minkaboo said...

minkaboo at 04:42 AM JST - 29th July

Completely baseless claim. An island that has been claimed during the period of colonization and lost because the colonizers were kicked out, does not make the island theirs. Continuing to lay claim on an island that they took by aggression is the same as insisting that they continue this policy.…

Posted in S Korea creating task force to defend claim to islets at 04:42 AM JST - 29th July
minkaboo at 12:07 AM JST - 24th July

Sharpie:
There's a huge difference between countries that have no freedom of speech, religion, and right to gather peaceably and a country that wages war on foreign countries esp. after it was attacked in 9/11. I disagree w/ the US foreign policy, as the worldwide world does. Try criticizing the…

Posted in Beijing hotels slash rates as expected Olympic demand falters at 12:07 AM JST - 24th July
minkaboo at 05:47 AM JST - 13th July

The law is punishing people who give birth out of wedlock - in this case, before the divorce is finalized. How ridiculous!

Posted in Osaka woman, 24, finally granted residence certificate at 05:47 AM JST - 13th July
minkaboo at 05:32 AM JST - 1st July

Seiharnokaze,

You really think that there's a split on how Koreans might've viewed the Japanese colonization today?

"Major cultural genocides and war crimes done by the Japanese include forced sex slavery and kidnapping of young Korean girls and women for the Japanese army[2], human experiments on live Koreans[3], burying of…

Posted in Japan's colonial rule of Korea not fact, says city education board head at 05:32 AM JST - 1st July
minkaboo at 05:13 AM JST - 1st July

Seiharinokaze:

"By reading about the name-change policy by Japan at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sōshi-kaimei, I'm sorry I cannot verify that name-change to Japanese names was compulsory...Wasn't it rather the ethos of the time that chose or urged Japanese-style names? Please check if Korean people were really forbidden to speak in Korean language in…

Posted in Japan's colonial rule of Korea not fact, says city education board head at 05:13 AM JST - 1st July
minkaboo at 12:24 AM JST - 29th June

BTW, as you might've guessed I'm a Korean descent raised and living in the United States. Yes, I know my history as some of you don't seem to know. So, why don't you order some books online and educate yourselves?

Posted in Japan's colonial rule of Korea not fact, says city education board head at 12:24 AM JST - 29th June
minkaboo at 12:19 AM JST - 29th June

To Seiharinokaze:

You want to know how this article makes Koreans feel? You want to know how Koreans view 35 years of "colonializations" and whether we view it as "modernization" or exploitation and cruelty? I could tell you that my own parents who are alive and well and now in…

Posted in Japan's colonial rule of Korea not fact, says city education board head at 12:19 AM JST - 29th June
minkaboo at 12:48 AM JST - 24th May

What's the motive? Sounds like they should've given him psychotherapy or counseling. The son sounds very disturbed.

Posted in Man held for killing grandparents, torching their bodies in Shimane at 12:48 AM JST - 24th May
minkaboo at 12:42 AM JST - 24th May

Why would a wealthy former property develop in his mid-50s do something like this? I'm a foreigner and think there's something very disturbing about this case. In the U.S. when you hear of cases like this, it's usually people who are poor, uneducated, stupid, and have abnormal childhood history (ie…

Posted in Tokyo court holds second appeals hearing over Blackman's death at 12:42 AM JST - 24th May