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Thank you for your reply. But the problem is not only sea of Japan naming dispute. Korean Government and Korean people falsify and exaggerate their own history. The Sea of Japan naming dispute is one of their falsification and exaggeration.
VANCOUVER -- RCMP say U.S. and Canadian police have arrested 30 people in connection with separate human and drug smuggling attempts between the two countries in southeastern British Columbia in the last month.
The next day, 13 people -- 10 of them Korean nationals -- were arrested in an alleged human smuggling attempt. Police believe six of the 10 were destined for involvement in the Los Angeles sex trade industry.
And, on June 13, two men were arrested and 28 kilograms of cocaine was seized.
Foreign workers tell of exploitation by business Wednesday, 19 July , 2006
The two men, one in the country lawfully, one illegally, worked for Sydney's Kyo Group. One worker alleges he was kidnapped and beaten when he asked his employer for assistance.
Their plight has shed light on the problems that often face more than 100 000 illegal and guest workers in Australia.
Jae Sik Kim is a South Korean national and until recently, an illegal worker.
When I lived in Tokyo during the Olympics, it was rumored that prostitutes (mainly indigent girls held in debt bondage) were given as 'gifts' by the Japanese government to athletes. Shades of the Korean Comfort Women.
North Korea's government is even less worthy of legitimization, to say nothing of underwriting, than Mafia and other criminal organizations in the United States. It is, after all, guilty of a monstrous crime surpassed by few others in human history (i.e., the genocides perpetrated by Nazi Germany, Stalin’s U.S.S.R. and Mao’s PRC): the deliberate death by starvation to which some 2.5 million North Koreans have been subjected by Kim Jong Il.
This episode offers an insight into other courses of action that might now be adopted by the United States and Japan - the only other of the so-called “six parties” seemingly willing to address what the government of North Korea is doing to the neighborhood, and beyond. It is time to come to grips with Pyongyang’s “broken windows”; the object should be to put Kim Jong Il’s criminal enterprise out of business.
Toward that end, Japan should be encouraged to: cut off remittances from Korean exiles (worth by some estimates as much as $1 billion per year); prevent the repatriation of proceeds from North Korean-operated “pachinko” gambling parlors; and refuse to bail out a dozen-or-so North Korean-associated savings-and-loan institutions in Japan that have reportedly run up $7 billion in bad loans.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/56732fa8-14fe-11db-b391-0000779e2340.html 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.
This shameless pandering to the right outrages China and other victims of Japanese imperialism and makes many Japanese fear that Mr. Koizumi is embracing the old militarism. Yet Mr. Koizumi is believed to be planning another of these visits to Yasukuni Shrine before he steps down in September. And his likely successor, Shinzo Abe, has said he would do the same. (Mr. Abe also recently suggested that Japan should attack North Korea’s missiles on the launch pad.)
This week, a Japanese newspaper added to the national anxiety over this issue by publishing portions of a diary of a former member of the imperial household. He revealed that Hirohito, the emperor who led Japan into a Nazi alliance and a drive to rule Asia, stopped going to the shrine in 1978 after it added the war criminals to the list of thousands of souls lost in Japan’s wars. “This is from my heart,” Hirohito was quoted as saying.
One would think this would have some effect on Mr. Koizumi and his supporters. But he told reporters dismissively that “everyone has their own feelings” and that the emperor’s remorse would have no effect on him.
The emperor almost certainly committed war crimes himself, which were ignored only because of the exigencies of the postwar era. But apparently this elderly product of an imperial age had more room in his heart for doing the right thing than a self-styled modern reformer, international leader and Elvis lover.
jxelassx 9. Speaking Up against Rabid Racism in Japan 8. When Japanese are "Gaijin" (Foreigners) 7. Fixing Japanese Education not Impossible 6. Speaking Up Against Antiquated Sexism in Japan 5. Mr. Koizumi: Prime Minister of Japan (Weirdo!) 4. Marriages & Families for Thought 3. 90% of Japanese Culture is from China... 2. Limiting Foreigners: Japanese Leaders are Racist and "Brainless" 1. SOS-RACISM (Blasian Kids)
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/131818.asp A Chinese woman who contracted AIDS from a hospital blood transfusion was detained on suspicion of a serious crime after she asked the health ministry for more compensation, an activist said.
War and an unlikely hero: Schindler of Nanjing He was a Nazi who saved 250,000 as Japanese troops ravaged China's capital in 1937. Now the story of John Rabe is to be made into a Hollywood movie. Clifford Coonan reports His story is soon to be turned into a Hollywood movie. And Nanjing University is turning Rabe's house into a memorial, with support from his former employer Siemens. It is due to open next month.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search=nankin&search_type=search_videos The Truth of The Nanjing of 1937.12 - 1938.2 (4) A state of Nanjing after the battle Don't trust speech and historian under a communism dictatorial regime This movie proves what there was really in Nanjing A commoner does not know a fact that world many historians recognize Nanjing Massacre as forgery John Rabe told a lie for profit of own company and H.J.Timperley got a reward from the Kuomi A state of Nanjing after the battle Don't trust speech and historian under a communism dictatorial regime This movie proves what there was really in Nanjing A commoner does not know a fact that world many historians recognize Nanjing Massacre as forgery John Rabe told a lie for profit of own company and H.J.Timperley got a reward from the Kuomintang propaganda department A thing considered to be evidence of Nanjing Massacre is only the forgery photograph which feigned slaughter of the Chinese armed forces to be an act of Japan force by a Chinese publicity department and the testimony that are not proved The Chinese slaughtered a citizen of millions of own countries in history What are they doing in Tibet and Uygur now? The alleged "Nanking Massacre" http://www.ne.jp/asahi/unko/tamezou/nankin/alleged/
Last night I went out with a friend and my new Busan Oppa (see separate post on him) to see the movie Hanbando I’ll admit, my budding language skills prevented me from understanding all of it but it doesn’t take a genius to recognize certain elements.
In fact, the movie’s opening tells you right away this is going to be a nationalistic one: Images of Dokto protests, footage of the Twin Towers impaled by airplanes, feed used from previous White House statements regarding terrorism, images of George Bush addressing the press, pro-Korean images, pro-reunification propaganda…you name it, it’s all there in the opening segment as they introduce the cast.
A Fiji government taskforce has uncovered a citizenship scam involving mainly Chinese and South Korean investors.
The Fiji Times quotes the taskforce chairman, David Tansey, as saying the scam started after the 2000 coup when government officials were bribed to award investors certificates.
He says they have investigated 100 cases so far and found that many were engaged in illegal activities such as gambling and prostitution.
Their investors certificates have been cancelled and about a dozen have been deported.
It is rare for Japanese leaders to speak so openly about the use of military force, given the bitter memories of Japan’s brutal wartime march through Asia in the 1930's and 1940's and its preemptive strike on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
日通のせいで、日本がアメリカに制裁受けちゃうわなwww US may sanction countries not complying on N. Korea resolution The United States is considering the option of imposing sanctions under its own laws on countries that fail to comply with a U. N. Security Council resolution against North Korea, a senior U. S. administration official said Friday. The resolution, adopted unanimously last Saturday to condemn North Korea for its missile launches on July 5, requires all member states to exercise vigilance to prevent missile and missile-related items, materials, goods and technology from being transferred to the North's programs for missiles and weapons of mass destruction. http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=143518
The Council's unanimous adoption of resolution 1695 came following intensive debate behind closed doors and was immediately hailed by numerous Council members but rejected just as quickly by the DPRK Government.
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.
>>135>>136 REVIEW & OUTLOOK Korean Cash Squeeze July 28, 2006; Page A14 ーーーーkitaーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー We wonder if President Roh wants his legacy to include being Mr. Kim's personal banker.
国技での逮捕キタ━━━━━━(゚∀゚)━━━━━━ !!!!! 性的暴行、DV、火病、放火、テコンドーと、チョンの得意分野が全て揃ってる事件ですwwww 余りにもチョンらしい事件で、腹痛過ぎ! Martial arts expert sentenced in sex assault Korean martial arts expert Kun Mook Lee is facing a prison sentence of between six and 30 years after a jury found him guilty of aggravated criminal sexual assault and unlawful restraint.
Lee, 51, is also awaiting prosecution on charges of arson for setting fire to his Buffalo Grove home, in the 1100 block of Courtland Drive, just before he was arrested last November. Police had to spray Lee with a fire extinguisher before they could subdue him.
At the time, Lee had been on supervision for a prior battery incident involving the woman and he had failed to complete a court-ordered anger management course.
Japan's Invisible Minority: Better Off Than in Past, but Still Outcasts By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF; New York Times (1857-Current file); Nov 30, 1995; pg. A18, 1 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.
noun also Koreatown, little Korea an area in city where there are Korean dog soup and barbecue restaurants, massage parlors and brothels, and where a lot of Korean people, especially people who are illegal immigrants, live separately from the rest of the people in the city.
Korean man excretes 48 wraps cocaine in Nigeria LAGOS (Reuters) - A Korean man has excreted 48 wraps of cocaine, weighing a total of 1.6 kilos (3.5 lbs), since his arrested three days ago at a Nigerian airport, the country's narcotics agency said on Wednesday.
"He is still excreting. It is a scary quantity to swallow," said a spokesman for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
498 名前:マンセー名無しさん 投稿日:2006/08/01(火) 19:37:58 ID:7m9voH10 >>496 「金正日のところに行って、Sea of Japan にミサイルを撃つのを 止めるように頼んで欲しい。・・・・・・・・あ、ゴメン。あなたは South Korea から来たんでしたね、North Korea と勘違い してしまって・・・・」ってな内容。
で、"Sea of Japan" って言葉が出た途端に、ビクッとなって インタビュアーを睨みつけるのが見どころ。
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Japan rivals in row over Yasukuni The front-runner in the race to succeed Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made a secret visit to a controversial war shrine, reports say. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5244792.stm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E0DB123FF93BA15754C0A9609C8B63 July 28, 2006 Visits to Japanese Shrine To the Editor: Re ''In the Hearts of Leaders'' (editorial, July 22): Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan visits Yasukuni Shrine to mourn the war dead, to reflect that today's peace and prosperity are founded on their sacrifices, and to renew his vow for peace. Prime Minister Koizumi is not, as you claim, ''pandering to the right'' or ''embracing the old militarism'' by visiting there. While the government will refrain from commenting on the contents of a private memorandum referred to in the editorial as ''a diary,'' it should be noted that Emperor Showa (Hirohito) pursued world peace consistently and made strenuous efforts to avoid war, as is widely known.
Motoatsu Sakurai Ambassador and Consul General of Japan New York, July 26, 2006
Sebastien Babolat's French Podclass (www.frenchieproductions.com) features music by ノdith Piaf, Jacques Brel and Rita Mitsouko between French lessons. Podasia.net, which covers the Far East, recently showcased a struggling musician and office worker from Japan named Jesushairdo.
Matthew Holden, the 42-year-old host of Podasia.net, started his podcast as a way to share information with fast-paced business travelers.
"For example, getting through the airport as fast as possible is a common need," he said. In a recent post, Mr. Holden gave a sound tour of the Narita International Airport in Tokyo. He also produces sound tours to cultural sites, like the Yasukuni Shrine, a controversial war memorial in Tokyo.
"I've sat in a bus stop during a monsoon with rain falling in buckets all around me," said Mr. Holden, who uses what he calls a "podPouch," consisting of a microphone, a recorder, headphones and a camera to produce the tours.
クリクロのフォーラムのほうにこの記事張ると削除されるぞ。 大使館がまた圧力かけてるのかな。 A Country of Liars by Kim Dae-joong Lying is so common in our society because few recognize that it leads to crime. "What's wrong with telling a little lie?" they think. And here the big problem is that men of power, rather than ordinary citizens, indulge in lying on a massive scale, to the point where it is regarded as a necessary means of survival in some circles. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507030027.html
Japan: Candidate in Secret War Shrine Visit By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: August 5, 2006 Shinzo Abe, the front-runner in the race to become the next prime minister, visited the Yasukuni Shrine war memorial in April, according to Japanese news reports.
Mr. Abe, the chief cabinet secretary and a right-wing nationalist who is expected to succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi when he retires next month, refused to confirm news of his visit, which was reported by all the major news media.
The reports of the visit drew criticism from South Korean and Chinese officials, who regard the shrine, where Class A war criminals are deified, as a symbol of Japanese militarism.
エントリー内のリンク先はこのレス >254 名無しさん@英語勉強中 sage 2006/05/24(水) 13:35:24 >↓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. > >典型的な日本のサヨクのセリフ=無知な欧米人の現代史観ってところか。 >それに、同じ日のエントリーには、日本人なら「ハァ?」というようなところで >儒教精神とか言い出してるし。
そしてこのスレ宛の有難いコメント 2ch, eh? What self-respecting person takes that hellhole of gossip and flamebaits seriously? I've read that thread before (just a little bit), and all I have to say is that promoting hateful nationalism on some fucking English learning board is beyond pathetic. At least try to raise the level of your reading comprehension, suckers!
Knicker thief Sung Koo Kim, 32, who stole more than 3400 pieces of underwear from college dormitories, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in Portland, Oregon, yesterday.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HH05Dg01.html South Korea's growing isolation Aug 4, 2006 South Korea is becoming increasingly marginalized in Northeast Asian policymaking because of the collapse of inter-Korean talks and its growing estrangement from the United States, Japan and China. Washington and Tokyo have regained the initiative and will be able to push a harder line against Pyongyang, while Seoul's engagement policy faces dwindling domestic support. The deterioration of relations with Washington is fueling rumors of additional drawdowns in US troop levels, which could cause public and market trepidation over a perceived degradation in Washington's commitment to South Korea's defense. Chinese and Russian acquiescence to stronger language in United Nations Resolution 1695 than first indicated left South Korea nearly as isolated as Pyongyang. Seoul had expected China and Russia to toe the line against US and Japanese advocacy for restrictions on North Korea's missile and nuclear programs. The Roh administration has frequently lowered the bar for North Korean compliance and maintained deliveries during previous provocations. Seoul provided 500,000 tonnes of food and 350,000 tonnes of fertilizer in 2005 and was expected to provide similar levels this year. It is estimated that during 1995-97 about 1 million to 2 million North Koreans died of starvation and starvation-related diseases out of an overall population of 23 million.
On Hiroshima anniversary, Japan shifts toward militarism Perhaps the most troubling part of Japan's military renaissance is the potential for Japan to become a member of the nuclear club.
Tokyo has plenty of nuclear material and the technology to weaponize it. Japan can reportedly produce an arsenal of nuclear weapons in as little as six months.
If North Korea officially goes nuclear, Japan may well follow, driving a stake through the heart of the non-proliferation regime.
Every year in August, thousands of Japanese and foreign visitors gather in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to mourn the victims of the atomic bombs, decry the nuclear arms race and call for peaceful alternatives to conflict.
Unfortunately, those who commemorate the world's only nuclear attack must now make their voices heard closer to home.
The rising sun appears to be rising again. And that's not good news for world peace.
>>199 http://www.neomarxisme.com/ marxy is w. david marx. marxy is an American living in Tokyo, Japan. marxy's debut album kyoshu nostalgia was released by New York City's Beekeeper Records on January 4th, 2005. marxy wrote, performed, and produced all the songs on the album. marxy plays piano very poorly.marxy writes articles and does translation for magazines such as Tokion, The Fader, Beikoku Ongaku, and OK Fred in his spare time. Here is a list of his published articles. marxy is a Sagittarius of type AB blood, born in the year of the Horse. marxy grew up on Oldies radio, early NES games, the Wonder Years, Laugh-In, Lancelot Link Secret Chimp, cassette tape copies of CDs, cheap electric guitars with poor wiring, chicklets, Montessori education, Tom Lehrer, Milles Bornes, old-style Legos, pleated pants, Teaberry gum, and chocolate milk. marxy does not mind file-sharing as long as the non-paying listener will write an email to the artist telling his/her thoughts about the music. 写真http://www.neomarxisme.com/marxypress.jpg
I am working on my Master's Thesis on media-management company collusion in the Japanese music market and its overall effect on product innovation.
Your house is burning down. What one possession (aside from human/animal life) would you grab on the way out?
All my music and writing and research is on my computer, so I'd take my laptop and external hard drive. Although it'd a lot cooler if I'd answer "my favorite bookmark" or something.
When and how did we meet?
You were my superior at Tokion. We met at the job interview in May 2001.
You grew up in Pensacola, Florida right? How'd you end up in Tokyo?
Pensacola has a "sister city" arrangement with a small town in Japan, and through that connection, I first came to Japan before my senior year of high school. As a kid, I was always really into pop culture - and not just the individual pieces of it, like music, TV, etc., but the idea of "pop culture" itself. So, I was really shocked/pleasantly surprised when I came to Japan to find that there was this whole world of pop culture that vaguely resembled the American version, but was totally different.
After that, I got kind of obsessed with Japan and studied it maniacally in college. I had an internship to work for a publishing company after my freshman year, and I lived in Tokyo for three months in '98. And not only did I discover that everyone in Tokyo was way cooler than me, it seemed that they were way ahead of everywhere else in the world. Capri pants were really big for girls, and dark denim was huge, and lo and behold, the next year America picked up the same things.
So, beyond just an interest in (retrospectively) crappy Japanese pop cult, I saw Tokyo as an unbelievably ultra-trendy hot spot, which I think directly has to deal with the fact that I was from Pensacola, Florida. It's like being not really understanding addition and seeing someone do multiplication: it was just a whole level above what I understood.
I also quickly noticed that there was this huge information gap for info coming out of Japan. Like, A Bathing Ape was everywhere in '98 Tokyo and it had been huge in Japan for a while, but in the West, all the guys who knew about it were all hoarding info on it like it was a “secret.”
And that was generally what it was like: Japan was hot but only a few people were going there or knew about it. Momus wrote a great essay called "Shibuya-kei is Dead" all about 1998 Japan, and he was the only one I could find who really understood what was going on there.
So I just kept researching etc. and doing Japan-related things. And I chose intentionally not to move there after college, because I had a pretty deep complex about "sticking out" (I'm 6'4) and I had a really trying experience working in a very traditional Japanese office in 2000. I lived in New York City instead for two years, and then finally realized that I need to go back and finish up the research I started on Japanese youth consumer culture.
Today, I'm not so enamored with Tokyo as I was, but I still have a pretty deep curiosity about figuring out whatever logic it is that rules Japanese culture.
So what exactly are you doing in Tokyo now? You're making music, writing, and researching. Is there any one thing you want to do full-time?
Officially, I am a graduate student and that pays the bills. When I first got here, I busied myself with other things, but now my head's in books all the time. I need to start doing more for my Master's Thesis, but I'm excited to do that research, so it’s not particularly a drag.
I make music. I put out a CD. I feel stuck in Japan unable to promote it, so I remedy that by making more music. It's a vicious cycle.
I started my blog last October as a lark, and for some inexplicable reason, there are thousands of people who want to read about explanations of Japanese pop culture and industry gossip.
I also do part-time jobs like translating concrete-repair manuals and scientific papers about consolidated carbon-fiber sheeting into English.
Well maybe now you are the voice of the Westerner in Japan. What Momus was to you in the 90s may be who you are to curious people in the 00s. Especially since the distribution of Japanese popular culture has saturated the masses.
I don't think I'm "the Momus" of the 00s when it comes to Japan, because he always has been "selling Japan" to a certain extent. I think he got people (including me to some extent) excited about what was going on there in the late 90s. I am not really selling Japan as much as selling the idea of "understanding Japan." And like with anything, the more you understand it, the less you idealize/worship it.
I also feel the responsibility to correct a lot of the common misconceptions about Japanese pop culture that abound in the Western media. They are slow to the story, and what’s nice about blogs and the Internet, is that we can provide real-time coverage.
I get such a reputation for being a grump or jaded or "disillusioned" or "a bitchy Westerner" when it comes to Japan, but if you want to start being disillusioned about Japan, the only thing you have to do is pull back the curtain and look at the way the cultural industries work here.
Why make music? What do you hope to accomplish from that? The music industry is pretty systematic. You find yourself frustrated with the marketing but you aren't surprised, are you?
This is something I honestly grapple with everyday. I want to make music, but I don't particularly want to sell my music or myself. But here's where they get you: without putting your music on the market for sale, everyone will not accept your music as "real music." The easiest way to legitimize culture - especially those things once considered "pop culture" - is to sell them.
And if someone else wants to go crazy and sell my album, I don't mind so much, but I just don't have the heart to go out and force it on people. If someone wants to buy it, I'm happy about that but I'm much happier when someone listens to it ? regardless of buying it. And I'm sure this all comes off like some pretentious lie - that it's all about the music, man, while I count my earnings - or worse, just an excuse to cover the fact that I’m not selling many records, but honestly, if I could figure out a way to give out my music for free in a way that it would still be up for critical review and treated like a "real release" then I’d do it in a heartbeat.
And that point may come in the near future, but I'm really uncomfortable making myself a commodity, and it may be an inevitable part of life these days, but I feel that at least it may be worth thinking about ways to fight this.
The irony of course is that I study marketing, which I think of as "knowing your enemy". I'm trying to use marketing as a way to think about how markets create culture in our society, not how to sell people things they don’t need.
I Love the Smell of Pulitzers in the Morning August 6th, 2006 An example of this journalistic methodology can be seen in the case of the Bridge at No Gun Ri. In 1999, the Associated Press reported an alleged atrocity covered up since the Korean War, its reporters winning the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism. The story revealed what was no doubt a case of soldiers firing on innocent civilians(<丶`∀´>), though many of the details such as body count are still disputed.
A key witness to the AP story later admitted he wasn't there when presented with his orders that proved he wasn't there. West Point historian, Robert Bateman has provided significant evidence that counters much of the AP research.
The focus of the research was not the act of killing the civilians, as often happens by mistake in war. The main point of the piece is that these soldiers acted under specific orders from the US military to kill innocent civilians, thus demonstrating monstrous intent rather than an understandable yet horrendous mistake. The US Army’s Inspector Generals Office performed an investigation with the South Korean government that was reviewed by independent experts. This report made a final determination: Neither the documentary evidence nor the U.S. veterans' statements reviewed by the U.S. Review Team support a hypothesis of deliberate killing of Korean civilians. What befell civilians in the vicinity of Nogeun-ri in late July 1950 was a tragic and deeply regrettable accompaniment to a war forced upon unprepared U.S. and ROK forces.
Afghans Rally Against Korean ‘Proselytes’ Afghans have taken to the streets against a bizarre “peace march” planned in the devoutly Muslim nation by hundreds of Korean evangelicals as violence continued unabated in the country. It emerged Thursday that an explosive device was recently discovered in the vest of a Korean aid worker. Rumors that Korean prostitutes had entered the country and that the Christian groups were carrying “giant crosses” marching through downtown did little to defuse the situation.
Three kingpins of local Asian brothels are heading to prison for their role in enterprises that brought South Korean sex workers to Dallas from Seoul, Los Angeles and New York, among other locales.
Kyong "Jackie" Roberts, her husband, Sang Hyun Cho, and Mi Na Malcolm were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 30 months to 10 years in federal hearings Monday and Tuesday.
これ昨日観たけど、 警察も国防軍も誰も助けてくれなかったニダ! なんでコリアンばかり狙われたのか分らないニダ! とか言ってたwwww TV listings MSNBC Aug 7 City in Fear: L.A. Riots A deadly riot ravages the city of Los Angeles in 1992. Latasha Harlins, Soon Ja Du a Korean-born grocer, fatally shot 15-year-old Harlins in the back of the head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUaoil0wsyU
Korean Superstar Who Smiles and Says, 'I'm Lonely' His first step was two sold-out shows at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, last night and Thursday night. The audience on Thursday was about 95 percent Asian, at least 90 percent female and always ready to scream. Like Rain, they were following the drill of a Michael Jackson concert from the early 1990's: songs that switched between stark beats and sweet choruses, angular group dances and tough-guy preening that gave way to professions of love.
14 Chinese, two Koreans arrested in Karachi KARACHI, Aug 7: The Pakistani immigration police arrested 14 Chinese and two South Koreans on Monday for their alleged involvement in a fake passport scam, an official said.
The Chinese — eight women and six men — are accused of trying to travel to Europe on forged South Korean passports, while the Korean man and woman allegedly helped them, said Mohammed Malik, an official with the Federal Investigation Agency, Pakistan’s immigration police.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 8 A Russian scientist was given a six-year suspended sentence Tuesday for the export to South Korea of technology that prosecutors contended could be used to manufacture missiles.
Oscar Kaibyshev, 67, a physicist at an institute in the city of Ufa, about 750 miles east of Moscow, was also fined $133,000 for his dealings with a South Korean company that manufactures car wheel frames.
Kaibyshev was first arrested in March 2003 after Russian agents stopped a South Korean delegation at Ufa's airport. The delegation included representatives of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute and ASA Co. who were working with Kaibyshev on a new technique for the manufacture of car wheel frames, according to Kaibyshev and Nam Sung Kang, a director of ASA.
The FSB, however, said the South Koreans were obtaining state secrets, including information that could be used in the manufacture of rockets and other armaments.
>>248 ちったあ引用しようぜ。 Luxury Watch Scam Snared Korea's Rich and Famous The slogan “The watch only 1 percent of the world can own” was enough to persuade many wealthy and upwardly mobile people. Little did they realize that the Swiss-made luxury watches they bought were actually made from cheap Chinese parts and assembled here. Costing no more than W100,000 (US $1=W964) to make, they sold for tens of millions of won, with major department stores holding special promotion to lure rich customers who love designer labels.
Some Koreans claim that locust trees found all over Korea were planted by the Japanese, who planned to destroy the Korean soil. Is that historically correct?...
Although it is generally known that locust trees, better known as acacia trees in Korea, were introduced by the Japanese around 1890, there are no official records about the intention and many stories involving the Japanese remain part of oral history. It is said that the Korean name, akasia had its origin in Japanese, nise-akashia, which was shortened from the tree's scientific name, Robinia pseudo-acacia. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200608/06/200608062243105679900091009112.html
The poll of 40,000 men for Men's Health magazine found that Britons spent the most time on foreplay but flopped when it came to endurance, with Mexicans coming first for stamina in the bedroom.
A senior member of the South Korean cult group "'Setsuri," or also known as JMS which has drawn several allegations of rape, is suspected of illegally obtaining a resident visa with the help of two Japanese, sources familiar with the matter told Kyodo News on Aug, 8, 2006
The 44-year-old South Korean woman lives in Chiba City, the sources said, adding the Chiba prefectural police are considering questioning her on suspicion of violating the immigration law.
The sources said two Japanese men are believed to have helped the woman illegally obtain her visa. The woman is also suspected of putting false information in her alien registration certificate.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4106703.html Aug. 9, 2006 Man arrested in Japan in Korea case A man who allegedly exported machinery to North Korea that can be used to make biological weapons was arrested Thursday amid a Japanese crackdown on trade with its communist neighbor over concerns about its nuclear program. The suspect, a former president of a trading company, is accused of illegally exporting a freeze dryer to North Korea in 2002, and was charged with not obtaining proper approval from Japan's trade ministry, said Shinji Matsuzaki, a police official in the western prefecture of Shimane, which conducted the investigation jointly with police in neighboring Yamaguchi prefecture.
The suspect arrested Thursday is a Korean living in Japan. He allegedly used a trading house in Taiwan to broker the deal with North Korean and disguise the transaction, Matsuzaki said
While the British home secretary, John Reid, declined to give any details of the identities of the 21 people arrested in overnight raids in the UK, the first clues began to emerge in the US.
Nine people were arrested in South Seattle early Thursday in connection with their alleged involvement in an international sex-trafficking ring that recruited prostitutes from several Asian countries and rotated them between brothels throughout the U.S.
The arrests were made during early-morning raids at five locations. Two were alleged brothels and one was an escort service run out of a private residence. The other locations were the homes of two defendants.
Wiretaps employed from May 31 through Thursday indicate that at least 40 Asian prostitutes worked brief stints at the Seattle-area brothels. Investigators said the women came from at least nine different countries, including China, Malaysia and Hong Kong. According to court documents, some of the women came to the U.S. on legitimate visas and never left; some were transported in shipping containers.
Some Korean women arrived in British Columbia illegally, and then were smuggled into the U.S. Others came to the U.S. on forged visas.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-08-09-japan-prime-minister_x.htm By Paul Wiseman and Naoko Nishiwaki, USA TODAY 8/9/2006 Some Japanese worry Abe is the wrong man to repair Japan's relations with its neighbors, damaged by Koizumi's visits to a Shinto shrine that honors (among others) convicted Japanese war criminals. Abe is unapologetic about Japan's World War II past — a position likely to continue to antagonize China and South Korea, which were brutalized under Japanese occupation. Japanese prime ministers normally visit Yasukuni Shrine privately on Aug. 15, the anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender in 1945. A majority of Japanese disapprove of the visits. A poll published July 26 in the Asahi newspaper showed 60% don't want Koizumi's successor to visit Yasukuni. "We should have a harmonious relationship with China and South Korea," says Tokyo office worker Riku Takahashi, 33. "I don't expect much (from Abe). He won't change the relationship with China and South Korea that deteriorated under Koizumi." Abe's father was the LDP's secretary general. His maternal grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was arrested as a war criminal after World War II for his leadership role in Japan's wartime government before being rehabilitated. Kishi then served as a staunchly pro-U.S. prime minister from 1957 to 1960. An emotional issue brought Abe to prominence a couple of years ago: He demanded that North Korea come clean on the kidnapping of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s. He has benefited politically from North Korea's belligerence toward international demands that it end efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
Takeshima(Japan)/Dokdo(South Korea) : Ownership of this area is in dispute
こんな感じの投稿をしてみようと、住人がコミュに投稿した所 他のユーザーに Please refrain from posting placemarks on this spot. This area has been discussed many times before... Thankyou Norm
と怒られ、消されてしまいました。 自分はスペックの関係で、一切状況が判らないのですが google earthコミュニティでは、この地域に触れるのってタブーなんでしょうか。 なら、他のプレスマークも外して欲しい所なんですが、その気配は一切無く、理由が聞きたくても英語書けないので何とも。 事情をご存知の方がいらっしゃいましたら、お教え頂ければ幸いです。
捏造電波配信活動 Teachers bring living history to classes Asian war crime victims relate horrors during China tour Sponsor hopes to incorporate more Pacific history in schools The day after touring the Japanese-run ianjo, Leskun and other Ontario teachers met with Madame Lui, a 78-year-old Chinese woman and listened to how she was kidnapped in 1941, sterilized and exploited as a sex slave by as many as 27 soldiers a day for two years, and about her successful escape and ultimate survival in shame.
The overwhelming experience of the 16-day "Peace and Reconciliation Study Tour" in July, organized by the Canada Association for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia (ALPHA), was as vivid as any of the 15 participating teachers could imagine.
That's music to the ears of Joseph Wong, chair of ALPHA, which has been campaigning tirelessly for a decade to bring the WWII history in Asia to Canadian educators' Eurocentric curriculum by launching a classroom kit of related DVDs and books last year, and sponsoring the annual tour since 2004.
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‘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.
Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006 By S. DOUNTZ Shed a little light on pachinko http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20060809a4.html Isn't it time The Japan Times did a special report on the pachinko industry in Japan? The Economist magazine has only scratched the surface in a recently published story. The pachinko industry is huge but gets little, if any, media attention. As Japan changes, so does this profitable and conspicuous industry. The public deserves to know more about it and its effects on Japan. Does Japan want to be a gambling nation? If so, then gambling should be legalized and taxes enforced properly. If not, then the police should stop looking the other way.
Many foreign people find it surprising that even though gambling is technically illegal in Japan, all of the main train stations are littered with pachinko parlors. Many of these add an element of shadiness and seediness that used to pervade New York City's Time's Square before it was cleaned up 15 years ago. The parlors certainly scar the urban landscape as well as the otherwise attractive countryside in Japan.
Points of exploration might include pachinko's ties to North Korean interests, pachinko's effect on tax revenues and the Japanese economy, negative elements such as organized crime and gambling addiction, and the question of what kind of entertainment nation Japan should be. Pachinko may be good or bad overall -- that's for the people to decide.
The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the writer's own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Japan Times
Years later, when I became a journalist, I was lucky enough to travel to many of the very places my mom and I had known only in our mind's eye.
But, sadly, some destinations don't fare so well. Say "Kyoto" and you probably envision a small, exquisitely temple-encrusted city, bisected by narrow back lanes where clusters of kimono-clad women pad silently by like swarms of silken butterflies.
But my memory of the reality is an archetypal large Japanese city, complete with monstrous traffic, noisy pachinko parlors and high-tension wires poking above the haze.
【北京/中国 15日 AFP】 新華社通信(Xinhua)は14日、「レイプ・オブ・ナンキン(the Rape of Nanking)」の 映画化計画が進んでいると報じた。
映画は、1937年の日本軍による中国の一般市民虐殺を描いた中国系米国人、故アイリス・チャン氏 によるノン・フィクション、「レイプ・オブ・ナンキン:忘れられたもう1つのホロコースト (The Rape of Nangking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II)」を脚色したものだという。 中米英の共同制作で、中国版「シンドラーのリスト(Schindler's List)」ともいえる内容。
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Koizumi Further Deepens Debate Over Shrine By NORIMITSU ONISHI August 15, 2006 The visit ended months of speculation about whether Mr. Koizumi, who is retiring next month, would visit the shrine on this symbolically laden day, which brought defeat to Imperial Japan 61 years ago but liberation for its Asian colonies.
>>309がマジっぽい。 "We hope we can make the film a classic on a massacre in the Second World War, just like Schindler's List about the miserable experience of Jewish people during the war," the producer, Gerald Green, told the Xinhua news agency. The stars of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh, are tipped to appear in the movie which is scheduled to start filming within weeks and would debut in China next year, before the 70th anniversary of the incident.
'Nanking' to Be Filmed in China, Recreating the Japanese Attack in 1937 Wednesday May 31, 10:00 am ET * William Macdonald of HBO's 'Rome' writing screenplay. * The late American educator Minnie Vautrin, who saved thousands, will be featured. * Release date to be December 2007 in time for 70th anniversary of the massacre. Producer Gerald Green announced today that an agreement has been reached with the government of the People's Republic of China to proceed with a film based on the infamous siege by Japanese forces of Nanking, then China's capital, during late 1937 and early 1938.
The film will be produced by Green's company, Viridian Entertainment and by the Jiangsu Provincial Culture Industry Group, headed by its chairman, Dr. Li Xiangmin.
Production is set to begin in late 2006 in China for release on the 70th anniversary of the commencement of the attack, which began on December 19, 1937. Said Green: "This film will be epic in scope but also an intimate portrait of two women -- one, a mother of a traditional Chinese family and the other, a real historical figure, the heroic American educator Minnie Vautrin. Between them, 300,000 Chinese are saved from certain murder and rape." Writing the screenplay is William Macdonald, co-creator and senior executive producer of HBO's epic series "Rome."
Added Green: "Certain Asian scholars pursuing their own nationalist agendas have dared to deny the tragedies that occurred in Nanking seventy years ago despite the overwhelming oral, filmed, and recorded history to the contrary. We intend to right that wrong, using the devastating personal and family tragedies that resulted as the true measure of what was done here." http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060531/law021.html?.v=59
こんなのなら有った。 SEC Info - Total Film Group Inc 9107 WILSHIRE BOULEVARD, SUITE 475, BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90210 In June 2001 Total Creative, Inc. ("Total Creative") and Total Film Group, Inc. ("Total Film") entered into an agreement to sell substantially all of the assets of Total Creative, a wholly owned subsidiary of Total Film, to Viridian Entertainment ("Viridian"), a California corporation controlled by Gerald Green, a former officer and director of Total Film and Total Creative. Viridian also entered into a three-year sublease agreement with Total Creative and Total Film for the office space previously used by Total Creative. Viridian has the option to cancel the sublease at any time upon six months' written notice. http://www.secinfo.com/dRqWm.3td.htm http://www.secinfo.com/d11t8j.5m.htm
Death of Takei As someone who was privileged to know Mr. Takei, the tenor of news reports on his death were unfortunate and just plain wrong.
It is all too easy now, when loans to consumers are readily available, to forget a bout times when the major financial institutions scorned such business.
Mr. Takei created financial access for the common man. Moreover, he was a warm-hearted man, a benefactor to his communities and a good friend. He will be missed. ↑ってさーかずむ?それともマジレス?
>>353 http://www.history.gr.jp/~nanking/LSCSmythe.pdf 南京の被害レポートだって。 73ページもあるので訳してといわれても困りまする。 しかし最初のページにこんな一文があります。 The international committee is aware, however, that statements have been published by Chinese, putting upon the Japanese an exclusive and exaggerated blame for the injuries to the people of the Nanking area;likewise that statements have been published by Japanese, charging the Chinese with burning and looting which they themselves benevolently checked,
Korean sex slave ring busted Twenty brothels posing as legitimate businesses from Connecticut to North Carolina were shut down, 31 people were arrested and more than 70 suspected Korean sex slaves were freed from a large human trafficking organization, officials said Wednesday. The arrests Tuesday capped a 15-month probe that began when a Korean couple who owned and operated a chain of brothels in Queens tried to bribe an undercover New York City Police Department detective, said Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 何処かで聞いた事のある話ですね↓いつになったらアメリカに謝罪と賠償を要求するの? She said it was disheartening to hear agents describe stories “of women who were promised a better life and instead held as sex slaves” at brothels posing as massage parlors, health spas and acupuncture clinics in New York, Washington D.C., Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland and Rhode Island.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/world/asia/16japan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Koizumi Exits Office as He Arrived: Defiant on War Shrine Published: August 16, 2006 By NORIMITSU ONISHI Mr. Koizumi paid his sixth and most likely last visit as prime minister - he retires next month - to the shrine early Tuesday morning, on the anniversary of the end of World War II and East Asia's liberation from Japanese rule.
Mr. Koizumi not only chose the most provocative of days, but responded angrily to his critics in a news conference after his visit. He blamed China and South Korea for worsening relations, saying he had always been ready to meet with their leaders despite their opposition to Japan’s efforts to gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
The visit drew immediate condemnation from China and South Korea, as well as from Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia. But just as severe was the criticism within Japan, where many political leaders, major business groups and nearly all the major daily newspapers had pressed him to cease the visits.
The first soldiers deified in Yasukuni were those who fought and died for the emperor in a civil war, ignoring soldiers on the losing side. Other enshrined soldiers died in conflicts that revolved around Japan's wars against China and the United States and the occupations of Korea and Taiwan. In 1978, 14 prominent war criminals were secretly enshrined there
The place name such as "East Sea" that you wrote is wrong. Korea insists that "the Sea of Japan is the place name kept at the time of Japanese colonial rule by force" now. However, actually the Sea of Japan is used globally for a long time, and it is recognized formally in the United Nations. Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs makes the animation which explained this problem intelligibly and shows it.
It is serious at all that very important Medea saying a newspaper sends crooked information by pressure of one country. In this situation you give Australian people terrible misunderstanding. In addition, some Japanese who knew this information are angry intensely. For Australia and Japan, both people, please return it to "Sea of Japan" notation as soon as possible.
日常会話程度の英語力でよければ・・・ まずレターの定型として Dear sirs and madames
The name of the water between Japan and Korea is not "East Sea" Korea insists that "the Sea of Japan was forcebly renamed from East Sea by Japan" which is wrong. The sea of Japan is used globaly for a long time, and it's recognized formaly in the United Nations. Please take a look at this video made by Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is serious at all that very important Medea saying a newspaper sends crooked information by pressure of one country. ↑これは何を言いたいのかわからない。
Mentioning East Sea on your paper will confuse Australian people.
これはいらないような In addition, some Japanese who knew this information are angry intensely.
それよりも In fact, the Korean government considers to rename the water to "the Sea of Korea" instead of "East Sea" after succeeding to erase "Sea of Japan"
Please do not take Korean governments' unreasonable demands. sincerely 名前
The name of the water between Japan and Korea is not "East Sea" Korea insists that "the Sea of Japan was forcibly renamed from East Sea by Japan" which is wrong. The sea of Japan is used global for a long time, and it's recognized formally in the United Nations. Please take a look at this video made by Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Some South Korean experts claim that the number of known Korean cultural assets scattered around Japan totals about 34,000, most of which were unjustly pillaged during two periods -- first during the invasion by Hideyoshi Toyotomi's force and then during the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. Such figures cannot be verified independently, however. In late 2004, two Koreans were arrested in South Korea for stealing precious goods from Kakurinji Temple in the western Japanese city of Kakogawa in 2002. Among the booty was one particularly important painting of the Amida Buddha from Korea's Koryo period (918-1392), which the temple had treasured for hundreds of years. The two Koreans insisted they were on a mission to reclaim pieces of Korean history, which had been appropriated by the Japanese. Of the 130 odd paintings of the Amida Buddha from the Koryo period exhibited so far, only 13 are reportedly kept in South Korea, with 106 being held at Japanese temples. http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=311744&rel_no=1&back_url=
John Mark Karr, a former American school teacher who is a suspect in the 1996 death of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, is believed to have traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia in recent years:
Aug. 15: Karr began teaching second grade in the international school system in Bangkok, according to the district attorney in Boulder, Colo.
2001-2002 Karr claims he taught English to children aged 6-12 in Seoul, South Korea, and volunteered as an English teacher in Heemstede, Netherlands, a resume posted on an English-teaching institution Web site said. The Web site took down the posting after an Associated Press reporter called. South Korean immigration officials have declined to comment. The same claim is made on the resume posted on Job4Teacher.com; its authenticity could not be confirmed.
It is serious at all that very important Medea saying a newspaper sends crooked information by pressure of one country. 「新聞という、とても重要なメディアが、1国の圧力によってゆがんだ情報を発信することは、非常に重大です。」と書きたかったんですorz
It is very regrettable (I am very disappointed) that trust worthy media organization such as The Australian would just swallow bogus claims made by the ROK without thoroughly checking on the integrities of the claims.
Just 2 days ago was the independence day of Korea. My brother and I hung up our Taegukgi outside our apartment window to celebrate this day.
Now apparently I know that this day is also the End of the war day for Japan. Japan loses WW2 and we gain our freedom. It's so odd how the destinys of the two countries can split from one same consequence. We rejoice and Japan is devastated.
Anyways, there's been a lot of controversy about Koizumi paying his respects at the Yasukuni shrine on the 15th of August. Since Yasukuni symbolically holds the spirits of A level war criminals, paying respect to them directly triggers anger in China and Korea with no doubt b/c both were colonies. But I hear that many Japanese people went to the Yasukuni shrine that day.
Now I'm wondering(and I really wanna know as someone with such a different viewpoint), what are the Japanese people actually thinking when they go to that shrine? Does it mean that they are genuinely not sorry for the war they brew up? Does it mean that they actually really wanted to win WW2? Does it mean that they're not sorry for colonizing and terrorizing other countries?
I don't want to start some flaming war but I really wanna know. I also saw this documentary by BBC-it was about the atomic bomb and how Japan surrendered. The impact and danger of the atomic bomb and the stories of actual witnisses chilled my blood but what also chilled my blood was the fact that Japan didn't surrender after the first bomb dropped. Japan did look eager to win an ugly war. So help me out here~what do the Japanese people think about the Yasukuni shrine? Kim i Sum, Soul
Sissy Koreans who have never defended their own country against its enemies don't deserve to be respected. You sissy Koreans must build a shrine in your country for the war dead of the USA and visit there to pray them on the 15th of August. You ugly Koreans are absolutely shameless!
興味ないけどこんなの見かけた。 これ日本だから合法だけど、 fluent/fluencyじゃ無くて、Native English speakerって Ernst & Youngの求人広告は、sounds like racistだな。 これを多民族国家で、色んな国のアクセント持ちの連中が住んでいて、 Ernst & Youngの本社のあるアメリカでやったら確実に違法だわな。 本社に通報しておこうかな?
Job Requirements: -Native English speaker -Must currently reside in Japan -Previous office administrative experience -Excellent organization and communication skills -Japanese ability is desirable -Bachelors Degree To Apply: Email your resume to [email protected] or fax to 03-3519-5373. Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services Japan has an immediate opening for an Executive Assistant to support the Co-CEO of the practice. Job Responsibilities: -Provide administrative support to the Co-CEO and other members of the TAS management team -Office administration duties -Calendar management, meeting scheduling and travel planning -Proof reading and Letter writing
>>199 >>206 This 2-ch thread(ここ!) on anti-Japanese statements in the foreign media picks at my article on Japanese war guilt as "lines from the typical Japanese leftist script = ignorant Western historical view. " The person also disapproves of my calling Japan a Confucian bureaucracy. (Confucianism is Chinese, you lamestain!)
Update 8/11/06: Feedback loop as 2-ch folk find that I linked back to them. Now they are posting my biographical details. Apparently, I "look like an arab." ウェー、ハッハッハ イキデキネーヨ ∧_∧ / ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ハライテ- ウェー、ハッハッハ ウェー、ハッハッハ . ( ´∀`) < ∧_∧ 〃´⌒ヽ . ( つ ⊂ ) \_______ (´∀` ,,)、 ( _ ;) .) ) ) ○ ∧_∧ ,, へ,, へ⊂), _(∨ ∨ )_ (__)_) ⊂ ´⌒つ´∀`)つ (_(__)_丿 し ̄ ̄し タッテ ラレネーヨ ウェー、ハッハッハ
(The King) sent the following instructions to the Governor of Hangil Province:
“In the past, prostitutes were sent to camps on the frontier to service soldiers without wives. It had a long history. Even now government giseangs are stationed at frontier camps and administrative posts to service travellers. Moreover, on the northern frontier we have large camps, including Gyeongwon, Hoiryeong, and Gyeonseong, which are in your province. Troops guarding the frontier are far from their families and must endure two (years) of cold and heat, making their daily duties even more difficult; therefore, I think it is appropriate to station prostitutes to service the troops. http://www.occidentalism.org/?p=309
Kyo Hwa Adler DOB: 3/21/1953 Sun Im An DOB: 1/15/1962 Ji Hyun Bang DOB: 6/2/1976 Aeok Boydston, a/k/a "Big Sister Lillie" DOB: 5/8/1957 Un Sun Brown DOB: 6/27/1950 Eun Sook Chim, DOB: 5/14/55 Kim Chong, a/k/a "Big Sister Lora" DOB: 5/20/1960 or 5/1/1960
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English-teaching jobs providing cover for pedophiles in Asia Fake teaching documents also are cheap and easy to obtain in Asia, and jobs are there for the taking. For example, last year in Japan, there were 4,500 foreign language schools with nearly 14,000 teachers. http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/20060819p2g00m0fe021000c.html
English-teaching jobs providing cover for pedophiles in Asia
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/20060819p2g00m0fe021000c.html Thailand -- The English-teaching circuit in Asia is filled with transients. It is a floating network of backpackers looking to make quick cash while traveling the world, recent college graduates in search of overseas experience and those on the move with something to hide.
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_206200524.html A woman who conned Korean small business owners out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a credit scam was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison, a day after her husband received an 11-year sentence.
Mi Suk Yi, 39, along with her husband and Paul Amorello, 49, was convicted in June 2005 of conspiracy, bank fraud and money laundering charges for the scam. Amorello and Yi drove from New Jersey to Los Angeles in 2000, placing classified ads in local Korean newspapers once they arrived, according to prosecutors. The ads offered to help people with bankruptcy issues due to large credit bills.
Numerous small business owners contacted Yi and Amorello, who claimed to have inside contacts with banks that could help their clients increase their credit limits.
The couple asked victims to hand over their checkbooks, which they then used to send unusable checks to cover other victims' debts making it temporarily seem as though the victims' credit lines were increased.
The business owners then gave the couple hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash as fees.
>>418 Failed States Index 2006 We are pleased to present the second annual Failed States Index. Tens of thousands of articles from global and regional sources were collected from May to December 2005 using Thomson Dialog. Utilizing our CAST software to do initial analysis of these voluminous documents and with a review by experts, we compiled the scores below.
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You’re asking the wrong question, at the wrong place. If you want to know what the Japanese people think of Yasukuni, go find a Japanese and ask him personally. The fact is not many people know the difference between level A B C crimes that were tried at the Tokyo tribunals. Let alone Yasukuni is a religious institution, and if you already did not know, Japan is a country that exercises the separation of church and state. The government has no say in what a certain religious institution chooses to worship or not. Now a government official has a choice to go or not to go to such an institution. But the important question is this, my Korean neighbor who obviously like so many of my country men has fallen pray to the Japanese/Korean media propaganda: WHOM WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE AS YOUR NEIBOURGH, A NEIBOURGH THAT THINKS YOU’RE A PATHETIC PUNY EXISTANCE BUT WOULD NEVER ACT IN AGGRETION AGAINST YOU; OR A NEIBOURGH WHO THINKS AND RESPECTS YOU HIGHLY IN THEIR HEART, BUT IS BEATING YOU UP AT THE SAME TIME. This maybe a false choice, and the best neighbor is obviously a neighbor that thinks highly of you, and do not act in aggression towards you. But I thought your government already made up its mind when it chose to take a more realistic approach with its northern neighbor.
Isn’t it about time you took a more realistic approach with your eastern neighbor? Lets just pretend that Yasukuni glorifies Imperial Japan, has Koizumi and the Japanese government commit a crime against the people and the government of Korea prior or after he went to the shrine? Has Japan tried to militarily take back the disputed islands, or are they acting in a way that tries to solve the problem in a peaceful way, say in the UN international courts?
Leftist ideology causes South Korea's regime to cultivate victimhood and resentment of a Japan imagined to have expansionism in its national DNA.
The choice by China's regime is more interesting. Marxism is bankrupt and causes cognitive dissonance as China pursues economic growth by markedly un-Marxist means. So China's regime, needing a new source of legitimacy, seeks it in memories of resistance to Japanese imperialism.
Actually, most of China's resistance was by Chiang Kai-shek's forces, Mao's enemies. And Mao, to whom there is a sort of secular shrine in Beijing, killed millions more Chinese than even Japan's brutal occupiers did.
Korean television viewers will have the chance to watch a drama highlighting the life of Kaneko Fumiko, ????????????→ a Japanese female resistance fighter and anarchist who planned an assassination attempt on Hirohito, then the crown prince, in September 1923. KBS Special, a KBS-I TV program, will air the two-part drama, titled simply "Kaneko Fumiko" at 8 p.m. on Aug. 26-27 to mark the 61st anniversary of Korean liberation from Japanese rule.
Kaneko Fumiko, a lover of fellow anarchist Park Yol, a fellow Korean independence activist, was one of few Japanese citizens who betrayed her homeland and sided with the Korean independence movement during the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula.
I cannot agree that you had changed the name of the sea area between Japan and the continent to "East Sea(Sea of Japan)" on the world map. So I would like you to correct expression from "East Sea(Sea of Japan)" to "Sea of Japan".
This is a movie created by Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It gives a nice concise explanation on the issue. Please see the documents below if you cannot see this movie.
"the United Nations Secreatariat clarifies its position that it observes the prevailing practice of the single use of 'Sea of Japan,' explaining that dual designation breaches the prevailing practice and infringes the neutrality of the United Nations, and that fairness and neutrality can be achieved only through the observance of the practice " *******************************************************************
From the above-mentioned web documents in #1 and #2, you have understood that "Sea of Japan" is a correct expression of the water in question. And as mentioned in #3, the Republic of Korea(South Korea) has also refused discussion on the "Sea of Japan naming issue". The seems to try to make up de-fact standard before international discussion by replacing the "Sea of Japan" expression with "East Sea"in the world maps. And #4 implies your service may run the risk of being recognized that your map dishonors United Nations and infringes neutrality unless proper corrections are made.
Also, there is arising another movement by Diet members in Korea to promote the name of "Sea of Korea"(It is translated into "South Korea Sea" in Korean text.) in the case that "East Sea" will not be adopted as the international name of the marginal sea. Reference: http://news.media.daum.net/society/affair/200607/14/m_daum/v13374459.html (Korean text)
This movement contradicts the insistence of current South Korea Government and VANK. Here is the quote from http://www.prkorea.com/english/eastsea2.html "Lying between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago and extending north toward Russia, the body of water in question is divided into either territorial waters of EEZ's of the encircling countries. The Republic of Korea believes that naming such a sea area after a particular country's name is not justified and that the sea should have a neutral name."
Is is just that they are not pleased about the fact that the name "Japan" is used in the formal name. I believe that such an inconsistent attitude of the Korean side only causes confusion. So, I would like you to accept my suggestion and correct the name as soon as possible.
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200608/200608250020.html Aug.25,2006 Prosecutors are to investigate the possible involvement of local gangs and Japanese yakuza rings in the Korean adult arcade game and gift certificate industries. “The violent organizations are said to have developed and imported game programs, operated arcades and circulated gift certificates” used as winning prizes in the arcades, he said. The Yakuza are also said to have invested in the Korean arcade game industry. Korean gangs asked Yakuza rings to invest in the game and gift certificate businesses since they were unable to put up all the capital by themselves, he said. Investigators reportedly already have evidence of Japanese financial involvement in the industry, with large arcades and game parlors in Busan directly Japanese-owned. Based on a taped phone conversation between two arcade owners, Grand National Party lawmaker Park Hyeong-joon told reporters Friday it was likely that money from Japan went into the development of arcade game programs and the circulation of gift certificates. On the tape, one of the owners is heard to say, “A Japanese pachinko parlor association used its influence to get the Korea Media Rating Board to approve the gambling program. Even a pachinko association of Korean expatriates in Japan helped the gambling program get approved by the board.”
Police on lookout for kidnapping suspect Aug, 25 2006
Burnaby police are looking for a 21 year old Korean man who they claim played a role in a vicious assault and kidnapping.
It started as a fight over a woman between two groups of Korean men in their early 20's at a Burnaby karaoke bar.
Police have arrested and charged two suspects, but Corporal Pierre Lemaitre says they're still looking for 21-year old Minchul 'Richard' Sung.
"Again, we repeat that he's known to police, and should be considered violent. if you know where he is, call the nearest police agency or call Crimestoppers", says Lemaitre.
Sung is described as Korean, six feet tall and 200 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
マルキシーんとこのコメントから >That said, i'll have to give NHK some kudos for the 『日本、これから」 >show the other night. Watching that deeply ugly ass Taro Aso, squirm and >leer as almost everyone from (sobbing) taiwanese students, hibakusha , >WWII survivors, NPO volunteers and even (handsome- some leftist bias at >work on the producers' part here) todai professors nailed his "foreign policy" >against the wall over & over again, to applause.
>It was an almost life-changing experience - listening to smart people express >intelligent views about Japan's future on television ( i exempt Aso from that >statement of course). I feel some hope for J- tv now, almost.. viva NHK...
http://www.aaa-calif.com/westways/0906/features/worldclass.asp September/October 2006 Issue - Westways Magazine Automobile Club of Southern California. World Class Three perspectives on student trips abroad Three takes on student travel: a high schooler visits Japan, a college student brushes up on art in Italy, and a mother reflects on her daughter's semester in Paris.
When I first entered Japan's Narita International Airport, I was amazed at the quiet. I was traveling with 15 other teenagers from the northeastern United States; we were all in Japan to do community service for 30 days through the YMCA. We were speaking to each other at what we thought was standard volume, but in this quiet terminal, our voices seemed loud. The airport was also cleaner than any place we had ever seen.
After working on the farm for a few days, we returned to Utsonomiya to help clean up a huge park near the center of the nearly spotless city.
Technology aside, the people we got to know were diligent workers and the most polite people I've ever met.
Justin Forth is a senior at Weston High School in Weston, Connecticut, where he plays guitar in a funk-rock band.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3777901a11,00.html Ministry probes alleged illegal schooling of Korean kids 27 August 2006 Ministry of Education officials are widening their investigation into allegations Korean children are being illegally schooled here. The Ministry of Education, working alongside the Department of Labour, began looking at Orewa School, north of Auckland, last week, after allegations it had been taking Korean students illegally by not declaring them to the Ministry. But now it has received complaints about another immigration agent working in the area and linked to up to a further five primary schools.
Ministry of Education figures show that in July last year, 2907 foreign primary aged children were being schooled in New Zealand, 1673 of them in Auckland. Most - 2429 pupils - came from South Korea. The next closest was Japan, with 89 pupils. Questions have been raised about immigration agent Julia Jin who has been bringing children into New Zealand from South Korea for Orewa School. Ministry of Education northern regional manager Bruce Adin said the investigation at Orewa was ongoing, but confirmed the ministry had received complaints about another agent working in the Hibiscus Coast area, Andy Woo.
Panties! February 4, 2005 Kim faces burglary and theft charges in four Oregon counties involving thousands of pieces of lingerie that had been taken from women's college dormsand were found in his possession. In Washington County, he also faces 16 counts of possessing child pornography after police say they discovered those types of images on his computer. Sung Koo Kim was initially arrested in early May, about a week and a half before 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger disappeared from a Corvallis apartment complex where Kim had allegedly been stalking an OSU swimmer. _____ (\ ∞ ノ ヽ、ヽ lヽ,,lヽ `ヽ)__< > )) クンクン と、 ゙i
"Suspected panty thief may lose fourth attorney in year" PORTLAND - Accused panty thief Sung Koo Kim might soon need another lawyer - his fourth in a year. Des Connall, of Portland, citing an undisclosed ethical issue, said he plans to file motions to withdraw from the highly publicized set of cases in Yamhill, Washington, Benton and Multnomah counties, the (McMinnville) News-Register reported. _____ (\ ∞ ノ ヽ、ヽ ∧,,_∧ `ヽ)__<`∀´*> と、 ゙i
>>466 >It was an almost life-changing experience - listening to smart people express >intelligent views about Japan's future on television >viva NHK...
China Tries to Teach Manners to Chinese Tourists By Daniel Schearf Beijing 20 August 2006 The Chinese government has issued guidelines on manners for its citizens traveling at home and abroad, saying poor behavior by Chinese tourists is damaging the country's image.
As China becomes wealthier, the number of Chinese able to travel around the country and visit other countries has increased. There are a lot more to come, and the government says Chinese tourists need to improve their manners.
The official China Daily newspaper has quoted the Spiritual Civilization Steering Committee, the Communist Party Central Committee agency that watches over social behavior, as saying the behavior of some Chinese travelers is not compatible with the nation's economic strength and its growing international status.
So, the government has launched a campaign to educate tourists against inappropriate behavior, such as littering, talking loudly and eating without first washing one's hands.
Lin Kang is vice manager of the China International
Lin Kang is vice manager of the China International Tourism Agency, one of China's largest. He says Chinese tourists often litter, are inappropriately loud in places like museums, and need to close their mouths when chewing food.
"I think the manners problem is related to education," he said. "If they did not have much schooling, they do not show a very civilized behavior."
It has been a recurring phenomenon in Asia, as country after country has become developed. In the 1970's, it was Japanese tour groups that invited ridicule abroad with their unsophisticated ways. In the '80's and '90's, it was newly traveling South Koreans and Taiwanese. Now, it is mainland Chinese, who are struggling to come to grips with international norms of behavior.
And there are plenty of them. Last year, 31 million of China's 1.3 billion people traveled abroad. By 2020, that number is expected to rise to 100 million a year.
THREE Chinese tourists have been charged with stealing gold chains from the suq following a police swoop on their hotel. Owners of two jewellery shops in Gold City, Manama reported the robbery on July 10. Following identification from CCTV camera footage, a police team visited their hotel and initially arrested six Chinese men. Three were later released, Bahrain's Lower Criminal Court heard. The three, aged 33, 41 and 40 appeared in court on Tuesday with no interpreter from the Chinese embassy. The case was adjourned until September 10 for them to bring one. http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=153829&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=29160
日本でもパチンコ関連で同じ様なコメンタリーを書く人が居ても良い筈なのに、 日本のマスコミには自己浄化能力無いのか? Time to Drop the Massage Parlor Ads By Deborah Howell Sunday, August 27, 2006; Page B06 The Post runs "massage parlor" advertising almost every day in the Sports section. The ads are small and discreet in content, but not always candid: The money for those ads doesn't come from masseuses trained in Swedish, shiatsu or deep-tissue massage. And men don't go there for back rubs. My inquiries into The Post's acceptance of these ads began after a Page 1 story on Dec. 15 by Laura Blumenfeld caught my eye. Her story started in a local *Korean-run massage parlor, where she talked to both the manager of the club and one of the "johns" who come there for sex. For years, stories in The Post and other newspapers have pointed out that massage parlors are often thinly disguised houses of prostitution. Then on Aug. 17, The Post published a story by Allan Lengel reporting that federal agents had broken up a sex-slave trafficking ring along the East Coast that allegedly coerced *Korean women into working as prostitutes in massage parlors and spas, some in upscale Washington neighborhoods such as Cleveland Park and Glover Park.
Many newspapers of comparable quality do not take massage parlor ads the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe. The Post should join them.
The Bitburg Cemetery is currently the resting place of over 2000 German soldiersin which 47 were Waffen SS troops. When the project is completed, the Mausoleum des friedlichen Landes (peaceful nations mausoleum) will honour the Third Reich’s over 5 million soldiers killed in war, including 1068 war criminals and 14 convicted Class A war criminals. Surrounded by war banners and military regalia, visitors would be able to venerate the glorious war dead and visit a museum with the colourful military history of Germany. http://iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca/?module=displaystory&story_id=2335&format=html&edition_id=58
はいはいワロスワロス、強制的に性的奴隷にされたニダ! 現代の慰安婦ニダ! チョンの売春女なんて全部willing sex workersに決まってんだろが!
http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_4249238 Sex slaves or willing workers? Aug 28, 2006 About 70 women are being interviewed to determine their roles in an alleged sex slave ring. The raids on the alleged brothels netted 31 South Korean nationals, who smuggled women into the country with promises of the American Dream and then forced them into prostitution to pay back their travel bills, according to two U.S. attorneys and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The 70 Korean women, believed by federal agents to be prostitutes, are not in a detention facility, but are being kept in a non-disclosed location, said Marc Raimondi, ICE spokesman. "They're being interviewed and their cases are being evaluated to see if they are victims ... or willing sex workers," Raimondi said.
Investigation Team for Overseas Prostitutes The Los Angeles Police Department said that more than 8,000 Korean women were working as prostitutes in the U.S. It added that out of the 70 to 80 women arrested for prostitution a month, 90 percent of them are Korean.
South Korea: Lowest Birthrate in the World SEOUL, August 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) ? South Korea now claims the lowest birthrate in the world according to South Korea’s National Statistical Office, which confirms population data just released by an independent study.
According to the Korean Herald, the National Statistical Office (NSO) has announced that the South Korea’s total fertility rate dropped to 1.08 last year, and reports the number of newborns has also dropped nearly 8 percent to 438,000. The fertility rate is the lowest in the world, and broke South Korea’s 2004 record of 1.16.
Women's groups angry about first-ever ‘Sexpo' August 30, 2006 ? Women's groups are enraged about the first-ever sex expo in Seoul, a four-day event beginning tomorrow with promises of strip shows and lingerie exhibits. "We will release a statement to condemn the event as obvious commercialization of women," said an official at the Korea Women's Associations United. The official said the group and other women's groups would ask the Seoul Metropolitan City Government today to retract its approval for the event and the use of the center. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200608/29/200608292138476909900090409041.html
Prostitution Exports Expand to Include Male Variety In the midst of the already plenty disgraceful news of the pan-pacific expedition into the U.S. of Korean sex trade workers, now even Korean host bars (with male prostitutes) have been uncovered in China.
According to a statement from the Seoul Metropolitan Police on Wednesday, a 36-year-old Korean man being identified by his last name Kim is being held by Chinese authorities under suspicion of hiring male hosts to work at his sex bar.
S. Korea's New Trend? Anything from the North By Norimitsu Onishi TAEJON, South Korea ? 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."
The North Korean waitresses wore traditional dresses in the bright colors that were fashionable in the South some years back. The singer's interpretation of "Whistle," a North Korean standard of the 1980s, was shaky and off-key. Service was bad and included at least one mild threat. Drinks were spilled, beer bottles left unopened and unpoured. http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=3940
Chinese court jails New York Times researcher Jonathan Watts in Beijing Saturday August 26, 2006 The Guardian Chinese court sentenced a New York Times researcher to three years in prison for fraud yesterday. But, in a rare and embarrassing setback for the state security ministry, it dismissed more serious charges of leaking national secrets. The jailing of Zhao Yan comes amid a crackdown on civil rights campaigners, lawyers and journalists in an apparent attempt to crush dissent before attention shifts to Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.
Free 'dinner party' for too many for too long Rong Jiaojiao 2006-08-16 China's economic reform may have unleashed the world's most powerful engine of economic growth, but for some people it has also opened a Pandora's box of greed, graft and corruption.
In the first six months of this year, more than 10,000 officials were found guilty of corruption or abuse of power for personal gain. Official statistics from the Supreme People's Court show that over the past five years, 83,308 corrupt officials have been prosecuted in 99,306 cases of embezzlement and bribery.
"Revolution is not a dinner party," wrote late Chairman Mao Zedong when, as a young Communist leader, he led a rebellion against social injustice in his native Hunan Province in 1927. Now, 80 years later, those corrupt, fat-cat officials, and some of China's newly rich, are making a mockery of the sentiment as they gorge themselves at the public trough.
For them, life has become an endless "dinner party" and one where the bill never arrives.
An annual report by the National Audit Office shows that government departments lost 2.2 billion yuan due to corruption, poor taxation and bad land management in 2005. About 685 million yuan were lost to embezzlers who fabricated expenditures or concealed and absconded with revenues.
Even though embezzling can cost officials their lives, many who are caught with their hands in the public cookie jar are getting off lightly.
The Procuratorate Daily, a government newspaper run by the nation's top prosecution body, revealed that the number of corrupt officials given suspended sentences has risen from 52.6 percent in 2001 to 82.83 percent in 2005. Just over 19 percent of ordinary people convicted of crimes receive suspended sentences.
In some cases, corrupt officials have even been exempted from criminal penalties and allowed to keep their jobs and civil service perks.
India shuts ports to Chinese companies Manju Menon [ 30 Aug, 2006 0041hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] MUMBAI: After close to a year of intense debate, the Indian government has decided it does not want the Chinese investing in, or managing any Indian port.
The first company to bear the brunt of this decision will be Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), the largest independent port operator in the world. The company has been waiting for security clearances before it could go ahead with its bids to build container terminals for Mumbai and Chennai at Rs 1,200 crore and Rs 494 crore respectively. The decision also eliminates future Chinese participation in 13 ports planned across the country at a cost of Rs 61,000 crore. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1937564.cms
>>507 Please remove all user accounts which contain an inappropriate word, 'Jap'. Many Japanese don't take 'Jap' as an abbreviation of Japanese, do take it racially or ethnically offensive yet. Thank you in advance.
>>513 It seems like this moderator (and OP: darg) hates the Japanese language and people who use/learn the language, and has been trying to stir up anti-Japanese sentiment among members in the forum. Judging from his Japanese sentences that he has posted in the [Learning Japanese] forum, he is crap at the language. If he hates the language, he’ll have to get out of the [Learning Japanese] forum. I think that the [Learning Japanese] forum is for learners of the language. What he has been doing there is just hindering learners of Japanese rather than helping them. Or is the toll going to change the language? Ok, fine, tell me how and when? Please delete the following thread ASAP. http://www.crisscross.com/jp/forum/m_854263/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm Thank you in advance.
>>516 500文字以内にする必要があります。 1) It seems like this OP hates the Japanese language and people who use/learn the language, and has been trying to stir up anti-Japanese sentiment among members in the forum. If he hates the language, he’ll have to get out of the [Learning Japanese] section. Please delete the following thread ASAP. http://www.crisscross.com/jp/forum/m_854263/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm
2) I think the [Learning Japanese] section is for learners of the language. What he has been doing there is just hindering learners of Japanese rather than helping them. Or is the toll going to change the language? Ok, fine, tell me how and when? Please delete the following thread ASAP. http://www.crisscross.com/jp/forum/m_854263/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm Please send your comments to Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: [email protected]
23日付のフランス日刊紙リベラシオンによると、駐仏日本大使館は、TV放送局「フランス5」が ドキュメンタリー「日本:過去の影」(Japon, les ombres du passe)の放映を取り止めるよう一ヶ月 半にわたって隠密な工作をしたとのこと。放映取り止めのため日本の外交官らは何回もフランス 5に電話をかけ、フランス5の責任者に手紙を送るまでしたという。こうした積極的な「妨害工作」 の理由は何だろうか。
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Man sentenced in loan fraud scheme
A 33-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison for masterminding a $4.5 million loan fraud scheme targeting the metro Atlanta Korean community, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Beau S. Yoon of Atlanta told borrowers he could get them hundreds of thousands of dollars for their small businesses, provided he was given an 8 to 10 percent cut from each loan, prosecutors said. Yoon then falsified the tax returns of the borrowers and created fictitious businesses that looked more attractive to the lending institutions than the dry cleaners, convenience stores and janitorial services that most of his would-be borrowers were trying to start or expand, said U.S. Attorney David Nahmias. This resulted in loan approvals far larger than Yoon’s borrowers could afford, and most of them defaulted. Yoon, who was indicted along with 20 of his borrowers in February 2005, pleaded guilty in January to seven counts of bank fraud. He also has been ordered to pay $2.3 million in fines. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/copbriefs/entries/2006.08.25.92438.html
And Japan's new "number two" has been accused of putting pressure on national broadcaster NHK to take out some inflammatory footage from a documentary on sexual slavery under Japanese forces during the war in 2001. He has denied any wrongdoing.
Until a few years ago Mr. Abe was known among voters mainly for being the son of Shintaro Abe, a Liberal Democrat who almost became prime minister, and the grandson of Nobusuke Kishi, a cabinet member during the war, who was imprisoned as a Class A war crimes suspect but was never tried and who became prime minister in 1957.
But Mr. Abe shot to political stardom by taking a hard-line stance against North Korea, which admitted in 2002 that it had kidnapped several Japanese citizens in the 1970’s and 1980’s. By articulating popular anger — fanning it, critics say — against the North, Mr. Abe developed an image of strong leadership that helped increase his popularity.
Abe's father was the LDP's secretary general. His maternal grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was arrested as a war criminal after World War II for his leadership role in Japan's wartime government before being rehabilitated. Kishi then served as a staunchly pro-U.S. prime minister from 1957 to 1960.
An emotional issue brought Abe to prominence a couple of years ago: He demanded that North Korea come clean on the kidnapping of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s.
He has benefited politically from North Korea's belligerence toward international demands that it end efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Abe warned last month that Japan may impose sanctions if North Korea doesn't comply with a U.N. resolution demanding a return to multilateral talks aimed at getting it to abandon its nuclear weapons and missile programs. "The recent North Korean missile launches have given Abe a platform to act more aggressively," says Ethan Scheiner, a political scientist at the University of California-Davis and author of Democracy without Competition in Japan.
Abe is a firm supporter of the U.S.-Japanese alliance and of efforts to rewrite a pacifist constitution that limits what the Japanese military can do.
The settlement has been proposed by the defence team of Japanese businessman Joji Obara, on trial in Tokyo accused of murdering the former air stewardess six years ago.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man stabbed to death 10 people, including six children, in an attack on his wife's family, state media reported, and a Chinese woman was charged with murdering seven people in a separate case.
Wang Changyi, upset over "family conflicts", stabbed the 10 last Tuesday while they slept in a remote village in the poor southwestern province of Yunnan before killing himself by drinking pesticide, Xinhua news agency reported late on Tuesday.
Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA News) - The Jayapura Immigration Office will deport five Chinese women on Sunday (Sept 3) to their country, through Jakarta`s Cengkareng Airport.
The five women would be deported next Sunday, while the other five Chinese men would follow later, Head of the Jayapura Immigration Office Giri Hariyanto said here on Thursday.
The ten Chinese aged between 18 and 48 were detained separately on Friday (Aug 25) and Saturday (Aug 26) for violating Indonesia`s immigration law no. 9/1999, articles 40 and 45.
The Jayapura immigration and police joint team initially nabbed a Chinese young woman identified only as ZR (19), for prostitution at a local hotel in the capital of Indonesia`s eastern most province of Papua, last Friday. ZR was having a client when she was detained. http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=19250
Chinese women deported for prostitution (AP) 2006-08-03 Afghanistan deported seven Chinese women Wednesday for prostitution and serving alcohol in a renewed crackdown on vice in this Islamic country.
The women worked in four restaurants that had no tables or kitchens, just beds and areas for serving alcohol, said Interior Ministry official Abdul Jabar Sabet, after allowing reporters watch the women collect their baggage at the airport.
The Afghan government has intensified its campaign against moral corruption over the past month, torching hundreds of bottles of alcohol in front of journalists and announcing plans to re-establish a Vice and Virtues Ministry, which was disbanded after the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-08/03/content_655906.htm
China to tighten control over foreign surveying, mapping
China will step up supervision of foreigners who conduct surveys and map areas of the country.
Foreign organizations and individuals, who engage in surveying and mapping in scientific research and teaching programs, travel or exploration, must obtain approval from the government and accept supervision, the State Bureau of Survey and Mapping said.
The number of foreigners conducting surveying and mapping in China is on the rise and many field projects have been carried out illegally, which have threatened the security of the country, according to the state bureau.
Chinese lead list of asylum seekers with forged passports
Wellington - Chinese travelling on fake Hong Kong or South Korean passports accounted for nearly half the 173 foreign asylum seekers who reached New Zealand with false travel documents in the last two years, a newspaper reported Monday.
Other nationalities ranged from Angolan to British and included a number of Syrians travelling with forged Danish and Belgian passports, Wellington's Dominion Post said.
UN Women’s Committee: Multiple Forms of Discrimination Faced by Tibetan Women Phayul[Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:41] By Ngawang C. Drakmargyapon Phayul Special Correspondent United Nations, Geneva, September 1 ? Last week at the UN’s headquarters in New York, the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) said that in present-day China women, including Tibetan women faced multiple forms of discrimination and called upon the Chinese authorities to take measures to change the situation.
Adopting its conclusions and recommendations on China’s combined fifth and sixth reports which CEDAW reviewed in two public meeting on 10 August, the Committee expressed concern about the disadvantaged position of rural women with regard to access to education, health, employment, and participation in leadership and land property. “It is also concerned at the situation of rural minority women, including Tibetan women, who face multiple forms of discrimination based on sex, ethnic or cultural background and socio-economic status,” the body said in a document dated 25 August. http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=UN+Women%E2%80%99s+Committee%3A+Multiple+Forms+of+Discrimination+Faced+by+Tibetan+Women&id=13728
Brothel raids expose problem of slavery in U.S. Sept. 2, 2006, 6:28PM By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
NEW YORK ? Raids that uncovered more than 70 suspected sex slaves focused on 20 brothels in the East, but they illustrated a long-ignored national problem found in towns large and small, experts say.
"It's a very overwhelming subject for a lot of people to recognize that there is slavery at this time in our country," said Carole Angel, staff attorney with the Immigrant Women Program of the women's rights advocacy group Legal Momentum in Washington.
no surprise that this was reported by the Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age’s Deborah Cameron, whose articles frequently take a negative view of Japanese politics http://japundit.com/archives/2006/08/31/3430/
QUESTION: Thank you. I'm Deborah Cameron from the Sydney Morning Herald of the VIH Newspapers, the Australian contingent. You said earlier that Japan and the U.S. had worked at healing the wounds of war. The wounds of war are not healed between Japan and China. Last week the Chinese ambassador said there was no greater wound than the Yasukuni Shrine. I'm wondering what your view is of the prime minister's continued visits there. And is there, accepting what you say about China and Japan having to sort this out between them, who else can help them, if the U.S. doesn't?
AMBASSADOR SCHIEFFER: First, that's a question that I've often been asked - not on Yasukuni but on why can't the United States get country X and country Y to resolve their differences? http://tokyo.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-20051130-70.html
Tiananmen film gets director 5-year ban By Jonathan Landreth Reuters Monday, September 4, 2006; 6:59 PM BEIJING (Hollywood Reporter) - China has banned acclaimed director Lou Ye from making movies for five years as punishment for sending his latest film "Summer Palace," an erotic love story set against the backdrop of the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square, to the Cannes Film Festival without government approval, official media reported Monday.
Lou, who suffered a two-year blacklisting in 2000 for his Rotterdam Film Festival winner "Suzhou River," could not be reached for comment. In a telephone interview, the film's French co-producer called the decision by the State Administration of Radio Film and Television "shameful." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090400706.html
but it was vociferously opposed by a minority of conservative politicians and by Japan’s sometimes violent ultra-nationalists who refuse to contemplate any change to tradition.
Yahooのトップ Japan's Princess Kiko gives birth to boy By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer ↑ こいつ、いつも最後に恣意的な文章持ってきてキモイ
今回の最後の閉めがこれ "There is no need to stick to a male heir. Regardless of gender, whoever is next in line should take the throne," said Mai Yanagida, a 20-year-old woman. "I think it's fine if Princess Aiko becomes the next empress."
By contrast, Princess Masako has increasingly become a target, routinely criticized by the conservative media for her supposed selfishness and lack of common sense.
>>584 週刊誌をメディア扱いするのか? どうせ「週間女性XX」系の婆の雑誌だろ? だったらこうでは無く、タブロイド誌表現を使うべきでは? By contrast, Princess Masako has increasingly become a target, routinely criticized by the conservative media for her supposed selfishness and lack of common sense. チョソ西も区別がついてる癖に、意図的にメディアつかてんだろ? NYTとNYポスト扱いが一緒で良いって事だな? こんな記事書いてるんだから、それでもNYTは文句を言わないんだろ?
The Environs Kimberley conservation group marched in the parade brandishing anti-whaling banners with the aim of drawing attention to Taiji's status as a major whaling port. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20364431-1702,00.html
Racism on the rise 1 February 2006 By Andrew Webster in Melbourne
But this year, both Aussie iconic pastimes have been marred by a series of racist incidents that have shocked most people and threatened the future of international cricket tours down under.
By far the most serious was also the first. More than 30 people were hurt in early December's race-related riots and reprisal attacks in and around Cronulla beach in Sydney.
これ昨日観たけど、両方共サブジェクトを在日に置き換えても当て嵌まる話だと思う、 日本もこんな感じで在日イシュウをがんがんやれば良いのに。 CNN Headline News Aired September 5, 2006 This is a great example of why I think since 9/11, Americans have gotten so fed up with the "yes, but" Muslims. The "yes, but" Muslims are the ones who show up on talk shows and in the media and say, "Yes, terrorism is bad, but" -- and then they go through a list of reasons on why we should try and sympathize with people who fly planes into buildings. I also hear a lot about Islam being a religion of peace, that terrorists aren`t true Muslims. Fine. OK. I believe that. But if you do accept that, then you can`t really go along with Miss England and the rest of the "yes, buts" and say, "Oh, gee, maybe it is our fault. We`re making good Muslims go bad." Which is it? Tonight, here`s what I know. We are sick and tired of the "yes, but" crowd. I don`t even care what precedes it. There`s no excuse for flying planes into buildings, kidnapping journalists and random beheadings. You want the profiling to stop? Then here`s an idea. Stop murdering innocent people. Stop excusing the people who do. You do that for a while, and I guarantee you won`t have anymore any more problems at the airports. Stop blowing stuff up and the world just might be your oyster. You need to have Muslim moderates, Muslim activists who are going to say, "We are not just against terrorism in the principle, but also against al Qaeda, against the ideology of jihadism." Once you have that, I think the issue won`t be about the community, but about the terrorists themselves. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/05/gb.01.html
http://www.kuam.com/news/18965.aspx Grocer caught selling expired baby food Thursday, September 07, 2006 Parents beware - the next time you purchase baby food for your little one, you might want to look twice at the expiration date on the package. One local store was caught on tape selling expired goods, coincidentally with September being Guam Food Safety Education Month. How would you feel if you purchased baby food without knowing that it was expired? KUAM News received a tip that New Crown Market in Barrigada was selling expired baby food without indicating that it was expired. And even more disturbing - the dates were intentionally covered with price tags. Visiting the store, with several bottles of Gerber brand juice and food I'd previously purchased in tow, we asked a cashier if there was a manager who could comment on the matter. The cashier, a female employee that was visibly shaken at our camera crew's request, hurriedly sent for her boss. Noting that it's against the law to sell expired baby food without marking it, a Korean man emerged from the back room, angered at our presence. He proceeded to cover our camera lens, and after our repeated urging for him to explain why he was selling expired food, ripped our microphone cord, severing it from our camera. He finished by further damaging our equipment, breaking the on-board boom mic atop the kit and pushing our camera operator aside. Because the owner assaulted KUAM's videographer, officers from the Guam Police Department responded and arrested Chong In Kim on two counts of criminal mischief and one count of disorderly conduct.
Seoul officials yesterday challenged the United States' portrayal of Korea as ``a frequent destination for trafficked women and children from the former Soviet Union and neighboring Asian nations.’’
A Labor Ministry official discounted the report as ``groundless,’’ saying that there has not been any reports that children from Kyrgyzstan or other countries were trafficked to South Korea.
``We have no data and information that foreign children are sexually exploited here,’’ he added.
``The U.S. report failed to provide exact data and figures, and leaves us with few clues. There is no credible evidence that South Korea is involved in human trafficking,’’ said an official at the ministry’s immigration bureau.
散々適当な日本叩きの映画を作ったり、アイリス・チャンを支援したりとかして来た癖に、 Samuel Bergerのこの言い分ワロス! だったらハリウッドなどに適当な日本叩きの映画作らせるなよ! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/08/sitroom.02.html Coming up, some former top Clinton aides, including the former president himself, very angry over an upcoming 9/11 miniseries. We'll tell you about their protests to ABC. Among the proposed scenes upsetting them -- a portrayal of a 1998 CIA-led operation in Afghanistan. In the scene CIA operatives have Osama bin Laden cornered and are poised to capture or kill him until national security adviser Samuel Berger refuses to give the go-ahead.
BLITZER: Sandy Berger is joining us here in THE SITUATION ROOM. You're very upset about this. Have you been told that they've revised that one specific scene involving you?
SAMUEL BERGER, CHAIRMAN, STONEBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL: I haven't been told that at all, Wolf. And I've not seen the movie. I've not seen -- been provided with a copy of it. Those who have seen it describe it as misleading, inaccurate, and in some cases, a fabrication. The producers themselves say it's fictionalized. The events of 9/11 are very real and we don't need to play fiction with 9/11.
BLITZER: Is it a problem of those scenes? Because in this letter that you wrote, you together with Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, you want ABC to simply pull the entire film. What's wrong with simply making those last-minute edits, those changes so that the controversy perhaps would go away?
BERGER: I don't think this is just a question of fixing something around the edges, Wolf. My impression is that this is a misleading film to the core. And it seems to me the only appropriate thing at this point is for ABC to withdraw the series.
BLITZER: I know you've had friends, former Clinton officials, who have actually seen it who have said to you that -- what have they said to you about the film?
BERGER: They said that some parts of it are fabrications, other parts are misleading and inaccurate, and this is simply a work of fiction, as the producers have said. In some cases, they've said the actors improvised on the set. Well, you know, 9/11 is something very powerful to the American people and we shouldn't be playing fiction with 9/11.
BLITZER: Have you spoken to your former boss, former President Bill Clinton about this?
BERGER: I have.
BLITZER: And what did he say to you?
BERGER: He's very upset about it as well.
BLITZER: And did he -- can't one of you or both of you pick up the phone and call Bob Iger, the chairman of Disney and complain?
BERGER: I have written to Mr. Iger and said that we believe that the scenes that we're talking about are complete fabrications. They simply did not happen. They should be fixed. But quite honestly, at this point, I don't think this is something you can fix. I think you just have to yank it.
BLITZER: Do you have any sense they will do that?
BERGER: I would hope so. I think that's appropriate. The credibility of this show has been called into question.
BLITZER: Do you know if the former president has called Bob Iger himself and said, you know what, yank this film?
BERGER: I have no idea what the president and Mr. Iger did or did not say. But I can tell you my own view is this is not something that we should be showing to the American people.
BLITZER: What about the bigger picture? Forget about that one specific scene, because the 9/11 Commission, a lot of other people, say it wasn't you that pulled the trigger on going after Osama bin Laden, it was George Tenet, the CIA director. I wonder if you want to clarify that before we move on.
BERGER: On no situation, Wolf, did we ever refuse authorization to the CIA for an operation against bin Laden. The one time we had good information about bin Laden's whereabouts was in August of 1998. We fired 50 tomahawk missiles into the camp where we believed he was. We apparently missed him by a few hours. There was no other occasion while we were in office that we had an opportunity to get bin Laden or eyes on bin Laden. And the fact is, Wolf, five years later, despite the fact that we have thousands of American troops in Afghanistan, we still have not gotten bin Laden.
BLITZER: Because there was one incident. There was some intelligence that he was in a place -- Osama bin Laden -- called Tarnak Farms. You remember that incident?
BERGER: That incident -- I believe in that situation the CIA itself called off the operation because they didn't believe it was reliable.
BLITZER: But that's -- in the film, at least in the earlier version ...
BERGER: That never came to the ...
(CROSSTALK)
BLITZER: ...it was -- it depicted you as saying this. Let me read, though, from the 9/11 Commission report, a reference to you specifically. "In the memo's margin, Berger wrote that before considering action, quote, 'I will want more than verified location. We will need at least data on pattern of movements to provide some assurance he will remain in place,'" the suggestion being that you were overly cautious in giving authority to the CIA or others to go out and kill bin Laden.
BERGER: I don't think we were cautious at all. I think we made it very clear to the CIA that we wanted to get bin Laden. The fact of the matter is, if you try to get bin Laden and you miss and you fail, that strengthens bin Laden. It doesn't strengthen us. It simply embarrasses the United States. And so we wanted to make sure the information was reliable and the one time we had reliable information we went after bin Laden. And I assure you we were not serving subpoenas with those cruise missiles.
BLITZER: Here was another reference from the 9/11 Commission report specifically referring to you. "In his handwritten notes on the meeting paper, Berger jotted down the presence of seven to 11 families in the Tarnak Farms facility, which could mean 60-65 casualties." Were you, with hindsight, overly concerned about civilian casualties and that perhaps spared Osama bin Laden?
BERGER: Absolutely not, Wolf. We would have incurred the cost of casualties if we had reliable information of where bin Laden was. And the one time when we had good information, we took a shot at bin Laden. Unfortunately, we didn't get him. You know, I wish to God we had got him at that time. I wish we had gotten him over the last five years, but we haven't. It's a hard target.
BLITZER: Were there things now, with hindsight, that you could have done over those eight years you were in office, first as a deputy national security advisor, then as the president's national security advisor, that you wish you would have done with hindsight?
BERGER: You know, clearly, with hindsight, you wish you had done more. But I think we did with -- as Governor Kean just said, with the information that we had, we did the best that we could. And, you know, we've learned a lot more about al Qaeda and bin Laden since 9/11 than we knew before.
BLITZER: So if they go ahead and they air this miniseries Sunday night and Monday night is there -- you're a lawyer -- is there a legal action that you might take against ABC, against Robert Iger, against others who were involved in putting this film together?
BERGER: I'm not talking about legal action at this point. I'm talking about responsible action on the part of ABC. Their program has been called into question by historians, by members of the 9/11 Commission. They can't fix this along the edges by tinkering in the last-minute in some desperate effort to edit it. This thing is just rotten to the core.
BLITZER: George Mitchell, former U.S. senator, Democratic leader in the Senate, he's now involved in Disney. He's one of the top officials there. Have you called -- he's the chairman, I believe. Have you called him and asked that he get involved?
BERGER: No, I've not talked to Senator Mitchell. But I have written to Mr. Iger and told him what I thought of the show and suggested that it be fixed. But I think the more I learn about it, you can't fix it, you've got to yank it.
BLITZER: And you haven't received any response ...
(CROSSTALK)
BERGER: No response at all.
BLITZER: A lawsuit?
BERGER: We'll see.
BLITZER: All right. We'll see. Sandy Berger, thanks very much for coming in. Appreciate it.
Three Korean-born women were released from jail Saturday morning after being arrested on prostitution charges the night before when police say they traded sex for money at a Rock Hill massage parlor.
Shirley Kim, 46, Yun Kelley, 64, and Kum Jones, 58, all of 1406 Forest Point Lane, Apt. 206, were charged with aiding, abetting and soliciting prostitution, according to a York County Sheriff's Office report.
>>638元deputy national security advisor, then as the president's national security advisorのSamuel Bergerも、 元国務長官もMadeleine Albrightも、こんな事を言うのならアメリカは、「レイプオブ南京」も含め、数多くの日本叩きのいい加減な映画やドラマも作るなよって事です。 この辺りの文句は「南京大虐殺(中国資本で米国の製作会社が製作予定)」などのフィクションに対してそのまま使えるし、そのまま全く同じ文句が言える。
describe it as misleading, inaccurate, and in some cases, a fabrication. The producers themselves say it's fictionalized. The events of 9/11 are very real and we don't need to play fiction with 9/11.
My impression is that this is a misleading film to the core. And it seems to me the only appropriate thing at this point is for ABC to withdraw the series.
some parts of it are fabrications, other parts are misleading and inaccurate, and this is simply a work of fiction, as the producers have said. In some cases, they've said the actors improvised on the set. Well, you know, 9/11 is something very powerful to the American people and we shouldn't be playing fiction with 9/11.
I have written to Mr. Iger and said that we believe that the scenes that we're talking about are complete fabrications. They simply did not happen. They should be fixed. But quite honestly, at this point, I don't think this is something you can fix. I think you just have to yank it.
I'm talking about responsible action on the part of ABC. Their program has been called into question by historians, by members of the 9/11 Commission. They can't fix this along the edges by tinkering in the last-minute in some desperate effort to edit it. This thing is just rotten to the core.
Japanese Tourists Arrested in Internet Sex Crackdown Police in Seoul Monday detained 25 prostitutes, pimps and Japanese tourists in a crackdown on Internet-based sex rings.
According to officials at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the 34-year-old woman, identified as Chung, operated an Internet site in English and Japanese languages since September last year to arrange sex for incoming Japanese travelers.
``The operators of the Internet sites posted advertisements on some of Japan’s adult-only Web sites and gathered customers under a secret membership program that targeted Japanese business travelers who frequently visit Korea or are on an extended stay here,’’ said a police officer.
The Japanese customers included senior business executives, real estate agents, Korean-Japanese businessmen and others, said the police official.
Police are also questioning 15 women who worked as prostitutes, mostly in their early to mid 20s i ncluding fashion models, college students, office workers, and a Chinese graduate student. Five Japanese tourists who used the online brothel services, and a 55-year-old taxi driver who was involved in escorting the women to customers at hotels and hostels, were also booked.
Authorities in Cyprus on Monday impounded a ship carrying military equipment to Syria. Officials said the Panama-registered Gregorio 1, intercepted last week on its way from North Korea, was stopped after Cyprus received an alert from Interpol that the ship may have been smuggling weapons.
According to the shipping documents, the vessel had been carrying meteorological equipment ordered by the government of Syria. The actual cargo, port authorities discovered, included some 20 mobile radar systems that can be mounted on trucks and used for air-defense.
Port officials have impounded the ship and arrested all 15 crewmembers pending an investigation.
September 12, 2006 Shipping Company Pleads Guilty to Vessel Pollution; Korean Vessel Used Hoses to Bypass Pollution Prevention Equipment The Sun Ace Shipping Company, based in Seoul, South Korea, has pleaded guilty to a one-count information for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, in relation to the operation of a bulk carrier vessel the M/V Sun New, the Justice Department announced today.
Specifically, the defendant, which was the operator and manager of a fleet of five ships, is charged with knowingly failing to maintain an accurate Oil Record Book that fully recorded the disposal of oil residue and bilge into the ocean and then falsifying records to conceal illegal discharges. A joint factual statement filed in District Court in New Jersey stated that, on the night of Jan. 3, 2006, U.S. Coast Guard inspectors boarded the Sun New and discovered that members of the engine room crew has used bypass hoses to discharge oily wastes overboard into the ocean without using the vessel's oil-water separator. Upon further investigation, inspectors discovered that the crew of the Sun New had disposed of oil waste into the ocean at least twice during the voyage from South Korea to New Jersey
When the young men were shipped off to the island for combat, they already knew their odds for survival - that for every 10 of them, 8 or 9 would not return. Their lives and sacrifices are etched in Japanese history, and deservedly so. It is my hope to make these individuals known to the rest of the world, and not just in Japan.
With Letters From Iwo Jima, it is my intention to portray the battle, from their perspective, through their eyes.
In April 05, I had the opportunity to visit the island where so many mothers from both nations lost their beloved sons. Walking on its grounds, I was emotionally overwhelmed. This year, I returned to the island to shoot scenes for the 2 films. The war movies that I grew up watching portrayed a clear picture of who was good and who was evil. However, in life and in war, nothing is that clear. These 2 films are not about who won or who lost. It is about what war does to people, people who would’ve gone on to live their full lives otherwise. From whichever perspective, soldiers who sacrifice their lives in battle are worthy of respect. These 2 films are my way of paying tribute to those fallen soldiers. By telling the stories of these men from both perspectives, it is my hope that the films will illustrate the things in common that both sides shared, and allow us to look at that difficult time in our history with entirely new eyes.”
>>687 特に民主党議員に対しては、>>639の話を例に持ち出して、そのまま返せば良い。 misleading, inaccurate, and in some cases, a fabrication. this is a misleading story to the core. some parts of it are fabrications, other parts are misleading and inaccurate, and this is simply a work of fiction we shouldn't be playing fiction with WW2. the stories that we're talking about are complete fabrications. I'm talking about responsible action on the part of the House of Representatives and Democrats. So-called comfort women have been called into question by historians, by members of the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces. This thing is just rotten to the core.
Despite advances in treatment, China has hundreds of "leper colonies" because of deep-rooted ignorance about the disease, medical experts say.
So strong is the stigma that children have been abandoned, while others are deprived of proper care because their parents are concerned their extended family may be ostracized.
China's open policy to foreign media and financial information agencies remains unchanged and the government will protect their freedom and rights, China's Premier Wen Jiabao said on Wednesday.
"I would like to reiterate that the open policy adopted by the Chinese government regarding the foreign news media and the financial information agencies operating in China remains unchanged," Wen told a news conference.
http://www.24dash.com/showbiz_slapdash/10392.htm Lily Allen and Scissor Sisters record messages for murdered hostess Chart-topping acts Lily Allen and Scissor Sisters have pledged their support for a charity set up in memory of murdered hostess Lucie Blackman. The showbiz stars are the latest to record messages for the Lucie Blackman Trust, which was set up by her father Tim in her memory and with the aim of keeping young people safe.
Japanese businessman Joji Obara has been charged with murdering the 21-year-old and is currently on trial in a lengthy case being held in Tokyo.
During last weekend's music festival Bestival on the Isle of Wight, the singers, along with the Pet Shop Boys and DJ/event organiser Rob Da Bank, recorded the messages for the website www.lucieblackmantrust.org
Earlier this year at the Isle of Wight festival, Coldplay dedicated a song to Miss Blackman and Kate Moss recorded a message.
Why has prostitution developed mainly in Manila and Bangkok and why have they become "the brothel of Asia"? Seoul used to be a major destination for Sex Tourism up until 5 years ago. Why have Manila, Bangkok and Seoul become the destinations for prostitution? These three countries, the Philippines, Thailand and the Republic of Korea, have elements in common. They have formed an alliance with the United States. They, hence, have to accept the existence of the U.S. Armed Forces' Bases.
In 1965 the Vietnamese War broke out. The U.S. Armed Forces had been stationed in Asian allies. The Base in Manila was one of the most important bases and a lot of GIs gathered there. Then the U.S. Armed Forces developed the R&R (rest and recreation) policy. It was to comfort soldiers exhausted on the battlefield and it, of course, included sexual comfort. That is why brothels grew in Manila. After the Vietnamese War ended, the numbers of soldiers stationed at the base in Manila decreased and the brothels lost their main customers. Thus tourists took the place of GIs as customers in the brothels. http://www.mskj.or.jp/getsurei/shimakawa0001.html
Old China News Agency Word Count: 524 China's state-run news agency, Xinhua, literally means "New China." How ironic, given its very old business tactics. Xinhua has released a sweeping update to a 1996 law on foreign news agencies that smacks of expropriation and may violate China's World Trade Organization commitments. The document asserts the Chinese government's right to broadly censor foreign news companies' content over a range of sensitive subjects, including "sovereignty" (read: Taiwan), "religion" (Falun Gong), or China's "interests" (Iran, Burma, Sudan). Article 12 of the new regulations gives Xinhua "the right to select the news and information released by foreign news agencies" and to "delete" ...
Media in Maoist China By Mohammed A.R. Galadari 14 September 2006 CHINA has angered international rights groups and media organisations with its new curbs on foreign journalists and news agencies. In a new order issued on Sunday with immediate effect, the Chinese authorities have announced ‘rules’ requiring foreign media to get the approval of the government news agency, Xinhua, before releasing or distributing any news reports, pictures and graphics within China.
The new rules empower Xinhua to censor and/or delete any content that it sees as a ‘threat’ to national security and unity. In fact, Chinese parliament is currently deliberating a bill that would fine domestic and foreign media if they broke news on natural disasters and other mergencies without authorisation.
The move also affects international financial information agencies such as Reuters and Bloomberg and bars them from selling news services directly to Chinese customers such as banks and brokerages.
New rules in China help shut out foreign press Sep. 11, 2006. 01:57 PM ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHANGHAI, China?Xinhua News Agency, long a mouthpiece for China's ruling Communist party, is getting a boost from the Beijing government in its quest to become an international media power.
New rules that Xinhua issued Sunday in the name of China's Cabinet appear designed to shut out foreign news agencies such as the Associated Press and Reuters that have been seeking wider access to the fast-growing Chinese market in the run-up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
The regulations give Xinhua a virtual monopoly over the distribution inside China of news, information and other services from foreign agencies. Their release comes as the communist leadership has clamped down on mainstream media and the Internet, firing and even arresting aggressive reporters and editors.
China Announces Clampdown On News Coverage of Courts By Maureen Fan Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, September 14, 2006; Page A16
BEIJING, Sept. 13 -- A new effort to punish anyone who leaks information from China's courts is part of a clampdown on the news media ahead of a leadership conference next year, experts said Wednesday.
China's highest court announced rules this week under which officials who give journalists "improper" news will face severe punishment, the official New China News Agency said. Information will be released only through a newly created system of court spokesmen.
Five Chinese women held in custody in American Samoa on prostitution charges Posted at 22:21 on 04 September, 2006 UTC
A Chinese couple in American Samoa is being accused of running a prostitution establishment at a karaoke bar in Pago Pago. The couple face multiple charges, including promoting prostitution and kidnapping.
The FBI, along with local police, is investigating the case. Our correspondent, Monica Miller, says police took action after two Chinese women fled from the bar and alleged they had been forced into prostitution. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=26566
The Chinese government has been rather hard on Japan for some time, but especially in recent months. Many Japanese consider the Chinese government at least an accessory after the fact in the student attacks on the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai. It is plain to see that the Chinese police aren't overzealous in putting a stop to the vandalism of Japanese property.
More generally, the Japanese are getting tired of the Chinese government's selective use of history. The Chinese government is demanding yet another apology from the Japanese government for the Rape of Nanking and other acts of Japanese brutality in China before and during World War II. At the same time, it treats any reference to the more recent, and continuing, Chinese brutality in Tibet as contrary to the rules of international discourse.
Since Tibet has been incorporated into China, what goes on there is an internal matter, and foreigners have no right to discuss it. Many Japanese have lost patience with this one-sided spirit of criticism. Following is a Japanese comment on the question of relative culpability, Japanese and Chinese.
Japanese bosses blamed anarchists and Koreans for the Tokyo earthquake of 1923. More than 6,000 Korean workers in Japan were hunted down with clubs and bamboo spears. All known Japanese and Korean anarchists were arrested. Park Yeol and his wife Kaneko Fumiko, Korean anarchists, veterans of the independence struggle and organisers of the Tokyo "Black Workers Society", were sentenced to death. Many others were jailed. The charge of causing an earthquake may have been a bit embarrassing to sections of the ruling class so the sentences were commuted to life in prison. Kaneko died in jail and Park was not released until the end of WWll.
"How North Korea will do with its missiles and nuclear weapons... Those will be just children's toys in front of the U.S.," Kim was quoted as saying in the interview.
Kim said America's military industry has enjoyed windfall gains by selling their weapons to Japan and others throughout North Korea's nuclear standoff.
The World: When Laws Don't Apply; Cracking Down on the Terror-Arms Trade June 15, 2003 - By DAVID E. SANGER New York Times For years, the ferry has been considered a link in providing North Korea with hard currency, mostly from pachinko parlors run by Koreans who live in Japan. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30B1EF83C5C0C768DDDAF0894DB404482
According to an analyst for the Japanese Police, Hayakawa was under surveillance at this time-believed to be a possible spy for the North Korean military. He inadvertently led them straight to the relatively unknown Aum sect
Gas attacks on the Japanese railway system, and strange (possibly terrorist-initiated) "accidents" in Japanese nuclear power plants, have continued well after Asahara's incarceration. There is some evidence that points to North Korean terrorist activities being the source of all of these incidents-including the original Tokyo subway gas attack. Today, Asahara is generally being vilified in the Japanese/world media and is kept in a cold cell; but Hayakawa is hardly ever heard of while under house arrest (where his 'warders' call him "Sir"!). It appears likely that the Aum was simply nominated as the source of the gas attack to shut down a compromised intelligence asset and hide the true state of affairs regarding North Korea.
The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor
On October 7, 1940, Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum of the Office of Naval Intelligence submitted a memo to Navy Captains Walter Anderson and Dudley Knox (whose endorsement is included in the following scans). Captains Anderson and Knox were two of President Roosevelt's most trusted military advisors.
The memo, scanned below, detailed an 8 step plan to provoke Japan into attacking the United States. President Roosevelt, over the course of 1941, implemented all 8 of the recommendations contained in the McCollum memo. Following the eighth provocation, Japan attacked. The public was told that it was a complete surprise, an "intelligence failure", and America entered World War Two.
(See Part 1: The lame duck and the greenhorn Part 2: The challenge of unilateralism Part 3: Dynamics of the Korea crisis Part 4: Proliferation, imperialism - and the 'China threat')
the Japs hardly ever make their characters Japanese looking, they always model them on Aryans. They have respect for our race. I have respect for theirs. It is not multi-cult to respect a race that respects you.
Actually the drawings do focus on white people and most people will agree that most anime shows a White person as generally superior and the better person. Also, in many animes I have seen there are usually no niggers, or races other then Whites. Even though japs do draw these films, the japs are showing that the white people in these stories are better then others and watching these animations is better then watching the cartoons here in America, many of which have false and jew influence.
It is a known fact to many that the japs do not draw these white characters hoping to truly represent japs themselves, but instead Whites. Since anime started, japs have said that the influence for these drawings come straight from beautiful white people. There have been some animes that tried to star japanese or asian looking characters, but those have been unpopular with whites and the japs themselves, which is ironic, but it shows that the japs do admire the white race. The only thing I can't stand is anime porn which is disgusting.
I ve watched a lot of anime and always are the characters white the japanese must adore us
U.S.-South Korean ties have grown increasingly strained as Bush and Roh split over the North Korean nuclear issue. The last time Bush and Roh met, 10 months ago in South Korea, Roh privately grilled Bush on whether the administration was trying to sabotage the six-party North Korea process and his government publicly embarrassed the Americans by leaking plans to withdraw 1,000 troops from Iraq. North Korea has refused since November to return to the talks, which also involve Japan, China and Russia.
In recent weeks, U.S. and South Korean officials have sparred over how to respond to North Korea's summertime missile tests, with Washington pressing for tougher actions and Seoul dismissing the political importance of the episode. Wary of a public spat, the White House decided to minimize the chance of discord at yesterday's meeting by scrapping any joint news statement and limiting the encounter to an hour-long session in the Oval Office followed by a lunch focused on human rights abuses in North Korea.
Whether at Tokyo's "Electric Town" — a bonfire of neon, noise and nerds, where geeky men with no knack for conversation are served green tea by girls in frills — or rubbing shoulders with other silvertails, Mr Abe puts very little distance between the past and the future.
UNDERSTANDING JAPAN’S RELATIONS IN NORTHEAST ASIA Michael J. Green, PhD Associate Professor of International Relations Georgetown University Senior Advisor and Japan Chair Center for Strategic and International Studies
今さら何だが、早稲田の女学生の英語のブログから 悠仁様ご誕生の話題 http://kissui.net/blog/2006/09/05/the-countrys-baby/ >Rumor says it’ll be a boy, but I’m praying that it’ll be a girl >so that the first child (the girl) of the crown prince can actually >become an empress. 典型的なフェミ論者らしい。「第一子優先」論者か?
>People just do not believe that a woman is capable of ruling. >And their reason is “because it saids so in some old historical >document” - it’s the 21st century. 男系、女系というところまで考えが至らないらしいw てか、こいつは血筋がめちゃくちゃになっても皇室という制度は 残したいのか。 「21世紀だぜ」なんてことを言っときながら。
>And like they will be any sort of actual “ruling” since the main job >of an emperor is to become a diplomatic representation of the country. 国の外交の代表ってアホかw そもそもそんな政治がらみのことが出来る訳ないだろ。
>Gender problem is one of the reasons I’m dying to get out of this >country, なんか外国かぶれの女って必要以上に日本を蔑む発言しない?
>there have been empresses in the past. i hope miss aiko can cause >some stir by trying for one. miss aikoって何かのミスコンかよw てか「第一子優先」論者と思わせておいて、先に誕生された眞子様、 佳子様は無視かよ。
I’m leaving for London in a few hours. I will come back on July 2007. I’m going be studying anthropology at one of the schools in University of London. I’ll be living in a self catering, mixed sex dormitory. It’s not my first time going to London
When the Korean jet reached Anchorage's airspace about 1 p.m., controllers radioed coded questions to the pilots to learn whether they had been hijacked. Controllers and pilots are trained how to respond to such messages, but something failed that day.
Instead of reassuring controllers, the Korean pilots declared themselves hijacked at 1:24 p.m. They set their transponder, which transmits information about the flight to radars, to the four-digit universal code for hijacked — 7500.
Tokyo Homes May Sit on WWII Mass Grave By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer 9:19 AM PDT, September 17, 2006
The Toyama No. 5 apartment block is quiet at midday -- laundry flapping from balconies, old people taking an after-lunch stroll. But the building and its nearby park may be sitting on a gruesome World War II secret.
A wartime nurse has broken more than 60 years of silence to reveal her part in burying dozens, perhaps hundreds, of bodies there as American forces occupied the Japanese capital.
The way experts see it, these were no ordinary casualties of war, but possible victims of Tokyo's shadowy wartime experiments on live prisoners of war -- an atrocity that has never been officially recognized by the Japanese government, but is well documented by historians and participants.
Former nurse Toyo Ishii says that during the weeks following Japan's surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, she and colleagues at an army hospital at the site were ordered to bury corpses, bones and body parts - - she doesn't know how many -- before the Americans arrived.
A mass grave of between 62 and more than 100 possible war-experiment victims was uncovered in a nearby area in 1989. But Ishii's account -- publicly released in June -- could yield a far larger number and a firmer connection to Unit 731, Japan's dreaded germ and biological warfare outfit.
http://www.crisscross.com/jp/quote/1937 If the bones are actually there, they are likely related to Unit 731 itself, because the facility that used to stand in that part of the compound was closely linked to the unit.
Keiichi Tsuneishi, a Kanagawa University history professor and expert on Japan's wartime biological warfare, commenting on a wartime nurse's claim that a Tokyo apartment block is sitting on top of a mass grave containing remains of up to 100 corpses, who were victims of experiments on live prisoners of war. (AP) September 19, 2006
Jayapura (ANTARA News) - Five Chinese nationals were deported to their country while five others were still detained here for breaching Indonesian immigration law, an official said.
The Jayapura immigration office sent the five Chinese women back from Sentani airport to their home through Soekarno-Hatta international airport on Sunday, Jayapura immigration office head Giri Hariyanto said here Monday.
Four of the five Chinese women were prostitutes and arrested on Friday night, he said.
The five Chinese women were identified as Zhong Xiurong (18), Liu Lizen (19), Zhang Zhuqing (19), Cheng Qing Shang (32) and Cheng Yiu (30), while names of the five Chinese men were Wei Liang Quan (48), Wang Qin Hua (47), Gao Lie Zen (39), Guo Liang Hong (42) and Yang Chunfu (38). http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=19408
The Toyama No. 5 apartmentって何処? 日本語表記がわからない、 何時もの事だけど、栗黒に変なのが沸いてるな。 http://www.crisscross.com/jp/quote/1937 If the bones are actually there, they are likely related to Unit 731 itself, because the facility that used to stand in that part of the compound was closely linked to the unit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091801312.html Japan's Abe, Poised to Lead, Offers Nation Vision of Pride By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, September 19, 2006; Page A01 take a peek inside the eighth-grade history classes at this city's prestigious Tamagawa Academy. Using new textbooks with lessons hailed by Abe as the foundation of a more confident nation, junior high students at the elite private school are this year being taught something that has been largely taboo in post-World War II Japan -- to take pride in their country. The texts omit or soften references to atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the war, assure students that the war was waged primarily in self-defense and promote the ideal of a proud and independent Japan. The controversial books, thus far adopted by only a handful of schools, have the support of the government and are set for wider distribution. But they are only part of Abe's vision for the future. He has vowed to push through a sweeping education bill, strengthening the notion of patriotism in public classrooms in a way not seen since the fall of Imperial Japan, and to rewrite Japan's pacifist constitution to allow the country to again have an official and flexible military.
Japan Sees Genes of a Leader in a Grandson By Bruce Wallace, Times Staff Writer September 19, 2006
Some say the man poised to become Japan's next prime minister is a hawk, pointing to his hard-line stance on North Korea and his declared intention to rewrite Japan's pacifist constitution.
Others call him a realist, prepared to muffle his tough talk to soften Japan's image and improve its stone-cold relations with China.
Yet almost everyone here agrees there is one label that fits this career politician who is almost certain to be elected head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, on Wednesday and prime minister a week after that.
The grandson. The grandson. The grandson.
To understand Abe, say friends and foes, you must understand his relationship with Nobusuke Kishi, his maternal grandfather, who died in 1987 and was once prime minister. Kishi was no ordinary politician. He was a key architect of imperial Japan's expansion across Asia in the 1930s, a Cabinet minister who signed the declaration of war against the United States and who was arrested and jailed — though never charged — as part of the select company of about two dozen top war criminals after Japan's surrender.
China and the two Koreas have been particularly unsettled by Abe's questioning of the legitimacy of the Tokyo war crimes trials and alarmed by his visits to Yasukuni Shrine, where war criminals are honored along with about 2.5 million other Japanese war dead.
President Ahmadinejad: The transcript They were all human beings. Why is it that only a select group of those who were killed have become so prominent and important? Did the Palestinian people have anything to do with it? Why should the Palestinians pay for it now? Five million displaced Palestinian people is what I'm talking about. Over 60 years of living under threat. Losing the lives of thousands of dear ones. And homes that are destroyed on a daily basis over people's heads. You might argue that the Jews have the right to have a government. We're not against that. But where? At a place where their people were — several people will vote for them, and where they can govern. Not at the cost of displacing a whole nation. And occupying the whole territory.I feel as there is a feeling a feeling of a need to get the truth here. Among American politicians as well as some media here. The main question is if this happened in Europe, what is the fault of the Palestinian people? This is a problem we have today, the root cause of many of our problems, not what happened 60 years ago. The Palestinian people are — their lives are being destroyed today. There's a pretext of the Holocaust. Lands have been occupied, usurped. What is their fault? What are they to be blamed for? Are they not human beings? Do they have no rights? What role did they play in the Holocaust? Some attempt to sort of change the subject. From the first day I said, "Well, assuming that the Holocaust happened..." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14912050/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/world/asia/19koizumi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Departing Japanese Leader Shook Up Politics as Usual September 19, 2006 - By NORIMITSU ONISHI 何故かチョンのエキスパートに聞いてるしww “He’s dramatically changed everything about how Japanese politics worked,” said Park Cheol-hee, an expert in Japanese politics at Seoul National University in South Korea. “Future prime ministers will have to follow his path. I don’t think they can go back to the good old days of relying on interest groups and bureaucrats. The public will expect prime ministers to take real policy initiatives. Things have fundamentally changed.” But the revival of Japan’s economy, many experts say, owes as much, if not more, to private companies' own restructurings and the booming trade with China’s explosive economy. Mr. Koizumi may have nurtured such an ironclad relationship with Mr. Bush that he was rewarded with a farewell road trip to Graceland. But he brought Japan's relations with China to their lowest point in decades, and presided over the rise of a narrow nationalism at home and Japan’s diplomatic isolation in the region. He made annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, the Shinto memorial where Japan's war dead and war criminals are enshrined. Most of his predecessors had avoided the shrine, regarded as a symbol of Japanese militarism in this region. Because of the visits, China and South Korea have refused to hold talks with Japan. But critics say Mr. Koizumi used foreign opposition to the shrine visits to rally nationalist sentiments among Japanese, who had lost their self-confidence because of the long economic slump and had grown fearful of China’s rise. Under Mr. Koizumi, nationalist politicians and scholars who would like to whitewash Japan's militarist past have found fertile soil and moved into the mainstream.
Government-sanctioned school textbooks increasingly omit facts from Japan’s wartime history, like the use of slave labor and “comfort women” during the years it occupied Korea and Manchuria, or the massacre of 100,000 to 300,000 Chinese in Nanjing. Japan's troubles with its neighbors, especially China, eventually grew so severe that policy makers and scholars in Washington in the past year began expressing worries that Mr. Koizumi’s policy was hurting Japanese — and American — interests in Asia. But Mr. Koizumi’s open appeals to nationalist symbols like Yasukuni won him and his party votes, a lesson that was absorbed by his likely successor, Shinzo Abe, the chief cabinet secretary. Japan’s economy has bounced back, though its long-term recovery is uncertain.
SKorean 'sex tourists' may lose passports AFP Thursday, September 21, 2006 08:37 IST
SEOUL: South Korean "sex tourists" could lose their passports under new proposals to crack down on prostitution at home and abroad, media reports said on Thursday.
The proposals and others directed at the Korean market were announced by the ministry of gender equality and family to mark the second anniversary of an anti-prostitution law.
Since then, the number of brothels has fallen and more sex workers are training for new jobs, vice-minister Kim Chang-Soon was quoted by the Korea Times as saying.
"However, there are also new kinds of problems to deal with, such as the sex trade going underground at hotels, massage parlours and bars, and the growing number of people going overseas to buy sex," he added.
Kim said the government would form a special team to monitor Koreans buying sex overseas and investigate Internet dating services which were sometimes a front for the trade.
Under a new law being drafted, authorities will be empowered to shut down hotels, massage parlours, karaoke bars and other establishments found to be offering sex.
Amnesty slams China over rights in Olympics run-up Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:20pm ET By Lindsay Beck BEIJING (Reuters) - China's human rights record has deteriorated in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, with thousands of people being executed after unfair trials, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
The human rights watchdog sent its latest findings to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and said Chinese authorities would have to act quickly if they were to fulfill their pledges to improve human rights.
"The serious human rights abuses that continue to be reported every day across the country fly in the face of the promises the Chinese government made when it was bidding for the Olympics," Amnesty's Catherine Baber said in a statement.
Beijing's campaign to host the 2008 Olympics was shadowed by criticism of its rights record from international groups and Western capitals. The Beijing committee pledged that by allowing the city to host the Games, the International Olympic Committee would help advance human rights in China.
BROTHEL CREEP Crook admits he ran sex-for-sale massage parlour By John Ferguson A MASSAGE parlour owner yesterday admitted running it as a brothel and living off immoral earnings. Businessman Dominic Woo, 53, now faces jail and losing his assets, including the 275,000 building he used as a sex-for-sale sauna.
Woo, who has been linked to Chinese Triad gangs and people-smuggling, was trapped when police put the Venus Sauna under surveillance. When they traced men using the premises in the Park area of Glasgow, some confessed they had paid for sex there.
Former sheriff Hugh Neilson was among those interviewed and admitted paying a hooker for full sex. Neilson, who now works as a solicitor in Glasgow, was caught in a raid on another sauna in 2004.
Glasgow Sheriff Court was told yesterday that vice girls would take customers into a bedroom at the Venus and charge between 40 and 60 for sexual services.
Men would pay between 10 and 15 for entry to the club at the reception and then pay prostitutes for sex. It was claimed girls would have to hand back 15 of the money they took from men to reception and Woo would turn up at the end of each night to collect the takings.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/23/opinion/main1927201.shtml think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans, and now it's Arabs. Very few black people own these stores." Naturally enough, he got himself fired for his trouble. Nobody needs a spokesman who generates bad press for himself, and implying that a shady cabal of Jewish-Korean scam artists causes African-American poverty is a good way to get yourself bad press.
9pで早漏なんだな。 -- virtually every customer arrived and left within 30 minutes. "You could set your watch by it," Det. Palmer says. Most of the customers were Korean
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060916.BAWDY16/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/ As they soon learned, No. 88 was known as Korean Heaven, and catered to a mostly Asian clientele. The house attracted an average of 40 to 60 customers a day, but the numbers sometimes varied wildly. Korean Heaven ran with the precision of a well-run fast-food restaurant -- virtually every customer arrived and left within 30 minutes. "You could set your watch by it," Det. Palmer says. Its services were advertised by word of mouth, and through forums held on websites like Toronto Escorts Review Board and Behind Closed Doors, where customers traded connections and cell numbers. Most of the customers were Korean, but aside from that, there were few points of commonality. Some were single, others were married or divorced. One owned a construction company. One drove a dump truck. Another was a corporate vice-president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/world/asia/21japan.html?ref=asia One of Mr. Abe’s most pressing problems will be to restore normal relations with China, which has refused to hold high-level talks because of Mr. Koizumi’s annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, the Shinto memorial where 14 Class A war criminals are enshrined. The shrine, also a memorial to Japan’s 2.5 million war dead, is considered a symbol of Japanese militarism in the rest of Asia.
The visits have worried American politicians that Japan is provoking China, and hurting American interests in the region. Mr. Abe, despite past support of the visits, has said he would pursue a policy of ambiguity, neither confirming nor denying whether he has visited the shrine.
http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/comfort.htm >Dai Sil Kim-Gibson - Director/Producer/Writer Born in Northern Korea >when it was still under Japanese colonial rule, Kim-Gibson came to >the United States in 1962 to pursue graduate studies in religion. >She received her PhD. from Boston University, and taught for many years >at Mt. Holyoke College 現在62歳だから1944年生まれだな。 北で教育は無理だろうから、戦後のどさくさの時に南に行ったんだろう。
Sex Workers Filling Albuquerque Jail SEPTEMBER 25, 2006 07:04 When I heard the rumor by chance that young Korean women are held in custody in Albuquerque, what I thought of at first was “Where is Albuquerque?” However, the curiosity why Korean women are locked up in a small city unknown to us in New Mexico was soon satisfied.
“Operation Cold Comport,” which was supposed to crack down on Korean sex trade shops, were launched on August 15 by 1,000 armed policemen in eastern cities including Washington D.C. and New York. It is said that during the operation, arrested women were sent into custody. Among 70 Korean women arrested, 15 out of 19 women who failed to be released on bail are in custody.
Albuquerque is a city of 500,000, which is built in the middle of a vast wilderness in New Mexico. The Detention and Correction Center that I visited on September 18 was in the middle of its downtown area unlike my imagination. However, security and guard were heavy, just like other correctional facilities. On the fourth floor of the building, seemingly the tallest one in the city, were Korean women in custody.
According to estimates, foreign workers send home more than 900 billion yen (US$8.16 billion) annually - a lifesaver for their poor families back home. Kadokura, who is investigating Japan's underground economy, says at the top of the remittance list are Chinese, Filipinos, Thais and South Koreans.
Last year, Japanese authorities estimated that there were 250,000 illegal workers in the country, many of them Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Burmese and Sri Lankans. While actual figures are hard to come by given that most workers are undocumented, Kadokura says Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos send home 608.2 billion yen ($5.50 billion) annually.
A Chinese history teacher beat an 11-year-old pupil senseless and threw her body from a fourth-floor classroom window, killing her in a so-far unexplained frenzy, a local newspaper said on Monday.
Fleischmann is a victim of click fraud: a dizzying collection of scams and deceptions that inflate advertising bills for thousands of companies of all sizes. The spreading scourge poses the single biggest threat to the Internet's advertising gold mine and is the most nettlesome question facing Google and Yahoo, whose digital empires depend on all that gold.
KOREAN CLONES Fleischmann's daily immersion in click statistics fuels his indignation. How, he wants to know, did he receive traffic this summer from PCs in South Korea which are clicking on insurance1472.com and insurance060.com? The only content on these identical sites -- and five other clones with similar names -- are lists of Yahoo ads, which occasionally have included MostChoice promotions. Fleischmann's spreadsheets revealed, not surprisingly, that all of the suspected Korean clickers left his site in a matter of seconds, and none became customers.
The two individuals registered as owning the mysterious insurance sites are based in South Korea. They didn't respond to requests for comment, and most of the sites disappeared in late summer, after MostChoice challenged Yahoo about them.
http://www.sundayherald.com/58096 Oliver Stone 24 September 2006 His current girlfriend is Korean, and Stone refers to their young daughter as the best possible product of America – “I believe in mixing the races. The melting pot has given my country its great driving energy”. She is the antithesis of everything he hates about the place. “Capitalism, corruption, corporate fascism …”
Teacher beats child with bar and throws her from window A TEACHER killed an 11-year-old child after beating her senseless in class and then throwing her out of a fourth floor window.
The history teacher turned on Zhang Yaoyi in a violent frenzy. So far neither police nor the school, in Yongzhou city, have explained what prompted Li Hengyi, 28, to attack the pupil. A Chinese newspaper reported: "He knocked her head against the desks back and forth and stomped on her after she fell.
"He then produced a steel bar to beat her."
Li later then picked up the motionless Zhang, and told pupils he was going to take her to the school clinic. Instead he opened a window and threw her to the ground below. Li, whose motive was unknown, had been detained by police.
>>896 いいレスがついてるよ。 Mary, I agree that Japan has a past and many Japanese do not know about their history. But you should not be suprised or even appalled. I mean how many Americans know about the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. I did not learn in school that our country imprisoned Japanese Americans just because they were of a certain ethnicity. Just like the Jews in Germany, these people were racially profiled and persecuted. They lost their jobs, land, money and a their freedom for no good reason. My history books in school never thought me about that. My history books never talked about the systematic eliminatiion of the Indian culture. All my history books mentioned about the Indians were how they share their food with the pilgrims. And forget about black history.
To be fair, we have made apologies and amends to our past in many ways. But our history is greatly distorted too. And to see how it is greatly distorted, one only has to turn on the televison and watch Fox news to see how conservatives twist the facts to justify our President's actions and our war in Iraq. Its shameless. Many Americans still believe that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan was a necessary evil, which many books and our national archive have stated as untrue.
joelasso has been doing hit and run, why his hit and run is OK? I need to know the guideline of hit and run. Will you make the guideline and publicize it? It'll benefit all forum members.
Officers find 1.5 million contraband cigarette packs on North Korean ship
The coast guard detected yesterday a freight vessel off Katakolo, southwest Greece, that was attempting to smuggle into the country 1.5 million packets of cigarettes. The seven crew members on the North Korean-flagged Evva vessel were arrested. The Merchant Marine Ministry said that the cigarettes were destined for Greece and that unpaid taxes and dues from the shipment reached 3.5 million euros. Authorities said that they found the ship about 6 nautical miles off the port of Katakolo after receiving a tip-off about a suspicious vessel.
930 :Prostitution has been illegal in South Korea since 1948,:2006/09/29(金) 04:08:08
South Korea sex trade revamps after clampdown September 28, 2006 South Korean call girl Lee Hyun-mi faces a tough choice. Since the clampdown, Lee faces the choice of applying for a government program to take her out of the sex trade, turning to a broker for an overseas prostitution ring or joining a growing union movement for sex workers seeking to legalize their profession and improve work conditions. Prostitution has been illegal in South Korea since 1948, but until recently authorities turned a blind eye to the booming sex industry that belies South Korea's reputation as a straight-laced Confucian society. Prostitution is a lucrative industry in South Korea. About 20 percent of adult males in South Korea bought sex four times a month on average while 4.1 percent of women in their 20s made their livings as sex workers, according to the most recent Korean Institute of Criminology survey conducted in 2003. It found that the sex trade, with Amsterdam-style windowed bordellos and fronts in barber shops, raked in revenue of about 24 trillion won ($25 billion) a year in the world's 11th largest economy. Some prostitutes scoff at the government program, saying it offers too little money to help them pay off their debts or start businesses and too little support once they are out, according to postings on Internet sites for the sex workers' labor movement. The campaign against prostitution at home has forced many Korean sex workers to pack up and head overseas, often to the United States where they accumulate huge debts to their traffickers and face a harsh life. In August, U.S. authorities broke up a Korean prostitution ring operating in East Coast cites such as New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Korean prostitution rings were also busted in California earlier this year. http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2006/09/28/south_korea_sex_trade_revamps_after_clampdown/
Millions of dollars and a piano may put Korean in UN's top job By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor and James Bone SOUTH KOREA has pledged millions of dollars in aid and offered other incentives to members of the United Nations Security Council to secure its candidate as the next UN secretary-general. An investigation by The Times has disclosed that the South Koreans have been waging an aggressive campaign on behalf of Ban Ki Moon, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the front-runner to replace Kofi Annan as UN chief at the end of the year. The inducements range from tens of millions of pounds of extra funding for African countries to lucrative trade agreements in Europe ? and even the gift of a grand piano to Peru.
Mr Ban’s prospects received a dent last night when he slipped back in a new secret ballot by the UN Security Council. While Mr Ban remained the clear front-runner, he received support from only 13 of the 15 council members ? one fewer than in the previous ballot. One council member voted against him and another abstained. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2380336,00.html
Seoul tries to buy top UN job Richard Beeston and James Bone September 29, 2006 SOUTH KOREA has pledged millions of dollars in aid and offered other incentives to members of the United Nations Security Council to secure its candidate as the next UN secretary-general.
An investigation by The Times of London has disclosed that the South Koreans have been waging an aggressive campaign on behalf of Ban Ki Moon, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the front-runner to replace Kofi Annan as UN chief at the end of the year.
The inducements range from tens of millions of pounds of extra funding for African countries to lucrative trade agreements in Europe ? and even the gift of a grand piano to Peru.
Mr Ban’s prospects received a dent last night when he slipped back in a new secret ballot by the UN Security Council. While Mr Ban remained the clear front-runner, he received support from only 13 of the 15 council members one fewer than in the previous ballot. One council member voted against him and another abstained.
A further ballot will be held on Monday, with coloured cards to show if the negative vote comes from a veto- bearing permanent member. Britain and France both appear to harbour hopes that new candidates will still emerge.
Millions of dollars and a piano may put Korean in UN's top job
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor and James Bone Aid campaign is crucial in race to succeed Kofi Annan
SOUTH KOREA has pledged millions of dollars in aid and offered other incentives to members of the United Nations Security Council to secure its candidate as the next UN secretary-general. (後略)
In the security council's straw polls, members are asked to select from the options "encourage", "not encourge", or "no view". In the first two polls and again last night, the council members cast their votes, but on Monday the votes of the permanent members of the council, who have a veto, will be recorded: a no vote from such a member would effectively end a candidate's chances.
Korean civic group facing fraud charges Friday, September 29, 2006 Officials at a Ridgefield Korean-American community group defrauded clients by collecting payments for services that were not delivered, authorities say. Capping a three-month investigation of the Korean Family Love Counseling Center, Ridgefield Police arrested two officials at the group's offices at 780 Grand Ave. on Wednesday morning, Detective Sgt. Rich Besser said. They were identified as Soontak Park, 39, of New York City, and Hyun S. Oh of Ridgefield. Besser said the center offered classes for aspiring home health aides, promising that students who completed the course of study would receive state certification. That didn't happen, Besser said. Students also did not receive the job-placement assistance they had been promised, he said. In addition, the center allegedly charged some clients $600 to help them get Medicaid cards. In fact, anyone eligible for Medicaid may obtain a Medicaid card for free, Besser said. Park and Oh each were charged with theft by deception. In addition, Park was charged with three counts of falsifying a writing or record http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1MyZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Njk5ODQ5NiZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTM=
>>954 あまりにも素晴らしいのでハン板に投下してくるニダ。 その前に保存。 wow, Id like to add something to this Topic if I may... I think living in Korea for 3 years, and being able to speak Korean gives me that right!
Generally from what I have experienced, Koreans are a very selfish and xenophobic race with the intention of pushing the Korean race forward with the sole intention of trying to be the best in the world, and with a bombastic attitude that they are infact the greatest race in the world, but lacking the manners, the respect of others.
1.) While living in Korea, I've been subjected to being ignored by people
2.) Told by Korean men "Korean girls aren't rice! don't eat them" (han guk yujah dul ri pap aniyah, mok ji ma rah, araso!? ) - pam mal! basically meaning you have no right to touch a Korean girl, etc **** her!
3.) When visiting my family back in England for 2 weeks, having my deposit money stolen by my Korean roommate
4.) Not being able to rent a room alone..without some kinda promise under a Koreans name, what I'm really basically saying is.. you can live alone, but don't expect to be able have the right to pay your own gas bill, electricity bill etc, Korea wont let people without a working visa basic rights. INCLUDES students like me!
5.) Having Korean university aged people speak to me in "informal" Korean language, then when I've questioned them about it, they say its because i don't know Korean or they are sorry and then in a mocking sense say miah hae YO, araso YO trying to over emphasize their new found love for polite form! - sarcastic bastards.
6.) Koreans are so stupid they think nobody else can speak Korean, or they are just so they will make bold outlandish comments about your appearance in front of your face
7.) When a Korean moves to England as a student, they are entitled to study and work part-time and they are issued visa's in 6-month 1 year periods depending on subject. yet, when an English person moves to Korea as a student, we are only issued 3 month D-4, D-4-4 visa's which don't entitle us to working part-time, and require our attendance at school to be 90%. its so bad, I don't even use visa's now, I just come and go to Japan every three months (also a good change to remain sane)
8.) Koreans will always address you to their friends as "waeguk chingu" foreign friend, which makes a clear and defined distance between what's you and what's them, and no matter what you try or how hard you try.. your friendship will always be smited by the fact your not Korean.
9.) An example of the xenophobic Korean race, my friend who is really beautiful half Korean/ American was on the train in Seoul, and an old guy stood in front of her and spat in her face, due to the fact she is half Korean, he then proceeded to call her mother a "yang gong ju" -term for prostitutes who used to serve the American army, then when she seeked comfort and support from others they said.. ohh just ignore it.. its because he's old, or because he's proud of his country etc.. basically fobbing her off saying live with it.. your half Korean what do you expect!!!
10) Once I was approached by 2 Korean old men, while i was just reading a book and talking to my friend in the subway and they asked us if we were terrorists! WE ARE BOTH WHITE AND KOREA HAS NOTHING VALUABLE ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT TO MAKE ANY IMPACT!
11) Korea is resent full to Japan with a passion when Japan lost the 2006 world cup, and their team was knocked out.. thousands of Koreans cheered and celebrated with their beers.
12) Korea constantly complain about dokdo (takeshima) -i think its spelt, talking about how its part of Korea its Korean pride and history and such a big piece of Koreans fishing terroritorys. a ****ing island with 1 house on it. they said Japan wants to take the issue to the international court or something, but because one of the members on international court is Japanese, they feel its unfair.. ****! Japan and China opened their doors to international traded hundreds of years ago.. thats what you achieve when opening your doors to international trade.
13) This is from my personal opinion now! Korea never wanted to open its doors to foreigners, its only when it could clearly see that china, and Japan being powerhouse either side of Korea made them feel uneasy about the fact anyone of them could invade or, have way too much financial power compared to Korea... Korea shit their load, and begged for the Olympics to come to Korea, and for the beginning of the international trade.
14) this is only speculation again, i can only guess but its an educated guess! 90% of girls who are attractive in Seoul are (sol jib agashii) bar girls, or prostitutes for room salons, 588, miari, etc. this is because the very difficulty for young people to earn the serious money they need to keep up with Japanese fashions styles, and to have the pathetic LV bag.
15) While living in Korea I've suffered food poisoning 2 times. when i first moved here, i was shitting myself everyday for 2 months.. i had to carry 2 pairs of pants around with me in my bag virtually everyday.
16) Koreans will try to talk to you on the street, make friends with you why!? for pure friendship? no they will indeed tell you from the start! because they want to learn English or they need to improve their Toiec score!
17) Streets in Seoul smell like shit. the sweuer system is ****ed.
18) pollution is so bad, yet Koreans don't learn to down size their engine size.. most cars here have engines with 3.0 lt, 3.2lt and higher, why? Koreans lack any ability to create high quality car engines.
19) Korean men suffer from impotency, they only have 80% the male hormones than their western counterparts, perhaps it explains the small Korean penis. don't believe me go to choseon news and search!
20) Lacking disabled access, rights for disabled people etc.
21) Ddong dwae ji..(shit pig) go to some restaurants and the pig will have been feed on human shit.
22) The inhumane torcher, and punishment of dogs for consumption, Koreans are under the notion that beat the **** out of the dog before you kill it makes the meat more tender so they hit the dogs with a stick with nails in it, or they punch the dog in the face, etc...
23) The presumption that if your white in Korea your an English teacher or American army!
What do I get?? I can have some fun sex with Europen, and American guys… what I love – they are very sexy and yummy! Japanese men are pigs. Also, I want to practise my English with you, please. Hello my name is Keiko and I live in Tokyo in Japan. I have a nice apartment in Ochanomizu and you are welcome to stay with me if you are UNDER 35 and YOU ARE NICE LOOKING and YOU ARE WHITE. You can save your hotel cost (a lot in Tokyo!) and we can have fun! – but ONLY if you are a white guy. I do not want asian men, sorry.
What do you get? You can stay at my apartment – very nice - it will be living at home for you, only I may be your girlfriend. hehe. I have a nice bed what is very comfortable – and I also have TV (cable ) you can watch English language TV.
My parents pay my apartment - and I can do anything because I am living alone. What else do I like? Yes, I like sex! Yummy yummy (My parents live in Osaka and they do not know! haha!).
YOU MUST BE UNDER 35 (I don’t want to have any men that are too older then 35 years old – I do not want my father!) ALSO, YOU MUST BE GOOD LOOKING AND BE WHITE – I LOVE WHITE GUYS. Yay! (^_^)
Also I can only taking one guy per time – in my apartment ok!! Haha. Its too small for more. Unless you are very very nice looking! Send me a pic! Hehe maybe