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Navy Petty Officer Arrested for Drunk Driving & Accident In A HMMWV On Okinawa

» by GI Korea March 22nd, 2010 at 4:05 am » Comments (1)

I have never heard of a servicemember drunk driving in a HMMWV before, but if you were going to do it Okinawa is definitely not the place to be trying ...more »

California Restaurant Raided for Serving Whale Meat

» by GI Korea March 11th, 2010 at 9:52 am » Comments (12)

It will be interesting to see where this sei whale meat came from: Federal authorities have charged a trendy Santa Monica sushi restaurant with serving whale meat -- an investigation that ...more »

Japanese Government Official Is A Truther

» by GI Korea March 10th, 2010 at 8:24 pm » Comments (6)

I been saying this for months how interesting it is the similarities between the prior Roh Moo-hyun government in South Korea and the current Yukio Hatoyama government in Japan.  Well ...more »

Japan Dominated By Korea During Winter Olympics

» by GI Korea March 9th, 2010 at 4:18 pm » Comments (22)

I didn't realize that the Japanese did this poorly at the recent Winter Olympics: Japan and Russia are still trying to come to terms with their poor showing in the Vancouver ...more »

President Lee Appears to Urge Koreans to Move Forward On Japanese Ties

» by GI Korea March 1st, 2010 at 8:43 pm » Comments (4)

It is good to see South Korean President Lee Myung-bak trying to urge Koreans to move forward with a future oriented relationship with Japan, which is actually in the best ...more »

Tsunami Hits Japan, Causes Minor Flood In Aftermath of Earthquake In Chile

» by GI Korea February 28th, 2010 at 6:58 am » Comments (2)

Fortunately the tsunami created by the huge earthquake that struck Chile had little effect on Hawaii and only caused some minor coastal flooding in Japan: The tsunami from Chile's deadly earthquake ...more »

New York Times Criticizes Australian Anti-Whaling Claims

» by GI Korea February 25th, 2010 at 4:14 pm » Comments (62)

Here is a pretty good article in the New York Times that pretty much sums up the absurdity of the Japanese whaling issue: It must count as one of the more ...more »

Dokdo Jihad Coming to Shimane Prefecture?

» by GI Korea February 22nd, 2010 at 8:52 am » Comments (10)

Here is some more Dokdo nonsense for everyone: Members of a domestic organization promoting Korea’s territorial rights over the Dokdo islets are demanding that Japan abolish the “Takeshima Day” that Shimane ...more »

Japanese Map Claimed to Show Dokdo Is Korean Territory

» by GI Korea February 19th, 2010 at 5:07 pm » Comments (9)

Here is yet another map that has turned up that is being claimed to be proof that Dokdo is Korean territory: Yet another couple of historic Japanese maps have been discovered ...more »

Sea Shepherd Member Peter Bethune Arrested By Japanese for Boarding Ship

» by GI Korea February 18th, 2010 at 7:11 am » Comments (13)

Well the eco-drama in the Antarctic high seas continues as Sea Shepherd continues to try and provoke reasons for people to watch their Animal Planet series: A group of conservationists threw ...more »

Japanese Foreign Minister Sort of Issue An Apology for the Annexation of Korea

» by GI Korea February 14th, 2010 at 1:06 am » Comments (8)

The Japanese Foreign Minister sort of issues another apology for the annexation of Korea prior to World War II: Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada yesterday called Japan's forced annexation of Korea ...more »

Exiled Koreans Describe Life On Sakhalin Island

» by GI Korea February 10th, 2010 at 4:29 pm » Comments (9)

Here is an interesting article about the conscripted Korean laborers from World War II that still find themselves for various reasons living on the Russian island of Sakhalin: “So, I have ...more »
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