As many of you already know, Korea has often been portrayed in its maps as a tiger, powerful and strong, clawing at China and Russia. After the Japanese annexed Korea, Korea’s portrayal on maps changed. No longer was it seen as a noble tiger but rather as a meek rabbit (not the rabbits KJI bought), facing away from Japan. (I am still looking for a rabbit map and would appreciate any assistance).
The battle of the maps continues. Strangemaps (the source of these maps) recently did a posting on how the Koreans and Japanese have altered maps to reflect their emotions.
How some Koreans view Japan’s origin.
How the Japanese radicals would like to see the regional map changed. Notice that Dokdo has not been blotted out.
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Bah…!… Now Neff, concerning your last map. Yeah, the one with Korea photoshopped completely out. Why would any Japanese radical want that? Not with all that good rice growing land, hard working and obedient people, minerals and hydro electric power and perfect staging point to invade Manchuria… c’mon! What would an East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere be without Korea, huh?
They’re great guards doing a bang up job brutalizing prisoners and decent kamikaze pilots, too.
Appears Cheju is still on the last map.
Here’s that rabbit map.
BTW, didn’t know the palsy afflicted tigers. Quite sad… those pained contortions.
Funny how Japanzies are regard Jeju as their property. When they brutally occupied Ainu and Ryukyu people’s islands. Japanese need to learn real history such as Atomic bombs dropped on their roofs and rape & murder of innocent children and elderly by hands of Japanese vampires.
seouldout,
True… there were Korean POW guards and kamikaze pilots. However, on principle, arming a lot of Koreans worried the Japanese so most of Korea’s contribution to Japan’s war was via labor. Every Korean laborer or miner meant another Japanese man who could bear arms. On this principle the Japanese even put Allied POWs to work in factories and mines (which was against the Geneva Convention which Japan incidentally signed but never ratified).
seouldout, that link is the unified-Korea flag, not the rabbit map. I would also like to see an authentic old rabbit version.
The great subtle thing about the Tiger map is that his sine is the Baekdu-daegan Range, which is indeed the “spine of the Korean Peninsula”.
There’s a picture of the rabbit map in 5,000 Years of Korean Martial Arts: The Heritage of the Hermit Kingdom Warriors By R. Barry Harmon which can be found on Google books on page 23.
http://books.google.com/books?id=tZbVl-Cd-SgC&dq=5000+YEAR+HISTORY+OF+KOREA+MARTIAL+ARTS&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=vgT5r3-Ux6&sig=cIAm8XQzUU8qBmRheoDK3pkHEjc&hl=en&ei=twMvS_jaHce0tgfk17WSCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=rabbit&f=false
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