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Japan nixed SDF aid due to hostile reaction (The Japan Times)
Japan backed down from a plan to dispatch the Air Self-Defense Force to send aid to quake-stricken China after miscalculating the deep-rooted hostility Chinese harbor from their wartime experience with Japan. Unlike past disputes related to bilateral history, however, the Chinese government was also party to the failed efforts to properly anticipate the Chinese public’s reaction to the envisaged …