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.
>>748 行動は工エエェェ(´д`)ェェエエ工 ーーーー 今度からようつべが同じ様なスピードで捏造動画も削除しなかたtら大抗議しようぜ。 This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner NBC Universal because its content was used without permission
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.