Nagano Oympic torch relay ends; 5 arrested, 4 injured after protests

Sunday 27th April, 12:08 AM JST

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UnagiDon at 02:54 AM JST - 28th April

It's sad and telling of how messed-up rabid nationalism has made Chinese society that for these supporters, it's all about China first, and the Olympics a distant second. Far too many red flags, too few Olympic ones...
thedeath at 12:43 PM JST - 28th April

unagidon, you right "Far too many red flags, too few Olympic ones"

it doesn't look like this Olympic is for all of us anymore. it more like those the olympic hosted by the german Nazi before the war.
OssanULTRA at 03:39 AM JST - 29th April

The Chinese govt, and now the Chinese people both within and outside of China, have added fuel to every fear, suspicion, prejudice and bias that the Western nations as well as non-western democracies have about China. No country wants to look at an angry mob of Chinese waving numerous red chinese flags in their own country.
Triple888 at 11:30 AM JST - 29th April

Yay! Everywhere, apart from the early leg of the relay in the west (which most Chinese there weren't too prepared for the large number of protesters), Chinese supporters out number all the trouble makers and bandwagon jumpers! I applaud their support! Good rules over evil!
Crucades at 01:40 PM JST - 29th April

The Chinese man yelled back, ‘‘Imperialism and colonialism are Japan’s well known features,’’ before the two started heated verbal exchanges.

Owned?
Rainrain at 09:14 PM JST - 29th April

The Olympics is a time to celebrate sports & share the joy of the athletes accomplishments/dreams & NOT a political platform.

China is making a concerted effort to do their best to be a gracious host & to share their culture, if only you allow it to.

Let's focus on the positive, celebrate sports & lift the Olympic spirits!
usaexpat at 12:00 AM JST - 30th April

Realist, thank you for your post one of the most logical and encouraging here. I have many Chinese friends who's parents escaped Mao to the US and Japan. They were not waving flags and do not feel that the world is picking on China. They by circumstance can see the anger of the world is directed at the PRC and their's is as well.
OssanULTRA at 01:59 AM JST - 30th April

"For your information. Again the Western media has lied about the number of people that died during the Tiananmen Square stating that thousands died when it was in the hundreds."

Good grief...you sound exactly like the Black truck boys "No we didn't kill 300,000 civilians it was 100,000!!"
Crucades at 06:12 PM JST - 1st May

The Olympics is a time to celebrate sports & share the joy of the athletes accomplishments/dreams & NOT a political platform.

China is making a concerted effort to do their best to be a gracious host & to share their culture, if only you allow it to.

Let's focus on the positive, celebrate sports & lift the Olympic spirits!

I really like this post, we got to remember the Games arent about which country is invading another or which president did this or that, its about seeing the pinnacle of human sportsmanship
redacted at 06:34 PM JST - 1st May

The thugs and goons who control China, who are in fact the direct heirs to the mass-murderer Mao Tse Tung, will make these the worst Olympics ever.

China-bashing will be a new Olympic sport by the time they are over.
staytune at 08:29 PM JST - 1st May

hey,redacted,you don't like China,you don't like those "thugs and goons" who's controling it,just feel free to not watch this worstever Olympics,no one ask you to.but if your country's sport team really make a good performance there and earn a lot of medals in the games that will be just a shame for you not watching. ^_^
OssanULTRA at 06:39 AM JST - 2nd May

Will any country be permitted to win more Gold medals than China? Will any French athletes be permittted to do so? Will the rampant nationalism of the masses allow this? If China does not take the most gold medals, will it be because of the Western bias and prejudice?
frontandcentre at 12:16 PM JST - 2nd May

It always amuses me to see how many Chinese regard an attack on their unelected, criminal dictators as an attack on their country as a whole (like when the car advertisers dared to poke fun at mass-murderer Mao). It's rather like the Americans here who cannot distinguish between criticism of G W Bush and being "anti-American" which are obviously quite opposite things.

It's in China's own interest to rid themselves of these communist dinosaurs and get an elected, accountable government - though that may well not change the policy of China towards Tibet, of course
rajakumar at 01:47 AM JST - 3rd May

97 days to go for olympic sports events to begin. Focus on the positive energy of the games.

East-west magic fusion of global positive energy vibes in the olympics, gives more positive vibes than words can give.

Enjoy the positive spirit of the games,let it uplift the human spirit to excel in sports.

Let all nations work with beijing's hard work as hosts, to make it the best ever sporting event in 2008.

The olympics 2008 can be as sucessful or better than Sydney 2000 or Athens 2004.
TonyUS at 03:44 PM JST - 4th May

The people of China needs political re-education but in the opposite sense of what the CCP commits the people to.. The people need to be politically re-educated with the idea of freedoms and not being detained and re-educated on how to be silent followers as the CCP is doing today and has been practicing for the last 60 years.

All that has been accomplished with the Olympic Torch relay demonstrations is the fact that the people of China has been taught not to understand freedoms that the rest of the democratic countries of the world practices,, and that is a shame! Also shows that the CCP has been a sham and an educator of a false society, one that does not think for oneself and not a true face of the people, but a society that has been taught and forced to obey and to shut up! Haven’t any of this opened the eyes of the Chinese people, after all of these years that the whole outside world has used their influence to gain the people of China what they have progressed to today, but still today we see these same people stand up and with those that has only suppressed them and their families in the past and present??? This just blows my mind!

Political re-education should be the topic of freedom instead of how to be lead around by the nose and brain washed into thinking that these self empowered leaders are the way of the future when they have only been the slackers of the past and what has kept China from progressing for so many years as they had taken all possessions from the people, from the start of their forced type rule of the land.

China never deserved the Olympics to be held their because the leaders are not of rights for the people and the people themselves are showing how they also need much more education of what the truth of the past of China is and also to be confronted and educated about the lives those before them had suffered under the thumb of the very same leaders and leadership practiced today in China. How could so many in China say they have the knowledge when they stand of to the side and watch the communist elite shape the future of China society instead of insisting that the society be shaped by the people of China themselves?

The Olympics have done nothing for China and its people, except give more support for those that has only suppressed rights. Plus now we have those that have been and are being suppressed, standing with those self empowered leaders that are gratefully absorbing the peoples sense of nationalism that emboldens these few even more to keep the tight reign on society..
Unbelievable!!!!! Just unbelievable!!! Well considering the history maybe it is very easy to understand..