The Korea Times has located some “errors” on Yahoo’s English language map service. Apparently an area of sea to the south of Korea that the article translates as “the South Sea” has been labeled by Yahoo as the “Japan Sea”. Clearly the author of the the article is unaware of the fact that the Korea-centric […]
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Korean ultra-nationalists set their sights on Yahoo
Published by May 21st, 2006 in Dokdo/Takeshima, Korea and Japan. 0 CommentsA separate shrine for Class-A war criminals?
Published by May 20th, 2006 in Yasukuni Shrine and Japan. 1 CommentMakoto Koga
Last week, Makoto Koga, an influential faction leader within Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party(LDP), suggested that the Class-A war criminals enshrined at the Yasukuni shrine be placed in a separate shrine within the grounds of Yasukuni.
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