She is doing everything right. Absolutely.<p>If you want to be closer to Chinese people it's essential that you use their "stuff". First thing I did when I lived there was signup for QQ.<p>For a Japanese person to be making any effort to learn anything Chinese is really huge. She might not realize it, but she is giving her country great PR. The Japanese government should sponsor her and make her into an ambassador of sorts (if not her, then put together a band of publicly acceptable "youths".)<p>However, it's not that hard to get 1M followers in China, specially for an entertainer. If China has anything in abundance, it's easily excitable and bored young men (it really boggles the mind when one takes the bus after school and sees millions upon millions of uniformed teens just within 30 minutes)