Dokkaebi News reports that an online video of two lesbians making out on a Shanghai subway has Chinese society in an uproar.
We are pretty sure one of the two in the video is a woman. The other one appears to be a woman, but we’re not sure. At any rate, the two go at it [...]
Most people who have studied Korean history are probably aware of Ernst Oppert’s ill-fated attempt to blackmail the Taewongun to open Korea to the West by stealing the Taewongun’s father’s bones in 1867. Oppert, like many Westerners in the Chinese and Japanese open-ports, had not raised his army of men just to steal the bones of the [...]
Over at Muninn, Konrad Lawson pens an amusing piece of satire taking the piss out of all parties involved in the Dokdo mess. Here’s just a sample:
According to a recently declassified US military report found in the National Archives a Japanese youth of around twenty years of age, Tsuji Shintaro, was fishing near the Korean [...]
Following a meeting with the ruling party, government has decided to consider — albeit it very carefully and with great reservations — plans to replace the maritime police force currently based on Dokdo with a detachment of ROK Marines.
It’s the Grand National Party, ironically enough (given their reputation as, ahem, a “pro-Japanese” party), that’s leading [...]
At the prayer corner of Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Korean visitors are leaving prayers declaring Dokdo to be Korean land, reports the Hankyoreh Shinmun.
The South China Morning Post reports that Chinese police have asked bar owners in Beijing’s Sanlitun district not to allow in black people or Mongolians:
Bar owners near the Workers’ Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign pledges agreeing not to let black people enter their premises.
“Uniformed [...]
You know, I never knew the pheasant was the national bird of Japan.
For those counting, a total of nine pheasants bought the farm in the protest.
One wonders if this will spark memorial demonstrations like the ones for the live pig that got quartered in Yongsan.
UPDATE: Oh, the unintended ironies:
You see,there is unintended irony here.
The Korean [...]
Ed Chmura, the man behind the outstanding Japundit blog and JapanTalk podcast, has started a new social bookmarking site for news about Japan and East Asia — Japan News Junkie.
It’s quite nifty, really, and a must-link for any self-respecting Japan news junkie. Give it look.
Shoot a woman tourist in the back, and you’ll propose the resumption of high-level talks.
Include Dokdo in teacher guidelines, and you’ll reject a bilateral ministerial meeting?
Just when you thought the Dokdo dispute couldn’t get any sillier…
Well, at least we on this side of the East Sea don’t have high-ranking members of the ruling Grand National Party going around claiming Tsushima Island (that would be “Daema-do” for all right-thinking people) is Korean territory.
Oh, wait…
(HT to reader)
File this KT op-ed in your “Why the United States Needs to Disengage with South Korea NOW” drawer. All you need to read:
History is important because it serves as a reminder of past mistakes and helps prevent similar ones being made. In this sense, the latest Japanese claim to Dokdo may be looked at in [...]
Got your attention huh?
Interesting Lankov column on the origins of Korea’s sex industry.
Net-net? Blame it on the Japanese!
The ROK and Japan are in a spat over Japanese plans to release an educational guideline for teachers and textbook publishers, which states that the Dokdo Islets are Japanese territory.
There also seems to be differences in whether LMB knew about this beforehand.
The dispute, which was rekindled in recent months, will test bilateral relations which have [...]
You’ll want to skip restaurants bearing the official Olympic logo, for dogmeat is off the menu. This is probably just a cosmetic regulation as most ordinary restaurants in Beijing don’t serve dogmeat dishes anyway.
81-year-old Mrs. Elizabeth van Kampen left a comment on an earlier post linking to her website, which retells her childhood in the Dutch East Indies and her experience in a Japanese prison camp during World War II.
It also goes into her efforts to receive compensation for her suffering from the Japanese government.
Please, give it a [...]
AskMen has done a Top 10 list of Japanese models.
If you’re into gravure idols, check it out.
(HT to Japundit)
Mongolian President Nambariin Enkhbayar has declared a four-day state of emergency following last night’s violent protests in UB that saw demonstrators loot and burn the headquarters of the former communist Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party.
If you want to see what recently toasted Stalinist architecture looks like, AFP got a good photo of the party headquarters building.
Rioters [...]
Korea isn’t the only one in the neighborhood dealing with unhappy campers — allegations that the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP), the former communist-era ruling party, rigged the recent general election has led to violent protests.
No candles in these protests, unless one counts the headquarters of the MPRP, which was set alight, reportedly with Prime [...]
Korea News via Google