japanese propaganda to the United States played on American anti-communism to win support. [191] It [clarification needed] was also offered to the Japanese people as a way of forging a bulwark against communism. [163]
The education of Japanese captives by the Eighth Route Army began in 1938. In November 1940 the Peasants' and Workers' School was established. It reeducated Japanese POWs who afterward became involved in propaganda. [1] The first Japanese to join the Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War was Maeda Mitsushige. [7]
On 19 August, Vice Foreign Minister Ken'ichirō Sasae expressed that the protests made by China are "unacceptable" and voiced regret over anti-Japanese protests in China. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] On 20 August, the 10 Japanese activists who landed on the disputed islands were prosecuted for law-breaking and put under trial by the Okinawan police.
Anti-Japanese sentiment in China stems from bitter memories of the neighbour's World War Two aggression, leading some to celebrate the targeting of its citizens in the attack.
The Republic of China produced propaganda against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to booster morale and bolden resistance to the invasion. [3] [page needed] During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Nationalists had mobile projectionists travel in rural China to play anti-Japanese propaganda films.
While the English word usually has a pejorative connotation, the Chinese word xuānchuán (宣传 "propaganda; publicity", composed of xuan 宣 "declare; proclaim; announce" and chuan 傳 or 传 "pass; hand down; impart; teach; spread; infect; be contagious" [5]) The term can have either a neutral connotation in official government contexts or a pejorative one in informal contexts.