The new ruler of the waves
ANYONE who’s surprised at this has either been kidding themselves or hasn’t been paying attention. From the China Daily, via the Sidney Morning Herald: Police in the southern Chinese island province of...
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一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything The East China Sea is the Sea of Peace. - Hatoyama Yukio, former prime minister of Japan
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一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything Many of Abe Shinzo’s supporters are very passionate. That’s perhaps because he clearly spells out his policies. He declared he would conduct an...
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一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything (Joong-an Ilbo headline: South Korea-China summit — Territorial disputes are due to Japan’s rightward shift) Even if Japan were shifting to the...
View ArticleLetter bombs (25): Chugoku or Shina?
Ishihara Shintaro (top) and Miishima Yukio in Tokyo, 1956 READER Avery Morrow submitted a comment related to Chinese sinocentric culturalism with a link to an academic paper titled Shina as a toponym...
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一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything Japan Restoration Party President Ishihara Shintaro has said that Japan is America’s concubine. But there are a lot of people in Japan who want...
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Foreigners are making a big commotion about how Japan is moving to the right, but that’s all those people have been saying for the past 60 years. We’re not on some clock, and even if we are moving...
View ArticleNishioka Tsutomu on the comfort women (Part 1 of 4)
NISHIOKA Tsutomu, a researcher associated with Tokyo Christian University, has been conducting research into the comfort women for more than 20 years. Earlier this year he published an article on the...
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NISHIOKA Tsutomu, a researcher associated with Tokyo Christian University, has been conducting research into the comfort women for more than 20 years. Earlier this year he published an article on the...
View ArticleNishioka Tsutomu on the comfort women (Part 3 of 4)
NISHIOKA Tsutomu, a researcher associated with Tokyo Christian University, has been conducting research into the comfort women for more than 20 years. Earlier this year he published an article on the...
View ArticleNishioka Tsutomu on the comfort women (Part 4 of 4)
NISHIOKA Tsutomu, a researcher associated with Tokyo Christian University, has been conducting research into the comfort women for more than 20 years. Earlier this year he published an article on the...
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一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything I’m quickly putting together a paper on the Japanese population in South Korea. The more I conduct research, the more it appears that the...
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一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything Those people opposed to participation in the TPP negotiations do so on the premise that Japan will absolutely lose. In that case, can we win...
View ArticleSmallness playing large
AT what point does one’s reaction to the absurdities of South Korea’s preoccupation with Japan pass from amusement at a diversion that resembles the ramblings of a wild-haired street corner preacher to...
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一言居士 – A person who has something to say about everything South Korean historical scholar Cheong Jae-jeong’s statement that Takeshima is the same as Mt. Fuji for the South Korean people is absurd. The...
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