Northern Chinese city donates 100,000 face masks to Kobe

Saturday 23rd May, 06:27 AM JST

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Beelzebub at 09:50 AM JST - 23rd May

I guess Tianjin had a lot of unused leftover masks from the SARS epidemic.
Sarge at 11:29 AM JST - 23rd May

I saw a photo of one woman in Kobe wearing a mask decorated with a butterfly.
KaptainKichigai at 11:54 AM JST - 23rd May

PHEW! Thanks Northern China! That was a close one!
kayloc at 12:34 PM JST - 23rd May

why even gaijin in japan have so many bad stereotype about china?
MeanRingo at 01:37 PM JST - 23rd May

I believe the Europeans used a similar method with blankets (and small pox) to endear themselves with the local inhabitants of North America. From where I'm sitting it looks like the deal worked out.
Weasel at 02:34 PM JST - 23rd May

Leftover's from the SARS fiasco.
hakujinsensei at 03:01 PM JST - 23rd May

Why all the China bashing? goodDonkey, that was so funny I almost pissed myself, you should have left out the rational part ; ) I will be in Kobe on monday, hoping to see all the advertisements for the dear leader. I hope I can find one. I am going to ask my Kobe buds to snag one for me. Actually I was there the last two mondays as well and have yet to get the pig flu. Is it possible that the pandemic was overhyped?
Terrikus at 06:16 PM JST - 23rd May

Actually what IS with all the China bashing. They can't win. A Chinese city (one i happen to live in at the moment) performs a nice gesture for a Japanese(!) city, and they still managed to get bashed for it. Wonderful.
fatfrenchfool at 10:51 PM JST - 23rd May

is very nice I think, good for those
OssanAmerica at 07:23 AM JST - 24th May

It's a very nice gesture from the Chinese. But perhaps putting the Chinese flag on each mask wasn't really necessary.
Monoflow at 04:33 PM JST - 24th May

Tianjin supports Kobe would be enough on it... Wherever people live, most of them will not wear such masks with a foreign flag on it. Or can you imagine, Americans will wear one with a Russian flag, or French one with an Union Jack, or Chinese with a Japanese Flag? So, it's (probably) a nice offer, but obviously they didn't think about...
1keiron at 09:52 PM JST - 24th May

A word to the paranoid, the Chinese sneezed on every one of those masks. A word to the rational, I am just being paranoid.

Do you think you're big and clever now or something with that stupid remark?
thedeath at 06:26 AM JST - 25th May

donation with out any agenda behind is a good think, but

The masks, adorned with a Chinese flag and a sticker that reads ‘‘Tianjin supports Kobe,’’

that turned to be just another crappy communist's propaganda. i doubt who would ware it! will a chinese in china ware a mask with J flag on? the communist know it, but they do it anyway. it is not a humanitarian or friendship purpose, it is just the stupid communist show-off.
Terrikus at 12:03 PM JST - 25th May

A national flag now denotes "communist propoganda"?
dennis0bauer at 03:27 PM JST - 25th May

Beelzebub at 09:50 AM JST - 23rd May

I guess Tianjin had a lot of unused leftover masks from the SARS epidemic.

maybe they are second hand masks?