nhk9
Aug 30, 2006, 14:39
I recently watched a documentary on NHK about the Pacific War. Then I came to this club on youtube, a "discussion" about "Anti-Japanese sentiments in China". http://youtube.com/watch?v=xLRRI3kn3vo
Both shows contained guests from different academic backgrounds, and with one "Chinese" guest person who is supposedly going to represent China's point of view. What I find amazing is that in NHK's show, the Japanese and Chinese experts both tried to find a solution towards the friction between the two countries, in a harmonious way. However, in FUJI TV's show, it was more like war than anything else -- you've got several Japanese experts, appearing to be very right-leaning attacking the Chinese expert, and then the Chinese expert of course tried to defend his position in a ready-to-fight stance. Then, you've got the same rhetoric flying back and forth about textbooks etc. They couldn't come to a conclusion, but one thing for certain is that FUJITV managed to get their right-leaning message across.
The worst thing about the FUJITV show was that one of the announcers referred to the killings at Nanking to be "Nanking Incident", and that she said the Chinese "make it sound like Nanking Massacre" ((中国政府が南京事件を）南京大虐殺というようにして)
Of course there's still debate about the names of certain events, but it seems like to me that the TV station is making a stance already before the so-called experts even have a chance to discuss (but that's not to say that the discussion brought up anything new or creative anyway)
Both shows contained guests from different academic backgrounds, and with one "Chinese" guest person who is supposedly going to represent China's point of view. What I find amazing is that in NHK's show, the Japanese and Chinese experts both tried to find a solution towards the friction between the two countries, in a harmonious way. However, in FUJI TV's show, it was more like war than anything else -- you've got several Japanese experts, appearing to be very right-leaning attacking the Chinese expert, and then the Chinese expert of course tried to defend his position in a ready-to-fight stance. Then, you've got the same rhetoric flying back and forth about textbooks etc. They couldn't come to a conclusion, but one thing for certain is that FUJITV managed to get their right-leaning message across.
The worst thing about the FUJITV show was that one of the announcers referred to the killings at Nanking to be "Nanking Incident", and that she said the Chinese "make it sound like Nanking Massacre" ((中国政府が南京事件を）南京大虐殺というようにして)
Of course there's still debate about the names of certain events, but it seems like to me that the TV station is making a stance already before the so-called experts even have a chance to discuss (but that's not to say that the discussion brought up anything new or creative anyway)