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Ai Weiwei is probably loving his latest controversy which puts him back at the top of the news. The government is revoking his business license for Fake Cultural Development Ltd. Move already! He seems to enjoy the battles just as much as he loves the publicity. Perhaps the battles are becoming his art. (WSJ – Ai Weiwei “Fake” Closure)
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It’s October and most of Asia is gearing up for the Moon Festival. To celebrate the holiday, ultra-nationlists are kicking off the season the only way they can: with Anti-Japanese moon cakes. Stamped across are the phrases: “Kill Japanese,” “Eat Japanese,” “Kick out Japanese,” and “Hate Japanese.” What’s with all the hostility? The two countries have unsettled territorial disputes over rocks–I mean–islands called Senkaku or Diaoyu depending on where you stand on the issue. It’s reopening old wounds from the past from Japan’s colonization of the country. Tensions boiled over when the Japanese Government nationalized their purchase of the islands. Demonstrations, riots, and protests raged across the Middle Kingdom. People driving Japanese cars were yanked from their vehicles and beaten by irate pedestrians. Protestors damaged shops and stores for Japanese brands and went so far as to deface a Samsung store without realizing that the company was South Korean. That scraps the azuki-filled surface of the backstory behind those cakes. One question though, is the “Little Japan” Chinese characters up above some sort of derogatory term that I don’t know about?
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Chinese American protestors took to the streets to protest the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in Asia. Nothing exceptional that hasn’t been reported before, but squint your eyes and you can see a sign reading, “GTFO JAPS.” Brilliant way to win people over to your cause.
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Japanese folks, maybe it’s not a good time to go to China. (LA Times – Japanese in China)
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Ridiculous, but effective. (dailymailuk – quadruplets)
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