No anti-Japanese

Lately many anti-Japanese demonstrations are going on in China. Like last Saturday 10000 Chinese protesters marched through Beijing's streets, and Japanese embassy was attacked by some angry Chinese. It's sad that such things are still happening, my point on this issue is I'm not supporting on anti-Japanese movement at all, and I think that's stupid.

Yes, there's a war between China and Japan 60 years ago. 60 years, that's long time ago, get over it and move on. Some Chinese think that Japan owes China an apology and it's wrong that Japanese history books don't talk about the war. Yeah it's a shame that Japanese government doesn't have the courage to face the history, but 60 later some Chinese still hate Japan and Japanese because of the war, well that's way too much. And let's take a look at Tibet. Do Chinese history books ever mention the invasion of Tibet and Free Tibet movement? Do Chinese government ever talks about what happened in Tibet fifty years ago? Never ever. Chinese history books are not that objective on many issues themselves, what's point of blaming others?

And some Chinese hate Japanese people and Japanese products which seem to be more ridiculous to me. Ordinary people are innocent, and Japanese companies have nothing to do with the war. And as for Japan's bid for the Security Council seat, many countries want to be stronger and have big rolls in international society, I think that's quite understandable. If there's a good relationship between China and Japan, even Japan becomes the most powerful nation in the world, China has nothing to be afraid of.

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Last week I travelled to Darjeeling, a hill station in northern India. I met two Japanese girl there and I like them very much. The first girl is Maiko, and two things surprised me. First, she's traveling alone-- I've met many Japanese guys who're travelling alone, but she's the first sole Japanese female traveller I met. And second, she speaks very good English. Usually, Japanese don't speak good English, and their accent is quite strong. Maiko has been travelling seven months now, and for her this trip is not just about visiting other countries, but also learning different cuisines. So far, she's been to Philippine learning how to cook Philippine food,and then in a small village of Nepal learning how to cook Nepalis food, now five months in India learning how to cook Indian food. She said she has one more country to go, and after that she'll go back to Japan and open her own restaurant. I like her passion for food and it's nice to have a goal in your life. After I said goodbye to Maiko, I met another Japanese girl Rika, she's also travelling alone, but her English is not good. She knows probably around 150 English words, but she's not able to put the words into proper sentences. So when we talked, it was always very short, and sometimes just word by word. But even like that, I still enjoy her company very much. We managed to communicate well, and sometimes when we couldn't understand each other, we wrote down what we wanted to say, as Japanese use some Chinese characters, wring is another good way to communicate with Japanese people. Even though like many Japanese travellers, Rika's English is quite bad, she's been travelling around five countries without any problem, and she'll head to Nepal and Myanmar after India. I admire the courage of Japanese travellers, you'll see them everywhere. And they seem to be quite tough, and able to deal with hard conditions quite well. Probably because of language barrier, sometimes they look very quiet, but even don't say a word to others, they still seem to enjoy travelling very much.