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Japan and China: changing name of Woman’s Day

A member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference suggests to Change the name of Fu-nu’s Day (婦女節) to Nu-xin’s Day (女性節), following Japan’s example. Zhaihua points out(zh) that such change is unnecess... ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Thu, Mar 08 2007

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