Japanese team helps earthquake victims in China
An elite team of Japanese search and rescue workers has arrived in China to help out. Here’s a video news report showing some scenes of the team at work:
The Yomiuri Shinbun explains why China allowed the Japanese team to take part in the rescue efforts:
The main reason behind China’s apparently belated acceptance of Japan’s offer to send emergency relief workers to an area hit by Monday’s powerful earthquake seems to be an acknowledgement by Beijing of this country’s accumulated experience in such matters.
Though the Japanese government presented the offer to Beijing soon after the earthquake occurred Monday, the Chinese government did not immediately take up the offer. On Thursday, however, Beijing unexpectedly chose Japan as the first country from which to accept foreign rescue teams.
Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera said: “Japan has abundant experience in dealing with natural disasters. [A recent improvement in] Japan-China relations also is a factor.”
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This is great. I support this kind of friendship between Japan and China.
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I agree. Hope it’s not too late to actually save someone.
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I agree hopefully it will help the relations a bit.
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this is really nice. Seeing japan and china get warmer relations. This is probably a few in centuries hehe ever since that letter sent by japan to the Sui emperor thousands of years ago things got rowdy between the two. Anyway hope relations improve.
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that is a good thing to Japan. I hope many people in China realize how great and wonderful is Japan, the Japanese people and culture too.
There are a lot things about Japan that the majority of Chinese do not know because of Chinese’s goverment restrictions around the country. If those people were not brainwashed by their corrupt government, Japan and China could get along with each other. There are a lot of good things in Japan that many Chinese do not know, and I would like they know better Japan rather than creating hatred feelings towards the Japanese.
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