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Via Japan Probe comes news of how a number of Japanese villages are thanking the US military for their disaster relief response:
Many of the places where U.S. personnel worked were fishing towns whose major industry was left in ruins.
Housewife Masako Matsuda, whose idea it was to present the tairyo-bata that was donated by a local fisherman’s association, said many residents from Oshima Island and her hometown of Sendai — two tsunami-ravaged areas where U.S. forces worked — wrote messages on the flag to express their gratitude.
“During the worst times of the disaster your servicemembers came quickly,” she told the U.S. leaders. “People appreciated the U.S. servicemembers swift and appropriate response.”
She hasn’t seen...
3:39 pm on August 1st, 2011 1
never see these stories in korea media. hell you never see these stories in the US media. Now if a GI killed someone in a afghan village or raped a woman in Iraq then the US media would be all over it
4:25 pm on August 1st, 2011 2
We’re still the best country in the world, even though sometimes it doesn’t seem like it.
4:35 pm on August 1st, 2011 3
2. CAVEAT: The best country with the worse possible leadership in our government.
8:00 pm on August 1st, 2011 4
Great story…reminds me of how our grandfathers were treated liberating Europe…
9:00 pm on August 1st, 2011 5
“never see these stories in korea media.”
There are if you just bothered to learn Korean and searched hard enough.
http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=001&aid=0005187652
Many good deeds of American troops in Korea are well publicized for internal consumption. Key point: They are meant for KOREANS to read, not Americans.
4:11 am on August 2nd, 2011 6
Leon, yes the leadership is not good.
8:13 pm on August 3rd, 2011 7
Prime example of how Japanese calligraphy has had tremendous influence on western comic book art from the late 19th century until now.
8:13 pm on August 3rd, 2011 8
…calligraphy and painting, that is.