Sidney Raphael
2007-09-24 08:48:31
What I understand about Fukuda is that he is much friendlier to China than any of his imediate predecessors. Japanese people were beginning to work up a good hate to the Chinese because of 1) anti-Japan/Nanjing riots 2) contaminated Chinese food in the Japanese market and 3) Chinese air pollution wafting over Japan. Fukuda will try to run counter to this trend, which may spill over into the public arena, where anger boils below the surface.
