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Will Japan Ever Restart Their Nuclear Power Plants?

» by May 10th, 2012 at 3:49 am » Comments (16)

On Saturday Japan will have closed all 50 of their operational nuclear reactors: The Fukushima crisis is eroding years of Japanese efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, as power plants ...more »

View of Freedom in Korea in 1962

» by May 8th, 2012 at 6:04 am » Comments (0)

This is an interesting article in the young Korea Journal.  (Freedom Reconsidered) There was a time when the Liberal Party and its stooges indulged in extortion ...more »

NYT Archives–March 1960-Pres. Rhee’s Fall

» by March 26th, 2012 at 10:27 pm » Comments (1)

Back home now, I’m using my old college library to look at old NY Times articles from periods in Korean history that are not accessible for free online. ...more »

Marine To Be Discharged Over Facebook Posts Critical of President Obama

» by March 22nd, 2012 at 8:11 am » Comments (25)

The Marine with the Facebook page that was critical of President Obama is now getting kicked out of the service: An outspoken Marine critical of President Barack Obama says he was ...more »

US Intelligence In North Korea Lacking

» by December 26th, 2011 at 5:37 pm » Comments (8)

North Korea has to be the hardest place for US intelligence to gather information about considering its lack of communications networks to tap and its closed society:  Robert Egan has a ...more »

Picture of the Day: Steve House at Camp Carroll

» by July 28th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (17)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Steve House visits the U.S. military facility Camp Carroll in Chilgok, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, where he and two other U.S. veterans claimed they secretly ...more »

Picture of the Day: Japan Women’s World Cup Champion

» by July 18th, 2011 at 12:49 pm » Comments (31)

Congratulations to the Japanese women's World Cup soccer team.  Definitely a great win for their team and hopefully it will be something to further inspire their country as they continue ...more »

Stone Fighting Pastime

» by June 5th, 2011 at 7:32 pm » Comments (5)

This is from the book Village Life in Korea (1911): It is the national game, and is played only during the first fifteen days of the ...more »

Picture of the Day: Japanese Women Join Comfort Women Protest

» by May 22nd, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (8)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Japanese people from Osaka take part in the 970th weekly Wednesday protests outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul calling on Tokyo to resolve the issue of ...more »

Picture of the Day: Park Chan-ho’s New Team In Japan

» by February 7th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (1)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="South Korean pitcher Park Chan-ho, who signed a one-year contract with the Osaka-based Orix Buffaloes after playing in Major League Baseball for 17 seasons, meets the ...more »

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