"Japan must be one of the most difficult places to carry out pro-democracy activities," Yang Chung-mei explains. Western countries such as America view human rights as a central issue on the political scene and have opted to lend direct support to the Chinese pro-democracy movement. But this is not the case in Japan.
「從事民運活動，日本可說最難的了」，楊中美舉例，西方國家以美國來說，自獨立以來，向以人權為其主要的政治思想，對中國民主運動採取直接支持的態度，但是在日本卻行不通。