S.Korean, Japan Coast Guard Are Locked in Standoff Over Boat

[Charles]

The Air Force is phasing out its old F-4D Phantoms, which were introduced in the 1960s, by 2011.

!!!

They're still flying Phantoms?!?!?

Holy crap.

The USAF is still flying Phantoms...as the QF-4D Target Drone.

[Buraku]

So... The Korean "authorities" are willing to help with a lawsuit even though their own data shows the boat entered Japan's EEZ and then fled -- with two Japanese Coast Guard officers on board! Rolling Eyes

Also, someone needs to give the Koreans a geography lesson... The Sea of Japan wouldn't exist if Japan disappeared...That's why it's called the Sea of Japan.

Korean nationalistic tendencies make the Japanese right-wingers look very mundane indeed.

The fishermen want to sue because the coast gards beat the shit out of them. But you prick think it's normal that authorities should beat people up.
You should really go vent your frustration elsewhere on the net, there are tons of losers out there you could make friends with so please spare us your bullshit.

War shrine visit sinks summit
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17323441%255E31477,00.html
Japanese officials indicated they had given up on President Roh Moo-hyun's planned December visit after South Korean Foreign Minister Bam Ki-moon refused to discuss it, but warned: "Current relations between Japan and Korea are very grim".

The breakdown is a direct consequence of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's most recent visit to the Yasukuni shrine war memorial on October 17 and his refusal on Friday to stop the practice.

But it reflects South Korean disillusionment with Japan's intransigence on "historical issues": the shrine controversy, nationalistic school history texts, and a long-running territorial dispute over the Dokdo islands, which Japan calls Takeshima.

The interruption of the six-monthly "shuttle summits" will benefit China, which has used the Yasukuni visits to undermine Japan's claims to regional leadership and is on increasingly warm terms with the South Koreans.






Both developments worry the US, which is Japan's chief ally and South Korea's security guarantor against the North Korean threat.

[Buraku]

Textbook screenings reflect govt hard line

The Yomiuri Shimbun

The latest screenings of high school social science textbooks, the results of which were announced Wednesday, reflect the adoption of a tougher stance in recent years by the government in territorial disputes with South Korea and China.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060331TDY03003.htm



Fourteen textbooks for two subjects-- politics and economics, and social studies--that were screened mentioned Japan's territorial disputes over the Takeshima islands and Senkaku Islands. South Korea lays territorial claim to the former, and Taiwan and China the latter.

The disputes are only mentioned in eight textbooks currently being used after passing the last screening four years ago.

[homesweethome]

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20060331TDY03003.htm


The disputes are only mentioned in eight textbooks currently being used after passing the last screening four years ago.

Now that is truely one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen,

with the stars in the background!

I won't be able to sleep for hours.



Say good-night Dick, "Good Night Dick"