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I just found this English language Dokdo/Takeshima documentary on YouTube. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but here it is:
Part 1
Part 2
A few comments after watching the video:
Students asked about the issue
As the narrator describes “the level of knowledge” between Japanese and Korean students was “tremendously different.” To me, it […]
A interesting music video created by a Japanese netizen that takes an anti-Japanese rap song by Korean singer G-Masta and adds English subtitles and extreme images of Korean nationalist propaganda/copying of Japanese products by Koreans:
I don’t know how accurate the images or translation of the lyrics is correct. Anyone know the translation is correct, […]
It’s been a while since my last post. Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been busy boycotting FamilyMart. Anyway, here’s a glowing example of a stupid person’s reaction to the “So Far From the Bamboo Grove” controversy. This Korean blogger thinks it’s OK to make death threats against the author […]
As you may have read in my earlier post on the subject, or on The Marmot’s Hole / Occidentalism, Korean ultranationalists have been putting on a pressure campaign against American schools that use “So Far from the Bamboo Grove” as a reading in their classes. Yonhap News has reported a Korean ultranationalist victory in […]
“If it means we’d have to drop our own Korea-centric name for the sea, we’d rather not do it:”
More than 60 percent of South Koreans oppose giving a neutral name to the East Sea, which Japan calls the Sea of Japan, a survey said Friday.
According to a public opinion poll conducted by the Christian Broadcasting […]
Because Roh was advancing a policy based on anti-Japanese nationalism instead of actually promoting peace and friendship between the nations? The article has the answer:
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s main opposition party on Tuesday rebuked President Roh Moo-hyun over his handling of a diplomatic issue regarding the East Sea, also known as […]
According to the Marmot’s Hole, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun reportedly requested that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe support the use of the name “Peace Sea” for the body of water between their countries, rather than “Sea of Japan,” which is the current internationally accepted name for the sea. Previously Korean ultranationalists had been pushing […]
January 7th:
From the Boston Globe, with bold added for emphasis by myself:
School board to vote on Korea book
The Dover-Sherborn Regional School Committee is poised to vote Tuesday night on whether “So Far From the Bamboo Grove,” a book that has sparked a fiery debate in town, should be studied by sixth-graders.
The committee will meet to […]
An amusing WaiWai column from Mainichi:
Guffaws were heard around the world last month when it was reported that North Korea’s Dear Leader Kim Jong Il had scored 11 holes-in-one in a single round of golf.
But Weekly Playboy (1/1-8), which calls the dumpy dictator a sporting superstar, reports the feat was even more remarkable because the […]
Li Rong, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, has written an informative post about ultranationalist Chinese netizens:
Angry netizens in China are holding high the flag of nationalism and voicing dissatisfaction about the US and Japan with numerous irrational words. They believe they are right and just. This is a dangerous signal.
Read […]
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