>Yasukuni Shrine, the memorial where Japan's war dead, including war criminals
Typical omission of an unfavourable fact. Yasukuni enshrines all who suffered in those tragic times, including the soldiers and citizens of both Axis and Allies.
Chester Dillahunt of Fairfield survived World War II and the Korean War to be killed at the age of 86 by a drunken illegal immigrant. On Friday, Jeronimo Rocha, from Brazil, was sentenced to six years in prison for the crime. He'll be deported back to Brazil after he serves his term.
It is very sad that racial discrimination still exists in the world. I am wishing that the racial discrimination by the color of the skin or an eye is lost. For that purpose, what should it carry out? Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania and Europe. It is the one world. World is not white's.
HMS Manchester was involved in a minor collision after her visit to New York for America's Independence Day celebrations.
Dozens of warships and over 100 other vessels were involved in the July 4th celebrations and the incident occurred as the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II was manoeuvring in the crowded harbour.
As tugs attempted to bring the QE2 alongside in Manhattan the liner's stern drifted out and dented the Japanese Training Squadron vessel Kashima, forcing her to scrape against the Portsmouth-based Type 42 destroyer HMS Manchester. No serious damage was done and the Japanese Admiral on board the Kashima was quoted as saying it was an honour to have been 'kissed' by the Queen Elizabeth.
HMS Manchester's return to the United Kingdom will not be delayed - she is due back in Portsmouth on July 21. Her duties as Atlantic Guardship North are being taken over by HMS Cardiff.
There is no movement in Japan to open the door to widespread immigration. The Japanese workplace, more than those in other advanced countries, remains closed to women, in keeping with the belief among the country's male political and business leaders that married women belong at home. Many young Japanese have simply given up on finding work or getting further education. The government classifies these Japanese as NEET - an acronym for not in education, employment or training - and says they number 600,000.
Jim Michaels: The Chinese government wants better relations with the United States. We also know that they have no use for the North Korean leader. They’re trying to rattle our cage a little bit. The truth is, it’s really their problem and they could strangle this guy if they wanted to.
Steve Forbes: Another thing we should do is put pressure on the South Korean government to allow North Koreans to come into the South. They don’t want the North Koreans. That’s how we brought down East Germany. East Germans had a way to get into West Germany. That’s how the wall fell.
Anti-Japanese protest earns jail term BEIJING, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- China reportedly sentenced a citizen to 12 years in jail for organizing anti-Japanese protests over that country's approval of controversial textbooks. Chinese police disperse protestors (April 24, 2005) -- Chinese police officers Sunday dispersed thousands of people gathered to demonstrate against Japan in Zhuhai City. The rallies last April were to protest the textbooks, which the organizers said had glossed over Japan's wartime atrocities, the BBC reports. The "New History" textbooks, published by a right-wing publisher, deal with the 1937-38 Nanjing massacre in which Japanese troops killed an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 people and refer to it only as an "incident," the report said. http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051225-10540900-bc-china-activist.xml
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http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=hotStocksNews&storyID=URI:urn:newsml:reuters.com:20051223:MTFH88011_2005-12-23_20-21-19_FOR373264:1 Bausch & Lomb shares fall on restatement, Korea probe Fri Dec 23, 2005 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bausch & Lomb Inc. (BOL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) shares fell 8.3 percent on Friday, a day after the eye-care company said it would restate financial results and that it launched a probe into possibly improper sales practices at its Korean subsidiary. The company, which was among the top percentage losers on the New York Stock Exchange in afternoon trading The Korean subsidy, whose revenue recognition practices are being investigated by the company's audit committee, accounted for $33 million, or less than 2 percent of total revenue, in 2004. The company said it was too early to predict the investigation's outcome or the timing of its conclusion. Bausch & Lomb's shares, which had gained 23 percent this year through Thursday, fell $6.54 to $72.53 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Chinese Man Steals Bra From Woman He Loves Beijing, China (AHN) - A Chinese court has dismissed charges against a man who broke into a neighbor's home multiple times, stealing a bra and pictures, all because he loved her, reports the official Xinhua news agency on Tuesday.
Police caught him sneaking out of the neighbor's apartment in November, holding a key to the door, a bra, two photos and an MP3 player, the report says.
Chinese man jailed a year for smuggling people A Chinese man has been sentenced to one year in jail for his role in a people-smuggling operation to Canada. A court in St. John's handed down the sentence on Wednesday for Lin Zhou Zhang, 39, who pleaded guilty a week earlier. He and five young Chinese citizens from Fujian province arrived in St. John's in early October. They came aboard a Star Princess cruise ship from Denmark and tried to leave it using fake Korean passports.
Let experiments repeat "This is truth. There is life on Mars," CNN reported a statement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on August 6, 1996. It was the biggest discovery in the history of science that resulted from analyses of meteorites from Mars. Then-President Bill Clinton pledged, "We will concentrate all our ability and technology to exploring outer space. " For nine years after that, NASA continued to send probes to Mars but failed to find evidence of any life. It turned out to have been a conspiracy by NASA aiming for trillions of dollars of the government budget and Bill Clinton aiming for re-election.
Professor Hwang Woo-suk's intentional falsification of his research paper is embarrassing but less so than the actions of NASA.