Koreans suck & Chinese are depraved cannibals

[Taro Toporific]

Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/19/international/asia/19comics.html?ei=5090&en=b0d32e601cb39284&ex=1290056400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all[/i]]New York Times, November 19, 2005, TOKYO, Nov. 14 ---[/url]A young Japanese woman in the comic book "Hating the Korean Wave" exclaims, "It's not an exaggeration to say that Japan built the South Korea of today!" In another passage the book states that "there is nothing at all in Korean culture to be proud of."
In another comic book, "Introduction to China," which portrays the Chinese as a depraved people obsessed with cannibalism, a woman of Japanese origin says: "Take the China of today, its principles, thought, literature, art, science, institutions. There's nothing attractive."
The two comic books, portraying Chinese and Koreans as base peoples and advocating confrontation with them, have become runaway best sellers in Japan in the last four months....more...

[cstaylor]

Maybe they should airdrop copies of this, translated into Korean, onto Dokto (Takeshima)?

[Red Floyd]

So.....the whole manga is just a woman yelling about Korea? Manga certainly has come a long way since Lone Wolf and Cub.

[cstaylor]

No, I'm sure its more than that.

[dingosatemybaby]

Ironic, that cannibalism bit, in light of Japan's record during the war years - Australians at Guadalcanal, downed American airmen (their livers appear to have been especially prized), etc.

Methinks a bit of projection is going on.

[Taro Toporific]

[dingosatemybaby]

[amdg]

[blackcat]

Jlogic?
no such thing!

just a mindless petty racist bunch of two faced denialist pricks.

[emperor]

I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Half the Japanese population probably ponder something like this on a daily basis...

[dimwit]

[jingai]

And just think this is being supported by the guys who write history text books.

Well, that points out an interesting commonality: both the history books and the manga exist to sell books. This extreme ideology attracts enough people to make it profitable, even if it's still a fringe. How it all ties into the recent rightist resurgence is very interesting.

[maraboutslim]

"Take the China of today, its principles, thought, literature, art, science, institutions. There's nothing attractive."

I think freedom loving people the world over might agree with this part. China today, sucks. I can't think of a damn thing anyone from China (HK and Taiwan excluded) has (been allowed) to do in my lifetime that's added anything positive to my life. Either they need a better PR firm, or they need to park the fucking tanks and let people do something interesting. I know the people are capable of great things if only their fucked up government and other institutions were more free.

(cue apologists: 'oh but it's getting so much better, blah, blah, blah.')

[Buraku]

they love these racial comic books



http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=3266

from the people who bought up all those Little Black Sambo books

[Buraku]

[quote:195cd54ed2] TOKYO, Nov. 14 - A young Japanese woman in the comic book "Hating the Korean Wave" exclaims, "It's not an exaggeration to say that Japan built the South Korea of today!" In another passage the book states that "there is nothing at all in Korean culture to be proud of."

In another comic book, "Introduction to China," which portrays the Chinese as a depraved people obsessed with cannibalism, a woman of Japanese origin says: "Take the China of today, its principles, thought, literature, art, science, institutions. There's nothing attractive."

The two comic books, portraying Chinese and Koreans as base peoples and advocating confrontation with them, have become runaway best sellers in Japan in the last four months.
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The wave, though popular among Japanese women, gave rise to a countermovement, especially on the Internet. Sharin Yamano, the young cartoonist behind "Hating the Korean Wave," began his strip on his own Web site then.

"The 'Hate Korea' feelings have spread explosively since the World Cup," said Akihide Tange, an editor at Shinyusha, the publisher of the comic book. Still, the number of sales, 360,000 so far, surprised the book's editors, suggesting that the Hate Korea movement was far larger than they had believed.

"We weren't expecting there'd be so many," said Susumu Yamanaka, another editor at Shinyusha. "But when the lid was actually taken off, we found a tremendous number of people feeling this way."

So far the two books, each running about 300 pages and costing around $10, have drawn little criticism from public officials, intellectuals or the mainstream news media. For example, Japan's most conservative national daily, Sankei Shimbun, said the Korea book described issues between the countries "extremely rationally, without losing its balance."

As nationalists and revisionists have come to dominate the public debate in Japan, figures advocating an honest view of history are being silenced, said Yutaka Yoshida, a historian at Hitotsubashi University here. Mr. Yoshida said the growing movement to deny history, like the Rape of Nanjing, was a sort of "religion" for an increasingly insecure nation.

"Lacking confidence, they need a story of healing," Mr. Yoshida said. "Even if we say that story is different from facts, it doesn't mean anything to them."

The Korea book's cartoonist, who is working on a sequel, has turned down interview requests. The book centers on a Japanese teenager, Kaname, who attains a "correct" understanding of Korea. It begins with a chapter on how South Korea's soccer team supposedly cheated to advance in the 2002 Word Cup; later chapters show how Kaname realizes that South Korea owes its current success to Japanese colonialism.

"It is Japan who made it possible for Koreans to join the ranks of major nations, not themselves," Mr. Nishio said of colonial Korea.

But the comic book, perhaps inadvertently, also betrays Japan's conflicted identity, its longstanding feelings of superiority toward Asia and of inferiority toward the West. The Japanese characters in the book are drawn with big eyes, blond hair and Caucasian features; the Koreans are drawn with black hair, narrow eyes and very Asian features.

That peculiar aesthetic, so entrenched in pop culture that most Japanese are unaware of it, has its roots in the Meiji Restoration of the late 19th century, when Japanese leaders decided that the best way to stop Western imperialists from reaching here was to emulate them.

In 1885, Fukuzawa - who is revered to this day as the intellectual father of modern Japan and adorns the 10,000 yen bill (the rough equivalent of a $100 bill) - wrote "Leaving Asia," the essay that many scholars believe provided the intellectual underpinning of Japan's subsequent invasion and colonization of Asian nations.

Fukuzawa bemoaned the fact that Japan's neighbors were hopelessly backward.

Writing that "those with bad companions cannot avoid bad reputations," Fukuzawa said Japan should depart from Asia and "cast our lot with the civilized countries of the West." He wrote of Japan's Asian neighbors, "We should deal with them exactly as the Westerners do."

As those sentiments took root, the Japanese began acquiring Caucasian features in popular drawing. The biggest change occurred during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 to 1905, when drawings of the war showed Japanese standing taller than Russians, with straight noses and other features that made them look more European than their European enemies.

"The Japanese had to look more handsome than the enemy," said Mr. Nagayama.

Many of the same influences are at work in the other new comic book, "An Introduction to China," which depicts the Chinese as obsessed with cannibalism and prostitution, and has sold 180,000 copies.

The book describes China as the "world's prostitution superpower" and says, without offering evidence, that prostitution accounts for 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product. It describes China as a source of disease and depicts Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi saying, "I hear that most of the epidemics that broke out in Japan on a large scale are from China."

The book waves away Japan's worst wartime atrocities in China. It dismisses the Rape of Nanjing, in which historians say 100,000 to 300,000 Chinese were killed by Japanese soldiers in 1937-38, as a fabrication of the Chinese government devised to spread anti-Japanese sentiment.

The book also says the Japanese Imperial Army's Unit 731 - which researched biological warfare and conducted vivisections, amputations and other experiments on thousands of Chinese and other prisoners - was actually formed to defend Japanese soldiers against the Chinese.

"The only attractive thing that China has to offer is Chinese food," said Ko Bunyu, a Taiwan-born writer who provided the script for the comic book. Mr. Ko, 66, has written more than 50 books on China, some on cannibalism and others arguing that Japanese were the real victims of their wartime atrocities in China. The book's main author and cartoonist, a Japanese named George Akiyama, declined to be interviewed.
http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=3877
Like many in Taiwan who are virulently anti-China, Mr. Ko is fiercely pro-Japanese and has lived here for four decades. A longtime favorite of the Japanese right, Mr. Ko said anti-Japan demonstrations in China early this year had earned him a wider audience. Sales of his books surged this year, to one million.

"I have to thank China, really," Mr. Ko said. "But I'm disappointed that the sales of my books could have been more than one or two million if they had continued the demonstrations."

[Buraku]

Koizumi blames China, S. Korea for stalemate
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200601050116.html

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday set a chilly tone for Asian relations in 2006 by blaming China and South Korea for the diplomatic stalemate over his visits to Yasukuni Shrine.

[emperor]

the rules for boxing must be different in Korea

[Greji]

Koizumi blames China, S. Korea for stalemate
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200601050116.html

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday set a chilly tone for Asian relations in 2006 by blaming China and South Korea for the diplomatic stalemate over his visits to Yasukuni Shrine.

He's probably not far off the mark. Regardless of the country and their feelings about Yasukuni, Koizumi did say that his visits were of his own personal believe and by virtue of that Japan should not pay any atterntion to their rants. They are interfering in domestic personal religion.

They should reserve those comments for those who make the "official" visits.

It's begining to look more and more like the other steps that are alledged to be aimed at making Japan more isolated in Asia.

[Buraku]

more Korea-Japan stuff in the papers

Shimane to send to North Gyeongsang magazine on Takeshima
http://www.tmcnet.com

Shimane Gov. Nobuyoshi Sumita announced Friday his government will send to South Korea's North Gyeongsang provincial authorities copies of a quarterly prefectural magazine that features Japan's claim on a South Korean-controlled rocky islet chain in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima in Japan and Dokto in South Korea.


The copies will be mailed to South Korea by Feb. 22, the day designated by the prefecture last year as "Takeshima Day" to underline Japan's claim to sovereignty over the islets.

The territorial issue has been one of the key sources of disputes between the two countries in recent years.

[dimwit]

Isn't Takeshima Day when all the grannies go on a spring clearance rampage, or maybe I was thinking of Takashimaya Day.

[Buraku]

the rules for boxing must be different in Korea

very funny

[jingai]

He's probably not far off the mark. Regardless of the country and their feelings about Yasukuni, Koizumi did say that his visits were of his own personal believe and by virtue of that Japan should not pay any atterntion to their rants. They are interfering in domestic personal religion.

They should reserve those comments for those who make the "official" visits.

It's begining to look more and more like the other steps that are alledged to be aimed at making Japan more isolated in Asia.

I wouldn't overemphasize the distinction between personal and offical. Koizumi apprently signed in as Prime Minister in earlier visits, and the act of going to Yasukuni on politically significant days is clearly a nod to far-right elements in his party. The "it's only personal" thing is a pretty shallow ruse which the Koreans, Chinese (and Japanese both for and against the visits) are not going to fall for.
The visits have nothing to do with religion- they are about reclaiming Japan's past by honoring the cause and sacrifice of ALL the war dead- including the leaders of the aggressive war.

Which isn't to say Korea and China are blameless in their use of history- it takes two tango...

[Greji]

I wouldn't overemphasize the distinction between personal and offical. Koizumi apprently signed in as Prime Minister in earlier visits, and the act of going to Yasukuni on politically significant days is clearly a nod to far-right elements in his party. The "it's only personal" thing is a pretty shallow ruse which the Koreans, Chinese (and Japanese both for and against the visits) are not going to fall for.
The visits have nothing to do with religion- they are about reclaiming Japan's past by honoring the cause and sacrifice of ALL the war dead- including the leaders of the aggressive war.

Which isn't to say Korea and China are blameless in their use of history- it takes two tango...

What jingai does say is probably right on, although I do think that one country does not have the right to demand matters involving religion in an another.

However, the sad thing is this could be easily dispensed with, by building a national monument to war dead as has been mentioned herein and other places. A few loudmouths in the diet on both extremes of the scale prevent this. The rightists who want to protect Yasukuni and the far left that are against any thing that uses the word "War". If this proposal could be brought to a vote in the upper and lower houses, it would undoubtably be carried easily. But, both extremes prevent it from even getting introduced with any plausible sincerity and the media who normally raises hell about Yasukuni visits and who they are currently angering, rushes right out and interviews Togo's widow, who states she's against it and in true J-style they seem to take that as a final word.

[Buraku]

Japan fears China

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18688131%255E912,00.html

Foreign Minister Taro Aso questioned China's rapid military spending increases and its lack of transparency. "It's not clear what China is using the money for. This creates a sense of threat for surrounding countries," he said on a Fuji Television Network talk show, in an unusually clear expression of government unease.






Japan calls China a military threat, rebuffs conciliatory gestures
http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?no=283170&rel_no=1
Meanwhile, Japan on Friday renewed accusations that China used spies to pry state secrets from a Japanese diplomat in Shanghai, ultimately driving him to suicide in 2004. China has angrily denied its officials were involved in the staffer's death.

[Greji]

Japan rejects President Hu's remarks on ties
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-04-03 14:22
TOKYO - Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday that Tokyo disagrees with Chinese President Hu Jintao's comment that visits to a Tokyo war shrine by Japan's prime minister were solely to blame for chilly ties between the two Asian nations.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi arrives at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo Monday, Oct. 17, 2005. [AP]

"We cannot accept his assertion that Japan's leader is totally to blame for the current difficult phase of the Sino-Japanese relations," Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe told reporters on Monday.

[homesweethome]

Iran Test-Fires High-Speed Underwater Missile

Iran successfully test-fired on Sunday a new high-speed underwater missile capable of destroying huge warships and submarines, a top military commander announced.

"Today we have successfully test-fired a high-speed underwater missile with a speed of 100 meters per second, which is able to overcome the enemy's sonar and radar," Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, the deputy commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards naval force, told state television.

Fadavi claimed the underwater missile was the fastest in the world, with the exception of a missile developed in another country. He did not provide the other nation's name.

I would wager the 'unnamed country' is the current enemy-of-the-day.

[Taro Toporific]

Iran Test-Fires High-Speed Underwater Missile

Fadavi claimed the underwater missile was the fastest in the world, with the exception of a missile developed in another country. He did not provide the other nation's name.

I would wager the 'unnamed country' is the current enemy-of-the-day.

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[homesweethome]

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Sure, sure we all best buddies, love much each other, we all just big joyful family.
Even Greg Clark is worried
And if GC is worried about anything you have to know it filters down to every other FG, since he in the king.

[Greji]

if GC is worried about anything you have to know it filters down to every other FG, since he in the king.

Say what? That's not what Charles said!

[homesweethome]

Say what? That's not what Charles said!

I thought SAB said it.