【时代周刊 20120312】中国人不明白为何日本灾后重建的速度那么慢

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【中文标题】中国人不明白为何日本灾后重建的速度那么慢
【原文标题】As Japan Marks 1 Year After the Tsunami, China Wonders Why Rebuilding Is So Slow
【登载媒体】时代周刊
【原文作者】Hannah Beech
【原文链接】http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/03/12/as-japan-marks-one-year-after-the-tsunami-china-wonders-why-rebuilding-is-so-slow/



2012年2月23日，日本陆前高田，工作人员在废墟中回收有用物品。

在日本3月11日海啸灾难发生一周年的时候，北京一家有政府背景的报纸《环球时报》发表了一篇有关中日关系的评论员文章。文章核心内容如下：中国长久以来对日本持猜疑的态度，中国“不需要过度情绪化地”面对一个曾经在半个世纪前侵略过它的历史敌人。为什么？因为中国在经济上已经超越了日本。“虽然日本在某些领域依然保持先进的地位，但已经并非遥不可及了。中国现在有信心客观地审视日本。”

日本在遭受自然灾害之后缓慢的重建速度让一些中国人困惑不解，中国人已近习惯了目前国内的发展速度——两个月建造一座大型工厂；15天矗立起一座30层高楼。2008年四川地震后的重建速度令人瞠目结舌，尤其是考虑到受灾地区的破坏程度和当地的贫穷状况。一座崭新的城市在两年内就取代了北川的废墟。当然，一个专制政府的国家上传下达的力度的确是一个重要因素，但是日本人也以其关注细节、精确到秒的做事态度而闻名于世呀。

日本人所表现出的懒散是有一些原因的。有些废弃物不可以被焚毁，因为担心其中含有核电厂的废料。中国的城市规划沙皇似乎不会因为担心小小的辐射而暂缓焚烧垃圾。而且，日本在海啸之后已经放弃了小心谨慎的态度，他们迫切希望自然灾害可以促进这个国家的政治改革。对中国这个经济在2010年超越日本的国家来说，这只不过是权力陨落的另一个迹象。《中国日报》是政府的喉舌媒体，其中一篇专栏文章说：“日本的经济状况不容乐观，如果它想解决目前的结构矛盾，需要更长一段时间的克制和忍耐。”

在过去几个星期，日本与中国之间的关系迅速恶化。名古屋市长河村隆之对来访的中国共产党官员说，他怀疑南京大屠杀事件的真实性。1937年，日本士兵洗劫了当时中国的首都，据中国官方统计数字，杀害了30万人。但日本的激进民族主义者一直拒绝承认这个暴行。

保守派东京市长石原慎太郎不出意料地附和他名古屋同伴的态度，说日本军队不可能杀害那么多中国平民。与名古屋结为友好城市的南京立即停止了双方所欲友好往来，中国同时宣布取消若干次官员的互访安排。正在北京举行的全国人民代表大会上，一个来自南京的立法委员提议宣布否认南京大屠杀为违法。

一位中国共产党领导人急切地希望强调日本战时可耻的行为，这更加给反日情绪火上浇油。日本民族主义政客在发布的声明中轻描淡写日本军队在中国的行为，这是在逐渐侵蚀中国人的思想。但是，在邦交正常化40周年即将到来的时候，这两个东亚大国之间的经济互相依赖性越来越强。《环球时报》说，两个国家间实力对比已经发生了变化，中国需要尽量消除一些令关系紧张的隐患：

“相对强大的一方应当采取主动。日本曾经是地区中首屈一指的国家，但它的行为并不成熟。现在轮到中国担任这个角色，我们要按自己的方式采取行动。中国人真心地同情日本人，希望他们的邻居能走出20年经济衰退的阴影。我们希望与他们分享发展的机会，并不嫉妒他们先进的技术。只有我们祝福对方变得更好，才能真正迎来自己的繁荣。”



原文：

Marking the first anniversary of the March 11 Japanese tsunami tragedy, the Global Times, a Beijing-based daily with links to the Chinese Communist Party, published an editorial on Sino-Japanese relations. The thrust was this: China, which has long viewed Japan with suspicion, does “not need to react too emotionally” to a historic enemy that invaded more than half a century ago. Why? Because China has eclipsed Japan economically. “While Japan is advanced in some specific areas, it is not beyond reach anymore,” said the editorial. “China now has the confidence to review Japan objectively.”

The slow pace of recovery in Japan after its natural disaster mystifies some Chinese, who are used to the speed — a massive factory built in little more than two months, a 30-story tower erected in 15 days — with which development occurs in China. The rebuilding after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake was astonishingly fast, especially given the amount of devastation in and poverty of the affected region. An entire new city, for instance, was built within two years to replace the rubble of Beichuan. It does help, of course, when a nation is ruled by an authoritarian government — orders from above tend to carry weight in such places. But the Japanese are famous for their attention to detail and to-the-second precision.

There are reasons for the Japanese lassitude. Some mounds of detritus cannot be burned, for instance, because of fears that they may contain trace amounts of radiation from the nuclear-power-plant disaster. It’s unlikely that Chinese planning czars would have delayed waste incineration because of a small risk of low levels of radiation. Still, the paralytic cautiousness of posttsunami Japan is real — and it has dashed hopes that the natural disaster might catalyze the political reform the country so desperately needs. For China, whose economy eclipsed Japan’s in 2010, it’s just another sign of how the mighty have fallen. “Japan’s economic situation is also not optimistic,” said an op-ed in the China Daily, the government’s English-language mouthpiece. “Japan needs an extended period of self-restraint and patience if it wants to overcome its structural contradictions.”

Relations between Japan and China have frayed over the past couple weeks, after Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura told visiting Chinese Communist Party officials that he doubted the Nanjing Massacre occurred. In 1937, Japanese soldiers marauded through the then Chinese capital, killing some 300,000 people, according to official Chinese estimates. But nationalist Japanese have refused to acknowledge the atrocity.

Conservative Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara sadly and predictably echoed his Nagoya colleague’s claim that Japanese troops would not have killed such numbers of Chinese civilians. Nanjing, which was a sister city to Nagoya, promptly suspended any fraternal relationship. Several official exchanges between the two countries were canceled by the Chinese. During the National People’s Congress annual session, which is currently underway in Beijing, one legislator from Nanjing proposed criminalizing any denial of the Nanjing Massacre.

Anti-Japanese resentment has been stoked by a Chinese Communist Party leadership eager to highlight Japan’s dismal wartime record, even as it obscures its own historic failings. Statements by nationalist Japanese politicians that underplay Japan’s wartime record in China do their corrosive part too. But as the countries mark four decades since normalizing diplomatic ties, there’s also no question that East Asia’s two powers are increasingly economically interdependent. Indeed, the Global Times noted that power dynamic has switched between the two countries and that China should try to defuse any tensions:

“The more powerful side should act first. Japan used to hold that role in the region, but didn’t act maturely. The role will now be taken by China, and we should perform accordingly. The Chinese wholeheartedly feel for the Japanese and hope their neighbor can pull itself out of its 20-year-long recession. We want to share development opportunities with them and don’t envy their advantages over us. Only when we start to wish our neighboring countries the best, can our nation embrace its own prosperity.”

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该不该友好是一回事，能不能友好是另一回事。

清淡飘渺

上一次我国的友好换来啦九一八

lilyma06

下面的网友评论也很欢乐，大家可以看看翻译下:D:D
Koi Blade

It is most dismal that Japan today still do not own up to its wartime transgressions in Asia. Japan should emulate the Germans in this sense and stop, i repeat stop advocating blind patriotism for the nation. It is after this blind patriotism to a supposed divine Emperor, albeit used by the wartime leaders, that caused so much suffering to the Japanese people. It is time that the powers of Asia including China, Japan, India, S. Korea, Taiwan, S'pore and Saudi Arabia rise up to form an Asian economic and military block.

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omegafrontier

The thought of China, Japan, India, S. Korea, Taiwan, S'pore and Saudi Arabia forming any military block is amusing.  I would like to see that day.  One must be completely oblivious to historical and current events to even suggest such thing.

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Koi Blade

Oh it is now? Nobody and I mean nobody would have ever in their wildest imagination ever thought the Great Britain, France and Germany would ever form a military block back in WWII. And yet we have NATO today. Who would have thought that Japan who so hated the Americans in WWII will be a key ally in the East Asian region? It was simply illusory back in the days of the China's red guards that America incorporated would so deeply entrench itself in China and yet today America is the largest consumer of Chinese products. I could go...
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hem_sphere

China may or may not overtake Japan in terms of size but if quality if a factor then China is light years behind Japan & South Korea.

The proof of this is the fact that while China exports its low quality products to the rest of the world,Chinese themselves do not use any of that crap & instead import quality stuff from Japan & N.America.

http://www.moneycontrol.com/ne...

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tri3cities

Weren't Japanese and S. Korean products once considered cheap and unreliable not too long ago? Does it not occur to you that China is exporting cheap and low quality products because the other countries are buying them, and it is profitable for them to do so? If Japan or N. America can produce cheap and be profitable, I bet they would probably be doing that by now.

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Jürgen Hubert

For that matter, the "Made in Germany" label was introduced by the British to distinguish their own products from shoddy German imitations...

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jax

I would agree to both. China is far behind Japan and South Korea, but just as South Korea has been catching up with Japan, China is catching up with both.

The differences in perceived speed between China and Japan can highlight the current strengths and weaknesses of both countries. The speed of change in China is exhilarating, but sometimes China would have benefited from going slower.

Though the path to development they have taken is similar, China and Japan are different. I like both, as it seems do many Chinese and Japanese, the nationalists may bang their...
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hem_sphere

http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

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hem_sphere

I would have given you the benefit of the doubt if not for the fact that Korea & Japan, even during their worst phase,were never caught manufacturing & exporting cancer inducing products.Even children's toys were pulled off the shelf due to high lead content.

Now,the second part of your question."Other" countries are buying these products solely because the purchasing power of the consumer has gone down due to the meltdown.And there is no way that the workers in Europe and N.America will work for as little as a price as the poor Chinese laborer who is exploited by...
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Jürgen Hubert

Oh, give it a rest. Yes, China has its problems. Yes, safety standards are often too low, or badly enforced. But they are getting better and wages are rising. And nobody _forced_ the USA to go so heavily into debt - you did that all on your own.

Frankly, if China runs into any problems in the coming decades it will be for domestic reasons, not because of anything the USA does or doesn't do. The real estate bubble will probably burst at some point. There is a looming demographic crisis thanks to the One Child policy. And...
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ThierryTONG

"The first thing the west is gonna do once it comes out of a recession is to show China its place in the real world."

So China is basically not  in the real world at least by now unless the west getting rid of recession.

You know what, Chinese had already seen what reality you westerners have shown to China some decades ago when China was in recession ,so did Japanese.

What real world are you talking about this time? God may probabaly ask you.

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Mohamad Taufiq Morshidi

Slow? The rebuilding is slow?!

Has anyone in "The Global Times" read about post-Katrina New Orleans?
Seriously, anyone who thinks that the rebuilding efforts in Japan were
slow obviously never read about New Orleans or Haiti.

Someone give members of the CCP copies of Treme Season One, please?

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Jürgen Hubert

Well, there is a reason the USA isn't taken as seriously as it used to be...

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toddhuang

Chinese become so cocky recently, because I am chinese student who study at United States, frankly, I think, Chinese are still far behind Japan in term of techonology and economic quality, please believe that people's daily or global times' opinion does not represent majority's opinion, in fact, nobody reads them for people of my generation.

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adam_onge

Chinese like to think they are way superior to other Asians.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall"

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hhang58

小日本天下无敌;P

沐霜

日本也好 美国也罢 欧盟也一样  它们正用自己的行动告诉中国  其实中国远比它们更好

lyycc

呵呵，论坛复活啦

zhiyi

单从写作角度来看,这是一片糟糕的文章,原因很简单:那就是不知所云,刚开始看还以为要讲日本面对垃圾的重复再利用态度呢,加上配的那幅图,可是话题一转,就扯到"中国不担心日本",你还没站稳,又扯到南京大屠杀和中日关系.

再进一步看这篇文章的糟糕之处:作者没有任何一手材料,全是坐在中国办公室,通过互联网阅读中国媒体文章然后东拼西凑写出来的文章.

结论:拿现在流行的话叫做"歪楼了",其实这不是楼,就是个小房子,小狗窝.盖个小狗窝还歪了,时代周刊用这样的记者真是坑爹啊.

jydjcw88

看不明白

我是老百姓

到底记者想表述什么呀？

心在这一方

只要是骂中国的文章，就能赚稿费，这就是西媒的标准。说实话，这根本不是一篇合格的新闻，哪怕是在国内地方媒体，这样的稿子也是扔垃圾桶里的下场，可西媒体居然还发表了，真是NC无极限。这样也好，就让他们在谎言和无知中沉沦吧。

九龙论剑

中国和日本，农夫和蛇。

山中小草

看不懂外文的。

luoan31

中国与日本永远谈不上友好，当然政治上或高层则不一样。

whyjfs

这片文章真的让人不知所云

大西瓜v

zhiyi 发表于 2012-3-21 09:27
单从写作角度来看,这是一片糟糕的文章,原因很简单:那就是不知所云,刚开始看还以为要讲日本面对垃圾的重复再 ...

说的好，完全的不知所云，，，，，把一堆事情放到一起搅和。。

choag789

操之过急往往是幼稚和不成熟的表现吧