Japan: Speaking of China

As we noted during our discussions for the video presentation, China is often mentioned in all our media sources. For Japan, it is probably due in part to the geographic and politically significant proximity that China often appears in the news. However, as always, the Yomiuri Daily has reported on a foreign affairs event involving the Japanese, or in the case of the following article, the Chinese President's up-coming visit to Japan. The article even mentions the 2,000 year history between the two countries. Of course, it does also briefly list the controversial issues that the two are playing over.

The article starts out with Chinese President Hu's statement to use the visit to its full potential, followed by a brief mention of the previous president's controversial visit 10 years before. Then after an statement on the 2000 years of friendly relations between the two, the article lists issues that the two nation's have been working together on such as the investigations over frozen dumplings manufactured in China that gave a gave a number of people in Japan food poisoning. This is, on the other hand, followed by a second list detailing some topics of disagreement such as oil rights, Tibet, the Olympics...etc. It ends with the less controversial request by the Japanese for the lease of a Panda to the Ueno Zoo and Hu's assurance that they understand the Japanese people and their Prime Minister Fukuda have this strong wish.