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The Chinese residents who call Japan home
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
BBC News, Tokyo
via mozu
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There are also many more Chinese who are coming and staying. In 1990, there were around 150,000 Chinese living in Japan. Today, there are more than 700,000.
Ask Japanese people about that number and they will often express surprise. One reason is that Chinese immigrants blend in so quickly
"I recently started going on TV shows here to talk about China… and people were surprised. They said, 'Really, Leena is Chinese?' But most people I know just don't care."
Lin Qian Yi is another student who never went home. She married a Japanese man and they are soon hoping to start a family. Lin Qian Yi reveals another thing that you do not often hear in the media - a lot of Chinese people really like Japan.
"Here it is very safe, the air quality and water quality are good," Ms Lin said
"The food is great and Japanese people insist on very high standards. Also the Japanese government supports people who want to have children."
I ask Ms Lin what it is like in her house when tensions between China and Japan get bad, like they did last year.
"We don't really talk about that," she said, with a laugh.
もちろん、近親憎悪的に、反目するところもあるのであるが、漢字圏であること、共通の伝統の遺産があることから、中華系の人々が日本になじむのは他の文化圏よりかなり楽ではないか、と思う。