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boycotting japanese goods in china
November 6th, 2003
as i dug a little deeper on the anti-japanese incident, i realize i used the wrong word while tranlating that blog entry. it was not a parade; it was a demonstration and a protest against the japanese. during a banquet in the foreign language department of Xi Bei University on Oct. 30th, a japanese teacher and three japanese exchange students put on sexually suggestive costumes danced wildly while shouting “this is you chinese; you dirty chinese” in japanese. my description of what happened is translated from this message board post. many online news sources also reported the incident and regarded the dance as insulting and obscene. as the description of the performance spread around the school, students requested an apology from the japanese. when the university officials were unable to provide one, they demonstrated and protected in and out of the school. as reported, more than a thousand chinese students participated in the demonstration. Here are some pictures of the demonstrations.
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