When LIU DONG boarded an airplane from Shanghai to Osaka in 2023, she walked with anxiety that was only exceeded by the determination to escape.
In China’s most popular cities, 24 million residents have endured the blockbuster for several months in the world, which had experienced some of the harshest anti -Cobid countermeasures in the world.
Ryu is eager to start a new start and explained her experience as a past she wants to forget.
“After the blockade of Shanghai, I really wanted to start fresh in Japan because I was really hoping for freedom,” she said.
However, her family, including her 9 -year -old son, decided to stay.
“I wanted to find a backup plan (to them), so I wanted my son to have another option in the future,” she said.
“My family said,” You are throwing your family and children. ” “
Li said it was difficult to resume living in Japan, but it was worth it. (ABC News: Supply)
Build a better life
Li U is one of thousands of Chinese immigrants who have moved to Japan to seek a new life after receiving trauma during the strict zerocobid era in China.
The appearance of China from that era has been sudden, marking a rare recent case where public frustration broke out in protests that promoted the government. Just five months after the Shanghai blockade was over, the new Jiang -like housing building ignited a Chinese white paper protest.
Residents protested with a blank A4 paper to express their dissatisfaction with the government’s strict communities.
The exercise spread all over the country, and the policy was suddenly lifted at the end of 2022.
Despite the rapid resumption, the economy has bounced off and the number of Chinese has not increased, so we are looking for the quality of different life.
Liu explained that the first three months in Japan had a painful experience, and had to start fresh in a city where she did not even speak the language.
Li said that the same situation as her felt that the relocation issues were worth that. (ABC News: Supply)
“Because they reminded me of my son, I start crying every time I see a child on the street,” she said.
Despite the difficulties, Li believes that he is building a future for Japanese families.
She believes that one of the advantages of living there is that children are treated with more respect at school.
Currently, part of her job is to visit other Chinese immigrants in Japan and share the story with social media accounts.
“I interviewed many people, but they felt the same as me,” she said.
At the end of the day, she feels that most people she met believe that the migration task is worth it.
The Chinese are the largest immigrants in Japan. (AP: Eugene Hoshiko)
Censorship that excludes anti -applying emotions
The Chinese are the largest immigrants in Japan.
According to government data, as of June, 844,000 out of more than 3.3 million foreigners living in Japan were Chinese.
This has increased from 762,000 in 2022 to 654,000, 10 years ago.
This country may seem strange for Chinese immigrants, taking into account the historical tensions of China and the rise of nationalism in China and the rise of anti -Japanese sentiment.
China’s obligatory patriotic education
“Because nationalism is embedded in the educational system and propaganda machine, I think it is always there for a systematic (method),” says Rose Rukiu, an associate professor of Hong Kong Baptist University. 。
However, Dr. Luqiu has recently noticed the change.
In September, a 10 -year -old Japanese boy was fatally stabbed near a school in southern China, increasing tension between Beijing and Tokyo.
It was a second attack on Chinese children in a few months, urging the Japanese embassy in Beijing to warn the people.
Dr. Rukiu believes that Beijing has been trying to support the difficult economy since its attack.
“The rapid increase in nationalism is the result of the national promotion, but it seems to have changed recently,” she said.
“After the attack, I think that the government has begun to censors certain types of content.
“In China, everything can be controlled, so if you want to create a more positive image of the country … you can easily control stories and content online.”
Li wants her social media account in some way to build more understanding between Japanese and Chinese.
“I want to improve the Japanese, so I hope to start talking to the Japanese and fill the gap between China and Japan,” she told ABC.
Discard comedy for real estate
Anyway, the tension is still the forefront of Wang Bing, who moved to Japan in 2021 to start his own real estate agency in 2021.
He did not experience the same kind of pushback from his family about his decision to move to Japan like Li, but he is worried every time he visits home.
King bottle does not tell people living in Japan when returning to China. (ABC News: Xin-Yun Wu)
“I will tell my wife and son not to mention that we have traveled from Japan,” he said about his annual trip to China.
Wang was a stand -up comedy scene in Shanghai, northern China, but felt more and more hindered by his strict censorship and restrictions on his creative freedom.
“The local cultural department will ask them to save seven tickets in all shows in case they want to come and inspect (our material),” he said.
As a real estate agent in Osaka, his main customers are Chinese people who want to buy houses in Kansai.
Some are looking for a house, while others want to buy real estate to rent. This is one way for Chinese immigrants to apply for a Japanese business manager visa.
The fans told the king bottle recently that if he played a comedy style in China, he would probably be in trouble. (ABC News: Xin-Yun Wu)
Wang said that some of his clients were a business owner who feared the Chinese economy, so they choose a place that they think is safer.
“Many people of Shanghai and Zhijiang came here. Most of them didn’t care how they would make a living,” he said. Zero policy of 2022.
Because of the strict restrictions on moving funds from China, Japan is especially attractive for mid -class and wealthy Chinese people as a safe place to maintain money.
“In Japan, the respect of private property, like the United States and the West, is the cornerstone of the system,” says Edward One, a coordinator of the Asian research program at the University of Lowan.
“But in China, which has been in the past five years, the policy is to develop so -called” joint wealth. “
“We all know some of the suppression of the super wealthy people, such as the head of Tencent and Alibaba … the policy has been changed now, but this fear is still there. “
Contribution of China’s “excessive” wealth
Alibaba’s founder, Jack Ma, was among the Chinese immigrants who worked as a professor at the University of Tokyo.
Wider and Japan provides more freedom than China. In particular, it is comfortable, comfortable, and still approaching home under the increasingly repressive rules of Xi Ginpin.
“I have a strong sense of distrust of what the government can do,” said Wan.
“(People) basically want to be in charge of their lives. If you go to China today, you will see many complaints and criticisms about government policies.
“So I think this distrust is the biggest motivation for people with several resources to go out. Even if you’re not your own, it’s their assets.”
Mr. Wang’s stand -up comedy fans said that after a while ago, he reached out to Japan and said that his old set would never fly recently.
Mr. Wang felt that it was his decision to move to Japan.
“If I didn’t leave, I knew that I would be involved in trouble for what I said.”
