An acquaintance of mine, a professor emeritus from Peking University, has seen the Rape of Nanjing with his own eyes, but he is still able to differentiate between Japanese Fascism and ordinary Japanese people.
The Hwaseong Fortress is one of Korea's best surviving remnants of the Joseon era and was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
The fortress was built by King Jeongjo of the Joseon Dynasty from 1794 to 1796 to honor his father "Sadoseja," a crown prince who was condemned to die inside a rice chest by his king.
The fortress also attests to the Joseon leaders' heightened awareness of the need for efficient military strongholds in the wake of the devastating Japanese invasions of 1592-1598, which decimated much of the Korean Peninsula.
What really happened in Nanjing after Japan's occupation in December 1937? "Massacre of 300 thousand Chinese" as the Chinese Government claims?
You can watch some scenes in the following web page; lives of Chinese people, including children having food, as well as Japanese soldiers restoring the city.
Can these scenes possible if the "massacre of 300 thousand" actually took place?
May 1, 2006 Some garment factories in downtown Los Angeles, Huntington Park and Koreatown planned to close early. Downtown manufacturer Mike Lee of Poison Ivy fashions said almost all of his Latino employees told him they would take the day off, and he doesn't expect any deliveries. He said he and his wife will catch up on paperwork and then close around 3 p.m. to join the march in Koreatown with several Korean groups at Western and Wilshire.
Michael Park, part-owner of Blue Heaven, a clothing manufacturer in Huntington Park, said 80% of his contract workers around the city told him they would not work today. "My employees wanted to know if they would be fired if they didn't come to work on Monday," Park said. "I said their jobs are safe."
Because many garment workers lack benefits such as paid vacation time, Joe Rodriguez, executive director of the Garment Contractors Assn. of Southern California, said those who took the day off would "feel it in their pocketbooks." As a result, many toiled over the weekend, filling orders and completing other tasks they would have performed today.
Junichiro Koizumi http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187224,00.html Rain Rain is big—big!—in Japan. The South Korean king of pop also fills seats in Beijing, Pusan and Bangkok. In Hong Kong his concerts sell out in 10 minutes, and across much of Asia, fans snap up pirated videos of his soap operas. Thanks to his angelic face, killer bod and Justin Timber— like dance moves, Rain, 23, has ridden the crest of hallyu, or the Korean wave, the Asia-wide obsession for that country's pop culture. But the ambition that lifted Rain (real name: Ji Hoon Jung) out of a one-room house in Seoul won't be sated by simply conquering the biggest continent on earth. Rain is looking east to the U.S., studying English day and night. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187264,00.html
武道館のコンサートでチケットが売れず、チケットを一円で配布したピ(Rain)を →Rain is big—big!—in Japan. とは大嘘も良い所ろです。 タイム誌に苦情メールを送りましょう。
Question number ten. If the Illegal immigrants claim the right to enter America illegally then will they also support American's rights to enter Mexico illegally? Will they support the right of, say, South Koreans to enter America illegally and work for less than they will? Will they nod their heads in agreement if an illegal Korean immigrant says they are merely doing work that Mexicans will not do? If not then why? If they truly believe borders and laws do not matter, then they should support anyone anywhere ignoring borders shouldn't they?
"Asians, we want our rights as well," said Lester Vicencio, president of the youth council at the Korean American Resource & Cultural Center. "We're going to speak out a lot here, just to break that stereotype. The kids are passionate about it. And the parents are learning from their kids."
悔しいけどNYTimesの公式見解は、日本海表示だけニダ! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/world/asia/30japan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Village Writes Its Epitaph: Victim of a Graying Japan April 30, 2006 - By NORIMITSU ONISHI OGAMA, Japan This mountain village near the Sea of Japan, withered to eight aging residents, concluded recently that it could no longer go on. Asahi, a town in Shimane, a rural prefecture on the Sea of Japan, was picked from more than 60 applicants last year as the site for a 2,000-inmate prison.
Crisis center head says women being used for sex Tuesday, May 2, 2006 Women have been trafficked into Connecticut and forced into prostitution here, the head of the Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services Inc. says.
Crisis centers on occasion have counseled victims of human trafficking in recent years, but ConnSACS Executive Director Nancy Kushins did not have any figures Monday on how many.
A police sweep in Waterbury last week raised questions about whether human traffickers might be running prostitution rings there.
City police swept up 51 Korean women in raids on 10 massage parlors -- a common cover for prostitution and frequent destination for trafficking victims. Some were arrested on prostitution and other charges, and others were held for questioning.
"If they were trafficked from Korea, they might be concerned about the repercussions to family back home if they cooperate," Kushins said.
Yet the domination of Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive is coming under assault from some of the auto industry's top engineers.
Larry Nitz, hybrid engineering director of G.M. and an executive in the consortium, noted that hybrid technology had not gained a foothold in these heavy vehicles. Big luxury cars from BMW, Cadillac and Mercedes-Benz are also candidates for the system.
Existing hybrid systems have a single mode of operation, using a single planetary gear set to split the engine's power — routing it to drive the wheels or charge the battery — for both city and highway driving.
These systems are effective at low speeds because they can move the car without running the gas engine. But at higher speeds, when the engine is needed, using the electric motors has much less benefit; sending power through electric motors and a variable transmission is roughly 20 percent less efficient than driving the car through a purely mechanical power path, using gears.
G.M. and DaimlerChrysler formed the consortium in 2005 after learning that they were working on similar approaches. BMW then signed on.
yang galbo ("Western whore") yang gongjoo ("Western princess") By EUNNIE PARK Monday, May 1, 2006 Some women are stared at during church services. Others are pointed at. A few have been called "whore." They are Korean women who married American soldiers, and are subject to decades-old discrimination born out of the Korean War. They are associated with poverty and prostitution. They are treated as low-class and uneducated. They are alienated from Korean communities -- in both their homeland and New Jersey. "Korean people used to look me down ... and question my loyalty and trust," said Namhee Rider of Eatontown, who came to the United States six years ago with her husband, a former soldier. The discrimination was brought to the forefront when Pittsburgh Steelers receiver and Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward -- whose mother is Korean and whose father is African-American -- visited his birth country last month. But many believe those efforts will falter, because the discrimination is long ingrained in the culture. most women who had relationships with foreigners came from the bottom of the social hierarchy -- poor, uneducated and, sometimes, prostitutes. Given derogatory labels like yang galbo ("Western whore") or the ironic yang gongjoo ("Western princess"), these women became the iconic representation of all who marry American soldiers, said Northwestern University Professor Ji-Yeon Yuh, author of "Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America." 全くその通りです↓ "They usually assume that I had suffered a poor family history and have neither proper education nor career," said Rider, 32. "Some people believe that I married my husband to use him for my 'American Dream.' " Sometimes, the discrimination has been overt. http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2OTI4Mzc2JnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==
>>29の説明 Caption: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 2: South Korean bee farmer Ahn Sang-Kyu protests Japan's claim of sovereignty over disputed islets May 2, 2006 in Seoul, South Korea. Ahn, a local bee farmer, released over 140,000 bees and attracted them to his body to protest Japan's sovereignty claims over a tiny group of islands located off the east coast of South Korea, called the Dokdo islets by the Koreans and Takeshima by the Japanese. The volcanic islets located about 90 kilometres east of South Korea's Ullung Island, have been a source of diplomatic friction between South Korea and Japan for years. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501060508-1189390,00.html But to Japan (which calls the islands Takeshima) and South Korea (which calls them the Dokdo) these rocks carry a symbolic importance that belies their practical insignificance. Both countries have claimed the islands as their own for more than a century, and in recent weeks the historic squabble has leapt once more to the forefront of bilateral relations. After two days of intense negotiation, the two sides avoided a high-seas skirmish, thanks to a last-minute deal in which Japan postponed its survey and Korea agreed not to submit its name proposals.
Would sanity prevail? Hardly. Korean President Roh Moo Hyun reignited the dispute last week with a spectacularly inflammatory televised speech. "Japan's present claim to Dokdo is an act negating the complete liberation and independence of Korea," he declared. "This is a matter where no compromise or surrender is possible, whatever the costs and sacrifices may be." Roh's speech, with its bitter reference to Japan's "criminal history of waging wars of aggression and annihilation," was a powerful reminder of how emotionally charged such disputes can be-and of how strained the relationship between Korea and Japan has the potential to become.
The modern history of the dispute over these islets dates to 1900, when Korea formally declared them as its own. Five years later, the Japanese countered by claiming them as well. In 1910, Japan annexed mainland Korea, making it a Japanese colony for the next 35 years. In the aftermath of Japan's defeat in World War II, the Treaty of San Francisco did not mention the islands in the list of surrendered Japanese territories, a fact that the Japanese use to bolster claims that the islands are still theirs.
But in 1952, Seoul declared that the islets were within Korea's borders and ordered the arrest of any Japanese boat that crossed the so-called "peace line." South Korea built a lighthouse and a helipad on the islands, and stationed coast guards there. A string of showdowns followed before Japan and South Korea normalized relations in 1965: Korea seized 300 ships (mostly fishing boats), and made 4,000 arrests, resulting in one Japanese death and dozens of injuries. When the countries finally formalized ties, they excluded mention of the islands from the treaty-an act of expediency that continues to haunt them.
One reason why the dispute has erupted again is that Roh has been under considerable political pressure at home. Kim Jaebum, a professor of diplomacy at Yonsei University in Seoul, says the liberal President has been widely perceived as soft on Japan -a political liability at a time when his beleaguered Uri party is preparing for hotly contested local elections in May. "He had to step it up," says Kim. "The Korean people were waiting for an explicit expression from the President." Sure enough, Roh's strident speech has been greeted enthusiastically at home, with an editorial in the Korea Times hailing it as "the toughest ever on Japan."
In Japan, Roh's diatribe initially inspired shock, followed by rationalizations and finally indifference. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper called the speech a "dangerous development," but Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi downplayed it, saying his government would respond "in a cool-headed manner." Unimpressed, last Friday Korea's Foreign Ministry rebuffed Koizumi's suggestion that he and Roh hold a summit meeting to help heal the rift. Japanese papers like the Nishi Nihon Shimbun have attributed Roh's pugnacity to his domestic political concerns, suggesting that Japan need not take his speech too seriously: "An uncompromising stance against Japan plays well into the anti-Japan nationalist sentiment of the people, which could improve his low approval ratings." One columnist openly doubted that Roh had the guts to make good on his threats, should Japan call his bluff.
Akihiko Tanaka, a professor of Eastern culture at the University of Tokyo, says Roh's speech and Japan's breezy dismissal of it demonstrate just how differently the two countries see the legacy of Japan's colonial past." For Japan, this is a territorial issue and little more," Tanaka says. But for Korea, it's a matter of history and justice. "To them, it's another show of how Japan is not owning up to its past." In Korea, bitter memories of Japan's colonial occupation live on, harbored by people at the highest levels of government. Lee Hye Hoon, an opposition lawmaker in South Korea's National Assembly, says it's difficult for Japan and Korea to get along because "they attacked us, raped us, took everything from us ... and they still don't apologize."
Dokdo is actively promoted in Korea as a prime example of Japanese aggression, with the islets viewed as one of the first of Japan's many 20th century land grabs.
Korean kindergartens teach children songs about Korea's glorious eastern islands, the Dokdo. In 2005, almost 20,000 Korean tourists (including one wedding party) visited the islands, even though it's a $350-per-person, five-hour boat trip from the mainland. According to a report by Peter Beck, the Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, "One would be hard pressed to find a single Korean over the age of five willing to admit that control of Dokdo does not matter." By contrast, says Hideshi Takesada, a professor of Korean politics at Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies, "most people in Japan have no knowledge of the issue," and little appreciation of how deep Korean resentment runs.
In fact, Japanese society is still in thrall to the Korea Wave, a surge of interest in Korean pop, films, TV dramas and design that first overtook the nation in 2002, when the two countries co-hosted the World Cup and bilateral relations were at their best. Many Japanese politicians, meanwhile, seem either incapable of understanding Korean ire toward Japan or simply don't care. This further fuels the cycle of resentment and distrust. In 2005, for example, Shimane prefecture (the Japanese local government to which the nation claims the islands belong) passed an ordinance designating Feb. 22-the 100th anniversary of Japan's annexation of the islands-as Takeshima Day. Yu Masuda, an administrator in the Shimane prefectural government, says the goal was simply "to generate some attention" within Japan for the region's fishermen who suffer from not being able to hunt in the disputed waters.
Yet the Korean response to Takeshima Day was overwhelmingly bitter, with the local government's initiative perceived as evidence of Japan's widespread, unrepentant nationalism. Korean protesters set up anti-Japan campaigns, pulled students and athletes from Japan-sponsored tournaments, canceled sister-city arrangements with Shimane towns and held demonstrations to discourage tourists from traveling to Japan. The criticism of Japan turned into a self-fulfilling prophesy as Takeshima Day 2006 took on a more jingoistic, anti-Korean tone due to Korea's anti-Japan response the previous year.
Though the vast majority of Japanese don't consider this island dispute a particularly pressing issue, there are still plenty of tough-talking, right-wing Japanese politicians to confirm Korea's worst fears that the country is just itching to press its claims.
"There are probably no valuable resources under the islands," concedes Shigeru Ishiba, a prominent conservative Japanese parliamentarian. "So it's a piece of rock." Nevertheless, Japan can't abandon this particular piece of rock, Ishiba insists, because such "matters of territory are about national sovereignty."
From afar, of course, this rhetorical crossfire can seem almost comically absurd. But as history has shown, it doesn't take much for a meaningless rock to become a battleground. It's a lesson that both sides would do well to remember.
Otaka handpicked Kobayashi, a Queens resident, to be his personal assistant in March 2005 "He physically grabbed her, groped her body, tried to kiss her," said her lawyer, Christopher Brennan. "If you did that on the street, you'd be arrested."
Chinese counterfeit entire NEC company BEIJING, May 1 (UPI) -- The NEC electronic corporation in Tokyo claims counterfeiters in China have cloned their entire company and product line.
Evidence seized in raids on 18 factories and warehouses in China and Taiwan over the past year showed that counterfeiters had set up what amounted to a parallel NEC brand with links to a network of more than 50 electronics factories in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, The New York Times reported Monday.
Apart from copying NEC products, the pirates went as far as developing their own range of consumer electronic products and the real company even received complaints about products they did not make or provide with warranties.
Documents and computer records seized by police during raids showed that the counterfeiters carried NEC business cards, commissioned product research and development in the company's name and signed production and supply orders.
What really happened in Nanjing after Japan's occupation in December 1937? "Massacre of 300 thousand Chinese" as the Chinese Government claims?
You can watch some scenes in the following web page; lives of Chinese people, including children having food, as well as Japanese soldiers restoring the city.
Can these scenes possible if the "massacre of 300 thousand" actually took place?
The increasing number and size of Korean churches throughout Queens over the past decade has soured relations between the Korean community and its white neighbors. Tensions reached fever pitch during a community board meeting last month in Flushing when the board members voted 32-4 against the expansion of a Korean church in the area. "They are changing the character of the neighborhood," said Gene Kelty, chairman of Community Board 7. Kevin Goodman is an unhappy man. He says outsiders have taken over the neighborhood where he has lived for over four decades. Not only are the numerous Korean shop signs along Northern Boulevard near his East Flushing home incomprehensible to him, but a Korean church recently took over a two-family house across the street from his home in the once predominantly white, middle-class community. "They come to my country and make me feel like a foreigner," says Goodman, with little attempt to hide his dislike for the church, its congregation, and Korean immigrants in general. http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0107,kuriakos,22263,5.html
Census Profile: New York City's Korean American Population Korean American Population. Union Street in Flushing, Queens Within New York City, the majority (70 percent, or 63,906) of Koreans lived in Queens
Ex-FBI agent in hot water over affair Link to brothel manager leads to indictment By J.J. STAMBAUGH, [email protected] April 28, 2006
A former FBI agent who was the scourge of corrupt sheriffs and drug kingpins across East Tennessee for more than a decade was indicted Wednesday for allegedly having an affair with a Korean brothel manager in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and concealing the relationship from his superiors. http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4656416,00.html
Two members of the United States Congress, Representative Lane Evans (D-Illinois) and Representative Chris Smith (R-New Jersey), have introduced a non-binding resolution (H.Res. 759) in the current congressional session which calls on the government of Japan to "formally acknowledge and accept responsibility for its sexual enslavement of young women" during the 1930s and 40s. http://hnn.us/articles/24291.html
Bloomberg News In response to the Dec. 6 letter from Kobayashi, Cuneo, a former attorney for the U.S. Justice Department Toyota's general counsel, Mr Alan Cohen The scandal is likely to have limited impact on Toyota's U.S. sales, said efficiency consultant Jim Womack, president of the Lean Enterprise Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and author of ``The Machine That Changed the World,'' a study of Toyota's corporate culture and manufacturing system. ``Is there a widespread pattern of misbehavior by executives? I haven't read the details of the suit, and have no information, but that doesn't appear to be the case,'' Womack said. Buy on Price, Features Consumers mainly choose vehicles based on features, price, expected durability and resale value, he said. ``It boils down to this: How much of your car purchase is based on the assumed virtuous behavior of a company's executives?'' Womack said. ``Aside from Prius buyers, I'm assuming not that much.'' The lawsuit is Kobayashi v. Toyota Motor Corp., No. 105949/06 in New York County Supreme Court in Manhattan http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aQiQvhnF9xJE&refer=news_index former attorney for the U.S. Justice DepartmentとCohen(どう見てもやり手のユダヤ人弁護士)と NYCの市長が経営するブルームバーグニュースでの他のニュース記事にでは見られないトヨタを援護するような文章。 トヨタは押さえる所は押さえてるのか? ってか元々良いスタッフ集めてるよな、 この訴訟、Cuneo, a former attorney for the U.S. Justice Departmentが、 きちんと対応しなかったとか言ってる訳だし、その時点で大きな壁にぶつかってるよな。
Korea protesters clash with police over US base http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-05-04-voa12.cfm Most of Thursday's protesters were not residents of Pyeongtaek, however, but members of a nationwide umbrella organization called the Pan-National Committee to Stop Expansion of U.S. Bases.
The group binds together more than 100 South Korean civic groups united mainly by anti-U.S. sentiment.
Some 80,000 demonstrators walked silently through the Belgian capital Sunday to protest the killing of a teenager who refused to give his digital music player to two young robbers.
Police have yet to announce a breakthrough in the case despite nationwide distribution of video images of the suspects who ambushed Joe Van Holsbeeck and a friend on April 12.
The 17-year-old was stabbed to death at the busy Brussels Central train station, a killing that shocked the country.
"The demonstration is an important signal which I fully back," said Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said. "We will put more effort into combating youth crime."
Van Holsbeeck's parents had asked for a nonpolitical, silent march, and requested that political parties remain in the background. The march went by the central train station, where protesters laid hundreds of flowers.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,30200-china_p10436,00.html Sky News has made an exclusive investigation into the sinister secrets behind China’s booming economy. The Chinese government is accused of using police brutality to remove people from their homes and into lives of squalor and poverty.
Madam's fall offers window into lucrative sex trade Sunday, May 7, 2006 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-sexdallas_08met.State.Edition1.ce0d677.html Kyong "Jackie" Roberts came to America as the Korean bride of a U.S. serviceman more than 20 years ago and climbed from dress shop owner to modeling studio proprietor to queen of Asian brothels. Her last entrepreneurial efforts made her a 52-year-old Dallas millionaire. But her empire tumbled in a matter of hours in an early morning raid last summer. Virtually every asset she had amassed was either locked down or carted off by police and federal agents – including more than a dozen Korean women who had been smuggled into the U.S. as stock in her brothels. The rise and fall of the Dallas madam through court records and interviews offer a rare glimpse into the lucrative underworld of international recruiters and brothel owners who reap millions off indentured prostitutes. Dozens of federal and state criminal indictments have followed, including charges of forced labor, aggravated promotion of prostitution, engaging in organized crime, money laundering and illegal bulk cash shipments back to Korea.
In late 2004, ICE agents and Dallas vice officers found an informant with accurate, inside knowledge of how women were recruited in Korea to work in Dallas brothels.
For fees averaging $15,000 apiece, smugglers flew the women to Canada and Mexico, then walked them over the border into the U.S. Brothel owners operating as massage parlors, spas, baths, saunas, modeling studios or nightclubs assumed the women's smuggling debts, often taking their passports as a guarantee that they would be paid back.
Startled, they woke shortly before dawn as federal agents and Dallas police stormed inside. Dozens of South Koreans were arrested at eight Asian spas and shuttled to an immigration center a few miles away.
For the government, the raid marked a major victory in efforts to dismantle a nationwide network of South Korean brothels and brokers. For 42 women, it began a journey guided by questions at the moral center of U.S. policies governing human rights and human trafficking:
Were they common opportunists trading dignity for distant American dreams? If so, they would be returned to face uncertain futures in Seoul.
Or were they victims, prisoners of global flesh traders, trapped in a web of debts and threats? If so, they might stay in the United States for three years with the chance to become residents.
Over nine months, the cases would pit victims' advocates against federal immigration agents and spur Justice Department involvement on behalf of at least two detainees.
The Dallas Morning News followed the women's journey over 6,000 miles from Korea to Dallas. Most were lured by Internet sites, newspaper ads and word of mouth. Five thousand dollars a month to work in Guam, one advertisement reads. Seven thousand two hundred dollars monthly to work at a Los Angeles salon, claims another, with guaranteed entrance to the "state government vocational school." June, with a junior high education and job experience in manufacturing plants, came after borrowing money to become a hair designer. She feared what the loan sharks might do to her family if she didn't repay her debt. Some of the women traveled to America on visitor visas through California and New York. Others crossed Canadian and Mexican borders, aided by a chain of brokers and smugglers. "I believe it's the largest sex-trafficking racket out there," the human rights center's Mr. Coonan said. He calls the Korean sex workers "the oldest sort of ethnic group" that operates like this. In Dallas, they arrived at small shops off Interstate 35E with names like Tokyo, Ginja, Jackpot and Pretty Women. It's a gritty industrial area dotted with small ethnic restaurants and shops. Many ate, slept and worked in the same spaces and were charged extra for lodging, condoms and clothes. Had any of them been kidnapped and forced into the trade? Who was deceived? Who was being held against their will? "Consent is always the question. Did they consent initially, and did they continue to consent?" Mr. Coonan said. "The women arrested for prostitution at the spas were not teenagers – most were mature women in their 30s," he said. "A clear majority were professional prostitutes who knew exactly what they were doing.
Woman, 54, held after five found dead in Japanese flat Guardian Unlimited, UK - 9 hours ago Police in Japan have arrested a 54-year-old woman after finding the bodies she reportedly told neighbours that he had been kidnapped by North Korean agents
The Alameda County district attorney's office has cleared two Dublin police officers of any criminal wrongdoing in the shooting deaths of two Korean-speaking men on Aug. 11.
In a March 14 letter to Commander Gary Thuman, an Alameda County Sheriff's Department employee who serves as Dublin's police chief, District Attorney Tom Orloff said the shooting deaths of Kwang Tae Lee, 61, and Richard Kim, 49, after the officers responded to a disturbance call were "tragic."
But Orloff, whose letter was made public this week after a newspaper filed a Public Records Act request, said, "There is insufficient evidence to prove criminal liability" against Dublin deputies Tara Russell and David Taylor.
Lee and Kim were shot after police responded to Kim's home at 3000 Innisbrook Lane in Dublin about 11:40 p.m. Aug. 11 after neighbors reported a domestic struggle.
Dublin police said that when the officers arrived, they found Lee, who was Kim's brother-in-law, attempting to gain entry to an upstairs room while wielding a knife.
Police said the officers shot Lee after he declined to put the knife down.
During the shooting, one bullet passed through the bedroom door and struck Kim, who was on the other side of the door, according to police.
Lee was pronounced dead at the scene and Kim died three days later.
P/Ch. Insp. Tesnado Sanchez, chief of the city hall-based SOG, identified the arrested Koreans as Il Ki Park, 44, and Kilsu Kang Kim, 36, both billeted at a five-star hotel.
Mayor Lito Atienza directed the SOG to coordinate with the Commission on Immigration and Deportation (CID) in the investigation of the two alleged members of the Japanese-Korean Yakuza. Probers and People’s Tonight noted that Il’s forefinger had been severed, an indication he may have been punished for running afoul with the Yakuza’s code of conduct.
The gangland fraternity involves trafficking of women, gunrunning, extortion, money-laundering, gangland-rubout, as well as illegal drugs distribution.
Wed, May 10 2006 Koreans fume over crackdown at Vancouver Airport http://www.asianpacificpost.com/portal2/ff8080810afb0f71010b1b2156d100b1_Koreans_fume_.do.html Immigration Canada is reportedly increasing its checks on flights originating from Korea in a bid to stop human smugglers from using the Vancouver International Airport as a transit point. The intensified passport checks on Koreans arriving in Canada has incensed the local Korean community and raised the ire of Korean airlines. At Vancouver International Airport, Korean travellers are rejected on a daily basis during their interviews by immigration officials, according to Choi Jang-sun, head of Korean Air's branch in Vancouver, a popular destination for Korean immigrants and tourists. "At least one person on every flight from Incheon International Airport has to return to Incheon,’’ Choi said in a report published by Yonhap news agency. The authorities in Vancouver rejected and returned 481 Koreans last year, according to Korean Consul-General Lee Hwang-ro. "What immigration is saying is that they’re returning Koreans because these travellers are telling lies. "This is a multicultural country. This is a free country. Anybody should be able to visit Canada," said Kwon. In Vancouver, the rejection rate involving Koreans has increased every year from 247 in 2001 to 388 in 2003 and 481 last year. Senior Special Agent David Lindwall of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a recent court case involving a Korean human smuggling operation said that instances of Koreans being smuggled into Washington State from B.C. have spiked since 1994. That’s when Canada eliminated tourist visa requirements for Koreans pursuant to a treaty between the two countries. Less than a year after ratification of the treaty, Border Patrol agents stationed at Blaine, Lynden and Sumas began encountering vehicles laden with undocumented Korean nationals, Lindwall said in the court papers.
Suddenly, halfway down the street I hear what sounds like crunk-meets-j-pop leaking from a car up ahead. As I get closer, I see them. Seven Korean 20-somethings dressed in a mash-up of Mafioso a la Gap attire glaring at me as though I had wandered into the wrong part of town. One of them yelled something at my back, which, due to hangover ears or language barrier, I was unable to understand. But the content of the retort was clear—watch it, smart-ass.
The next day I stopped by the local Korean-owned café I frequented and told the story to the owner, one of the locals who I'd befriended during my time there. This was my introduction to the name Korean Power, or K.P. According to my friend, I had narrowly missed having an unfortunate accident at the hands of K.P., one of the East Coast’s most notorious Asian street gangs. http://www.stanford.edu/group/reflections/Winter1998/Nonfiction/KoreanPride.html Apparently, Korea Town, and K.P. are far more real than many New Yorkers know. One of the rare high-profile K.P. incidents occurred in 1993 when five members of K.P. were arrested in an apartment at 50 West 34th Street and charged with extorting hundreds of Korean owners of restaurants, shops and karaoke bars for about $250 a week at each location. As recently as March of this year, authorities arrested Gina Kim and Geeho Chae for running an underground Korean prostitution ring. The surprise piece of the puzzle was the arrest of police officers Dennis Kim and Jerry Svoronos for allegedly assisting the illegal venture.
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.
>>124 Hello, this is the first time I post. There are usefull posts about takeshima/dokdo at the forum called "enjoy Japan" . I hear you understand Korean very well, so let me put up some links , in which Japanese and Koreans are discussing the issue:they are written in Korea. I might be biased because I am Japanese but it seems Japanese argument is very persuasi ve. In my understanding 1ri is 4 km in Japan, according to a Korean historical documents,it is 0.4 km (また、一里は日本では4km。韓国では0.4kmです。韓国の史書での記述は04km になります。 地方100里とは、四方が100里という意味です。四角形の一片が40kmとなります。 一息は、ご指摘のとおり30里であり、0.4km×30=12kmです。←この部分はソースをしめさないとまずいか、と思います。) If you have any questions about Chinese letters, you can ask people at the forum "enjoy Japan" Keep up the good work.Thanks
A judge in Fullerton set bail at $1 million Thursday for a former theology student who claimed she accidentally stabbed her husband when the kitchen knife she was holding plunged into his chest as he hugged her.
An Anaheim theology student who claimed she accidentally stabbed her husband when the kitchen knife she was holding plunged into his chest as he hugged her is scheduled to be arraigned on a murder charge on Thursday.
Jee Hyun Song, 28, was arrested and charged after the death of Dong Uk Kim, 24. He died of his stab wound last Nov. 10.
Song was arrested shortly after Kim's death but was then released while the investigation continued. She was re-arrested at her parents' La Crescenta home on Tuesday. She had dropped out of the Bethesda Christian University in Anaheim, said Deputy District Attorney Howard Gundy.
Gundy said Song had come to the United States from Korea to study at the religious theology school, where she met her husband. They were married about a year at the time of his death.
TOKYO, May 12 (Reuters) By Alastair Himmer Japan cast envious eye towards Korean success http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-5816362,00.html That remark prompted a sharp intake of breath among Japan Football Association (JFA) officials four years after the country lost the battle of the 2002 World Cup co-hosts. South Korea's astonishing run to the 2002 World Cup semi-finals was greeted with stony silence in Japan following their own second-round exit. JFA officials put on a brave face and congratulated South Korea through forced grins but it was a chastening experience for Japan to be overshadowed by their fierce Asian rivals. As Dutchman Hiddink became a national hero in South Korea after guiding them to the best finish by an Asian team at a World Cup, there was much soul-searching in Japan. FAILED BID Zico replaced Frenchman Philippe Troussier following another failed bid by the JFA to lure Arsene Wenger away from Arsenal but four years later, Japan remain an enigma. Few people would bet on Japan eclipsing South Korea's performance on home soil in 2002. Simply surviving the group phase would be seen as a major success by most. KOREAN EDGE South Korea perhaps have the edge in terms of speed and physical toughness. Zico is wary of the inevitable comparisons that will be made with coaches such as Hiddink and Advocaat. The pressure to be Asia's top performer in Germany will be intense. Japan and South Korea, however, will have eyes only for each other in the tussle for Asian bragging rights
A man has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a woman's apartment in Tokyo and robbing her of cash and a bank card, after tying her up and giving her several hours of shoulder massage, police said Friday.
Lee Jin Se, a 29-year-old South Korean, was arrested Wednesday for breaking into the apartment in Shibuya Ward at around 5am on January 30, according to the police. He was quoted as telling the police he remained in the woman's apartment and gave her massage "hoping to get her relaxed".
He is alleged to have tied her limbs with tape, stolen about 210,000 yen ($A2,460) in cash and a cash card, and withdrawn 980,000 yen ($A11,484) from automated teller machines at two places later that day.
Lee, a resident of Tokyo's Meguro Ward, admitted to the charges, the police said, adding he may have remained in her apartment until the banks opened their doors for their ATMs. The woman lives alone, according to the police.
S. Korean, gang member nabbed over drugs linked to N. Korea Police on Friday served arrest warrants to a South Korean national and a gang member suspected of smuggling drugs into Japan from North Korea, law enforcers said.
The South Korean man, U Siyun, 59, and the gang member, whose name was not released, are accused of violating the Stimulants Control Law. U is believed to have been one of the contacts found listed on a cell phone that was seized from a North Korean vessel that sunk following a gun battle with the Japan Coast Guard off the coast of Kagoshima Prefecture in December 2001.
Earlier, U was handed a prison sentence after being convicted of illicitly exporting stolen cars to North Korea. Police are investing the possibility that the stimulants were smuggled into Japan from North Korea.
The Nation's Capital Gets A New Daily Newspaper By Elisabeth Bumiller Special to The Washington Post Monday, May 17, 1982
Yesterday was the first day of deadline at The Washington Times, the newspaper owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's controversial Unification Church.
The Washington Times is not just any newspaper. Commonly referred to as "the Moonie paper" since its plans were announced, it is supported by the religious movement that Moon founded in Korea 28 years ago. Preaching "The Divine Principle," Moon sees himself as the new Messiah and Korea as God's chosen country.
link -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Researchers Study the Moon Children The Moon-Backed Washington Times Began Publishing in 1981
The Unification Church Has Power Over People
Publisher's Parents Defuse Moon Church 'Love Bomb'
Moon's Japanese Profits Bolster Efforts in U.S.
Md. Woman Says Unification Church Is Not Holding Her
Back home in Seoul, Hannah looks for work, keeps a secret At a TGI Friday's restaurant, Hannah blends seamlessly with the crowd of young Korean urbanites. Fur-lined jacket. Green Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt. Dangling gold earrings. Perfect makeup.
The 24-year-old had returned to Korea a week earlier, sent home from Dallas, where she worked as a prostitute for three years.
A Los Angeles man deported from Thailand after serving a year in prison for molesting teenage boys appeared in federal court Monday, facing charges of traveling to that Southeast Asian nation to engage in illicit sexual activity. Steven Erik Prowler, 57, left Thailand after completing his sentence for molesting a 15-year-old and 16-year-old boy. He kicked and screamed "I don't want to go" as officials placed him in a vehicle that took him to the Bangkok airport on Friday. He faces as much as 30 years in prison if convicted in the United States. According to a criminal complaint, Prowler told authorities he often paid Thai children the equivalent of five U.S. dollars for two hours of sexual contact.
Prowler, who taught English in Thailand, faces charges of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. Each crime carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The charges are being brought under the U.S. Child Protect Act, adopted in 2003 to facilitate tracking sexual predators across international borders.
"We want this to serve as a deterrent, we want to get the message out that any American that molests children anywhere in the world, we will actively pursue them, investigate the case and prosecute them in the United States," Ann Hurst, a Bangkok-based official with ICE, said Friday. She added that about 20 Americans have been prosecuted under the law.
China silent on academic scamPublished: Tuesday, 16 May, 2006, 10:56 AM Doha Time
SHANGHAI: Chinese authorities drew a veil of silence yesterday over the sacking of a professor for falsely claming to have invented a new type of computer chip, refusing to say whether he would be prosecuted. The firing of the academic at Shanghai’s renowned Jiao Tong University, the alma mater of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, represents a setback in China’s stated goal of moving up the global value chain by boosting technological innovation. http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=86636&version=1&template_id=45&parent_id=25
Study: Research Fraud Rampant In China Report Finds 60 Percent Of Ph.D. Candidates Admit To Plagiarism, Bribery BEIJING, May 16, 2006 The stunning revelation of fraud and fakery in the heart of China's R&D industry has vindicated a feisty set of scholars who are gaining traction in exposing a culture of fraud and corruption in China's colleges.
Just days ago, authorities revealed that the Hanxin digital signal chip, a so-called "Chinese chip" designed to enhance home-grown computer technology, is not an original. Chen Jin, "father of the Chinese chip," evidently used a product from a foreign firm to win a lucrative bid in 2003 ? ironically, to spearhead a much publicized patriotic national drive to create a Chinese super microchip. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/16/tech/main1621562.shtml
As a foreign woman living and working in Japan for the last six years, I always note with slight amusement peoples' reactions when I tell them my husband is Japanese. I can almost bank on three questions they will ask me. The first question is, 'Wow, what is that like?' followed by, 'How did you meet?' and finished with 'Will you live in Japan forever?' You see: a Western woman married to a Japanese man is still a relative rarity.
The truth is, it's not difficult to meet a Japanese partner, considering we live in Japan and there are tens of millions of available Japanese men here.
So here is the answer, will you be disappointed too? We met through a mutual Japanese friend at an izakaya party. How did you meet your partner? Chances are it was the same way, through a friend, at a night club, or at work.
What was not so 'boring' however, is the way my Japanese husband proposed, but you will not find that story here. It is private. People seem to assume, that because you are in a perceived rare or unusual situation, they can proceed to grill you on your motivations and reasons for doing it.
Let me set the record straight ― it is not okay. But let me tell you, the common stereotype that Japanese men are less romantic than their foreign counterparts, is another fallacy. I can say that every detail of the way I was proposed to, as well as my wedding day, was pure romantic perfection.
Madam's fall offers look at lucrative sex trade[/b] DALLAS - Kyong "Jackie" Roberts came to America as the Korean bride of a U.S. serviceman more than 20 years ago and climbed from dress shop owner to modeling studio proprietor to queen of Asian brothels.
Her last entrepreneurial efforts made her a 52-year-old Dallas millionaire.
But her empire tumbled in a matter of hours in an early morning raid last summer. Virtually every asset she had amassed was either locked down or carted off by police and federal agents - including more than a dozen Korean women who had been smuggled into the United States as stock in her brothels.
> 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.
> 21歳のとき、日本人女性のペンパルに招待されて初来日。 その女性と結婚。
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Koreans fume over crackdown at Vancouver Airport Wed, May 10 2006 Immigration Canada is reportedly increasing its checks on flights originating from Korea in a bid to stop human smugglers from using the Vancouver International Airport as a transit point.
The intensified passport checks on Koreans arriving in Canada has incensed the local Korean community and raised the ire of Korean airlines.
At Vancouver International Airport, Korean travellers are rejected on a daily basis during their interviews by immigration officials, according to Choi Jang-sun, head of Korean Air’s branch in Vancouver, a popular destination for Korean immigrants and tourists.
http://blogs.princeton.edu/pia/personal/awolfe/2006/04/visitors_ankles.php#comments April 01, 2006 Just when I thought Steven and I would have a boring week alone, we received a visit from 2nd year PiA veteran Ellen Rubenstein, all the way from Okayama, Japan. Ellen finished up her tenure teaching at a Catholic Girl's High School and wanted a taste of the wild and crazy world of China before heading back to the states for graduate school.
Anyhow, Ellen managed to survive three days here in the chaos of Guangzhou (chaos compared to Japan, anyway) and had very interesting comparative insights into my life here. She was a big hit at English corner, attended a few of our classes, and even celebrated her quarter century mark over some Thai-ish food. Happy Birthday once again, Ellen! And best of all, she gave me the most incredible gift a guy could ask for: the first 12 hours of Season 5 of 24
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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=local&id=4180315 May 17, 2006 - An I-Team investigation into massage parlors VIDEO: Undercover investigator finds out about the "extras" We've been looking into what's going on at massage parlors for three months now. We hired a private investigator and sent him in with a hidden camera. It didn't take long to find out about the "extra."
13abc's cameras were rolling back in 2002 as agents raided what was then the Rainbow healh spa. Federal investigators say the place was part of a multi-state operation involving a Korean-American prostitution ring and money laundering.
In the letter, Kim expressed sympathy for Yokota’s fatherly affection for his daughter’s unfortunate life, but called on the Japanese government to come clean on its own past as well.
``Megumi is said to have been abducted by North Korean authorities. But she is also a victim of the Cold War era, as South and North Korea committed countless abductions each during the confrontation in the past century,’’ he wrote. ``The victims of those abductions are ultimately victims of the Cold War era.’’
Therefore, it is regrettable that the motherland of Shigeru and Megumi Yokota, Japan, seems to be the least cooperative country in dismantling the division of the Korean Peninsula, Kim said.
Recalling millions of Koreans who were mobilized to forced labor and military service during the Japanese colonial rule of the peninsula from 1910 to 1945, Kim said Japan should not turn a blind to the criticisms that it is only making efforts for other country’s human rights issues while putting its own problems on the back burner.
that the United States is apparently bound by security agreements with both South Korea and Japan to go to war with whichever side fires first, if it ever came to that. She doubts that it ever will come to that, but hinted that strong U.S.-Japanese ties (including a good personal relationship between Bush and Koizumi) might trump the other alliance.
Korean bloke sent out 18 million spams a day SOUTH KOREAN authorities have arrested a bloke suspected of sending out up to 18 million spam emails every day, from his Zombie network.
Pachinko World, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PCHW - News), a publicly traded company competing in Japan's estimated $240 billion Pachinko industry, today announced that Cohen Independent Research Group has updated its January 10, 2006 coverage of the Company.
http://www.forbes.com/global/2006/0522/058.html Forbes Global On The Cover/Top Stories Love for Sale Tim Kelly, 05.22.06 Japan's appetite for securitization may lead to more unorthodox offerings, such as hot sheets and pachinko parlors. Deutsche in December completed the first-ever pachinko-parlor-chain whole business securitization, a deal rated by Moody's (nyse: MCO - news - people ) and S&P and sold to some 20 domestic investors. Gaia, the operating company, for its part agreed to funnel investors the cash flow from 31 of its outlets. The $600 million deal adds legitimacy to an industry hobbled by a reputation for having underworld ties. The cash-rich industry may be a pull to investors, but it's a draw to organized crime, too. (That's not all: Two-thirds of the owners are ethnic Koreans, and in the past the industry has been accused of helping keep the North Korean regime afloat with hard-currency remittances.) "The big risk is of any connection to organized crime, so we need to be very careful about which company we do business with," Deutsche's Egawa emphasized. In the case of Gaia, that protection is a mechanism built into the securitization agreement, which lets investors wrest control should things go awry.
A Prince Nestled Once More in Korea's Embrace By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: May 20, 2006 Chonju, South Korea
A fitting schedule, surely, for Mr. Yi, 65, a descendant of the Chosun Dynasty, which ruled the Korean peninsula from 1392 to 1910, when the Japanese established colonial rule.
BY the time Mr. Yi was born in 1941, the royal family had long been stripped of its authority under Japanese rule. Mr. Yi was the grandson of Emperor Gojong and the nephew of his successor, Emperor Sunjong, Korea's last monarch.
May 20, 2006 Rowdy Man On Chicago-Bound Plane Faces Charges A Korean man was charged Friday with interfering with a flight attendant’s duties when flying from Japan to the United States Thursday. In Ki Kim, 37, was named in a criminal complaint charging him with one count of disturbance.
On May 18, Kim left Soul, South Korea, on a flight destined for Toyko, Japan. After arriving in Japan, Kim boarded Japan Airlines Flight 10 bound for Chicago, according to the complaint.
During the flight to Chicago, Kim had about nine alcoholic beverages and he became increasingly loud and disruptive, the complaint alleged. A flight attendant informed him that he could not have any more alcoholic beverages, after which he began yelling and singing, according to the complaint. Flight attendants made numerous attempts to quite him down, but Kim refused to comply, the complaint said. A flight attendant gave Kim a note written in Korean that gave a final warning stating that if he would not behave, airline personnel could physically restrain him. After Kim ripped up the note and threw it to the ground, a passenger informed a flight attendant that he had seen Kim with a round metal piece that had a metal rod going through the center of it, the complaint alleged. A flight attendant went to Kim’s carry-on bag and took the metal piece out so it could not be used as a weapon, after which Kim started throwing items out of his bag and into the air. A flight attendant subsequently spoke with the flight’s captain and asked if they could physically restrain Kim, to which the captain agreed to the idea. Kim was secured to his chair by plastic zip handcuffs. Prior to being handcuffed, Kim ripped off his shirt, according to the complaint. http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_140073839.html
Six North Korean defectors — the first refugees the U.S. has admitted from the totalitarian nation — arrived in Southern California on Saturday bearing accounts of famine, sexual enslavement, torture and repression.
The 2004 North Korean Human Rights Act mandates that the United States take in refugees, but until this month, none had been admitted, in part because South Korea and China thought that such a move would set back six-nation talks aimed at getting North Korea to dismantle nuclear weapons.
A few North Koreans who resettled in South Korea have applied for asylum in the U.S., claiming they were treated badly in South Korea. One such application was granted in April.
Kimchi is a matter of great national pride, and much of the research has been government-funded. "I'm sorry. I can't talk about the health risks of kimchi in the media. Kimchi is our national food," said a researcher at Seoul National University, who begged not to be quoted by name.
Among the papers not to be found in the vast library of the kimchi museum is one published in June 2005 in the Beijing-based World Journal of Gastroenterology titled "Kimchi and Soybean Pastes Are Risk Factors of Gastric Cancer." The researchers, all South Korean, report that kimchi and other spicy and fermented foods could be linked to the most common cancer among Koreans. Rates of gastric cancer among Koreans are 10 times higher than in the United States. "We found that if you were a very, very heavy eater of kimchi, you had a 50% higher risk of getting stomach cancer," said Kim Heon of the department of preventive medicine at Chungbuk National University and one of the authors. "It is not that kimchi is not a healthy food — it is a healthy food, but in excessive quantities there are risk factors."
Kim said he tried to publicize the study but a friend who is a science reporter, told him, "This will never be published in Korea."
WTH is your problem?! You think one news story represents the whole Chinese government? You're not a international laws official, so don't make arbitrary judgement.
I'm Chinese, and I felt upset at first in S4, but then the Chinese element brings out a new level of excitment. I'm on vacation right now in LA, and screamed like a maniac after the finale of S5 in my hotel room. Not from anger, but from shocking excitment. Love 24! The show is actually quite popular in China.
ttp://www.gaijinpot.com/bb/showthread.php?t=19026 It's easy for criminals to be here and gain an ordinary job. Met a guy a few years ago who just got out of jail from another country, quickly moved to Japan, got himself a job and settled into life as though nothing had ever happened back home...
Roh Supporter's Remarks Reveal Culture of Hate The leader of President Roh Moo-hyun’s support club Nosamo, Noh Hye-kyong, posted five articles about the slasher attack on Grand National Party chairwoman Park Geun-hye on the group’s website Sunday. “Basically, what happened is that a citizen who failed to adapt to our society and had a measure of spirit caused injuries to Park’s face with a box cutter,” Noh writes. “At first, we were told she had 17 stitches, later she was said to have had 60. That suggests she had some plastic surgery, too, so she won’t end up with a scar on her face.”
A man in his 40s with six prior drug-related convictions has been arrested together with 24 others for taking part in “drug-fueled orgies.” Prosecutors say the man contacted women over the Internet and by other means and had sex with them after giving them the amphetamine-like stimulant Philopon, a common illegal drug in Korea and Japan. Investigators say his partners included teenage girls and pregnant women. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200605/200605230024.html
↓こいつのブログはみなさんの巡回リストにどうですか。 http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/ May 24, 2006 >Unfortunately for the Japanese, the German people have shown extreme >sensitivity towards their Nazi past - actively learning about it in >school and being timid about patriotism in general. Maybe they set >the bar too high.
the United States is apparently bound by security agreements with both South Korea and Japan to go to war with whichever side fires first, if it ever came to that. She doubts that it ever will come to that, but hinted that strong U.S.-Japanese ties (including a good personal relationship between Bush and Koizumi) might trump the other alliance.
The site for English teachers in Japan to post their conquests.
Due to the strict laws in Japan there will be no pictures posted on this website.
How it works:
Send us your pictures. Taken from your keitai, digi cam (preferable) of the lovely Japanese ladies you have gotten busy with. No need to mosaic, blur or block out anything. Since we will directly email all photos to all members.
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Please try to give a description of your conquest. i.e where you met, how long it took to get her/him in the sack, how was the sex, was she/he a freak in bed and a user name if you want.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/world/asia/25korea.html?_r=1&oref=slogin In Deep South, North Koreans Find a Hot Market By NORIMITSU ONISHI May 25, 2006 At the Pyongyang Moran Bar on a recent Friday evening, a large video screen showed uplifting images of rocky mountains and an open blue sky. A slogan appeared at the bottom: "Kim Jong Il, a man who comes along only once in a thousand years." But the South Korean customers could not get enough of the Pyongyang Moran Bar. The 120-seat bar opened in February, complete with inferior North Korean beverages, North Korean landscape posters, North Korean songs, a photo of Mr. Kim above the bar counter with his South Korean counterpart and, most important, North Korean waitresses — or, as a sign outside announced, "beautiful girls from North Korea!" North Korean defectors and South Koreans alike are opening North Korean-themed restaurants, selling North Korean goods and auctioning off North Korean artwork on www.NKMall.com.
There are most certainly incidents of my fellow American peers acting rudely toward Japanese people. A couple weeks ago, I witnessed a member of the U.S. Navy yell English obscenities and snide comments to some Japanese men and women in on the subway, assuming that they had no idea what he was saying to them.
A lot of the students within my program are die-hard Red Sox fans and after the Sox' win, they haven't stopped making racist comments about the Japanese Yankee player, Hideki Matsui.
Allison Roeser My Woman From Tokyoでググると、この人の日本の体験談記事がもっと沢山出ます。
An English-language teacher in Tokyo who allegedly posted on the Internet nude photos of a woman he had been dating has been arrested on suspicion of defamation, police said Monday.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested Keefe Douglas, 39, of the United States, also for allegedly possessing 0.4 gram of amphetamines at his residence in Itabashi Ward, after searching the place Friday.
According to police, Douglas uploaded 44 photographs on a Web site of a 28-year-old Japanese woman on Dec. 30, including ones showing her naked.
Police said he then sent one of the woman's female colleagues an e-mail message containing the page's Internet address.
日本の戦後は、アメリカの政界の最も悪質な部分である「ニューディーラー」にたちによってつくられた。 彼らニューディーラーたちは、1930年代のアメリカのリベラル勢力である。彼らの代表がフランクリン・ルーズベルト大統領であった。 この一部が敗戦直後にマッカーサー元師の取り巻きとして日本にも上陸した。 この者たちによって私たち日本人は、敗戦直後から現在までずっと管理・教育されてきた。この事を英文で書くと次のようになる。 The‘New Dealers'(i.e the prototypical globalists)brought int japan with their ideeas that brainwashed the japanese people duringt the Occupation years.As a result,japan has led a sheltered existence for the past half-century from the rest of the world in terms of prevailing political thoughts,thus creating a one- domineted ruling class. This ruling class then intentionally isolated the country from the outside, in order to maintain control over the japanese people. 上の英文の訳 ニューディーラー(すなわち、グローバリストの初期の形態)が、占領時代に日本に彼らの思想を植えつけた。 その後、それらの意図的な思想が、日本国民の思考の中に根づいた。だから日本は、この半世紀の間ずっと、 世界中で通用している本物の政治思想や考え方から壁を作られて遮られてきた。 そして国内に専制的なひとつの支配階級をつくった。この支配層は日本国内の支配を維持するために、 日本を外側世界と意思が通じない状態に置く原因をつくった。 この英文を、自分の友人や知人のアメリカ人やイギリス人その他の英語圏国民に見せてみとよい。 政治問題に関心のある少し知的な英米人であれば、必ずそれなりの興味深い反応を示すだろう。 もし、本当に頭の良い賢明なアメリカ人であったら、「どうして、お前は、このことを知っているのだ?」 と驚かれたあとに、さらに多くの恐るべき真実をあれこれ語ってくれるだろう。 引用は副島隆彦「日本の危機の本質」P33〜34
The site for English teachers in Japan to post their conquests.
Due to the strict laws in Japan there will be no pictures posted on this website.
How it works:
Send us your pictures. Taken from your keitai, digi cam (preferable) of the lovely Japanese ladies you have gotten busy with. No need to mosaic, blur or block out anything. Since we will directly email all photos to all members.
The pictures must contain nudity.
Please try to give a description of your conquest. i.e where you met, how long it took to get her/him in the sack, how was the sex, was she/he a freak in bed and a user name if you want.
http://www.myprivatetokyo.com/fotoblog/archives/2006/05/29/teacher-and-thief/index.php/ I stole money from my students. During the breaks I would send them out of the room, lock the door and go through their bags. I was on a downward spiral. I blew it all on booze and drugs. They school asked me to leave after some complaints came in, they had no evidence but they knew it was me.
Learning to Hate -- Revisited - Tony Andriotis http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=294782&rel_no=1 >However, several of my students recently asked me about how much damage >could be inflicted on Japan, if North Korea were to "nuke" it. Rather shocked, >I responded, "Lots." To that I heard, "Yeah, but how many people would die." >I then told them that the problem with a nuclear bomb is that people can die >from it even 50 or 60 years later. I specifically pointed out that there are people >dying in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today as a result of the bombing half a century ago. >To this, one student responded, "Good."
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,107373,00.html Asian students lured into sex trade in New Zealand May 29, 2006 HEN her parents returned home and left her alone in a foreign country, Korean student Suzie had to find a way to fend for herself. She claimed she could barely make ends meet with her measly pay as a grocery-shop worker in Auckland, New Zealand. Desperate for money, Suzie turned to prostitution. The 19-year-old business student told The New Paper on Sunday: 'I tried to get part-time work, but the only job I could get was at an Asian grocery shop paying $180 per week. 'The money was not enough for my rent, which is $110 per week, and living expenses.' Suzie is not the only cash-strapped foreign student turning to vice to make a quick buck. Indeed, it's becoming a worrying trend as authorities cite growing numbers of foreign students who become prostitutes. Suzie admits she has 'no-condom sex' with her clients if they are prepared to pay her more.
'Sex without condoms will cost the clients $30 to $50 more. Kiwi and European prostitutes usually will not entertain requests for 'no-condom sex'.' She said her clients, mainly Caucasian men, prefer Asian prostitutes as most of them are 'younger, cheaper and prepared to do more'. Dora, a 21-year-old Chinese prostitute, said: 'Men come to me because I am cheaper (than the local prostitutes), but I make money from charging extra for doing things that other sex workers dare not do like giving oral sex without condoms.
ORIGINAL: chihiro Oh, and I was born in Japan but as a North Korean citizen (my parents didnt have their Japanese citizenships at the time). Thankfully, I became a Japanese citizen shortly after birth and didnt have any problems.
S.Korean member of fake credit card racket nabbed A South Korean, who allegedly attempted to purchase expensive wrist-watches from a five-star hotel here, using a fake international credit card, was arrested today, police said. Police said that the Korean identified as Kim Che Chi (32) and the other two had come to Chennai last week from Bangalore and were staying in the hotel. Chi used a fake credit card to purchase the watches from the hotel. On suspicion, the staff of the hotel intimated the concerned bank, who conducted a surprise check and found the card to be forged. An inquiry revealed that Chi had used a similar modus operandi in another five-star hotel here a few days ago, for an identical purchase, police said. Monday, May 29, 2006
China's longest river "cancerous" with pollution Tue May 30, 1:12 PM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's longest river is "cancerous" with pollution and rapidly dying, threatening drinking water supplies in 186 cities along its banks, state media said on Tuesday.
Chinese environmental experts fear worsening pollution could kill the Yangtze river within five years, Xinhua news agency said, calling for an urgent clean-up.
"Many officials think the pollution is nothing for the Yangtze," Xinhua quoted Yuan Aiguo, a professor with the China University of Geosciences, as saying.
"But the pollution is actually very serious," it added, warning that experts considered it 'cancerous'."
The Korea Liberator ? Japanese Fighters Thump Korean Martial Artists http://www.korealiberator.org/2006/05/28/japanese-fighters-thump-korean-martial-artists/ Koreans often consider martial arts like Tae Kwon Do, Yudo, Hapkido and Gumdo as Korean inventions. There are popular references to Tae Kwon Do having an origin of 2,000 years and other such nonsense (or that Yudo comes from a “Korean” martial art of Yusul).
In reality, these supposedly Korean martial arts either originate, or were even copied wholesale, from Japanese ones: Shotokan Karate, Kodokan Judo, Aiki-Jujutsu and Kendo, respectively.
US refuses visas for S.Korean trade protesters More than 150 South Korean anti-free trade protesters who staged violent rallies in the past have been refused visas to enter the United States next week, an activist said on Wednesday. Only about 50 members of a coalition of unionists, farm activists, and students will take part in rallies in Washington that will start on June 4 to coincide with the first round of free trade talks between South Korea and the United States.
South Korean protesters have a reputation for unruly and violent protests, clashing with police over issues from labor disputes to the opening of their country's rice market.
>The issue of “discrimination” in this case is far more cut and dry for him >since there is little to no language or cultural barrier – only an ethnic/legal >barrier. discriminationじゃないだろ。国籍がないなら違う扱いを受けて当然。
>This is definitely a huge leap forward for Japanese society from back in the 50s >Rikidozan’s Korean ethnicity was a closely-guarded secret. The rights of Son have >essentially been hard-won by the people who have come before him. アメリカの市民権運動になぞらえてるのか?違うだろ。国籍がない在日が日本人と同等の 権利を主張するのが嫌がられるんだろ。今も昔も非国民が区別されるのは当然だし、 メディアが朝鮮人だけ腫れ物扱いするのはかわっとらん。
Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. saw double-digit U.S. sales increases in May as consumer demand for more fuel-efficient vehicles grew, the automakers reported Thursday.
Toyota's overall sales were up 17 percent and car sales were up nearly 25 percent thanks to strong sales of the automaker's new Yaris subcompact as well as the redesigned Camry. Both cars went on sale in March.
Honda's car sales shot up 21 percent as the Fit subcompact and redesigned Civic hit the market, while truck and SUV sales were up 9 percent thanks to strong sales of the Pilot crossover and Ridgeline small pickup.
But the president may be picking the wrong fight. While Japan-bashing is a generally accepted practice across South Korea, a growing number of citizens worry that such populist outbursts are damaging the country's reputation, making it seem backward and isolated from the world.
Xiaomei Tao, 54, Greenwood, was arrested Thursday night at Spa Envy, 1600 block of North Ind. 135. She was booked into the Johnson County Jail and remained in custody Friday under $3,000 bail.
In addition, Fishers police in April 2005 arrested a 48-year-old woman on a prostitution charge at Hong Kong Therapeutic Massage, operating from a home. Plus, Shelbyville police that same month arrested two Korean women on prostitution charges; Indianapolis police assisted in that investigation.
Like most sports extravaganzas, the World Cup, run by the Federation International Football Assn., is also about money, marketing and sponsors. This makes for endless advertisements and peculiar ironies. Germany, for example, is renowned for cars and beer, yet South Korean automaker Hyundai, not Mercedes-Benz, is the official car sponsor, and U.S.-based Anheuser-Busch won the beer concession.
Hong Kong bishop condemns China on Tiananmen anniversary By Keith Bradsher The New York Times SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2006 HONG KONG The highest official of the Roman Catholic Church in China marked the 17th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square killings on Sunday by strongly criticizing the government and calling on it to hold a full and open review of the killings
For love and money, Koreans turn to facial tucks By Su Hyun Lee The New York Times
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2006 SEOUL Fat is something that most people would want to remove from their cheeks. Kim Eun Young, however, had her cheekbones plumped up by a cosmetic surgeon in the hope that her husband's business would blossom.
"People say that the fortunes of a husband and a wife go hand in hand," said Kim, 36, a housewife. "But I've never had plump cheeks and two fortune-tellers told me that this meant that money would slip away."
In South Korea, where cosmetic surgery and fortune-telling are national obsessions, it was perhaps inevitable that the two would eventually combine.
Men and women of all ages are increasingly undergoing plastic surgery so that a new nose with a straight bridge and distinct nodules, a slightly wide and protruding forehead, or sufficient cheekbones will bring wealth and the drive to take charge of their lives
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/world/asia/04japan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Race to Lead Japan May Turn on Asia Ties By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: June 4, 2006 So far, the race is turning into a referendum on what to do about Japan's troubled relations with its Asian neighbors, especially China.
Japan's relations with China and South Korea have chilled, particularly in the last year, because of several disputes over history, territory and Mr. Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, the memorial where the country's highest-ranking war criminals are enshrined.
ttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13007824/site/newsweek/ Several government bodies conduct intelligence work, including the national police force, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the military. In some purely technical areas, like electronic surveillance, the Japanese can hold their own. But, says Alan Dupont, an Australian expert on Japanese security policy, "Japan is definitely a player in the minor leagues" when measured against other countries of its economic and political class, like France or Britain.
10 Most Censored Countries New York, May 2, 2006?North Koreans live in the most censored country in the world, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. Communist North Korea is the world’s deepest information void; there is not a single independent journalist, and all radio and television receivers in the country are sold locked to government-specified frequencies. Burma, Turkmenistan, Equatorial Guinea, and Libya round out the top five nations on CPJ’s list of the “10 Most Censored Countries.”
Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Deputy fatally shoots man on Interstate 5
Sheriff's spokesman John Urquhart said the man, whose family said had a history of mental illness, jumped out of the car and attacked the deputy, biting and struggling, even ripping the cord of the deputy's portable microphone before returning to his car. At some point, the deputy shot and killed Jo while he was inside the car.
Pedro Jo was born to Korean parents and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He and his family moved to the United States in 1996.
http://timesnewsweekly.com/Archives2004/Jul.-Sept.2004/081904/NewFiles/KILLED%20IN%20ELEVATOR.html August 12, 2004 Richmond Hill Man Is Killed In Elevator Freak Accident After Malfunction A father of four from Richmond Hill was killed after an elevator malfunctioned and zoomed to the top of a glass tower in Midtown Manhattan last Thursday. Carl E. DeClercq, who lived on 120th Street, was pronounced dead at around 5 p.m., after a freight elevator broke down and shot his cab up into a bulkhead above the 37th floor of 5 Times Square, which is located at Seventh Avenue at 42nd Street.
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Jun 7, 2006 (AP) Toyota Motor Corp. continued to dominate the initial quality rankings, grabbing the top spot in 11 out of 19 segments in the 2006 survey by J.D. Power and Associates, released Wednesday.
The U.S. Consul General to Seoul says Korean prostitutes who stay illegally in the U.S. are a major psychological barrier to a visa waiver for Korean visitors there.
Michael Kirby told reporters Thursday it does not help Korea’s efforts for a visa waiver if Korean women are uncovered every time there is a prostitution bust in the U.S. Kirby said apart from decreasing the percentage of visa refusals, Korea must also cooperate in a system of joint law enforcement and ensure that Americans have a good impression of Koreans.
Kirby said on one occasion last year 100 Korean women were arrested on prostitution charges in a single day in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Korean women were also held in Connecticut, New York and Huston this year, he said, with Korean women forming a bigger part of the prostitution problem in the U.S, than those of any other nationality
The consul said many of the women are smuggled into the U.S. via Canada or Mexico, and some of them enter the country on forged visas. Korean women pay between US$15,000 and 20,000 to traffickers and often see no option except prostitution to pay them off, he added.
last week's arrest of five alleged prostitutes could turn out to be more than just a brothel - but a case of human trafficking.
According to sources in the Queens’ Vice Detective Squad, the corner house located at 151-04 Bayside Ave. had been rented and used by a prostitution ring for the past month, where Korean women with little or no English proficiency were selling their bodies for sexual returns.
Among those who were arrested are, Soonhu Park, 57, who is believed to be the madam, along with and Yinsi Pial, 27, Sunwoo Lee, 27, Jenny Lee, 31, and Sunhee Choi, 36, who were all charged with prostitution.
FORBES ASIA's second annual ranking of Japan's 40 richest tells a very mixed story. The fortunes of 17 of the 35 returning tycoons rose while 17 fell. Just one stayed the same.
1. Tiger Woods 2. Michael Jordan 3. Brett Favre 4. Derek Jeter 5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 6. Shaquille O'Neal 7. Kobe Bryant 8. LeBron James 9. Jeff Gordon 10. Barry Bonds
1. Venus Williams 2. Serena Williams 3. Mia Hamm 4. <丶`∀´> Michelle Wie 5. Danica Patrick 6. Michelle Kwan 7. Annika Sorenstam 8. Maria Sharapova 9. Anna Kournikova 10. Sasha Cohen
The strong hand of conservative politicians has been felt the most in Tokyo, where the rightist governor, Shintaro Ishihara, and other like-minded politicians have curbed the influence of liberal teachers. Education experts say the proposed revision of the 1947 law would spread the type of changes that have started here to the rest of the nation.
In Tokyo, in the past three years, the school board has punished teachers in 350 cases for being unpatriotic at school events. The teachers refused to sing the national anthem and stand before the national flag, both of which, to many here and abroad, are linked to Japan's former militarism.
The recent conflict over basketball player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's refusal to stand during the National Anthem has sparked debate over the balance between religious and patriotic duty. The NBA suspended Rauf without pay yesterday on the grounds that League rules require players to stand in a dignified manner during the playing of the National Anthem.
Abdul-Rauf is perhaps best known for the controversy he created when he refused to stand for the Star Spangled Banner before games, stating that the flag was a "symbol of oppression" and that the United States had a long "history of tyranny".
Sung Bum Chang and his wife Hyang Kyung Chang didn't want to comment after their guilty pleas in court Monday. Sung said, “No, no, I don’t want to talk with you.”
The couple admitted to requiring five South Korean nationals to work as hostesses at their Dallas karaoke bar, called Club Wa(クラブ和). Prosecutors say the women had to pay back the Changs after the couple had a human smuggling network bring them into the United States.
Fourteen years ago, this stretch of the city was a blighted riot zone. By 7 a.m., with the crowd of more than 1,500 Koreans decked out in Red Devils shirts, little devil horns, and Korean flags spilling over onto Wilshire Boulevard, the LAPD caved and just shut down the city's primary east-west surface artery between Western and Hobart. An endless loop of Korean fight songs was piped into the plaza while a yell leader and a Samulnori ensemble on the stage lead the litany of cheers. http://www.tnr.com/blog/world-cup?pid=20356
GARDEN GROVE – Sang Woo Shin didn’t go to work today. Neither did Mi Chong Park. Anna Geon, a Pacifica High School junior, skipped classes this morning. Instead of work and school, they joined about a thousand spectators who turned out at a Garden Grove shopping plaza to cheer on the South Korean World Cup soccer team. Spectators watched a nail-biting, 2-1 comeback victory by South Korea against Togo on a 32-feet-high by 40-foot-wide television screen. Fans came from Orange County, Los Angeles and even as far as Las Vegas to wear their red South Korea T-shirts and show their national pride. The sea of red swarmed the parking lot, chanting "Republic of Korea" in Korean to the beat of traditional drums at 5 a.m. The Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Orange County and the Orange County Korean Sports Association organized the free viewing party. The remaining two Korea games will also be aired at the Arirang Shopping Plaza parking lot on the big screen. http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/slideshow_1179166.php http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1179166.php
Japan should have been awarded a penalty in the second half of Monday's 3-1 World Cup loss to Australia, a top FIFA official said.
Asked why there had been no penalties in the tournament's first 14 matches, FIFA communications director Markus Siegler told a news conference that the Japan-Australia match was the only one in which a penalty should have been given.
Mr Siegler was referring to a second-half incident where Australia's substitute Tim Cahill clipped the legs of Japan midfielder Yuichi Komano as he headed for goal.
Cahill, who had already received a yellow card for clattering into Komano, put Australia ahead with a powerful shot off the inside of the post minutes later.
TOKYO Rendezvous FOOOOUR! http://www.crisscross.com/jp/forum/m_797193/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#804894 By the way, do we meet inside or outside the place? Because I dont know what anyone looks like except tiernan. How did it work before? It may be hard to distinguish me in a large crowd of Japanese people. Ill most likely be wearing a hat and provoctive clothing, and my face is to the left, and height of around 173. I guess Ill be keeping an eye out for a group of gaijins
Cahill, who had already received a yellow card for clattering into Komano, put Australia ahead with a powerful shot off the inside of the post minutes later.
usually the water between the mainland and an island takes the name of the island or name of a town on the island. for example,the sea of Japan.the straits of Gibraltar or the Straits of Nessina. Following this rule,you can not say east sea.This is one the English usage rules,when you mention sea between Japan and Euroasian continent,the sea must be called Sea of the Japan.
Police say that suspect was driven to the airport after the crash and flew 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.nbc4.tv/news/8471812/detail.html http://www.nbc4.tv/video/8472268/detail.html
Missing: Millions of Dollars Worth of Black DS Lites 6/15/2006, 10:54am Eastern Time
Somewhere in Hong Kong, a shipping container full of US$2.32 million worth of DS games and black DS Lites, headed from a factory in China to households in Europe, has been stolen. Since this version of the DS Lite will be available only in Europe, the black market value of the handhelds is sure to be very high. Nintendo has not released a statement concerning the effect that this theft will have on availability when the DS Lite is released on June 23 across Europe. http://www.nintendojo.com/infocus/view_item.php?1150383252
they are backing a petition pressing the United Nations World Heritage Sites Committee to acknowledge that climate change is already damaging world heritage sites.
The stakes are high because if the UN accepts the case, it might lead to poor countries attempting to sue rich countries for damages for the greenhouse gases they've emitted.
"Anyway, it is really immature for Korean people to keep searching for things to complain about on the basis of some imaginary link to the Japanese. I wish they would just stop their pathetic grabbing at little aspects of their reality here and there and associating them with or blaming them on Japan's colonization of the country."
In Korea, if you challenge what's written on the textbook, you risk your life. A professor from Kogryo one of Korea's most prestigious, said, "it was a good thing we were colonized by Japan and not by Soviet Union," he was ousted from his job and received numerous threats. When one of the most famous singer in Korea "declared" that he was "pro-Japan," he lost his job.
My point? Koreans don't tolerate facts that may damage their pride. They don't allow different views. Their views are often very, very ethnocentric, yet do not tolerate challenges. Same goes for Sea of Japan vs. East Sea. I mean, if you truly do a research, you'll find that Korean argument is hollow and with no grounds what so ever. Every single points they make can be countered by tangible evidence and facts. That's why I say Koreans lack credibility. They certainly lack credibility in this name dispute.
豪州人A:The Japanese have always been an arrogant race - they don't give a shit. They think they own the place. We should do what we do to the other illegal fishing scumbags - BURN THEIR BOATS.
豪州人B:Japan is well known to dispute foreign land as if it's theirs.
豪州人C:Yes, the 1930's and 1940's being a rather clear case in point.
Guus Hiddink, who guided 150-1 outsider South Korea to the 2002 World Cup semifinals, began his latest campaign with an underdog by masterminding Australia's first win at soccer's showpiece.
The achievement earned him an honorary citizenship from the South Korean government - a first for a sports figure and four years' free first-class travel on Korean Air Lines Co., the nation's biggest carrier. The World Cup stadium in Gwangju was renamed Guus Hiddink Stadium. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=ahvUrEPoCPsU&refer=australia
THE most popular man in Australia When the team did so well, the whole country went nuts. President Kim Daejung wept and hugged Hiddink on television. Hiddink himself was nominated for president. Massive corporations such as Samsung and LG sought his acumen. Stamps were made bearing his image; statutes were erected. Sixteen biographies were written. He was the first foreigner to be given honorary citizenship. A football stadium was named after him. He was given free air travel on the country's airline, for life. Free taxi rides. And he was given a private villa on Jeju Island, an eco-resort. http://www.theage.com.au/news/aussie-update/guus-the-man/2006/06/15/1149964675337.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
Fact 1: Minke whales are not endangered, as acknowledged by IWC's scientific committee. They are classified "LOW RISK".
Fact 2: IWC's scientific committee believes a limited resumption of commercial whaling under a quota system is OK.
Fact 3: The committee believes Japan can take an additional 2000 Minke whales a year. Fact 4: Japan is seeking just 50 additional catches a year.
Fact 5: This committee was headed by a British scientist, who quit the job in disgust over whale politics ignoring scientific findings.
Fact 6: Japan is offering to accept independent observers aboard all of its whaling ships, and take DNA samples from all future catches so that the West can verify Japan's compliance with the quota system. All countries around the world consume and utilize natural resources. Let's just concentrate on the "sustainable use" of such resources, and co-habit on this planet in peace.
First of all, the issue on whaling seems to go split in a few ways: why people are against whaling? Have you guys ever thought about it deeply? 1. not enough number of whales? 2. whales are clever? 3. whales are cute? Here, most people actually don't know the real facts but being against it without firm background knowledge. I will point out the facts of the research made by the IWC(International Whaling Commission) and ICR(Institute of Cetacean Research) that not many people don't know. ATTENTION: NONE OF THESE FACTS ARE COLLECTED FROM JAPAN OR JAPANESE AFFILIATIE COUNTRIES. AND THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF THIS REPORT IS NOT BACK UP JAPAN NOR OTHER PROTEST COUNTRIES. 1. Number of whales There are more than 80 kinds of whales and Japan catches only less than 5 kinds of which they are permitted by IWC. The reason why IWC permitted Japan to continue whaling is because the number of those whales are actually increasing and THEY ARE BECOMING VERMIN. Other whales are protected by the treaty of IWC (BUT OTHER COUNTRIES BESIDES JAPAN STILL CATCH THEM!). Do you think Japan, Iceland and Norway are only countries catch whales? The answer is NO. The united states of America catches 60 whales while Japan catches 80 (1999).
Reason? They say :-) They have to protect their Eskimo tradition WHILE IGNORING JAPANESE CULTURAL TRADITION. BY THE WAY, THEY DO NOT USE WHALES FOR THE KIDS' SCHOOL LUNCH ANYMORE IN JAPAN. THAT WAS MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO. THEY USE IT PURELY FOR KEEPING THEIR OWN TRADITIONAL GASTRONOMIC CULTURE. Ok, look who catches which whales and number of existent whales in this whole world. Japan - Mink whales - 1,000,000 exist in the whole world America - Polar whales - 8,200 exist in the whole world Russia - Gray whales - 22,000 exist in the whole world Denmark - Fin whales - 120,000 exist in the whole world St. Vincent - Humpback - 5,800 exist in the whole world Do you see something strange is going on here? Japan catches 80 out of 1,000,000 and America catches 60 out of 8,200. AND THIS IS AN OFFICIAL NUMBER FROM IWC. SO, WHY BLAME JAPAN FOR THE NUMBERS?
2. Are whales clever? Those who assert that the whale has a higher intelligence base their assertion on the large size of a whale's brain. It is simply natural for a whale which has large head to have a larger brain than those of other animals, but that does not necessarily mean that it has higher intelligence. In comparing the size of animal brains, we should take into consideration not only its weight but also its proportion to the body weight. The proportion of a blue whale's brain to its body weight is 0.007% on the average, as compared with 1.93% for human beings. The harbor porpoise has the highest proportion of 0.85% among cetaceans. Does that mean that the intelligence of a harbor porpoise is half the level of a human being and that of a blue whale is one hundredth of a harbor porpoise's? It is not necessarily so. It is not possible to determine the intelligence level with the brain's proportion to the body weight. The late Dr. E.J. Slijper, who was a world authority on cetaceans, said "...it seems improbable that an animal which propels itself mainly with its tail should need a more highly developed brain than, for instance, a monkey which uses all its limbs so skillfully." On a similar note, Dr. Margaret Klinowska, a professor of Cambridge University and a member of the Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, said that "In most species of cetaceans, the brain is neither very large nor especially complex," adding that "whales betray little evidence of behavioral complexity beyond that of a herd of cows or deer." SO, THEY ARE NOT THAT CLEVER!
3. But they are cute! Yes, by the looks of it. But please think about this. This is just different culture between the countries. Do you like dogs? They are cute aren't they? Dogs have always been men's and children's best friends. They are so loyal. BUT CHINESE AND KOREAN EAT THEM. Can you blame them? because dogs are cute? DO WE HAVE ANY RIGHTS TO STOP THEIR THOUSANDS YEARS OF CULTURAL HISTORY BECAUSE WE THINK DOGS ARE CUTE? WE EAT OUR CUTE KANGAROOS TOO! WHY? WHALE MEAT CULTURE IS AS IMPORTANT AS THEIR SUSHI CULTURE THAT HAS BEEN LASTING FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND WE DO NOT HAVE ANY RIGHTS TO STOP THAT. IMAGINE IF SOMETHING HAPPEND THAT IS TOTALLY AGAINST OUR BBQ CULTURE WHEN ANIMAL PROTECTION ORGANIZATION DECIDED TO CLAIM THAT COWS ARE SO INTELLIGENT AND CUTE ALTHOUGH WE HAVE SO MANY OF THEM? Conclusion So, who's fault is this? NO ONES FAULT. But someone must be making money out of this. Yes, perhaps they are directors of large environmental protection organization, or illegal fishermen, or maybe the government. WHO KNOWS! But one thing we should consider is that we shouldn't blame anyone for keeping their own culture going. WE SHOULD BLAME OURSELVES FOR ALWAYS BEING EASILY DRIVEN BY PROPAGANDAS. WE SHOULD LOOK AT THE FACTS BEFORE WE BECOME NARROW MINDED. REMEMBER: CHANNEL 9 IS MAKING MONEY OUT OF THIS TOPIC, YOU KNOW!
This was obviously the most flagrant case of bad journalism i have ever seen in channel nine what a disgrace Richard... who are you to tell the Japanese to stop hunting the whales if you can not stop your own farmers to slaughter kangaroos? what about the farmers uncontrollable land clearing in Queensland have you done anything to stop them? Let me tell you Japan is a really first "world country " with much much better economic credentials and technical as well as a scientific expertise than Australia and no one is in position to teach them how to make a sustainable use of worlds marine resources... now tell me little Richard what does it have to do with Japanese policies during the second world war? what does it have to do with poor whales? did you ever ask why is Australia government is so reluctant of redeeming itself with our Aborigines?.. lets fix about the things in our own backyard before we go outside to tell other peoples how to run their own lives ok?.... maybe you should realise that Australians are just as cruel just look at the way we have treated our aborigines!!! taking there children away. I think that is even more disgusting . Australians aren't perfect .
VANCOUVER -- Six Korean women found near Osoyoos, B.C., last week were sobbing and grateful to the RCMP after being told they would have been forced into prostitution in the U.S. to pay off their debt to their human traffickers.
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Authorities have broken up what they think is a sex-slave ring with the discovery of six Korean women hiding in the bush near the U.S. border near Osoyoos in the B.C. Interior. The women, in Canada on tourist visas, were apparently headed for a brothel in Los Angeles.
Former Defense Officials Urge U.S. Strike on North Korean Missile Site By Glenn Kessler and Anthony Faiola Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 22, 2006; Page A23 Former defense secretary William J. Perry has called on President Bush to launch a preemptive strike against the long-range ballistic missile that U.S. intelligence analysts say North Korea is preparing to launch.
In an opinion article that appears in today's Washington Post, Perry and former assistant defense secretary Ashton B. Carter argue that if North Korea continues launch preparations, Bush should immediately declare that the United States will destroy the missile before it can be fired.
Perry and Carter suggest using a cruise missile launched from a submarine and carrying a high-explosive warhead. "The effect on the Taepodong would be devastating," they write, using the name of the Korean missile. "The multi-story, thin-skinned missile filled with high-energy fuel is itself explosive -- the U.S. airstrike would puncture the missile and probably cause it to explode. The carefully engineered test bed for North Korea's nascent nuclear missile force would be destroyed."
As President Bill Clinton's defense secretary, Perry oversaw preparation for airstrikes on North Korean nuclear facilities in 1994, an attack that was never carried out. He has remained deeply involved in Korean policy issues and is widely respected in national-security circles, especially among senior military officers. He has been a critic of the Bush administration's approach to North Korea.
"We believe diplomacy might have precluded the current situation," Perry and Carter said. "But diplomacy has failed, and we cannot sit by and let this deadly threat mature."
Perry and Carter say that such a strike "undoubtedly carries risk" but that there would be no damage to North Korea beyond the missile galley. They argue that the unproven U.S. missile-defense system might not be able to shoot down a missile.
>>632 Heavy Traffic? A recent wave of prostitution arrests in Waterbury raises the specter of trafficking in Connecticut by Adam Bulger - May 18, 2006 Late April was a feast for Connecticut sleaze-watchers. After a month-long undercover police investigation in Waterbury, 10 massage parlors, which had names like ""Hong Kong Spa, Tokyo Studio and Happy Oriental Salon, "" and, keeping with the Asian theme, mostly employed Korean women, were raided simultaneously on April 27. The local television news footage of the raids showed police leading Asian women in various states of undress accessorized by handcuffs into squad cars. The next day, 33 employees and suspected clients were arraigned in Waterbury Superior Court.
But some local experts say the female employees may not be criminals at all but rather victims of a crime.
News reports showed the women wearing hospital gowns or scrubs in court. And because only one interpreter was available and many of the accused spoke little or no English, some critical matters concerning legal identity were lost in translation. Waterbury´s paper, the Republican-American reported the bail commissioner´s office was unable to create complete reports for some defendants, and couldn´t determine whether the women were in the U.S. illegally, or if they were wanted on foreign criminal charges.
また大西か! U.S. Needs Japan's Diplomacy, but Tokyo Isn't Talking By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: June 25, 2006 NORTH KOREA and its potential test of a long-range missile will top the agenda, no doubt, when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan visits Washington next week. But what will, or should, President Bush say about Japan's ever-more-tenuous relations with its Asian neighbors?
American and Japanese coordination in the face of a possible launching last week could not have been more finely tuned, said J. Thomas Schieffer, the American ambassador to Japan.
But at a time when regional cooperation is needed as well, Japan is barely talking to China and South Korea. In fact, on Thursday, South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun said that his country must strengthen its military deterrence, not against the North, but against Japan, because of a worsening territorial dispute.
Japan's relations with the two countries are their worst in decades, in great part because of bitter disagreements over Japan's militarist past. History is getting in the way even as Japan, with America's blessing, wants to play a bigger role in the region.
The last time they met, in Kyoto in November, Mr. Bush asked Mr. Koizumi about the troubled relations, but is said to have refrained from commenting. Since then, relations have remained frozen, and prospects for improvement look uncertain.
Worries have grown among American policy makers and scholars that the tensions are hurting Japanese ? and American ? interests in Asia. Calls have multiplied for the United States to become active, at least informally, in trying to resolve the disputes.
While Japan and China are at loggerheads over regional influence, natural resources and territory, Mr. Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, the memorial to Japan's war dead and its 14 highest-ranking war criminals, have drawn particularly strong criticism from Beijing, and from Seoul as well.
Mr. Koizumi says he prays for peace and for Japan's war dead when he visits Yasukuni. But China and South Korea consider the visits evidence of Japan's lack of repentance over its past. Both countries have refused to hold top-level meetings with Japan, citing the visits.
"The Yasukuni issue is undermining the efficacy of Japanese diplomacy in the region," said Kent Calder, director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins. "And that is important for the United States, particularly in a period when we are so involved in the Middle East and we don't have the resources and time that we should be devoting to East Asia."
The disputes have put the United States ? which wants a more assertive Japan, but with which it shares its own wartime history ? in an uncomfortable position.
Mr. Koizumi has cemented good relations with Mr. Bush by doing the previously unthinkable: deploying troops to Iraq, deepening military ties and moving Japan toward a revision of the Constitution.
The new military assertiveness, though, has given voice to conservatives who have long wanted to restore prewar symbols. Teachers are now being punished for refusing to sing the national anthem. Government-endorsed textbooks play down Japan's past militarism .またキタよw
If Asia has been troubled by the rise of Japanese nationalism, it has also been perplexed by America's silence. Yasukuni, after all, enshrines leaders who waged war against the United States, too, and its museum propagates the rightist view that the United States forced Japan into war.
"It is one thing not to encourage Japanese nationalism, but the United States has not been discouraging it either," said Han Sung Joo, a former South Korean ambassador to the United States. "Japan seems to have little regard for how South Korea sees things, and the United States seems to have little regard for how Japan affects Korean sensitivities."
That, Mr. Han said, has undermined the trilateral alliance, the basis for America's security in Asia. "If one side of the triangle is weakened," he said, "the other sides suffer, too."
The silence has also encouraged Japanese hard-liners to take such a tough stance against China that the two countries no longer hold meaningful talks, said Kazuhiko Togo, a former Japanese diplomat who now teaches East Asian Studies at Princeton.
"They believe that America is backing this approach," Mr. Togo said. "But is that the case? If Japan cannot manage its relations with a rising China, I think that is a burden to the United States. I think that America should tell Japan that this situation it has created is not in anyone's interests."
Foreign workers in Japan boost economies at home Surge in fund transfers has become a boon to developing countries September 6, 2004 Associated Press
Tokyo's Dai-ichi Life Research Institute Inc., estimated in a study last October that $5.5 billion is sent annually through unofficial channels by illegal foreign workers in Japan, primarily Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos. Combined with the $2.77 billion in declared remittances recorded by Japan's central bank in 2002, foreign workers are sending out more than $8.25 billion annually.
Latin American and Caribbean workers sent home a record $38 billion in 2003 – more than foreign direct investment and official aid to the region combined, according to the Inter-American Development Bank. About $31 billion of that came from an estimated 14.5 million Latin American-born migrant workers in the United States. Next came Japan, whose tiny 350,000-person Latin American and Caribbean community sent home $3 billion
Korean Sexual Culture: An Historical Overview Not many people are aware of the fact that the Korean comfort women movement grew out of feminist and nationalist opposition to the phenomenon of the so-called kisaeng tourism, which is a euphemism for prostitution tourism. The term kisaeng traditionally referred to professional female entertainers. The institution of kisaeng or kinyo was firmly established in Korean society by Koryo dynasty (918-1392) and continued throughout Choson dynasty (1392-1910).(12) Kisaeng were chosen from among young females of the lower classes and trained in the arts of entertainment for men, such as playing musical instruments, singing and dance. By the time of King Sejong (r. 1418-50), prostitution came to dominate the life of kisaeng. There were several proposals to abolish the institution of kisaeng by high-level Confucian scholar-officials. However, the opponents to the proposal successfully defended the institution by arguing among other things the likelihood of increased sex crimes if it were to be abolished.(13)
In the masculinist sexual culture, it is not surprising that such a biological-determinist argument would win the debate with relative ease and could continue to defend masculinist interests in satisfying men's desire for sexual recreation by supporting the social institution of kisaeng and the customary practice of acquiring a chop (concubine). The masculinists upheld the double standard for sexual behavior of men and women by classifying women into two types according to the main functions of their sexuality: women to marry for procreation and women to hire for recreation. The custom helped to further discriminate women according to their marital status. While married women as mothers and wives were accorded due respect for their contributions to the family life, unmarried women working as professional entertainers were social outcastes and were commodified as sexual playthings. Even when a kisaeng was taken as a concubine of a yangban (upper-class) man, she suffered legal and customary discrimination as a secondary wife. She could not participate in any formal events of the family. Her children were labeled as soja (illegitimate offspring) in contrast to the chokcha ('legitimate children' born of the lawful wife).
Typically, men in traditional Korea, especially those belonging to upper classes and working for the government engaged in recreational sex supported by the state-run system of kisaeng and the customary practice of concubinage. Traditionally, the masculinist sexual culture in Korean society rigidly controlled women's sexuality by means of the cult of female virginity/chastity while it condoned, if not encouraged, sexual freedom for unmarried men and generally overlooked infidelity of married men. As mentioned earlier, unmarried women were expected to maintain their virginity until marriage and widows, especially of the upper classes, were prohibited from re-marrying. Regardless of the individual circumstances, women who lost their chastity were considered sullied, made to feel ashamed, and likely to be ostracized by their own families. In this cultural context, many women committed suicide after being raped or in order to avoid being raped during the two Japanese invasions of Korea in the late 16th century. Their deaths were recognized as honorable deeds of yollyo (virtuous women), whose families were honored by royal commendations.(14)
Last May, Fred Varcoe, veteran sports editor of the Japan Times, was in full swing preparing for the World Cup finals when he was suddenly given an ultimatum: "Either resign or you're fired." on the eve of the tournament, he was given his marching orders as a result of a report that appeared in another country, another language and another medium.
Fred had probably never heard of OhmyNews until the influential South Korean online news site brought about his downfall with a withering criticism of one of the World Cup preview stories that he had written for the Japan Times. That story - an introduction to Seoul - began with Fred reminiscing about being propositioned by a prostitute during his first visit to the South Korean capital. Fred's Korean wife received email death threats and the South Korean embassy in Tokyo twice visited the Japan Times to demand action.
the Japan Times - whose publisher, Toshiaki Ogasawara, has business interests in Korea - decided its sports editor must go. Days before the opening game, the paper withdrew his tournament accreditation. He refused to resign and was fired on July 4 for, among other reasons, "insulting the honour of Korean women".
I am a Chinese and I will never forget what Japs(倭奴) to their father Chinese (大唐后裔). If any jap or anybody wants to contact me, here is my MSN: [email protected]
Japs r shortlegsmalleyed pigs who crave some more Abombs dropped on their bitchasses. Japs shouldnt fuck history, but instead take some 天蝗's shit from 靖狗神廁 and shove it up their asses.
The Sins of 2002 Cast Shadow on Aussie Loss The seed for Australia's 1-0 World Cup defeat by Italy on Monday on a blatantly incorrect penalty kick awarded by Spanish referee Luis Medina Cantalejo in the final seconds was sown in South Korea four years ago.
Anyone with any suspicion of just how things are manipulated at soccer's highest level, including the outcome of games, needs only to look back to 2002. That's when Italy was robbed blind in a 2-1 overtime loss to South Korea in a second-round World Cup game that was atrociously refereed by Ecuador's Byron Moreno. The South American was so bad that Italians named a row of public toilets after him in Sicily.
Given the massive public support for the team, keeping South Korea alive as long as possible was very much in FIFA's interests. So Italy paid the price. This time around, the price has been paid back.
Things are all square with Italy. Australia will get the makeup call next time around, at South Africa in 2010, assuming it qualifies. That's how it works.
Australia's coach is Guus Hiddink. He was on the other side of the "conspiracy" in 2002. Back then, he was South Korea's coach when Italy was stiffed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5125016.stm A Chinese TV football commentator has apologised for on-air remarks made during the World Cup match between Italy and Australia earlier this week. Huang Jianxiang lost his cool when Italy knocked Australia out of the World Cup with an injury-time goal.
Shouting support for Italy, he made comments such as "I hate Australia" in a rant which lasted several minutes.
The Metropolitan Police Department said those arrested were Choi Gi Ho, 54, a South Korean national, Li Yong, 29, a Chinese, and Kaneo Ito, 49, a Japanese.←こいつ帰化チョンだろ?
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-sistercity28jun28,1,7638254.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california In Irvine, Taiwanese Miffed Over Sister City Deal About 200 protest at City Hall over agreements with China that smother the city's relations with Taiwan. About 200 people waved U.S. flags outside Irvine City Hall on Tuesday, demanding that the City Council unwind its sister city agreements with China, which the protesters said snubbed their homeland, Taiwan. In those agreements, Mayor Beth Krom pledged that the city would recognize the claim of the People's Republic of China as the legitimate government of the island. A separate memo signed by Valerie Larenne, a city staffer who coordinates the sister city program, went even further, promising that Irvine would no longer send official delegations to the island, nor play the Taiwanese national anthem or display its flag.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_178225129.html Irvine Mayor Apologizes To Taiwan Over China Pact Jun 27, 2006 The mayor of Irvine apologized this week to Taiwanese officials after a city staffer signed an agreement with China last month formally disavowing the existence of the island nation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/washington/29memo.html Back in 2001, when both were newcomers to their jobs, President Bush and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan bonded by tossing around a baseball at Camp David. Now that Mr. Koizumi, a huge Elvis Presley fan, is on his way out of office, Mr. Bush is giving him the ultimate going-away gift: a private presidential tour of Graceland. But the trip is about more than just two aging rock 'n' roll fans on a road trip to see the Jungle Room. It is a way for Mr. Bush to thank the Japanese prime minister for sticking by the United States on the war with Iraq and, more broadly, it is a case study of Mr. Bush's own brand of diplomacy, one that relies on personal chemistry and perks.
From invitations to his ranch in Crawford, Tex., to mountain biking trips at Camp David like the one he took this month with the prime minister of Denmark, *Mr. Bush showers the trappings of his office on leaders he likes, and withholds them from those he does not.
"Bush likes to reward his friends who take risks," said Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary. "People say he's loyal to a fault with his staff. He's also loyal with foreign leaders who are loyal to him." But personal diplomacy has its downside; as every schoolchild knows, friendships falter when friends move away. That is the case for Mr. Bush. Many of the foreign leaders to whom he is closest, like Mr. Koizumi and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, are either exiting the world stage or already gone, leaving a president who seemed isolated in his first term even more so in his second. "It's the intangibles," said Dan Bartlett, a longtime adviser to Mr. Bush. "How a person reacts in a tough climate." Mr. Koizumi, by contrast, is just plain fun, which is one reason Mr. Bush likes him so much. Mr. Bartlett put it this way: "I think he just gets a total kick out of the guy." Aside from idolizing Elvis — the Japanese prime minister shares both a birthday, Jan. 8, and a hairstyle with the King of Rock 'n' Roll — Mr. Koizumi is also a fan of baseball, which automatically puts him in good stead with Mr. Bush, a former part-owner of the Texas Rangers. He also likes old Gary Cooper movies; when the two leaders met for the first time in Washington, Mr. Bush gave Mr. Koizumi a Gary Cooper poster.
In 2003, during a stop in Tokyo, Mr. Koizumi reciprocated with a Japanese robotic dog. "Koizumi was decisive and shared many elements of the president's vision for the international system, recognizing early on his own that the war on terror was a war on terror, not a police action that would be over soon," said Michael Green, an Asia expert and former foreign policy adviser to Mr. Bush. "But on top of that, Koizumi's got a sparkle that is unique, and that has really added to the chemistry between them." So far as White House aides can remember, the Graceland trip is the first time Mr. Bush has taken a foreign leader to visit an American tourist site outside of Washington The visit is generating intense news interest in both countries, said Mr. Green, the former foreign policy adviser. "For a president who is serious about the U.S.-Japanese alliance this is an unconventional but very effective way to demonstrate to the Japanese people how important Japan is to us," he said. "It's the ultimate summit-slash-road trip."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/weekinreview/25onishi.html In fact, on Thursday, South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun said that his country must strengthen its military deterrence, not against the North, but against Japan, because of a worsening territorial dispute.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4679/937/ 19 June 2006 PayPal phishing flaw endangers users finances The PayPal flaw enabled cyber-crooks to actually host a modified page on the PayPal site which directed users to a bad website hosted on a server in Korea. The scam lulled users into a false sense of security because they were visiting a real PayPal encrypted page before being redirected to the criminal site in Korea. Once they landed on the Korean site, users were then presented with a fake PayPal log-in page asking for their personal details.
The fact that scam was discovered on one of the world's biggest and widely respected e-commerce sites has raised concerns that even trusted and supposedly secure websites are vulnerable to criminal cyber attacks which could compromise the security of their users.
While the president and prime minister were inside, Elvis impersonators entertained the crowd across the street from Graceland by singing "Don't be Cruel to a Whale That's True."
"We live in a strange world when Elvis can get a message across, but it's a serious message," said Greg Wetstone, director of U.S. operations for the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
The group says more than 1,000 whales are killed each year as part of a Japanese government-run scientific program and then sells the whale meat to restaurants and markets.
The world leaders were greeted by anti- whaling protesters from IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare -- http://www.ifaw.org ), an inflatable dancing whale, and a bevy of Elvis impersonators crooning an adapted version of Presley's hit song "Don't Be Cruel." IFAW is calling on Koizumi to end Japan's controversial whaling activities. The song "Don't Be Cruel" has been rewritten with the lyrics:
Don't Be Cruel – to Whales You know I won't be found, Swimming in the deep blue sea, The Japanese are coming 'round, They're going to harpoon me. Don't be cruel to a whale that's true. Baby, it makes me sad My blubber's not so tasty Why treat whales so bad? To risk extinction is crazy Don't be cruel ... To a whale that's true. Please don't kill for blubber Baby it's the planet I'm ... thinking of http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=68650
UN elects new human rights body 9 May 2006 'Bad joke' The US-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch had urged the UN not to elect China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia and Saudi Arabia onto the new council. However, a spokesman for the group told the BBC that they had expected most of those five to win places because of their political power. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4754169.stm
http://tmp6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/asia/1144927388/ http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/11/skorea.ward/ http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/steelers/2006-04-09-ward-focus_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA 米プロフットボール(NFL)のスーパーボウルでMVPを獲得した韓国人の母と米国人の 父を持つハインズ・ワード選手が、二十九年ぶりに韓国に帰国し、200人の記者を集めた ロッテホテルでの会見で、韓国での激しい人種差別から逃れる為に私の母親は渡米した、 私の力で韓国の人種差別を改善したい」と語った。 血統を重んじる韓国の社会では、他人種や混血児は激しい人種差別をされる境遇に置かれている。 特にアメリカ人とのハーフは、米軍基地周辺の売春宿と結び付けられ、子供達は学校で 厳しい虐めにあい、9.4%の生徒が小学校を辞め、17.5%の生徒が中学校を辞めてしまう。 米国の一大イベントでMVPを獲得したハインズ・ワードさんは、一泊75万円のロッテホテルの スイートルームに宿泊し、大統領に会ったり、ソウル市の名誉市民に認定されたり、100人以上の 記者に追われるというVIPな待遇をされているが、ハインズ・ワードさんを産んだ頃韓国社会での 激しい差別にあっている母親の金さんは、「スーパーボールでMVPを獲ったからヒーロー扱い されているだけで、混血児として帰国していたら激しい差別にあうのであろう」と戸惑いを隠せなかった。 Wednesday, April 12, 2006 CNN 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. "My mom is still leery: 'Is it because he's MVP, or do you really accept him?' "
Seoul now says Korean soldiers war victims 06/21/2006 BY HIROSHI MATSUBARA, STAFF WRITER
In a first step toward righting old wrongs, the South Korean government on Tuesday recognized six Korean residents of Japan as "victims of forced mobilization," along with 13 others given the recognition posthumously.
They are among thousands of Koreans who were drafted to serve in the Japanese military during World War II. After the war, many were imprisoned as war criminals. Nearly two dozen were executed. --- Seoul estimates that about 3,200 Koreans were drafted in 1942, mainly to guard Allied POWs at camps in Southeast Asia.
A total of 148 Koreans in the military were found guilty by the Allied powers of abusing POWs and other charges. They were branded Class-B and -C war criminals, and 23 were executed by hanging.
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Crisscross announces launch of Metropolis Podcast The Metropolis Podcast is a 30-minute program available each Thursday evening from the Metropolis website (www.metropolis.co.jp/podcast ) or from Apple Computer's popular iTunes software (www.apple.com/itunes). It includes an audio version of the magazine's weekly contents, including event listings, celebrity interviews, restaurant and bar news, and information on what's happening in Tokyo and Japan.
Newsweek International May 15-22, 2006 issue - For the past 13 years, Scotsman Mark Devlin has been building up a miniature publishing empire targeting English-speaking foreigners in Tokyo. His flagship has been Metropolis, an 80-page glossy magazine that delivers its menu of program listings, stories about life in the city and ads to some 67,000 readers each week. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12652857/site/newsweek/
“Don’t Feed the Animals”: How to Begin Dealing with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il J. Peter Pham, Ph.D. First, strict segregation is employed; the animals aren’t permitted to roam freely among the humans. The greatest danger represented by the DPRK’s missile program is proliferation whether to terrorist groups or other internationally troublesome regimes like that of the Islamic Republic of Iran (the technical affinities between Iranian Shehab-5 and Shehab-6 missiles and the North Korean Taepodong betray the ties between Pyongyang and Tehran). Nor is the question of proliferation speculative: we now know that the two tons of enriched uranium that Libya surrendered came from North Korea and not from the A.Q. Khan network in Pakistan as previously thought. The U.S. must seek a regimen of strict inspections of every plane, train, and boat headed to or from North Korea. Pyongyang might not like it, but since its economy is wholly dependent upon external life support, it has little choice. And while Beijing and Seoul might also look askance, their national interests will dictate that they go along if only to avoid stronger action.
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N. Korea missile aimed at area off Hawaii - report TOKYO (Reuters) - A North Korean missile launched on Wednesday was aimed at an area of the ocean close to Hawaii, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday.
Experts estimated the Taepodong-2 ballistic missile to have a range of up to 6,000 km, putting Alaska within its reach. Wednesday's launch apparently failed shortly after take-off and the missile landed in the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan, a few hundred kilometres from the launch pad.
But data from U.S. and Japanese Aegis radar-equipped destroyers and surveillance aircraft on the missile's angle of take-off and altitude indicated that it was heading for waters near Hawaii, the Sankei Shimbun reported, citing multiple sources in the United States and Japan.
North Korea may have targeted Hawaii to show the United States that it was capable of landing a missile there, or because it is home to the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific fleet, the paper said.
An alternative explanation might be that a missile could accidentally hit land if fired towards Alaska, the report said.
A separate report in the Mainichi Shimbun daily cited U.S. and Japanese government officials as saying a piece of the Taepodong-2 missile fell off immediately after take-off, strengthening the view that the launch was a failure.
S Korea scraps whale meat factory plan Greenpeace has criticised Korea's policy on whales, saying the country took 84 whales last year under its so-called accidental catch laws which allow whales accidentally caught to be carved up for human consumption.
The large bycatch was up to 100 times higher than nations that did not have a whale meat trade, Greenpeace said.
>>893 Gansu police discover remains of cooked children
Lanzhou (AsiaNews) ? Police from the northern province of Gansu have found two cooked human arms, presumed to have belonged to children aged between five to eight years, in a Lanzhou landfill. A week ago, 121 human skulls were discovered in the same province. The news was reported by the South China Morning Post, citing local sources and media.
Staff at Chengguan district's Yangwagou landfill found the arms along with other remains in a white plastic bag on the morning of Monday 3 March. A local journalist said they appeared to have been “mixed” with cooking ingredients, including ginger and chilli. "The arms clearly belonged to a child and had the upper arm and forearm, and the hands with nails," the reporter said.
Dear Mrs. Budd. In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the Steamer Tacoma, Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong, China. On arriving there he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned the boat was gone. At that time there was famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1-3 per pound. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold for food in order to keep others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could go in any shop and ask for steak?chops?or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it. A boy or girl's behind which is the sweetest part of the body and sold as veal cutlet brought the highest price.
By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Sat Jul 8, 8:23 PM ET
GYEONGJU, South Korea - With royal tombs and a history dating back 1,000 years to the Shilla Kingdom, Gyeongju is a cradle of Korean civilization. But it's about to get a tomb of a different type.
A hillside bunker overlooking the Sea of Japan is to become one of Asia's first permanent nuclear dump sites, ending South Korea's 19-year quest to deal with low- and medium-level waste such as contaminated clothing and old parts from its 20 nuclear power plants.
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060709_1.htm Early this morning, the Netease game "The Fantasy of the Journey West," there was a mob scene of cursing players at the area known as "Jianye city government office." The reason was that this Tang dynasty "government office" had a background that looked like a "Rising Sun."
At around 1am, the reporter found a screen capture of the game in which there was a white screen at the back of the government office. In the middle, there was a red sun from which light rays emanated, such that it resembled a Japanese flag. According to Mr. Guo, a Beijing game player, someone noticed this "Rising Sun flag" about three days ago. The news spread quickly on the Internet the next day. Almost 10,000 game players from around the nation gathtered there to express their dissatisfaction or anger. Yesterday morning, the curses reached a climax. The reporter visited the game area known as Summer Palace and saw the place filled with the IDs of all the dissatisfied game players.
Flat panel maker LG Philips LCD said on July 11 that the Dutch-Korean joint venture suffered its worst performance ever in the second quarter of this year due to price cutting, increased inventories, and overcapacity. The world's second-largest flat panel maker also blamed slow demand for televisions during the period, with the World Cup failing to offer a boost as had been expected.
The company suffered a net loss of 322 billion won ($340 million) in the April-June period, compared with a profit of 29 billion won a year earlier. Sales stood at 2.315 trillion won, down 6 percent from the previous quarter and down 0.3 percent from a year ago. It had an operating loss of 372 billion, compared with a profit of $29 billion in the 2005 period. "The World Cup failed to boost demand for TVs as had been expected," LG Philips spokesperson Sue Kim said.
Poison fears prompt Coke recall More than a million bottles of Coca-Cola and other drinks have been recalled in South Korea amid fears that some have been deliberately poisoned.
Traces of poison have been found in three bottles, and police have arrested a woman in connection with the case.
She is alleged to have posted messages on the company's website threatening action unless she was paid 2bn won ($2m; £1.08m).
The firm said the recall was limited to areas around the cities of Gwangju, Hwasun and Damyang.
A second woman arrested in the April raids of 10 city massage parlors pleaded guilty Friday to prostitution.
Sol Mi Park, 31, of Bayside, N.Y., received a one-year suspended sentence in Waterbury Superior Court.
Park was one of 22 two women arrested on prostitution-related charges during the raids. Eight other women were charged with interfering with police during searches. Most said they spoke only Korean.
A 47-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after an attack on a seven-year-old boy and his mother at their home in Sydney's inner-west.
The boy suffered serious head injuries in the attack in The Boulevard at Strathfield on Thursday and remains in a critical but stable condition at The Children's Hospital in Westmead.
An arrest warrant was issued on Friday for Korean national Kyung Keun Son, 47, on two counts of attempted murder over the incident.
In the United States, two women have pleaded guilty and forfeited more than a million dollars earned on the backs of Korean women working in San Francisco brothels.
Ten people have now pleaded guilty in connection with what the US Attorney's Office calls "Operation Gilded Cage."
Prosecutors alleged the operators of a brothel in downtown San Francisco staffed it with Korean illegal migrants indebted to brokers that smuggled the women to the city, for more than a decade.
Uri Bigwig Asks U.S. to Atone for Korean Division in FTA
The chairman of a National Assembly oversight committee on Monday night stirred up a demure Korea-U.S. party in Seoul by linking tariffs on goods from an inter-Korean joint venture to America’s role in dividing the two Koreas.
Kim Won-wung, who is a Uri Party lawmaker, said the demand to include goods from the Kaesong Industrial Complex north of the border in a free trade pact with Washington “has something to do with the U.S. paying the historic debt it owes over the division.”
“If the two Koreas hadn’t been divided, the Korean War would not have occurred, which in turn would have eliminated the need to create the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the first place,” Kim told startled guests at the party marking the second round of bilateral FTA negotiations at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul on Monday evening.
Kim expressed hope to see U.S. companies operate in the Kaesong complex “and Americans buy affordable quality products produced in the North Korean complex.” That, he said, would help the U.S. “to repay its historic debt it owes for dividing the two Koreas and help South Koreans see genuine will in the U.S. to establish peace on the Korean Peninsula.”
Kim told reporters by phone on Tuesday his remarks were intended to stress that the Kaesong Industrial Complex “plays an important role in unifying the two Koreas, and the U.S., one of the powers that divided the two, needs to offer assistance to the North Korean complex.” After liberation from Japanese rule in 1945, Korea was divided by the Allies roughly along the current border, with the South put under U.S. administration.
Sung Koo Kim Sentenced to 65 Months For Panty Theft
(HILLSBORO a?“ AP) - A convicted panty thief has been sentenced to more than five years in jail in Washington County. Sung Koo Kim is already serving more than four years in Yamhill County - and still faces charges in Multnomah and Benton counties. According to testimony at his trial in Washington County, Kim began stealing women's underwear when he was 17 and had collected about 34-hundred pairs by the time he was arrested in May 2004. http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june92006/Kim_Sentence_6706.php
State Dept. Probes Computer Attacks By Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 12, 2006; Page A06
Hackers in China broke into the State Department's computer system in Washington and overseas insearch of information, passwords and other data, the department said yesterday. The bureau that deals with China and North Korea was hit particularly hard, although the system penetrated contained unclassified information, U.S. officials said. "The department did detect anomalies in network traffic, and we feel it prudent to take measures to ensure our system's integrity," said deputy spokesman Tom Casey. "I can confirm this is not a virus. The department is continuing an investigation into the incident."
The break-in represented a "concerted effort" from hackers in East Asia to penetrate the State Department and seize data, a senior official said. But no large-scale thefts have yet been detected.
The United States is not certain whether the hackers were government or individuals, although computer traffic in China is heavily controlled and monitored by the government and can be censored. China is also a leading suspect in a computer break-ins at the Pentagon and a variety of government agencies last year. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071101032.html
Supporters Seek Release of Vietnamese Activist July 13, 2006 Leader of an O.C.-based anticommunist group is being held in S. Korea, awaiting extradition to Vietnam, which wants to try him as a terrorist.
For months they have rallied in the streets of Little Saigon and outside the South Korean consulate in Los Angeles, pleading for the release of an anticommunist leader they insist has wrongly been branded a terrorist. Chanh Huu Nguyen, 57, a one-time construction engineer who spearheads the Garden Grove-based Government of Free Vietnam organization, has been detained in Seoul since April. He was being held at the request of the Vietnamese government, which wants him extradited so that he can be tried for terrorist acts, including failed plots to bomb Vietnamese embassies in the Philippines and Thailand. But where the communist country sees a terrorist, hundreds of supporters in the United States' largest Vietnamese enclave see a freedom fighter. They have held vigils, hunger strikes and rallies. They have sent signed petitions asking the United States, South Korea and the United Nations to intervene.
LONDON [MENL] -- Iranian military representatives were said to have attended North Korea's Taepo Dong-2 missile launch.
At least 10 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attended the Taepo Dong-2 intermediate missile launch. South Korea's official Yonhap news agency said the IRGC personnel were senior engineers who sought to learn from Pyongyang's missile program.
Yonhap reported on July 1 that the IRGC engineers participated in the preparation for the Taepo Dong launch. The news agency said the IRGC has been examining Chinese-origin missile technology for Iranian procurement.
South Korean sources said Iran and North Korea could be planning a project for the joint development of new liquid missile propellant. Yonhap quoted the sources as saying that the propellant could be used for both Iranian and North Korean missiles.
[Exclusive] President lobs informal criticism at U.S. : International : Home http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/141578.html >Referring to U.S. sanctions in response to allegations of dollar counterfeiting >by the North, President Roh said he “is reminded of the [pre-modern] practice of ,” >beheading an accused criminal before sending his case to the king. He compared >the allegations, made in early fall 2005, to “demanding to see [the North’s] account books >without first showing the evidence” of its alleged counterfeiting activities.
the United Nations Security Council today demanded that the country suspend all related activities and required States to prevent the import or export of funds or goods that could fuel Pyongyang's missile or weapons of mass destruction programmes. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19211&Cr=Korea&Cr1=
The Council required all Member States, “in accordance with their national legal authorities and legislation and consistent with international law,” to exercise vigilance and prevent missile and missile-related items, materials, goods and technology being transferred to DPRK's missile or WMD programmes.
States were also required to exercise vigilance and prevent the procurement of missiles or missile related-items, materials, goods and technology from the country, **as well as the transfer of any financial resources in relation to its missile or WMD programmes.
Japan has long been North Korea's shopping mall of choice when it comes to military components. It has the advantages of proximity, advanced technology and a large population of ethnic Koreans, many with family ties to the North or to the pro-Pyongyang General Assn. of Korean Residents in Japan.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, who has tussled with the North before, could not resist a response to Pak, and requested the floor after the North Korean left the council chamber.
"This has been a historic day ? not only have we unanimously adopted resolution 1695, but North Korea has set a world record in rejecting it within 45 minutes after its adoption," he said. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4049712.html
>>975 Currently several Korean organizations such as VANK are promoting a mass movement to change the international name of the marginal sea between Japan and Korea from the longstanding "Sea of Japan" to "East Sea," the latter of which the Korean side claims to be the legitimate name of the marginal sea.
Please refer to the following link. This is a movie created by Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It gives a nice concise explanation on the issue.
Also, there is arising another movement in Korea to promote the name of "Korean Sea" in the case that "East Sea" will not be adopted as the international name of the marginal sea. We believe that such an inconsistent attitude of the Korean side only causes confusion. Please reconsider which name is more appropriate for the international name of the marginal sea.
Man wanted over attempted murder 07jul06 AN arrest warrant has been issued for a Korean man wanted over the attempted murder of a seven-year-old boy at his Sydney home. Kyung Keun Son, 47, was wanted on two counts of attempted murder over the attack in Strathfield yesterday afternoon, police said. The boy suffered serious head injuries and remained in a critical but stable condition at Westmead Children's Hospital today. His 43-year-old mother, who suffered injuries to her arm and face, was at the boy's bedside. Son is described as being of Asian appearance, 170cm tall, of medium to large build, with a chubby face and short, white hair. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19714561%255E1702,00.html
Korean-run local brew ‘factory’ found; Hospital supervisor caught selling abortion pills for KD 40 each
Liquor factory found: Police have arrested three Koreans for manufacturing and trading in locally made alcohol, reports Al-Rai Al-Aam daily. The daily quoting a security source said a police patrol saw a Korean man carrying a carton. However, when he saw the police, he abandoned the carton and escaped in a building under construction. Police took possession of the carton which contained seven bottles of locally made brew and went looking for the man. When the police entered the building they found no one.
chihiro RE: TOKYO Rendevous FIVE! - 7/15/2006 4:16:31 PM
Okay due to unforseen circumstances, I cannot attend tonight. Boo! I have to go to the sea tonight at 7...its too bad, I wanted to see the dudes I saw last time before going back to Boston, as well as the ones I never met. Oh well, have fun though
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/56732fa8-14fe-11db-b391-0000779e2340.html N Korea threatens to bolster war deterrent Financial Times, UK Jul 16, 2006 North Korea threatened on Sunday to “bolster its war deterrent” in response to UN-agreed sanctions to curb its missile programme, but the US and China told Pyongyang it faced no option but to return to talks. Pyongyang had re-sponded angrily to the UN decision, saying it would not be “bound to it in the least”, and asserting that “the vicious hostile policy of the US towards [North Korea] and the irresponsibility of the UN Security Council have created an extremely dangerous situation on the Korean peninsula”, according to the state news agency, quoting a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman. “Our republic will bolster its war deterrent for self-defence in every way, by all means and methods now that the situation has reach-ed the worst phase due to the extremely hostile act of the US.”
Japan's government said it aimed to adopt measures to restrict the transfer of funds to North Korea. Tokyo has a foreign exchange restriction law, but until now the cabinet had made no decision to implement it.
The flow of funds from Japan to North Korea is thought to have dwindled considerably over recent years, and Tokyo's banning of the ferry service to North Korea, after its recent missile tests, has further cut off opportunities for Korean residents in Japan to carry suitcases of cash there.
**Other transfers are made by companies through banks in Hong Kong, Macao and Switzerland, including owners of pachinko (pinball) parlours, many of whom are of Korean descent.
Japanese banks with links to the Macao-based Banco Delta Asia, which has been the target of US sanctions, have already voluntarily suspended transactions.
Visitors to Kyoto have two choices: succumb to a monumental depression or avert the eyes. The only way to love the place is to hop from one exquisite pocket to the next, seeking gardens so sublime they stun, approaching temples so gorgeous that nothing else matters, and then deliberately blanking out what's in between. Everyone does it, Japanese included.
"The unseen for us does not exist," wrote Junichiro Tanizaki in his 1933 essay on architecture, In Praise of Shadows.
Fortunately for Tanizaki, he lived before the arrival of Kyoto's latest main street blight, the pachinko parlour, a variation on poker machine gaming. In pachinko, the players are paid out in buckets of silver ball bearings that they trade for cash at the end of a session. Though it is no worse than any other form of daylight robbery, pachinko takes a murderous toll on peace and quiet. Win or lose, the parlours sound like a metal hailstorm in a tin shed against an exploding soundtrack of techno pop. At a World Heritage site!
It is a shock to depart Tokyo in a sleek, white bullet train on a search for the real Japan and arrive in Kyoto to find that
>>985 I would like to share a strange experience that I had a few weeks ago in France.
I was at the Japan Expo, the gathering for French Japanese anime lovers. There were ten Japanese artists invited to the Expo as guests. The ceremony went on nicely and smoothly though all the sudden, eleven uninvited Korean anime authors, inclding one who deals with anti-Japan social theme, stormed in. They called themselves as official guests and took over the place.
French fans must have felt like being robbed: It must have been like being told to, or even forced to, try some Korean food such as Kimichi and Purukogi while visiting a Sushi bar.
Not only that. Those eleven retards got excited or something and later on started yelling something like "Change the title from 'Japan Expo' to 'Korea & Japan Expo'!" and "This is our Expo!".
At the end of the ceremony, I had nothing to say but "They have to grow up".
A Korean woman who admitted making illegal immigrant women pay off their smuggling debt through prostitution was sentenced today to 10 years in prison.
Mi Na Malcolm, known as Sora, also was ordered to pay a $460,000 fine. She must forfeit a 2006 BMW, a 2004 Lexus, more than $218,900 in cash and electronic equipment, U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper said.