久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

  Home>News Center>Life
         
 

China's media fairer toward Japan
By RALPH JENNINGS (japantimes)
Updated: 2005-11-09 08:58

When Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine last month, two local Beijing newspapers reported his explanation of the visit alongside the Chinese government's accusation that he had hurt China's feelings by honoring war criminals enshrined there.

After Sino-Japanese talks last month on natural gas exploration in a contested area of the East China Sea, the official Xinhua News Agency covered the basics without editorializing on the outcome or on either side's position. It said both sides discussed joint exploration.

In September, state-run China Central TV aired an interview with a Dalian-based Japan External Trade Organization official talking about how Japanese businesses could succeed in China.

Recent breaking news stories about Japan's internal politics, including the Oct. 31 Cabinet reshuffle, generally cover bare basics without China's spin. Some local papers republish Japanese press reports.

"On Sino-Japanese relations, we can see some changes toward being more restrained, more analytical and less emotional," said Liang Yunxiang, an associate professor in international relations at Peking University.

This approach to China's Japan coverage, different from a year ago when Chinese media omitted Japan's perspectives or ran only negative Japanese domestic news, reflects a half-year-old government directive to sober Chinese citizens on the country's most inflammatory bilateral relationship as well as a maturity of Chinese journalism, experts said.

Since tens of thousands of Chinese demonstrated against Japan in cities around China in April, causing damage to Japanese diplomatic property in Beijing and Shanghai, government leaders have retooled their Japan-related media strategy to calm the public, said Jiang Wenran, acting director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta in Canada.

"The total directive from the top is to say, 'Hold on, don't let things get out of hand,' " Jiang said. "The directive seems to be more like, 'You will report accurately' (without) unnecessary hostility that leads to instability."

China thought sober coverage of Koizumi's Oct. 17 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine could sway public opinion outside China, Jiang said. "It's better to be cool and not to be overly emotional and let the world see China is fair," he said.

On Oct. 18, official media, including Xinhua and China Central TV, reprinted the Chinese Foreign Ministry's statement condemning Koizumi.

Beijing papers -- a growing number of which are not state owned though they follow news regulations -- also published a timeline of Koizumi's shrine visits, his stated reasons for visiting on Oct. 17 and a description of the visit itself. These papers include the Beijing News and Beijing Times, both popular tabloids among public transit commuters.

A summerlong series of retrospective feature stories on Japan's 1931-1945 occupation of Chinese territory, published to mark the 60th anniversary of the World War II surrender, was planned before the anti-Japan demonstrations.

The media's take on the war is "more and more objective," said Mou Jianmin, a former Beijing magazine editor who now runs a cultural exchange service. He said no one had the right to criticize the coverage.

Chinese authorities are in general relaxing control over all but the official media to make them more readable and more market-driven, specialists say. For Sino-Japanese news, the lighter grip means more photos, more quoted sources and more feature stories, just no pro-Japan editorials, said Li Kun, a Peking University journalism professor.

"Journalists want to do real journalism," Li said. "The more professional (media) can balance the old ones, which are more propaganda."

Zhou Ying, a reporter with the weekly Beijing Today, said, "As far as I know, a reporter will choose either to give up the sensitive topic or report it in an objective way."

Expect a gradual drift toward fairer, more professional Japan coverage, said Liang of Peking University.

On Sept. 1, the Guangzhou-based paper Southern Weekend said Japanese prime ministers had visited Yasukuni Shrine 20 times without China's opposition before Class-A war criminals were enshrined there.

The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo asked the paper to publish a correction.

"The truth is, they visited the shrine 20 times after Class-A criminals were enshrined, without any Chinese reaction whatsoever," Foreign Ministry Assistant Press Secretary Akira Chiba said.

While corrections are not required in China, and editors often ignore complaints of inaccuracy, Southern Weekend corrected its mistake.

Chiba also disputed the accuracy of a Sept. 3 editorial in the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily on the approval of contentious Japanese history textbooks.

Keiji Ide, spokesman with the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, said Chinese journalists are using his comments increasingly often. They have quoted him on the lack of censorship in Japan, for example. But there is room for further improvement, he said.



Jolie & Becks, gays 'dream partners'
Zeta-Jones has a 'killer' night in N.Y.
International Acrobatics Festival in Shijiazhuang
  Today's Top News     Top Life News
 

Agriculture minister: Bird flu outbreak a potential disaster

 

   
 

President Hu visits London, Sino-UK ties get warmer

 

   
 

Bush: US-China ties 'important' and 'good'

 

   
 

North Korea nuclear talks open in Beijing

 

   
 

Institute to make Tamiflu if epidemic spreads

 

   
 

Most Chinese unsatisfied with sex lives

 

   
  Next hot language to study: Chinese
   
  Hospitals find profit in AIDS, undermine Chinese government's initiatives
   
  Kate Moss gets post-rehab modeling job
   
  Talkshow revives craze for 'Dream of Red Chambers'
   
  China's media fairer toward Japan
   
  Taking China: Vera Wang's long march
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
Japanese PM's shrine visit "stupid": European scholars
   
Koizumi hints to visit shrine again this year
   
Japan's PM under pressure over shrine visit
   
Koizumi pledges to make official visit
  Feature  
  Could China's richest be the tax cheaters?  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: aaaaaaa一级毛片 | 欧美顶级毛片在线播放小说 | 高清大学生毛片一级 | 成人免费公开视频 | 99精品久久久久久久免费看蜜月 | 亚洲精品国产一区二区在线 | 精品videosex性欧美 | 久久er热视频在这里精品 | 成人夜色视频网站在线观看 | 欧美一级高清片 | 成年人在线免费观看视频网站 | 午夜宅男在线永久免费观看网 | 一区二区三区免费观看 | 一个人免费观看日本www视频 | 欧美人成在线观看ccc36 | 亚洲精品国产成人99久久 | 中文在线免费视频 | 欧美人成a视频www | 91福利精品老师国产自产在线 | 国产日韩欧美综合在线 | 久久99亚洲网美利坚合众国 | 高清一级淫片a级中文字幕 高清一区二区 | 欧美一级高清片欧美国产欧美 | 色樱桃影院亚洲精品影院 | 国产精品分类视频分类一区 | 国产精品青草久久久久福利99 | 亚洲成人偷拍自拍 | 澳门毛片在线播放 | 白白在线观看永久免费视频 | 久久欧美精品欧美久久欧美 | 日本一级看片免费播放 | 韩国午夜三级理论 | 美国三级在线 | 免费欧美黄色 | 91免费版网站 | 欧美精品hdxxxxx| 国产深夜福利视频网站在线观看 | 精品久久久中文字幕二区 | 免费一级网站 | 久久免费视频在线观看 | 中文字幕亚洲综合久久 |