日本人怎么看待中国？ [美国媒体]

What do the Japanese think about China?

日本人怎么看待中国？



Karen Ma, Born in China, raised in Hong Kong and Japan, been in Beijing 6 plus years. Formerly a Mandarin teacher.
Answered Sep 7, 2015

Karen Ma，生在中国，长在香港和日本，在北京6年多。以前是个普通话老师。
2015-9-7日回答

In general, Japanese are not so interested in China, except some young people have come to China for better job opportunities.  When looking to travel, they prefer to go to Hawaii, Thailand or Guam.  Next on the list are Europe or America.

一般来说，除了一些为了更好的工作机会而来中国的年轻人之外，日本人对中国并不怎么感兴趣。当想要旅行的时候，他们更倾向于夏威夷、泰国或者关岛。然后是欧洲或美国。

In any case, some of the main points from that answer are...
Japanese people feel:
1) it's very good for the Japanese economy that so many Chinese have come to Japan;
2) they're very surprised that the Chinese actually like Japanese culture and people, which is a good thing;
3) they feel the Chinese are very competitive and a bit impatient；
4) they feel Chinese tend to be very loud and noisy;
5) they're amazed how many things they buy when they're here, it's crazy;
6) they don't know why many Chinese don't seem to want to follow rules.  And they say, "why is it that they think money can buy everything, including priviledges?" (This is in response to some Chinese who arrived at a certain fancy restaurant dressed in T-shirts and sandals, and when the restaurant staff tried to turn them away, some of the tourists waved their money in the air, and expected that they would be invited in. Of course they weren't.  In Japan, a rule is a rule.)
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无论如何，这个答案的一些主要观点是...
日本人感觉：
1）如此多的中国人来日对日本的经济是有好处的；
2）他们很惊讶中国人实际上是喜欢日本文化和日本人的，这是一件好事。
3）他们感觉中国人是非常好胜的，并且有点缺少耐心；
4）他们感觉中国人往往很大声和吵闹；
5）他们震惊于中国在这里买了如此多的东西，这太疯狂了；
6）他们不知道为什么很多中国人似乎不想遵守规则。他们说：“为什么他们觉得钱可以买到一切，包括特权？”（这可能是因为一些中国人穿着T恤和凉鞋来到一家高档餐厅，当服务员设法阻止他们进入的时候，一些游客在空中挥舞着他们的钱，觉得这样可以让自己被请入。当然他们不会的。在日本，规则就是规则。）

Martin Basinger, lives in Japan
Answered Jan 18, 2016

Martin Basinger，生活在日本
2016-1-18日回答

I think the Japanese try to think of China as a inferior country to Japan because they don't understand moral relativism. They don't think of the differences between Japan and China as mere differences of culture, but always in a comparative way (and of course, Japan will always win the comparison).

我觉得日本人把中国看多一个比日本劣等的国家，因为他们不理解道德相对论。日本人并不仅仅以文化差异来看待中日之间的不同，更多的是通过对比的方式（当然，日本总是赢得对比）。

For example, Japanese people think of Chinese food as "oily", but they don't accept it as "just different", they think "oily isn't Japanese, so oily is bad".

举个栗子，日本人人物中餐太“油腻”了，但他们不承认这“仅仅是不同”，而是认为“日本的不油腻，所以油腻的不好”。

Or, they think of Chinese people as "loud", and they are brainwashed to think that Japanese people "can't be loud" - and therefore they think of Chinese people being loud not as simply different, but "worse". And I think Europeans and Americans can tell you about Japanese people being loud on their own part - just go to any European sightseeing spot and wait for the group of Japanese tourists making a lot of noise, just like the Chinese.

或者，他们认为中国人是“大声”的，而且被洗脑认为日本人“不大声”的 - 因此他们认为中国人的大声不是简单的不同，而是更“糟糕”。我认为欧洲人和美国人会告诉你日本人在他们那里也很大声 - 只要去任何一个欧洲旅游景点，然后等待日本旅游团体制造很多的噪声就行了，就像中国人一样。

Japanese people are brainwashed by their education system that only Japan is a first world country in Asia, and all the other countries in Asia are basically primitive and underdeveloped. But they forget how similar Japan and China are, because Japan was a third-world country full of primitives as well until the Western world forced them to adapt to their lifestyle and gave them a lot of potential to become wealthy. Japan would never have risen above 3rd world status on their, like China has managed to do over the last 20 years.

日本人被自己的教育系统洗脑，认为在亚洲只有日本是第一世界国家，亚洲所有的其他国家基本上原始和未开发的。但他们忘了中日是多么的相似，直到西方世界强迫他们适应西方的生活方式，给他们很多变得富有的潜力之前，日本都是一个原始的第三世界国家。日本永远不会像中国过去20年所做的那样，提升自己在第三世界的地位。

Japanese people are jealous of China's rise, and this expresses itself in them hating or ridiculing China.

日本人嫉妒中国的崛起，从他们对中国的憎恨与嘲笑就能表现出来。

Mizumoto Kovia (水本 こびあ), Designer
Updated Nov 15

Mizumoto Kovia (水本 こびあ)，设计师
11-15日更新

China is a country of romantic longing for me.
I’m around forties now, I was watching Chinese romantic programs frequently on television from I was small.
There was a "Godaigo" (the Japanese rock band), and they were singing a song of "西游记ーMagic monkey " .I felt “It’s very cool”.youtube here:Monkey Magic

对我来说，中国是一个充满浪漫情怀的国度。
我现在四十多岁了，我从小就经常在电视上观看中国的浪漫节目。
曾经有一个“后醍醐天皇”（日本摇滚乐队），他们唱一首叫“西游记ーMagic monkey”的歌。我感到“它很酷”。  c



Also, I remember that the TV program of “Silk Road” did with NHK and it was a little boom in 80’s Japanese society.
When I got a little bigger, I learned "汉诗ーChinese poetry" at school. I was impressed by the incomparable beauty of that character world what never experienced.
Even now I am proud that "汉字ーKanji" are the most beautiful character in the world!!
Then I wached many wonderful Chinese films. I became a fan of Chinese movies.

另外，我记得NHK的电视节目“丝绸之路”，它是80年代日本社会的一个小高潮。
等我长大一点后，我在学校学习了“汉诗ーChinese poetry”。我被字符世界无与伦比的美所惊艳，这从未有过。
迄今我仍然为“汉字ーKanji”是世界上最美丽的字符而骄傲！！
然后我看了很多精彩的中国电影。我成为了中国电影的粉丝。



“Last emperor” by Bernardo Bertolucci,成龙-Jackie Chan, 张 芸谋-Zhang Yimou and 王家卫- Wong Kar Wai movies were all very excellent.(also I figured out such Chinese directors infuluence from the Japanese culture like a K -Pop,I noticed that integrating Japanese influence at a much higher level.)
A Chinese friend of mine was also made at a hotel in Tokyo at a part-time job.we played a parody of politicians of each other, played a jokes at work, went to a hospital when he became sick, we were good friends.

Bernardo Bertolucci, 成龙, 张芸谋和王家卫的电影“末代皇帝”也是非常优秀的。（另外我还发现，像K-Pop这样的日本文化对中国导演的影响，我注意到这把日本的影响力提升到一个更高的水平。）
我的一个中国朋友也在东京的一家酒店做兼职。我们对彼此的政客进行了拙劣的模仿，在工作中开玩笑，当他生病了一起去医院，我们是好朋友。

Compared with Korean culture, Korean culture is much modern,sharp and Westernize, Chinese culture has traditional,relaxed sweetness and sentimental feeling for me.
Even above the newspaper and this Quora, there are various political problems between China and Japan, but as an individual one has a sense of affinity and respect.
It is good to have mutual understanding beyond the relationship that reflects the Cold War structure and invisible pressure of Western country,as there are things that are not in each other.

对比韩国文化，韩国文化非常的现代、尖锐和西方化，中国文化对我来说有着传统、恬淡和多情的感觉。
中日即使在报纸和Quora尚也有各种各样的政治问题，但作为一个个体有一种亲近感和尊重感。
在反映了冷战结构和西方不可见的压力之外，有相互理解是好的，毕竟有些东西互不相容。

Chris Lowry, Lived in Japan from starting high school until finishing an LDS mission
Answered Aug 15, 2016

Chris Lowry，从高中开始生活在日本，直到完成一个LDS任务。
2016-8-15日回答

I would split my answer into two sections:
What an average Japanese person thinks about Chinese people/culture
and
What an average Japanese person thinks about the nation-state, the People’s Republic of China.

我会把我的回答分成两部分：
一个普通日本人对中国人/文化的看法
和
一个普通日本人对民族国家--中华人民共和国的看法。

Others have already talked about some cultural items that Japanese immediately associate with China, much as one would think of hamburgers or non-metric measuring when thinking about the US. This is the sort of thing that most people think about, the small details of cultural differences, when thinking about a foreign culture.

其他人已经讨论了日本人提到中国时直接想到的一些文化项目，就像人们提到美国就想到的汉堡波和非公制计量一样。当考虑到外国文化时，大多数人想到的是文化差异的一些微小细节。

For a deeper look at attitudes toward people and culture, we have also seen some aspects such as mistrust of Chinese people, whether from anti-Japanese riots, criminals in Japan, and a long history of fraudulent Chinese exports. I especially remember the shipments of used chopsticks and pot-stickers filled with minced cardboard rather than meat. These news stories and events have lent to a general distrust of Chinese people, I think.

为了更深入地了解人们对人类和文化的态度，我们也看到了一些方面，比如对中国人的不信任，无论是来自抗日的暴动，还是在日本罪犯，以及中国长期的欺骗性出口。我尤其记得那些用过的筷子和用碎纸而不是用肉做的饺子。这些新闻故事和事件导致了对中国人的普遍不信任。

Even deeper, one must remember that Chinese people are not Japanese people. As such, there will be some vague concept that the Chinese are inferior to Japanese people, mostly within the subconscious. I would refer you to some videos of Japanese people being interviewed on foreigners, available on youtube (especially the That Japanese Man Yuta channel). [As a side note, this tendency is not solely Japanese. We see this in pretty much every society, as a manifestation of the “us vs. them” mentality that is at the heart of societal and cultural distinctions.]

更深入一些，必须记住中国人不是日本人。 因此在潜意识内，会有一些隐藏的观念，认为中国人比日本人劣等。我向你们介绍一些日本人接受外国人采访的视频，可以在油土鳖上观看。[作为一个边注，并不是只有日本人才有这种倾向。作为社会和文化差异的核心“我们与他们”心态的体现，我们在很多社会中都可以看到这一点，]

When it comes to the People’s Republic of China, the Japanese will have some negativity due to the Senkaku Islands, tensions over WWII and PM visits to the Yasukuni Shrine (which houses the remains of some war criminals), and remnants of colonial attitudes from the Sino-Japanese Wars.

说到中华人民共和国，日本人会因为钓鱼岛、二战期间的紧张局势和首相参拜靖国神社（存放战犯遗骸的地方）而有一些消极情绪，以及中日战争遗留下来的殖民主义态度。

Having said all of this, most Japanese people, when asked, will not have any conscious or overt negative thoughts about Chinese people, culture, or (to a lesser extent) politics. They are just people, and to some extent, they are united East Asian peoples against the pressures of the West. I definitely wouldn’t worry about my safety were I a Chinese person in Japan, and would certainly be able to establish a group of friends. I hope this helps, and if you need any more clarification, let me know!

说了这么多，当被问及的时候，大多数日本人不会对中国人、文化或政治有任何的有意的或明显的负面思想。他们仅仅是人，在某种程度上，他们是对抗西方压力的团结的东亚人。作为在日中国人我绝对不会担心自己的安全，也肯定可以交到很多的朋友。我希望这有所帮助，请联系我如果你需要更多的说明。

David A. LaSpina, lives in Japan
Answered Sep 8, 2015

David A. LaSpina，生活在日本
2015-9-8日回答

What does a group of people think about another group of people? Answer: everything! 

一群人如何看待另一群人？答案：什么都有！

Some Japanese don't think much of China (mainly right-wingers).
Some Japanese think China is a powder-keg and will self-destruct or at least fall into civil war (some Japanese have been thinking this for many decades).
Some Japanese like China but worry about the government of China.
Some Japanese love Chinese history and have general positive feelings about the country.
Some Japanese love kung-fu films and think everyone in China is secretly a martial arts master.

And on and on. You will find as many opinions as there are people. 

一些日本人不太看重中国（主要是右翼）。
一些日本人认为中国是一个火药桶，它会自我毁灭，或者至少会陷入内战（一些日本人已经这样认为几十年了）。
一些日本人喜欢中国，但是担忧中国政府。
一些日本人热爱中国历史，对中国有着普遍的积极感情。
一些日本人喜欢功夫电影，认为中国人都是秘密的功夫大师。

以及等等等等。。。有多少人你就能找到多少种观点。

Based on all the Japanese I have talked to in my ten years in country and all I've seen and read, I might offer a general answer is:
Japanese like China and the Chinese people in general (though they think they are often rude/loud/selfish), but aren't so happy about the Chinese government and wish they would stop bringing up WW2 so often* (and suspect the reason they do bring it up so often has more to do with distracting the public from domestic problems than anything else). They worry about pollution from China and complain endlessly about Chinese sand (Asian Dust). They love Chinese food but think it's too oily. They worry about industry jobs leaving this country for that one. They admire traditional Chinese wisdom and everyone knows someone who swears Chinese medicine is much better than Western medicine. They think the language is crazy difficult. 

基于我十年在这个国家的所见所读，以及所有与我讨论过的日本人，我可以给出一个一般性的答案：
通常日本人喜欢中国和中国人（尽管他们认为中国人经常是粗鲁/大声/自私的），但对中国政府却不怎么喜欢，并希望他们停止如此频繁的提及二战（猜测他们如此频繁提及的原因是想将公众的注意力从国内问题转移到其他地方）。无休止的抱怨中国的沙尘（亚洲粉尘）。他们热爱中餐但觉得他们太油腻了。他们担心工作机会流失。他们钦佩中国的传统智慧，而且每个人都认识一个坚称中医比西医强的多的人。他们觉得中国的语言难以置信的难。

Now note, these are just my ideas as I sum up everything I've heard, read, seen, etc, in my time here. I do not claim to speak for the Japanese themselves nor could I, since (as I mentioned above) everyone has a different opinion and there is no collective single viewpoint. 

现在请注意，这些只是我总结在这里所听所读所见等等得出的想法。我不是代表日本人讲话，也不能。既然每个人都有不同的观点（就像我上面说的），那末单独统一的单一观点是不存在的。