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韓国人メジャーリーガー奉重根(ジュン・キュン・ボンJung Keun Bong)、 妻へのDVで逮捕! http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=Reds+pitcher+Bong+arrested http://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/content/sports/reds/daily/0802bong.html Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jung Keun Bong was arrested Friday in Bradenton, Fla. for domestic battery, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's department. Deputies were called to the Sarasota Cay Motel after reports of screams. Bong and his wife said they had a fight and Bong was arrested after red marks were observed on his wife's neck. The Korean-born Bong, 25, was acquired on March 26, 2004 from Atlanta in a trade that brought him and pitcher Bubba Nelson from the Braves in exchange for pitcher Chris Reitsma. Bong underwent shoulder surgery last September and was in Sarasota on a rehabilitation assignment. During his first outing on June 13 for the Class AAA Sarasota Reds, he was knocked out of the game when a line drive hit his pitching hand. He is on the Reds' 40-man roster, but is on the 60-day disabled list. 奉重根(ジュン・キュン・ボンJung Keun Bong)、 http://www.major.jp/column/column-2003050402.html http://www.hochi.co.jp/html/us/mlb/team_nc_reds.htm
Sang Yoon "Steven" KimとBum Suk "Michael" Kimだってよ、m9(^Д^)プギャーーーッ Human smuggler sentenced to time served A Canadian citizen has been sentenced to time served - four months - for attempting to smuggle 14 people into the United States, apparently to work in a California prostitution ring. Sang Yoon "Steven" Kim, 29, of Surrey, British Columbia, pleaded guilty in May to one count of transportation of illegal aliens. He admitted smuggling 13 South Korean women and one man across the Canadian border into Idaho. At sentencing Monday, U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge gave Kim credit for the four months he's spent in jail since his arrest, and ordered him to be turned over to immigration officials for deportation proceedings. Another man, South Korean citizen Bum Suk "Michael" Kim, 33, has also pleaded guilty to smuggling the illegal immigrants into Idaho. Michael Kim faces a maximum 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The two men are not related. Steven Kim then apparently picked up the 14 people near the Canadian border, but was stopped and arrested on Highway 95 by Border Patrol agents, who had been tipped off by an informant. Michael Kim was arrested April 3 in Worley. The Idaho Legislature has formed an interim study committee to determine whether human trafficking is on an upswing in the state following other reports of border smuggling. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=Sang+Yoon+%22Steven%22+Kim,&filter=0
The end of silence: Korea's Hiroshima Korean A-bomb victims seek redress When Shin Jin Tae's first daughter died, her mother was still breast-feeding her. Kwak Kwi Hoon Shin was born in Hiroshima. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Aug. 6, 1945, he was two years old. "More than 70 percent of the Korean victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Hapcheon," he says. Most of the survivors returned. Shin is one of 598 atomic bomb victims still living there. Hapcheon is also called "the Korean Hiroshima." "Ten percent of the 700,000 victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were Korean. Most of them were forced laborers making guns and ammunition in the factories of the Japanese military. Others were landless farmers, mostly from Hapcheon, looking for employment in Japanese cities," says Kang Je Suk. As secretary general of a group called Peace Project Network, her main aim is to achieve compensation for former forced laborers. That Japan never compensated Korean A-bomb victims has caused a lot of bitterness. "We want compensation, not humanitarian gestures," says 72-year-old Kim Jae Man. "The Japanese government is simply waiting for us to die. When I saw Koizumi on TV during his visit in Seoul I thought: 'How can he treat me like this?' " "The Japanese government has been taken to court more than 80 times by former forced laborers, women forced into prostitution by the Japanese military and other victims from Korea. All were turned down," Kwak says. "Under my Japanese name Matsumoto Kimiyo I worked three years as a bus service attendant for Dentetsu in Hiroshima," she remembers. "They took me for a Japanese." Even after their death, discrimination continues. While Japanese victims receive 198,000 yen for their funeral, the Korean victims get nothing. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20050802zg.htm
>>59 how nationalistic the Koreans are and how close-minded they seem. And how impossible it is to have an educated debate with them on anything related to this country. Or how they all love money or are concerned with appearance.
Ties With Japan Traumatic But Beneficial By Kim Yun-sik 08-02-2005 18:07 Finally I would like to argue that what Japan did to her neighbors during WWII was invariably traumatic and many neighboring countries were sacrificed to Japan’s staged Pacific War. Today the families of Koreans victimized by the Japanese military in the Pacific War ask their government for compensation. It is better for the Japanese not to revive the memories of Pearl Harbor and the horrors of Hiroshima. Today many Asians deride the Japanese as Kamikaze pacifists. Whether or not Article 9 of the Japanese constitution is revised, Japan should never expand its military power to intimidate Asian nations again. The writer is a professor of University of Marlyland University College Asia Division in Yongsan campus.
The 'Comfort Women' Controversy: History and Testimony by Nozaki Yoshiko July 31, 2005 Yoshiko Nozaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, State University of New York at Buffalo. Her teaching and research interests include comparative history of education, anthropology and education, and gender studies. This article was prepared for Japan Focus.
The family of a Taiwanese teenager killed by fellow students hopes the death serves as a warning to others.
Eighteen-year-old Wei Li Hsu drowned in the Brisbane River two years ago after being thrown in by five fellow English language students as a prank.
They were celebrating the end of their studies at the Shaftson International College in east Brisbane.
The five Japanese men, 23-year-old Takaaki Aizawa, 23-year-old Jun Hamajima, 21-year-old Tai-Chi Maruta, 24-year-old Akira Ookawara and 21-year-old Hiroki Suzuki, who pleaded guilty to unlawfully killing Wei Li Hsu, were today sentenced to three years jail, to be wholly suspended.
Justice Cate Holmes accepted the men acted out of stupidity.
Speaking on behalf of the dead man's family, Detective Sergeant Chris Fenelon says the family is satisfied with the penalty.
"They would hope that other students who would be visiting Australia take these events into account in the hope that it won't happen again," he said.
#Taiwanese getting bullied by Japan
#Sounds like what is happening in Taiwan's Diaoyutai islands.
Speaking on behalf of the dead man's family, Detective Sergeant Chris Fenelon says the family is satisfied with the penalty. Justice Cate Holmes accepted the men acted out of stupidity.
Miramax will operate with less than half the budget of recent years. And the label will have to do without the talents of such Weinstein-nurtured filmmakers as Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith and Robert Rodriguez. Those directors have said they will create their next projects with the Weinsteins' new company.
>>89 やるのなら上手くやらないと、日本とアメリカを喧嘩させて、 日本の背後からアメリカを消したい人達の思惑通りになりますよ。 日本国内にも必死に米国批判をする政党や団体があるでしょ? その人達の目的を考えれば、乗せられない方が良いのでは? この関係を壊したい人達の事ですよ↓ Japanese citizens today should not be blamed for what their country did in World War II to China." Los Angeles Times Aug 6, 2004
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.
On a more positive note, I’d love to see a list of “Original Korean Thoughts”… I’m sure it would be very short. I have been told that the portable MP3 player was an original idea from Korea.
Anyway, its no surprise this happens when you have such a narrow education system which breeds people for wrote-learning. I think many of Korea’s societal problems also stem from their embarassing education system which hasn’t been reformed in 500 years.
Given all the copying that Korea does, its no wonder they are a leader in stem cell research and cloning!
http://www.vnagency.com.vn/newsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=29&NEWS_ID=161565 Police detect illegal Korean matchmaking network in HCM City 08/03/2005 -- 21:45(GMT+7) Police from southern Tien Giang province has detected a ring that illegally organised meetings between Vietnamese girls and prospective Korean husbands with its leader being a woman holding the Republic of Korea citizenship.
After nine months of investigation, police has found Oh Moon Sook hiding in Ho Chi Minh City, who has from July 2002 entered Viet Nam 28 times as a +tourist, but in fact she operated as a matchmaker, violating Viet Nam's laws. She was assisted by two Vietnamese women to organise meetings between the "brides" and the clients, and prepare immigration procedures for Vietnamese brides to go to the RoK.
The ring was denounced by another girl, who had been married to a Korean man five months ago but could not go to the RoK due to her falsified papers. +All of her money, jewels and dowry were kept by Sook.
Police said +Sook violated the regulations on foreigners and overseas Vietnamese, who stay and participate in activities contrary to the original purpose of their entry into Viet Nam, so she will be forced to return all the jewels and money she misappropriated and will be brought to court in accordance with Viet Nam's law.-Enditem
Nothing ever heals because the people refuse to allow the healing process to take place.
何ものもそれを癒しはしない。なぜなら(韓国の)人々は治療プロセスが始まるのを拒んでいるからだ。
If the Japanese or other outside forces don't pick at the scabs,
もし日本人や他の外部勢力が、(その)かさぶたをつつかないならば、
then Koreans will do it themselves, just to make sure the blood still flows and the painful memories of victimization are seared into the consciousness of the next generation.
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and HOWARD W. FRENCH August 3, 2005
China is spending $50 million to renovate a memorial hall for the victims of the Rape of Nanjing in 1937, when Japanese soldiers killed 100,000 to 300,000 civilians, at a time when details of it are disappearing from Japanese school textbooks. (中略) Mr. Abe is also one of several conservative politicians who defend textbooks that have outraged Chinese and South Korean demonstrators by sanitizing Japan's wartime atrocities. References to the women forced into sexual servitude by Japan's wartime authorities, called comfort women, all but disappeared this year from governmentendorsed junior high school textbooks.
Where's the best place you should go once you get into China? How about a spot where you can get a fish's eye-view of everything you plan on doing?
"Sparkling water - Rainbow Rivers" A visitor soon learns why China is known as "The Hidden-Germ (not Gem!) Country." This is magic in this sparkling water region in China, a special place blessed by Nature where visitors' sense that their own efforts had better be worthy of this remarkable gift.
Breathtaking beautiful rivers. You'll find it hard to breathe. 1) Blue opal water and Mars red riverside 2) Emerald water 3) Magenta water 4) Yellow water 5) White opal water 6) African soil water 7) Lavender water 8) A million and one fish
1) The cyan waters and the Mars red riverside 2) The emerald waters 3) The magenta waters 4) The yellow waters 5) The white opal water 6) The African soil color waters 7) The lavender soda waters 8) A million and one fish live out of water 9) Manikin Piss
この記事の捏造の件と、もしかしてジャパンタイムスの記事をコピーしたのでは無いかへの返信催促メールをしました。 皆も催促と再質問をして記事を書き難くしましょう。 By NORIMITSU ONISHI and HOWARD W. FRENCH で記事書いたね、日本側を馬鹿チョンが受け持って、中国の部分は在中国のHOWARD W. FRENCHが書いたんだろ?
(2)後で出てきた説は歴史修正説といわれているもので日本政府は「大東亜共栄圏」 EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE 思想に基づき人種平等社会を築こうとした その一貫だったと言う説。 ―この説の背景は日本が戦争した時の言い分であり ―保守グループが(1)の説についてそれは違うと当時の状況を説明したもの ―当然日本とドイツを悪者にしたいサヨクグループは反発する説。
ZIONISM AND THE JAPANESE EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE http://www.vho.org/aaargh/engl/zad/zad19.html The 1937 conference issued a resolution, which it sent to every major Jewish org anisation in the world, pledging to “cooperate with Japan and Manchukuo in buil ding a new order in Asia”. [4] In return, the Japanese acknowledged Zionism as the Jewish national movement. [5] Zionism became a part of the Manchukuo establi shment, and the Betar was given official colours and uniforms. There were moment s of embarrassment in the new relationship, as, for example, when the Betar had to be excused from the parade celebrating Germany’s recognition of Manchukuo. [ 6] But, in general, the local Zionists were quite happy with their cordial relat ionship with the Japanese regime. As late as 23 December 1939, an observer at th e third conference reported “joy all over town”. [7] The gathering passed seve ral resolutions:
This Convention hereby congratulates the Japanese Empire for her great enterpris e of establishing peace in East Asia, and is convinced that when the fighting ha s ceased the people of East Asia will set on their national construction under t he leadership of Japan. [8]
They went on to say that:
The Third Conference of Jewish Communities calls upon the Jewish people to take an active part in the construction of the New Order of Eastern Asia, guided by t he fundamental ideals laid down of a struggle against the Comintern in close col laboration with all nations. [9]
--------------------------------------- The Fugu Plan, Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II http://www.israelbooks.com/bookDetails.asp?book=40
The Japanese were allies of the Nazis, yet they allowed thousands of European refugees ? including the entire Mirrer Yeshivah ? to enter Shanghai and Kobe during World War II. They welcomed these Jews into their country, not because they bore any great love for the Jews, but because they believed that Jews had access to enormous resources and amazingly influential power, which could greatly benefit Japan.
According to Levine, Yukiko gives herself too great a role in a self-serving book and adds unsubstantiated facts that are unnecessary to the story. She claims her husband lost his job after the war because of insubordination. True, Levine says, Sugihara did lose his job, but it was related to the post-WWII Japanese house-cleaning in the transition from empire to occupied land and was unrelated to this minor event of his stint in Kovno.
Shelter Foundin Shanghai http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/shanghai.html We took a train to Italy, and we boarded a Japanese ship, Hakusaki Maru, to leave from Naples for Shanghai. The political situation of Shanghai was that the Japanese were the victors of the Sino-Japanese war of 1937 and loosely occupied that part of China. When we entered Shanghai, it was a Japanese immigration official who welcomed us.
Shanghai Ghetto http://www.tollbooth.org/2003/movies/sghetto.html Shanghai Ghetto is a strong documentary of survival. It is told at a leisurely pace and could be seen by families. Americans have one viewpoint of the Japanese empire during wartime, but people living in Shanghai during WWII, found them organized and willing to help anyone during a devastating bombing raid. For the Jewish people who escaped Germany to start a new life in the Far East, it was a sort of paradise gained.
>>204 協力するので是非やってくれ! 大西むかつき過ぎ! 可也昔まで遡って、New Yorok Timesで記事検索をして、 記事のタイトルで検索してネット上に転がってるのを捜して、 日本が絡んで無い記事でも、全部捏造や嘘が無いかをチェックして、怪しいと思う物は全部ホムペで晒すし、 New York Timesに抗議と捏造疑惑を報告するのが良いのかな?
この辺りにも通報する。 Media Watchdog Reviews and Analyses The following are a collection of links to organizations and individuals engaged in monitoring the media, and student-authored analyses of these monitors. http://www.utexas.edu/coc/journalism/SOURCE/j363/watchdogs.html
これなんか、チョソの意見そのもの。 South Korea takes close look at past Author: Norimitsu Onishi South Korea will also look at how its own countrymen collaborated with the colonial rulers to forcibly send laborers to the far reaches of the Japanese empire and young women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. http://agitprop.org.au/nowar/20050106_no_sk_takes_look_at_past.php
広島ネタまで反日に利用する<丶`∀´>大西哲光 http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Where+First+A-Bomb+Fell%2C+Prayers+Ask+%27Never+Again%27&btnG=Search+News http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/international/07hiroshima.html?oref=login Where First A-Bomb Fell, Prayers Ask 'Never Again' By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: August 7, 2005 "The dispatch of our Self-Defense Forces to Iraq is completely out of line with pacifism," said Akihiro Takahashi, an A-bomb survivor and former director of the Peace Memorial Museum here. "In the future, the peace Constitution will no doubt be revised, and that will lead to conscription and, eventually, the possession of nuclear arms." Hiroshima's mayor, Tadatoshi Akiba, has proposed working through the United Nations to eliminate all nuclear weapons worldwide by 2020. But an editorial in Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, reflected the new prevailing mood toward this kind of pacifism by bluntly calling it "empty." The editorial added that the antinuclear campaign "should reflect reality." Recently, a right-wing vandal tried to scrape off the word "mistake" from the memorial, and the damage was still visible. Last week, in another attempt to play down Japan's wartime aggressions in Asia, the lower house of Parliament restated a resolution passed a decade ago for the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, but it removed the words "invasion" and "colonial rule." The resolution left some atomic-bomb survivors skeptical.
>>246をKimでやると What does the kim name mean? Last Name: kim Korean: there is one Chinese character for the surname Kim. Kim is the most common Korean surname, comprising about 20 percent of the Korean population. According to some sources, there are over 600 different Kim clans, but only about 100 have been documented. Kims can be found in virtually every part of Korea. The two largest Kim clans, the Kim family of Kimhae and the Kim family of Kyŏngju, are descended from semi-mythological characters who lived two thousand years ago. According to legend, the Kimhae Kim family founder, Kim Suro, came in answer to a prayer offered by the nine elders of the ancient Karak Kingdom. In 42 ad, these elders met together to pray for a king. In answer to their prayer, they were sent a golden box containing six golden eggs. From the first egg emerged King Su-ro, Karak’s first king. The other five eggs became the five kings of Karak’s neighboring kingdom, Kaya. The founder of the Kim family of Kyŏngju, Kim Al-ji, had similar origins. In 65 ad the king of Shilla, T’alhae, heard a strange sound from a forest near the Shilla capital, Kyŏngju. On investigation he found a crowing white rooster standing next to a golden egg. From this egg emerged Al-ji, founder of the Kyŏngju Kim family and subsequent king of the Shilla Kingdom. Because Al-ji emerged from a golden egg, King T’alhae bestowed upon the child the surname Kim, which means ‘gold’. It is estimated that about half of the one hundred or so Kim clans of modern Korea are descended from the Kyŏngju Kim clan. A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press,
ここはどんな団体なんだろね? 敵(反日)か味方(親日)どっちだろ? 味方なら助けや、むかつく記事などを通報するのも良いよね? The Japanese Institute of Global Communications (J.I.GLOCOM) attempts to provide a virtual place, namely, the GLOCOM Platform (www.glocom.org), and exchange views with their counterparts overseas on issues relating to Japan's domestic and international affairs. It is also intended to check and correct misunderstandings or misinformation about Japan as reported overseas in a timely manner. http://www.glocom.org/about/index.html Core Committee: Members: Masahiko AOKI, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Toyoo GYOHTEN, President, Institute for International Monetary Affairs Yotaro KOBAYASHI, Chairman of the Board, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Jiro USHIO, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, USHIO INC. Takashi INOGUCHI, Professor, Chuo University Advisor: Sohei NAKAYAMA, Senior Advisor, International University of Japan http://www.glocom.org/special_topics/activity_rep/20040707_miyao_los2/ Activity Report #44: July 7, 2004 Los Angeles Seminar Report: Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara on Japan in the World China seems to be attracting much attention away from Japan these days. However, we must be careful about the numbers and statistics that they are giving out. In reality, China is still dependent on abnormally low wage labor with a widening gap between rich and poor groups of people. In order to diffuse people's frustration, China is using Japan as a scapegoat by fabricating the number of people killed by the Japanese military in Nanking during the war...... By Takahiro MIYAO (Professor, GLOCOM, and Head, Japanese Institute of Global Communications) http://www.glocom.ac.jp/users/miyao/miyao.j.html http://www.radionikkei.jp/joho/
1) America; ... Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has begun the process of revising the American-imposed postwar Constitution. 2) the Enola Gay; Her father was one of 140,000 people killed instantly or who died soon after the bomb was dropped by the Enola Gay.
I was waiting in line in the restroom when a bunch of Korean women barged in and instead of patiently waiting like the rest of us, they pushed ahead and started knocking on the doors of the stalls (which were occupied by Japanese women), running around the place as if it were Korean soil.
They then noticed me and saw me waiting there in line with some Japanese women behind me. Assuming I was Korean, they asked me why I was standing there, was there only one working toilet? The concept of waiting in line didn't seem to hit them. Or more accurately, the concept that they were no longer in Korea didn't seem to hit them.
Japan and South Korea -- both opting not to field European-based players -- finished third and fourth in the table behind two countries that failed to reach the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
South Korea's women fared better, sealing victory in their event on Thursday to become the first East Asian women's champions when they beat North Korea 1-0. On Saturday, they drew 0-0 with Japan in their final match.
Birth Control Team Kills Mother Expecting Second Child
They burst into my home, and tried to steal our rolling machine after my wife refused to give them the guarantee money. Because my wife tried to stop their theft, they started to beat and kick her. Wang kicked the lower part of my wife’s body. My wife was in so much pain that she collapsed on the ground. The village officials and the people in the Birth Control Team from the village realized that something was wrong and took off. The neighbors heard my wife’s call for help. They rushed to my home and helped my wife to bed. They called for the village doctor to help her.
July 12, 2005 Discrimination in Japan In a way, this article surprised me, but then again, it shouldn't have. It surprised me in that many foreigners I know who have lived in Korea before going to Japan have found the latter country much more open to ex-pats and have had a much easier time adapting to the culture there than in Korea. (Or so they tell me.) Having heard this previously from more than one person, I found this news a little shocking.
But on the other hand, this shouldn't have been news to me, especially considering Japan-Korea ties and the homogeneous nature of East Asian countries where racial and cultural diversity are severely lacking compared to other nations, not to mention Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara's track record of hostile, racist remarks. http://asiapages.typepad.com/the_asia_pages/japan/index.html
Yes, Japan has a national superiority complex as all Asian cultures are inclined, but Korea's ethnic complex is NOT an inferiority complex: it's a case of pathological ethnic-narcissism. In other words, a pathological superiority complex based on a collective fantasy.
Koreans have a deep emotional conviction they are collectively superior to the outside world. Any offense to this conviction -- such as the Dokto issue -- evokes Korean rage and nationalistic posturing. http://meinesache.seesaa.net/article/4110310.html
First, my impressions of Japan based on Kyoto and Hiroshima.
For one thing, the country is immaculately clean. No spitting, no cigarette butts littering the ground, no trash lying about and no overwhelming stenches of vomit, urine/sewage or rotting garbage. The country of Japan seems to have a very pleasant environment and atmosphere compared to other countries I have visited.
Also, it was quite quiet. Even on the trains, customers were told to put their cells on vibrate and if they received a call or had to make one, they went into the space between cars to have their conversations. So in a way, it was a very peaceful ride for everyone. Both my friend and I found such courtesy refreshing and relaxing.
As neither of us know any Japanese living in Japan, our interaction with the people was limited. But one thing we found was how very kind they were when it came to helping with directions. Not once did someone shoo us away and wave their hands in our face even before we got our question out in the open as often happens in Korea. Everyone stopped what they were doing and tried their best to help us, even if communication seemed difficult. Both my friend and I were very appreciative of this fact and it gave us a very good impression of how the Japanese interact with foreign visitors. http://asiapages.typepad.com/the_asia_pages/japan/index.html
Just one thing you guys should know before you praise Japanese culture... The Japanese warrior code 'Bushido' and its honor system that is central to Japanese culture, is very well known to the West. 'Kendo', the way of the sword, and the students of this discipline, 'the samurai', played a central role in Japanese society for years and the subsequent fighting spirit it had developed was welldemonstrated to the West during World War II. What 99% of you DON'T know is that everything I've meantioned above, the Japanese warrior culture in its entirety, is directly copied from neighbouring Korea. This is not a fabrication or a form of propaganda of any kind.
In Beijing, young Chinese are so angry about it. They recently attacked the Japanese embassy and battled with guards. In Tokyo, all their politicians responded with a resolution saying "It didn't really happened as what some young Asians think." (これの詳細知ってる人いる?)
Across America, World War II is remembered with nostalgias of sacrifices of the greatest generation. But 60 years later, the war is still being waged between China and Japan, with sometimes angry words and violent protests.
What the Chinese wants is an official apology. That is exactly Japanese do not want to give. Because it would mean accepting responsibility for the atrocities committed by the Japanese army when it invaded China in the 1930s. Like in 1937, Rape of Nanjing. The Chinese say 300,000 men, women and children were massacred by invading Japanese troops. The official Japanese line is "what happened is in dispute. Or maybe, it didn't happened at all".
"Don't tell that" Huan Jueng Wa, a Chinese protest leader. (Reporter)"Do you think the Japanese as people believe in their hearts that what happened in World War II was wrong?" Most Japanese, he answered, don't even know the truth. Because the Japanese government hides it from them. He may be right. China, South Korea, and other nations protested Japan's use of history books that gloss over the World War II atrocities, or don't even mention them. And some Japanese schools don't teach anything at all about World War II. They only want one thing, says the protester leader Huan: The Japanese to face their history.
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.
Hijackers identified pre-9/11 A year before the 9/11 attacks a secret US intelligence unit had identified four of the hijackers as likely linked to al-Qaeda, a US congressman says But the unit's request for the FBI to be informed was turned down by the DoD (Department of Defence) lawyers The New York Times quotes the official as saying the programme - named Able Danger - was set up in secret by the US military's Special Operations Command.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&ncl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165210,00.html&hl=en&filter=0 Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00 By DOUGLAS JEHL Published: August 9, 2005 In the summer of 2000, the military team, known as Able Danger, prepared a chart that included visa photographs of the four men and recommended to the military's Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the congressman, Representative Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, and the former intelligence official said Monday. The recommendation was rejected and the information was not shared, they said, apparently at least in part because Mr. Atta, and the others were in the United States on valid entry visas.
馬鹿チョン氏ネ! INTERNATIONAL / ASIA PACIFIC | August 9, 2005 In a Corner of South Korea, a Taste of German Living By NORIMITSU ONISHI (NYT) News
INTERNATIONAL / ASIA PACIFIC | August 9, 2005 Koizumi Calls Election After Losing Vote on Postal Privatization By NORIMITSU ONISHI (NYT) News あれ、武者小路 公秀も中部大学だよな! Hidekazu Kawai, a professor of political science at Chubu University 中部大学教授・武者小路公秀氏に聞く http://www.jlp.net/interview/011125.html 武者小路公秀 - Wikipedia http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E8%80%85%E5%B0%8F%E8%B7%AF%E5%85%AC%E7%A7%80 INTERNATIONAL / ASIA PACIFIC | August 8, 2005 Koizumi Appears Likely to Call Early Election By NORIMITSU ONISHI (NYT) News
INTERNATIONAL / ASIA PACIFIC | August 8, 2005 Facing Hurdles, Japan's Leader Calls Election By NORIMITSU ONISHI (NYT) News
INTERNATIONAL / ASIA PACIFIC | August 7, 2005 Facing Opposition on Postal Plan, Japan's Prime Minister Could Call Snap Election By NORIMITSU ONISHI (NYT) News
Stridently anti-Japanese film that attempts to convey an understanding of Japanese life and philosophy so that the U.S. may more readily defeat its enemy. Depicts the Japanese as “primitive, murderous and fanatical.” With many images of 1930s and 1940s Japan, and a portentious and highly negative narration by Joseph C. Grew, former U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Really Quite Puerile, February 26, 2005 The forums at "japantoday" are the internet equivalent of a child's soiled playroom. Perhaps the site owners may want to consider hiring an actual adult moderator.
PS: Please also be aware that "japantoday" pollutes your desktop with pop-under windows.
貧困層居住区Garden Grove市(コリアタウン) The Southern California city of ★Garden Grove has imposed restrictions on cybercafes, hoping to quell real-life violence ★Garden Grove Mayor ★Bruce Broadwater said the regulations, approved by the City Council on Tuesday night, were prompted by a Dec. 30 killing outside one of the city's many such establishments Broadwater said Garden Grove has 21 cybercafes, many in the city's large Korean-American business district. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-821405.html
★Garden Grove is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the U.S. a Many of the city's cybercafes are owned and operated by Korean immigrants and, like their popular counterparts in Korea, the establishments tend to be a magnet for Asian gangs. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,201866,00.html
In 1975, her Mickey Mouse greeted Japanese Emperor Hirohito on his famous visit to Disneyland. In an FBI briefing before his arrival, she was told not to make any fast motions - and if she heard anything funny, hit the deck. "There were SWAT guys every 20 feet" on rooftops, guns drawn. Sanders is immortalized in a photo of mouse and emperor in Life magazine.
What a scoop Big Sam has proven again that you dont need to spend millions to get quality. I would love to see Nakata in the premiership he is a quality player who would form an awesome partnership with Okcha in the Centre Mid so come on Bolton get your man so I can go buy a bolton shirt. Long Live Nakata. Jimmy Bob, Northampton 10/08/2005 at 15:21
CBS fires four after report on Bush story CBS fired a 60 Minutes producer and three news executives Monday after an independent review found the network violated a raft of journalistic ground rules in airing a questionable story about Bush's military record . The panel's report said a "myopic zeal" led the program to air a story critical of Bush's service record that was based on documents that might have been forged http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/archives/2005-01-12-08-58-47/web/summaries/2005-01-12-08-58-47-008.html
>>418 What's interesting about the way Japanese portray themselves is the way it has changed within my lifetime. Until the 1980s, when Japan was a poor country, Japanese history emphasized the poverty of their culture, where one piece of paper was a precious commodity, and parents beat their children bloody all the time for wasting a grain of rice. Today, all the books and TV shows make it seem like everyone was so well off, all the time.
"Japanese army merely allowed pimps (including Koreans and locals) to run brothels near war fronts, just like US during Korea war which ended in 1954."
Nice try - but you basically wasted both time and space on that line.
The enforced prostitution or sex slave trade, brothel system was organized, set up and condoned by the Imperial Japanese government from 1910 - on. The rates were published (standardized) and were racially set as to values of the unwilling participants - most recruited and signed up to do nursing or relief duties and then were forced into sexual slavery to pay for their passage, or other promised service.
"Difference between Japanese army and others was that a part of the money earned in military currency by prostitutes reduced to the value of scrap paper."
Besides charging for room and board, medical treatment, and consumables, leaving very little left of servicing 15-20 ' customers' per day ... the punishment of not being "service ready" was death ... and if they got thrown out most were not in the nation of their origin. Never mind that Japanese war time script was of no value after the war, so any savings during your tour of duty was valued at absolutely nothing.
Plus the current government says 'didn't happen on our watch, therefore we aren't responsible." Since this system was set up by the government, not individual camps, or camp commanders then who is responsible? Just because we have a loss, and a forced change of government is not the Japanese government responsible for what the previous Japanese government did?
Suggest you "begin" with the following reading: The Comfort women, George Hicks, W.W Norton - London, 1994, ISBN 0-393-31694-7
The problem here is the dysfunctional Japanese government wants the responsibilities of first world nation (UNSC), however is unwilling to accept the responsibilities of previous error much like a third world nation (governmental organized sex slaves).
FIFA acknowledged that the Japanese company which produced these DVDs had malicious intentions to harm its rival country in her region by making, distributing and getting it authorized. The person who annulled the authorization of this product was also the person who approved this product formerly. He explained later that he was intianlly told that the company was owned by a French person and judged that there's no malicious intentions in making such a product. While investigating the qualities of the DVD, he found out that it was actually made by a Japanese enterprise, not a French one, and that the producer actually had wicked intentions to harm its regional rival.
>>449 While investigating the qualities of the DVD, he found out that it was actually made by a Japanese enterprise, not a French one, and that the producer actually had wicked intentions to harm its regional rival. Eventually, he took back his previous decision.
Poll: Asia unworried by Japan Friday, August 5, 2005 In a CNN/Time poll, approximately 53 percent of Asians surveyed said Japan's exercising of a more assertive foreign policy to increase their influence in regional and global issues did not worry them. Another 35But in Hong Kong and in South Korea -- places that remember Japan's occupation during World War II -- the majority polled were worried by such a move from Tokyo percent said it did concern them, while 12 percent were undecided.
"Most of the people who get these summonses issued against them are either Korean or people of color.
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2NzQ3ODQ5JnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg== Monday, August 15, 2005 Getting tough on illegal housing A surge in illegal dwellings has prompted several North Jersey towns to increase efforts to evict this type of substandard housing. The illegal housing is a boon for financially strapped homeowners who convert attics or basements into moneymaking rental apartments. And the practice continues to be supported by renters, many of whom are minorities or recent immigrants, desperate to find cheap housing. Illegal dwellings are more than just a nuisance for neighbors, who complain of noise, extra garbage and an excess of vehicles. The overcrowded homes also pose safety hazards to tenants and emergency personnel. Officials also worry that the illegal residents will overburden municipal services and schools, while property values slowly decrease. The problem has grown tremendously over the past five years, said William Dressel, executive director of the New Jersey League of Municipalities. "It's a major concern that towns across the state are dealing with. It affects quality of life, public health and safety.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=2308106&PageNum=0 Russian border guards detain S Korean schooner for illegal fishing VLADIVOSTOK, August 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russian border guards on Wednesday detained a South-Korean schooner for illegal fishing for squid in Russia’s exclusive economic zone.
http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101980584293 Tuesday 16.8.2005 South Koreans jailed for smuggling of Chinese women into Finland Two South Korean men were convicted and sentenced in the Kotka District Court in Hamina on Wednesday for the crime of arranging illegal entry into Finland for young Chinese women.
Kathimerini Athens, Greece Deporting immigrants Friday August 12, 2005 A large group of illegal immigrants from Egypt who were were detained in Crete earlier this week are expected to be deported in the next few days, police sources said. The 95 Egyptians, who will be moved to a local school for the duration of their stay, will be transported back to their country on a chartered flight. The crew members of the South Korean-flagged boat that was transporting the illegal immigrants faced a prosecutor yesterday.
For Koreans, who are used to buying counterfeit brand name clothes, file sharing isn’t seen at all as being wrong, let alone illegal. On Korean blogs, people often have copyrighted songs playing in the background and regularly email or share music through blogs or Korean-built file sharing programs such as Sorbida. Many bars have computers hooked into the Net for customer use and run file sharing programs to download music that’s played over the bar's sound system.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/08/16/do1602.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/08/16/ixportal.html Well, if the replacement light bulb's being shipped to Uday Hussein's Iraqi Olympic Committee recreational basement as part of the UN Oil-for-Food programme, there's no telling how many Annans you'll need. You'll recall that Kofi Annan's son Kojo - who had a $30,000-a-year job but managed to find a spare quarter-million dollars sitting around to invest in a Swiss football club the investigators have now broadened their sights to include Kofi's brother Kobina Annan, the Ghanaian ambassador to Morocco, who has ties to a businessman behind several of the entities involved in the scandal - one Michael Wilson, the son of the former Ghanaian ambassador to Switzerland and a childhood friend of young Kojo. Mr Wilson is currently being investigated for suspected bribery over a $50 million contract to renovate the Geneva offices of the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation. Despite the current investigations into his brother, his son, his son's best friend, his former chief of staff, his procurement officer and the executive director of the UN's biggest ever programme, the Secretary-General insists he remains committed to staying on and tackling the important work of "reforming" the UN. Unfortunately, his Executive Co-Ordinator for United Nations Reform has also had to resign. Officially, Maurice Strong, Under-Secretary-General, godfather of the Kyoto treaty and chief UN negotiator on North Korea, resigned because he'd put his step-daughter on the payroll - she's also quit - and because of his ties to Tongsun Park, a Korean businessman charged by the US Attorney's office with taking millions of dollars from Saddam to act as an unregistered foreign agent for Iraq. Mr Park allegedly invested a million of those Saddamite greenbacks in a business of Under-Secretary-General Strong's son - a now bankrupt Canadian petroleum company.
For the Angery Black Man In Japan, the Public schools provide all (ALTs) (Assistant Language Teachers) with a prepared written curriculum, the only qualification you need is to be a native English speaker, and a competent reader. It is well know by the Japanese, that many American and British grammar is written badly, but as Native English speakers we understand those written mistakes. At this point in time, White skin dosen't get you by in Japan anymore, you have to demonstrate some skills and abilities, and if you don't you'll be removed, so don't come to Japan thinking that White skin will land you a great job, there was a White guy who just got fired rather quickly for being a know it all. Furthermore, I'm not an angery Black American, I'm a very happy one, nor do I ever talk bad about White people to Japanese, I don't even know a racist White joke.
Centuries of European colonial rule had progressively reduced Asian self-confidence. Future generations of Indian citizens will be wondering how 300 million Indians—including my own ancestors—allowed themselves to be passively ruled by fewer than 100,000 Britons. Those as yet unborn will not understand how deeply the myth of European cultural superiority had been embedded into the Indian psyche. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister, once said the defeat of Russia in 1905 by Japan first triggered the idea of independence for India in his mind. That was a remarkable admission; it implied that intelligent Indians could not conceive of governing themselves before Japan, an Asian power, defeated a European one. Japan's record in World War II was disastrous. But if Japan had not succeeded early in the 20th century, Asia's development would have come much later. Japan inspired the rise of Asia. Even South Korea, which suffered from brutal Japanese colonial rule, could not have taken off so fast without having Japan as a role model. Asia needs to send Japan a big thank-you note. The tragedy, of course, is that such words of gratitude will not be delivered while Japan remains ambivalent about its own identity, torn between Asia and the West. Even the Chinese should thank Japan. China would not be where it is today if Deng had not made that fateful decision to move from communist central planning to a free-market system. Deng took this incredibly bold leap because he had seen how well the Overseas Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong and even Singapore had done. Those three tigers—and the fourth, South Korea—were inspired by Japan. The stone that Japan threw into Asia-Pacific waters created ripples that eventually benefited China, too.
Chinese and Korean has obviously decided that some people will believe anything, no matter how fictional or how far-fetched, if they just repeat it often enough. That's how Chinese and Koreans run their government, that's how they're running their campaign against Japan.
>>585 The fact of the matter is that the anti-Japanese sentiment is being used as a political weapon to rally populations around. So when President Roh's popularity is dipping bring up something about Dokto or America to divert attention.
If this feeling from Korea about lacking a sincere apology from Japan was genuine then shouldn't the Koreans be demanding an apology from Russia and China for authorizing Kim Il Sung to invade South Korea and start the Korean War that ultimately killed more Koreans and caused more property damage than the 35 years of Japanese oppression did?
TIMESキタ━━━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━━━ !!!!! メールの成果です! 俺がメールで送った情報が書いてある+勝手に色々調べたみたい!! August 17, 2005 How the bubble burst for Lucie's alleged killer Richard Lloyd Parry THROUGHOUT his strange life, and the various identities that he created for himself, Joji Obara fled from cameras; He was born Kim Sung Jong in 1952 to Korean parents in Osaka. His father was a poor immigrant who built himself a fortune in taxis, property and pachinko, the addictive Japanese version of bagatelle. At 15, Kim Sung Jong was sent to the preparatory school for the private and prestigious Keio University in Tokyo. There he studied politics and law. It was at this time that he underwent surgery on his eyes to make them larger and less oriental, and he took on a new, Japanese name, Seisho Hoshiyama.
He’s very, very clever but very selfish, totally convinced that he is right, and he never listens to the opinions of other people.
According to the prosecution, he took her to his bedroom, removed her trousers and underwear, and raped her in front of his video camera; Obara appeared in many of the videos naked, or wearing a Zorro mask.
A. I admire journalists who try to be different, or who can tell a story well. Among newspaper writers, Seth Mydans, formerly the New York Times SE Asia Correspondent, and *Richard Lloyd Parry* of the Times here in Tokyo, are some of the finest
Everytime I wanna go get a fuckin brew I gotta go down to the store with the two oriental one-penny countin motherfuckers that make a nigga made enough to cause a little ruckus Thinkin every brother in the world's out to take So they watch every damn move that I make They hope I don't pull out a gat and try to rob they funky little store, but bitch, I got a job ("Look you little Chinese motherfucker I ain't tryin to steal none of yo' shit, leave me alone!" "Mother-fuck you!") Yo yo, check it out So don't follow me, up and down your market Or your little chop suey ass'll be a target of the nationwide boycott Juice with the people, that's what the boy got So pay respect to the black fist or we'll burn your store, right down to a crisp And then we'll see ya! Cause you can't turn the ghetto - into Black Korea
>Far from foreigners in Japan having their rights abused, the Otaru bathhouse and the Hamamatsu jewelry store events that underlie >the "racial discrimination" claims...are both good examples of foreigners abusing their rights in Japan. >In both cases, the proprietors had suffered severe damage or loss from the criminal actions of certain foreigners in Japan. They had resorted to what they saw as the only defense possible, >namely to try to bar the entry of these foreigners.
*Closed Subject what is the most important things for Park? Replies 1 18/08/05 08:30 Started By IN SOO KIM
あっ、馬鹿チョン全然関係無いのにこんなスレ立ててやがった、むかついた、 >>598の記事貼って、ルーシー・ブラックマンは、チョソに殺されたと英国人に伝えて来る。 それと朴は、マンU時代全盛期のベッカムより良いっても書いて来るは。 *Closed Started By korean's hero Subject: ji-sung Park vs Nakata Who is better?? Park is better than Nakata.
Don't you guys think anti-Korean geeks here are damn annoying? I'm really disgusted to see them post copied texts about Korea from other websites when I'm in a thread that has nothing to do with Korea. They are keen on nothing but trying to degrade Korea. But all they can do is copying and pasting. Even though this thread is aiming to deal with anti-Japanese propaganda in English, none of anti-Korean nerds can state their opinions in English. It's funny, isn't it?
I have no doubt that some of the members in this thread bring trouble to other non-related blog or forums. I feel sorry for your being annoyed by a Japanese fool. If you see such kind of fool, how about saying directly "You are making trouble to us."
>Even though this thread is aiming to deal with anti-Japanese propaganda > in English, none of anti-Korean nerds can state their opinions in English. It's >funny, isn't it?
About this, I cannot say anything clearly, because I havent watched all the weblog and forums ,and I cannot conclude all the member here have only poor opinion,,, probably this can be applied to you too (^^)
afterこのスレのメール活動 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1737805,00.html August 17, 2005 Richard Lloyd Parry He was born Kim Sung Jong in 1952 to Korean parents in Osaka. His father was a poor immigrant who built himself a fortune in taxis, property and pachinko At 15, Kim Sung Jong was sent to the preparatory school for the private and prestigious Keio University in Tokyo. It was at this time that he underwent surgery on his eyes to make them larger and less oriental, and he took on a new, Japanese name, Seisho Hoshiyama
>>640 I don't give a shit if those anti-Korean brats' opinions are poor or anything. But at least they are nothing useful to me. And there seems to be one thing you're misunderstanding. What I wanted to say in sarcasm is that they are to talk in English cuz this thread-title says "Dealing with anti-Japanese propaganda in English." But it seems extremely few Korea-hating nerds here can speak English. Therefore this thread is meaningless and it sucks.
US man held on China spy charge A US businessman has been under arrest in China for three months, accused of spying for Taiwan, the US embassy in Beijing says. Xie Chunren was born in China, but now lives in New Jersey, and is the latest in a series of such cases.
He was arested in Chengdu in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
The embassy says they were informed of Mr Xie's arrest shortly after he was detained on 31 May, but he had only now agreed to have his case made public.
Three Roxbury massage parlors were shut down and four workers arrested on prostitution charges following an undercover investigation, Morris County Prosecutor Michael M. Rubbinaccio said yesterday.
Undercover officers visited the Yumi Spa on Route 10 and the Lucky Spot and Osaka, both on Route 46, before the prosecutor's special-enforcement unit, county sheriff's emergency-response team and county park police raided the parlors Thursday night, Rubbinaccio said.
Zhen Shun Shu, 48, and Young Soon Kim, 52, both of Flushing, N.Y.; Jin Shu Zhi, who would not tell authorities her age and hometown; and Sun Ok Aban, 48, of New York, were charged with engaging in prostitution, said Deputy Chief Paul Kalleberg of the prosecutor's office.
Kim, who is a part owner of Osaka, also was charged with promoting prostitution, he said. Shu and Zhi are free on $10,000 bail. Aban and Kim remain in the Morris County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail each, authorities said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64556-2005Mar24.html?sub=AR 'Sea of Japan' Is the Right Term Friday, March 25, 2005; Page A18 A map included with the March 17 news story "Islands Come Between South Korea and Japan" used the terms "East Sea" and "Dokdo." Regarding the term "East Sea": Japan believes it is essential to refer to this body of water as the "Sea of Japan," a name used widely by the global community since the early 19th century. Although South Korea asserts that the name "Sea of Japan" came into general use as a consequence of Japan's colonial past, the name was common long before colonization in the 20th century. Therefore, Korea's attempt to change the name to "East Sea" is without merit. Further, in March 2004 the United Nations confirmed that "Sea of Japan" is the standard term for that body of water and declared that dual designation breaches the prevailing practice of the single use of "Sea of Japan" and infringes upon the neutrality of the United Nations. Regarding the term "Dokdo" appearing on the same map: These islands are an integral part of Japan, and thus they should be referred to as "Takeshima." NAOYUKI AGAWA Minister for Public Affairs Embassy of Japan Washington
2005-08-19 U.S. Attorney Sandy Mattice said Thursday the Blount County Sheriff's Office could eventually receive ``more than $2 million'' in equitable sharing funds from Operation White Spider, a nationwide investigation of Korean spas fronting for prostitution involving local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
The largest portion of the funds distributed Thursday -- $571,279 -- came from White Spider. Mattice said over $6 million in assets were or are being forfeited as a result of the five-year investigation. There were 35 arrests in East Tennessee and 33 guilty pleas by the defendants charged with more than 750 felony counts including more than 200 violations of the RICO (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization) Act.
The investigation began in 1997 when operators of Korean spas in Blount County attempted to bribe Brewer. The judge immediately reported the bribery attempt and cooperated throughout the investigation by pretending to accept the bribes. The investigation eventually expanded to Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, Kentucky and California. As a result, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested many of the participants in the extensive criminal enterprise in July 2002. http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/215312
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/politics/19china.html http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Rice+Warns+China+to+Make+Major+Economic+Changes&btnG=Search+News Rice Warns China to Make Major Economic Changes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned this week that China must make significant structural changes in its economic policies, lest it remain "a problem for the international economy." In an interview on Wednesday, Ms. Rice also laid out the administration's concerns about China's military buildup, its human rights record and its restrictions on religious freedom. Her unusually sharp criticism was a clear indication of the administration's ambivalence and frustration with China, even as officials prepare for a state visit next month by the president of China, Hu Jintao, his first visit since taking office in 2003.
Korean Pride Ask Mu Yung Shin,* presently a prostitute at a Korean massage parlor in Dallas. Abducted at the age of 14 from her village home in South Korea by a group of Korean criminals, she was repeatedly raped, then sent to one of the infamous "sex farms" used by the South Korean army, where she was made a sex slave for two years.
Japan's Invisible Minority: Better Off Than in Past, but Still Outcasts By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF; New York Times (1857-Current file); Nov 30, 1995; pg. A18,
one of Japan's open secrets: ethnic Koreans dominate the organized crime gangs known as the yakuza.
More than three-quarters of the members of the Yamaguchi Gumi, Japan's biggest underworld organization, are said to be burakumin or ethnic Koreans.
>>757 全文あるよ。うpしようか? Japan's Invisible Minority New York Times November 30, 1995 Japan's Invisible Minority: Better Off Than in Past, but Still Outcasts By Nicholas D. Kristof
KYOTO, Japan - A 23-year-old woman had just given birth to her first baby when she learned something devastating about her husband. He was secretly a burakumin, a descendant of outcasts.
So the woman refused to touch her own baby. She returned to her parents' house and abandoned her husband and child forever. That was a generation ago, in Nagano Prefecture in central Japan, and the incident underscores a legacy of discrimination in Japan that has parallels in the United States.
Even today, there is no better way for young Japanese to give their parents heart palpitations than by suggesting a marriage to a burakumin, and most burakumin still live in segregated neighborhoods riven by crime, alcoholism and unemployment.
Yet Japan is also remarkable for the progress it has made.
Today almost two-thirds of burakumin (pronounced boo-RAH-koo-min) say in opinion polls that they have never encountered discrimination. About 73 percent now marry non-burakumin, and most dismiss the possibility that the Japanese police might treat burakumin unfairly.
The E-word -- Eta, or "much filth," the traditional word for burakumin -- has been banished from discourse, so that virtually no Japanese ever uses it.
"I haven't ever encountered discrimination myself," said Masuharu Okuda, a prosperous 53-year-old who was standing outside his dry-cleaning shop in a burakumin neighborhood in Kyoto.
Mr. Okuda proudly pointed to his daughter-in-law, a woman in her 20's who was busy ironing shirts in the shop. "My son married a girl from outside the neighborhood, and she moved in here with us," he said. "There've been no problems."
Yet Japan has not overcome its divide. For if the three million burakumin, amounting to a bit more than 2 percent of the population, are now rarely burdened by overt discrimination, they face the same problems as some minority groups in America: disproportionate poverty, high crime rates, low education levels, many single mothers, dependency on welfare benefits and resentment from a public that believes they are getting special help.
The issues are those that Americans associate with race; in Japan the burakumin are not a different race at all.
They are an occupational minority group rather than a racial one. Indistinguishable in appearance from other Japanese, they were discriminated against simply because they were the descendants of people whose jobs were considered ritually unclean, like butchering animals, tanning skins, making leather goods, digging graves and handling corpses.
A related group of outcasts, also ancestors of some of today's burakumin, were hinin, or nonpersons. They were given tasks like torturing suspects, crucifying Christians and sawing off the heads of criminals for public display.
Outcasts were legally barred from marrying outside their group or from living outside their slums. These slums were called buraku, or hamlets, and that remains the term for a burakumin neighborhood.
In Japan, the outcasts were formally emancipated in 1871, but for decades after that they were effectively barred from ordinary jobs or any life outside the slums. Some Japanese shopkeepers so loathed the burakumin that they would wash their coins upon being paid.
Such behavior has vanished, but contempt still survives in some households. A university-educated housewife in Tokyo was scandalized when asked if she would allow her daughter to marry a burakumin.
"Never, never, never!" she said. "Even if she wanted, I could not allow it. They're dirty. And they're not really Japanese."
Yet attitudes are changing in most families. A housewife in Mie Prefecture noted that the best friend of her teen-age son is a burakumin, and she said this had been a problem until the death of her mother-in-law a couple of years ago.
"My mother-in-law was a very good woman, but she had a terrible prejudice," she said. "So I could never tell her where my son's friend lived, even though he visited us all the time. She would have been furious. She would have said things like, 'He can't be allowed in the house! He can't touch the plates we use!' "
Now the boy eats with the family often, and the mother says she does not know if her son even realizes that his friend is a burakumin.
Some Japanese say the reason that their country has made progress with the burakumin is not broad- mindedness, but rather the inability to figure out who is a burakumin.
Members of another minority group, ethnic Koreans, are more easy to distinguish. Perhaps as a result, Koreans still face enormous discrimination in Japan.
Burakumin are not easily identifiable by their jobs, for only a few of them now work in traditional fields like leather-making. The other big clue to who is a burakumin -- an address in a buraku -- is also less useful now, because burakumin have been pouring out of their neighborhoods while other Japanese have been moving in.
Kenichiro Tatsumi, the head of the Buraku Liberation League in Kobe, said the buraku in which he lives did not have any non-burakumin residents until 1980. "Now half the people who live there are outsiders," he said.
The burakumin are also invisible because there is a virtual taboo on discussing the issue. Newspapers and television stations virtually never mention the word buraku, partly because buraku organizations have sometimes denounced publishers for insensitivity when they have written about buraku issues.
"There've been arguments in which burakumin said some very tough things, and so people became afraid of us," Mr. Tatsumi said.
Most Japanese clam up in horror when the topic is broached, and so most young Japanese know far more about discrimination against blacks in America than about discrimination against burakumin in Japan.
Some junior high school students in the town of Omiya, where there are many buraku, looked puzzled when the topic of burakumin came up.
"Who are they?" a teen-age girl asked. "I've never heard of them."
Even many burakumin students themselves find out only in their mid-teens that they are burakumin.
"Most parents don't tell their kids," said Masahiro Takino, a city administrator in Kobe. "They say, 'Don't wake a sleeping baby.' "
Mr. Takino, who is in his 40's, first learned that he was a burakumin in the third grade, when he went to visit a friend's house. The friend's mother told her son, loud enough for Mr. Takino to hear, never to play with a boy from a buraku.
Japanese corporations used to search the backgrounds of potential employees to make sure there was no trace of burakumin heritage. Parents hired private detectives to investigate the pedigrees of their children's boyfriends or girlfriends.
Such searches are becoming rare now. Strangers are now banned from looking at other people's family registration certificates, where past home addresses are recorded. Private detective agencies are barred in some areas from checking on family backgrounds.
In the 1960's, the buraku were immediately recognizable as slums: dilapidated hovels leaned over tiny alleys, open sewers carried waste water into the rivers, and old people blinded by contagious disease sat hopelessly in the open doorways.
Now that has all changed. A torrent of Government investment has improved the buraku so they are no longer slums. Yet average income for buraku families is still only about 60 percent of the national average, and social problems are proving to be far more persistent than discrimination.
Buraku leaders acknowledge that alcoholism is a disproportionate problem in their communities. Poverty and alcohol, in turn, weaken the family in the buraku.
Single parents are almost twice as common in the buraku as in the nation as a whole. Five percent of burakumin are on welfare, seven times the rate in the overall population.
A 35-year-old study in Japan found that buraku children had lower I.Q.'s than non-buraku children in the same public schools. Scholars who examined the data say the differences reflect general apathy and lack of self-esteem, a result of discrimination and contempt from society as a whole.
In the field of education, burakumin have made stunning progress. But they also remain stunningly far behind. Truancy rates in elementary school in 1960 were 12 times as high for buraku children as for others. Now they are twice as high.
Burakumin have almost caught up with their peers in the proportion who graduate from high school, a tremendous achievement. But only about 24 percent of burakumin go to college, compared with 40 percent of other Japanese.
Social workers say crime is a disproportionate problem among young burakumin, but the issue is so sensitive that no Japanese scholars have conducted research on it. One rare statistical study, conducted by Americans in the 1960's, found that burakumin youths were three times as likely as non-buraku youths to be arrested for crimes.
One explanation is that young burakumin sometimes feel that they are outside the umbrella of middle-class society. Denied the benefits by society, they also spurn the responsibilities.
Another explanation, aside from high rates of poverty and unemployment, has to do with one of Japan's open secrets: burakumin and ethnic Koreans dominate the organized crime gangs known as the yakuza. More than three-quarters of the members of the Yamaguchi Gumi, Japan's biggest underworld organization, are said to be burakumin or ethnic Koreans.
In the buraku of Kobe, the nicest houses -- gaudy American-style homes with wide porches and Mercedes -Benzes in the driveway -- belong to yakuza bosses. As a result, the "success stories" whom children in the buraku see as they grow up are often mobsters.
To be sure, there have been many brilliant buraku youngsters who have grown up to be doctors, lawyers, athletes and politicians. But they melt away into the overall society, keeping their background quiet, and so they do not serve as role models.
One of Japan's best-known politicians is secretly a burakumin, according to several buraku social workers. This politician, who has held major Cabinet posts, was horrified when a reporter called his office to ask for an interview on the subject. By all accounts, the buraku connection could still hurt him at the polls, and so he refused to go public.
Partly because burakumin are so invisible, and because mobility is breaking down the barriers that used to keep them apart, many Japanese believe that burakumin will become assimilated over the coming decades.
Yet for now, the progress is only partial.
The daughter-in-law of Mr. Okuda, the dry cleaner, was initially happy to talk about how she had married a burakumin and moved into the buraku. She even posed for a photo in the dry cleaning shop, a symbol of integration in the new Japan.
Then she decided she did not want people to know after all that she had moved into a buraku.
"So," she said, "don't use my name or my picture in the paper."
Help find this missing person with Down's syndrome and mental age of eight. M0r0n V3r0^h was last seen in the Maddoghouse mental hospital on August 1st, 2005. He has not been seen or heard from since then. He is 2'8", aged 32. He speaks Zapanese and Chonglish, and is not friendly. Please call us toll free if you see him 1-aho-and-boke. でよろ。
Cast (in alphabetical order) David Fujino .... Grandfather Ben Hur .... Son Peter Kosaka .... Father Mark Mills .... Delivery Guy Dawn Obokata .... Mother
Kickin' the inna city funk Those familiar with Kuntz & Maguire were no doubt unsurprised that the pair so effectively directed the Ebonics-heavy toasts and moves of Alan & Jerome, the stars of Fox Sports' NBA campaign.
The other opportunity is of course the duo's short film "Tokyo Breakfast". Set up like a pilot for Japanese TV, the humor of the short revolves around a modern Japanese family making ample use of both hip hop stereotypes like malt liquor, and the Japanese-inflected take on the "N" word. The pair's solid understanding of suburban white America's (and Japanese) fascination with African-American lingo and style was a key factor in the success of the Fox campaign, as was casting and accurate scripting by creative director Eric Silver and art director Reed Collins.
Police uncork sting on illegal liquor sales 08/22/2005
On day two of the Daly City Police Department's three-day summer sting operation to weed out markets, restaurants and liquor stores selling alcohol to minors, six businesses failed the test. Officer Wilson's team cited three: the Shanghai Restaurant; another Chinese restaurant next door; and a cashier at a Korean supermarket who let Irene buy a six-pack of Coronas. The other decoy team caught three others.
94 名無しさん@6周年 2005/08/22(月) 20:13:12 ID:sz7newa70 Here's what Mr. Koizumi actually said, according to an English-language translation by Kyodo news: "Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country." When is an apology not an apology?
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's latest apology for Japanese behavior in the first half of the 20th century undermines the familiar refrain heard on the streets of Beijing and Seoul: that Japan has yet to atone for its wartime crimes. China's churlish official reaction to the apology shows, on the other hand, that history is less a thorn than a useful card for Beijing to play.
It is one that China's leaders will likely be increasingly tempted to use if Mr. Koizumi's party wins general elections in less than a month's time. An important part of Mr. Koizumi's revolutionary agenda is an attempt to lead Japan out of years of pacifism and toward becoming a "normal nation" -- one that is not so wracked by guilt that it is constrained from playing an international political role commensurate with its economic heft. Beijing will play the history card to try to keep this from happening.
Here's what Mr. Koizumi actually said, according to an English-language translation by Kyodo news: "Our country has caused tremendous damage and pain to the peoples of many countries, especially Asian countries, through colonial rule and invasion. Humbly acknowledging such facts of history, I once again reflect most deeply and offer apologies from my heart as well as express my condolences to all the victims of the last major war both in and out of the country." When is an apology not an apology?
It is the second time that Mr. Koizumi has apologized this year. His words have been similar to those used by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama in 1995. Like Mr. Murayama's, Mr. Koizumi's apology in the spring was rejected by Japan's critics for not being abject enough....
So what would satisfy Beijing? Despite much speculation that he would pay a visit, Mr. Koizumi stayed away from the controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Monday, the 60th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II. Mr. Koizumi's decision to not visit the shrine, a Shinto memorial that honors Japan's war dead, including some war criminals, was most likely a recognition that to do so would have inflamed Japan's Asian neighbors. But rather than praising Mr. Koizumi for this overture, Chinese media was quick to point out that Japanese lawmakers and cabinet ministers visited the shrine, a move that Mr. Kong criticized for not being the "correct" choice.
A Chinese exchange student was arrested in Japan last week for using bots to run virtual stick-ups in the Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle online game, stealing items from players then reselling them on eBay.
The items, which could have included Lineage II staples such as the "Earring of Wisdom" or the "Shield of Nightmare," were then fenced on e-auction sites, claimed NCsoft, the Korean maker of Lineage II. Players of the game noted on message boards that the items had appeared on eBay.
A Phuket Airlines jumbo jet remains stranded at South Korea's Incheon International Airport as authorities have impounded the aircraft at the request of a local agent of the Thai airline.
The Boeing 747-300 had been authorised to leave the airport last Friday after it settled US$230,000 in aircraft support and service fees including fuel and catering bills owed by its Korean agent, TV Club, with International Airport Corp, which runs the airport, on Thursday.
Red Cross Officials to Discuss P.O.W.'s Still Alive in North Korea By JAMES BROOKE Published: August 23, 2005
SEOUL - Half a century after the end Korean War, Red Cross officials of North and South Korea are meeting through Thursday to discuss the fate of about 1,000 Southern prisoners of war and civilian abductees believed to be still alive in the North. Last January, China deported to North Korea Han Man-Tack, a 72-year-old former Southern soldier who had been held in China for one month as an illegal alien. Believing that South Korean officials had not worked hard enough to protect the former prisoner of war, members of Mr. Han's family traveled to Seoul and angrily returned one of his war medals to government officials.
"The Chinese government knew the exact identity of this man," Do Hee Yun, secretary general of the Coalition for Human Rights of North Korean Abductees and Refugees, said here. "The South Korean government had officially notified China and requested his return, and yet they deported this man. I call this an inhumane act."
ショッピングセンターに反米看板 Last week, the Association put up a big display in the newly remodeled shopping area across from Central Station. The occasion was the 60th anniversary of independence from Japanese colonial rule, but they were looking back a little farther, all the way back to 1905, in fact, when Japan formally annexed Korea. Each signboard in the display had a little logo commemorating the 100-year anniversary: 40 years under the Japanese, 60 years under the Americans.
A different board explained how the Americans divided the peninsula in 1945 along the 38th Parallel, thus leading to the terrible state of division that persists today. There were other boards detailing various massacres perpetrated by American soldiers, like in Nogunri. Yet another board, whose story is now obligatory in these anti-America history lessons, told the story of American complicity in the Kwangju massacre.
Countering the counterfeiters 21-Aug-05 China is not the only culprit. Sugden explains that he is unable to trade in the lucrative South Korean market because
a savvy but shameless Korean businessman has opened a cashmere and tweed shop in Seoul, registered under the name of "Johnstons" http://www.johnstonscashmere.com/ The UK trade authorities may be sympathetic, but challenging the imposter in the Korean courts, he says, would be prohibitively expensive.
>>861 a savvy but shameless Korean businessman has opened a cashmere and tweed shop in Seoul, registered under the name of "Johnstons" でしょ、 それでThe UK trade authorities may be sympathetic, but challenging the imposter in the Korean courts, he says, would be prohibitively expensive. だよ。
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/wedding.sting.ap/ Wedding sting hits smuggling ring Tuesday, August 23, 2005 The guests thought they were headed to an early afternoon wedding on a yacht docked near Atlantic City in the United States. They ended up in jail instead, courtesy of an elaborate ruse by U.S. federal authorities hoping to bust up an international smuggling ring. Authorities said they seized $4.4 million in high-quality fake $100 bills, more than 1 billion counterfeit cigarettes worth $42 million, and ecstasy, methamphetamine and Viagra worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Some of the cigarettes were *made in China, acting assistant Attorney General John Richter said. The money appeared to have been *produced in North Korea, two officials said Agents also seized $700,000 in fake U.S. postage stamps and blue jeans worth several hundred thousand dollars, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole said. Fifty-nine people were arrested during the weekend in 11 cities in Canada and the United States, including Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, Philadelphia and San Diego. Agents posing as smugglers arranged to import the fake cash, cigarettes -- stamped with the Marlboro and Newport brands -- and drugs in cargo containers that arrived in ports in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Newark. Two defendants in New Jersey also were charged with conspiracy to ship $1 million in rocket launchers, automatic rifles and silenced pistols and submachine guns, officials said. The weapons were never delivered, they said. Other agencies involved are the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Secret Service and New Jersey state police.
The Justice Department official said most of the alleged ringleaders had been taken into custody, including members of the Hsu family of China, who federal authorities contend in court documents organized and ran the global operation. Officials said Monday's arrests had decapitated one of the largest Asian criminal syndicates operating in the U.S. They described the operation as a significant blow against organized crime. Of particular concern, Secret Service officials said, was the group's apparent ability to generate counterfeit U.S. currency that could fool even the most sophisticated detection devices. A government source said the bills, known as "super notes" because they were virtually identical to real currency, had been made in North Korea. The bills were seized before they entered the U.S. money supply, authorities said. The group also used factories in China to churn out as many as 1 billion counterfeit cigarettes for sale in the U.S., some under the Marlboro and Newport brands. They also engaged in levels of money laundering and drugs and weapons trafficking that far outpaced the work of traditional Asian and European organized crime groups, top federal law enforcement officials said at a news conference at Justice Department headquarters. Most of those arrested, including Cheng Ming "Bruce" Hsu and people identified as members of his extended family, face federal charges of racketeering, smuggling, counterfeiting and fraud that could bring them dozens of years in federal prison if they are convicted, authorities said. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-na-gang23aug23,0,2589167.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=FBI+Agents%27+%27Wedding%27+Is+a+Bust+for+Guests
Describing popular TV entertainer Akiko "Akko" Wada as a Japanese Carol Burnett would not be far off the mark. Except for one thing. She's not Japanese, and never was. As reported in Shukan Bunshun (8/11-18), when Ms. Wada was born on April 10, 1949, her name was Kim Bok Ja. This was Japanized to Fukuko Kaneumi. Both her father and mother had been born in what is now the Republic of Korea, and before World War 2 had settled in Osaka's Higashinari-ku --- an area with a large Korean population even today. http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/news/20050820p2g00m0dm006000c.html
1991-1998 Deputy Councillor Ministry of Economic Affairs of Belgium, Energy Administration. Working field: Nuclear Non-Proliferation policy, International Agreements and Nuclear Cooperation, Nuclear Research Policy. Tasks: Bilateral and international negotiations, including at European level. Belgian representative at international meetings and workgroups (Treaty of Nuclear Nonproliferation, Nuclear Suppliers Group, Euratom). Assisted and advised diplomats and high level officials. Represented Belgium and formulated national positions at workgroup level. Participated in the elaboration of Belgian Nuclear policy. Took actively part in internationa l negotiations to defend the Belgian interests at European and multilateral level.
Furthermore, at national level the tasks included elaboration and modification of nuclear legislation. Assistant to the Director. Relations with private and public companies in the nuclear sector.
1989-1991 Lawyer (trainee) at the Brussels Bar Law Office "Lafili & Van Crombrugge" Assisted and advised foreign companies in Belgium (Labor Law, Company Law, Immigration Law), including drafting and checking of contracts. Prepared and organized meetings with potential partners/clients, real estate agents, etc. Facilitated contacts with the public authorities.
Advised non-European clients about EU-legislation and organize contacts with the EU-Administration.
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http://goldsea.com/PAC/index.php?s=1d76a7da9710302e3a88b277b078924e&act=ST&f=6&t=426&st=24 Always check the source on controversial information: The "Doctor" is head of a company which promotes "penis-enlargement treatment". Also the figures for the US vis' a vis Europe and Mexico don't make much sense and conflict with a sample of over 18,000 men in the Kinsey report.
Originally published in 1986, Yakuza was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. Kaplan and Alec Dubro spent nearly two decades conducting hundreds of interviews with everyone from street-level hoodlums and police to Japan's most powerful godfathers. The result is a searing indictment of corruption in the world's second-largest economy. State-of-the-art investigative reporting, source document on Japanese organized crime. "San Jose Mercury News"
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/a-list/2004-April/030093.html Cannon and Machii Hisayuki. Kaplan, Yakuza, page 61. Machii helped Korean CIA kidnap activist (and future president) Kim Dae Jung in Tokyo in 1973. Kaplan, Yakuza, page 183. Machii headed Tosei-kai. Whiting, Tokyo Underworld, page 80. Aside from being the Oyabun or godfather of the Toseikai underworld, Machii also was president of Toa Sogo Kigyo Company and operated the ferry company called Kanpu linking Shimonoseki, Japan, to Pusan, Korea. He died of heart failure on September 14 2002.
Machii is a Korean resident in Japan, whose real name is Chong Kon Yong, while Kodama is Class-A war criminal.
http://www.alternatives.com/crime/cm18.html Taoka Kazuo Taoka was single-handedly responsible for introducing the mob into professional sports and entertainment, including the lucrative film industry. See: Inagawa Kakuji; Jirocho Shimizu no; Kodama Yoshio; Machii Hisayuki; Nakasone Yasuhiro; Ogawa Kaoru; Osano Kenji; Sasakawa Ryoichi; Toyama Mitsuru; Yakuza
“And again, it is a glass house where the Koreans are concerned, since they were noted to be the most vicious of the Japanese units.”
I’ve heard this before, actual statements from former U.S. POW’s. Apparently a lot of the Koreans got put on guard detail and would take their frustrations out on the prisoners and were frequently more savage at it than their Japanese counterparts.
American presence in the Philippines began when the United States sought Philippine assistance in their war with Spain, promising independence from Spanish colonial rule. But after winning that war, the US "purchased" the Philippines from Spain for $20 million in 1898. To enforce its “ownership” of the Philippines, the US military brutally slaughtered over a million Filipinos (15% of the population) during the Philippine-American War, the longest war in American history (1899-1913).
Newsweek April 8th-15th. "Koreas Dark Secret" Gregory Beals
The article points out these figures U.S.A population 250,000,000 annual abortions 2,500,000 S.Korea population 48,000,000 annual abortions 2,300,000
South Korea Number 4 in the World Cup and number 1 in baby slaughter!! And a Korean agency has the stastical proof to back all this up!!
Or to put it another way - There are 13,000,000 South Korean women that are able to have children and they dispose of 2,300,000 every year... gee that's umm... 1 in 6 South Korean women that are able to bare children will visit a quicky abortion mart to get a quick cut every year. Oh and one last statistic- of those 2,300,000 South Korean abortions 15% were sliced up because they were identified as female in an ultrasound!!
All of this information is freely available from the Korean Planned Family Association.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/295730091.html?did=295730091&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Feb+27%2C+2003&author =Richard+C.+Paddock&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=THE+WORLD%3B+A+History+of+Hostility+in+Philippines%3B+U.S.+ troops+aiding+fight+against+rebels+may+find+some+islanders+avenging+long-ago+atrocities. A History of Hostility in Philippines U.S. troops aiding fight against rebels may find some islanders avenging long-ago atrocities. By Richard C. Paddock LA Times Staff Writer February 27, 2003
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.
http://www.dangerouscitizen.com/Articles/945.aspx Bush's claim that the U.S. freed Filipinos strains the truth, bodes ill for Iraq and probably sets Mark Twain spinning. By Amy Kaplan Los Angeles Times October 24, 2003 I heard President Bush, in a speech Saturday before the Philippine Congress, refer to our history in that country as a "model" for establishing democracy in Iraq. Alluding to the 1898 Spanish-American War, he said, "America is proud of its part in the great story of the Filipino people. Together our soldiers liberated the Philippines from colonial rule."
Instead, the U.S. annexed the Philippines in 1899 and waged a brutal war to enforce its rule across the archipelago. Nearly 5,000 American soldiers died, and historians estimate that 250,000 Filipinos perished — 20,000 were killed in combat and the vast majority died from disease and starvation. The U.S. Army burned villages and fields, massacred civilians and herded the residents of entire provinces into concentration camps.
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa022402a.htm Using a proper name for the body of water between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago is not simply a question of changing the name of a geographical feature.
It is rather a part of national effort by the Korean people to erase the legacy of their colonial past and to redress the unfairness that has resulted from
24 Forum In memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Today it's 60 years ago that an atomic bomb, nicknamed 'Little Boy', hit the Japanese city Hiroshima. Over 140,000 people were killed by the bomb and its aftermath. However the total number of casualties is estimated to be 242,437 since a lot of people died many years later because of radiation. Only 3 days after Hiroshima a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, which killed above 77,000 people.
Today, nine countries possess roughly 30,000 nuclear weapons - enough to destroy the planet many times over, most of them belonging to the US and Russia.
Lets hope the tragedy of 60 years ago won't be repeated.