This thread is for discussing anti-Japan activities of Koreans in ENGLISH and taking action against their comments on youtube and so on. Why don't you join us if you are interested in our activity? It doesn't matter about your English skill as long as you have the feeling that you want to correct Korean injustice. Japanese have believed that there is value in being quiet, but being quiet isn't the best way to solve the problem in front of the the world. It's about time we disputed them =) **Reminder** Before posting a comment on youtube or any bulletin boards against anti-Japan Korean activists, please let us know the URL here so that we can assist you. And In this thread Japanese language is strictly forbidden in order to improve your English skill.
I'm >>1 I'm not the beginner of this thread but I think it is better to maintain it as it seems to be a good quality one.
It looks like there are two types of the people in Japan One think they wants to save Japan from outside enemies but can't speak English. the other can speak English but are less concerned about defending their own country. Let's learn not only about English but also the defense issues related Japan in the thread!
the reason why Japanese political campaign is inefficient compared to korea is the difference in the intensity of nationalism between Japan and korea. koreans are taught early on being hostile to Japan strongly. what is called the anti-Japanese education. If Japan leave them to do it, the relations between the two countries could never improve.
the contents of the history textbook of high school in Korea
"In contrast, most of the East Asian countries claim in their guidelines of school textbooks that the history textbook should enhance the people's ethnic self-esteem and national identity (a sense of belonging). This is seen as being a basic role in the history education of the country. Enhancing ethnic self-esteem sometimes produces a strange result. For example the Korean history textbook doesn't mention the main events during the war, which the other countries' textbooks refer to, such as the war that occurred in China in 1937, the Pearl Harbor attack and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Instead it focuses entirely on the Korean's resistance movement against Japan's colonial administration or their cultural development in literature. In other words Korean's history textbook is a story of the ethnic strife's process for liberation."
According to the Korean media " Sport Toa", Korean actress Kim Tehi(sorry I don't know the correc spelling for her name) has stopped her entertainment activities in Japan because of Japanese trend against Korea. and she is going to be back in in-country business... She has been plagued with indiscriminate personal disparagemens from Japanese right-wingers about the territorial row over Takeshima (Dokudo)... http://ameblo.jp/sincerelee/entry-11195095140.html#cbox
I don't think that's true at all. she played the lead in a Japanese Fuji-TV drama ”99 days for me and a star”last year. The drama had very low rating for a prime-time one. That would be the only reason why she stopped performing in Japan. If the drama had high rating, Japanese TV station, always hungry for a sensation, would not leave her alone. As a whole Korean media do overreact. They tend to write an article that is misleading or contrary to the truth.
FDA urges that oysters, clams, mussels, and some scallops products from Korea should be removed from the market
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is urging food distributors, retailers, and food service operators to remove from sale or service all fresh, frozen, canned, and processed oysters, clams, mussels, and whole and roe-on scallops (molluscan shellfish) from Korea that have entered the United States. This includes molluscan shellfish from Korea that entered the United States prior to May 1, 2012, when the FDA removed such products from the Interstate Certified Shellfish Shippers List (ICSSL), and that which may have inadvertently entered the country after that date. These products and any products made with them may have been exposed to human fecal waste and are potentially contaminated with norovirus. http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm308353.htm
The norovirus from Korean seafood has killed three people in the US. Also in Japan, for this 10 years, not only norovirus but also bacteria coliform, parasite eggs and enteritis vibrio have been found from seafood or kimchi made in Korea. The biggest problem about this is that in Japan we have had little information about the risky Korean food from either the Japanese Government or Japanese media. Since when they (Japanese Gov. and Media) have became so quiet when it comes to things against Korea? They fear a possible friction with neighboring country's people? or fear real violence? like hysterical, persistent, collective protest activities which Koreans make ? or money? which is said that Korean government throws around to get advantage or maintain their honor? Anyway as it stands now, I think that Japanese Gov.couldn't protect even the lives and health of the people.
Painful pasts Here as always, a painful past must be exposed and confronted. But it must also be accepted, and for some reason this seems especially difficult for Koreans. Others have managed it, in a context of yet greater evil. Israel and Germany are friends, despite Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.
This isn't just about Japan. Does any other country, or language, have a phrase equivalent to the Korean kwago chongsan, meaning "cleansing history"? To me that phrase makes no kind of sense. Like (say) "romancing toothbrush", this verb and noun simply don't fit together.
Yet South Korea has seen big debates about this. A decade ago I weighed into one such, and got a good kicking - though not from Koreans, interestingly. You can still read it all here.
Here's one of the comments that got me in hot water:
Coming to Korea from Africa, it puzzled me how hard it is to have a grown-up discussion about colonialism here. In this at least, Africa is well ahead of Korea. Teaching in Tanzania barely a decade after British rule had ended, despite a highly politicized atmosphere of anti-imperialism, there was neither personal nor academic animus involved in researching the colonial past. (It helps, of course, if you call it colonialism rather than occupation, not least in avoiding divisive and fruitless arguments about so-called "collaborators".)
I still stand by all of that, not least the last bit. Even today, two-thirds of a century after it all ended, South Koreans are still debating who collaborated and who didn't. Talk about sins of the fathers, and more than a whiff of North Korea's songbun system - on which, by the way, see a fine new report at the website of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, hrnk.org - where who your parents were can ruin you for life.
So even in South Korea, if your grandfather was pally with the oppressor, then you suffer for it - including having your land confiscated if it was given to him by Japan. Maybe that is a kind of justice, but where and when does it stop? Surely at some point you've to draw a line.
Liberal Democratic Party(LPD) urges the Japanese Government to freeze bilateral currency swap beteen Japan and Korea, in reaction to President Lee Myung-Bak's illegal Takeshima(Dokdo) visit or his arrogant statement to the Emperor of Japan.
Japan and Korea signed bilateral currency swap arrangement in 2011 in which two countries will provide up to 700 billion dollars in total to prevent a financial crisis. However there is little chance that Japan will be hit by a currency crisis, so the arrangement is intended for apply in Korea's currency crisis in effect. It's sort of like Japan's kindly assistance to Korea.
Here is a cable from Douglas McARTHUR U,once the U.S. ambassador to Japan and the General Douglas McARTHUR's nephew, to the U.S. State Department in 1960. In the cable, It shows that the U.S. authority had a hard time with the Yi Syngman regime which draw a national bordered on the sea between Japan and Korea, so-called Rhee Line, in defiance of international laws, and seizing many Japanese fishermen who was fishing around the Rhee Line, using them as political hostage. It also said clearly that Takeshima Island has always been considered as Japanese territory. This offcial letter has made public due to being declassified lately.
The full text in English
SECSTATE 3470 PRIORITY Rptd info: Amembassy SEOUL 351 For Assistant Secretary Parsons from MacArthur. Seoul for Ambassador McConaughy.
Now that we have prospect of new and democratic regime in Korea I strongly recommend that as soon as possible we seize opportunity to try to bring about durable solution to Korea - Japan dispute. As long as Rhee held power there seemed little chance of any solution but now we have entirely new situation which could lead to liquidation of Korea - Japan controversy. Implications of Korea-Japan are not just bilateral between government of J apan and Korea but deeply and directly involve US and our inescapable responsibilities in Northeast Asia.
As practical matter if reasonable solution is to be found it will be produced only by our good offices and working closely with both Korea and Government of Japan. It is of utmost importance that we identify and be prepared to move swiftly for solution those specific Korea-government of Japan problems which prevent progress toward basic settlement this festering dispute. We do not know what response Communists may make to new Korea regime and it is vital we try to put Korea-Government of Japan house in order as soon as possible.
While Rhee regime violated most basic tenets of democracy in authoritarian police rule imposed on Korean people, it has also in past done violence to most fundamental principles of international conduct and morality by committing acts of piracy on high seas around Rhee Line and then imprisoning and holding as political hostage Japanese fishermen and by seizing and holding non-Korean territory by force. The uncivilized practice of hostage diplomacy is one of our serious charge against Communist China and if continued by Korea it will be a great liability to a new democratic Korea regime
I therefore recommend strongly that as soon as new regime is in control in Korea (whether or not it be of interim character) we use all our influence to persuade it (1) to release and return to Japan all repeat all Japanese fishermen hostage (including those who have not completed their sentences) who have suffered so cruelly from Rhee's uncivilized and oppressive acts and (2) to cease practice of seizing Japanese fishing vessels on high seas. This would not only rid new Korea regime of liability of practicing hostage diplomacy but also more than anything else would lay foundation in Japan for really fruitful negotiations. At same time I would be prepared to press Kishi and government of Japan most strongly that in return for repatriation of all fishermen, Japanese would exercise self-restraint in their fishing operations in Korean Straits until reasonable opportunity had been given for negotiation of mutually agreed Korea - Japan fishing conservation agreement.
In addition to seizing Japanese boats in high seas and practicing hostage diplomacy, Rhee regime also seized by force and is holding illegally Takeshima Island which as always been considered as Japanese territory. This is very serious and permanent irritant in Japan-Korea relations and there can be no over-all Korea-Japan settlement until this island is returned to Japan. Therefore we should also press new Korea regime to return Takeshima to Japan. If it is unwilling to do so pending satisfactory conclusion of over-call Korea-Japan negotiations, new regime should at least signify a willingness to withdraw from as part of mutually satisfactory settlement of other outstanding issues between two countries. While we should press strongly for return of Takeshima to Japan, if by any chance new regime were unwilling to do so we should, as very minimum, insist that they agree to submit matter to International Court of Justice for arbitration.
Finally, we should inform new regime very clearly that it must be prepared to adjust its relations with Japan on terms of reciprocity, in such matters as diplomatic missions, visits by businessmen and journalists, commercial trade. Japanese have suffered Rhee's occupation-minded approach for eight years and will be unwilling to accept such indefensible treatment from his successor. In its own interests, new regime should start with conformity with normal International standards of conduct, and could most usefully begin (in terms of Japanese and other free world opinion) by permitting Japanese diplomatic mission to enter and function in Korea on same terms Korea Embassy operates here.
If we now move swiftly with new Korea regime which should generally be receptive to our views because of our helpfulness, we may have initial opportunity, which may never reoccur, to influence its position on Japan-Korea problem. Japanese would certainly welcome warmly and reciprocate fully, measures indicating new Korea regime willing take "new look" at Japan.
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Until now from the end of the war, Japan has provided much financial support for Korea. At first, when these two countries signed the Basic Japan-South Korea Treaty in 1965, Japan paid 1.1 billion dollars, about 2.3 times the amount for Korea's national budget of that time, for financial aid money.
Since then, Japan has given lots of aid to Korea through ODA, the yen-loan, an export-import bank and by licensing of technology. Japan also saved it's three times currency crisis of late years. So I think it's not too much to say that a good part of Korea's rapidly economy growth of recent years have been supported by Japan. Nevertheless the Korean government has kept it's people from these facts, and yet it continues to provide too much anti-Japan education to the people. Young Koreans have not been taught real history about Japan and Korea, and take every chance to behave in an offensive manner affected by their government. Japanese have tolerated the rude behaviors of Koreans, due to the past background, but I think it is time to get over now. Japaneses should say what must be said. The Japan's over-tolerance does not good for not only Japan, but also Korea.
To be honest, I think there is a possibility that the facts about “the taking of women by force” have been twisted by political forces with various ideologies which came into the postwar Japan and have worked behind the scenes. Therefore we will probably need to gather as many evidences against the event as possible again and investigate without prejudice what really happened in those days.