Sino-Japanese Notes: Incident in Hiroshima
Chinese media are reporting on an incident with strange resonance in Hiroshima, where on October 18, at about half past midnight Beijing time, a 37-year-old Japanese man attacked the Peace Memorial in an attempt to erase the words “wrong/mistake” (错误)from an inscription, screaming something along the lines of “Things we have done were not wrong!” “自己做的事情没有错” is how the Chinese render it, which I suppose is what really matters here. Hiroshima has been pretty quiet […]
