Chinese Outraged: “Those Japs Killed Our Baby Panda!”
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 12, 2012 10:47 JST
- Tags: Animals, Bizarre, China, Mass Media, Obituaries, Politics, Senkaku Complex, Tokyo
The birth and death of a baby panda in Japan has jumped from being a media circus to a minor diplomatic crisis after Ishihara began tying them to the Senkaku Islands and Chinese began insisting the Japanese must have killed it to get back at them.
Japan’s media lavished coverage on the birth of an infant male panda to Ueno Zoo’s Shinshin, prompting what would turn out to be one of the most short-lived panda booms in Japanese history.
Its birth caught the eye of politicians as well as the press – none other than Tokyo’s dear leader Shintaro Ishihara caused a minor spat by failing to buy into the cult of panda adulation, saying “I’m not interested in that stuff at all. We’ll probably just have to return it to China in 2 years anyway.”
He also attempted to further bait China by saying “they should call it Sensen or Kakukaku,” referring to the disputed islands he is buying, and after its birth quipped that “call it Senkaku and then they can be happy when we return it.”
China’s foreign ministry was not amused and shot back that “whatever Japan chooses to call the panda it remains Chinese property, just like those islands.”
However, Shinshin soon abandoned her infant and took to munching bamboo, leaving zoo staff with an orphan panda which they attempted to nurture in an incubator.
Most mainstream media was at pains to avoid presenting the mother’s defective maternal instincts as anything less than exemplary panda parenting, instead reporting the zoo’s explanation that she was stressed and that they would try reintroducing the baby panda to her later.
However, it succumbed to “pneumonia” soon afterwards anyway – not a huge surprise, as as many as 70% of infant pandas expire within a week of their birth.
The infant panda’s death was announced tearfully by the zoo’s boss, and reported as national news throughout Japan.
Even amongst Japanese, there has been some disquiet about how the panda was reared – it emerged that whilst in an incubator the creature was not monitored continuously, although the instructions of the panda’s Chinese minders (all such pandas are only loaned out by the Chinese government as diplomatic pawns, for exorbitant fees and with the proviso that their offspring remain Chinese state property) were apparently followed.
Others have wondered what the point of the whole exercise is if they are obliged to return the baby pandas they breed to China after 2 years anyway.
Amongst Chinese however, the panda’s death was immediately the subject of conspiracy theories alleging Japan had deliberately killed it, with 80% of respondents to a poll accompanying one major news story expressing fury at its death.
Suspicion centred on its death somehow being connected to Ishihara’s remarks – “Those wretched little Japs killed it…” [“Japs” in this case substituting for the slur “小日本”], “Japan’s dirty tricks extend even to our national treasures. This is an outrage!” and of course “Kill those dirty little Japs!”
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"70% of infant pandas expire within a week of their birth."
If that is true they really can't blame them.
also the mother panda abandoned it so I'm sure the mortality rate probably shot up a little.
I don't know much about Panda reproduction, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that the mother could somehow sense that the baby was probably doomed (via smell, or something) and thus abandoned it so not to waste a likely futile effort. Some wild animals do things like that.
true but pandas are quite well known to be incredible awful at caring for their children or cubs and usually abandon them because they get terrified of their own babies and have to be looked after by someone else.
So they're the niggers of the bear family?
Even my domestic cat does that. She killed and attempted to consume a defective kit once.
That's not how mortality rates work. But, yeah, they're just being idiots. Pandas are nearly extinct for a reason. And, no, it's not because of "MAN" (dun dun duuuun). They're just not very good at reproducing.
Actually, it is a combination of factors, but they all add up to "not fit to live". We just accelerated that part.
Well even the Japanese were a bit skeptical of the death and the handling of it. Ishihara just made things go form meh to clusterfuck.
What's wrong with killing "little japs? (lower case intended)" The Americans did it with nukes. I'll have to find another interest to fill the time Anime has for the past few years.
Why don't you do the world a favor and go kill yourself!
just ignore the dumbass
I agree, there are plenty of fools like him that will poison you with their words.
We should help them along by initiating a pogrom of all slanty-yellow cunts in all corners of earth. Of course, that's just a preview of second rape of nanking.
Don't worry, they suicide themselves even just by reading that stuff. That mouthy bitch iris chang got what was coming to her, being weak-willed and naive just like every other chinese pussies.
Why don't you present yourself in nanking so they can do you in instead?
Pearl Harbor was an inside job.
lol someone's being a narrow-eyed retard.
Because those 'little japs' raped your ancestors and made a bitch out of you, and you being a good little chink should act like one and suck the cocks of your masters.
don't you mean grandfathers?
The problem is that Japan is like a Saiyajin. Nuked twice and became a leading nation in technology, got a huge earthquake, a tsunami, a radioactive incident and cyclones and today the yen is more valuable than 5 years ago. If they nuke them again some years latter they will take over the world with mechas and cyborgs
LAWL. Thinking they can be like Saiyajin examplifies the delusions of these japs. Yours too. Such tenacity can be found in hundreds of other nations across the earth, much better than japanese. Difference is japanese try to believe in their own hype.
Sorry, what country had two of their most important cities nuked and became the leading nation in technology?
Obviously his, didn't you care to read his supremacy statement?
...No? Me neither.
@03:06
"leading nation in technology" lolz. Getting manufacturing rights and having a few niche products does not make you a 'leading nation' in anything. The whole hype is a perfect example of how japanese like to fill their heads with childish delusions at the slightest hint of their success and tout it like mouthy insecure people they are.
Also, it is not that world-ending to recover from what was 2 tactical nuclear weapons - typical doomsday myth common in public. Talk to me if they were hit with strategic weapons in at least a dozen cities. If anything, you might say we helped them save renovation costs ^^ in a country of 60-70 million people at the time, 200K would not put that hard of a dent. Not to mention it gave them a face-saving excuse to surrender.
"...got a huge earthquake, a tsunami, a radioactive incident and cyclones and today the yen is more valuable than 5 years ago."
You forgot to mention having their factories crippled under the force of those disasters. Which is proof that the exchange rate is more about political connections than real world situations.
It is more that a huge crisis affected Europe and America so the Yen didn't raised that much, Dollar and Euro that dropped a lot. Also the rebuilding of the country boosted the building industries and other industries related.
Poor panda... ;_;
The Japanese got rid of it in case it explodes.
I was expecting to read something among those lines
Can't have an article that relates to China in any way without an "it exploded" comment.
So, the mother abandoned the infant and then the baby Panda caught pneumonia? It's really not that hard to see how the baby Panda died. This is just morons overreacting like usual.
I've actually had a Dog who wouldn't take care of one of her puppies and the little guy ended up dying. Isn't that similar to this case? I think the mother could already sense that it was too late for the little one, so she just abandoned the little Panda altogether.
I lived on a farm in my younger years. One thing you learn very quickly is that not every baby animal lives to adulthood and not every mother animal is a good one.
If I am not mistaken, hamster pee to their newborn child in order to recognize them.. If touch the baby hamster with your bare hand, the mother will abandon the baby because the smell change, and even eat the baby..
What do they care?
The chinese would have eaten it anyway.
Which partly why it is so rare.
I suspect the Chinese were just looking for something to start and then escalate an international incident over and Ishihara threw gas on the fire as usual.
The article clearly stated Ishihara started the spat.
I don't think any Chinese would actually want to spend millions and a likely risk of heavy jail terms just so much too taste panda flesh. ignorant fags are ignorant...
The panda no doubt got tired of the seisless political babble and rather just decided to go extinct.
Panda's got some integrity.
"I will not be your pawn"
I thought she'd be more like: "I don't want to live on this planet anymore," while facepalming.
China and Japan should fight already, so then Russia could claim extra islands, and then the U.S. could say "give it back" and then WW3 starts.
All that... over a Panda?!
Hey wars were started over pettier stuff. I predict the coming of the "Panda War".
Wars have started for lesser bullshit, so I wouldn't be surprised really.
Like an old married couple that's been together too long, any excuse to quibble & quip is a good excuse.
Whatever joke you were aiming for died like a baby panda half way through.
In Soviet Russia, panda has sex.
I thought it was funny.
in soviet russia, the pandas fuck you
I am sorry but ahahahah
But I thought it was common knowledge that pandas suck at taking care of their children and always need to be looked after by attendents- pandas gotta be the most self hating animals, that they just want to go extinct.
Pandas just fail at everything; they barely even want to reproduce to begin with, so it's no surprise that they'll abandon babies.
Umm that is obviously untrue. The fact that they had been alive for so long shows that something (humans) is interfering with their natural instinct and is causing them to put an end to themselves before they realize it. Animals don't need humans to live, that is too obvious to have to state. We humans make it so that without our own help they will just die out. I thought that would be common sense but after reading these comments I see how ignorant people are on this matter.
Amusing how such a creature is symbol of china. so fitting.
/palmface
HINT: It's not
In public sphere it is.