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Why does a Japanese person live himself as a "Chinese"?
"I just like China, married a Chongqing woman, gave birth to a daughter of Chinese-Japanese mixed race, how can I be said to please China by people of the same ethnic group"?
For Yano Koji, perhaps no one understands the meaning of these four words of homesickness more deeply than him.
The name Koji Yano may not be comparable to the well-known Ken Takakura, Takuya Kimura, Takeshi Kitano and others.
However, many viewers who have liked to watch anti-Japanese dramas since childhood must be very familiar with Koji Yano's face.
At that time, I once sighed that this actor played a Japanese person!
When the cast list rolled out, I was surprised to find that it was really Japanese!
In the movie "Eternal Lovers", he played Kawashima.
In the TV series "Railway Guerrilla", he played the Japanese officer Okamura.
For the audience, the most impressive thing about him is the Japanese officer he played in the TV series "Little Soldier Zhang Ga".
In 2008, Koji Yano crossed over as a variety show and served as the host in Hunan TV's gold medal program "Up Every Day".
Why did you choose Koji Yano?
Let's put it this way, in addition to the audience liking him, even the crew director also particularly favors him, he is the only Japanese actor in China, in addition to playing "devils, villains", but also played eight roads, office workers.
It was not until September 2012, when the "Diaoyu Dao Incident" broke out in full force, that Hunan Taiwan stopped Yano's work.
During that time, Koji, who lost his job, was also very painful, for him, China was like his "adoptive mother", and Japan was his "birth mother", sandwiched between two "mothers", left and right were not flattering, which was very embarrassing for him.
Someone asked him to come out and state his "position", what can he say?
During that time, Yano Koji locked himself in a hotel room, not daring to contact the outside world at all.
In the face of the "verbal dispute" between the media of the two countries, he felt very painful, and once admitted that it was like seeing his birth mother fighting with his adoptive mother.
Even so, however, Yano remained beloved by Chinese audiences, and in 2011 he won the Most Popular Foreigner award from People's Daily's Global Times, the first time it had been given to a Japanese person.
Why was it awarded to Koji Yano? Not without reason.
Every time he returns to Japan, Yano praises the benefits of China on Japanese variety shows.
Perhaps because of this, for such a "pro-China" Japanese, there are many Japanese who scold him.
Language barriers and asymmetry in information exchange may be the primary cause of misunderstanding.
There is a speculation called three people into tigers; There is a kind of slander called making something out of nothing.
It is said that once he returned to Japan to film, under his personal social platform account, the message area was almost full of Japanese verbal criticism of him.
If you just verbally express your dissatisfaction, it seems understandable, after all, a Japanese person lives more and more like a "Chinese", how can he not let his own people think more?
However, what is shocking is that Koji Yada was attacked by radicals in Japan because he was "pro-China".
Once, Yada Koji returned to his hometown to visit relatives, because he repeatedly praised China in public, causing dissatisfaction among Japanese radicals.
It is said that after the attack, Yada Koji's injuries were quite serious, with multiple soft tissue injuries and varying degrees of injuries to his face and wrists.
Although he was beaten by his hometown, it still did not prevent Yada Koji from liking China's enthusiasm, he believes that although China is not very good in some small details, but in general, China's large and rich cultural environment makes him feel particularly warm, so he will not be happy.
However, just as many Japanese suspect him of denigrating Japan in China, many Chinese doubt whether he has denigrated China on Japanese television.
So, does Koji Yano have one?
Don't say it, there really is.
Once, Yano Koji once complained about Chinese in Japan, saying that he was not used to Chinese way of raising dogs, and said that Chinese was not qualified to have a dog.
It turns out that when Japanese people go out to walk their dogs, they bring plastic bags and tissues, and when the dog urinates outside, the owner will clean it up.
However, according to Yano's observation, many Chinese do not care about their dogs' excrement in public places, and they do not care about the public environment.
As soon as this remark came out, it spread across the sea to China, which immediately hurt the self-esteem of many Chinese people, although we know that he is telling the truth, but in Japan to expose the shortcomings of the Chinese, and then come to China to make money, is it not appropriate?
In the face of verbal criticism on the Internet, Yano Koji hurriedly apologized, and said that his remarks made a few years ago were also translated by someone with a heart, and he himself felt incredible.
And his wife and daughter are Chinese, if he really has a tendency to insult Chinese, isn't he insulting his wife and daughter together?
On second thought, it is really like that, so there are also many people who support him, saying that he does not need to apologize, because this situation is indeed very common.
Near parks and green belts, the smell of dog poop in the air is not uncommon, right?
Koji Yano is a special being, in China, he plays Japanese; In Japan, he plays Chinese.
A few years ago, there was a very popular Japanese drama "Doctor Gate Unknown" in the fourth season, in which he played a local tycoon Wang Chao from China.
Perhaps because he was used to seeing his Japanese officer appearance in domestic dramas, he suddenly saw him play Chinese in a large number of Japanese dramas, and he inexplicably had a sense of intimacy.
Some people say that he is left and right between China and Japan, and he admits that because he is not the child of a rich family, he can only survive in this way, and the skill of left and right is not born, but the result of social tempering.
On January 21, 1974, Koji Yano was born Japan Osaka.
At the age of 19, Koji Yano, who graduated from high school, did not continue his studies because of his family, but ran to a bar to work as a bartender, barely making ends meet.
There are all kinds of people in the bar, and he has seen a lot of various anecdotes, and the ability to observe words and colors was also learned at that time.
Once, a friend got drunk, looked at his handsome and tough face, patted his cheek, and muttered: "If you weren't my friend, I thought you were a big star from where"!
The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional.
At that time, Koji, his mother was seriously ill in bed, and the family was most short of money, reminded by a friend, Yano Koji suddenly realized that he was not unqualified to be an actor.
With a height of 1.75 meters, a weight of 130 pounds, a slender, handsome and handsome young man with a jade tree, why can't he be an actor?
The so-called ideal, isn't it that you think only if you feel reasonable, and only after thinking about it will there be action, and after action, there will be results?
Just do what you say, just go, quit his job at the bar, and Koji Yano began to wander in the Japanese entertainment industry.
However, the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.
The ecological environment of the Japanese entertainment industry is very harsh, and the phenomenon of seniority is very serious, which is quite unfriendly to the development space of newcomers.
In order to get a job as an assistant, Yano Koji even knelt down in public, while the people watching the excitement were taking pictures and laughing at him quietly.
However, even in exchange for the opportunity to debut in this extremely humiliating way, the prospects are still not optimistic, and the salary of 20,000 or 30,000 yen per month cannot solve the family's predicament.
The first work, although it was the later fire "Midnight Bells", but in this play, Yano Koji did not even get a line, and the camera quickly slipped in front of him, without leaving the slightest impression on the audience.
It was not until Yano Koji came to China that he deeply realized the difference between the two circles.
Koji Yano is very grateful to the Chinese crew for giving him the opportunity to film, and specially signed up for a Chinese class for this to study Chinese seriously.
When language communication is no longer a communication barrier, Koji Yano, who looks more and more like "Chinese" the more he lives, seems to be no different from Chinese from the appearance alone.
Therefore, his career gradually improved, and Koji Yano, who became famous in China, married a Chinese woman as a daughter-in-law, which is naturally a natural thing.
If it weren't for the fact that Yano Koji showed a Chongqing speech in the live broadcast room, perhaps many people don't know that he married a Chongqing man as a daughter-in-law, right?
Regarding the situation of Koji's daughter-in-law, it was once rumored that she was the actor Fu Jing, in fact, Yano Koji's daughter-in-law is not Fu Jing, but someone else.
The two met during filming, but the other party was not an actor and was said to be an outsider.
After the two got married, they gave birth to a daughter in 2010, named Xinyue.
As we all know, Tsuki is the hometown of Akira, and for Yano Koji, where there are relatives, it is the hometown, so it is natural for her daughter to join the Chinese nationality.
It was once rumored on the Internet that Koji Yano was expelled from Japan, but it was actually a rumor, Yano Koji once solemnly stated that he did not leave the identity of Japanese nationality, for him, forgetting his hometown, forgetting his parents, that is the real sense of betrayal.
At the height of the epidemic in Wuhan, Koji Yano and the brand he endorsed raised a total of 130,000 masks to send to Wuhan.
In the face of justice and truth, he stood for China, and cheered for Chinese, but he never forgot to raise his homeland.
In Yano Koji's heart, China is his second hometown, now Yano Koji, is 48 years old, in addition to continuing to film, making money to support his family, he also actively participates in various public welfare activities, he feels that Japan has not given him the opportunity, in China got it, for him, people must know the Entu newspaper.
And all verbal expressions are not as meaningful as putting them into practice.
Perhaps, in the future world, the world is the same, there is no longer any racial distinction, if this is the case, perhaps the people of that era will have a common identity, collectively called the villagers of the global village, right?
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