Disaster gives Chinese journalists new perspective on Japan

Disaster gives Chinese journalists new perspective on Japan

BEIJING, China - Photo shows Chinese paper the Southern Weekly's coverage of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which struck northeastern and eastern Japan and its aftermath. A number of Chinese journalists saw their long-held negative views about Japan and its people change after traveling to northeastern Japan to cover the aftermath of the disaster, as they were impressed with the orderly and patient behavior of the victims and the relatively high transparency of information released, according to their reports to a symposium with university students in Beijing on April 17.

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