http://www.aroundtherings.com/article.php?pid=1315 Korea Launches 2014 Winter Olympics Bid Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005 The head of South Korea’s bid for the 2014 Olympics tells Around the Rings “confidence is high” as he prepares for a rematch with another contender for 2010, Salzburg, Austria. Gangwon Province Governor Kim Jin Sun says “we’ve made a lot of progress.” South Korea officially launched launches its latest bid for the Winter Olympics with the first board of directors meeting for PyeongChang 2014. The 91-member board met Thursday at the Olympic Park Hotel in Seoul
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, April 6, 2005 · http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=ID%20Human%20Smuggling Idaho -- Two men have been charged in U.S. District Court with knowingly transporting illegal aliens over the Canadian border last weekend, the second time in four months authorities have had a case of alleged human smuggling of Koreans in Idaho's Panhandle. Sang Yoon Kim of Vancouver, British Columbia, and fellow defendant Bum Suk Kim of Korea were arrested early Sunday and were being held in the Shoshone County Jail, along with the 13 Korean women they allegedly smuggled across the border last weekend. 日本刑甘過ぎじゃないの?↓ At their first court appearance Tuesday, the two men waived their right to a preliminary hearing. Each faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine if found guilty. The charges come less than a week after the Idaho Legislature decided to form an interim committee to study the problem of human trafficking in Idaho. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy Cook said her office is concerned that the Korean woman may have been destined to become prostitutes in California In December, Cook said she had a case that involved two men, one a Korean national and the other a Korean Canadian, who brought in six women over the border. Cook recently reached a plea agreement in that case, but the defendants have yet to be sentenced. On Tuesday, the 13 Korean women - from the baby-faced to middle-aged - filed into the courtroom cuffed together, and all but one wore the green smocks of the Shoshone County Jail. The one who was dressed in street clothes walked with a limp from a recent injury. They were being held in jail because the U.S. government considers them a flight risk, U.S. District Court Judge Larry M. Boyle told them through an interpreter.
JT Moderator: This is not on topic. It's a recurring anti-Korean rant that you try to post everytime such a topic comes up
このスレで勝手に人のユザー名を使い書き込んでいました。 後でこの偏見極まり無い文章はまずい事に気が付いて自分で削除した模様です。 Kyoto church minister arrested for molesting 12-year-old girl Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 07:28 JST http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=333220
173 名前:<丶`∀´>(´・ω・`)(`ハ´ )さん[sage] 投稿日:2005/04/07(木) 12:20:36 ID:xIAB37ZJ <他のスレで拾った資料> ttp://coralnet.or.jp/kakichi/qa-2.ex3.usreport.html UNITED STATES OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION 米国戦争資料 Psychological Warfare Team 心理作戦担当部門 Attached to U.S.Army Forces India-Burma Theator インド・ビルマ方面米国陸軍 APO 689 Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation 日本人戦犯の尋問調書 Report No. 49. Place interrogated : Ledo Stookade 尋問の場所:レド・ストーカダ Date Interrogated : Aug. 20 - Sept. 10, 1944 尋問日時:1944年8月20日〜9月10日 Date of Report : October 1, 1944 報告書作成日:1944年10月1日 By : T/3 Alex Yorichi 尋問者アレックス・ヨリチ . Prisoners : 20 Korean Comfort Girls 被尋問者:韓国人売春婦、20人 Date of Capture : August 10, 1944 拘束日時:1944年8月10日 Date of Arrival : August 15, 1994 移動日時:1944年8月15日 at Stookade ストーカダにて
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>>26 Not Just Another Pretty Face In China, prostitution is so widespread that even the educated are joining the oldest profession By Sarah Schafer NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL Today there are more than 10 million prostitutes across the country. http://forums.yellowworld.org/archive/index.php/t-9924.html VV o n g B aとAliBabaIncorporatedを合わせて記事全部
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糞AFPまただよ。竹島の時もそうだったし、AFPって親鮮なんだね。 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=vn20050407113908305C968236 April 07 2005 at 12:57PM Tokyo - A 61-year-old Japanese Christian pastor was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at a church, news reports said. Tamotsu Nagata, who heads the Central Church of Holy God in the ancient capital of Kyoto, allegedly threatened the girl to keep her silent, telling her she would spend eternity in hell if she told anyone. The Protestant pastor allegedly repeatedly assaulted the girl, a member of his congregation, until late last year. He was allegedly suspected of sexually assaulting several young girls. Neither police nor the church could be reached for comment.- Sapa-AFP
South Korea says islets more important than relations with Japan Agence France-Presse Seoul, March 9, 2005 http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1272134,0005.htm 「竹島」の場所を説明する部分で、「日本海」に「東海」を併記しています。 Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon said on Wednesday South Korea was prepared to risk ties with Japan to defend its claims over a group of disputed islets in the 【Sea of Japan (East Sea).】
"The issue of 【Dokdo(これは韓国外相のコメントなのでOK】 concerns our sovereignty. It is a concept high above maintaining the South Korea-Japan relations," Ban told a weekly briefing.
韓国軍機の出撃の部分の記事で、「独島」表示だけで、「竹島」は全く使われていません。 Earlier on Wednesday South Korea's foreign ministry lodged a complaint with Japan's embassy here a day after Seoul's defence
The unintentional comedy factor is rather large in Japan, I think mostly because so many foriegn things have been appropriated here without any sense of background or context to them. Also, I have found the locals to have little sense of irony or satire, and that aids the unintentional comedy factor on many occasions.
This morning we had the ceremony to welcome the ichinenseis. They all form lines according to class in an anteroom, then walk towards the stage through the middle of the ni and sans sitting on the gym floor. As they did this, first the "Imperial March" (usually played when Darth Vader enters a room, or storm troopers are parading), then the "Ewok's theme" blasted from the speakers.
I couldn't stop myself from a choked laugh as one theme morphed into the other and got a few "eeeeehhhhhh?" looks. High unintentional commedy factor though, subliminally announcing the ichis first as storm troopers, then Ewoks...
Interesting thread for me, as it reminded me of a thread I thought of posting but forgot about.
My graduation just showed what a mockery Japanese people unknowingly make out of themselves: Students dressed in Prussian military attire, entering a basketball court to the tune of music that would not have been out of place at the Main Street parade at Disney World, to be addressed by a man dressed as John D, Rockefeller minus the top hat, who bows to the Japanese flag as he approaches the podium.
They take things way too f*** seriously over here. I remember during the World Cup a couple of big names said they wouldn't mind finishing their careers in Japan - total bullshit just said to asskiss a little - and the Japanese press jumped on it and by the way they wrote it up they made it sound like by the end of the year Beckham, Zidane, Ronaldo and Figo would all be signing for Kashima Antlers.
ttp://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=vn20050407113908305C968236 ↓ Tokyo - A 61-year-old Japanese Christian pastor was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at a church, news reports said. ↓ Tamotsu Nagata, who heads the Central Church of Holy God in the ancient capital of Kyoto, allegedly threatened the girl to keep her silent, telling her she would spend eternity in hell if she told anyone.
上のものに伝えると言って電話を切りそうだったので、記事の訂正をお願いしたら、 それについてはいまここではいえないというので、日本では続報がどんどんでているから それを記事にして、そのときにKorean Christianとin Japan と書いてくださいとお願いしました。 編集の方針によっては続報を流すかもしれないというので、そのときにはくれぐれも Korean Christianとin Japan と報道してください、Japanese Christianという誤解を招く 書き方は決してしないでくださいとお願いしました。
TOKYO: A 61-year-old Japanese Christian pastor was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at a church, news reports said. Tamotsu Nagata, who heads the Central Church of Holy God in the ancient capital of Kyoto, allegedly threatened the girl to keep her silent, telling her she could go to hell, Jiji Press said. Fuji TV said the Protestant pastor repeatedly assaulted the girl, a member of his congregation, until late last year. Japan’s top-selling daily Yomiuri Shimbun said Nagata was suspected of sexually assaulting several young girls. Neither police nor the church could be reached for comment.
I want to inform that the article "Japanese pastor held over sexual assault" is false. The pastor is Korean. His name is Kin Tamotsu, Kin is Japanese pronunciation of Kim. "Police Wednesday searched the church and the home of Kin, a South Korean resident of Japan who preaches under the name Tamotsu Nagata. They said they are also investigating to learn if he was involved in other molestations." http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050407a2.htm
Jon Whong, 2005/04/03 23:07 One should be very careful in writing photo captions. The picture showing a Japanese soldier 'wielding a saw' has previously identified as part of Kuomintang atrocities, possibly against Communists or their sympathizers. The instrument he is using to behead is a hay chopper (jakdoo), a common farm tool. The grisly collection of heads, cut off from their bodies, is Chinese in origin, not Koreans suspects of March 1919 uprising. You will see this picture in many of the PRC publications, especially the ones depicting the Japanese bestiality in Nanjing. I am sure the collection of photos on display may include few other examples of photos with historically inaccurate attribution. It does not help the credibility of this type of display to have photos mislabled this way.
Japan, China and South Korea are closely bound by trade, and politicians must do what they can to damp the dangerous ardour of the nationalists in their respective countries. But it is disturbing that Japanese text books are becoming less honest by the year, and that Japan now has active territorial disputes with China, South Korea and Russia. There is no hope of "future-oriented, friendly relations" unless Japan comes clean about its past.
http://www.blather.net/zeitgeist/archives/2005/04/no_whale_meat_f_1.html We are currently occupying the site of this proposed whale meat factory, in an industrial area surrounded by whale meat restaurants. The Korean government is redeveloping the area into a "city for whales" for the IWC, but the evidence points to a "city for whaling".
犬猫肉流通禁止法と同じで、ただの装飾法って事でしょ? Whaling is currently illegal in Korea, but trade is permitted if whales are "accidentally" caught.
However, Korea has "accidental" catches up to 100 times higher than that of countries which don't eat whale meat.
Please review the suggested letter below and make any changes you desire, emphasizing your personal reasons for concern. The letter will be sent to your country's Korean embassy (if it is in our database) and to the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. If you are from Korea, your letter will be sent instead to the Minister of Fisheries. http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=1729&s=whl I write with great concern that Korea's disappearing whales and dolphins are facing new threats - a proposed whale meat processing factory and a return to commercial whaling in Korea. It has come to my notice that a whale meat processing factory is proposed to be built in the city of Ulsan, and also that a local Member of Parliament in that area is calling for Korea to vote in support of the resumption of whaling at this year's International Whaling Commission meeting.
Currently it is only legal to trade in whale meat within Korea if the whales are 'accidentally' caught, otherwise known as bycatch. According to Korean government statistics submitted to the IWC however, the supposedly 'accidental' bycatch figures in Korea are up to 100 times higher than that of many non whale-meat trading nations. Even if commercial whaling does not resume, there is strong scientific evidence proving that these high rates of bycatch are enough in themselves to threaten the survival of even the most populous of whale species in Korean waters.
The driving licence scam exposed by TV3 has pitted new Chinese immigrants against old. But is the perception of bribery and corruption in the Chinese community being blown out of proportion? Ruth Laugesen investigates. Dr Yongjin Zhang, head of Auckland University's Asian studies department, says some new migrants are not adjusting their attitudes to corruption to their new surroundings. China is notorious for its corruption in high and low places. Its government has made the fight against corruption a priority - even introducing the death penalty for serious offences - but graft still flourishes, particularly in the booming construction industry, where multimillion-dollar contracts are at stake. Layers of officials control every aspect of Chinese society and economic life, multiplying the opportunities for kickbacks compared to more lightly-regulated economies. "It's very, very different (here). Where you cross the line in terms of law is very different." One example was burglary, which was very common in China. "You might think in China you can do a burglary and get away with it, but that is not the case here. You get away with it, but it is considered a very serious crime," he says. Another was verbal threats. Here you could go to court for threatening someone verbally. Or kidnapping - again more common in China, but regarded as a very serious matter here. Zhang says forms of bribery and corruption are deeply entrenched in Chinese tradition, persisting not only in mainland China, but in democratic free market economies such as Taiwan. He doubts that changes to the political system in China alone would rub out the habit. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3236130a1861,00.html
One example was burglary, which was very common in China.
"You might think in China you can do a burglary and get away with it, but that is not the case here. You get away with it, but it is considered a very serious crime," he says.
Asian Human Rights Commission South Korean Soldiers Massacred Vietnamese during Vietnam War http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2000/366/ We ask that you make an inquiry to establish the facts concerning the "Vietnamese Civilian Massacre" by Korean soldiers and make a public apology for these incidents to the Vietnamese people. an estimated 5,000 Vietnamese civilians were massacred by Korean soldiers in the provinces of QUANG NGAI, QUANG NAM, and BINH DINH during the course of the Vietnam war. Many innocent people including women, children and the elderly were killed without regard, and the massacres have left deep scars on the memories of the survivors. For this reason we request an official apology from those responsible in the military for ordering the operations and compensation to the innocent victims of the massacres.
Sophos Publishes Top 12 Spam Producing Countries List 8th April 2005 Sophos, Inc., a developer of anti-virus and anti-spam software, yesterday published the results of its research on the top twelve spam producing countries. SophosLabs, examined all spam messages received at its network of spam traps from January 2005 through March 2005. Based on the analysis, it found that the United States topped the Dirty Dozen chart once again, exporting an average of 35.70%, while South Korea 24.98% and China exporting 9.71% of all spam in the timeframe. In a recent report, http://news.webhosting.info/t-5182
During a visit to Hanoi in 1998, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung expressed regret over Korean actions in the Vietnam War, but he did not apologise. Vietnam responded by saying it sought no apology from any nation that fought on its soil. Long-time Vietnam watchers say Hanoi does not like to highlight specific horrors from decades of wars against the French and then the U.S.-backed South Vietnam.
South Korean leader's Vietnam War Apology Angers Opposition
Agence France Presse August 24, 2001
President Kim Dae-Jung was drawn into a political row on Friday for apologising to the visiting Vietnamese president over South Korea's participation in the Vietnam war. Kim made the apology during a summit with President Tran Duc Luong on Thursday. Tran ends a four day state visit on Saturday.
"I feel sorry for (South Korea) giving pain to the Vietnamese by participating in the miserable war," Kim was quoted as saying. "South Korea will cooperate with Vietnam even further to overcome the unhappy past."
But the Grand National Party (GNP), the biggest in parliament, lashed out at the Nobel Peace Prize winning South Korean leader. GNP spokesman Kwon Chun-hyun said the comments were "thoughtless" because of the number of South Korean soldiers killed in the 1961-75 war. South Korea fought with the United States alongside the South Vietnam army which was beaten by the communist North.
He said the apology would cause pain to the families of those who died and ex-soldiers still suffering from wounds suffered in Vietnam. Kim and Tran sealed a "Comprehensive Partnership in the 21st Century" at the summit, the first of its kind in South Korea since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1992. Tran and his 90-member entourage of officials and businessmen on Friday visited an LG Electronics plant in Pyongtaek, Kyonggi province. They inspected digital TV production lines and displays of information and communication equipment. LG has factories in Vietnam. The Vietnamese leader also visited the historic city of Kyongju. He will go to the major port of Ulsan on Saturday before leaving South Korea.
The latest such act of perceived impenitence is the Japanese government’s approval of a set of school books written by nationalist historians, which reportedly omit or gloss over such wartime atrocities as the rape of thousands of “comfort women”, captured and used as sex slaves by the Japanese military.
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An American wrote about how he's a teacher in japan and all the kids girls/boys try to grab his dick to see how big it is, and try to shove their fingers up his ass.... and the other teachers see and just laugh:
I found this article to be extremely shallow and unbalanced.
You must be aware that both China and Korea has ONLY ONE, GOVERNMENT-ISSUED textbook that teaches their self-serving version of the history. Japan has tens of textbooks prepared by independent publishers and historians. The government only examines and certifies them to ensure they meet certain level of minimal requirement. Both countries oppress scholars and researchers who do not subscribe to the government's version of the history. These are critical pieces of information for the reader needs to evaluate the situation, but you withheld them both.
It is also extremely unfair to Japan for your paper to blindly pass on the propaganda prepared by China and Korea as the truth. The "comfort women" were nothing more than highly-paid prostitutes gathered and managed by private parties, who were following the military. They were there to minimize the incidents of rape and to minimize the spread of STDs among soldiers. And if you want to make this into a moral issue, you should be aware that use of such "comfort women" is not at all unusual. Even the US force occupying Japan was no exception. As to the "atrocities," I must first point out that war, by definition, is atrocious, and the blame goes both ways. As to the existence large, systematic violation of the rules of engagements by Japanese, such as, so called "Nanjing massacre," China has not been able to produce any evidence that can stand against close examination.
I ask you to be fair, and that you obtain historical facts from work done by respectable researchers not from the likes of Iris Chang. At least, you should be qualifying highly disputed historical incidence with weasel words such as "claimed" or "alleged."
>>124 http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1342034.htm ABC Radio Australia South Korean fugitive sighted in Vietnam Last Updated 10/04/2005, 15:14:57 One of South Korea's most-wanted fugitives, the former head of the country's Daewoo Group, has reportedly been sighted at a hotel in Vietnam. Kim Woo-Choong has been on the run since 2001, accused of embezzling millions of dollars, in one of the world's biggest business accounting frauds. A Korean National has reported seeing Kim at a Ho Chi Minh City hotel, where he checked in using his own name, listing his company as Daewoo. He's been hiding overseas since 1999 when Daewoo Group, once the country's second largest conglomerate, collapsed under debt estimated at 80 billion US dollars. An arrest warrant was issued via Interpol in 2001.
Demonstrations against Japan have spread in China since Tokyo approved a new history textbook that critics say glosses over atrocities by Japan's military in the first half of the 20th century, including forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into sex slavery.
Unlike Iris Chang's exhaustively researched, "The Rape of Nanking", a vivid account of terror and death leading to genocide, Rabe's diaries are surprisingly understated. One reason might be because "cases are pouring in faster than we can type them out?.
[8] Chang (1997: 139). Chang has not misused her sources here: this is pure fiction. The issue of Iris Chang and the Japanese reception of her work requires further research. Her book has been used by deniers of the massacre to discredit all those who argue that atrocities took place. Given that Chang is so obviously wrong, the conclusion drawn by some is that if Chang is wrong, then all who would argue that atrocities took place are equally wrong. As rhetoric, this methodology is very effective, but is clearly inappropriate. For an example, see Higashinakano Osamichi and Fujioka Nobukatsu (1999).
[19] Honda Katsuichi’s Nankin e no Michi (The Road to Nanjing) has recently been published in English. It may be that the Great Massacre School, having arguably lost the intellectual debate in Japan over the Nanjing Incident, has decided to concentrate on English. See Honda (1999).
Japan, China and South Korea are closely bound by trade, and politicians must do what they can to damp the dangerous ardour of the nationalists in their respective countries. But it is disturbing that Japanese text books are becoming less honest by the year, and that Japan now has active territorial disputes with China, South Korea and Russia. There is no hope of "future-oriented, friendly relations" unless Japan comes clean about its past.
>About the Nanking massacre in China, in which 100,000 to 300,000 Chinese were >killed by Japanese soldiers, the new textbooks avoid mentioning any figures.
ロッテUSAはロッテ日本の子会社だね。 Lotte USA, Inc., headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lotte Co., Ltd. Of Japan.
で、韓国ロッテについての記述は The distribution business is developing exponentially. This is due to the creation of a state-of-the-art logistics system build independently by the Lotte Korea Group. Lotte Shopping Co., LTD is the leading comprehensive distribution center of South Korea.
Chinese Take to the Streets to Protest Japanese Actions Los Angeles Times (subscription), CA - Apr 9, 2005 By Ching-Ching Ni, Times Staff Writer. BEIJING
The Heritage Foundation China Through 2004, China continued to alarm its neighbors in Northeast Asia with its repeated violations of Japan’s exclusive economic zone around the Ryukyu island chain, reiterations of ancient historical territorial claims to the Korean peninsula, continuing military buildup, and relentless pressure on Taiwan. In May 2004, White House spokesman Scott McClellan condemned China’s vitriol against Taiwan’s president, saying that it has “no place in civilized international discourse.”[7] On March 14, the National People’s Congress passed an “anti-secession” law that mandates a People’s Liberation Army attack on Taiwan whenever China’s military leaders decide that Taiwan has become too independent.
In 2004, China also began to leverage its massive economic clout into real political influence around the world. China’s biggest diplomatic success during 2004 was persuading the European Union to consider abandoning its arms embargo on China, which the EU levied after China cracked down on the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. The EU had insisted that China improve its human rights record before it would lift the embargo, but even by EU standards, respect for civil and human rights has continued to deteriorate in the 15 years since 1989. EU leaders, eager to promote trade with China at the expense of the security of the United States and Taiwan, seem ready to lift the arms embargo by mid-2005. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg1839.cfm
>>203 同じLA Timesの記事でもこれとは大きな違いだな。 まっBruce Wallaceの意見では無くて、当時の米国駐日大使のHoward H. Baker大使の意見だけどね。
Bruce Wallace and John M. Glionna. Los Angeles Times. Aug 6, 2004. pg. A.3
Japanese citizens today should not be blamed for what their country did in World War II to China."
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard H. Baker said Baker said he told the Chinese official: "Well look, the United States and Japan really had a first-class war there for a while, and we've gotten over it and we're best friends and allies." He added, "It's time for you to get over it." The Chinese official "didn't like that a bit," said the American ambassador.
Japan's leaders have so far apologized to China on no fewer than 17 occasions since the two nations restored diplomatic ties in 1972, according to The Economist Global Agenda.
Observers note that many Japanese believe that the Chinese and South Korean governments are merely stoking public animosity to divert attention from their own political problems.
"Japanese people and the Japanese media talk only about the reaction of the Koreans and Chinese," said Takesato Watanabe, author of a just-published book on Japan's media called "A Public Betrayed." "We need the historical facts about how these issues are born in the first place if we are ever going to settle anything peacefully in Asia."
Given that the internet is heavily censored in China and that China's government controls all political debate, it must be assumed that this effort has the full backing of the Chinese government even if the original idea didn't start in a Chinese government office. While one might understand China's continued anger over Japanese actions in World War Two, it was all a very long time ago; and it strikes a raw nerve when the Chinese do something like this:
"How can a nation that has never apologized for its barbaric behavior gain the trust of the international community to be a Security Council member?" said Tong Zeng, a leader among China's passionate and well-organized anti-Japan activists.
Sunday 10th April 2005 Are Bush & Co. War Criminals? Some lawyers claim the U.S. is guilty of crimes against humanity
On December 12, 2004, a citizens' tribunal comprising judges from Korea, Japan, and Indonesia concluded that British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Jun’ichiro, and Philippines President Gloria Arroyo "could be appropriately prosecuted". The tribunal found Bush guilty of “torture and maltreatment of Iraqi detainees".
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p980145.html Examining Anger in 'Culture-Bound' Syndromes by Sandra L. Somers Psychiatric Times "Hwa-byung" and "ataque de nervios," listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) as culture-bound syndromes, can serve as gateways to understanding anger's role in psychiatric morbidity, according to a panel of experts.
Christopher K. Chung, M.D., assistant professor and director of psychiatric emergency services at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., who chaired a symposium on hwa-byung and anger syndromes at the American Psychiatric Association last year, described the Korean phenomenon of hwa-byung (literally, fire disease) as "more specifically, suppressed anger syndrome." He said there was not a consensus as to whether the syndrome should be classified as culture-bound.
The Korean Perspective Hwa-byung is more frequently found in less-educated people, those of lower socioeconomic status and those from rural areas. Once provoked, they tend to talk long and in detail Min described a study in which he sought to identify the psychological and somatic symptoms related to hwa-byung and to correlate those symptoms with haan, which refers to suppressed anger, hate, despair, the holding of a grudge or feelings of "everlasting woe"; as well as to disorders of anxiety, depression and obsession-compulsion.
Bolton specified three sources of funds remitted legally and illegally to that country: sales of ballistic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction; sales of illegal drugs; and connections with Japanese organized crime networks. http://www.fpcj.jp/e/shiryo/vfj/03/8_8.html
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 00:13 JST WASHINGTON — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations nominee John Bolton expressed support for Japan's bid to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, calling it a case growing "even stronger over the years."
Bolton made the comments in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The leading frontrunners for permanent seats are Japan (the UN's second-largest donor), Germany, India, and Brazil. However, China, and to a lesser extent South Korea, opposes Japan's candidacy due to historical tensions. Some 22 million Chinese have reportedly signed an anti-Japan petition, raising the specter of veto by Beijing. Germany, meanwhile, is opposed by Italy, which would be alone among European powers without a seat. India, the world's second-largest country, is opposed by its neighbor and rival, Pakistan. And Argentina and Mexico contend that Portuguese-speaking Brazil should not represent Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Political Apologies: Chronological List. The following is a fairly comprehensive chronological listing of major political apologies and related events. http://www.upenn.edu/pnc/politicalapologies.html
Unleashing the mob China and Japan must learn the art of rapprochement
The violent anti-Japanese protests in Beijing and two southern cities at the weekend were the biggest demonstrations in China for six years, and clearly took place with tacit government encouragement. The attacks on two Japanese students, the bottles, stones and abuse hurled at the Japanese Embassy and residence by an estimated 20,000 protesters and the burning of Japanese flags have infuriated Tokyo and embarrassed the Chinese Government, which generally has a fear of demonstrations. But there was no disguising its use of the mob to put pressure on Japan at a time of rising tensions: an official statement blamed worsening relations on Japan’s failure to atone for its wartime past.
The pretext is the decision by a few Japanese middle schools to use some history books next year that gloss over Japanese wartime atrocities - describing the Nanking massacre, for example, as an “incident”. But Chinese resentment goes deeper, and focuses on what it sees as the repeated failure of Japanese leaders and society to make a full apology for their wartime record or to accept the moral responsibility. As evidence, China cites the visits by Junichiro Koizumi, Japan ’s Prime Minister, to the Yasukuni shrine honouring all Japanese war dead, including war criminals.
Resentment of Japan’s insouciance over the past is widespread, and not confined solely to China: South Korea has also objected to the textbooks and Japan’s paltry efforts at atonement for Korean “comfort women”, forced into wartime military brothels. But China has exploited and exacerbated historic bitterness for political purposes: first, to divert attention from domestic tensions over economic disparities, unemployment, corruption and political restrictions; and secondly, to limit Japan’s influence in Asia at a time of growing political and economic competition with China.
One target this time is Japan’s expanded defence treaty with America, which Beijing sees as a sign that Tokyo is becoming more assertive. It is especially angered by Japanese endorsement of US moves to inhibit Chinese military pressure on Taiwan, which was colonised by Japan in 1895. The Communist Party is now playing a nationalist card to win backing at home. But creating an atmosphere viscerally hostile to Japan, which some Chinese companies no doubt hope will blunt Japanese competition, could have dangerous consequences.
Japanese opinion is no longer so subservient. Aid to China has ended, and Mr Koizumi, fearful of challenge to his Liberal Democratic Party on the Right, is in no hurry to visit Beijing. Trade is flourishing, as is Japanese investment in China, regardless of Beijing’s bluster. But the economic relationship could well be threatened. Mr Koizumi must prove that he is a genuine reformer by finding a different ceremony to honour the nation’s war dead and to ensure that the annual ritual of textbook tension is brought to an end. Meanwhile, China’s leaders must understand that they will be the ultimate losers if they encourage a marauding mob mentality.
Japan's stalled maturity Opinion and Editorial - April 08, 2005
And we do not intend to say that Japan has not learned from the past. They have learned very much. But then, one question remains: Why is there still controversy?
China 'crushing Muslim Uighurs' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4435135.stm China has been accused by two US-based human rights groups of conducting a "crushing campaign of religious repression" against Muslim Uighurs.
Any country that purports to want greater Asian representation deserves bitter criticism if in practice it thwarts the aspirations of Japan and India. Pakistan's objection to India's membership is just as petty as South Korea's objection to Japan's. They show governments driven by the most narrow and self-centered considerations. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/11/opinion/edbowring.html
Perhaps China's outburst of jingoism toward Japan will persuade the United States to take a more favorable view of Security Council reform, recognizing that a larger permanent membership (without veto powers) would be in its longer-term interest. China, of course, could still veto such enlargement, but is unlikely to do so. Its leaders usually have a better understanding of its global interests than displayed by the current outburst in Beijing.
The worst single incident seared into collective Chinese memory is the "Rape of Nanking". Between December 1937 and March 1938, one of the worst massacres in modern times took place when Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Nanking, embarking on a campaign of murder, rape and looting.
It is estimated that between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed, many of them women and children.
Has JAPAN apologized? The answer is no., April 10, 2005 Reviewer: Mr. Anderson "Temet Nosce" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews The Japanese government normally refers to the invasion of China as "China Incident." You can tell how sorry the person is by looking at the word he/she chooses to describe a bad fact. I feel sorry for such a liar. Remember, nobody has ever invited Japanese to go to China and kill Chinese.
Then, they always use quibbles like the A-bombs to justify their own suffering and their aggression and atrocities. Again, this is an egocentric view of the history without considering the causality. Who caused all these troubles? Everybody else says Japanese. But lots of Japanese people don't think so. For example, Hosei Norota, a former defence chief, blames Japan's entry into World War II on the United States. "Faced with oil and other embargoes, Japan had no choice but to venture southward to secure natural resources," the senior politician tells a meeting of supporters. "In other words, Japan had fallen prey to a scheme of the United States." Aha, now we can see that Pearl Habor is not impossible, it is INEVITABLE?!
Is it true that an embargo will lead to a brutal war? Clearly no. Only a person feeling no sorry can use such ridiculous arguments. (以下省略)
Bird's Eye View, April 11, 2005, A Kid's Review The truth of this matter is hard to determine. The Japanese nationalists say it's Communist propaganda. The Chinese civillians cry woe. This book points all of this out. I would have liked to see this massacre from the perspective of the Japanese. The fact that this is an atrocious act can't be denied. However,I would like to see the opinions of the opposing side(other than this is propaganda). I think Iris Chang did a phenomenal job writing this book. Truth be told, I would have killed myself too if I had to go through for all the sources required to write this book.
Every nation, every people have some skeletons in their closets, it just seems that Japan has some pretty dirty unaddressed skeletons in it's closet.
Japan's leaders have so far apologized to China on no fewer than 17 occasions since the two nations restored diplomatic ties in 1972, according to The Economist Global Agenda.
The report accuses China of "opportunistically using the post-11 September environment to make the outrageous claim that individuals disseminating peaceful religious and cultural messages in Xinjiang are terrorists who have simply changed tactics". 911のテロを理由に弾圧する卑怯な支那。‥とばれてるのがいいけどw
>>347 取り合えずYahoo欧米と、NY TimesでもWashington Postでも大手メデイアはフォーラムが有る。 フォーラム以外でもletter to the editorに豆に記事に対する意見の手紙を書いたりすれば採用されて実際の紙面にも掲載される。 そう言うExposureの高い所で活動して少しでも多くの一般人に事実を知って貰う活動が1番効果的では?
>>356 基本的には採用される率は低いけど、 一度掲載されると出回り方が半端で無く、 効果が有るのは大手メディアだと思うけどな。 即効性の有るネット掲示板と、豆に手紙を書くのとを並行してやれば良いと思う。 大手の新聞のletter to the editorセクションを読めば分ると思うけど、 1つの記事に対して、読者からの肯定的な意見と否定的な意見の両方が載るのが殆どです。
中国共産党が国民に隠している歴史 ・日中戦争を仕掛けたのは中国のほう(International Military Tribunal for the Far East でもそう判決された) ・共産軍は国共内戦で中国人6000万人を殺した ・共産党が政権を取ってから、大躍進政策で虐殺と餓死で7000万人殺した ・文化大革命で5000万人を殺した ・天安門広場で3000人殺した ・チベット、ウィグルで数百万人 共産党こそが、中国人の大殺戮者である。
Of course I have learned from history as a Japanese person. First, a good relationship with US is critical. Secondly, to win the war is critical. I think Koizumi does a good job especially in the US relationship.
China's official reaction to Japan is hypocrisy. China's blatant disregard for human rights and its official denials of its own massacres in Tiananmen and in Taiwan undermines the legitimacy of their accusation of Japan. China is "the pot calling the kettle black."
Japanese nationalists should keep in mind that the power of the USA may one day decline and with it their secure position. Japan would be wise not to make enemies of its neighbours, otherwise all the money in the world won't save it. A sincere apology now is in Japan's long-term interests. Sadly, the nationalists seem too arrogant to offer one.
Don’t be deceived by Chinese communists propaganda. They hide their own tremendous crimes they committed to the Chinese people and the Tibetan and Uighur people and absurdly exaggerate the damage of war they suffered from the Japan–China war to fan the flames of hatred towards Japan, diverting the dissatisfaction and anger at the dictatorship of the communist party. Deception and repression are always means for communist governments to survive. True histories learned by the Chinese people will inevitably overthrow the communist dictatorship. http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/e/faq/index.html
General Douglas MacArthur and his staff were assigned 40 Japanese comfort women, an offer he righteously refused. But free-lances went with soldiers of lower rank who offered money and food in a country on the verge of starvation. One woman in Tokyo comforted 60 Americans in one night, according to a secret U.S. Army report. By March 1946, the US occupation had 274 VD cases for every thousand soldiers, while the Australian 34th Infantry Brigade in occupation in Hiroshima reported 550 per thousand. Japan, an Aussie wrote home, was “one big brothel.” The Occupation brought the VD epidemic under control by medically inspecting comfort women, issuing condoms, and barring unsupervised “fraternization,” just as the Japanese military occupying Asia had done before them.
Koreans in the United States are organizing locally to mount a vigorous world-wide movement to oppose Japan’s bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. the coalition has asked the UN members to reject Japan’s bid until Japan officially apologizes for the war crimes it has committed during World War II and pays reparations to the victims. “Japan never officially apologized to about 200,000 women survivors whom it forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military and 500,000 Chinese civilians it victimized with germ warfare,” the petition says.
I travel to Japan and China very frequently. The typical Japanese person is well aware of the atrocities their army inflicted in Asia during WWII and they are well aware of the massive losses and suffering they endured as a result. ut the Chinese population is unaware of the atrocities its government has inflicted in the past century.
While a claim can be made that the Japanese government could be a bit more honest about their past history, it is the current regime in China that should be feared the most. Mike, Everett, WA USA ---------------------------------
The Dalai Lama is staying in Japan now. Every time he visits here the Chinese government finds fault with Japan. I'm sure the Chinese government is trying to distract our attention from the Dalai Lama's action. China is as cunning as a fox. Bob, Nagoya ---------------------------------
How dare the Chinese continually reproach the Japanese for the content of their textbooks when the books of the People's Republic of China are nothing but historically inaccurate propaganda with racially motivated undertones. Japan's textbooks are the most accurate in Asia, more so than in Korea and China. Japan has done so much over the years in terms of aid and more to satisfy and befriend the PRC but gets nothing but animosity and hate in return. Brian, Seattle, USA
Some women used prostitution as a means to escape poverty, especially during the Korean War. Korean women were offered money by the government to serve the U.S. military.
>Why open up old wounds? What about the wars of 100 years ago, or 500 years ago? >World War II is being laid to rest with the passage of time. >There's no point in China bringing this up unless it has a modern axe to grind. >And China's own record on human rights and atrocities is pretty dismal. >Jeremy, Atlanta, USA
BBCTVの日中問題についての掲示板です。 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/4436425.stm 結構厳しい意見が書かれています。ご協力下さい。 私は謝罪暦と賠償額を書込みしました。*検閲制?の為、反映されていませんが。 謝罪暦(公式) 09/29/1972 Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka 08/24/1982 Prime Minister Zenkichi Suzuki 08/26/1982 The Chief Cabinet Secretary Kiichi Miyazawa 09/06/1984 Emperor Hirohito 09/07/1984 Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone 04/18/1990 Foreign Minister Tarou Nakayama 05/24/1990 Emperor Akihito 05/25/1990 Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu 01/16/1992 Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa 07/06/1992 The Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Katou 08/04/1993 The Chief Cabinet Secretary Youhei Kouno 08/11/1993 Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa 08/31/1994 Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama 06/23/1996 Prime Minister Ryuutarou Hashimoto 10/08/1998 Prime Minister Keizou Obuchi 08/30/2000 Foreign Minister Youhei Kouno 04/03/2001 The Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda 09/08/2001 Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka 10/15/2001 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (つづく)
(つづき) 賠償額 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (10/07/1950) $53,500,000,000 Swiss Confederation(03/25/1955) $128,400,000,000 Burma[Union of Myanmar](04/16/1955) $14,252,400,000,000 Kingdom of Thailand(08/05/1955) $1,605,000,000,000 Kingdom of the Netherlands(06/01/1956) $385,200,000,000 Republic of the Philippines(07/23/1956) $21,186,000,000,000 Spain(01/08/1957) $211,860,000,000 French Republic(03/27/1957) $157,589,600,000 Republic of Indonesia(04/15/1958) $15,407,614,800,000 Kingdom of Sweden(05/02/1958) $54,035,000,000 Lao People's Democratic Republic(01/23/1959) $107,000,000,000 Kingdom of Denmark(05/25/1959) $77,361,000,000 Kingdom of Cambodia(07/06/1959) $160,500,000,000 Socialist Republic of Viet Nam(01/12/1960) $1,502,280,000,000 Canada(09/05/1961) $674,100,000 India(12/14/1963) $963,000,000 Republic of Korea(12/18/1965) $11,556,000,000,000 Hellenic Republic(09/20/1966) $5,374,610,000 Australia(11/29/1966) $643,070,000 Malaysia(09/21/1967) $314,580,000,000 Republic of Singapore(05/07/1968) $314,580,000,000 Federated States of Micronesia(07/07/1969) $192,600,000,000 Republic of Italy(07/18/1972) $89,136,350,000 People's Republic of China(09/29/1972 donation) $15,153,233,000,000 North Vietnam(10/11/1975) $909,500,000,000 Mongolia(08/25/1977) $535,000,000,000 Argentine Republic(06/10/1977) $8,898,120,000
>This is part of the new "Culture of Apology". First we had the Pope apologizing > for the Counter Reformation, even though it was 400 years ago. President Clinton >apologized for black slavery 150 years after the last slave was freed and Abraham >Lincoln had already apologized. Japan has apologized seventeen times. When is enough enough? >Jim, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
What more could Japan do? Prime ministers and even the Emperors have made formal apology to China for no fewer than 17 times since the normalization. Japanese government has paid over 3 billion dollars to China in ODA. How much more of a good faith could one possibly show? It is becoming increasingly clear that the history to China is a political tool to force Japan to concede on China's unreasonable demands.
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Unlike all but a handful of Chinese, I actually did read the previous version of this controversial textbook, which is just one of many approved by the government. Does it glorify war? NO! It merely evaluates Japan's road to war in the right historical context. Unlike other textbooks, it does not go out of its way to depict Japan as the epitome of evil, which China does not like. I have also read an American history textbook, and compared to the American version, this controversial textbook still qualifies as masochistic. China is trying to enforce, against Japan, the same level of censorship and thought control that it imposes on its own people.
Chinese people must be allowed to think, speak, and publish freely before the world can find out what really happened over 60 years ago. Unlike Japan, China has only one, government-issued, textbook that teaches their self-serving version of the history. Scholars who dare to contradict with the communists' version of the history are oppressed in the worst possible way. In Japan, scholars on both sides freely argue what really happened in Nanjing based on objective evidences. In China, there is only one version of the history supported by emphatic assertions of the Communist government. Are we not too naive for blindly accepting Chinese claims?
アイリスの記事に対する反論 In August 1998, Iris Chang wrote a lengthy letter to the editors of the San Francisco Chronicle. Chang wanted to rebut the charges made by Chronicle reporter →Charles Burress in his article seen in the Chronicle, July 26, 1998. The Chronicle did not publish the letter. From: IrisChang
To: Richard Rongstad You may be interested in reading the letter I wrote to the San Francisco Chronicle last year, in response to his (Charles Burress') article about THE RAPE OF NANKING. August 30, 1998 To the Editor: 続はここ↓ http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rongstad/news/bamr/changletter.htm
During the American campaign, Philippine historians say, U.S. troops under Gen. John J. Pershing committed atrocities against the Tausugs. The troops massacred hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people, including women and children, they say. Photos taken at the time show American soldiers standing amid hundreds of bodies.
It'd be nice to see a war memorial commemorating these living and dead victims of the war being built in the middle of Tokyo one day
Sue Kim, Seoul Korea In Berlin, Germans built yet another memorial commemorating the Holocaust. In Japan, right wing politicians visit the shrine commemorating their war heroes including the war criminals that killed many lives in its neighbouring countries. Still, in Seoul, every morning, a group of old Korean ladies who were forced to be sex slaves during the war stand outside the Japanese embassy to demand an official public apology. It'd be nice to see a war memorial commemorating these living and dead victims of the war being built in the middle of Tokyo one day. Sue Kim, Seoul Korea http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/4436425.stm
Sunday 10th April 2005 Are Bush & Co. War Criminals? Some lawyers claim the U.S. is guilty of crimes against humanity
On December 12, 2004, a citizens' tribunal comprising judges from Korea, Japan, and Indonesia concluded that British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Jun’ichiro, and Philippines President Gloria Arroyo "could be appropriately prosecuted". The tribunal found Bush guilty of “torture and maltreatment of Iraqi detainees".
>>622 While Japan's distortions of its history appear driven by a reluctance to accept shame, China's are aimed at preserving communist rule, said Sin-ming Shaw, a China scholar at Oxford University in England.
In 2004, China also began to leverage its massive economic clout into real political influence around the world. China’s biggest diplomatic success during 2004 was persuading the European Union to consider abandoning its arms embargo on China, which the EU levied after China cracked down on the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. The EU had insisted that China improve its human rights record before it would lift the embargo, but even by EU standards, respect for civil and human rights has continued to deteriorate in the 15 years since 1989. EU leaders, eager to promote trade with China at the expense of the security of the United States and Taiwan, seem ready to lift the arms embargo by mid-2005. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/bg1839.cfm
03 April 2005 Dr Yongjin Zhang, head of Auckland University's Asian studies department, says some new migrants are not adjusting their attitudes to corruption to their new surroundings. China is notorious for its corruption in high and low places. Its government has made the fight against corruption a priority - even introducing the death penalty for serious offences - but graft still flourishes, particularly in the booming construction industry, where multimillion-dollar contracts are at stake. Layers of officials control every aspect of Chinese society and economic life, multiplying the opportunities for kickbacks compared to more lightly-regulated economies. "It's very, very different (here). Where you cross the line in terms of law is very different."
One example was burglary, which was very common in China. "You might think in China you can do a burglary and get away with it, but that is not the case here. You get away with it, but it is considered a very serious crime," he says.
Another was verbal threats. Here you could go to court for threatening someone verbally. Or kidnapping - again more common in China, but regarded as a very serious matter here. Zhang says forms of bribery and corruption are deeply entrenched in Chinese tradition, persisting not only in mainland China, but in democratic free market economies such as Taiwan. He doubts that changes to the political system in China alone would rub out the habit. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3236130a1861,00.html
捏造一覧 #There is nothing on the 1979 war when Chinese troops attacked Vietnam. The assault was ordered to punish Hanoi for ousting the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which was an ally of Beijing.
# The 1989 crackdown on democracy demonstrations, when Chinese troops killed hundreds and possibly thousands of unarmed protesters.
# The estimated 30 million Chinese who starved to death during the 1958-61 "Great Leap Forward," revolutionary leader Mao Zedong's attempt to speed up China's farm and factory output through mass collectivization.
#Textbooks gloss over ally North Korea's invasion of South Korea at the start of the 1950-53 Korean War, a conflict that drew in troops from the United States and other countries on the side of the South and China's army in support of the North. The texts say only that "civil war broke out," without mentioning how it started. America is portrayed as an invader that forced Beijing to intervene by threatening Chinese territory.
i'm not trying to make an excuse, much less justify what japan did in the past, but for those who are identifying japan's war crime with germany's, the difference should be clraified that; germany tried to genocide jewish people who had little to do with the war. japan massacred people with whose nation japan was fighting.
ちょっと訂正。 i'm not trying to make an excuse, much less justify what japan did in the past, but for those who are identifying japan's war crime with germany's, the difference should be clarified that; -germany tried to genocide jewish people who had little to do with the war. -japan massacred people with whose nation japan was fighting.
>>755 I would like to say - Germany killed Jewish people who had little to do with the war. - Japan killed people with whose nation Japan was fighting.
I'm not trying to make an excuse, what Japan did in the past, But for those who are criticizing Japan's war crime, I would like to clarify the difference between Japan and Germany.
The entire situation is mired in hypocrisy. The Japanese attempt to gain a Security Council seat is laughable considering its prime minister visits a shrine that honours past war criminals and rapists of the highest revulsion. The Chinese government's politically motivated version of history whitewashes its own blood-soaked past. The wests, perhaps the biggest hypocrites in all of this, are responsible for the imperialism that fragmented China and the arming of Japanese militarism. What part of the UK curriculum taught us of our own shameful past? History will always reveal hypocrisy in us all. Everyone needs to get off their moral high horses and face up to our own past, only then can we start to move forward together.
>764 >The wests, perhaps the biggest hypocrites in all of this, are responsible >for the imperialism that fragmented China and the arming of Japanese militarism.
米TIME誌 連続婦女暴行殺人犯で在日の織原城ニ(金聖鐘)、住吉会系の会社を経営 Obara's company reportedly became a front for the Sumiyoshi Yakuza. Joji Obara was born in 1952 to an impoverished Korean family in postwar Osaka. His father had been a scrap collector, then a taxi driver who worked his way into owning a fleet of cars and a string of pachinko parlors from which he amassed a fortune. Obara, then known by his Korean name Kim. Copyright c 2004 Time Inc. http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/magazine/0,9754,108848,00.html
>>785 I'm afraid that After reading BBC artcle above, people might have wrong impression that all Japanese text books whitewash history. The truth is that one of 8 publishers' is at issue and teachers at school choose the one they think best to be used in classes and that even the one at issue describe objectively" nanking masacare"" comfort women," and "Pearl Harbour", I must say the article without quoting the content of the text at issue is biased.
This is not a debate about whether China has killed more of its own than those killed by Japan. This is about the humiliation of being invaded by an arrogant foreign power that has never admitted to its crimes in full. Michael Cheng, Singapore
Have the rest of the world read the Chinese history textbooks? They think that all the other countries were bad to China during the First and Second World Wars. If the students don't want to read that history, whom should they protest to? Can they protest in Beijing? Wei, Taiwan
I feel that Japan lost information war to China and Korea. They say the Japanese brutal history, but will it be really right as expected? Strangely, about Nanjing rape, number of victims ten thousand of Chinese announcement increases by a unit year by year. Japan will add an end in the issue of Takeshima in an international court, Korea continues refusing appearance in court, though. Why?
While I think Japan has to do better in owning up to it's wartime actions, I find the criticisms coming from China rather ironic. I'd like to see a Chinese textbook's take on Tibet, Tiananmen, and the Cultural Revolution. Somehow, I don't think Japan is the only one ignoring it's ugly past, or in the case of China, it's present as well. Eric, San Francisco, USA
My guess is that there is a lot of dissatisfaction and potential unrest in China. 60 percent of the country in rural areas earns less than a dollar a day. It's probably a lot more comfortable for the Chinese government to allow protest against outside forces rather than its domestic policies. I think China is playing the political field for what it is: its victim card in the face of 80-year-old atrocities and its appetizing emerging market are potent here and now. What China wants strategically is anyone's guess. But I think yesterday's announcement, saying that it will not apologize for the near riots, is troubling.