http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1737805,00.html He was born Kim Sung Jong in 1952 to Korean parents in Osaka. His father was a poor immigrant who built himself a fortune in taxis, property and pachinko At 15, Kim Sung Jong was sent to the preparatory school for the private and prestigious Keio University in Tokyo. It was at this time that he underwent surgery on his eyes to make them larger and less oriental, and he took on a new, Japanese name, Seisho Hoshiyama.
22 :Kang, a native of Korea, was arrested :2006/10/02(月) 18:25:04
10 year sentence in Queens human trafficking case Sep 30, 2006
A tearful Port Jefferson woman was sentenced to just over 10 years in federal prison Friday for her role in a human trafficking operation that enticed young women from Korea to come to the U.S. to work as hostesses at a Flushing bar.
Speaking through sobs, Kyongja Kang, 43, apologized to Brooklyn federal Judge I. Leo Glasser for her actions, which ultimately led to the sexual abuse of two Korean women at the hands of her husband, who was also charged in the case.
Kang, a native of Korea, was arrested with her 42-year-old husband in January 2004 on charges they convinced the women to travel to the U.S. illegally and work for little or no money at the Renaissance Bar, which had been at 35-28 154th St. in Flushing. The women had been promised as much as $6,000 a month from tips of wealthy customers at the bar, money that would be used to pay off travel expenses, which ranged up to $20,000 per person, federal prosecutors charged.
"She and her husband built a mini-empire on the backs of slaves," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Freedman told Glasser.
if I'm off base here, is 'fuck everyone who isn't a part of my life and if I happen to be on the train alone, just fuck everyone.' People tend to think foreigners are rude, especially Americans, but this just in, I have never seen such blatant disregard for others back home. I mean, i went home and was startled when a complete stranger simultaneously held a door open for me and said 'good morning' without me being a customer of theirs or them being employed by the owner of the door. We tend to forget about 'loving thy neighbor' when we've been here to long.
http://bigdaikon.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=80403&start=90 Interesting thing to note: I was just given some information from my supervisor. Apparently, the police were talking to people who were at the event last year and one of them said they were a 22 year old single british ALT in Kobe. They sent Kobe City Hall a letter wondering if we know who this person is and if they can talk to them. They said they will not be issuing fines, but just want to talk more about the event, etc. Seems to be quite serious though!!!
A 55-year-old Newport News man faces up to 40 years in prison for scamming a couple into paying him for a house he didn't own.
Hae Sung Lee pleaded guilty Thursday in Chesapeake Circuit Court to two counts of obtaining money by false pretense. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 12.
Lee tricked a Chesapeake couple out of cash and checks totalling $58,590 - money they thought was going toward the purchase of a foreclosed house, according to Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Nicole Montalto. The house belonged to someone else and was not in foreclosure.
Tokyo prosecutors demanded a life jail term on Tuesday for a Japanese businessman accused of raping and killing British woman Lucie Blackman in 2000, a court official said.
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A man who sparked a security alert at Downing Street after allegedly scaling security railings carrying a kitchen knife is a South Korean with an address in America.
Byung Jin Lee, 32, who has been living rough in England after entering the country in January, gave an address in New York state to the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court as he faced two charges of possession of a knife and assaulting a police officer.
Lee, who is thought to be a student in the US and has allegedly overstayed his visitor's visa in this country, is alleged to have climbed over the railings at the back of Downing Street carrying a large kitchen knife on Sunday night, before being tackled by police officers.
The Prime Minister was in at the time and the incident has prompted a security review, although Scotland Yard insisted there was never any threat to Tony Blair's safety.
でびとさんこれって差別じゃないの〜? この逆で、日本人オンリーだと差別だと騒いで、訴訟を起こすんだよね? http://www.fewjapan.com/membership/index.html Regular Membership Open to all women who are foreign nationals whether currently or previously employed, or seeking employment. Associate Membership Open to all women who are foreign nationals and are full-time graduate/post graduate students or interns. Overseas Membership Open to foreign women who are living outside of Japan and to former FEW members who wish to continue the membership after returning to their home countries. http://www.fewjapan.com/ Foreign Executive Women (FEW) is a business and social networking organization whose aim is to help foreign women in Japan achieve their full professional and/or personal potential. FEW welcomes foreign women from all professional backgrounds and at all stages of their careers. We focus on networking, career development as well as social and volunteer activities. http://www.fewjapan.com/about/index.html There are now two chapters, one in Tokyo and one in Osaka, with a current membership of over 250 foreign women. Members include a broad cross section of professionals from marketers, journalists, entertainment specialists, attorneys and bankers to freelance photographers, translators and entrepreneurs in a variety of industries. http://www.fewjapan.com/archives/000100.html October Monthly Meeting Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm Cost: FEW Members \2,000 / Guests \5,000 (supper and drinks included) Venue: Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ), Yurakucho Denki Building, 20th Floor (http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php) Speaker: Attica Alexis Jaques, Senior Director of Marketing, Gap Japan Topic: “Local Marketing for Global Brands”
http://www.fewjapan.com/archives/000100.html October Monthly Meeting Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm Cost: FEW Members \2,000 / Guests \5,000 (supper and drinks included) Venue: Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ), Yurakucho Denki Building, 20th Floor (http://www.fccj.or.jp/static/aboutus/map.php) Speaker: Attica Alexis Jaques, Senior Director of Marketing, Gap Japan Topic: “Local Marketing for Global Brands”
Hi, I just happened to bump into FEW homepage today and I had noticed that your membership criteria required being foreign nationals. I find this requirement to be very racist and discriminating against Japanese. I hope FEW would stop this discrimination against Japanese immediately, I'm sure that many of your members' employers in the foreign countries wouldn't like it, if they found out that their employee belongs to the racist organization such as yours.
Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006 Pachinko, with its 30 trillion yen annual turnover, stands out as Japan's most popular form of gaming, surpassing lotteries, horse racing, boat racing and all other forms of betting combined. In 2005, 15,165 pachinko halls with an average of 343 machines were in operation. But not all is blissful in the realm of bouncing ball bearings. Writing in Shukan Economist, Bunkyo University professor Kosho Yamada, an authority on the leisure industry, notes that pachinko revenues declined by 0.5 percent in 2004 and 2.5 percent last year.
But roughly 9 players out of 10 prefer money. So to circumvent the regulations, a quasi-legal arrangement, known as santen hoshiki (three-shop system), has been adopted, by which winners can take their prizes to a small exchange counter nearby where they are converted to cash. These premiums are then recycled to the halls.
The worst, however, may be yet to come, as Shukan Economist raises three impending problems confronting the business. First is declining patronage. After peaking at 30 million in 1994, for various reasons the number last year fell to an estimated 17 million. With the aging of Japan's population retirees who enjoyed pachinko during their working years, find themselves with less disposable income, and enthusiasts are projected to decline to 11 million by 2020.
81 :arrested 41-year-old Su Cha Ko, a Korean bartender:2006/10/04(水) 18:50:37
Tamuning woman arrested for beating child Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Agents with the Guam Police Department's Juvenile Investigation Section arrested 41-year-old Su Cha Ko, a Korean bartender from Tamuning, for allegedly beating an 11-year-old male. Officials tell KUAM News that the woman is accused of beating the child with a coat hanger and a golf club after the child failed a practice test.
The child was taken to a private clinic where he was treated for numerous bruises and welts throughout his body. Ko was arrested Tuesday night and charged with two counts of aggravated assault, assault, child abuse and family violence. She was placed behind bars.
We have not received any correspondence from Japan in over 4 years. Their email address has message bounced back. Do you have a correct email address for them ?
Will have one of our Japanese transplant surgeons call them to find out what they are doing
Will discuss situation at our board meeting in LA on Oct 14, 2006.
Our bylaws require that chapters be in compliance with laws of country and or states. In US chapters use TRIO National non profit status with the Internal Revenue Service. Not sure what Japan requires to be anon profit organization.
やっぱしこいつが仲介したのか? As The Times revealed in March, agents acting for Mr Obara offered about £200,000 to the parents of Miss Blackman and Carita Ridgway, his alleged Australian victim. All refused, until it emerged that Mr Blackman visited Tokyo last week to accept a far larger sum.
05.10.2006 By Glen Prentice A Korean shopowner may close down his central city store after he was bashed in what he believes was a racially motivated attack.
Young Ho Bae, who owns Dollar Store The Your Living in Whangarei's John St, says he was punched and dragged along the footpath after he told a group of loitering youths to move away.
A bail hearing for a Korean man facing extradition to the United States after allegedly kidnapping his grandson was adjourned yesterday after a judge said the man would have to come up with a lot more than $50,000 bail to convince the court he wasn't going to flee the country. "I can't tell you how little faith I am prepared to put in this individual," said Justice Alan MacInnes. "If I am going to be asked to find a way to let this man out of custody it is going to have to be on some pretty significant assurance, and a $50,000 surety doesn't cut it."
Tae Seung Kwon, 61, is accused of abducting his 10-year-old grandson from his estranged daughter in Denver, Colo., and using a falsified passport to fly him to South Korea.
The boy's exact whereabouts remain unknown, and Kwon has made no effort to reunite him with his mother, court was told. MacInnes dismissed defence lawyer Saul Simmonds' efforts to describe his client as "honourable" and the abduction as a "misguided attempt at altruism."
"If he knows what he did was wrong, why has he not returned the child?" MacInnes asked. "Until I see that, don't tell me he's a man of honour."
Special Services supervisor Sgt. Thomas Mattera said the eight women arrested claimed to be Korean nationals. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has been contacted to determine whether the women are in the country legally, Mattera said. Six of the women were charged with prostitution and conspiracy to commit prostitution. Two others were charged with permitting and promoting prostitution.
Nirvana workers charged with prostitution and conspiracy are: Sum Duk "Cherry" Park, 39, of 41-54 149th Place, Flushing; Chalhye "June" Kim, 47, of 15731 19th Ave., the Bronx, N.Y.; Keum Hae "Lea" Ko, 41, of 41-41 Union St., Flushing; Kil Cha "Angie" Park, 38, of 4174 Berkly St., Milk Cross, Ga.; and Kyong Suk "Jenn" Ju, 36, of 72-34 Calamus Ave., Woodside, N.Y. Each woman was held on $15,000 bond.
Chung Mi Shin, 49, of 20-25 Vista Drive, Del Vina, Calif., was charged with promoting prostitution and conspiracy. She was held on $15,000 bond.
Young Ok Kim, 58, of 5204 Misty Spring Drive, Middletown, Va., was charged with permitting prostitution. She was held on $5,000 bond.
"Human trafficking is a multibillion-dollar business. In terms of profits, it's on a path to overtake drug and arms trafficking," said Barry Tang, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement attache with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in South Korea. "There's a highly organized logistical network between Korea and the United States with recruiters, brokers, intermediaries, taxi drivers and madams."
これだけでも、日本は南朝鮮へのビザウエーバーを止める充分な理由だな。 The United States is among the top three destination countries for sex traffickers, along with Japan and Australia. Once in the United States, traffickers most often set up shop in California, New York, Texas and Las Vegas.
ザパニーズ Yuki, 25, who fears for her safety and only gave her first name to The Chronicle during an interview in Seoul, said she was trafficked from South Korea to a karaoke bar in Inglewood (Los Angeles County), where she was assured that she would simply be serving drinks to men. Once there, she was ordered to sell $3,000 worth of drinks each month. When she failed, she was sent to the "touching room," a private suite where men could have their way with her for $400. Kim, who also withheld her last name, told The Chronicle in an interview in South Korea that she was forced to pay $4,400 for plastic surgery to open her eyes and make her nose thinner and pointier, "like Marilyn Monroe."
In South Korea the sex industry accounts for 4 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
The South Korean government passed an anti-sex trafficking law in 2004 that for the first time made it illegal to buy or sell women.
During their trip to South Korea, Chronicle reporter Meredith May and staff photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice found that while the public sex industry has slowed, parts of the business has gone underground and is still alive and well. Slideshow produced by Dan Jung. Chronicle photos by Deanne Fitzmaurice
``They try to stay Mexican but try to be in America, so there's this back and forth,'' Schwarzenegger said, surrounded by Asian-Americans at a Moon Festival celebration in Los Angeles. ``What I say to Mexicans is you have got to go immerse yourself and assimilate into American culture and become part of the American fabric. That's how America will embrace you. ``The secret -- if there is one -- to success, I was embraced by the American people because I love America, I love the language and I made every effort to become American.''
``This is something I've been talking about for many many years. People ask me what is the secret to success in America,'' he responded. ``This is my advice as an immigrant how to be successful in America and how to be accepted in America.''
Schwarzenegger campaign immediately defended the remarks, saying they are consistent with his views and experiences as an immigrant who came from Austria, originally as a bodybuilding contestant. ``As an immigrant himself, this is something the governor feels strongly about for those who come here in search of the American dream,''
The Fiji Navy is on guard against a Korean-owned fishing vessel, which escaped from Kiribati waters following allegations that it carried out illegal fishing activities including overfishing.
Fiji Navy Maritime Commander Lieutenant-Commander Bradley Bower said they were notified on Friday by Greenpeace Fiji about the vessel.
He said if sighted within Fiji waters, the vessel, Kwondon 117, would be arrested.
Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Putin Critic, Shot Dead By Todd Prince Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Russian award-winning journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a critic of President Vladimir Putin's war in Chechnya, was gunned down in Moscow yesterday, the third execution-style killing in less than a month.
Politkovskaya, whose books include ``Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy'' and ``A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya,'' was found shot to death in the entrance of her apartment building on Lesnaya Ulitsa, a couple of miles from the Kremlin. The Associated Press reported she was 48. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aN93uWsAexzI&refer=europe
コリアンアメリカン?凄い電波w Capitalist "America", Socialist Korea "This is why "America" is Hell, but the DPRK is Paradise." 163 comments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UNAEyqQc7Q
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/09/feedback.nkorea/ We should destroy their nuclear facilities by whatever means necessary. If we wait until they can put one of these weapons on a missile, they will blackmail us and the world over and over again until we are forced to fight... and risk absorbing a nuclear missile attack. We must strike now when they cannot strike back at the U.S. directly. Anthony Borelli, Land O' Lakes, Florida
Sunday "Diary of a Sex Slave," Part 1: Fooled by traffickers in South Korea 朝鮮金融地獄 You Mi was a typical college student, until her first credit card got her into trouble You Mi was caught in a sex-trafficking triangle -- starting in South Korea, one of the world's leading importers and exporters of sex slaves Busan is also the birthplace of South Korea's sex industry, where Japanese troops built the first brothels after invading the country in 1904. But the selling of Korean women goes back to the 15th century, when wealthy men bought educated Kisaeng girls to live in their homes and entertain them with song, dance, cooking and sometimes sex. Today, sex work accounts for 4 percent of the country's gross domestic product, according to government reports. Prostitution brings $21 billion a year -- more than electricity and gas combined. There are an estimated 330,000 sex workers, 80,000 brothels and 69 red-light districts in a country the size of Indiana. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/08/MNGAULL53D1.DTL
Post a Comment Is it the Bush administration's pig-headed refusal to talk to North Korea? Is it China's years of molly-coddling the ill-behaved North Koreans? Is it South Korea's woolly-headed 'sunshine policy' of rewarding North Korea for not calling them puppets?
Man Arrested for Attempted Blackmail of Miss Korea
When Kim was in Japan in July, by e-mail and telephone calls he said, “If you don’t give me W100 million (US$1=W958) I will put a picture of your daughter’s face onto another nude photo and make the images public,” “I am going to expose the fact that your being named a living cultural asset is a shame.” Fleeing from charges of conspiracy Kim was in Japan, from where he was deported and then arrested by Korean authorities immediately after landing in Incheon. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200610/200610110028.html
Japan has long been North Korea's shopping mall of choice when it comes to military components. It has the advantages of proximity, advanced technology and a large population of ethnic Koreans, many with family ties to the North or to the pro-Pyongyang General Assn. of Korean Residents in Japan.
SEOUL: Communist North Korea accused Japan Wednesday of gearing up for war as Tokyo pressed the UN Security Council to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test.
Japanese "reactionaries" are preparing to upgrade the Defence Agency into a ministry and set up a "strategic planning office" inside the agency, the government newspaper Minju Joson said in a commentary.
are you serious...Asians hate japan the same reason many in the world hate America...you are jealous of japan...they have succeeded where all Asian countries have failed...Japanese people don't hate Asian countries...actually they just don't care about you and other Asian countries...i live in japan...no one every complains about Asia...i think Korea and china really hate japan because in a few years they won't be sharing their technology with them nor will they be giving billions of dollars each year to them...something have been doing since WW2...you need to get over the past...if asians hate japan so much why is manga so popular? Why are japanese products in high demand?
Saturday, October 28, 2006 JR Shinjuku station, platform 13 (Yamanote bound for Ikebukuro) Meet where car 10 stops, in front of the escalator from South exit Everyone boards the 21:07 northbound train and loops around clockwise BYOB, or better yet, whisky
North Korea today threatened "strong" retaliation against Japanese sanctions as UN security council members tried to work out a compromise deal on a response to Pyongyang's nuclear test.
結構名が知られてるThe Economistという雑誌にJapan Focusが引用されてますよ。 http://www.economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7996855 Yoshiko Nozaki of the State University of New York at Buffalo argues in Japan Focus, an online journal, that the ability of neonationalists to make historical certainties such as the Nanjing massacre sound controversial leads the public to feel that these issues remain unresolved among experts.
JR弁天町駅(大阪)はこいつらの改札通過を阻止して欲しいものだ。 http://www.japan-guide.com/forum/quereadisplay.html?0+28806 LOOP LINE PARTY Loop line party this year 2006, will most likely be Saturday 28 October. My friends and I plan to host a party to compliment the traditional Loop Line party because we're based on the Loop Line at Bentencho. Visit us on the web at www.keycom.info and send me a mail for more details. Cheers! by James 2006/9/25
>>225 うわ!よく見つけたね! それだよそれ!!! Im also quite a tree-hugging liberal with strong views on many political issues.
つーか下のカキコ見ると皆日本人だと思ってるぽいね。実は日本が大嫌いでアメリカに移民した北朝鮮の一家だと知ったら皆どう思うだろう。 所属グループも Groups: Japanese, Japanese Food Lovers Unite, The Ramen & Cup Noodles Group, aSiaN CuTieS, Japanese Nightlife, ToKyo * pRide, Japan Social Club, * Asian at Heart *
>>226 Lots of outcries of denouncing of this Halloween Loop Party have been posted in J BBS and reported to JRs. you guys, watch out. Or get arrested and your gaijin card will be confiscated.
Romanian TV station releases video said to show Tibet shooting The Associated Press Published: October 14, 2006 BEIJING A Romanian TV station released a video Saturday that it said shows Chinese forces fatally shooting a Tibetan refugee who was with a group of people trying to flee to Nepal in an incident that prompted an international outcry.
The video from Pro TV shows a distant figure that its narrator says is a Chinese border guard firing a rifle and a separate scene of a person in a line of figures walking through the snow falling to the ground. An unidentified man near the camera can be heard saying in English, "They are shooting them like, like dogs http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/14/asia/AS_GEN_China_Tibetan_Refugees.php
There is no excuse, China: Nangpa La video shows border guards sharpshoot refugees 09:13 pm EST Oct 13, 2006 At first they said they didn't know. "I've seen the reports about this, but I've no knowledge of the specific situation," Liu Jianchao, a ministry spokesman, told a news conference in Beijing about the shootings at Nangpa La.
That's when the pictures showed up.
Only hours later, China admitted. But now they claimed self-defense. A Xinhua report said that the people trying to cross the border attacked the soldiers, who were then "forced to defend themselves." http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?news=15182
Tibetans, Westerners Describe Deadly Shooting at China-Nepal Border By Radio Free Asia
KATHMANDU, Oct. 11, 2006 - Members of a group of 43 Tibetans have described their terrifying flight to Nepal under deadly fire from Chinese border guards who took several dozen other Tibetans into custody, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.
Witnesses said at least one person was killed and at least one wounded by gunfire Sept. 30 near the Himalayan pass at Nangpa La in the Mount Everest region. Others set the death toll higher. Another 36 or 37 Tibetans were detained, witnesses told RFA's Tibetan service. http://newsblaze.com/story/20061011143929nnnn.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
LOS ANGELES Police identified a suspect in a triple homicide at a Koreatown restaurant, saying the ex-boyfriend of one of the victims may be to blame for the murders. Tai Zui Chi, 55, was the ex-boyfriend of a waitress found shot to death along with Jae Woong Cho, 46, and another man at the Cinyuya Restaurant at 3418 W. Eighth Street, according to police.
Their bodies were found after the restaurant's owner, Hae Chang Cho, went to the restaurant looking for her husband after he failed to come home overnight. She found her husband dead, along with the other man and the 45-year-old waitress about 11:15 a.m.
Police believe they were killed sometime after the 2 a.m. closing time, according to media reports.
Tai Zhi Chi was described as being nearly 6 feet tall, weighs about 190 pounds and has black hair cut in a flat-top style.
He may be driving a silver Toyota Sienna minivan bearing California license plate numbers 5KEF678.
Anyone with information on the slayings was asked to call (877) LAWFULL.
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/fashion/15miho.html Escape From Japan AT the Terminal 8 food court of Kennedy International Airport, over a breakfast of Coca-Cola and greasy Chinese noodles, Miho Mimura slipped her hand into her new American boyfriend’s and the tears started to flow. “I’m sad, I don’t want to go back to Japan,” she said. With red paper lanterns and cacophonous dins, the restaurants serve delectables like raw liver sashimi and grilled rice balls, to tables of expatriates known in Japan as “freeters” (a combination of free and the German word for worker, arbeiter), or “NEETs” (Not in Education, Employment or Training). Many escape to New York, staying from three months to three years. “In New York they feel they don’t get any pressure, that New York gives them freedom,” said the Japanese-born owner of the Sunrise Mart, a Japanese market in Little Tokyo. The influx is at least a decade old, but unlike in the mid-1990’s when men and women freeters came in equal numbers, now it is largely a female wave — a result of the recovering economy in Japan that has made it slightly easier for young men to find corporate jobs upon graduation. “Three months ago, I asked my parents to send me money, and they said, ‘This is the last money!’ ” said Misaki Ishihara, 23, an aspiring makeup artist from central Japan, near Kobe, who has been in New York for two years. “My parents are so conservative, they can’t believe I’m here alone. They want me to be married to a Japanese man, an established man, make some kids and live in the same house with them. I can’t even believe I am from that family. I am so different!” In Tokyo bookstores, guides like “Finding Yourself in New York,” and “The ‘I Love New York’ Book of Dreams” fuel the fantasies of those would follow in Kaori’s footsteps.
What has been at stake this week is summed up by a tale of two constitutions — one well within the media spotlight, the other hardly mentioned. I am speaking of Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter and Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. The more intractable question is Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which reads, “The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.” The question of this “pacifist clause” requires some historical background. Arming Japan is part of a debate that is several decades old. Article 9 is the product of an evolving argument about the military role of Japan in the region. This is clear when Article 9 is compared with the directives of Douglas MacArthur, who served in effect as Japan’s military dictator in the immediate aftermath of World War II and who inspired the so-called “pacifist” element of the constitution. MacArthur insisted that Japan renounce war “even for preserving its own security” and that “no Japanese Army, Navy or Air Force will ever be authorized.” Some months later, the actual constitution tweaked this so that a military could be maintained for self-defense, but not aggression. The process of making Japan a “normal country” — of revising Article 9 — is a drawn-out event taking place over the long term, and it would be foolish to rashly hasten it in order to punish China or North Korea, or make an example of Pyongyang for the sake of Tehran. This region is among the most economically important in the world. It was also the stage, almost a century ago, for brutal Japanese imperialism that remains a source of powerful resentment among today’s Chinese and Koreans. http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/10/16/onGlobalAffairsNortheastAsiaByTheNumbers
http://asiapages.wordpress.com/ The Asia Pages Based out of Busan, South Korea this site discusses issues related primarily to Northeast Asia. It also offers social commentary on aspects of South Korean culture, politics and society.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1410482006 Japan's quiet successor vows to restore army NORIMITSU ONISHI IN TOKYO SHINZO Abe is planning a revolution in Japan which will see the return of a full-strength imperial army for the first time since the Second World War.
This week, New York columnist Kurt Andersen adds another 2,000 words to the din of criticism savaging the New York Times for its coverage of the Duke rape case.
Why is it so hard for newspapers that have climbed out onto a limb in reporting a story to turn back once they hear the wood cracking? Instead of announcing their errors in judgment, most newspapers reverse course by ignoring the flawed stories in their back pages and taking a new tack—as if those old stories had never been written. Inside the trade, correcting a previous story in a new story without acknowledging the past error is called row-back.
NEVER trust Chinese medicines!! Most of them do not work and are only meant to get your money. Buf if they work, they are even more dangerous: I have seen reports of Chinese medicine with cortisones (costeroids). They can give a terrible rebound effect and may make your psoriasis worse! Never believe sombody who claims to have the answers and acts as if things are secret.
The only thing that will disappear is your money. And your faith in people.
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/olympics/10/17/bc.olympics.tibet/ http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6152766,00.html Tibet protesters train for Beijing '08 Posted: Tuesday October 17, 2006 In a remote tree-lined field in the shadow of the Indian Himalayas, a handful of students link arms, chant slogans and burn a Chinese flag. Another, a bandana round his head, climbs a tree and unfurls the Tibetan colors. "One world, one dream, free Tibet," they shout into the mountain air. For once there are no police to contend with, no water cannons to dodge, no angry Chinese officials to confront. This is a training exercise for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, but these students will not be competing. Instead they aim to run a vociferous campaign against Chinese rule in Tibet and reinvigorate their campaign for independence. "With the Olympics coming up, we will have a platform," said Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet. "The eyes of the world will be fixed for a moment on our enemy, our oppressor," said Tethong, born in Canada and whose father fled Tibet in the early 1950s as Chinese troops took control. "This is an opportunity we can't miss," she said. In the grounds of a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery, close to the Dharamsala headquarters of the Dalai Lama, more than 50 students are being trained by activists on how best to protest. Analysts say the Communist country has been cracking down on dissent despite assurances by Beijing during its bid that allowing it to host the Olympics would help improve human rights in China. Chinese troops marched into Tibet in 1950 and over the ensuing decades sought to impose its own stamp on traditional Tibetan society, closing monasteries and restricting religious life. The Dalai Lama and many thousands of followers fled into exile in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
rainbowwarrior777 (21 minutes ago) REASONS TO BOYCOTT THE JAPANESE IMPORTS *The Japanese say that some of their favorite foods are raw WHALE meat, raw DOLPHIN meat, & raw HORSE meat. *The Japanese are using a loophole in the international law to continue whaling although it has been banned for 20 years. *The Japanese slaughter about 1,000 whales (ENDANGERED SPECIES) every year. *The Japanese slaughter about 20,000 dolphins every year. Because they eat so many dolphins, the dolphins have a bleak future. (Reply) rainbowwarrior777 (19 minutes ago) *Every year, tens of thousands of American horses are eaten by the Japanese. Many of them are STOLEN PETS. The Japanese are eating other people's stolen pets - this is what people object most about. *Visit any websites of animal conservation organizations for more info & video clips. *For whales: greenpeace dot org *For dolphins: seashepherd dot org *For horses: justsaywhoa dot org *WATCH a documentary narrated by actor Joaquin Phoenix on YouTube - "Dolphin Massacre In Japan" (Reply) rainbowwarrior777 (2 minutes ago) *Daily Mail reported on September 18 about the dolphin slaughter by the Japanese. Simple way to find the article is to type, "daily mail japanese killing dolphins" on google. Read the article & comments left by its readers. *If you are a school student, talk to your biology teacher about endangered species as mere snacks to eat & get fatten up. *There is NO group of people on earth doing anything remotely similar to what the Japanese are doing - Rape of Mother Nature.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/world/asia/19rice.html Japan Assures Rice That It Has No Nuclear Intentions by NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: October 19, 2006 The new comments are likely to fuel the fear in Asia of a remilitarized Japan, as well as worries among policy makers in the United States that North Korea’s nuclear test will set off an arms race.
In recent years, under former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Japan shed several other longtime taboos by deploying troops to Iraq and taking part in the American plans for a missile-defense shield.
Upon becoming prime minister last month, Mr. Abe said his priorities would be to revise the United States-imposed pacifist Constitution.
こいつライスタソって、普通セクレタリーかドクター付きで皆呼ぶのに、ミズ扱いだぞ 日本もアメリカも相当嫌いなんだな↓ Ms. Rice’s assurance that American military power remained committed to defend Japan was a strong signal that Japan had no need to build its own nuclear arsenal.
China mum on film showing troops killing refugee China has refused to comment about video footage showing Chinese troops killing an unarmed Tibetan who was fleeing into Nepal, after earlier insisting the action was in self-defence.
"The competent authorities have already released information, I have no further information for you as a spokesperson of the foreign ministry," Liu Jianchao told journalists at a regular briefing.
China's official Xinhua news agency admitted on Thursday of last week that its soldiers killed one person and injured another near Mount Everest, but said they were acting in self-defence.
Xinhua said the soldiers tried to persuade the group to go back home "but the stowaways refused and attacked the soldiers".
But a Romanian TV station on Saturday released a video that it said showed Chinese troops shooting the two unarmed Tibetan refugees as they fled. The two were among a group of around 70 Tibetans trying to flee into Nepal. (略) The footage, when aired inside China to the mainly foreign business and residential buildings that have access to CNN, was repeatedly blacked out by China's censors today.
Woman Brings Loaded Pistol to NY Court October 19, 2006
A Korean woman about to be sworn in as a U.S. citizen in Brooklyn Federal Court yesterday was a tad premature in exercising her right to bear arms.
Mal Soon Jin was busted after security officers X-rayed her handbag and detected a small derringer. The five-shot pistol was unloaded and inside a zipped inner compartment of the handbag, Deputy U.S. Marshal Deborah Piagentini stated in a complaint.
Jin, 49, of Flushing, Queens, initially accused security officers of planting the gun, then changed her story and claimed she did not know how it got there, according to a law enforcement source.
Magistrate Cheryl Pollak released Jin on a $100,000 bond but ordered her to surrender her passport.
Korean apartment owners violated Fair Housing Act http://www.lawfinders.com/pdf/Complaint.pdf The owner had, according to some evidence, made statements that he did not like African-Americans or Hispanic tenants, but preferred Korean tenants.
The Fair Housing Act prohibits "making, printing or publishing 'any notice, statement, or advertisement, with rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, discriminated against Plaintiff SMITH and other African-Americans by printing and distributing fliers indicating a preference for Koreans and Korean-Americans.
Such marketing discriminates against all non-Korean discriminated against Plaintiff SMITH, based upon his race, by falsely representing the unavailability of apartments at The Townhouse, by refusing to allow him to complete an application, by refusing to rent an apartment to him, and by excluding him from marketing that was only directed at individuals of Korean ancestry that could speak Korean. Defendant JOHNSON, who is also Korean-American, solicited only Koreans and Korean-Americans in the summer of 1998 Plaintiff SMITH filed a complaint with the California Department of Fair Housing on April20, 1999. Such discrimination, denying Plaintiff section 1021.5 of the California Code of Civil Procedure because this action involves the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest, namely access to low-income apartment housing at The Townhouse by all individuals not of Korean ancestry.
Sadly we have received many reports of Teachers arriving at Incheon (Korea) International Airport following being hired from their home country and as soon as the school owner sees them and sees that they are NOT Caucasian, the school owner refuses to have anything to do with them - in fact abandoning them in the airport.
特にアメリカ人とのハーフは、米軍基地周辺の売春宿と結び付けられ、子供達は学校で 厳しい虐めにあい、9.4%の生徒が小学校を辞め、17.5%の生徒が中学校を辞めてしまう。 米国の一大イベントでMVPを獲得したハインズ・ワードさんは、一泊75万円のロッテホテルの スイートルームに宿泊し、大統領に会ったり、ソウル市の名誉市民に認定されたり、100人以上の 記者に追われるというVIPな待遇をされているが、ハインズ・ワードさんを産んだ頃韓国社会での 激しい差別にあっている母親の金さんは、「スーパーボールでMVPを獲ったからヒーロー扱い されているだけで、混血児として帰国していたら激しい差別にあうのであろう」と戸惑いを隠せなかった。 ハインズ・ワードさんは混血児の子供達と会う場を設け、そのイベントでは涙ながらに学校で虐められた 自分の体験談をハインズ・ワード語る子供達でいっぱいであった。 Wednesday, April 12, 2006 CNN In a country that's more than 99 percent ethnic Korean with an emphasis on "pure blood" lineage, Ward's triumphant return has caused many to re-examine prejudices against biracial children, who are often associated with brothels around American military bases. "My mom is still leery: 'Is it because he's MVP, or do you really accept him?' "
On the Road to Apartheid? Japan and the Steve McGowan Case by Eric Johnston Japan Times
As Sapporo-based activist Arudou Debito, who followed the case closely, and members of McGowan's legal team noted, the fundamental danger of the ruling is that it sets a dangerous precedent that could lead to a form of commercial apartheid by Japanese storeowners against foreign customers.
Dr. Schweitzer of the Dark Side, South Korea’s Larry Flynt _ those are some of the nicknames appearing on the Internet describing Kim Bonj-wa, a 28-year-old who was caught after circulating more than 15,000 pornography films since 2004.
More than 1,300 Internet users in two days have signed a petition on the Daum portal site calling for his release, after the porn mogul was arrested by the Pusan police on Wednesday. The organizer of the signature collection drive aims to gather support of 100,000 in a month.
Kim is the real reason behind the high-speed Internet’s rapid growth over the years.
According to the police, Kim started sharing Japanese adult videos in 2004 via Toto Disk, a peer-to-peer file-sharing program. He soon became a kind of celebrity on the Internet, quitting his day job and indulging in the porn business. Everyday he uploaded gigabytes of X-rated films, many of which are considered illegal to view in South Korea.
We would like to address those misconceptions created by the San Francisco Chronicle's recent series on forced prostitution rings, highlighting the uncorroborated experiences of a S. Korean woman under the sensationalistic caption “Diary of A Sex Slave.” The articles were unnecessarily lurid in their myopic coverage of an isolated issue, and were deeply offensive to the Korean American community.
The exaggerated headlines and photos that ran on the front page of the S.F. Chronicle for four consecutive days gave disproportionate emphasis to a small segment of the Korean American population in San Francisco and California, the vast majority of whom are well-educated professionals and hardworking families.
もうSFC紙のレスもうpされてんのか。 The Story How we reported the series San Francisco Chronicle reporter Meredith May and photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice reported this story from South Korea, the U.S.-Mexican border, from Koreatown in Los Angeles and from San Francisco. The story was told by You Mi Kim to May through a Korean interpreter and is You Mi's version of events. The shadowy nature of the sex-trafficking industry made it difficult to locate traffickers and co-workers who were willing to go on the record to corroborate You Mi's story.
The Chronicle verified the locations of the apartments and brothels where You Mi said she worked. May and Fitzmaurice also went to her hometown in Busan, South Korea, and spent time in her neighborhood, at her university, the casino where she worked and in the shopping malls where she went into credit card debt. 続く http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/08/HOW.TMP
Pimps abuse net visa plan AN internet-based working-holiday visa scheme is being used by human traffickers to bring women into Australia as sex workers, a report finds.
Departmental emails in 2003 show DIMA began to suspect an organised racket after a South Korean sex worker's WHM visa was cancelled.
Between March 2004 and February 2006, 38 South Korean sex workers with WHM visas were found to be working illegally in Australia.
Why are we so intent on denying this stable, reliable, democratic ally the means to help us shoulder the burden in a world where so many other allies -- the inveterately appeasing South Koreans most notoriously -- insist on the free ride?
USC Senior Booked on Weapon Charge October 20, 2006 A USC senior who allegedly displayed a knife in class this week and taunted a classmate and their professor has been booked on a felony charge of possession of a deadly weapon on school property, authorities said.
China continued to balk at using its economic leverage too aggressively against its longtime ally, given the risk that a wave of refugees along their 880-mile shared border could destabilize its industrial northeast. China would be the linchpin of any effective sanctions since it supplies most of North Korea's fuel and much of its food.
South Korea has refused to shutter two major economic projects with the North that put millions of dollars in hard currency into the pockets of the isolated Stalinist regime.
And Japan, closest to Washington in its thinking on the crisis, is roundly viewed in the region as the wrong player at the wrong time to make like neighborhood cop. The concern is that memories of Japan's wartime brutality on the Korean peninsula and throughout Asia would inflame tensions were it to inspect North Korean ships at sea or take other tough enforcement steps.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=40913 Despite ban, Yokosuka sex trade flourishes ‘Massagy girls’ finding no shortage of clients near base Hana Kusumoto recently spent a Friday night in the entertainment district near Yokosuka Naval Base to explore the status of the sex trade a year after the Defense Department banned solicitation of prostitutes. Sunday, October 22, 2006 YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — If you’re an American man without a girl on your arm, walking from Yokosuka's main train station to the nightlife district is a “massagy-girl” gantlet. What the girls sell costs $30 to $170 and involves some form of “happy ending.” One South Korean girl works in an upstairs parlor where customers order from a printed menu that offers a variety of sexual favors, from use of hands only to full sexual intercourse. She works there because there are no other jobs for her in Japan, she said. A Chinese “massagy” girl on the corner said she came to Japan because she wanted to marry a Japanese man. She did, she said, and flashed a thumbs-up. All sex service shops are illegal in Kanagawa prefecture, where Yokosuka Naval Base is. But neither military restrictions nor Japanese law has made a dent in the Honch’s “massage” business, the South Korean sex worker told Stars and Stripes. And most of her customers are American sailors, she said. “They come to forget their stress,” she said from behind a curtain. “I give massage so they can relax.” Three South Korean masseuses were arrested, two on expired visas, according to the police. They told police that sailors keep the shops in business. They said they each take in the yen equivalent of $5,000 to $6,000 a month. Half goes to their manager — a 39-year-old Korean man, according to police.
Most of the women decide to come to Yokosuka on a short-term visa
By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: October 22, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/weekinreview/22marsh.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Also, the border itself could be put into question. South Korea has, in recent years, challenged China over the legacy of Koguryo, an ancient Korean kingdom whose rule extended into present-day China.
The region is home to hundreds of thousands of ethnic Korean-Chinese, who face discrimination in China and might be sympathetic toward a reunified Korea making territorial claims.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20061022x1.html Riding with the rightists Symbols of freedom of speech or signs of social malaise? Staff writer ERIC PRIDEAUX took his tape, his camera and his time to get to know some of those who bellow their rightwing beliefs from scary 'sound trucks' that disturb the peace throughout Japan By ERIC PRIDEAUX
South Korean-born American accused of underage sex in Cambodia
An American national of South Korean origin has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl in Cambodia, police said Saturday.
Myron Maboris, 46, was picked up during a raid on his guesthouse room in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, said Keo Thea, chief of anti-trafficking police for the city.
Last Saturday, Cambodia expelled Terry D. Smith, a 54-year-old American, to face sex crime charges in the United States.
On August 18th 2006 a group of left behind parents took to the streets of Hollywood California to protest Japan's hypocrisy in regards to international abduction at the US Premiere of Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_G-NsfAmws
朝鮮ボートの工作活動 今年ニューヨーク事務局を開けたらしいね、どうせパチンコマネーでも使ったんだろ? どうせなら通名じゃなくて、North Korean Socialist Boatみたいな本名名乗れよ!
"We have launched Peace Boat US, in partnership with the Hague Appeal for Peace."
The ship's next call to the United States will be in October, visiting San Francisco. We are working with local organizations in the Bay area and will host a variety of programs representing the diversity of the city and its vibrant civil society.
Peace Boat US's programs this year please visit our website www.peaceboat-us.org. We look forward to collaborating with all of you as we begin this exciting journey.
One of the first North Korean agents to go public with his story was the late Chang Young Ung, a Japanese-born Korean who was a high-level member of Chongryun in Kobe. Chang, code name Blacksnake, spied on Japan for over a quarter century until the early 1990s. His memoirs, published in late 1999, were the first of their kind. The book sent shock waves through Japan.
Chang told The Japan Times in 2000, the year before he died, that he helped move billions of yen in money and goods into North Korea.
During the 1970s and 1980s it was ridiculously easy to transfer all sorts of sensitive electronic parts and funnel cash to North Korea. Port authorities in Japan, especially in Niigata, didn't bother to carefully inspect either the cargo or hand luggage of passengers on ships to North Korea," Chang said.
How much cash from Japan has ended up in North Korea will never be known but most experts say it is at least in the tens of trillions of yen. during the bubble economy of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the amount moved, both legally and illegally, was about 60 billion yen annually.
Sakamoto said that much of the illegal cash in the 1970s and 1980s was from pachinko parlors run by Chongyrun members, who would stuff it into suitcases and walk them past customs officials, especially in Niigata Prefecture, where a ferry runs to North Korea. By the mid-1990s, he said, that income had all but dried up.
"Chongyrun and Niigata customs officials had an agreement whereby passengers wouldn't be searched too closely. And often, inspections of the cargo were nothing more than quick glance.
North Koreans in Japan fear nuclear test backlash Teruaki Ueno (Reuters)
Pyongyang's nuclear defiance is prompting fears of a backlash against North Koreans living in Japan, many of whom already face daily discrimination.
Reflecting such concerns, police guarded the entrances to "Korea Town" in Kawasaki City, near Tokyo, on Friday, and residents, many North Korean, shied away from reporters.
About 600,000 ethnic Koreans live in Japan, many of them descended from the 2 million Koreans brought to Japan as forced labour during Tokyo's 1910-1945 colonisation of the peninsula.
Japan granted Koreans Japanese nationality during its colonial rule, but stripped them of the status in 1952 and deprived them of many benefits enjoyed by Japanese citizens.
"This could result in further discrimination, including physical harassment by Japanese of Koreans in Japan."
Job opportunities for pro-Pyongyang Koreans are limited largely to firms run by members of their community, such as the pachinko pinball parlours, night clubs, barbecue restaurants and trading houses specialising in business with the North.
Japan has 500,000 to 600,000 ethnic Koreans, descendants of those who arrived before or during World War II as forced laborers http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15846382.htm Harassment of Japan's North Korean community, the biggest outside the homeland or China, dates back decades. But animosity has flared to new levels since North Korea stunned the world with its nuclear test. "Koreans who have nothing to do with the nuclear test have become the victim," Chongryon said. "The ratcheting up of sanctions severely threatens the rights and lifestyle of Koreans in Japan." All Koreans in Japan face discrimination. All were stripped of their Japanese citizenship after World War II. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003321601_nkorea25.html
Hans Greimel is currently working as a spot news editor at Bloomberg News in Tokyo. He reported as a correspondent for The Associated Press in the United States, Germany and Japan, and recently served as news editor for the AP bureau in Seoul, South Korea. http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:QcinZVDxddsJ:www.fccj.or.jp/modules/wfsection/article.php%3Fcategory%3D2% 26start%3D15%26articleid%3D602+Hans+Greimel%E3%80%80FCCJ&hl=ja&gl=jp&ct=clnk&cd=2
Japan Expo, now in its 27th year, is the largest US/Japan event that strengthens the ties of friendship between the United States and Japan. Japan Expo will be held on November 18 and 19, 2006 at the Los Angles Convention Center in South Hall K. Admission is $12.00.
Agent in Japan JIC Corp. IK Bldg 3F, 2-24-9 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-8657 http://www.jic.co.jp/ 2010年には訪日外国人観光客数を現在のおよそ倍となる1000万人を目標としています。 これは、地方自治体にとって経済活性化のまたとないチャンスです。 2002年には500万人を超える外国人が来日しました。 しかしこの数字は、他国と比べると韓国などのアジア各国を下回る35位という水準です。 訪日外国人観光客誘致事業といえばJIC 1.アジア地域で開催される海外観光展の日本からの出展者募集・運営・装飾
この本どう思う? 作者はコリアンみたいだけど結構客観的な感じ。 The Politics of Anti-Japanese Sentiment in Korea Japanese-South Korean Relations Under American Occupation, 1945-1952
*President Syngman Rhee, who manipulated popular anti-Japanese feelings in order to stabilize his regime. *The author concludes that public antagonism toward Japan only became an obstacle to the normalization of diplomatic relations after Rhee deliberately stimulated anti-Japanese sentiment as part of a calculated policy that originated in his own political insecurity. http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/CJK%252f.aspx
"Japan has 500,000 to 600,000 ethnic Koreans, descendants of those who arrived before or during World War II as forced
laborers or economic migrants. "
Most of Koreans in Japan have migrated after WWII as economic migrants or refugees of Korean war, Jejudo massacre. The most Koreans who were brought to Japan for labors returned to Korea right after WWII by GHQ's free ships. Rest of them decided to stay in Japan. According to the survey took in 1988 by Korean community, The Korean residents in Japan who were brought to Japan as
forced laborers were 13.3%. Economic reason was 39.6%. Marriage or living with relatives in Japan 17.3%, Study 9.5%, Other 20.2, Unknown 0.2%. (Source "Apoji Kikasete Anohibiwo" (Grandpa tell me about those days) 1988 published by Korean youth union Japan"
According to Asahi Shimbun 13 July 1959, The Koreans who came to Japan as forced laborers were only 245 among 600000 Korean residents at the time. The Choyo-rei(Forced labor law) was carried out in Korea in September 1944. (Japan and Taiwan were 1939) You can see scan pictures of the article here. http://kuyou.exblog.jp/2930891/
The economic difference between Japan and Korea was much larger than present.
From news paper headlines before 1941. 1938 Jan. 420 Korean stowaways entered mainland(Japan). 1938 Mar. Korean stowaways reached at Fukuoka. 1938 Mar. 65 Korean stowaways arrested.Nishitozaki. 1938 Mar. 40 Korean stowaways again. Nishitozaki. 1938 May. Group of Korean stowaways found. Mizumaki village. 1938 May. Korean stowaways-Various methods. 1938 Jul. 15 Korean stowaways in Kokura. 1938 Aug. 42 Korean stowaways arrested.Tsuyazaki-cho. 1938 Sep. Suspicion was right. Korean stowaways. 1938 Dec. 41 Korean stowaways rrested. Kaminada-cho 1938 Dec. 18 Korean stowaways arrested.Tsuyazaki-cho. 1938 Dec. Korean stowaways again. Suspicious boat. Fukuoka 1939 Feb. More than 90 Korean stowaways, 50 arrested.Misaki-village. 1939 Feb. 25 Korean stowaways. 2 arrested in Kurahashito-village. 1939 May. 48 Korean stowaways arrested. Okagaki-vollage. 1939 Jun. Poor lost Korean stowaway.Hyogo. 1939 Jun. Korean stowaways sent back to home.Hyogo. 1939 Nov. it is impossible to find all the Korean stowaways. 1940 Jan. Boxed person found.Korean stowaway? Kokura.
Mr. Abe said he accepted two landmark statements made by Japanese governments in the 1990s, apologizing to the rest of Asia for Japan’s imperialist past and recognizing the Japanese Army's role in drafting Asian women as wartime sex slaves, or “comfort women.”
Hisahiko Okazaki(正論のおっさん), a former senior diplomat and a leading conservative commentator close to Mr. Abe, said the prime minister had not forsaken his conservative roots but was merely biding his time.
“Regarding policies toward the comfort women issue and other issues like that, he says they were established by previous governments, right?” Mr. Okazaki said. “Since previous governments set those policies, this government can naturally set its own policy. The current government hasn't done so yet. But I think he’ll do it according to his convictions once he consolidates his power.”
From dark shadows, bright light October 29, 2006 Sang Kim shot his wife, son and daughter before turning the gun on himself. Erika Hayasaki profiles Bin Na, the one who lived. Mona Gable traces the deep cultural roots of this tragedy—and two others that unfolded the same week in April. Her father shot them all. She was the only one who lived. And she forgave him.
こっちは一家4人火を放って殺し<丶`∀´> The Fathers October 29, 2006 Four children were dead. To most, this was incomprehensible. But some could understand. Yet for all the agonizing and debate, "they all know this can happen," says Charles Kim, referring to the Korean American community. "And it will happen again."
'To understand Koreans," Kim is saying, "you have to understand woori mentality."
Kim is president of the Korean American Coalition in Los Angeles, a national organization whose goal is to promote the participation of Koreans in American political life. On a hot afternoon in September, he is leaning across his desk in his cramped office at 6th and Harvard in Koreatown, trying to convey the dynamics of the Korean family structure.
JETのアホが日本の教育改革の記事について何かほざいてるぞ。 http://community.livejournal.com/jetjapan/248411.html (and sorry guys, but the rest of Asia remembers Japanese "comfort women" during the Pacific War all too well - not teaching your own about it does Japan a great disservice in the international community)
Yeji Olivia Jeung, a half Korean and a half Cantonese raised in Boston, first came to Japan as a one-year exchange student of Waseda University.
After living with her excellent host family, her interests in Japanese culture and its language deepened. After graduating from the college and about a year and a half of travelling within the US and overseas, she came back to Japan as a participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET Programme) in 2000.
After 3 years of a slow and peaceful life deeply involved in the local community of the beautiful Shikoku Island where she calls her Japan home, Yeji moved to Tokyo and started working as a Programme Coordinator for the JET Programme headquarter from July 2003 to August 2006.
americagreat (1 hour ago) Japanese people are very evil. When I was walking through Shibuya in Tokyo, I saw many japanese businessmen paying money to middle school and highschool girls for sex. All japanese men are pedophiles. In america, we don't trust any japanese men, so in our neighborhoods, we have many warning signs if japanese men lives near us. They say "WARNING: Potential Japanese pedophile in the vicinity, please protect your children." (Reply)
NoHoGir1s (1 hour ago) Recently, American Immigration Officers don't allow filthy japanese people into our country; many japs are turned away forced to go back to Narita. I hope our next President's administration will completely block all japs coming to the United States. They infect our country. All japs want to live in the united states because we live comfortably. Those evil japs will never change, that's why they must not be allowed in the great USA.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-news31oct31,1,2320180.story?coll=la-headlines-business Newspaper circulations continue to fall Most American newspapers continue to lose circulation, according to figures released Monday Weekday circulation at 770 newspapers nationwide equaled 43.7 million a day in the six months ended Sept. 30, down 2.8% from the same period last year, according to the Newspaper Assn. of America. Sunday circulation for 619 newspapers declined 3.4% to 47.6 million. The figures came from data collected by Audit Bureau of Circulations, an independent organization.
Large newspapers that reported circulation data for six months that ended in September Newspaper Circulation Change USA Today 2,269,509 -1.3% Wall Street Journal 2,043,235 -1.9% N.Y. Times 1,086,798 -3.5% L.A. Times 775,766 -8% N.Y. Post 704,011 +5.3% Daily News (N.Y.) 693,382 +1% Wash. Post 656,297 -3.3% Chicago Tribune 576,132 -1.7% Houston Chronicle 508,097 -3.6% Newsday 413,579 -4.9% Source: Editor & Publisher
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aRYzPWmgGDaY&refer=japan Japan's Retail Sales Fell 1.4 Percent in September By Jason Clenfield Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's retail sales declined in September, suggesting consumer spending in the world's second- largest economy hasn't picked up after a rainy summer kept shoppers at home.
Sales at golf ranges climbed 14 percent and money spent on pachinko, a version of the slot machine, surged 28 percent.
Brazil's emigrants are generally not welcome in their new homelands, with the exception of Japan, which has a system allowing people of Japanese descent to live and work legally. Japan is the second most popular destination for Brazilians and one of the few places which actively encourages them. However, the welcome mat is only out for Brazilians of Japanese descent or their relations. If you walk around the traditional Japanese district of Liberdade in São Paulo you will see notices from companies which recruit Brazilians to work in Japan.
There are around 275,000 of these emigrants, who are known as "dekasseguis". They generally work as unskilled labor in auto part and electro-electronic factories and few of them speak Japanese. They often complain of being looked down and discriminated against. Although they meet the ethnic requirements, they are not always of full-blooded Japanese descent as the Japanese have mixed freely in Brazil. It is common to see Japanese Brazilians in the city of São Paulo with white husbands or wives while in the interior of the state they have mixed with people of white, Indian and black descent. Despite the discrimination they claim to suffer in Japan, these emigrants are in a regular situation and many of them return to Brazil after five or six years with enough money to buy a house or start a business.
Foreigners in São Paulo Mass immigration may have ended a long time ago but there is still a steady trickle of immigrants. Over the last 20 to 30 years, large numbers of Bolivians, Koreans and Chinese have entered the country, many illegally through the porous border with Paraguay. Most head for São Paulo. Some established Korean businessmen have been accused of exploiting the Bolivians, in particular, by hiring them for pittances to work long hours in sweatshops producing jeans and other clothing.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/4464257.html Judge sentences sex-ring leaders Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Hee Kweon Eun, whose ring smuggled women into the country from North Korea to work in area brothels, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James V. Selna. Eun, a 40-year-old West Los Angeles resident, is among 17 defendants who pleaded guilty in the case. He entered his plea to conspiracy and importing and harboring immigrants for the purpose of prostitution.
Many of the ring's brothels were disguised as chiropractic or massage businesses, authorities have said.
To Mi Um's brothel at 2725 Manhattan Beach Blvd. in Redondo Beach was called Sakura Acupressure(さくら指圧), Tristan said. Um, a 45-year-old Downey resident, pleaded guilty to harboring and concealing illegal immigrants. The four defendants were among 18 people arrested June 31, 2005, in a crackdown on brothels in the Los Angeles area.
During the sweep, agents also took into custody 46 undocumented Korean women who were working at the businesses.
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/10/26/news/120418.txt Local Japanese restaurant loses liquor license The Illinois Liquor Control Commission has revoked the state liquor license for Akemi Homestyle Japanese Restaurant, 1531 Fort Jesse Road, for failure to file tax returns. Owner Tina Navarro has not filed personal income tax returns for 2001, 2003 and 2005 and failed to file a retailers' occupational tax return since December 2005, according to information sent to the town of Normal.
こいつ等心構えは良いけど、どうなんだろね?↓ Artistry puts sushi chef a cut above "There are so many restaurants and not enough chefs," said Sue Kim, part owner of Saijo Sushi & Japanese Restaurant on Main Street The skill takes at least 10 years to learn, she says, although many people will say they can make sushi after only a few months of experience. Kim owns the restaurant with her husband, Cha Kim, who has 20 years experience as a sushi chef. He learned from his family in South Korea and studied under master chefs. "In Japan they won't even let you touch the fish for the first three to five years," Cha Kim says. "There, becoming a sushi chef takes a long time, not like in America." Saijo Sushi has two sushi chefs and a trainer. Young trainers are easier to find, Kim says, now that sushi has become popular in the United States. http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/business/15868168.htm
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-norkor1nov01,0,1773337.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials Keep the pressure on North Korea Pyonyang is willing to rejoin nuclear talks, but South Korea and China must enforce sanctions. NORTH KOREA'S decision Tuesday to return to six-nation nuclear talks is a big diplomatic victory for Washington, and a bigger one for Beijing. Yet there are good reasons to be skeptical about Pyongyang's motives. Kim Jong Il is a master at the art of weakening the resolve of diplomatic coalitions, and his decision to engage in talks once again may be nothing more than an attempt to stave off aggressive enforcement of U.N. Security Council sanctions. China and South Korea have in the past hesitated to embrace meaningful sanctions, but Kim faces a more united coalition in the aftermath of his nuclear test.
The North Korean dictator may be hoping that his willingness to restart talks will erode Chinese and South Korean determination to stand firm and enforce the sanctions. China's support of sanctions in the aftermath of the nuclear test was a welcome departure from its usual nonintervention posture, though its power to influence its neighbor remains unclear. Much has been made, for example, of the fact that China substantially cut exports of heating oil to North Korea in September, widely seen as retaliation for a missile test in July. Yet that same month, China's exports of gasoline and other fuels rose, and the oil cutoff doesn't seem to have had any effect on Kim; he went ahead with his first nuclear test Oct. 9.
It is unquestionably better to hold talks, even with a suspect partner, than not to hold them at all. But no one — particularly the South Koreans, who have so far refused to join the U.S. effort to interdict ships containing potential materials for weapons of mass destruction — should take the agreement as a reason to avoid tough enforcement of existing sanctions.
It's now abundantly clear that the South's attempt to woo Kim's regime with economic incentives and engagement has failed. Strong pressure combined with negotiations constitute the only practical way to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-koreatown31oct31,0,3481561.story?coll=la-home-headlines Anxiety builds as crime increases in Koreatown Some residents won't go out after dark in the trendy area. Others fear South Korean investors will be turned off. By K. Connie Kang and Andrew Blankstein, Times Staff Writers October 31, 2006 H.J. Huh arrived in Koreatown a decade ago, as the district was struggling to recover from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The nurse from South Korea has seen the area blossom with fancy restaurants, luxury health spas and high-end condos. First, a rapist stalked the neighborhood, attacking more than a dozen women. That was followed by several robberies and shootings. Now, she tries to stay in her apartment at night, even avoiding a quick trip to the nearby Korean supermarket. When a stranger enters her apartment elevator, she gets off at a different floor to make sure she is not followed home. "I am afraid to go out — even to a market at night," she said. "Koreatown is one of the densest areas in the city, but you hardly see patrol cars." A series of high-profile slayings in the community over the last year — including the shooting deaths of three people at a Koreatown restaurant earlier this month — have heightened concerns about crime. Among some Korean Americans, concerns about crime are already changing behavior. "I don't go to Koreatown when the sun goes down," said Suky Lee, a real estate agent with Nelson Shelton & Associates in Beverly Hills. "I don't feel comfortable."
こいつ馬鹿?↓マジワロス! "Koreans like designer labels and expensive things," said Korean American dentist Jimmy Choi. "They become easy targets." After all, Koreans come from a 5,000-year-old culture, where an old proverb says, "Clothes are wings." "There are several factors that play into that, including the language barrier, the large number of undocumented Korean immigrants, fear of retaliation and the sense that dealing with the justice system keeps them away from their businesses, which are crucial to their income," Lee said. "But from the department's point of view, we don't know whether the crimes are occurring or not."
Some violent crimes in Koreatown have increased since 2005. Rape – 47% Homicide – 40% Robbery – 11%
'Driver of car that fell into ravine was drunk woman'
The driver of a vehicle that ran off the roadway and fell into a ravine along the Thousand Curve in Sadog Tasi on Tuesday early morning was arrested after she was found to be under the influence of alcohol.
Maeng Ok, 31, a Korean, was arrested for driving while under the influence of alcohol, reckless driving, and refusal to submit to a breath test, according to police yesterday.
Investigation conducted by Traffic Officer Joseph Magofna showed that a white Toyota Rav4 with license plate ACD-483 being driven by Ok ran off the roadway and crashed into a ditch on the shoulder of the southbound lanes.
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.
Anxiety builds as crime increases in Koreatown Some residents won't go out after dark in the trendy area. Others fear South Korean investors will be turned off.
Some violent crimes in Koreatown have increased since 2005. Rape(強姦) ? 47% Homicide(殺人) ? 40% Robbery(強盗) ? 11% Through mid-October(10月中旬までの統計) Source: LAPD(ソース:LAPD、ロス市警)
この犯罪統計についてインタビューをされた韓国人街に住む歯科医のジミー・チョイさんは、 「韓国人はブランド物の服と高級品が大好きだからね、狙われ易いんだよ」、 「洋服は翼だと言う言い伝えが5千年の文明と歴史を持つ韓国にはあるからね」と答えた。 "Koreans like designer labels and expensive things," said Korean American dentist Jimmy Choi. "They become easy targets." After all, Koreans come from a 5,000-year-old culture, where an old proverb says, "Clothes are wings."
A survey of more than 40,000 men in 43 countries on their sexual habits showed that South Korean men had sex the most number of times per week: 4.50. The results of the survey have been unveiled by Men's Health, http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1061633
The government plans to make it mandatory, and no longer voluntary, that all companies in Japan report details about noncitizens when employing or dismissing them, in order to prevent an increase in illegal employment, officials said Thursday.
The details will include the names, nationalities and visa status and duration. Employers who fail to make such reports or file false reports may be fined up to 300,000 yen. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will draft an employment promotion law amendment to this effect to submit to the Diet during the ordinary session in the first half of next year, they said.
Permanent residents of Korean ethnicity are exempt from such reporting.
Pastor who fled U.S. is back for sentencing A pastor who fled to South Korea after he was convicted of helping Korean nationals file fraudulent visa applications has been returned to the state for sentencing. Dong Wan Park, 53, was convicted of conspiracy, visa fraud and obstruction of justice in June. Prosecutors said that Park, pastor of Hope Korean Church, advertised in Korean language newspapers that immigration visas were available through his church. He charged as much as $30,000 to provide people with visa paperwork, including phony transcripts from a Korean seminary and a certificate of ordination from a Korean bishop. The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that he was returned to the country after Park's native South Korea decided to deport him to the United States. The Justice Department said that Park had wired $290,000 to a bank in South Korea after he persuaded church elders to authorize the sale of the church, which netted him $350,000.
Park, who faces up to 10 years in prison, is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 15 by U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton.
A Bothell man was arrested Thursday after his 2-year-old son was found covered in bruises.
The man's wife told police her husband repeatedly kicked the boy "like a soccer ball" and hit him on the head to discipline him, according to a police affidavit filed Friday in Everett District Court. Initially, the boy's mother told the doctor the bruises were the result of a fight between the boy and his 3-year-old sister.
A Lakewood police officer who speaks Korean was brought in as a translator and to interview the woman.
米国国務省 Parental Access: The Hague Convention (Article 21) calls on Central Authorities to facilitate parental access, but does not provide for specific procedures or remedies (unlike returns).
Access cases, whether pursued under the Hague Convention or not, are therefore handled in accordance with local laws pertaining to custody and visitation. Consular access is covered by the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. This allows consular officers to seek access to a child through welfare/whereabouts visits. In addition to ascertaining the child’s welfare and safety, we use these visits to pursue routine parent/child contact whenever feasible.
Why doesn’t the Department enforce its right to have a U.S. citizen child extradited to the U.S. from a foreign country? Extradition involves the return of a criminal to the country in which the crime was committed. Children who are victims of international parental child abduction are not criminals
>>573の主張 問題無いじゃん。 Pass enforceable laws guaranteeing the return of abducted children to parents under Hague cases. Japan, however, remains the only country among the Group of Seven industrial nations not to have signed the treaty
an incident in which Ham and about 20 other Korean students were kicked out of the Suwanee library has others in the community questioning whether racism is involved. “I could not believe these things existed,” said Yong Song. He said he was told about the incident by a friend whose daughter was forced to leave Oct. 18. “It seems just Korean kids were pointed out. If that’s what happened, that’s outrageous.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_business12nov05,1,2244768.story?coll=la-wires-business&ctrack=1&cset=true Western Firms Doing Business in N. Korea In the midst of tensions over North Korea's nuclear program, a Western company is there searching for oil. Another just bought a bank "North Korea is hungry for business," said Roger Barrett, the British founder of Beijing-based Korea Business Consultants, who recently took 11 Asian and European clients to Pyongyang to play golf and make contacts. "They are very skillful and hardworking," said Felix Abt, a Swiss businessman who oversees two ventures in Pyongyang, one that makes business and game software for sale in Europe and another that makes antibiotics and painkillers for the domestic market. "It's sometimes faster to get licenses and necessary approvals here than it is in China or Vietnam."
South Korea accounts for most of the North's foreign investment, with stakes totaling $620 million in an export-manufacturing zone and a resort for foreigners. China's investments total just $31 million, according to the Chinese Commerce Ministry.
Britain, Germany, Sweden and other Western governments, meanwhile, have official relations with Pyongyang. The Europeans' chamber of commerce in Pyongyang had 12 members when it was launched last year. They include delivery company DHL Express, an Italian law firm and a German venture founded in 2003 to provide Internet access to foreign businesses in Pyongyang.
Colin McAskill, a British businessman who has done business with the North since the 1970s, is lobbying Washington to fine-tune its sanctions so the bank's customers can withdraw money that was made legally. McAskill is chairman of Hong Kong-based Koryo Asia Ltd., which said in September it was buying a 70 percent controlling stake in Daedong Credit Bank, North Korea's first foreign-owned financial institution. The bank, which is 30 percent owned by a North Korean bank, serves foreign companies and has accounts at Banco Delta Asia.
North Korea also has turned to Western investors in hopes of developing oil resources and reducing its near-total reliance on China for fuel. It awarded a 20-year exploration concession last year to Aminex plc, a London firm. Aminex is helping the North Korean government deal with other foreign companies, and in exchange gets to pick where it will drill for oil, its chief executive, Brian Hall, said by phone from London. Aminex hasn't felt any effects from the nuclear tumult, Hall said.
Veterans’ Day: Flags of Our Raped Mothers Suki Falconberg November 4, 2006 Just in time for Veterans’ Day, I notice Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers coming out, yet another movie glorifying war and the men who make it. Just the previews indicate its ‘John Wayne/war hero’ slant: “More Congressional Medals of Honor…” blares the overvoice, as The Sacred Flag (Iwo Jima style) is raised. One reviewer (Dargis, “Ghastly Conflagration,” NY Times, Oct. 20) writes: “It seems hard to believe there is anything left to be said about WWII that has not already been stated and restated, chewed, digested….” Dargis’s remark is so wrong, so off-base, no narrowly patriarchal, that I don’t know quite how to begin to refute it. I will start by saying that 99% of ‘war stories’ have never been told: those of the women ravaged by the conflicts men create. Dargis finds Eastwood’s movie full of the graphic ‘horror’ of war. The raped women of war are its true ‘horror.’ Of the thousands of war movies, how many ‘honor’ and ‘remember’ their suffering.
As a rape and military prostitution survivor, I am always uneasy on Veterans’ Day, and Memorial Day, because these two American holidays celebrate the ability of men to make war and the courage of the soldier and how glorious all this is for his manhood, etc.
I remember that all of the year 2005, the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII, was like one long Veterans’/Memorial Day in the U.S., with endless articles and TV shows and movies devoted to the glory of the soldier and the magnificence of the wars men make. The entire year, I only saw two mentions of the effect of WWII on women: some attention paid to the Korean Comfort Women, but only as if they were the 'big' exception --no mention that what happened to them (being raped 30-50 times a day in military brothels) has been the 'norm' for countless vulnerable and beleaguered women and girls caught in the sexual line of fire during wartime.
In addition to not coming forward, women are partly responsible in other ways for the vast silence that surrounds wartime sexual savagery. One example: certain Japanese feminists recognize the existence of the Korean Comfort Women, and have apologized on behalf of their men, and their government. (Source: War’s Dirty Secrets, by Anne Llewellyn Barstow.)
But these same feminists ignore their own sisters, Occupation Comfort Girls, handed out to American GI’s and Australian soldiers in Tokyo at the end of WWII. Truckloads of them, given to appease the conquerors. Wary, terrified girls. Confused, starving. In rags, many, and barefoot. War-ravaged already, by the destruction of their homes and families. Now raped, sometimes into unconsciousness, by the ‘entitled’ soldiers, who must have girls’ bodies as rewards. A noble soldierly deed, the virile rape of the conquered.
We have an eyewitness of Australian men raping these ‘comfort’ girls all night, as they cried and begged. It is puzzling that Japanese women, those left alive, who were the Comfort Women for the American and Australian armies, have never come forth. The RAA (Recreation and Amusement Association), a joint effort of the Japanese and American authorities, forced girls (many of them teenage virgins, homeless and helpless) into the Rape Centers (my phrase for the places). There, according to historian Yuki Tanaka, the girls could find no time to eat or sleep, so heavy was the demand. Men bought ‘tickets,’ to make it all legitimate—after all, if you pay it can never be rape, right, since the girl is a natural born whore. 続く http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=15978
Watch out for the sushi policePossible gastronomic crimes include slicing the fish too thick, using too little or too much wasabi and overboiling the rice. Japanese tourists have also been known to complain about greasy tempura, floppy, lifeless noodles and seaweed that is not crispy enough.
The ministry said its aim was to "spread correct Japanese gastronomic culture" and "improve the reliability of our country's food" in foreign countries. Many so-called Japanese restaurants in foreign countries "offer food that is far apart from the original in the ingredients used and the cooking methods," says the ministry's website.
Hundreds of new sushi, noodle and tempura restaurants have sprouted up in the past decade, but television and magazines in Japan regularly host complaints by disappointed tourists.
Japan boasts one of the world's great culinary traditions and a tough licensing system to match. Sushi chefs train for years to recognize the smell, taste and texture of good fish, and need a special licence to prepare certain kinds of dish, such as the poisonous fugu blowfish. "It's difficult to find a chef abroad who really understands the culture of sushi," laments Tokihiro Funahashi, who has been a sushi chef in London since 1975.
これか↓ 先月の山手線ハロウィンパーティに関して外人の言い分 would be interested in some evidence to suggest the foreigners disturbed Yamanote to make it go slow. Were they lying in the middle of the doorway not letting the door close or something? If it was a decision by JR to slow down the service, then it is up to JR to provide justification for that. As far as I know lots of drunken foreigners in the train is no reason to slow the service. 外人が山手線を妨害したって証拠あるの?ドアが閉まるのを止めたとかさ? もしそれで電車が遅れたらそれはそれでJRのせいだろ?酔っ払いの外人が沢山乗ってたってだけで遅れる理由があるの?
As I said, it was loud and obnoxious, no doubt about it. But it was one hour out of the year. And if passengers didn't like it, they could get off and catch the next train 4 minutes later. さっき言ったように騒々しかったのは事実だ。でも1年のうちのたった1時間だし、 イヤなら一般客が後の電車に乗ればいいだけじゃん。
Might get some criticism from conservative or rascist members of society...but would that criticism be valid? Thats the question to ask. 俺たちを批判するのは差別主義者だ。だからそんな批判は無効だろ?
Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Experts divided on transracial adoption ADJUST: In dispute is whether the children will develop racial- or cultural-identity issues. A federal survey estimated that in 1987 only 8 percent of adoptions were transracial. The 2000 Census found that 13 percent of adopted children were foreign-born. Simon conducted a 20-year study, from 1971 to 1991, of more than 300 children adopted by parents of a different race.
Two-thirds were black or mixed-race, and one-third were Korean.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061106-5.html November 6, 2006 Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Bentonville, Arkansas Remarks by the President at Arkansas Victory 2006 Rally I want to share a story with you about the power of liberty. Recently, Laura and I had the honor of taking our friend, the former Prime Minister -- he was sitting Prime Minister at the time, of Japan to Elvis's place. (Applause.) They said, why did you go? Well, we hadn't been on a vacation lately. (Laughter.) We also went because Prime Minister Koizumi liked Elvis. But I also wanted to tell a story, a tale about history, and the power of liberty. Right after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor thousands and thousands of our citizens I'm sure your relatives -- volunteered to fight the enemy. See, Japan was the sworn enemy of the United States, and we fought them in a bloody war, and thousands lost their lives.
And here I am on Air Force One with the Prime Minister of the former enemy talking about the peace. See, we were talking about how do we make sure the Korean Peninsula doesn't have a nuclear weapon. We were talking about the fact that Japan had a thousand troops in Iraq, helping this young democracy. The Prime Minister knows what I know -- in this ideological struggle, with extremism on one hand and reasonable folks on the other, any time you can help a young democracy survive, you're making the world more peaceful. You're marginalizing the extremists. We talked about this concept that whom much is given, much is required -- that's what I believe. And we talked about how we can work together, for example, to get rid of the pandemic of HIV/AIDS on the continent of Africa. In other words, we were talking about our duties as responsible citizens of the world to lay the foundation for peace. Isn't it interesting? My dad fought the Japanese and his son is sitting down talking about the peace with the Prime Minister of the very same country. (Applause.) What happened was Japan adopted a Japanese-style democracy. The lesson is that liberty has got the capacity to change an enemy into an ally. And liberty has got the capacity to change a region of resentment, a region that needs hope, into a place where people can realize the benefits of a rational life, where people can realize the benefits of a free society. Some day American Presidents will be sitting down with elected leaders from the Middle East talking about keeping the peace, and a generation of Americans will be better off for it. (Applause.)
Rummy's North Korea Connection What did Donald Rumsfeld know about ABB's deal to build nuclear reactors there? And why won't he talk about it?
The North Korean reactors are being primarily funded by South Korean and Japanese export-import banks and supervised by KEDO, a consortium based in New York. "It was not a matter of favoritism," says Desaix Anderson, who ran KEDO from 1997 to 2001. "It was just a practical matter."
>>645>>646 Aliens staying in Japan are privilege, not a right! Privilege can be revoked anytime! Aliens are here as a guest and should act accordingly!
Opening a new massage parlor in San Francisco will require public hearings and a permit from the city's Planning Commission under an ordinance approved by the Board of Supervisors in an initial vote Tuesday.
The law is intended to weed out spas that serve as fronts for brothels and is an effort by city leaders to curb the illegal sex trade in San Francisco, part of a growing $8 billion international sex trafficking industry.
Ma, who was on Tuesday's ballot as a candidate for state Assembly, introduced the legislation shortly after federal agents raided 10 Asian massage parlors in San Francisco in the summer of 2005. During the raid, federal agents arrested 29 people for alleged ties to a South Korean sex trafficking ring and removed 104 Korean masseuses in California's largest sex trafficking bust.
A recent series in The Chronicle reported that scores of Asian massage parlors in San Francisco offer sex, and that some of the women inside are forced to work against their will. (>>328)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/08/BAGH2M834Q1.DTL Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Opening a new massage parlor in San Francisco will require public hearings and a permit from the city's Planning Commission under an ordinance approved by the Board of Supervisors in an initial vote Tuesday.
The law is intended to weed out spas that serve as fronts for brothels and is an effort by city leaders to curb the illegal sex trade in San Francisco, part of a growing $8 billion international sex trafficking industry.
Ma, who was on Tuesday's ballot as a candidate for state Assembly, introduced the legislation shortly after federal agents raided 10 Asian massage parlors in San Francisco in the summer of 2005. During the raid, federal agents arrested 29 people for alleged ties to a South Korean sex trafficking ring and removed 104 Korean masseuses in California's largest sex trafficking bust.
A recent series in The Chronicle reported that scores of Asian massage parlors in San Francisco offer sex, and that some of the women inside are forced to work against their will. (>>328)
More Britons are turning to terror, says MI5 director
1,600 suspects under surveillance 30 plots to kill, maim, damage 200 terror groups or networks
Hundreds of young British Muslims are being radicalised, groomed and set on a path to mass murder, the head of MI5 said yesterday. In a stark public warning, Dame Eliza ManninghamBuller, the Director-General of MI5, revealed that the Security Service's caseload had risen by 80 per cent since January and now involved about 30 “Priority 1” plots.
It has identified 200 terrorist networks involving at least 1,600 people, many under the direct control of al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan.
A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer has pleaded not guilty to selling military secrets to China so the communist nation could develop a hard-to-detect cruise missile. If convicted of the most serious charges, Gowadia could face the death penalty. Gowadia was an engineer with Northrop Grumman Corp. from 1968-86 and helped design parts of the B-2's propulsion system that make it difficult for enemy missiles to detect the bomber. The technology remains highly classified.
A naturalized U.S. citizen born in India, Gowadia has been in federal detention in Honolulu since October 2005, when he was arrested and denied bail.
An 18-count indictment issued Wednesday alleges that Gowadia designed and helped test for China a hard-to-detect cruise missile nozzle and that he analyzed for his Chinese clients how the modified cruise missile would lock on to U.S. air-to-air missiles.
The indictment also alleges that Gowadia conspired with a Chinese agent to conceal his trips to the communist country to discuss the project. The indictment says the two arranged for Chinese border control authorities not to stamp Gowadia's passport and entry papers when he traveled there.
Indian American charged with selling B-2 secrets to China Honolulu, November 10, 2006 An India-born engineer in Maui, Hawaii, who worked on the B-2 stealth bomber has been charged with selling military secrets to help China build a stealth cruise missile.
Government attorneys claimed Noshir Gowadia, 62, a naturalised American citizen from India, conspired to sell stealth secrets to China.
A federal grand jury has upgraded a former indictment against Gowadia, originally charged with selling information involving the B-2 aircraft. He now additionally faces charges of assisting China with designing and testing an exhaust system nozzle that protects a cruise missile from detection, according the Hawaiian channel KITV4 http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5967_1840056,001600060001.htm
The Indian community in Adelaide, south Australia, is living under the shadow of terror these days, with increasing incidents of apparently racially-motivated bashings at night by roaming gangs of youths.
In the last six months, there have been 10 such attacks, with eight of the victims being of Indian origin, including students. Police admit they have little information about the gang(s) of teenagers attacking Indians in Adelaide's inner northern suburbs.
>>645>>646 自国で同じ事をやる根性無い癖に、よく言うよな。 もしやったら Disturbing the Peace, Disorderly Conduct, Endangering Public Safety, Obstructing Highways and Other Public Passages, Public drunkenness, Obscene exposure Loitering and prowling 辺りで起訴されて5〜6年臭い飯食わされるよな、 日本でやっても何もならないから、糞害人が調子に乗るんだよ。
Mark grew up in Irvine, 30 miles south of Glasgow, Scotland. Mary grew up in Uddingston, a village near Glasgow. They met on the first day of studying Manufacturing Sciences and Engineering at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.
TAMAGAWABOAT (2 weeks ago) China's arrogant behavior to surrounding countries is influenced strongly from Ethnocentric/Sinocentrism. According to the research's result that was conducted for Japanese on July 2006, over 65% of Japanese answered "China is an untrustworthy country." The present Japanese feelings to China is the worst in recent 30 years . So many Japanese people has begun to notice the dangerous China. (Reply) (Mark as spam)
awong20XX (2 weeks ago) Are you trying to make your country look bad. I am starting to think that Japan is a country of propaganda, likened to DPRK.
eyeseekiel (1 week ago) judging from writing style and syntax I think its clear that JaPisLiar and TAMAGAWABOAT are actually the same person... and is more than likely a CCP disinformation agent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/nyregion/thecity/12kara.html Published: November 12, 2006 Along stretches of Northern Boulevard in eastern Flushing, it is hard to walk a full block without passing the narrow entrance to a karaoke bar. Often they are fronted with awnings lettered in both Korean and English and bearing cartoon characters with rhapsodic expressions. The bars rarely take up normal storefronts, located instead in basements and on upper floors. Pastel Karaoke, on Northern Boulevard near 157th Street, is no different, according to the police, a 25-year-old patron at Pastel tried to stop a fight on the sidewalk, but was beaten to death by a group of men. As of last week, the police had arrested five men in a continuing investigation. The killing, which took place across the street from St. Andrew Avellino Roman Catholic Church and school, aroused a burst of anger from local residents and officials, and it was not the first to do so. In 2004, two people were shot to death inside the Red Rose Club and Bar, another karaoke establishment in Flushing; in 2001, a bouncer at a karaoke club on Main Street was stabbed in the chest. “There’s a lot of problems with the karaoke clubs,” said Marilyn Bitterman, district manager of Community Board 7. She said her office had received several complaints about bar patrons urinating and vomiting on nearby lawns. Meanwhile, at Pastel Karaoke, things were quiet. A poster on the wall listed the top 150 favorite karaoke songs for the month, all in Korean, but not one of them could be heard.
KARAOKE BAR FIGHT KILLS ONE A Bayside man was beaten to death during a fight at a karaoke bar in Flushing early Sunday morning and some local residents say they are not surprised. Police report that Junghwa Lee, 25, was a patron at the Pastel Karaoke Bar, 157 16A Northern Blvd., when a dispute broke out between a group of men and another patron at 4 a.m. Lee tried to intervene and stop the fight.
The karaoke bar, located in a windowless basement, opened three weeks ago and is one of four on the same block that cater to Koreans. Residents have been concerned for years about the proliferation of these bars, which they say affect their quality of life. Janet Malone, a member of the East Flushing Civic Association, lives across the street from the bar. “First of all, they are located in basements with illegal addresses, the owners don't check for weapons and the State Liquor Authority is granting too many licenses to these businesses, which are close to a school and church,” she said. Malone added that the bars add to congestion, noise and parking problems on the residential blocks off Northern Boulevard. “I find liquor bottles on my grass all the time,” she said. “It’s a disgrace and is getting out of hand.”
Brothels in the sky Many of the women selling sex in Toronto may be victims of human trafficking, police officials say. Acting Staff Insp. Mike Hamel of Toronto Police's sex crimes unit says many of the estimated 2,000 people trafficked into Canada each year end up working in the sex trade in Canada's largest cities, including Toronto.
Star reporters who called, at random, numbers in 10 such ads in local newspapers were directed to apartment buildings in every case from Jarvis St. downtown to Sandhurst Circle in north Scarborough to Keele St. in west Toronto. Some brothels offer several locations to prospective clients. Many openly advertise "full service," the trade's code word for sex, for as little as $60, a fraction of what escorts normally charge.
"You can come to 3275 Sheppard or our other location at 2323 Eglinton Ave. Same girls," says an Asian woman responding to a caller at the Scarborough building.
"I am the CEO of sex," said a man who answered the phone a block away, at 25 Bay Mills Blvd. "I have Chinese girls, Japanese(ザパーニーズ) and Korean. Your pick."
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200611/kt2006111219230710160.htm False information is plentiful too. One Vietnamese woman who married a Korean man through an international agency said, ``At the meeting, I was told that my husband was an office worker with a monthly salary of more than 2 million won. However, after the marriage I came to know that he was a low-paid irregular worker at construction sites. He was also married to a Mongolian woman before, which I was not informed of.’’
After they come to Korea being married to a Korean man, the women often face violence and get harsh treatments by their husbands even if they arrive in Korea.
One woman said, ``Upon arriving in Korea, my husband took away passport and would strangle me. I am so scared of my husband. Another woman said, ``I was beat up after three days after I entered the country. As my husband demanded sex after drinking, I said no. Then he would beat me and spit in my face, pulling my hair.’’
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-water10nov10,1,6276868.story?coll=la-headlines-world A global clean-water shortage Los Angeles Times, CA - Nov 10, 2006 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — While people in wealthy suburbs of Africa use water to maintain lush lawns and fill swimming pools, many slum dwellers struggle to obtain the crucial resource and pay much more per gallon for what little of it they can get, according to a United Nations Development Program report calling for an end to "water apartheid." At the same time, dirty water is the second-leading cause of death among children globally, after respiratory infections. It kills 1.8 million children younger than 5 each year, more than do HIV/AIDS, malaria, war or traffic accidents, says the U.N. report released Thursday in Cape Town.
Kevin Watkins, the report's author, said at a briefing for media in Johannesburg. The session was held Tuesday, though release of the report was embargoed until Thursday. Collecting water is a colossal waste of labor, he said, with the burden falling overwhelmingly on women and girls. Sub-Saharan African women spend about 40 billion hours a year walking and queuing to collect water, equivalent to a year's labor for the entire workforce in France.
The report calls for a global action plan led by the Group of 8 leading industrialized nations, which includes the United States, to increase the focus on water and sanitation.
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おいこれ日本の領海侵犯してないのか? キティーホークは、チャンコロ潜水艦撃沈しろよ! A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has learned. The surprise encounter highlights China's continuing efforts to prepare for a future conflict with the U.S., despite Pentagon efforts to try to boost relations with Beijing's communist-ruled military. The submarine encounter with the USS Kitty Hawk and its accompanying warships also is an embarrassment to the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, Adm. William J. Fallon, who is engaged in an ambitious military exchange program with China aimed at improving relations between the two nations' militaries. According to the defense officials, the Chinese Song-class diesel-powered attack submarine shadowed the Kitty Hawk undetected and surfaced within five miles of the carrier Oct. 26. The surfaced submarine was spotted by a routine surveillance flight by one of the carrier group's planes. The Kitty Hawk battle group includes an attack submarine and anti-submarine helicopters that are charged with protecting the warships from submarine attack. The Kitty Hawk and several other warships were deployed in ocean waters near Okinawa at the time, as part of a routine fall deployment program. The officials said Chinese submarines rarely have operated in deep water far from Chinese shores or shadowed U.S. vessels. http://washingtontimes.com/national/20061113-121539-3317r.htm http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.navytimes.com/story.php%3Ff%3D1-292925-2353581.php
The Navy did spot a Chinese submarine near the Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group last month in the East China Sea, the Navy said Monday afternoon, verifying parts of a Monday morning article in The Washington Times that said a Chinese submarine had come within firing range・of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk on Oct. 26. “While conducting operations, a Chinese navy Song-class submarine was sighted near the strike group by a U.S. Navy aircraft,” said Navy spokesman Lt. Sarah Self-Kyler, who would say only that the incident occurred in “late October” near Okinawa, Japan.
Nearly 206,000 Americans went abroad to study, England being their No. 1 destination. But China was rapidly gaining popularity, 6,389 students going there for a 34.9 percent increase, ranking the country eighth.
NEW DELHI, Nov 14 (AP) _ China's ambassador to India reiterated his country's claim to a wide swath of northeastern India, prompting a sharp reaction from Indian officials Tuesday, barely a week before the Chinese president's visit. Chinese Ambassador Sun Yuxi repeated the claim in an interview broadcast Monday night, telling the CNN-IBN news channel that ``the whole of what you call the state of Arunachal Pradesh is the Chinese territory. ... We are claiming the whole of that.'' Early Tuesday, Indian officials struck back. ``Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India,'' Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters. In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said China's position on the issue ``has been clear.'' ``It can be resolved through friendly consultation,'' Jiang said without giving any more details. Chinese President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit India Nov.20-23
A chronic complaint of the domestic automakers -- the unfair advantage of a weak Japanese yen - - has grown in Detroit's executive suites as Toyota, Honda and Nissan rack up impressive profits. The automakers contend that Japan artificially suppresses the value of its yen, making imported goods from Japan cheaper and boosting the profits exported from American customers. The automakers might press hard on currency issues because Bush is scheduled to meet with Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday during his visit to Vietnam.
http://www.boston.com/cars/news/articles/2006/09/24/made_in_america_hard_to_tell/ Made in America? Hard to tell ``Domestic" meant going to a Ford or Chevrolet dealer, while ``import" buyers headed to Toyota or Honda showrooms. But in the age of globalization, when parts and vehicles can come from anywhere, a Toyota Camry can be more American than a Ford Mustang, and a Honda Pilot can have more U S -made components than a Chevrolet Suburban.
Since 2000, Germany and Austria have apologized for their use of slave and forced labor during World War II and have been compensating victims throughout the world.
>>779 >1. Ford F-Series (pickup truck) 2. Chevrolet Silverado (pickup truck) >3. Toyota Camry 4. Ford E-Series (van) 5. Chevrolet Cobalt >6. Ford Explorer (SUV) 7. Chevrolet Malibu 8. Ford Escape (SUV) >9. Toyota Sienna (minivan) 10. Chevrolet TrailBlazer (SUV)
W.J.Underwood (ウィリアム・アンダーウッド) 職階: 講師 学位: 修士 主な担当科目 学 部:日本とアメリカ、英語表現研究D(マスメディア)、英語表現技法B(ディベート)、First-year English 専門領域及び活動: English teaching, Journalism, Political Science My academic background is in Journalism and Political Science. I have worked as a newspaper reporter and as a freelance writer of non-fiction articles for magazines and newspapers. Most professional experience, however, has been in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL). I am now completing my Ph.D. dissertation in political science, on the topic of Chinese forced labor in Japan during World War II and the ongoing movement for redress. http://www.fukujo.ac.jp/university/jinbungaku/shokuin2.html
Dozens of Pakistani immigrants who came to the United States posing as religious workers were arrested Wednesday, authorities said, as Homeland Security agents tried to close a commonly exploited avenue for illegal immigration.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been scrutinizing the religious worker visa program, which a 2005 review found was rife with problems. Homeland Security officials found fraud in one of every three religious visas they reviewed.
What we see are religious institutions such as churches that may exist only on paper but are sponsoring people," ICE spokesman Dean Boyd said. "Our concern is we don't know who these people are. They're obviously not who they say they are and they don't have religious training."
In June, Washington state pastor Dong Wan Park was convicted of helping South Korean nationals file fraudulent religious visa applications. None of the applicants was ever employed at the church.
The aliens arrested Wednesday were held on immigration violations and could face criminal charges.
Boyd said the agency is committed to the visa program, which is said is important for legitimate religious institutions, but said it must not be exploited.
by Gregory Clark June 17, 2003 Now it is back to the same business over North Korea. Somehow a Pyongyang admission and apology for past abductions of Japanese citizens, initially accepted by Tokyo, is about-turned and made into a pretext for world condemnation of North Korea as a criminal nation. A joint Japanese-North Korean promise to let former abductees return to North Korea to persuade their children to go to Japan is turned around into an equally criminal North Korean refusal to allow the children to go to Japan. And while accusing Pyongyang of all kinds of crimes and evasion over a few dozen alleged abductees, the same Tokyo sees absolutely no crime or evasion in its continuing refusals to apologize for, compensate for, or even in many cases to admit to, the far worse abductions and deaths of tens of thousands of Chinese and Korean forced laborers before 1945. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3785
http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6219297,00.html http://townsvillebulletin.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,20773246%255E23215,00.html Outcry as French Socialist blasts black soccer players A French Socialist official sparked an outcry on Thursday with reported comments that he felt ashamed most of France's national soccer players were black, upsetting his party as it voted on its presidential candidate. Georges Freche, president of the southern Languedoc-Roussillon region, known for his outspoken remarks, was quoted by a newspaper as saying he was sorry nine out of 11 players in France's national team were black. "I'm ashamed for this country. Soon, there will be 11 black (players)," Le Midi Libre quoted Freche as saying.
Freche was suspended from some party functions for calling "harkis" -- Algerians who fought alongside the French in Algeria's war of independence -- "sub-human" in February.
August 19, 1985 Dwight Smith 3d, Lawyer, Is Wed to Mindy L. Kotler The marriage of Mindy Linda Kotler, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. David Kotler of Kingston and Middletown, N.Y., to Dwight C. Smith 3d, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Smith Jr. of Albany, took place yesterday at the bride's home in Middletown. Rabbi Alvin Roth and the Rev. Stephen C. Williams, a Presbyterian minister, officiated at the interfaith ceremony.
The bride, who will keep her name, graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Smith College and received a master's degree in international relations from Yale University. She is president of Search Associates, a research concern in Washington.
Ms. Mindy L. Kotler (Mrs. Dwight C. Smith III), Director Yale University, M.A., International Relations Smith College, B.A., Government and History, **High Honors in Chinese history; The Phillips Exeter Academy
Mr. Daisuke Okuyama, Research Assistant (part time) American University, M.A. International Relations (expected 2002), Yokohama City University, B.A. Economics.
Mr. Yuichi Ikeda American University, B.S. Business Administration, Narita International High School, Japan.
Ms. Miho Hasuo Thunderbird School of Business, MBA, The College of William and Mary, M.A., Government Seinan Gakuin University, B.A., Law
ABOUT Overview, History, Membership, Funding, Publications, Programs, Public Policy, Pentagon Study Group on Japan, Research Guidance, Collaborative Relationship, Fourth International Conference on Japanese Information Internet, Promotion, Works in Progress, Address, Staff, Advisory Board http://www.jiaponline.org/about/index.html
これ叩ける材料に使えるな、今アメリカだと喫煙者=犯罪者的な目で見られるのが当たり前で、 喫煙者は肩身の狭い思いをしてるし、何処でもタバコ会社の関係などを必死で隠蔽しているのが現状だからな。 たばこ会社に金を貰い、表面上は女性の権利の確立とか言ってるけど、 まだまだ喫煙者にやさしく、タバコの害に疎いアジアでアジア人の女性にタバコを売りつける工作なのかなど、 これを上手く使ってThe Japan Information Access Projectの信用を落す工作活動を大々的にやれば結構効果あると思うよ。
http://www.jiaponline.org/about/04_funding.html In 1999, Phillip Morris awarded the Japan Project seed money to establish the Asia Group, a discussion forum for select women Asia policy professionals. The objective is to encourage greater and more visible participation by women in the policy process. Currently, the Japan Project is identifying candidates and will host in the fall the first meeting of the Asia Group.
Korean men are not very considerate of their sexual partners, but they are more interested in sex.
Those are the findings of a Bayer HealthCare team in charge of the erectile dysfunction treatment Levitra, who conducted a two-year extensive survey of 1,000 men in Korea between 2004 and 2005.
Korean men are inconsiderate
Most men both in Western and Asian nations consider the satisfaction of their partners an important factor in their sex life. And while 60 percent of men in Germany answered that the satisfaction of their sex partners is a crucial thing to consider, only 30 percent of men in Korea agreed.
http://news20.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/news/1163890688/l50 韓国人男のセックスは、世界で一番自己中!! この程ドイツバイエル薬品が世界の男性の性に関して統計を行った所、 韓国人男性はセックスのパートナーに対して世界で最も配慮や気遣いをしないが、 セックスに対する興味は世界一である事が判明した。 この調査はバイエル社のED治療薬レビトラ部門が、2004年〜2005年にかけて、 千人の韓国人男性を調査したもので、この調査によるとアジア人男性は欧米男性よりも相手への気遣いが多少少なかったが、 殆ど同レベルであったが、韓国人男性とドイツ人男性で比較をすると、 相手への気遣いをすると答えたドイツ人男性は70%であったのに対し、 韓国人男性で相手への気遣いをすると答えた割合は30%であった。 この調査結果から推測すると、韓国人男性は相手の女性を便器程度にしか思ってらず、 極めて自己中心的な性交をするものと思われる。 Korean men are not very considerate of their sexual partners, but they are more interested in sex. Those are the findings of a Bayer HealthCare team in charge of the erectile dysfunction treatment Levitra, who conducted a two-year extensive survey of 1,000 men in Korea between 2004 and 2005. Korean men are inconsiderate Most men both in Western and Asian nations consider the satisfaction of their partners an important factor in their sex life.
Activist Group Says China Holding Tibetan Children By VOA News 10 October 2006
A Washington-based activist group says China is holding at least 10 children from a group of Tibetans who were fired on by Chinese security forces near the Tibetan border with Nepal last month.
In a statement issued Tuesday, the International Campaign for Tibet quotes a British mountain climber and several other witnesses who say they saw Chinese forces shoot at a group of about 70 Tibetans on Mount Cho Oyu September 30. The Tibetans are said to have been trying to flee into Nepal.
The owner of the consoles, Wikan Lumya, 26, of Los Angeles met the men at a McDonald's at Moody Street and Orangethorpe Avenue shortly after 1 a.m., Sgt. Terry Kim of the La Palma Police Department said.
One of the two sprayed the victim with pepper spray, then the pair fled on foot, Kim said.
元KGBが毒を盛られたと言われているロンドンの寿司屋 イツってどう言う意味だよ? 何時? 伍? 逸? 乙? また糞害人が訳のわかんねー店名付けてないか? http://www.itsu.com/ http://www.itsu.co.uk/ Itsu is a private UK company owned by Julian Metcalfe and Clive Schlee, both of who can be reached under contact us. http://www.itsu.co.uk/shops/piccadilly/ 167 Piccadilly London W1 J 9EG T: 020 7495 4048 F: 020 7495 4645 Mon to Fri: 11:00am to 7pm Green Park / Piccadilly
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1953202,00.html Peter Clarke, a deputy assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police, was brought in to run the inquiry as it emerged that Alexander Litvinenko might not have been poisoned during a meeting with an Italian contact, Mario Scaramella, at the Itsu sushi restaurant in Piccadilly on November 1.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_324200950.html http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=4778878 http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10362836/detail.html http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1111371064&filter=0 無料広告掲示板クレッグズリストでPS3を転売しようとした男性が、 待ち合わせ場所のロス郊外のラパルマ市にあるマクドナルドで、 購買者の韓国人男性二人に催涙スプレーを噴きかけられPS3を奪われる強盗事件が起きた。 強盗容疑で逮捕されたのは、韓国人の黄エリック容疑者(18歳)とチェ・アンドリュー・ジョンファン(18歳)の二名。 二人は黄エリック容疑者の自宅で踏み込んだラパルマ市警のSWATチームに逮捕された。 黄エリック容疑者からは、強奪されたPS3が発見された。 Police Arrest 2 Men In PlayStation Robbery Eric Hwang(黄・エリック), 18, was arrested shortly after 9 a.m. at his Lakewood home, where the equipment was recovered, Sgt. Raul Morales said. At about 10 a.m., detectives arrested Joonhan Andrew Choi(チェ・アンドリュー・ジョンファン), 18, also of Lakewood. Both men were booked on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery and for robbery, Morales said. The owner of the consoles, Wikan Lumya, 26, of Los Angeles met the men at a McDonald's at Moody Street and Orangethorpe Avenue shortly after 1 a.m., Sgt. Terry Kim of the La Palma Police Department said. One of the two sprayed the victim with pepper spray, then the pair fled on foot, Kim said.
When we first started in 1997 we were actually named T'su, meaning connoisseur in Japanese. Because nobody could pronounce T'su. We changed the name to Itsu, which is Japanese for 'when', we liked this as it reflected the spontaneity of our food and service. As a side to this it is also about the guest being in control when broken down to 'it's you'.
Our original Itsu's are conveyor belt restaurants, so the guest had complete control over there dining experience by helping themselves.
Top Stories China raps Dalai Lama for organising anti-Hu rallies on Tibet China today rapped Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama for trying to "deceive" the world opinion by staging protest rallies against President Hu Jintao's maiden visit to India and hoped that New Delhi would adhere to its commitments on Tibet.
"This is a negative effort made by the Dalai Lama in an attempt to deceive the international public opinion," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Jiang Yu told reporters when asked to comment on anti-Hu rallies in India.
"Our position has been clear cut on this issue. Tibet has been a part of Chinese territory," she said. Jiang noted that India has made an assurance to China that it will not allow Tibetans living in the country to engage in anti-China political activities from Indian territory.
"We attach importance and appreciate this statement by India and we also hope that India will honour its commitments on this issue," she said. The spokeswoman also went on to rebut the Dalai Lama's allegation on religious persecution in Tibet. "On the question of religion, China has also a clear position. Tibet is an internal affair of China and Chinese government attaches importance to the religious beliefs of Chinese citizens according to law," she said.
Tokyo's Leverage Over Pyongyang Wall Street Journal (subscription), NY - 6 hours ago
The lucrative revenues from Pachinko gaming parlors throughout Japan -- one-quarter of which are owned by ethnic Koreans -- are the principal source of these ...
Tokyo's Leverage Over Pyongyang By Charles Wolf, Jr. Word Count: 924 North Korea dominated the agenda at last week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Hanoi, as new rounds of negotiations with Pyongyang loomed. While all 21 member-states vowed to press Pyongyang to disarm, one nation may hold the key to a successful outcome: Japan.
While China and South Korea are most often cited as linchpins in managing Pyongyang, Japan has more leverage than is usually acknowledged and may feel less compunction about using it than China or South Korea, the North's two other major trading partners.
Japan's financial leverage derives from the substantial volume of hard-currency remittances from Korean residents in ...
ここに居る奴らか分かんないけど、へたくそな英語で無意味に 他の国を差別したり中傷するコメント書くのはやめてね w 恥ずかしいだけだから w 稚拙な英語で、なんで中国韓国を非難してるのかも説明出来ないで ただfuckyouとかスラング連発してるだけだと差別にしかみえないから w アホニートは無理して英語勉強したりネットなんてやらないで一生オナニーしてればいいんだよ w バカなんだから w
I hear a lot of people refer to Hideki Matsui as a Japanese player, when in fact he's a man of Korean descent who just happens to live in Japan. I want him to properly be identified as a Korean player. You wouldn't refer to Pedro Martinez as an American just because he happens to live in the U.S.A., would you? He's Dominican. And Matsui is Korean. In fact, 40% of the players in Japanese baseball are of Korean descent. The other Matsui, Kazuo (Little Matsui) is also known to be of Korean descent. There is extensive literature on this, only if you're willing to look away from Japanese propaganda. Actually Matsui is a very common name for Koreans living in Japan. You will never see Japanese people accept this, because they want to believe that their heros are pure Japanese. They can't accept that a Korean is bringing them all of their glory. This is the same country that hid the fact that their only male marathon gold medal winner (Berlin Olympics 1936) was of Korean descent. It only became known after he "came out", sort of speak, after the Japanese got kicked out of Korea after WW2.
So please give Matsui his proper recognition. Referring to him as a Japanese is an insult not only to Matsui, but to the millions of Koreans who were killed, robbed by, and dehumanized by the Japanese.
94 YR OLD WW2 VETERAN Les Loken, a 94 year old World War Two veteran (still alive today) remembers what he was doing on December 7, 1941, when he first heard that Pearl Harbor was bombed.
カナダの主要紙ワールド・アンド・メール紙は11月16日、「ハーパー首相が中国当局に正しい政策を実行したと思うか」 (Do you believe Prime Minister Harper is taking the right approach in his dealings with China?)と題する民意調査を 行った。約2万4千人の読者が参加、62%がハーパー首相は正しい行動を取ったと評価した。
Asian sex ring busted A Highlands Ranch couple and a Thornton woman have been charged with running a Korean prostitution ring out of three Denver-area "brothels," using women they flew in from out of state.
Authorities arrested Wai Chong Kong, 38, and his wife, Kit Chi Ho, 43, both of Highlands Ranch, and Kah Poh Cheah, 28, of Thornton, on Tuesday. All three are Chinese, authorities said.
According to court documents, Glendale police received an anonymous letter in March describing a Korean "sex slave, prostitution ring" operating out of two apartments — one in Glendale, the other in the area of the Denver Tech Center. The letter stated that the prostitutes were 19 to 25 years old and that they were smuggled into the United States and forced to have sex with "Johns." It also listed the Web site where the advertisement was located and the phone number that the Johns used to make appointments with the prostitutes. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5163799,00.html
>According to court documents, Glendale police received an anonymous letter in March describing a Korean "sex slave, prostitution ring" >The letter stated that the prostitutes were 19 to 25 years old and that they were smuggled into the United States and forced to have sex with "Johns." >It also listed the Web site where the advertisement was located and the phone number that the Johns used to make appointments with the prostitutes.
またこいつAnthony Faiolaの仕業です。 松岡農林水産大臣GJ! これってBSEの産物かね? 牛肉調査に行ってコロラドで入った店がザパニーズだったとか? Putting the Bite On Pseudo Sushi And Other Insults Japan Plans to Scrutinize Restaurant Offerings Abroad By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, November 24, 2006; Page A01
On a recent business trip to Colorado, Japan's agriculture minister popped into an inviting Japanese restaurant with a hankering for a taste of back home. What Toshikatsu Matsuoka found instead was something he considered a high culinary crime -- sushi served on the same menu as Korean-style barbecued beef.
Matsuoka, who took over Japan's top agricultural job in September, is the mastermind of the new "Japanese restaurant authentication plan." He said it does not always take a culinary sleuth to spot an impostor. "Sometimes you can tell just by looking at their signs that these places are phony," he said.
"What people need to understand is that real Japanese food is a highly developed art. It involves all the senses; it should be beautifully presented, use genuine ingredients and be made by a trained chef," he continued. "What we are seeing now are restaurants that pretend to offer Japanese cooking but are really Korean, Chinese or Filipino. We must protect our food culture."
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Nov/24/br/br9384276051.html Friday, November 24, 2006 Police are asking for the public's help in locating Kyong Ho Kim in connection with drug offenses. Kim is wanted on suspicion of promoting dangerous drugs in the first degree and promoting detrimental drugs in the third degree, according to police. Kim, also is known as "Korean Mike," allegedly is known in the Waikiki area for selling crystal methamphetamine and also has been arrested for other crimes related to his alleged drug sales, police said.
Police ask anyone with information about Kim to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or *CRIME on your cellular phone.
Nov 22, 2006 3:54 pm US/Mountain Prostitution Ring Ran From Glendale To Tech Center Brian Maass (CBS4) DENVER New criminal complaints and affidavits were unsealed Wednesday revealing women brought to Colorado from Korea were used as prostitutes from Glendale to the Denver Tech Center. CBS4 investigator Brian Maass first broke the story of the alleged international prostitution ring Tuesday night. The documents tell the story of a large, well-organized and profitable human trafficking ring that imported Korean and other Asian women to work as prostitutes all over the Denver area. After 6 months of investigation, a posse of federal and local lawmen stormed a house Tuesday in Highlands Ranch. They arrested Wai Kong and his wife Kit Chi Ho and accused them of transporting women for illegal sexual activity. A third woman was arrested in Thornton. Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson, who spearheaded the initial investigation, said the ringleaders knew what they were doing. "We think it was fairly sophisticated in terms of the way they organized," Robinson said. "The fact they were able to bring in that number of legal immigrants to our community and have them involved in an illegal activity." According to the documents, the ring's operators set up brothels in apartments in Glendale, the Tech Center and Arapahoe County. Those brothels were staffed by women imported from Korea, sometimes under false pretenses. One said she was in the country on a student visa. They said they performed acts of prostitution to help pay the ringleaders from $8,000 to $18,000 for passports and visas that got them into the U.S.
The only way the fee can be paid is through acts of prostitution, with very little money from the acts of prostitution going back to the woman who is prostituting herself," Robinson said. The sheriff said the ring was apparently doing plenty of business. Male patrons told investigators they found the brothels through Internet ads and they told authorities what was going on behind closed doors. "It looked like they were pretty active," Robinson said. "We had quite a bit of surveillance that showed they had people coming and going pretty consistently." GPS tracking devices were placed on the suspects' van that showed daily trips to the alleged brothels and to Denver International Airport to pick up and drop off Korean prostitutes. The three people arrested in Colorado are scheduled to appear in federal court Friday for their first appearance.
in a Japanese restaurant owned by Koreans, with a Mexican chef, in an American city, it makes sense that something entirely unique would emerge.
お前が言うな! A Korean-American customer, Jeong Park, said Pina's food is the real deal. But as he scanned the tequila list resting on the sushi bar, Park couldn't help but rib his friend: "Are you turning this into a Mexican restaurant, man, or what?"
* Oct. 11, 2006 : 1. Met Mr. Leonsis, who is the vice chairman of AOL, in his office together with two truth council members, Mr. Larry Wu and Mr. Ao Wang. It was a promising meeting. Please see here for more detail.