China → Japan

  • Japan is part of the Chinese cultural sphere
  • They learned and borrowed kanji (Chinese characters)

China → Japan

  • Japan was first modernized in the Meiji Restoration
  • Many ideas and actual Chinese words were first invented by the Japanese (need sources)
    • Examples: society, science, chemistry, time(?), etd

What next?

More culture is coming from Japan into China in recent years

What about the other direction? I really do not know