Politics
Taiwan's Relief and China's Rebuke: Two Neighbors, Two Attitudes
Taiwanese citizens raised about 1.5 billion yen for Kumamoto's disaster areas, with chipmaker TSMC donating another 250 million yen separately. At the same time, Chinese state media and researchers attacked a Nippon Ishin lawmaker's cabinet entry as a rightward, militarist turn. Japanese netizens read the two responses as a stark contrast, pouring out gratitude to Taiwan and pushing back on Beijing.