Japan and China are Different! By Maya

(Japan on the left China on the right.)




A lot of people think Japan and China are relatively the same thing and in some ways they are. Such as the architecture is a lot alike and both eat lots of curious foods with chopsticks. But I've been to both places and am here to tell you they are more different than the same.

Like take cleanliness for instance. Cleanliness is really big in Japan, not so much in China. They seem to be the two extremes on the scale of clean. Japan is so clean no one eats in public, in China spitting is kind of a trend.
China also has much worse air because of all the pollutants (cars, factories etc.) Japan's air is nice to breathe and all the skies are blue instead of a gray-black color. Except when it rains which it does - often.

China's government is really strict with almost everything such as the internet and movies. One thing they are very lax on how ever is traffic laws. It pretty much comes down to, lines and lights are only a suggestion. Where as I never had any problems getting on websites in Japan and all the cars stop and let the pedestrians go at the appointed times. When the little red guy comes up J-walking is almost unheard of.

This is only a fragment of the differences between Japan and China. Next time some idiot says, "Japan and China are the same thing," at least I will be able to prove them wrong.