Japanese football fans have been outraged at the reception laid on for a Japanese team playing in Korea recently, with a banner goading them by celebrating the deaths of 20,000 Japanese in the recent earthquake and tsunami.
The banner appeared at a recent football match between Cerezo Osaka and a Korean team (which the Japanese team was to lose), held in Korea

In broken Japanese, it reads “we celebrate Japan’s great earthquake.”
Once match organisers spotted the banner, they ordered it removed.

Whether this is the result of the famed animosity Koreans feel towards just about everyone else or the incredibly crude standards of behaviour the world has come to expect from football fans is not clear – a recent away match a Japanese team played against a Belgian team saw supporters there chanting “Fukushima,” which prompted an official complaint from the Japanese side.

*I GOT NOTHING AGAINST KOREANS THOUGH just posting what i saw*

What 2 ch and online Thinks

http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/1666613.html

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Well that's just sick.

I'm not one to publicly make assumptions about an entire race's behavior, but you'd think they, as individuals, would have the simple common sense to not insult the untimely deaths of 20,000 people as leverage at a sports game.

As a representative for your country at an international recreational event, pulling that sort of stunt is asking for a racism backlash tenfold. To be unable to let go of generation-old prejudices to such an extreme is embarrassing, and >>2 is evidence enough that this is not an uncommon event - just a more prominent one.

It is common knowledge that a majority of Chinese HATE Japanese.... didn't think about Korea though

Do you think it might be that they meant to say honor instead of celebrate (it said it was broken AKA bad/not fluent Japanese, so the person who wrote it could have made a mistake)? Y'know, like how various cultures have days where they honor the dead or their ancestors (which is seen as a positive thing), and they usually have festivals that go along with it? Honestly, it seems too insensitive to think that they meant it like they were happy that it all happened.

A lot of countries hate Japan. Americans hated Japan after Pearl Harbor (our retaliation aside), Filipinos hated them for invading them, Koreans hated them for, as my friend puts it, committing what amounts to a Korean holocaust.

Of course, I refer to older generations. We have no modern reason to hate them now, and younger generations following the examples of older ones that can't let things go is a disappointing example of mob mentality and peer pressure.
Some people, as they grow older, learn to question what they've been told by their parents and elders in their own terms, developing their own unique opinions. Then there are some who never give it a second thought, taking everything they were told to be absolute fact - "Race A is scum because etc etc," "Our country is the best because etc etc."


Anyway, did a bit of research on Sejin's point.

English -> Korean -> Japanese
"Celebrate" -> 축하 -> お祝い (what was shown in the image)
"Honor" -> 명예 -> 名誉
"Respect" -> 경의 -> 卿

The words are just too different, and you also have to remember that asian languages are very close to each other, both in interpretation and actual characters. Hard to believe that this could be an innocent mistranslation.

>>8 Well, that is a shame. :(

What's the Korean holocaust you're talking about? I don't know much about Korean history other than they were China's bitch more than a few times. If it's a lengthy explanation (or even if it's not), you can just post a link if you have a good one, rather than typing the whole thing out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

This pretty much sums up everything.
Japan has a pretty dark history, up until the end of WWII.

That's just messed up. In fact I'm so pissed off at this unrational behaviour that I can't even come up with any more words.. I don't hate on Korea either, stupid people are everywhere in the world. But THIS is just too much.

>>11 Wow. Just...wow.

This is sad... I know there's often heat between Japan and Korea (as well as China) but I would hope these feelings die off with the younger generation... I'm sure a lot of you are probably aware of the K-pop (Korean Pop Music) wave in Japan right now, it's all the rage. And it's largely the young people who are into it. My point being, this sort of hatred should hopefully decrease in the coming few years, or even a decade or two, when there's more open minded young people around...

Does Korea STILL hate Japan? Or what? I'm sure they had good intentions but it was worded wrong. But I wouldn't know.

I myself do not feel this way towards others. But I guess I should just say people should just get the fuck over things.

My bf is Korean and he always get pissed at me when I mention anything about japan (which is hard for me not to since im such an anime/manga fan) and I'm not really sure what all happened to make then hate eachother so much, I guess theirs a pretty good reason (from what I've heard) but I just think that people should put the past behind them and not blame people that probably had absolutely nothing to do with what went down. Just my opinion, nothing against Koreans btw.

the japanese are already forgiven by majority of the filipino people. don't know about our elderly though, but my grandma says she isn't angry with them.

Thats a f****ing dick move. . . i mean really! is that really called for!?

Dude...Ouch. Not cool. Like AT ALL. Why can't everyone hold hands and sing a song?

now im offended...

Who ever did that is a friggin dick like>>20 said. To the Korean person who made the banner: NOT COOL BRO! -_-

I'm Korean.
The primary reason why Korea generally does not like Japan is because of the war history and stuff. In fact, SOME Koreans mock Americans for putting "Sea of Japan" instead of "Sea of Korea" in their maps.
Anyways, the thing is old ppl from the battles btwn Korean and Japan never got over it, and they teach their kids that Japanese ppl are dicks, then the kids teach their kids, and so on, and so on. SOME kids just grow up learning slandered history from their grandpas and parents. :P I wasn't tho. My parents hate China instead lol
Either way, >>1 wtf?

OOOHHHH!! That's gotta hurt in the world.

Someone should do something about Korea...

>>25, really? Any more racist comments you want to make while having a Korean screen name?

>>26 I don't see how that's racist....

I really don't think the koreans should do that. Just try to imagine if the tsunami and earthquake hit your country instead. I doubt that they would want the Japs to say something like that to them. I mean, sure they can say the Japs deserved it or whatsoever but they seriously dosen't need to do something like that to show their low morale.

All this generalizing of races needs to stop. Just because one Korean guy did something stupid and mean does not mean all Koreans are like this. If someone in your country did something like this would you want everyone saying "the *insertcountryhere* are all jerks and should stop it"?

I live in Korea and I never heard this I might ask my dad but still

It's true that a lot of Koreans still hate the Japanese, but lets just remember that it's not everyone. I think they should just leave the past with the past, but I don't doubt it that they would have newer reasons to hate even now. But things like this are shameful and just plain rude.
Just a fact: a lot of Koreans live in Hokkaido P:

>>29 >>31 This. Er, these.

I don't see America being blamed for blatant racism just because some redneck southerners hate foreigners, for example. The actions of one does not determine the intentions of the many, or however that phrase actually goes.