Japanese expect leaders like Cao Cao

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Japanese expect leaders like Cao Cao

16:35, March 10, 2010      

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Japan's Kyodo News agency reported that Hatoyama cabinet's support rate is on the decline and Hatoyama said Monday that it was necessary to accept fellow citizen's criticism.

Hatoyama acknowledged that the main reason of the decline in support was that more citizens felt the cabinet had failed to realize their expectations.

Latest poll shows support for Hatoyama's cabinet is only at 36.3 percent, falling below 40 percent for the first time since it came to power, which means the Democrats face a crisis of confidence. And Hatoyama's leadership has also been questioned.

In addition, Japanese citizens also feel worried about Toyota's recall crisis. Citizens have a strong desire to have a strong leader. Because Japanese like to read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, they expect leaders to be like Cao Cao.

Japan needs an absolute strong man

But what Japanese people are familiar with is the Records of Three Kingdoms, which is written by Yokoyama Mitsuteru according to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century. Since Yokoyama's Records of the Three Kingdoms was available for sale in 1939, over 15 million copies have been sold.

Why are Japanese so attracted by Cao Cao?

"Japan is lacking leadership and we need strong man like Cao Cao". "Only people, like Cao Cao, can lead the Japanese economy out of the recession". "Cao Cao is very powerful". All the above mentioned are the reasons why people admire Cao Cao.

Japan's lack of dominant forces to lead the country's future direction encourages people to choose Cao Cao, rather than the virtuous Liu Bei. Maybe it can be said "events make heroes".

In the Japanese Records of the Three Kingdom, the important features come from the Shu Kingdom, represented by Liu Bei, better known as Xuan De, who founded the Kingdom of Shu. Cao Cao is a negative character. While in the recent poll among 120,000 people, the number of votes for Cao Cao outnumbers that of Liu Bei, Sun Quan and other characters.

Japanese kids are very familiar with history of the Three Kingdoms

Japanese people are very familiar and interested in the history during the period of the Three Kingdoms. Japanese ambassador to China Yuji Miyamoto has said: "I read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as early as fifth grade in elementary school."

Not only are the stories on the Three Kingdoms are included in secondary school textbooks, but there are stories in animation and video games. Many kids have familiar with the stories and characters of the Three Kingdoms before they read the textbooks because they have watched puppet shows of the Records of the Three Kingdoms, read the related comic books and played related video games.

Companies regard characters in the Three Kingdoms as role models

Many bosses in Japan regard the characters in the book as role models. Matsushita, the founder of Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., has said the characters, full of wisdom, in the book, are his teachers. According to a survey conducted by The 21, a Japanese magazine, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the most respected classical Chinese novel among Japanese people, which has deeply influenced the management thinking of Japanese companies. Bosses learning management from the book is a open secret.

Exam on the content of the Three Kingdoms held

Japan has successfully held two exams on the content of the book. In the last year's exam, the content is all from Chinese film Red Cliffs.

Cao Cao, a handsome man

Japan's animation and game industries have played an important role in promoting Cao Cao's image, which is often glorified as a guy with straight thick eyebrows, a very penetrating eyes, handsome looks and gorgeous armor. Cao Cao is a cool man in the animation and video games.

By People's Daily Online