Fukuhara Ai's love for China audiences is largely due to her long-term life experience in China. She was sent to China to study and live when she was very young. She has a very deep affection for China, and she is as close as brothers to the China women's table tennis players. In fact, China fans have never regarded her as a Japanese from the bottom of their hearts, and she has undoubtedly become China's favorite Japanese athlete. In fact, for me, China has long been regarded as her second hometown, especially after she married Jiang, a male table tennis player from Taiwan Province Province, China, and became China's daughter-in-law, her feelings with China became closer.
Apart from these origins with China, there are actually two events that make China people more identify with this porcelain doll. Once, during the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, she was very concerned about the affected people in China. She was very angry when she heard that the Japanese government had only sent 60 rescuers. For the first time in her life, she vowed to go to the disaster area for disaster relief. Although she can't really go to the disaster area, her words are enough to warm the hearts of China people. On another occasion, Fukuhara Ai participated in a Japanese food program, and the host proudly said that beef tongue is a kind of food that only Japanese people can cook, but not in China. After hearing the derogatory remarks of the host, Fukuhara Ai refuted them on the spot, and also popularized science in Chinese for the audience.
Through these two things, we can see that in Fukuhara Ai's small body, there is a very firm heart, which will always be associated with China. Her behavior of defending China in this way really deserves our respect. In fact, China people are not as strongly nationalistic as foreign media say. We just respect those Japanese who respect China and history.