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Visitors use toy weapons to shoot pictures of Japanese soldiers at a theme park in Wuxiang, Shanxi province, China, on Oct. 20.
Visitors at two Chinese theme parks can participate in performances (complete with actors and professional sound and lighting effects) where they can role play as soldiers from the Japanese army or the Chinese Eighth Route Army, one of the main military forces of the Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The parks, located near the former headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, cost the local Wuxiang government around $80 million to construct.
Tensions between China and Japan have escalated in recent months over disputed islands in the East China Sea and anti-Japanese sentiment is on the rise in China.
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A woman dressed as a Japanese soldier runs along a trench during a live-action role-playing game at a theme park in China.
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A boy dressed as a Japanese soldier pretends to shoot.
Jason Lee / Reuters
Actors dressed as Japanese soldiers pretend to shoot a man dressed as a plainclothes Eighth Route Army soldier during a performance at the Eighth Route Army Culture Park in Wuxiang, Shanxi province, on Oct. 20.
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Actors dressed as Japanese military soldiers and Chinese villagers perform during a show at the Eighth Route Army Culture Park.
Jason Lee / Reuters
Pictures of Japanese military soldiers are displayed as targets for shooting at a theme park in Wuxiang, Shanxi province, China, on Oct. 20.
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This appears to be an outright taunt to the people of Japan. I wonder how our country would deal with a war between China and Japan. Japan is one of our greates allies, yet our country is more than a trillion dollars in debt to China (we owe near as much to Japan). Who's side would we be on?
You would think that we would be on the side of Japan, but our massive debt to China and its financial holdings in this country, may put us on the side of the aggressors. Our country is forced to buy products from China that are known to be hazardous to human (or animal) health, yet nothing is done to forbid them from doing business with us because of the debt and lack of manufacturing jobs here in the US.
Outsourcing jobs to foreign countries and amassing huge quantities of debt to foreign lenders is outright STUPID!
I hope that whoever is elected would stop blowing smoke and actually do something about this, but they're both politicians and financial wealthy, so we will probablly get the status quo.
I'm not sure we actually have a choice, with the software and viruses running our Military Equipment we would probably just be captive observers...
Its like if Chase and Bank of America went to war while one has your mortage and another owns your car payment
why is this a "taunt"? it's history being told. "great ally"? what happens if we didn't nuke them twice? lol
That looks like a lot of fun! I wanna play too!!!
WTH people? re enacting wars and death at a theme park? Is Art of Killing a requirement or an elective in Chinese schools?
I see no realistic problems with the theme park. China and Japan tensions go way back. It's good to blow off a little steam. People get too sensitive about the craziest crap.
I'd love to see something like this here in the U.S. We're too friggin PC.
Some one should build a theme park in Chickamonga Georgia and have fun shooting damn Yankees.
this is great. If I were a kazillionaire I would open a theme park for old war experiences. This is great.
It's not the efigy of soldiers that they should shoot at--------it should be the leaders and politicians who start the wars!!