Comments on: Now that’s a protest

By: lux bearer

lux bearer — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:53:16 +0000

just got this from faroutliers

http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/

Most of the Okinawans worked in the sugar industry on Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas, where by 1940 they constituted about 90% of the population of nearly 50,000. Immigrants also accounted for about two-thirds of the population of Palau, where the phosphate mines were. By 1940, the population of Micronesia was less than 50% of Micronesian origin. As war approached, large numbers of Koreans also arrived in labor battalions to fortify the islands against attack.

SOURCES: [above] Mark R. Peattie, Nan’yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Micronesia, 1885-1945 (University of Hawai???i Press, 1988). [below] Lin Poyer, Suzanne Falgout, Laurence Marshall Carrucci, The Typhoon of War: Micronesian Experiences of the Pacific War (University of Hawai???i Press, 2001).

HOOVER INSTITUTION

Mark R. Peattie

Mark R. Peattie is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Boston (1992??р?).

He was the John A. Burns Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at the University of Hawaii in 1995 and serves as a research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University (1994??р?).

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/peattie.html

now, THAT is a BLOG

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:38:05 +0000

By: Dn Roberts

Dn Roberts — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:02:31 +0000

My condolances, Robert, for having this illiterate fool posting in your site. Once you get a Korean kid doing this, it is very hard to get him to stop unless you cull the messages as soon as they appear. I had the same problem on my own site a while ago.

By: shin jong il

shin jong il — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 23:00:27 +0000

‘…yankees used to protect them…’

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

nuclear bomb and missiles, baby.

protection no longer needed. bring troops home.

By: Len Peters

Len Peters — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 19:09:33 +0000

The interesting thing is that I have never seen or even heard of an anti-Chinese protest before. It was my belief that Koreans saw Chinese as something akin to gods. Next there has to be an anti-Finland protest…how dare Nokia sell moble phones! The indignation!

By: shin jong il

shin jong il — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:57:30 +0000

the atimes has an opinion piece from an individual who claims that even shilla was chinese! wake up, korean people.

By: Zhang Fei

Zhang Fei — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 08:02:53 +0000

It was my belief that Koreans saw Chinese as something akin to gods.

It’s amazing how ignorant Koreans are. But that’s all right - when Korea becomes a Chinese autonomous region, they’ll have plenty of time to reflect on the good old days, when the *evil*, *colonialist* Yankees used to protect them from both North Korea and China.

By: oranckay

oranckay — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 06:21:17 +0000

I was going to mention “The List” as Antti did, esp since it’s now moderated, so we don’t have to worry about everyone going over there and causing a war or sometthing.

Looking at the picture, sadly, it looks like one of those age group things.

By: Antti

Antti — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 05:05:33 +0000

There have been some very well informed messages on the subject in the Korean Studies mailing list lately. You might want to check them out: http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2004-January/thread.html