(Excerpt from the NY TIMES) TOKYO, Nov. 14 - A young Japanese woman in the comic book "Hating the Korean Wave" exclaims, "It's not an exaggeration to say that Japan built the South Korea of today!" In another passage the book states that "there is nothing at all in Korean culture to be proud of."
In another comic book, "Introduction to China," which portrays the Chinese as a depraved people obsessed with cannibalism, a woman of Japanese origin says: "Take the China of today, its principles, thought, literature, art, science, institutions. There's nothing attractive."
Interesting. Not sure what to say about this yet, because still I personally have not witnessed any hostility between Koreans and Japanese. Maybe I don't get out enough. Or maybe I don't speak Japanese or Korean!
Here is another interesting, humorous look at the problem: http://toron.pepper.jp/jp/syndrome/nation/fuckj.html
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