China Boom

China Boom
2007.01.05 20:19

Geographically speaking, China is very close to Japan. One time in history Japan experienced a Mongolian Invasion twice in 1274 and 1281. At that time China was under Mongolian control. This was the first for Japan to be invaded by a foreign country. Sino-Japan War took place in 1895, after that lots of Japanese people including army went to China, and in 1937 Japan started a lengthy war with China. So we must admit the relationship between China and Japan in modern times is far from a friendly one.
I've never been there except for visiting Hong-Kong three times, Hong-Kong under British sovereign. Part of the reasons I've never visited there was definitely a difference in political system. But I guess those unhappy relations in the recent hisory also definetely relates to the situation we get rid of China from our lists of destination.
It was two or three years ago abruptly China gathered the interests of Japanese people because of its miraculous economic growth +10% up every year. But because of the outbreak of bird flu and new type pneumonia then we had to forget our interest for a moment.
Now many reporters started visiting China and introduced a lot of things there. Many times the scene of Bund -Shanghai has been introduced. As far as I saw it the prosperity in Shanghai already surpassed that in Tokyo. Tokyo has been already obsolete.