China is refusing to take back an estimated 39,000 citizens who have been denied immigration to the United States and have clogged detention centers at federal expense, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday.
Chinese illegal immigration traced from Malta to Pescara
Last week, Italian police uncovered the whole operation that directed Chinese illegal immigrants from Malta to the Italian mainland. It found, Italian media reported, that the criminal organisation was fashioned like a pyramid, with a justice of the peace from Ortona, near Chieti, and other public officials, at the very top. Operation Pyramid included 10 teams from the crime prevention units and 10 mobile squads from Rome, Aquila, Teramo, Chieti and Ancona. Eighteen Chinese and 11 Italians were arrested.
Cour: Chinese gets 9-year prison term for human trafficking A Chinese man was condemned to spend the next nine years in prison and ordered to pay a Lm10,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to trafficking in human beings and of forging the stamp on his passport. Lin Yi, 24, was due to stand trial yesterday, but instead chose to admit all the charges brought against him. He pleaded guilty to trafficking and conspiring to traffic in human beings, to forging his passport and to making malicious use of the counterfeit document.
UN Members Create New Human Rights Panel Amid US Opposition One hundred seventy United Nations member governments voted to create the Human Rights Council, a major restructuring of the world body opposed by the U.S. on the grounds that abusive governments could still hold seats.
ディエンワロス→The panel will replace a discredited commission based in Geneva
Arrested Korean jigger arrives in Mar del Plata A Korean jigger supposedly poaching in Argentine waters arrived Saturday afternoon in Mar del Plata del Plata escorted by the Argentine Navy corvette Guerrico. This is the second Korean jigger arrested by Argentina this season. Last February 13, “77 Doo An” was allegedly surprised catching squid in the very edge of Argentina’s EEZ and was later proved to be effectively licenced by the Falklands’ government. The jigger “77 Doo An” is also registered with KDSFA. http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=7425
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=176010742&p=y76xyy448 Schoolgirls buy weapons to expose arms trade The seven girls, who attend the Presentation School in Portlaoise, were taking part in a Channel Four Dispatches documentary on the arms trade. They were able to order the shock baton from South Korea and the leg irons from South Africa by setting up a company called Seachtar (Seven) Associates in their school office. Sister Raftery, who worked in Pakistan for many years, said the purpose of the documentary had been to highlight the easy availability of small arms and torture weapons. Maeve O’Sullivan said that one South Korean dealer had poor English but was very friendly. “They are classified by most countries, including Ireland, as a weapon used for humiliating and degrading treatment. In prisons from China to Turkmenistan, from Algeria to Armenia, they’re used to inflict pain and force confessions from inmates.”
http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060314/NEWS0107/103140023 Trial of spa owners begins with conspiracy statements In his opening statement Monday afternoon, assistant U.S. attorney Michael Iasparro said the evidence would show that Lee and Hwang used interstate phone lines to further their prostitution businesses and move money they obtained from the illegal acts taking place inside the health spas in violation of federal law. “This is a case of money, greed, sex and even violence,” Iasparro said. He said the spas made a staggering amount of money, upward of $2.5 million over three years, from customers who came to Rockford after hearing about the services offered either by word-of-mouth or through newspaper advertisements. At the center of this, he said, were Hwang and Lee.
Flynn said that his client is an East High School graduate who was known in the Korean community as someone who could speak English well and would often help non-English speakers get things done, such as helping them with a building permit.
Park, who appeared in court in an orange jumpsuit, told the jury, through an interpreter, that she worked for Hwang at the Paradise as a masseur and prostitute. She said she came to Rockford from Los Angeles because she heard there was money to be made and “the police, unlike other towns, tend not to bother us that much.”
Wayne Seminoff can't help but notice the sparkling new 32-foot boat belonging to his neighbor, the young guy with the $4 million home and three luxury cars. It irks him. Not because he's prone to envy, but because of the nagging suspicion that he paid for it. In the past six months, Seminoff gave his neighbor all the money he had and then some, $800,000 in all. He describes it as a con job by a charismatic operator who first promised friendship, then easy money and finally "a slaughterhouse" at the hands of an international crime ring. They still meet for coffee, and Hong's mother still makes Seminoff jars of kim chee, the spicy Korean cabbage dish. Hong insists he plans to pay Seminoff back. But as Seminoff has learned more about where his money went, he's also learned another troubling fact: At least four other people have gone to court seeking money they "invested" with Hong. The adjacent dock, just a few feet away, was Hong's. It came with the four-bedroom, 4,400-square-foot home he bought in mid-2004 for $3.2 million. (Hong also owns a five-bedroom home on Mercer Island.) Seminoff had become like a father to him, Hong said. That was the same line he used to gain the trust of a Korean-American family he met at Central Presbyterian Church in Bellevue about four years earlier, according to a lawsuit in King County Superior Court. As Hong was buttering up Seminoff, that family and another church member were fighting in court to get back $340,000. The next year, Lee sued Hong, saying Hong broke their agreement by engaging in "reckless" day-trading, misrepresented himself as a stock trading expert, lost $100,000, and tried to embezzle from the account. The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8FRDAQO3.html
Korean pastor denies sex offense allegations THE Korean Presbyterian pastor involved in the controversial National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Bacolod raid of the Pamplona Cottages last February 4 has denied allegations of sexual misconducts while he was assigned in Bacolod City.
The report pointed that discrimination on gender and age still remains in Korea, citing that Korean women are paid only 63 percent of what men are, and senior citizens aged over 50 have only 33.7 percent of the opportunities that young people are given.
In addition, it reported that sex trade is widely taking place in Korea, making the country the hub of international female human trafficking. The report added that about 8,000 people with AIDS are facing social discrimination.
IMITATION is the sincerest form of thievery, and no car is more sincere than the new Hyundai Sonata. But ultimately not very original. I know it's sheer coincidence, but isn't it strange how the name Hyundai sounds like Honda with a deviated septum? And the curvilinear chrome "H" of the Hyundai's snout looks like a Honda badge that's been left in the kiln too long. By Dan Neil (Pulitzer Prize winner) Los Angeles Times http://research.cars.com/go/crp/reviews.jsp?makeid=19&modelid=222&year=2006&revid=48484&revlogtype=22
Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Dan Neil of the Los Angeles Times for his one-of-a-kind reviews of automobiles, blending technical expertise with offbeat humor and astute cultural observations. http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2004/criticism/
I heard that there has been institutionalized discrimination against Koreans in Japan.
Facts: 1, Japanese woman married to Korean confides to friend she cannot get promotion at her bank because she is married to a Korean. 2, There is the stereotype that most Koreans in Japan work as chauffeurs, cleaning staff, or if mixed heritage, sales clerks. 3, Even if a Korean graduates from a first rate university he cannot find a job. 4, A Japanese girl told me that she and her brother do not talk to Koreans at her school. 5, A Japanese girl with Japanese dad and Korean-Japanese mother gets treated coldly by her teacher and friends. 6, Koreans still are not allowed to take the exam to national universities. 7, There is a lot of discrimination and racism against the Japanese-Korean in closed rooms, at the office: screaming, berating, badgering, demotions, etc.
Conclusion: Japan is not all about fun and games as some Koreans misunderstand it to be. There is still a lot of discrimination against Korean Japanese that is not revealed to the public. But a Japanese will answer: "There is discrimination in Japan, but there is discrimination all over the world including the United States."
I heard that there has been institutionalized discrimination against Japanese in Korea.
Facts: 1, Korean woman married to Japanese confides to friend she cannot get promotion at her bank because she is married to a Japanese. 2, There is the stereotype that most Japanese in Korea work as chauffeurs, cleaning staff, or if mixed heritage, sales clerks. 3, Even if a Japanese graduates from a first rate university he cannot find a job. 4, A Korean girl told me that she and her brother do not talk to Japanese at her school. 5, A Korean girl with Korean dad and Korean-Japanese mother gets treated coldly by her teacher and friends. 6, Koreans still are not allowed to take the exam to national universities. 7, There is a lot of discrimination and racism against the Japanese in closed rooms, at the office: screaming, berating, badgering, demotions, etc.
As it is, the U.S. was granted this opportunity on a cool night, when hundreds of flags fluttered in the stands, some of them Japanese, most of them Korean. Korean fans clapped their noise makers, waved banners and chanted "Hee-Seop Choi!" when the cleanup hitter came to the plate. To the delight of the crowd, Korean players took a lap around the field waving a Korean flag while Japanese players stood glumly at their dugout railing. They concluded their jaunt at the mound, where they planted the flag and jumped into each other's arms. http://www.latimes.com/sports/printedition/la-sp-wbc16mar16,1,6743566.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-sports
“It was natural gesture for us and it was also to show our gratitude for the Korean-American community that came out to support us,” said Jong Beom Lee, the team captain of South Korea “I was aware of the fact that many Koreans lived in southern California. I wasn't aware they'd all come out.”
A heavily pro-Korean crowd of 39,679 cheered every fly ball and strike as Korea advanced to Saturday's semi-final of this inaugural event with a crackling, well-played win over their bitter military, political and athletic rivals.
The Korean players streamed onto the field and, while manager In Sik Kim hurried off to receive a telegram from Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, his players grabbed a large South Korean flag and some smaller ones handed to them by fans. They circled the field, gathered on the pitchers mound in a circle, removed their caps and bowed -- then planted a Korean flag in the dirt beside the pitcher's rubber.
チョン客汚ねー The inning began when Min Jae Kim drew a base on balls with one out after Japanese right-fielder Ichiro Suzuki was prevented by catching a foul ball by fans in the first two rows of seats. Suzuki -- who could be seen screaming in the dugout after the loss -- waved his glove in disgust at the fans as he walked away. Kim reached third on a single by Byung Kyu Lee when Japanese third baseman Toshiaki Imae dropped the relay throw.
Rie Katsuta 勝田 梨恵 シンプル・フレンチ料理教室主宰 メニュープランナー フードライター 経歴 1998年 上智大学文学部卒業 米国 CIA Culinary Institute of America 入学 フランス料理を基礎とする世界各国の料理、製菓、製パン、ワイン学、レストラン経営学を学ぶ http://www.ciachef.jp/profile_02_rk.html
【MLB】テキサス紙、すでにチームを去った朴賛浩に''亡霊'' 悪意のある表現 思い出したくもない場所。テキサスのマスコミによる 朴賛浩(パク・チャンホ/33/サンディエゴ)への狙い撃ちが続いている。 オブライエン記者は「巨額の契約には大きな期待がともなうもの。 ミルウッドはトム・ヒックスオーナーが誕生させた最後の長期契約恩恵者である 朴賛浩の亡霊とも戦わなければならない(He also has to deal with the ghost of Chan Ho Park)」と記した。 さらに「6500万ドルFA選手だった朴賛浩はテキサスで契約期間を全うできなかった。 そのためミルウッドはスタートから疑いの混じった目で見られるだろう (Park never lived up to his five-year, $65 million contract, so Millwood will be under scrutiny from the start)」と補足説明を加えた。
BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring
February 23, 2006 Thursday
HEADLINE: Japanese navy reports on-line data leak
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo
Tokyo, 23 February: Data at the Maritime Self-Defence Force [MSDF], including some confidential information, have leaked on the Internet via the peer-to-peer file-sharing programme Winny, the MSDF said Thursday [23 February].
>>55 More curious still, there is no record to show that Mao, who died in 1976, ever spoke publicly about it. Save for a brief mention in a 1960 middle school textbook, the Nanjing Massacre was not featured in Chinese textbooks until the early 1980's. As recently as the early 1990's, historians and others who wanted to organize conferences about the event were barred from doing so.
The decades of silence were owing in part to the government's unwillingness to recognize the resistance that China's Nationalist armies put up against the Japanese. Although recently the Nationalists' role has been acknowledged more, official histories of the war have always credited Mao's Communist armies with defeating Japan.
http://www.cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_054223455.html Guilty Plea For North Texas Sex Slave Trafficking Each year, thousands of people are brought into the United States by human traffickers who trap illegal immigrants in what some call “modern day slavery.” North Texas is one area where a major crackdown is now underway. Federal agents say they recently created a task force to deal with human trafficking.
In this case, smugglers brought the women to North Texas from South Korea.
On Friday afternoon, Mi Na Malcom(<丶`∀´> ) admitted to being involved in a human trafficking and sex slavery ring. The case stems from a raid on area spas last August.
Prosecutors say Malcom held the immigrants against their will and forced them to work at one of her spas in order to pay off the smuggling fees, and that she housed the women in the spas and used video surveillance.
Malcom has been forced to give up her 2006 BMW, 2004 Lexus and more than $200,000 in cash.
これは正式に抗議した方が良いな、共和党の新聞だろ? Women recount sex-slave horror The Republican by AZELL MURPHY CAVAAN [email protected]
Young Soo Lee, 78, struggled to hold her head high, but confessed she still felt shame, and her voice cracked as she described the two years she spent in sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II. Lee told her story Wednesday during a presentation before an audience of about 300 people at Westfield State College. The event was part of the "Global V-Day Campaign for Justice to Comfort Women."
The term "comfort women" was coined by the Japanese to describe those, mostly teenage girls, who were kidnapped from across east and southeast Asia and forced by the Japanese government to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers.
Two Westfield State professors, Ricki Kantrowitz and Vanessa Holford Diana, have been involved in the campaign and co-authored a teaching guide on "comfort women" for the V-Day Organization Web site at www.vday.org.
Against Their Will Brown Alumni Magazine http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storyDetail.cfm?ID=2975 Even those numbers are disputed, though, as was dramatized two years ago, when a New York Times Magazine article's contention that as many as 10,000 new sex slaves arrive in the United States each year triggered a fierce debate in journalism circles. a 1998 Providence Journal article describing a police raid on one of the city's brothels, which was operating under the cover of being a health club. The Journal reported that police had discovered six South Korean women being held captive and forced to have sex with customers. The women were working sixteen- to twenty-hour days and receiving no pay—only tips, with which they were struggling to pay off the $10,000 debt each owed the club's owner for transportation and housing. One woman had what looked like cigarette burns on her forearm. All six were charged with prostitution; the victim-protection laws were two years away. "These women were my age," says Chon, who was born in South Korea. As she read more, she learned that Providence is home to a network of Korean massage parlors that operate similarly. "It was mind-blowing that this could be happening just a few miles away from Brown," she says. "I felt pulled to this issue. And I wanted to find a way to make a difference." Chon both welcomes the media spotlight on Polaris’s work and fears it. The problem, she says, is that sex trafficking is so easy to sensationalize that coverage can end up creating more misunderstandings than clarity. To highlight its January 2004 article on prostitution in the suburbs, for example, the New York Times Magazine ran a cover photograph of a schoolgirl sitting on her bed; the cover line read "Sex Slaves on Main Street." Chon fears that sensationalized images and breathless reporting can undermine Polaris's efforts, drawing attention to exceptional cases
Several years ago I remember the rarest of events and the most pathetic of outcomes in victim redress attempts against Japan: A Korean woman, who had been forced to work wothout compensation in a wartime factory, won a rare claim for wages in a Japanese district court.
Japan, unlike Germany, has consistently refused to recognize, and even seems to celebrate via visits to war shrines, the genocides, sex crimes, and other atrocities that sixty years later generate violent protests throughout the Pacific Rim.
On March 29th of this year the Fukuoka District Court will be asked to issue a ruling in the compensation case of aging Chinese workers who also were subjected to slave labor and other cruelties during WWII.
What is astonishing is not Japan's incurable amnesia and lack of compassion but, the statements made by Mitsubishi (the folks who made the "Zero") lawyers in closing arguments. They asked the court to question the fact that Japan ever invaded China. They told the judges that to award any monies in this case would cause a "mistaken burden of the soul" for Japan for hundreds of years.
I remember my father, a decorated soldier in WWII, refusing to buy anything Japanese for many years. His decision was understandable based on his experiences during wartime. My decision to behave as he did, though for different reasons, will be identical should the court vote to ignore or alter the history indelibly etched on the faces of so many surviving Asian vicitims. For more see: CHINA DIGITAL TIMES
laughed at Ichiro's reaction. He's been a bit stupid with his big mouth and has walked right into to this but at least he's honest about his feelings.
Personally, I prefer that to the childish sour grapes you often hear when Japan loses to Korea. This pretending 'we're not really bothered when we lose' nonsense.
Ichiro....may be a fantastic baseball player (this series aside), but his attitude and ego more than make up for any of his skills on the field. He is, essentially, a spoiled brat and does not deserve any place in an international
competition or league when his attitude is so bluntly racist. I was happy Japan lost SOLELY to see Ichiro throw a spasm at the end. That's 0 for 2 now pal. I hope you NEVER live it down.
Sorry this is unfair for the other J-players, but Ichiro is also supposed to be representing his team to an extent, and with leaders like that...
This game will be remembered because Japan lost twice in two weeks after making arrogant remarks.
Ichiro said that Korea wouldn’t beat Japan in 30 years. It took us only two weeks to beat you twice.
Let me remind you that the first game between Korea and Japan was very big for the Japanese.
So big in fact that the stadium was full and eve the crown prince and his family was at the stadium. Let me also remind you that the WBC is more successful then the creators had thought it would be.
Despite the "blown" call in the US v. Japan game, Japan lost to South Korea not once (on home turf no less) but TWICE!!!
Japanese players should learn to shut the hell up especially when you consider their "best" player is about the same size of a hobbit (with much smaller feet).
Ichiro may have the single season record for # of hits but his OBP that season was not so good - he just wanted the personal stat and did not care about actually winning...sounds very Japanese to me...
The arrogance of this place boggles my mind sometimes...
"Ichiro may have the single season record for # of hits but his OBP that season was not so good"
Yeah, you're right he's useless, single hit record, pathetic, he should give up... We all know that Ichiro's achievements so far are amazing.
He's one of the best batters that Japan has had he can be as arrogant as he wants, Arogance? I think we would have seen a lot of that if the call was the other way round.
Oh, the manager, as a representative of the players said that the decision was in the past and that it was part of baseball. Is that so arrogant? Well Japan, good effort, good luck getting through to the Semis. But then they'll be playing Korea again... for the third time... who came up with the format for the WBC...
Personally, I prefer that to the childish sour grapes you often hear when Japan loses to Korea. This pretending 'we're not really bothered when we lose' nonsense.
i was at this game. the korean fans love to hate the japanese. all i heard where these koreans yelling out 'fuck the japs' 'fuck ichiro' blah fucking blah. this korean pulled a knife out too when my friend asked 'why do you have to be so racist?'.... that was the most pussy shit i've ever seen, koreans bringing knives to a fucking baseball game. then they'll put a japanese flag on the big screen and all the koreans boo.
it's so fucking obvious that these koreans are all proud so they jump on this fucking baseball bandwagon because they're finally happy to cheer for something.
for some reason i was hoping that they'd put that fucking liar stem cell clone doctor up on the big screen just to remind all of those people who the pride of korea really is.
the japanese at the game weren't about hate and negativity. they just wanted to cheer for their country. the koreans are only about hate, lies, and jealousy.
>>90 Well, for what it's worth, Japanese attendance beat Koreans in manner. :-) They gave big applauds to Lee Jin Young's diving catch at Tokyo dome. In contrast Koreans gave boo boo to all the good plays of Japanese players. How sad....
Ha ha ha!! all japanese can do is to talk big in Japanese!! No Japanese really can respond in English!! Huuhhhh??? "Dealing with overseas propaganda in English"??? don't make me laugh to roll over the floor!!! wtf speak English here except Koreans!?
>>110 You're a total bonehead, aren't you?? wtf said i've got a problem?? all problems are your side, aren't they?? who the hell in here can really deal with anti-japanese propaganda in English??
US says China refuses deportees The US has accused China of refusing to take back almost 40,000 Chinese immigrants who have been denied permission to stay in the country. The United States Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff described the situation as "intolerable". He said although China had taken back 800 citizens last year, that only made a small dent in the numbers. Mr Chertoff said there was a backlog of thousands of illegal Chinese immigrants in the United States.
US, Australia, Japan focus on China's growing might in defense talks
Date: 15/3/2006 Agency: AFP Topics: usa china asia pacific
Sydney: China's growing power will top the agenda in unprecedented security talks between the United States, Japan and Australia during a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week.
Rice arrived in Australia Wednesday evening and begins three days of meetings Thursday, culminating in the first ministerial-level Trilateral Security Dialogue with the Australian and Japanese foreign ministers, Alexander Downer and Taro Aso.
Thursday, March 16, 2006 Ichiro forced to eat words South Korea tops Japan, keeping U.S. hopes alive By JOSEPH D'HIPPOLITO
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Before the World Baseball Classic started, Ichiro Suzuki made a statement that South Koreans took as a declaration of war.
"I want to beat South Korea so badly," Ichiro said, "that the South Koreans won't want to play Japan for another 30 years."
During Wednesday night's WBC quarterfinal game between both teams at Angel Stadium, the decidedly pro-Korean crowd of 39,679 told the Mariners right fielder how it felt in no uncertain terms. Ichiro, loudly cheered in both of Japan's previous WBC games in Anaheim, heard boos at every at-bat.
But Lee Jong-Beom delivered the ultimate rejoinder, a two-run double in the top of the eighth inning that gave South Korea a 2-1 victory and the group championship.
The victory keeps the United States in contention for one of the group's two semifinal berths, but the Americans must defeat Mexico tonight.
"I've never been so nervous watching a game that I wasn't playing in," U.S. manager Buck Martinez said. "My wife ... couldn't watch."
Japan rallied in the bottom of the ninth as Tsuyoshi Nishioka led off with a homer off Koo Dae-Sung. One out later, Nobuhiko Matsunaka singled under the glove of second baseman Kim Min-Jae.
However, right-hander Oh Seung-Hwan relieved Koo and struck out pinch hitter Takahiro Arai and Hitoshi Tamura to save the victory for Byung-Hyun Kim.
Gonzalez: Im so happy that US got eliminated. Even with a tournament that was set so US wouldnt play against any latin team (except Mexico). Even robbing the game against Japan. Even trying rob the game against Mexico with stupid calls. Now we are going to have a real WORLD CHAMPION.
But the only Asian team I can truly say that for is Team Korea. Because team Japan is definately not respectful, at least in Asian baseball. The Japanese in general think they're the best "Asian" civilization in the far east. They have that superiority complex(aka racism). And that's why they have arrogant idiots like Ichiro and Matsuzaka running their mouths about Koreans and Chinese being inferior to their team(pre WBC trash talking). I'm glad Korea beat Japan twice and kicked a sock in Ichiro's mouth. I'll be happier when they do it again on Saturday. The Koreans already proved the Japanese wrong, but why they have to do it for a third time in order to advance to the Finals is beyond me. Even if the Japanese happen to win on Saturday what do they really have to be happy about? That they found a way to weasel through to the Finals because of some weird *** scoring system from the WBC? (which we all know was originally taylored to favor the US team... too bad that plan bit them in the *** too, I actually wanted to see them instead of the Japanese advance to the semi's.)
ESPN - 2 hours ago The end comes sooner than expected Bob Davidson made another dubious call (this time turning a no-brainer home run off the right-field foul pole into a stand-up double
Japan will be obliged to renounce her pacifist constitution – specifically Article 9 of the constitution – and create her own standing army so that she can become a normal independent nation, pursuing her own independent foreign policy and interests.
Until Japan does renounce Article 9, she will never be able to come out from under the US security umbrella and, in turn, be able to create and maintain relations with her neighbors on an equal footing. Japan must create her own military again in order to rid herself of US occupation and control.
Korean pitcher DQ'd from Classic 03/18/2006 1:25 AM ET By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com
SAN DIEGO -- Korean pitcher Myung Hwan Park is the first player who tested positive for drug use and was thus ejected from the World Baseball Classic, the tournament directors announced on Friday night.
Park, who made one relief appearance for the 6-0 Koreans, pitching two innings of scoreless, hitless ball, while hitting a batter, walking two and striking out three.
By virtue of the rules governing the tournament, Park is banned from international competition for the next two years. If he tests positively a second time, Park is banned for life.
The news came on the eve of Korea's semifinal rematch with Japan on Saturday night at 10 p.m. ET in PETCO Park. The winner plays the victor of Saturday's other semifinal game between Cuba and the Dominican Republic for the inaugural Classic championship on Monday night at 9 p.m. ET.
The Classic drug policy is tailored to rules that govern international sporting events and was negotiated and originally signed two years ago by Major League Baseball, the MLB Players Association and the International Baseball Federation.
Any Major League player testing positive during this event would not be subject to sanction this season under MLB's revised drug policy that recently went into effect. Under that new "three strikes and you're out" policy, a player would miss 50 games for the first positive test, 100 games for the second and receive a lifetime ban (with right of appeal) for the third.
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If Team USA defeated Mexico on Thursday night to advance to today's semifinals, the MVP (Most Valuable Person) might have been umpire Bob Davidson, who contributed to a victory over Japan by erasing a run on a third-to-home tag-up and then called an obvious Mexican HR a double. Fortunately, for the sake of fair play, Mexico eventually scored the run.
チョソが掲示板見てるよwwwww 実はこの記者が必死に書き込んでるじゃないのか? どう見てもチョソの書き込みばっかしなのに、 U.S. fansだってよwwwww 馬鹿じゃねーの?
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200603/200603170025.html When the Korean team made it into the semifinals by defeating Japan 2-1 after a heated pitching duel, MLB.com, the official website of the Major League, as well as fan sites on ESPN, the official broadcaster of the WBC, were swamped with posts from U.S. fans complimenting the Koreans on their game.
Sometimes I think Chinese people would cook anything to make it into a meal. And they are introducing it to the west. http://youtube.com/watch?v=YVap3auJutU
Korean soap-opera craze reaches United States By Jaymes Song ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20060313-1002-wst-koreandramas.html >TV dramas have become a hot export for South Korea. It has swept through Japan, China, >the Philippines, Singapore and most of Asia and is now making its way through the United States.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States, Japan and Australia said on Saturday that China had a constructive role to play in the Asia-Pacific and encouraged the emerging superpower to "pull its weight" as a regional and global player.
You have to accept the rules as they are. Many MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL teams beat their division rival twice in the regular season only to lose in the playoffs to that team. Winners win the games when it's count most.
Man your such a homer retard. How about? Japan:Sony(does Sam Sung have a Playstation?),Nintendo,Konami,Capcom,Panasonic,Toshiba,Hitachi, Lexus,Infinty,Acura,Toyota,Nissan,Honda,Suzuki,Yamaha,Kawasaki for every Yobo company I could name 3 Japanese ones. Korea always are a center of copyright laws(Pirated soft ware)infraction. Heck who invented Karaoke hmmmm?Nihongo! Korea yea you have good foods but you will never amonut to what Japan has done to influence the world in technology.Hench most of your electronic achievements are jsut copies of Japan and the rest of the world bottom lime. Heck look at the the new Hyundai cars. Shi..They look just like Honda Accords. man.. Can't Koreans find their own identity?
By the way, didn't you know Japanese are actually Korean. Centuries ago Koreans migrated to the Japanese islands. So we win.
Kim initially tipped his cap when his name was announced, then when fans began booing he lifted his right hand and put up his middle finger. Kim's gesture upset reliever Mike Timlin, the last player introduced before Kim.
"I was standing right next to him. I was personally embarrassed," said Timlin, who pitched three perfect innings. "He's a man. He's got to control his actions.
Korean fans seemingly making up most of the crowd of 42,639, chanting "Dae-Han-Min-Kook" ("Great Korea") and banging their noisemakers in a scoreless tie. They had seen Korea play the same game Wednesday night, then score twice late.
Japan had six hits in the seventh, including a pivotal pinch home run by Kosuke Fukudome off Byung-Hyun Kim, who has given up his share of pivotal home runs in the major leagues.
アナウンサー Six-nothing, Japan leading Korea last of the ninth. You know there's a little bad feeling about Ichiro and those statements he made before this tournament started, about beating Korea, and Korea won't be up with them for thirty or fourty years.
After he caught this pop-out off the bat of Ichiro at the end of inning, and Ichiro was heading back to the dugout with his head down. Look what the third baseman, Jung(?) did with that ball.
解説者 Well you know that kinda reminds me of when I see the football game, a guy makes a tackle of good hit, he jumps up, celebrating, and the guy hit says "look at the scoreboard", you know (laughter), "I'd rather be in my position than yours", and I'm sure that's what Ichiro was thinking. He didn't react though, as you can see.
The Art of Being Ichiro By Jim Caple ESPN.com Senior Writer We want to think of him as we do "Area 51," the nickname for the grassy lawn he patrols in right field -- mysterious and alien. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=ichiro
Winn comes clean on win over Japan Sunday, March 19, 2006 When center fielder Randy Winn arrived from the World Baseball Classic on Saturday, he confessed he and Team USA got a break it did not deserve in a second-round victory over Japan last Sunday.
Japan appeared to break a 3-3 tie in the eighth with a sacrifice fly only to lose the run when home-plate umpire Bob Davidson ruled Tsuyoshi Nishioka, who beat Winn's throw home, left third base early. The Americans then won with a run in the ninth.
So, Mr. Winn, did Nishioka bolt before you made the catch?
"Upon further review, I believe he did not," Winn said. "I saw it on TV and it didn't look like he left early. But during the game I couldn't tell. I was just trying to catch the ball."
One could call it poetic justice that Japan advanced to the semifinals and the United States went home after it lost to Mexico on Thursday.
"There was a wrong impression of Ichiro that he was selfish," Japan manager and world home run king Sadahara Oh said. "As people can see, he really committed himself to this team and he put so much time into this. Now he's one of the leaders of the team as well. A lot of people would like him performing very well, and I'm sure his popularity went up once again in Japan."
we've seen another side to Ichiro in the tournament. He is normally so stoic that he makes his ex-teammate, John Olerud, seem like Jim Carrey. But he's hugged teammates, slapped hands, cheered, shouted, cursed after losses and generally shown more emotion in the past two weeks than he has in five seasons in Seattle. It's been refreshing.
"This is my first time to play for Team Japan,'' he explained, "and I have the Japanese flag on my shoulder, so that might be the primary reason I've become so emotional in these games at the WBC.''
Most amazing of all, Ichiro has even talked a little smack, telling reporters before the tournament, "I want to play games that make the other teams think they won't be able to beat us for the next 30 years.'' The Koreans, whose rivalry with Japan is a bit like the Yankees and Red Sox, did not take kindly to this. They beaned him in one game, Korean fans heckled him loudly in Saturday night's semifinal game and after Ichiro popped out in the semifinal, Korea third baseman Bum Ho Lee rolled the ball at the Japanese star's feet as he returned to the dugout.
There is a little irony in Ichiro's presence here. Five springs ago, there was considerable doubt whether he was good enough to play in the big leagues. Now, he's the only major league representative in the WBC starting lineup. He's taught us a lot about Japanese baseball in the past five years and also learned a lot himself.
Police arrested a South Korean women on suspicion of burning down several buildings at a U.S. Army base in Seoul on Thursday because she was angry at what she saw as "U.S. terrorism".
Three South Korean civilian employees were injured in the fire that started at a public works building at the base that serves as the headquarters for U.S. troops in South Korea. The fire spread to four other buildings, police said.
The white flags with the solitary red circles were scattered around Petco Park, growing more and more prominent with each inning. Every time Japan scored another run or made another slick play Monday night, the fans raised those cherished flags, shook them and waved them. Then they waited.
日本では無く、態々ソウルに行って南朝鮮を取材する糞チョン記者。 South Korea at Classic: No Title, Much Pride By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: March 20, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/sports/sportsspecial/20korea.html?_r=1&oref=slogin SEOUL, South Korea, The game was watched Sunday afternoon here on giant television screens in public squares and in stadiums across the country.
The victories became laden with deeper significance in South Korea; feelings toward Japan's half-century of colonial rule remain raw and resentment toward the perceived heavy-handedness of its American ally has grown.
Before the tournament began, Japan's Ichiro Suzuki, a Seattle Mariners outfielder, angered South Koreans by saying that he wanted to beat their team in such a way that they would "feel that they won't be able to beat Japan for the next 30 years." South Korea responded by twice beating Japan, considered baseball's Asian powerhouse, and also by defeating the United States
Rie Katsuta 勝田 梨恵 シンプル・フレンチ料理教室主宰 メニュープランナー フードライター 経歴 1998年 上智大学文学部卒業 米国 CIA Culinary Institute of America 入学 フランス料理を基礎とする世界各国の料理、製菓、製パン、ワイン学、レストラン経営学を学ぶ http://www.ciachef.jp/profile_02_rk.html
154 :番組の途中ですが名無しです :2006/03/21(火) 20:51:41.50 ID:Tk07Q00g0 Japan's Ichiro Suzuki, a Seattle Mariners outfielder, angered South Koreans by saying that he wanted to beat their team in such a way that they would "feel that they won't be able to beat Japan for the next 30 years."
Name:Ken Location:Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan I'm from the Seattle area of Washington State in the USA, grew up all over the US. It's my 2nd time living in Japan (also 1989-92), so I've been here about 7 years total. The first time I came to Japan was over 20 years ago when I spent 2 weeks visiting my sister who lived here for a year in High School.
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea suggested Tuesday it had the ability to launch a pre-emptive attack on the United States, according to the North's official news agency. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the North had built atomic weapons to counter the U.S. nuclear threat.
Deafeningly loud as it was, strictly in keeping with San Diego tradition, the moment still may have been lost on many in the bi-hemispheric crowd of 42,696 at Petco Park last night.
But the sudden pealing of “Hells Bells” surely registered extra decibels with former Padres relief pitcher Akinori Otsuka, coming out of the bullpen to pull Japan out of a jam, turning his countrymen back toward the first World Baseball Classic championship.
Otsuka, serenaded onto the field by blasts of the heavy-metal song heretofore reserved in San Diego for Padres closer Trevor Hoffman, responded in kind and quickly quelled a Cuban rally in the eighth.
Otsuka, a fan favorite who was traded over the winter to the Texas Rangers, knew the familiar intro was coming. Earlier yesterday, Otsuka said, he called Hoffman at the Padres' spring-training complex in Peoria, Ariz. "I asked him if I could use it, because San Diego was home base for me, too," said Otsuka. "We were teammates, and Trevor is such a great pitcher, so I asked him to use his song. I think it gave me his power."
Couple pleads not guilty in sauna case Promoting prostitution is alleged. A couple charged with second-degree promoting prostitution pleaded not guilty Monday in Boone County Circuit Court. Ok Hee Kim and her husband, Semsettin Gogebakan, were arrested Dec. 10 at VIP Sauna, a Columbia massage parlor at 5210 N. Missouri 763. Condoms, paperwork and money were taken from the location, and two other people were arrested on suspicion of prostitution. All were released on bond. Proceedings moved forward haltingly Monday as a Korean interpreter attempted to speak to both Kim and a noticeably frustrated Judge Gene Hamilton. “Whatever’s said in the courtroom, you have to interpret at the time,” Hamilton told the interpreter at one point. Gogebakan entered his not guilty plea after Kim and did not require an interpreter.
N.Korean defector says disabled newborns are killed 22 Mar 2006 12:13:22 GMT Source: Reuters SEOUL, March 22 (Reuters) - North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday.
Ri Kwang-chol, who fled to the South last year, told a forum of rights activists that the practice of killing newborns was widespread but denied he himself took part in it.
"There are no people with physical defects in North Korea," Ri told members of the New Right Union, which groups local activists and North Korean refugees.
ttp://www.gaijinpot.com/bb/showthread.php?t=20649 A few months ago I was involved in a fatal car accident in which a pedestrian was killed. I was not arrested for various reasons, however under Japanese law, I am in the wrong. The police sent the papers to the prosecutors in mid February but I have heard nothing yet. Does anyone know how long the prosecutor takes to make a decision on whether to lay charges or not. Does anyone have any experience in this.
SAN FRANCISCO – Three executives from South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time for participating in a conspiracy to fix the price of computer memory chips, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.
Each executive agreed to pay a $250,000 fine, cooperate with federal authorities on the investigation and serve prison sentences ranging from seven to eight months for their role in a scheme to raise prices for dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, from 1999 to 2002.
メル凸Must! By William Underwood Mr. Underwood, a faculty member at Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University, is completing his doctoral dissertation at Kyushu University on the topic of Chinese forced labor redress. He can be reached at [email protected]. http://hnn.us/articles/21619.html It's Not Just the Japanese Government that's Turning a Blind Eye to History, So Are Japanese Corporations Just as Nazi Germany did in Europe during World War II, Imperial Japan made extensive use of forced labor across the vast area of the Asia Pacific it once occupied. Today, however, Japan's government and corporations are dealing with the legacy of wartime forced labor very differently than their German counterparts. First, a look at the German approach. The “Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future” Foundation was established in 2000, with $6 billion from the federal government and more than 6,500 industrial enterprises. As redress payments drew to a close last fall, about 1.6 million forced labor victims or their heirs, residing in more than 100 countries, had received individual apologies and symbolic compensation of up to $10,000 each. Altogether, 12 million people are believed to have worked for the Nazi regime involuntarily.[1] Commemorations and truth telling through history education are related aspects of the reparations process in which Germans have manifested a strong commitment to reconciliation. The Berlin state government has purchased an eight-acre former forced labor camp and is turning it into a memorial museum set to open in summer 2006. These latest steps in a longstanding, if sometimes fitful, pattern of atonement underscore the discontinuity between wartime and postwar Germany. Mostly non-Jews from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, forced laborers were the last major class of uncompensated victims of German war crimes. 延々と続く
I wrote the words on the classroom whiteboard in large letters. Then I crossed out both dates and places with a big red X.
"Not true," I declared. "The atomic bombings never happened. A total fabrication."
My university students were dumbstruck. We stared at each other in silence for a long moment. Next, I conceded that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed by American warplanes 60 years ago. But I insisted that only conventional bombs were used and only a few hundred people were killed. Another uncomfortable silence.
Then I admitted I was lying. The students seemed to collectively exhale in relief. The tragic reality, of course, is that hundreds of thousands of Japanese died as the result of the two atomic bombings. The brief classroom exercise helped students imagine how citizens of Asian countries victimized by Japanese aggression during World War II feel when the Nanjing Massacre is labeled a fabrication, military sex slaves are portrayed as willing prostitutes, and forced laborers are claimed to have voluntarily toiled for Japan's former empire.
It also gave students additional insight into why Chinese and Koreans, in particular, continue to react so indignantly to revisionist Japanese history textbooks and prime ministerial visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war dead.
Mitsubishi, Historical Revisionism and Japanese Corporate Resistance to Chinese Forced Labor Redress By William Underwood http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=513
William Underwood, a faculty member at Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University, is completing his doctoral dissertation at Kyushu University on the topic of Chinese forced labor redress. He can be reached at [email protected].
>>341>>344 korean apartment owners violated Fair Housing Act http://www.lawfinders.com/pdf/Complaint.pdf The owner had, according to some evidence, made statements that he did not like African-Americans or Hispanic tenants, but preferred Korean tenants. The Fair Housing Act prohibits "making, printing or publishing 'any notice, statement, or advertisement, with rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference,
discriminated against Plaintiff SMITH and other African-Americans by printing and distributing fliers indicating a preference for Koreans and Korean-Americans. Such marketing discriminates against all non-Korean
discriminated against Plaintiff SMITH, based upon his race, by falsely representing theunavailabilityof apartments at The Townhouse, by refusing toallow him tocomplete an application, byrefusing torent anapartment to him, and by excluding him from marketing that was only directedat individuals of Korean ancestry that could speak Korean. Defendant JOHNSON, who is alsoKorean-American, solicited only Koreans and Korean-Americans in the summer of 1998 Plaintiff SMITH filed a complaint with the California Department of Fair Housing on April20, 1999. Such discrimination, denying Plaintiff section 1021.5 of the California Code of Civil Procedure because this action involves the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest, namely access to low-income apartment housing at The Townhouse by all individuals not of Korean ancestry.
Racial Discrimination Sadly we have received many reports of Teachers arriving at Incheon International Airport following being hired from their home country - and as soon as the school owner sees them and sees that they are NOT Caucasian, the school owner refuses to have anything to do with them - in fact abandoning them in the airport. http://www.efl-law.com/deceptive_practices.html
またMari Yamaguchiが、AP発で総連をこんな表現してるんだけど。 National broadcaster NHK showed investigators pushing into the Osaka offices of the Chamber of Commerce of North Koreans.
南朝鮮の4番バッター崔熙渉の末路wwwwww Choi back, but maybe not for long Hee-Seop Choi rejoined the Dodgers on Monday, fresh from having hit .182 in seven games for Korea in the World Baseball Classic. The question now is whether his second spring-training stint will be any longer than his first. The strapping first baseman who was once long on potential but is now woefully short on results has a one-year, $725,000 contract. But a loophole that applies to most one-year deals would allow the Dodgers to pay Choi just 45 days' salary about $178,000 if they release him by March 29, something they could do only if he clears waivers between now and then.
Mr. Zhao, 44, is a seasoned journalist who was well known for covering rural issues before he joined the Times bureau in April 2004. He was arrested shortly after The Times published an article in September of that year predicting, correctly, that the former president, Jiang Zemin, would retire from his last official post.
Smuggling heroin is more effective in destroying the West than making nuclear weapons.
"It's a good way to kill a country," he said. "You don't have to fire bullets. They'll make a lot of profit, and they'll bring the young of the country down to their knees."
AP Korean Drama Craze Reaches United States <丶`∀´> By JAYMES SONG
It's become a daily ritual for Gayle Stephens. She often laughs and cries while getting her daily fix. She's even tried to get her family hooked. Stephens loves Korean dramas. TV dramas have become South Korea's hottest export since cell phones, female golfers and kimchi. The Korean craze, which also includes music and film, has swept through Japan, China, the Philippines, Singapore and most of Asia and is now making its way across the United States. "It's just a small peninsula nestled between Japan and China, but they've just hit it right," said Tom Larsen, general manager of YA Entertainment LLC, a major North American distributor of Korean dramas. "They know how to put together a good drama that their neighbors in Asia are eating up." Now, more Americans are saying hello to "hallyu," or the "Korean wave." Larsen said the dramas are the driver behind the wave, but it is really "all things Korea." "It stopped in Hawaii, built up some momentum and reached California shortly after and is continuing to spread across the states," he said. "The mainland is three, four, five years, behind Hawaii." http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032400729.html
Kang Chol-hwan is a slight, dapper, untroubled-looking fellow. He spent his childhood in the Yoduk No 15 labour camp in North Korea, where almost his entire family - grandmother, father, uncle and sister - were sent when he was nine. His grandparents and father had spent only a few years in North Korea before they were arrested. They were long-time members of the Korean community in Japan, but the grandmother, a committed communist, was persuaded to move to Pyongyang to help with the revolution a couple of years before Kang Chol-hwan was born.
Like many others, they moved quite deliberately from the luxury of a large Tokyo town-house to what can only be described as hell.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_083214325.html Anaheim Gynecologist Charged For Molesting Girl Dr. Anthony Tun Lee, 61, was accompanied by his wife when made his first appearance before Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig Robison Friday. Lee's arraignment on five charges was rescheduled for April 3.
Lee was charged with sexual battery by fraud, sexual penetration by means of fraudulent representation of professional purpose, first-degree burglary and two counts of lewd act on a child under the age of 14, Costello said. The girl was allegedly molested in 2002 and in 2004, when she was between the ages of 11 and 12, and on March 15 when the doctor came to the victim's home. The molestations occurred about three times prior to March 15, Costello said. "I think it's every female's worst nightmare," Costello said. "The acts when she was younger consist of fondling, of kissing, an act of oral copulation and then, now when she's 16, he's there supposedly to give her a medical exam, and again, we have some substantial sexual conduct taking place."
Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein: Epstein said Choi probably would start the season in the minors, saying, "We do want him to get every at-bat he can and find his swing at triple A."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-march26mar26,0,2385723.story?coll=la-home-headlines <丶`∀´> The rally was organized and funded by unions, religious organizations and immigrants rights groups, including Service Employees International Union Local 660; United Farm Workers; Hermandad Mexicana, an organization that assists immigrants; and the Korean Resource Center in Los Angeles.
South Korean investigators Sunday stormed the headquarters of the country's top automaker, Hyundai Motor, in a widening corruption probe into a local business lobbyist, officials said.
A team from the Prosecutor General's Office seized some 100 boxes of data from Hyundai Motor's head office in southern Seoul after hours of searching, company officials told AFP.
The seizure followed the Prosecutor General's arrest of Kim Jae-Rok, a 49-year-old business consultant, on Friday for allegedly bribing politicians and officials while negotiating mergers and acquisitions of local firms.
Yonhap news agency said Sunday's seizure was connected to Kim's alleged wrongdoing relating to the merger of Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors in 1998.
Animal rights advocate says "Korea Should Stop Eating Man's Best Friends"
If I told you In South Korea, it is common to eat dogs. This is not done in a humane manner, but by torturing them to death by hanging, strangulation, and beatings with such objects as bricks, large rocks, heavy rod-like objects and electrocution. They do this for long periods of time in order to terrorize and cause great suffering to the animal.
Cats do not hold any position of affection in Korean society. They are not eaten as dogs are but many attempts have been made to eradicate them, not by humane methods, but rather by beating the animals to death in sacks or, in some cases, boiling them alive in large pressure cookers to supply the insatiable demand for another "herbal" remedy – although clearly animals do not fall into this category.
The Korean government does not enforce its animal welfare laws so people make an assumption that farming dogs, slaughtering them and selling their meat is legal. It is not. The sale and cooking of dogs is illegal under Korea's food and sanitation laws.
As for the 2009 WBC, Fehr mentioned Monterrey, Mexico and Seoul, South Korea as possible early-round sites Monterrey's stadium seats more than 26,000, and Seoul would be a natural choice given Korea's success in the WBC. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5436738
Sex Abuse By Ben Brown Owing to a series of heinous crimes such as the rape and murder of an 11- year- old girl in Seoul, the arrest of a soldier who sexually abused more than half a dozen elementary schoolgirls, and the arrest of a 42-year-old business executive who sexually assaulted the teenage daughter of an employee, there has recently been considerable public discussion about how to control the sexual abuse of children here in Korea.
【Two S. Korean children in U.S. arrested for alleged sexual assault】
SEOUL, March 25 (Yonhap) -- Two South Korean children studying in the United States were arrested by police there for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl and a two-year-old baby, South Korea's foreign ministry said Saturday.
The two fifth-grade boys were staying at a Korean-American family's home when they allegedly sexually assaulted the fourth-grade girl, also from South Korea, and the host parents' baby daughter, the ministry said.
Further information about the offenders and victims was not immediately available.
The boys were arrested by the local police on charges of aggravated sexual assault on children on March 13 and are currently being held in a juvenile detention facility, the ministry said.
According to the local law, children under the age of 15 are not criminally indicted but can sentenced to serve time in a juvenile facility if found guilty, the ministry said.
The two boys' parents flew to the U.S. immediately after being notified by the South Korean consulate of their sons' arrest.
Korean American Family Service Center Korean American Family Service Center (KAFSC) is a nonprofit organization established to promote healthy relationships and address domestic violence issues in Korean American families in the New York metropolitan area through a wide range of bilingual programs and services.
offers myriad support services to Korean-American immigrants in the New York Metropolitan area who have been victimized by domestic violence. From September 1997 to August 1998, KAFSC assisted 683 clients.
U.S. Jews grateful for China's help http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20060324-030318-6943r.htm >The director of a leading Jewish-American organization has praised China for its efforts >to protect Jews during World War II.
>He recalled that when Jews fled persecution in Russia in the 1910s, they found a refuge in >the northeastern city of Harbin and built a community. >When Nazism almost destroyed the Jews, China again provided a haven in Shanghai for thousands >of Jews, he said.
ウィキペディアもあることないこと書いて日本軍を悪者にしたいらしい。 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_in_China#World_War_II >Shanghai was an important safe-haven for Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, since it was one of the only >places in the world where one didn't need a visa. However, it was not easy to get there. The Japanese, who >controlled the city, preferred in effect to look the other way. Some corrupt officials however, also exploited >the plight of the Jews.
Pressures Mount on Koreans Staying Illegally in U.S. 16 minutes ago http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200603/200603280010.html Illegal Korean residents in the U.S. “live in fear every day,” an immigration lawyer says. The majority of Koreans now illegally resident there went to the U.S. when the 1997 Asian financial crisis made it hard for them to earn a living at home. Here, they mostly work in restaurants, cleaners or beauty shops. They became illegal simply by staying on after their visas expired, and before Sept. 11, 2001 they had no problems getting jobs or sending their children to school. But all that changed after the terrorist attacks. Suddenly they found it impossible to get social security numbers or driver’s licenses, which are absolutely necessary to live in the U.S. “Some Korean college students who were admitted to prestigious universities saw their admissions canceled because their parents were illegal residents. Many Koreans here can’t risk visiting Korea even when their parents die because they are illegal residents here,” says Manhattan immigration lawyer Park Dong-gyu. They live in constant fear of deportation amid a climate of growing anti-immigrant sentiment. Now a bill is before the legislature that would allow immigration officials to question suspected illegal immigrants even at their workplace or school. The Korean Embassy in Washington says there were 2.08 million Koreans living in the U.S. as of 2005, 80 percent of them or 1.65 million with U.S. citizenship or permanent residence. Some 80,000 are in the States for study. The remaining 330,000 are workers or trainees and other temporary residents, and 200,000 of them are estimated to be illegal. In most cases they conceal the fact by using counterfeit IDs or submitting forged documentation.
In Los Angeles, the campaigning by the Spanish-language media was mirrored by Radio Seoul, the 24-hour Korean-language station in the city, which aired similar spots exhorting this city's 1 million Koreans to take to the streets.
"We estimate about one in five Koreans in America is illegal," said Dae Joong Yoon, executive director of the Korean Resource Center in Los Angeles.
Richard Lloyd Parry何やってんの? 何これ? Richard Lloyd Parry記者は、自分の記事で在日だって英国メディアとしては初めて報道した記者だからな、 知ってて態とやってるんだろ? しかも欧米では出生国や人種や帰化暦などきちんと報道する習慣があるからな、 日本人への嫌がらせとしか思えないこの記事
The Times March 29, 2006 THE Japanese man accused of killing Lucie Blackman, the British bar hostess, offered £300,000 to her father to prevent him from speaking in court about the devastating grief caused by her death, The Times has learnt. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2108176,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1737805,00.html The Times August 17, 2005 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.
http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ml-mariners&msg=25496.1&ctx=0 He was so calm and gentel although he was one of the NO.1 players in MLB. I have never seen him being rude or getting mad during the games at MLB. But he's totally different man during WBC. He was being rude to components(30yrs thing) and to the crouds(yelling at the people who crashed to him while he was trying to catch the foul ball). And he said F word after they lose to Korea at front of the fellows. What is wrong with him? Is it because he's playing againt Korea? I have always rooted him as a same Asian but not anymore.
TOKYO A court on Wednesday rejected demands for compensation by 45 Chinese men forced to work as slaves at Japanese coal mines in the 1940s, saying the current government was not responsible for actions during World War II, a court official and lawyers said.
Obara, a 52-year-old businessman, is on trial in Tokyo charged with killing Miss Blackman and another foreign hostess, and with raping six other women.
ESPN(米国スポーツ専門チャンネル)のホームページではWBC参加国を紹介しているが、韓国を東海ではなく‘日本海(Sea of Japan)’に接した国として表記。 果ては放送資料映像に登場した韓国国旗・太極旗の4卦さえ ‘乾坤坎離’(森羅万象を表す旗の四隅に描かれた模様)を無視した異様な形で描かれていることもわかり、非難が巻き起こっている。
SEOUL JOURNAL; Gay-Themed Film Gives Closet Door a Tug By NORIMITSU ONISHI SEOUL, South Korea — "King and the Clown" lacked a single top star from South Korea's booming film industry, or the other usual ingredients of a surefire blockbuster.
Germany receives confidence vote on World Cup security "I have the impression that they are very well-prepared and they have covered all the threats imaginable," said South Korean counter-terrorism official Min Jang, whose country co-hosted the 2002 tournament a year after the September 11 attacks on the United States.
About 1,000 were in >Costa Mesa to oppose immigration enforcement, reform. Led by a group of Korean drummers, the crowd clutched umbrellas and waved plastic American flags, waiting for the program to begin.
"Now we are told my father directed others to kill people, so there is a very big gap. "I think the image of the last 11 years is more famous now," she said, tears welling in her eyes. It was the only time during the interview that either daughter, dressed in sober business suits, cried. Both acknowledged it was "a fact" that the gas attack victims suffered, but said they did not have words to express their feelings about what happened.
Their father's lawyer said they agreed to talk with foreign media because they saw it as their last chance to pressure authorities to provide psychiatric help to Asahara instead of executing him.
The sisters say there is no point talking to Japanese media, which they say are more interested in reporting salacious details about Asahara's prison life. "Some Japanese media say you are the children of devils so you don't have any rights," Kaori said.
Japanization of names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_surname#Japanization_of_names The ordinance ? commonly called S?shi-kaimei (創氏改名) in Japanese ? allowed in theory (but compelled in practice) Koreans to adopt Japanese family and given names. Although the Japanese Government-General officially prohibited compulsion, low-level officials practically forced Koreans to get Japanese-style family names, and by 1944, approximately 84 percent of the population had registered Japanese family names (Nahm 1988, p. 233).
One of the great left journalists of his time, he was on the front lines in Korea and Vietnam. Chris Reed on Wilfrid Burchett, the man who made Murdoch foam at the mouth http://www.counterpunch.org/
Christopher Reed<こいつ東京駐在、要注意人物としてまとめサイトに入れといて。 記事の内容からして総連とズブズブ間違いなし。
Love hotels are often topic of interest among foreigners in Japan. Actually not only Japanese phenomena but also korean, these hotels "for resting" offer rooms from one hour to entire night. These days love hotels have often automated check in system so that the customers don't need to get into embarassing service situation. Despite this, sometimes you still have to pay to old lady that gazes suspiciously through a small hole in the window covered with dark curtains..
This Mexican Village Is a Seasonal Mecca For Border-Hoppers
Mexico -- It's spring break. Young Americans are hitting Cancún's beaches. Young Mexicans are hitting America's borders. "I've been coming here since 2001," says Alejandro Ramirez, surveying this tiny town filled with flophouses, taco stands and noisy bars just south of the Arizona border. "If you're looking for a place to cross, this is the best I know of," says the 27-year-old construction worker from Veracruz.
each day heads into to buy border-crossing supplies from Korean wholesalers the Border Patrol says it arrested 571 Mexicans in ........
Cooperation & Dev. for Korean/American Women Monday, 3 April 2006, 11:23 am Speech: US State Department Alexander Vershbow, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Remarks to 2006 Korean Women Entrepreneurs Association Breakfast Seminar Renaissance Hotel, Seoul, Korea March 21, 2006
I am humbled, actually, as I am not Korean, I am not a woman, nor I am an entrepreneur. I am, however, getting some help on the Korean part. In case you have not heard, I have recently been given an honorary Korean name. For those of you who find it difficult to say Vershbow, just call me "Park Bo-woo." I'm told that I'm first Park from the Sejong District Park clan.
Concerning apologies: Before Africans arrived to the American Continent, the Irish were the slaves for the British. After the Irish, the Blacks became the slaves for the British. To say that all Whites were slave owners shows a lack of your education, yet I agree with you that modern times owes no race an apology.
Why Japan's apologies for its wartime past fall on deaf ears Japanese Apologies for World War II:. A Rhetorical Study. By Jane W. Yamazaki. Mark Austin / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Mar. 19, 2006 http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/book/20060319TDY20001.htm
Japanese flock to China for organ transplants Asia Times Online, Hong Kong By David McNeill and Clifford Coonan (Republished with permission from Japan Focus) http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HD04Ad01.html
TOKYO - Of all languages in the world, Japanese is the only one that has an entirely different set of written characters to express foreign words and names. J ust seeing these characters automatically tells the Japanese that they are dealing with something or someone non-Japanese.
U.S. should boycott China's Olympics NEW YORK -- A fascist regime plans to host the Olympic Games. Critics call for a boycott, but the Games come off as planned. And on the field of world opinion, the host scores an enormous victory.
Berlin in 1936? No, Beijing in 2008.
Now that the Winter Olympics are over, all eyes will soon turn to the Summer Olympics. And that's just what the Chinese want. Like the Germans of the '30s, they will use the Olympics to showcase their economy -- and hide their repressive behavior.
But the rest of us don't have to help. Lest we repeat the errors of 1936, the United States should lead a boycott of the 2008 Olympics. Anything less will give the Chinese the same kind of propaganda boost that the Nazis enjoyed. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/264131_olympics24.html
Police allege estranged husband burned children to death in car about 406 related articles.
Witnesses told police they saw Yun arguing in Korean with his daughter outside the SUV in the alley. The SUV erupted into flames just moments after Yun forced the girl into the vehicle
A man who authorities allege burned his two children to death by setting fire to his SUV in a downtown alley had trouble controlling his anger and was experiencing stress from a failed marriage and financial setbacks, according to acquaintances of the suspect. Dae Kwon Yun, 54, was found near the SUV Sunday afternoon with severe burns on his face, hands and legs, authorities said. He was under guard and listed in critical condition at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. He is expected to survive and will be booked for investigation of murder, police said. Two years ago, Dae Kwon Yun, 54, pleaded guilty to beating his wife, Sun Ok Ma, and was sentenced to two years' probation. Yn and Sun's business was booming. He drove a Mercedes and the family had a home in the affluent Hancock Park area. But the marriage worsened a few years ago, when state and federal tax officials ordered them to pay $100,000 in back taxes, K.C. Min said. Yun was arrested in May 2004 for investigation of domestic violence after a woman called 911 and whispered to a dispatcher that her husband hit her and was still in their home, said Monterey Park police Capt. Eric Kim. Police forwarded that investigation to prosecutors, Kim said, but he didn't know the outcome of the case.
Yn and Sun's business was booming. He drove a Mercedes and the family had a home in the affluent Hancock Park area. But the marriage worsened a few years ago, when state and federal tax officials ordered them to pay $100,000 in back taxes, K.C. Min said.
Parents of a victim in a hit-and-run accident have learned the identity of the suspected driver, but there is a hitch. Police say that suspect was driven to the airport after the crash and flew to Korea. According to the report, 39-year-old Youn Bum Lee was with some business associates at Seoul-Oak Korean B.B.Q. restaurant where witnesses say he drank eight shots of Soju --a Korean rice wine. The report says the group went to a Karaoke bar until just before midnight. "After the traffic collision, Mr. Lee contacted one of the witnesses and drove the vehicle back to the corporation where he met with one of the witnesses and then he left the country through LAX," said Jennifer Hink with the California Highway Patrol. The report says Lee, who NBC4 reports works for Hyundai, showed his damaged car to a Hyundai executive who then drove him to an attorney's office. It says Lee got in a taxi then boarded a plane to Korea. A Hyundai spokesperson said in a statement that, "We agree this was a horrible and tragic accident. Hyundai Corperation is cooperating fully with the CHP and any further questions can be directed to them." Lee is facing charges of vehicular manslaughter, felony hit-and-run and driving under the influence
http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/companies/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-1783_1911441 http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/companies/display_article.asp%3FNav%3Dns%26lvl2%3Dcomp%26ArticleID%3D1518-1783_1911441 Travel ban for 'ugly Koreans' Seoul - South Korea is proposing a foreign travel ban for citizens who have committed misdeeds overseas, in an attempt to protect the nation's image, officials said on Wednesday. The proposed travel ban on "ugly Koreans" was contained in a foreign ministry report on Tuesday to the presidential office, ministry officials said. "Ugly Koreans" is a media-coined term referring to people caught buying sex or committing crimes overseas. "In case their illegal or shameful acts are reported overseas, we are planning to restrict their travel to foreign countries for a certain period of time," a ministry official said. South Korean laws already say that citizens can be denied passports for up to three years if they have been expelled from a foreign state for violating the law. In July 2005 Vietnamese television reported that police detained 28 South Koreans in a single day for buying sex at a Korean-owned salon. Police in Shanghai arrested 17 South Koreans in February for involvement in running a "host bar" where men were hired for sexual services. Authorities are planning to step up a separate campaign to educate people about internationally accepted etiquette. The travel ban plan may invite strong criticism from human rights groups for infringing on basic rights.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-macao6apr06,1,7120781.story?coll=la-headlines-world No More Gambling on N. Korea MACAO — By the time financial authorities cracked down on North Korea's dealings here, it was like the classic moment of feigned ignorance in "Casablanca" when Capt. Louis Renault declares, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here." For decades, the former Portuguese colony was renowned as the favorite haunt of counterfeiters, drug runners and spies, a kind of real-life "Casablanca" whose old-world cobblestone sidewalks and smoke-filled baccarat parlors probably hatched more intrigues than any script could contain. Banks here handled millions of dollars on behalf of North Korea's isolated communist government, which has been long accused by the United States of selling illegal drugs to raise hard currency. The nation's founder, Kim Il Sung, and his son, current leader Kim Jong Il, allegedly kept their ill-gotten gains in Macao. And a North Korean terrorist confessed to plotting the 1987 bombing of a South Korean airliner from a hotel here overlooking the South China Sea. But now the welcome mat has been rolled up, and the North Koreans, who didn't have many friends tobegin with, find themselves distinctly unwelcome in this autonomously governed Chinese territory. In February, Macao's banking regulators froze $25 million worth of North Korean accounts in the Banco Delta Asia, a bank the U.S. Treasury Department had accused in September of helping the North Korean government launder money and distribute counterfeit U.S. currency. "Today people here want to do business with the Americans, not the North Koreans," said Jose Rocha Dinis, director of the Jornal Tribunal de Macau, a Portuguese-language newspaper, as he drove along a waterfront cluttered with construction cranes. "When they are seeking investment from the outside, they can't let the North Koreans get in the way."
Oh yes there is an extradition treaty. But Sperwer is right — Korea is a wonderful place to “hide out” in plain sight. The way to hale Lee into the dock in LA is to file criminal charges against Hyundai America Corporation accusing the company of accessory-after-the-fact or of obstruction of justice. There is no way that Lee would have made his own travel arrangements — someone at Hyundai America spirited him out of the country. The truth will out.
How does drinking and driving equal “…a horrible and tragic accident.” and the two middle school girls’ deaths were deliberate murder? Sometimes I just can’t figure out the logic in this country.
What a dumbass and his company is equally stupid and deserving of punishment for helping to flee the scene of a crime. Hope the fucker rots in hell.
Jack calls Audrey and reveals that President Logan is behind everything. He needs her help to maneuver through the city. Jack says that they need someone credible to receive the evidence of Logan's involvement, and asks Audrey to call her father.
Audrey says that he is soon to land on his way back from >a summit in Japan, and that she'll do everything she can to make Secretary Heller help.
SMUGGLING CASES Hundreds of people being smuggled from China have been caught at West Coast ports since 1999. A post-9/11 crackdown has reduced the number of documented incidents, authorities said. The cases include: # April 2, 2005 -- Twenty-nine stowaways -- all men -- are arrested at the Port of Los Angeles. They were smuggled inside two 40-foot-long containers aboard the NYK Artemis. # April, 10, 2001 -- Thirty-six are found in "horrific" conditions on the container ship Pretty River in Vancouver, B.C. They had intended to escape in Long Beach, Calif. # Jan. 10, 2001 -- Twenty are arrested in Los Angeles after being smuggled aboard the M/V MSC California. (以降省略)
> ''None of the dry cleaners were open, they were all at the game, Japan and Korea,'' Clemens said. > ''So we couldn't get any dry cleaning done out there, but I guess the neatest thing is that > 50,000 of them were at Anaheim Stadium.''
>Lawmakers granted soju its exemption because of its status as the “social and national” drink of the >Korean community, explained Pat Deasy, a regulator with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!! Koreans know whom to pay off. I am a KoreanAmerican and I like to say (with tongue in cheek) that Migugs are using alcohol to keep downtrodden KoreanAmericans drugged. “Social and national” drink? Somebody should investigate who paid whom. I believe some Korean Soju companies are involved.
Korean Soju companies bribe Korean politicians in Korea. Shamless actresses (these companies want to push this evil on young women) drink Soju in the TV commercials as if it is the most natural thing to do.
F***ing stupid females. They pass out after heavy drinking and men take advantage of them. Or, they give birth to deformed babies. And, they do not even know alcohol can do that.
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.
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.
Here is a link to an April 7 KBS News report of the incident: http://news.kbs.co.kr/article/world/200604/20060407/861441.html The report simply says that the Korean police are searching for a 39-year-old man who is wanted for causing a traffic accident in October after drinking and driving, and that the accident led to the death of a motor cyclist in his twenties, who was riding up from behind. The report said that the man, who worked for a [Korean] group-affilate company, fled after the accident. The report was part of another report on a 45-year-old Korean living in Los Angeles who also fled back to Korea after hitting and killing a woman with his car in December of last year. The Latino woman, who was in her seventies, was killed in a crosswalk. The report says the suspect’s family man is Baek.
Yankee fans used to outnumber Angel fans at Angel Stadium, but in tonight's sellout crowd at the 45,037-seat stadium, Scioscia is expecting "more of a sea of red." The Angels have set team attendance records each of the past three seasons, drawing 3,404,686 last season as they won a second consecutive American League West Division championship. The team is on pace to set another record this season, selling a record 30,000 season tickets, capping season ticket sales and having to turn away some potential season ticket buyers for the first time in its 46-year history, http://www.nbc4.tv/news/8531223/detail.html
Mickey Mouse Denounced At Tokyo Anime Fair Tokyo's governor has condemned Mickey Mouse as inferior to Japanese anime, the highly detailed cartoons that feature busty girls with big blue eyes. Shintaro Ishihara made the remark while opening the Tokyo International Anime Fair on Saturday, which saw tens of thousands of fans strolling aisles packed with anime books, art, posters and a myriad of other souvenirs.
"I hate Mickey Mouse," Ishihara said. "He has nothing like the unique sensibility that Japan has. The Japanese are inherently skilled at visual expression and detailed work."
Suicide pilot stunt heralds war movie AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
The nationalist governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, gave a taste Thursday of a movie he wrote on the kamikaze by organizing a march of 20 young men clad as Japanese suicide pilots from World War II. Ishihara, who has frequently riled Asian neighbors with his views on Japan's militarist past, wrote the screenplay for I Go to Die for Nothing but You, which will be filmed at a cost of 1.8 billion yen (HK$119 million). http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=16007&sid=7408875&con_type=1
The matter received extensive media attention from news outlets all across the country. Smith has since suspended the practice of allowing detectives to receive sexual services as part of investigations.
Two of the women at the Moon Spa--52-year-old Kwi Ok Aguirre and 61-year-old Kyung Ja Koh--pleaded guilty yesterday to one misdemeanor count of living in a bawdy place. They got suspended jail sentences of six months or less. The suspected operators of the business--42-year-old Chung Hwan Choe and 43-year-old Hae Suk Chun--are now charged with money laundering. That's a felony punishable by up to 40 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. Choe and Chun are also charged with receiving money from the earnings of a prostitute and maintaining a bawdy place. Gi Young You, 37, was indicted Tuesday on one count of prostitution, a misdemeanor. She is being held in jail on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer, according to court records. No new evidence was offered yesterday in court, as most of the defendants either pleaded guilty or had their initial charges dropped in the lower court.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-korean8apr08,0,4595615.story?coll=la-home-local Koreans Stunned by Tragedy By Hemmy So, Times Staff Writer April 8, 2006 But most struggling with personal or financial troubles find ways to resolve their problems through family and friends, their church or social service agencies, said Edward T. Chang, professor of ethnic studies at UC Riverside, who has spent a quarter century studying the Korean American community of Los Angeles. "Korean immigrants live under tremendous pressure to earn a living and to educate their young," he said. http://ethnicstudies.ucr.edu/people/chang/chang.html Edward Taehan Chang Associate Professor [email protected] (951) 827-4577 x11825
Sometimes those pressures can reach crisis proportions…. But what Mr.
Yun did is so extreme, even those of us who know the community well are at a loss to explain.
この記者には、Psychiatric Timesの火病のこのリンクも送るべきだな?
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p980145.html "Hwa-byung" and "ataque de nervios," listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) as culture-bound syndromes, can serve as gateways to understanding anger's role in psychiatric morbidity, according to a panel of experts. Korean phenomenon of hwa-byung (literally, fire disease)
Preventing a Nuclear-Armed Iran: Will China and Russia Help? By the U.S. Senator Sam Brownback April 7, 2006 The Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Features/NationalSecurity/hl934.cfm We forget that it was only in 1991 that our troops during the first Gulf war were actually killed by missiles. A single SCUD missile hit a U.S. military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 of our soldiers and wounding 99. Today, our capacity to shoot down even a relatively crude SCUD missile is not much improved from that time. Our forces in Iraq and Korea--and the civilian populations they defend--have almost no means of protection against Iranian or North Korean ballistic missiles armed with both chemical and conventional warheads.
With no missile defenses, an attack by North Korea on the Korean peninsula or Japan, or Iran attacking Iraq or Israel, could result in tens or even hundreds of thousands of casualties.
We know for a fact that both Iran and North Korea have pursued an aggressive ballistic missile program and have been closely engaged with each other on their respective programs.
Two key countries that are sending the wrong signals are Russia and China. Part of the problem over Iran is that it has effectively bought U.N. Security Council vetoes from China and very likely Russia. Iran is reported to have signed deals valued at $100 billion or more with both of these countries and others. Russia is similarly securing regime survival by leveraging, if not blackmailing, its way through energy--as we recently saw in Georgia and Ukraine--by threatening Europe to the point of rendering it ineffective and incapable of confronting Russia and, in the process, Iran.
Koreans said they will march in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, banging traditional protest drums. Chinese said they will parade out of Chinatowns in San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, led by marchers wearing colorful dragon costumes.
Asian groups have become particularly concerned about immigration as the United States steps up its efforts to deport illegal Chinese and Korean immigrants.
The Department of Homeland Security recently said that it is close to an agreement with China over the repatriation of about 39,000 Chinese immigrants.
Korean activists said families have been torn apart when immigrant parents were deported while their American-born children remained in the United States.
A man apparently killed his wife, 8-year-old son and then wounded his 16-year-old daughter at their Echo Park apartment Sunday before fatally shooting himself, a police officer said. When the Korean family did not show up for church, friends looked for them at the apartment shortly before 10 a.m., said Los Angeles police Officer Mike Lopez. The 55-year-old man, his 50-year-old wife and their 8-year-old son were found shot to death, he said. Their 16-year-old daughter had been shot in the head, but she was sent to the hospital and is reportedly in stable condition. Police believe the husband/father shot the other family members and then killed himself, he said. Their names were withheld pending notification of next of kin. It is the second time in the past week that a Korean-American man is believed to have killed family members. Last Sunday, Dae Kwon Yun, 54, was critically burned after allegedly placing his 11-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son in an SUV and setting it on fire in a downtown alley. He was believed to have had financial and marital problems.
Charles J. Kim, president of the national Korean American Coalition and a longtime leader in Los Angeles' Koreatown, said many in the community have mental health issues, but no one wants to talk about their problems.
Send your comments to the editor by Suvendrini Kakuchi IPS, Belgium - Mar 8, 2006 http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32419 TOKYO, Mar 8 (IPS) - Lenny Tolentino, a Filipina activist who provides pastoral care for migrant women and children in Japan, says she wept tears of joy and relief when she read a new United Nations report on racism that calls for sweeping changes in the country. Tolentino was referring to a new document compiled by Doudou Diene, who is the special rapporteur appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, to examine contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in Japan. Diene based his report on several meetings with officials, lawyers and Japan's minority groups such as the Ainu, the indigenous people who live in Hokkaido, the Korean community and other foreigners such as Chinese and Brazilians as well as the Buraku people, a group of Japanese who were considered official outcasts in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He concluded that racism in Japan is based on a historical background that goes back to the Japanese colonisation of the Korean peninsula and policies adopted during the Meiji period when the Japanese people were declared a single race under the Japanese emperor, making minority groups outsiders. ''Racism in Japan is so deep-rooted that it is almost invisible in society. It is only when you are foreigner or belong to a minority group that one faces such problems such as not being able to rent a home or find a job. Japan is one of the world's most racists countries,'' said ""Prof. Kinhide Mushakoji"" president of the Japan Committee of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism, (IMADR-JC). 続く・・・・・・・・・・・
BAY AREA 'Dokdo Riders' on world tour for rocks Korean students promote rights to 2 disputed islands Charles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, April 1, 2006 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/01/BAGANI1TT31.DTL T.J. Pempel, head of UC Berkeley's Institute of East Asia Studies, said the dispute is a rallying point for Korean prestige, and Connecticut College historian Alexis Dudden, in a paper to be delivered at the annual Association for Asian Studies meeting in San Francisco next week, says, "These islands embody Northeast Asia's 20th century."
The conflict doesn't generate much heat among the general population in Japan, except among right-wing nationalists.
わしもな、元・広島市民でな、もう10年も前の話やけどな 厨房の頃、カープの応援に市民球場までいったらな チャリンコ(自転車)のカギを落としてしもたんやがな・・・(´・ω・`) しゃーないから、せっかく付けたカギをせっせと壊してたらな、 トントンと誰か背中を叩くねんや。 ふり向くと2b近い長身の白人の神父さんでな、 彼は言うた。 「アナタハ神ヲ信ジマスカ? 1945ネン8ガツ6ニチ、コノ地ニ神ガ降リテ来マシタ。 1999ネンニモ、マタ1度、神ガ降リテ来マス。 アナタハ助カリタイデスカ?モシ、アナタガ助カリタイナラ 私ト共ニ行キマショウ。 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see..... amen(アーメン)」。
誰か間に入ってしもうた。。。 orz まぁええわ。 で、続きやけどな、わしが「じゃけえ、はぁ〜そんなことはどぉでも ええけぇ、 わしは只、このカギを何とかしたいんじゃから、とっとと消えんさい や」言うとな、「OK, I got it. Let me do it! ワタシニマカセ ナサイ」とキッパリ言う。
Human rights campaigners such as Arudou Debito and many Japanese NGOs have been calling for such a law for some time.
Japan Focus has asked several Japan-based writers to respond to the Diene Report. Oda Makoto who has been campaigning against war, injustice and discrimination for over half a century, welcomes the report's findings while pointing out that all developed countries have similar problems. He hopes the report will push debate beyond the national point-scoring that he believes is all too prevalent.
The second-generation Korean essayist Pak Kyongnam provides by far the angriest analysis of the pervasiveness of Japanese discrimination, one informed by her own experience. She believes the report will be heartily welcomed by Koreans in Japan.
William Wetherall, a veteran commentator on Japan, by contrast, finds the Diene report fatally flawed by, among other things, the special rapporteur's lack of familiarity with the country he was investigating.
Tanaka Hiroshi, who has long worked to protect the rights of foreigners, views the report as a welcome step in the long march toward a racism-free Japan. He notes the positive effect of Japan's previous adoption of UN conventions in extending human rights.
Journalist-author Honda Katsuichi, who has addressed issues of discrimination against the Ainu in Japan and American Indians, welcomes the report but warns that in the absence of vigorous treatment of the report by major media it will have little effect
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Pak Kyongnam: About Time Translated by Nobuko ADACHI I jumped for joy when I read this report's conclusions about Japanese society and its recommendations about so-called zainichi Koreans -- Korean-Japanese or Korean residents in Japan. This is why ninety percent of zainichi Koreans today use Japanese names to hide their ethnicity. While I do not think that incidents like the mass-murder of Koreans following the Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 would happen today, deeply biased views and social discrimination toward zainichi Koreans are open and widespread.
These negative feelings cause Japanese to target not only Koreans, but any weaker "other" -- such as those with physical disabilities -- as a means to overcome their frustrations. We see this in the discriminatory writings found on blogs and websites such as the popular Channel 2 bulletin board. [2] [2] Channel 2 can be accessed at www.2ch.net after going through www.google.co.jp
William Wetherall: A seriously flawed report There are serious flaws in the " Mission to Japan" report recently submitted to the United Nations by Doudou Diene. I have written a counter report in which I evaluate, paragraph by paragraph, the credibility of Diene's observations, analyses, and recommendations. The counter report concludes that Diene came to Japan, not to objectively study minority issues, but to follow the bidding of the activist organizations that have been lobbying the United Nations human rights committees for the past couple of decades -- mostly participants in the BLL/IMADR-led "minority solidarity" movement in Japan.
Ironically, Diene has done a lot of damage to BLL/IMADR's cause -- which is not entirely without merit. It was a grave mistake to allow someone who apparently knows so little about Japan to write a report under the auspices of an objective UN mission.
Diene's "mission" was basically a ploy to embarrass the Japanese government in the eyes of the world, knowing that the content of his report will be disseminated in global mass media through press conferences and other venues. However, his report spreads all manner of misinformation, and invites all manner of misunderstanding, about Japanese and East Asian history, about Japanese law and society, and most importantly about racial, ethnic, national, and other minorities in Japan.
For Wetherall's detailed analysis of the report, see Counter reports, "Mission to Japan 2006" at top left of the website. William Wetherall is an independent researcher, writer and veteran commentator on Japan. He has a Ph.D. in Asian studies from the University of California at Berkeley. His homepage, which includes articles written over the years on issues of minorities and discrimination in Japan, can be accessed.
April 09, 2006 Pak Kyongnam(朴慶南): About Time: Translated by Nobuko ADACHI because of the new economics of global free trade, economic disparities are growing, leaving clear winners and losers. These negative feelings cause Japanese to target not only Koreans, but any weaker "other" -- such as those with physical disabilities -- as a means to overcome their frustrations. We see this in the discriminatory writings found on blogs and websites such as the popular Channel 2 bulletin board.
The U.S. Embassy in Seoul, which has the largest single U.S. nonimmigrant visa processing post in the world, issues an average of 1,800 to 1,900 visas per day.[28] In 2003, about 420,000 South Koreans applied for U.S. nonimmigrant visas; 397,000 of these applications were approved, for a rejection rate of around 5 percent.
As with the emerging democracies of South Korea have been unable to meet the criteria established by the VWP. For example, in the case of South Korea, U.S. Ambassador Christopher R. Hill(現国務次官補) and other American government representatives have said that the ROK cannot join the VWP until the number of illegal South Korean residents in the United States significantly declines.[33]
Additionally South Korea's visa rejection rate is higher than the 3 percent maximum.[34]
Finally, ROK officials estimate that some 70,000 South Korean passports are lost or stolen each year and then traded on the black market, a factor that has impeded Seoul’s participation in the VWP.[35]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents believe Dong In Seok is part of a ring that has been secreting undocumented Koreans into America by a circuitous route that starts in Seoul, passes through Vancouver, B.C., crosses the border in remote northeast Washington and ends in Los Angeles.
The rental agreement showed that the SUV had been picked up the day before at Sea-Tac Airport, not by the driver, but by Dong In Seok, also known as Kenny Suk. He had been arrested in 2001 for human smuggling, authorities said.
If found guilty of the smuggling charges, he faces up to 10 years in prison and $500,000 in fines.
Lindwall -- a member of the ICE human trafficking task force who has a graduate degree in Korean studies noted in the charging documents that instances of Koreans being smuggled into Washington state have spiked since 1994. That's when Canada eliminated tourist visa requirements for Koreans pursuant to a treaty between the two countries.
Koreans interested in being smuggled into the United States typically contract with smugglers in Seoul posing as travel agents. Once they arrive in Vancouver, B.C., the smugglers put them in safe houses and arrange for vehicles, drivers and border trail guides, according to the criminal complaint.
Then the illegal immigrants are taken "to a remote rendezvous point, where, under the cover of darkness, they turn the clients over to ... the Los Angeles group," the complaint states.
Lindwall -- a member of the ICE human trafficking task force who has a graduate degree in Korean studies noted in the charging documents that instances of Koreans being smuggled into Washington state have spiked since 1994.
That's when Canada eliminated tourist visa requirements for Koreans pursuant to a treaty between the two countries.
The divorcé reportedly had big gambling debts. It is the third such incident in recent days involving members of the Korean community.
Bong Joo Lee's relatives told police that he had been unemployed for some time and might have racked up as much as $200,000 in gambling debt, said Fontana Police Sgt. William Megenney.
Key Diplomats Together Again, but Not Meeting on North Korea By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: April 11, 2006 The top envoys in the six-nation talks over North Korea's nuclear arms program gathered in Japan for an academic conference on international security.
In a country that's more than 99 percent ethnic Korean with an emphasis on "pure blood" lineage, Ward's triumphant return has caused many to re-examine prejudices against biracial children, who are often associated with brothels around American military bases.
Cho Yong-Sun, 11, is a shy young boy. But that's not why he has no friends at school. "No one will play with me because they say I look like an American," he says.
It's that kind of mind set that Ward hopes to change.
The only workplace where being a biracial Korean is an exotic plus is in a nightclub, which is where James Lee sings. Lee gave up his dreams of being a soccer player as a young child, when his coach told him no team would take on a player who looked the way he did. Tired of being teased, he dropped out of high school, and he knows what his future will look like. "I have seen many others go down this path," says Lee. "We don't have an education, all we know is singing at a night club. When we get older, people like me do menial labor, with a hat pulled over our faces."
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Beaming Kim Gwan-woo couldn't hide his excitement at getting to meet Super Bowl star Hines Ward, a hero that the 7-year-old Korean boy wants to emulate.
Kim, a second grader who aspires to be a scientist, often comes home from school crying, taunted by schoolmates shouting racial slurs, said his aunt and guardian, Kim Jae-yon, who runs a small restaurant in central Seoul.
The image of mixed-race Koreans has been negative, as people often associate them with brothels around American military bases.
That view, coupled with an emphasis that South Korea's Confucian-oriented society places on "pure blood" lineage, has led to lifetime discrimination against those of mixed heritage.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/steelers/2006-04-09-ward-focus_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA At a news conference at the Lotte Hotel last Tuesday, 200 reporters and photographers filled a meeting hall with a capacity for 130, yelling at each other and jostling for position. The adulation is a little awkward. Ward knows if he'd grown up as a half-black child in South Korea he likely would have been relegated to a second-class existence. His Korean mother knows it too. She chose a tough, lonely life in the USA to spare him the ordeal. "I enjoy the Korean community support," Ward says. "My mom is still leery: 'Is it because he's MVP, or do you really accept him?' " Ward excelled in athletics but still struggled to find an identity between two cultures. When he was a teenager, Kim recalls, Korean neighbors recruited him to join their basketball team for a tournament and excluded him from the celebration afterward. "They used him," she says. "I cussed them out." South Korea's 5,000 Amerasian children born since the Korean War have struggled to fit into a society that takes prickly pride in its 99%-plus ethnic homogeneity. Teased and bullied, 9.4% of Amerasian children drop out of elementary school; another 17.5% quit middle school, according to Pearl S. Buck International. As adults, more than 45% are unemployed or work odd jobs to get by, the Buck organization says. Seven-year-old Ahn Arum, daughter of a Seoul woman and an absentee American father, refuses to study Korean at school. "She doesn't know why she should read Korean. She doesn't feel Korean," says her mother, Ahn Jin-hee, 29. "The boys tease her. They say she has curly hair; she is black; she is smelly. (Even) my parents didn't want to take their granddaughter outside because it was disgraceful."
Does that mean that Guillen is impressed, though? Not exactly.
"Now the Japanese people think they're good," Guillen said. "Nah, they're not that good. Sorry. The [Classic] win was by the team that was prepared best. Japan and Cuba were better prepared than anyone else. They had more time to practice. The team was together a long time, and the Cuban team knew it was going to play in the World Classic. But those two teams, they're not that good. They have maybe a couple players who are OK, but they play 162 games at this [major league] level, they might win 20 games. ...
"They think they're good. They're great, they play good baseball, fundamental baseball. They play great for one week, two weeks. But if they come over here, we'll kick their [butt]. They play 162 games here in any division, they'll finish last. I don't want Fidel [Castro] to get cocky. ... They're not that good."
Thanks for giving me a reason not to renew my subscription to the L.A. Times. I will tell my friends what kind of a company is behind the L.A. Times. Racists and bigots. I now have a new topic of conversation for my talk show: How the journalists at the Chicago Tribune are bigots who persecute people of other races and religions.
Change of Subject A Chicago Tribune Web log No sushi for me, thanks. It's now a matter of principle.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/14242118.htm There seems to be no stopping Guillen, whose rise to the top of baseball has been exceeded only by his ability to constantly shock the baseball world with a mouth that runs nonstop into controversy.
Guillen might be controversial, but he is loved in Chicago and revered in Venezuela, where even President Hugo Chavez honored him when he returned last winter after leading the White Sox to the World Series title.
生年月日 10月25日 出身 U.S.A. ウェストバージニア州 学歴 ブライアン大学卒業(国際ビジネス、日本語専攻) 主な出演作品…◆TV NHK「基礎英語シリーズ」/NHK衛星放送「スポーツフライデー」 ◆ラジオ…J−WAVE「SIGN OF THE TIMES/J−WAVE「TOYOTA MILLENIUM LOUNGE」/Inter-FM「JOINT ONE RADIO SHOW」
Jong Ock Mao, 47, of West Covina, was arrested Tuesday in Madisonville after a 40-count indictment was unsealed in Santa Ana federal court accusing her and three others of conspiracy, money laundering and violating the Travel Act, a federal law that prohibits the use of interstate facilities to conduct illegal business.
Federal agents raided six businesses, including tanning salons, chiropractic offices and spas, that authorities said were fronts for brothels. There were between three and 18 women working in each of brothels, and many were prostituting to pay off smuggling fees, said Buckley Thomas, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigator.
Mao, the reported leader of the brothel operation, was ordered held in Houston on $150,000 bond and authorities were working to extradite her to California, said customs spokeswoman Virginia Kice.
Authorities also were looking into possible immigration violations because Mao is a Korean national living in the United States without a green card, Kice said.
Authorities were working to seize more than $4 million in assets, including bank accounts, homes and four private motocross tracks in California, Texas and Florida owned by Mao.
The arrests are part of an ongoing investigation that resulted in last July's indictment of 24 people accused of smuggling South Korean women into the country and providing them to brothel operators.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/trail-of-violence/13135/ On March 18, Young Lee, 31, was found dead in her apartment on Reno Street in Koreatown. A week earlier, Lee filed a report with LAPD’s Wilshire Division claiming that she had been raped by someone who then left her threatening messages. • On March 25, Hae Eo, 34, an alleged narcotics dealer, had a standoff with LAPD SWAT officers at his residence on Crenshaw Boulevard. A caller told police that Eo had pistol-whipped a business associate. After five hours, SWAT officers shot tear gas into the home and took Eo into custody. • On March 25, 50-year-old Mi Sook Kim shot her 49-year-old boyfriend, Hyung Dong Cho, three times in the chest before turning the gun on herself. • On March 26, the SWAT detail was called to the 700 block of South Manhattan Place after a 911 call from a woman claiming her husband beat her. • On April 2, Dae Kwon Yun, distraught over his failing T-shirt and tank-top manufacturing business and the breakup with his wife, climbed into his Toyota Sequoia and set it on fire, killing his two children, Ashley, 11, and Alexander, 10. • On April 8, 40-year-old Bong Joo Lee told his ex-wife that he was taking their 5-year-old daughter, Iris, out for dinner. When father and daughter didn’t return, his ex-wife and her relatives took a drive to his upper-middle-class neighborhood in Fontana, where they found him and his daughter dead in the master bedroom. According to Fontana police, he shot his daughter three times in the chest before shooting himself once in the head. • On April 9, Sang In Kim killed his wife and 8-year-old son, Matthew, in Westlake before turning the gun on himself in their three-bedroom apartment complex he managed. Kim’s 16-year-old daughter sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to County-USC Medical Center, where she underwent surgery.
MOST AMERICANS don't associate Japan with shoddy craftsmanship or slipshod engineering. On the contrary, most of us admire the Japanese for making fuel-efficient automobiles that never rattle or quit; televisions and cameras that hardly ever malfunction; and sophisticated robots and cellphones stuffed with features that seem light-years ahead of our own. Indeed, Japan's manufacturing ethic seems without parallel. So it was rather shocking earlier this month to learn that flimsy construction and coverups led the government to send in the bulldozers and demolition crews to tear down a new 265-room business hotel in downtown Tokyo — a 15-story ferroconcrete tower that had opened less than a year earlier. It's said that while American corporate criminals steal to enrich themselves, Japanese mainly steal for their companies. For decades, in fact, the government and the electorate seemed to tolerate bid-rigging, inflated consumer prices and payoffs to government officials. This was the lubricant that kept Japan Inc. running so smoothly, but the public's health and safety never seemed endangered. But, along with recent coverups associated with outbreaks of avian flu and mad cow disease, and the knowing distribution of HIV-tainted blood to hemophiliacs, the earthquake scandal makes us wonder whether a subtle line has now been crossed in Japan. Maybe after years of ceaseless recession, the duty to protect public safety finally has been undermined by a more common global propensity for greed and avarice.
"In the Latino community, people come here illegally for jobs," said H. Chang, a 23-year-old Korean college student who asked her full name not be used because her parents are living in Los Angeles illegally. "For us, a whole family comes here for a student, and many stay illegally."
During last Monday's nationwide rallies, dozens of Haitians, Filipinos, Indians and others participated in New York. A Korean drum band lead about 7,000 demonstrators through the streets of Los Angeles
That hasn't persuaded J. Park, a 17-year-old illegal immigrant from Korea, to join the movement. He fears authorities could learn about his immigration status if he demonstrates. "I don't want that to be known," said Park, who asked that his full name not be used. "Going back to Korea is not an option."
Woman held to answer to fraud charges 4/15/2006 Christina Kyeonghee Kim, 42, who owned Chosun House, a Korean restaurant in Arcata prior to it shutting down, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in early April on 51 counts of bank fraud, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.
She is accused of creating at least 12 false identities, an FBI news release states. Using the false identities, Kim allegedly opened bank accounts and credit card accounts and received lines of credit from the banks and credit card companies.
It is alleged that Kim used the money to pay for personal expenses, including a new home, designer clothes, shoes and handbags and jewelry.
Kim, who is out on a $200,000 secured bond, is scheduled to appear in front of U.S. District Judge William Alsup on May 16 at 2 p.m.
チョンの娯楽ってprotestなのか? 本当頻繁にやるよな。 Korean store owners say high insurance and hydro threatens their future Last updated Apr 17 2006 03:02 PM EDT CBC News Korean small business owners in Ontario say rising cigarette thefts and soaring commercial hydro rates are putting many of their stores in danger of closing. And they are taking their concerns to Queen's Park on Tuesday to protest outside the legislature. Members of the Ontario Korean Businessmen's Association, which represents over 3,000 convenience stores across the province, say the increase in cigarette thefts, which they blame on higher tobacco taxes, are in turn forcing up their insurance rates and many family businesses may disappear as a result.
If Chinese can be a major, why can’t Korean? As a Korean-American, I have an interest in expanding Korean studies at the University. But personal preferences aside, I see a demand for the major among students. “Without Korean, no major university can say that they have a proper East Asian studies program,” Hyangsoon Yi, professor in comparative literature and Korean, said in an interview. The University’s East Asian program doesn’t emphasize wider Korean studies. Yi said students turn in research papers that lack enough secondary sources because the library’s resources are inadequate. “The students have no idea what’s out there. No university in the Southeast has a major Korean program, so the University is favorably positioned to establish itself as an important center for Korean studies. Unquestionably, there is a thriving Korean-American community in Georgia. A Korean Consulate General is located in Atlanta, and there are growing economic ties between South Korea and the United States. Kia Motors is planning to build its first U.S. auto assembly plant in Georgia. There are cultural ties, as well. Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, is the rise of Korean popular culture that has swept Asia. Korean television dramas, films and music are popular throughout Asia, which has increased tourism and interest in South Korea. “Korea has played a very important role in East Asian dynamics,” said Yi. “Therefore, Korean history and culture deserve adequate attention.” http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/04/17/4442d3f499c2a
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/04/17/200604170021.asp [EDITORIAL]Survey in Korean waters? In yet another act of provocation against Korea, Japan plans to conduct a maritime survey in an area that encompasses part of Korea's exclusive economic zone. Japan will do well to scrap the ill-conceived plan in its entirety or conduct the survey within the bounds of its own EEZ. In addition to Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni where Class A war criminals are enshrined, Japan has provoked Korea by whitewashing its colonial atrocities against Koreans in history textbooks and claiming a territorial right to Dokdo that are under the control of Korea. These developments have forced President Roh Moo-hyun to suspend his shuttle summit diplomacy with Koizumi. The current conflict has primarily resulted from Japan's unwarranted claim to part of the Korean exclusive economic zone in the East Sea. The dispute is all the more emotionally charged because the area of survey is adjacent to the Dokdo islets. No wonder Korea suspects the planned maritime survey is another attempt by Japan to seek advantage by turning the Korean-controlled islets into an "area of conflict." Or, is it a deliberate attempt by the beleaguered Japanese leadership to provoke Korea to confront Japan and thus rally the Japanese public under a banner of nationalism? If this appears far-fetched, so is the assertion allegedly advanced by the Japanese Foreign Ministry, that President Roh will not abandon his anti-Japan policy because it will keep him from prematurely degenerating into lame-duck status. 2006.04.17
But the days of Japan-bashing and "Buy American" appeals have mostly faded, said Gordon Wangers, CEO of Los Angeles-based Automotive Marketing Consultants Inc., which has done work for Toyota, GM and other companies.
"I think today's consumers, especially in our global economy, are not particularly moved by it the way they once were. I think they're moved by a good product at a good price," he said.
He suggested that most young Americans, asked their favorite car companies, now would mention Toyota. He said Toyota has had a long-term strategy of being accepted like an American company, hitting another milestone in American assimilation this year with the announcement that a NASCAR edition of Camry will begin racing next year in the Nextel Cup, America's top stock-car series.
日本人のメル友募集してたね。 am a 23 year old male who is very interested in anything to do with Japan, and I hope to one day move there, or at least visit. I am looking for someone living in Japan to make friends with and exchange email with, preferably a native Japanese person, but a gaijin who has been living there for several years would work too. I only know a few words of Japanese at the moment, but I am trying to learn it, so maybe you could help me there too, I could practice my Japanese with you. I love anything to do with Japan, Anime, Manga, the Japanese language, and Japanese culture and history in general. I especially love Japanese women. (wink wink)
If anyone is interested email either at SubSpecies23@..., or preferably, KUnderw674@....
A: You may upload any kind of personal video that you'd like to share with the world. We don't allow any nudity and your video must be appropriate for all audiences. アダルトは禁止で、著作権を侵害しているファイルは削除してアカウントを停止することもありうるとのこと。
Most overpaid 朴賛浩 Chan Ho Park, right-handed pitcher, Padres, $15.3 million: Retire the trophy; the five-year, $65 million free-agent contract that the Rangers awarded Park after the 2001 season is the worst in major-league history.
Park, 32, won a grand total of 26 games in the first four years of the deal. The Rangers traded him to the Padres last season for designated hitter Phil Nevin, another candidate for this list.
Protests planned In the Seattle area, at least three groups planned to protest Hu's visit: Taiwanese-Americans calling on China to let the island of Taiwan make its own decision about whether to rejoin the mainland; Tibetans seeking independence for their homeland; and practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement considered an "evil cult" by China's communist government.
Tuesday's protests followed those in Seattle on Monday, when several hundred Falun Gong members marched through the city's downtown. Practitioners gathered Tuesday near entrances at Microsoft headquarters. They called for "investigation into death (labor) camps in China," where, the protesters say, Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners are killed and their organs are harvested.
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http://www.crisscross.com/jp/forum/fb.asp?m=646171 Japanese guy here. Even though this forum is called japantoday, its a site more geared towards foreigners with interest in Japanese stuff as oppossed to a place where Japanese people hang out. I can think of about 5 or 6 japanese people here that posts. There may be more, I dont know.
http://www.crisscross.com/jp/forum/fb.asp?m=767714 To all you racist bitches out there, many corporate leaders of Japan are Korean or have Korean ancestry. Take my family for example. My father is the founder and CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation which he built with my mother from the ground up. My great-grandparents from both sides were korean immigrants. Fvck you all.
これ英字新聞でしか報道してない、朝鮮日報も拾ってない。 日本でもやってんだったら言っておけよ、ドサクサに紛れてチョン旗燃やしに行ったのにwwwww Burmese Activists Protesting Daewoo Are Arrested April 18, 2006
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - The Thai police arrested and detained 20 Burmese activists protesting outside the South Korean Embassy in Bangkok on Tuesday against Daewoo International Corporation's investment in oil and natural gas exploration in Burma.
Over 30 Burmese and Thai activists were jointly demonstrating against Daewoo in front of the South Korean Embassy in Bangkok when the Thai police broke up the gathering and arrested 25 Burmese activists, Mizzima News, a pro-democratic Burmese news agency, reported on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian police arrested over 80 Burmese activists who were holding a protest rally against Daewoo International Corporation outside the South Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
Declaring April 18, as the International Day of Action against Daewoo, campaigners in more than 18 countries including Australia, Netherlands, United States, Japan and United Kingdom are staging similar protest rallies in front of the offices of Daewoo international and embassies and consulates of South Korea, the news agency added.
Daewoo International Corporation has an agreement with Burma's military regime and two Indian corporations to explore the offshore gas fields of Arakan State in Western Burma, which is believed to have one of the largest gas deposits in Southeast Asia. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003223268
http://today.answers.com/topic/arudou-debito Arudou Debito: Information From Answers.com - Arudou was born in California in 1965. He first visited Japan as a tourist on invitation from his pen pal (and future wife), for a few weeks in 1986. In 1989, they married followed by Arudou's move to Japan.
He first worked as an English teacher. After a year of this: "I swore against ever being a language teacher again, plunging instead into business." [1] Arudou left English teaching and joined a small Japanese trading company in Sapporo. Claiming to be a victim of racial harrassment, Arudou eventually decided to quit the company, returning to teach English. "From bad to worse," Arudou writes, "This 'trading company fiasco' job is still like a bad dream" [2]
http://huffcrimeblog.com/?p=541 [...] The Japanese reader who linked here from the Ch. 2 board asked a truly thought-provoking question, after all.
One that I have to wonder if Americans, with our typically America-centered view of things, would actually get to any time soon.
We might focus on the gruesome nature of what Kevin Underwood is alleged to have done to Jamie Rose Bolin, age 10, in his apartment in Purcell, Oklahoma on April 12, 2006.
We would parse Underwood’s blogs for signs of mental disturbance, of psychopathy.
Perhaps we might study his known movements in the years since he graduated from high school—1998—and try to figure out if Jamie Bolin really was his first victim. [...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4925234.stm The mother of Lucie Blackman, found dead in a Japanese village six years ago, has told a Tokyo court of her "unrelenting pain" since the killing. Jane Steare cried as she described Ms Blackman, 21, as a "beautiful woman" who was like a sister to her.
1949年 ウイグル侵略、占領。 1950年 朝鮮戦争参戦。 1951年 チベット侵略。 1959年 インドと国境紛争。 1969年 珍宝島で中ソ両軍が衝突。 1971年 日本が固有の領土として主張してきた尖閣諸島の領有を主張。 1979年 ベトナムと戦争。中国「懲罰戦争」と表明。 1992年 「領海法」制定により南沙諸島、西沙諸島の領有を宣言。 1995年 歴史的にフィリピンが領有してきたミスチーフ環礁を、中国が占領。 1996年 台湾海峡でミサイル発射。台湾を恫喝。 1997年 フィリピンが歴史的に領有してきたスカーボロ環礁に、中国が領有権を主張。 2000年ー ●中国の軍艦が、日本列島を一周。●尖閣諸島付近で、海底油田調査を敢行。 ------------------------------------------------------------- 1949 The People's Liberation Army invaded and occupied Uygur. 1950 The PLA participated in the Korean War on the N. Korean side. 1951 The PLA invaded and occupied Tibet. 1959 The Sino-Indian border conflict over Kashmir. 1969 The PLA and the Far East Soviet Army exchanged fire over the Damanskii Island. 1971 Beijing unilaterally declared its sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands, which has belonged to Japan as a part of its inherent territories. 1979 The PLA invaded Vietnam (the Sino-Vietnam War). Beijing called it "Punitive War." 1992 Beijing established the "Territorial Waters Law," by which the PRC unilaterally declared its sovereignty over the Spratly Islands and the Palacel Islands. 1995 The PLN occupied the Mischief Reef, which had historically belonged to the Philippines. 1996 The PLA threatened Taiwan by launching missiles in the Taiwan straits. 1997 Beijing unilaterally declared its sovereignty over the Scarborough Reef, which has historically belonged to the Philippines. 2000 A PLN fleet cruised around the Japanese Islands. The fleet ignored Tokyo's protest and conducted an underwater oil field exploration in the near waters of the Senkaku Islands.
Coming Anarchyのブロガーと結婚した日本人女性がカナダ入国の際、足止めを くらったという話。 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2006/04/20/catching-up-with-yh Upon landing in Canada the immigration officers confiscated her passport and luggage and were wondering whether or not to send her back to Japan. Apparently being married to a national and entering into the country without a return ticket sets off warning bells for potential overstay.
Nearly 1,200 arrested in crackdown on illegal workers Homeland Security is getting tough on illegal immigrants and the companies that hire them. In a series of nationwide raids, agents on Wednesday arrested executives and employees of a manufacturing company – and the feds warn this is just the beginning. "In fact, we arrested more people in this single worksite enforcement operation than in the entirety of last year," The managers could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each illegal immigrant.
何で無期懲役が最高刑なの? 何でか解らないんだけど、死刑にしろよ!! Having tried and failed to buy their silence, he refused in the most contemptible manner yesterday morning to face the mothers in the Tokyo District Court.
Judge Tsutomi Tochigi said the former bar-stalker and son of a wealthy property developer had thrown off his clothes, clung to a hand-basin and resisted all attempts to move him from his Tokyo Detention Centre cell.
The arrival ceremony for Hu Jintao was interrupted by a woman from the banned Falun Gong religious movement. She began shouting from a camera stand directly in front of President Bush and his guest.
“President Bush, stop him from killing,” she shouted. “Stop persecuting the Falun Gong . . . President Hu, your days are numbered. No more time for China’s ruling party.” The incident took place immediately after Mr Bush urged President Hu to allow Chinese to “speak freely”.
No Japanese citizen forced Kim Sung Jong to change his name to Seiji Hoshiyama, George O'hara and Joji Obara. The Korean sex offender, who raped and killed Lucie Blackman, wanted to be a Japanese citizen because he did know that he had an inferiority complex about his DNA, nationality, name, etc. He got rid of his Korean name of his own accord, just like his compatriots on the Korean Peninsula did.
"Resently, the diplomatic trouble is becoming larger because of Japanese intrusion into Dokdo area. In a hurry, we changed a place where we report on."
"Putting bomb liquors aside, we are taking picture of Japanese ambassador's face. He seems not to like this bomb liquor."
Then he heard the name of one of the bomb liquors....
The middle age man talking at a front (waring glasses): "This beer's bubble forming is like the mushroom-shaped cloud appeared when Hiroshima was atomic bombed. Therefore it can say 'Atomic bomb beer'."
The man gestured the mushroom-shaped cloud Oshima, the Japanese ambassador to S. Korea, put up with this insult alone.
As Koreans Dropped shot glasses, They said "This is Tae Kwon Do bomb." "This is Karate bomb." "This is Golf bomb."
After the silly shows like this, suddenly Mr.Oshima's bored expression was taken. Narration said, "Japan is enlarging diplomatic trouble with intrusion into Dokdo." and "For him(Mr. Oshima), Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Liquor is becoming."
if you knew the fact that korea got their freedom from the hiroshima bomb and you are korean, its understandable joke but i have to say that was not apropriate... kcapo // Videos (0) | Favorites (0) | Friends (0) - (34 minutes ago) The Korean is the worst one to joke on the atomic bomb affairs. However, the Japanese are not a good one either, they still not apologize for what they did in WW2. Some of them even claim that they did not kill many people in China. If they feel sad when someone make joke of the atomic bomb, they should understand the feeling of the countries being invaded by Japan during WW2. elvo // Videos (0) | Favorites (0) | Friends (0) - (27 minutes ago)
1.Comparing apples to oranges. Japan forgot Nagasaki and Hiroshima because those places, with US help, are now bustling metropoles. Japan, however, did not aid China one bit and got away with many war crimes. Not only that, but the rape of Nanking was a pure slaughter without any sense whereas the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were strategically important. Prominent Japanese generals even acknowledge that the US did the right thing by dropping the bomb after the war. The Japanese forgot Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the Chinese still have very vivid nightmares about Nanking.
2.Japan and China are age-old enemies. Ever sinde the Meiji restoration the Japanese had eyed China's vast resources and eventuelly came to clash with them many times because of the most ridiculous reasons (read: excuses). Japan is pretty much enemies with half of Asia right now. Even South Korea has strong anti-Japanese sentiments.
3.And where do you take this 1% from? What nonsense. Japan has almost no literacy, so every Japanese citizen will go to school and eventually read one of those books in history class. But whether or not they read them is irrelevant, merely the fact that such a book is printed is enough. What do you think would happen if Germany printed a book downplaying the holocaust?
4. Really, Japan is pretty much a US state right now. There is no chance of Japan ever breaking with the US and moving towards China.
Young Japanese leaders also pay little attention to the harsh treatment Indonesians received from Japanese during World War II, he wrote, including the deaths of many Indonesians during forced labor for the construction of defense infrastructure.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/weekend_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=17071&sid=7370504&con_type=3&d_str=20060422 My month as a poor man's geisha Saturday, April 22, 2006 Life as a Japanese bar hostess is as escapist for the women as it is for the salarymen. Samantha Culp makes it her reality. Club Greengrass was a much smaller, darker space brimming with blonds who mostly lay around waiting for customers or sang lackluster karaoke. I later found out that Greengrass was once called Casablanca and had been where Lucie Blackman met her murderer. Blackman had quit her job as a British Airways flight attendant in 2000 to pursue better money as a Tokyo hostess. She had been at Casablanca only a few months when she disappeared on a dinner date (or dohan) with a customer. After a prolonged and controversial investigation, the 21-year-old's dismembered remains were eventually found in a seaside cave, and businessman Joji Obara was arrested for her drugging, rape and death. The resulting trial, still continuing, rocked the nation as it revealed the unspoken dangers - and societal stigma - that foreign hostesses face. Nika, a fellow Californian who had come to study Japanese after graduating from Stanford, helped me write my name in on temporary business cards. "What's your hostess name?" she asked. I hadn't thought of one and figured I'd just use my real name. Transliterated into Japanese, I thus became "Samansa." I was better off than one French-Canadian girl who went by the name Layla. For the girls who didn't really need the money, their motivations were not as obvious as cold hard cash. Many were just passing through, but others stayed in the business for a year or more and for what? According to Nika, who had been at Century for more than a year already - "You just get sucked into it.
However the article admits worst cases: the Korean company Doo-AnFisheries which has had three vessels captured since 2004, one per season, the last of which had to pay a fine of 1.3 million US dollars, plus a warning that the next vessel will suffer an outright seizure.
http://www.wltx.com/news/news19.aspx?storyid=37206 Two internet predators living in the Columbia area have pleaded guilty to the charges against them. Sanghoon Lee, 29, plead guilty Thursday to one count of criminal solicitation of a minor. Lee asked for sex from a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl back in July of 2005 while he was living in Cayce. It turns out that person was actually an Aiken County deputy working undercover. Lee eventually went to a meeting which the officer had set up and was arrested. Lee was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, suspended to five years probation. Since Lee is a South Korean citizen here on a student visa, he was ordered back to his country as a condition of his probabtion.
"There's a general apathy among Chinese immigrants because they come from societies where they were not allowed to vote or voice their opinions," said Daniel Huang, 38, an Alhambra immigration attorney whose clients are mainly from China and Taiwan.
"If you criticize the government or march in the streets in China, you're harshly punished. The last time they did that, they were run over by tanks," he said, referring to the Chinese government's violent suppression in 1989 of pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square.
Man Pleads Guilty In Plot To Import Shoulder-Fired Missiles Apr 19, 2006 A La Puente man who ran a business importing drugs and illegal goods from China admitted Wednesday that he tried to broker a sale in the United States of shoulder-fired missiles, which can bring down airplanes. Chao Tung Wu, 54, pleaded guilty to conspiring to import the missiles for a buyer who turned out to be an undercover agent. When Wu was indicted last June on the missile charge, he was already in federal custody for allegedly conspiring to traffic in other illicit goods from Asia -- including methamphetamine and counterfeit $100 bills that were also part of the government's undercover sting.
A co-defendant in the trafficking case, Rosemead resident Yi Qing Chen, was also indicted on the missile charge, and is awaiting trial. The two were the first ever charged under an anti-terrorism law enacted in December 2004 that outlaws importing aircraft-destroying missile systems into the United States.
In Wu's plea agreement, he admitted arranging for shoulder-fired missiles to be imported from China, which the undercover agent was told would be done by routing them through a third country with the consent of bribed high-level officials in the third country. The indictment identifies the missiles as the QW-2 shoulder-fired type used by the Chinese military since the late 1990s. According to the indictment, Wu sent a proposal to the undercover agent in Pomona that stated the deal would be for 200 QW-2 missiles, each equipped with a "ground energy unit, firing unit (and) optical aiming device."
これは捏造してないのか? World's First Cloned Dog Celebrates Birthday THE world's first and only cloned dog celebrated its first birthday yesterday, as the leader of the South Korean team that produced the Afghan hound faced a criminal investigation for possible fraud and ethics violations.
The team led by scientist Hwang Woo-suk unveiled the dog named Snuppy last August amid global fanfare. Time magazine named Snuppy one of the most amazing inventions for 2005.
Hwang once basked in acclaim for his scientific achievements, with some in the country labelling him "the pride of Korea".
By the end of last year, however, his reputation was in tatters amid charges his team manipulated data and violated ethical standards in human egg procurement. Hwang has since lost his professorship at Seoul National University.
韓国語で話をしているグループがお酒を飲みながら大声で騒ぎ、 ウェイトレスに対してセクハラをしながら、"We are Japanese."と叫んでいるのを見ました。 ヨーロッパでも同様な光景がよくあるそうです。 日本人と韓国人の区別がつかない欧州では、日本人に対する印象が急速に悪化していると聞かされました。 悪いことをして"We are Japanese."と叫ぶアジア人がいたら、パスポートを見るようにしてください。
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-5778232,00.html "After the internment of Lucie's ashes, my daughter Sophie, who had amazed the world by her strength and courage during the seven-month search for Lucie, could no longer sustain the grief and trauma caused by the death of her beloved sister and she attempted to commit suicide.
"Since then she has been under psychiatric observation and is currently an in-patient at a psychiatric unit."
Takeshima Japanese assume they discovered Takeshima first. But that's only the Japanese assumption in their dreams and it's not based on facts.
Because old Korean old maps drawn hundreds of years ago already indicated Takeshima as Korean territory. Japanese assume Takeshima became Japanese isles officially a long time ago. But the reality is Japan took Takeshima back in 905 at gunpoint from Korea by force. And that rule was invalidated as soon as Korea was liberated from Japan in 1945.
Have Japanese ever lived in Takeshima? I don't think so. Then the question is on what basis Japan claims Takeshima as Japanese territory. The Japanese argument that they found Takeshima first doesn't cut anything because Koreans, too, found Takeshima eons and eons ago.
If Japan thinks Takeshima belongs to Japan, then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi needs to explain to the Korean people why Takeshima belongs to Japan logically and loud and clear in public (based on facts) about this matter. (James Lee)
By MAYUMI NEGISHI Born Kim Sung Jong in 1952 in Osaka, Obara's story is one of rags to riches and again to rags. His father earned a fortune through odd jobs and then running a pachinko parlor. He inherited that money and took a Japanese name, Seisho Hoshiyama, in 1969.
At age 21, he changed his identity again, taking the name Joji Obara when he took Japanese nationality.
Toyota sponsors new Fox mobisodes Each of the mobisodes will start with a 10-second advertisement for Toyota's Yaris, a "sub-compact" sedan, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. The WSJ article estimated the advertising deal with Toyota to be worth about $10 million.
As a person who has dealt with many trolls and cyberstalkers Ryunosuke Kita doesn't appear to be either. He doesn't target you alone, he hasn't threatened you directly, he hasn't dug up or created embarassing stories about you (yet). He just doesn't agree with you.
I know most journalists find it difficult to think that someone could ever disagree with them, but some people (even Japanese people) actually do! Is Mr Kita any different from lauded Western bloggers? we don't have to agree with him, but let's celebrate, not condemn, the fact that Mr Kita can have his say.
By the way, ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二⊃ブーン is someone hitting you with a bat.
Posted by: Mark Devlin | April 26, 2006 at 09:05 AM
Chinese Nationals Flee Solomon Islands Nearly 90 Chinese refugees fled the troubled Solomon Islands on a Beijing chartered aircraft Saturday _ the second group to quit the Pacific archipelago after a series of riots razed their homes and businesses. Arsonists, looters and rioters inflicted tens of millions of dollars in damage on the capital Honiara's Chinatown district this week, sparked by rumors that either China or Taiwan had paid lawmakers to elect an unpopular new prime minister, Snyder Rini.
A Chinese businessman in Solomon Islands says he warned authorities an hour and a half before Honiara’s Chinatown was burned and looted last week, but no-one did anything to prevent the attack. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=23631
I’ve been putting up all the comments on this post, but the job of reading and translating them has become tedious so I’m going to be selective from now on. I’m not sure if they really tell one very much. Even allowing for language differences, the quality of the responses is very low, given their volume. Ninety per cent are straightforward abuse. Obviously, with a few exceptions, there isn't any attempt to establish a debate here. Very few of these people seem to have read what I have written – there is an assumption that I hold opinions (about the tedious Tokto/Takeshima island dispute, for example) that I have never expressed.
I'm surpised to detect, too, an undercurrent of something like fear. I genuinely was hoping to meet up in Tokyo for a chat with Mr Kita, but clearly this is something he would never entertain. I know that pseudonyms are customary on these kind of forums, but why do so few of the abusive bloggers supply an email address – even a false email address? A refusal to engage in dialogue is part of it. But I suspect too that there's a subconscious fear operating here, the sense that if you give an address away 勘違い(チャネラーにアドバレルのがヤバイだけなのに)→I might somehow crawl through the ether and pop up in your living rooms. Or perhaps it’s closer to shame.
Posted by: Richard Lloyd Parry | April 27, 2006 at 01:07 AM
April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Los Angeles is America's new Ellis Island, a place where teeming masses of whites, blacks, Asians and Latinos are -- to paraphrase noted resident Rodney King -- just trying to get along. ``The New Los Angeles,'' a PBS documentary that airs tonight at 10 p.m. New York time, focuses on the attempt to create unity where hostility once reigned.
King Riots There are other gaps as well, including a deep chasm between blacks and Korean immigrants. One bone of contention: Koreans bought up liquor stores highly concentrated in black neighborhoods. Karen Bass, a community organizer interviewed for the program, says some owners set up sofas in parking lots to accommodate boozers: A still photo shows a well-worn recliner apparently used as a binge station.
Ill will burst into violence in the April 1992 aftermath of the Rodney King trial. Some 700 businesses, many owned by Koreans, went up in smoke.
チョンの不法移民デモ参加が逆効果、 こんなのチョン以外やってる連中知らないし。 明日の今頃にはこれが放送されますwwwwww しかしKNBC Los Angeles GJだな、ヒュンダイ社員の飲酒運転当て逃げ殺人韓国逃亡事件も KNBCが最初に報道したし、それで今度はこれだもんな。
http://www.nbc4.tv/station/8881231/detail.html Thursday at 11PM on the Channel 4 News Some people come to the United States to see the sights, some come to visit friends, but have some women come from overseas to have their babies here in the Southland?
It's called "birth tourism." And it's becoming big business, setting up shop in local neighborhoods. But is this fair? Or are they exploiting a loophole in the Constitution?
Ana Garcia explores how far will women go to have their babies Born in the USA.
Watch this exclusive report Thursday at 11 p.m. only on the Channel 4 News. Look for the report on NBC4.tv on Friday morning, at 9 a.m
http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/baby_registry_of_choice.htm Thousands of pregnant South Koreans travel to the U.S. to give birth to American citizens. A mini-industry has been created to serve them. LOS ANGELES ― In an apparent crackdown, U.S. authorities have arrested 10 Korean mothers who traveled to the United States to give birth so that their babies would be eligible for American citizenship. The women were held on visa violations, charged with having come to the country for reasons other than stated on their entry permits.
http://www.asianpacificpost.com/portal2/402881910674ebab010674f4dfaa152d.do.html New Zealand acts to stop passport babies Our story showed how pregnant Korean mothers were flying to the west coast in organized "birth tours" to deliver their children at local hospitals. The babies become instant citizens and travel home within weeks on Canadian papers.
For $22,000 Wohn and his travel agent partner in Seoul were promising pregnant mothers medical check-ups, delivery at a Vancouver area hospital, two months of postnatal care, a return flight, a local guide providing services ranging from airport pickup to getting the baby's birth certificate, social insurance number and eventually Canadian citizenship.
UKだし、きっと差別にでも遇ったんだろね、 Parryさん。 American rapper Snoop Dogg was in police custody on Thursday after being arrested with five other men following a disturbance at London's Heathrow airport, a police source said.
Scotland Yard said seven police suffered minor injuries, including a fractured hand, after they were called to the airport at around 6 p.m. (6:00 p.m. British time) to deal with a disturbance involving some 30 people in a British Airways business lounge.
"Members of the group became abusive," said a police spokesman, after officers told them to reclaim their baggage.
A British Airways spokesman told the Daily Mirror: "There was an incident involving a group of passengers at our lounge where some passengers were rude and abusive to our staff and that is something we do not tolerate."
The BBC's Charles Scanlon in Seoul says Japan's increasingly insistent claim to the islands has sparked nationalist fury in South Korea. Emergency talks over the weekend led to a temporary and shaky compromise. Japan called off its maritime survey after South Korea agreed to drop plans to register new names for trenches and ridges on the seabed.
The BBC's Charles Scanlon in Seoul says Japan's increasingly insistent claim to the islands has sparked nationalist fury in South Korea. Emergency talks over the weekend led to a temporary and shaky compromise. Japan called off its maritime survey after South Korea agreed to drop plans to register new names for trenches and ridges on the seabed.
Investigation strikes at heart of family-run business Published: April 28 2006 Chung Ju-yung, the late founder of the Hyundai group and the father of Chung Mong-koo, the current Hyundai Motor chairman, whose arrest appears imminent, was no exception. The founder was indicted in 1993 for embezzlement, election law violations and providing slush funds to former presidents.
国際司法裁判所から逃げているという韓国側のソース Announcement of South Korea government > In a related development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul > announced that it deposited a declaration of optional exceptions to legal dispute > settlements with the United Nations on April 18. http://www.korea.net/News/News/NewsView.asp?serial_no=20060420035
日本の判事がいるから不公平と言う場合には、国際司法裁判所規定 Statute of the Cort > Article 17 > 1. No member of the Court may act as agent, counsel, or advocate in any case.
> 2. No member may participate in the decision of any case in which > he has previously taken part as agent, counsel, or advocate > for one of the parties, or as a member of a national or international court, > or of a commission of enquiry, or in any other capacity.
>>957の中身が更新されて動画もアップされたぞ。 動画 http://www.nbc4.tv/video/9067170/index.html?taf=la The following is a verbatim transcript of the report.) GARCIA: Photos of the house are advertised on two Web sites: BirthInUSA.com and Gramercyvilla.com. (Editor's Note: Both Web sites came up blank when tested Friday morning.) According to the sites, Gramercy Place is where you stay while you're pregnant. After the baby is born you transfer to (indicating another house) this house a few blocks away on Lucerne. Posted photos show the accommodations for mom and newborns. We asked Channel 4 News reporter Jinah Kim to translate. GARCIA: Our cameras watched both properties for six weeks, and we saw different pregnant women going in and out of here. U.S. REP. DANA ROHRABACHER (R-ORANGE COUNTY): What you have uncovered here is a gaming of the system that may be technically legal but screams out for reform. GARCIA: Rohrabacher wants to change the 14th amendment of the Constitution. WADE PRADER, IMMIGRATION OFFICER: (The 14th amendment) guarantees citizenship to people born in the United States. GARCIA: (The 14th amendement applies) no matter what their parents' status, according to Wade Prater of U.S. immigration. Prater says he wants to find out if tourist visas are being misused here. PRADER: As far as the parent misrepresenting their intention to come to the U.S. ... it is something we definitely want to look in to. GARCIA: Edward Chang, a professor of Asian American Studies at UC Riverside, says wealthy Koreans can pay to have their children born in the US. Citizenship for the newborn would mean they could avoid mandatory military service in Korea, and -- CHANG: Many Korean parents in Korea want to send their children to top U.S. Universities. GARCIA: In addition to the baby getting all benefits of being a U.S. citizen, once he's 21, he can petition U.S. immigration to bring his family over.
Bush said he was deeply moved by the plight of Sakie Yokota, who longs to be reunited with her daughter Megumi. The girl was 13 when she was kidnapped on her way home from school in 1977 by North Korean agents.
"It is hard to believe that a country would foster abduction," Bush said after a meeting with relatives of Japanese abducted by North Korea and North Korean defectors.
"It's hard for Americans to imagine that a leader of any country would encourage the abduction of a young child. It's a heartless country that would separate loved ones ...," Bush said. "If North Korea expects to be respected in the world, that county must respect human rights and human dignity and must allow this mother to hug her child again.
例の原爆発言の自称インターコンチネンタルホテルの社長は、 実はLG系列社の社長と判明。 Hanmoo Development / InterContinental Hotels Seoul Han Moo Development Co., Ltd. owns and operates two InterContinental Hotels in Seoul under the management agreement with InterContinental Hotels Group
We could be... Sitting in the computer lab, 4 A.M. before the final paper is due, Cursing the world 'cause I didn't start sooner, And seeing the rest of the class there, too!
I wish I could go back to college!
How do I go back to college?! AHHHH...
I wish I had taken more pictures.
But if I were to go back to college, Think what a loser I'd be- I'd walk through the quad, And think "Oh my God..."