Posts Tagged With: Japan

Okinawa Plan Modified To Base Marines In Australia, Philippines, & Guam

» by GI Korea February 4th, 2012 at 5:04 pm » Comments (0)

It looks like at least the US Marines are going to have a base in the Philippines again: The Obama administration is preparing to scale back a stalled U.S. military plan ...more »

Making Excuses for Korean War Criminals?

» by GI Korea January 31st, 2012 at 3:40 am » Comments (0)

That is what this editorial in the Korea Times is doing in regards to Korean convicted as war criminals in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II: Hiromura Gakurai was ...more »

Sega Releases Video Games For Urinals In Japan

» by GI Korea January 21st, 2012 at 8:38 am » Comments (2)

I guess the only surprising about this is that it took this long for somebody in Japan to come up with this idea: Three years ago the "Toylet" was just a ...more »

Japanese Government Subsidizes Okinawa To the Tune of $4,500 A Person

» by GI Korea January 17th, 2012 at 7:06 am » Comments (3)

The Japanese government is trying to show the Okinawans the money: Japan is planning to shovel billions of dollars in unrestricted funding on Okinawa this year in hopes of buying public ...more »

US Sailors Rescue Man Who Fell from Summit of Mt. Fuji

» by GI Korea December 24th, 2011 at 5:16 pm » Comments (4)

Here is a good story about some US sailors in Japan that rescued a Japanese man that fell off the summit of Mt. Fuji: Petty Officer 1st Class Corey Baughman got ...more »

Picture of the Day: Comfort Woman Memorial

» by GI Korea December 19th, 2011 at 12:50 pm » Comments (6)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="To mark the 1000th weekly protest in front of the Japanese (which, by my calculations, would mean they started in 1992, which sounds about right), supporters ...more »

Has Korea Been Copying Japanese Products?

» by GI Korea December 13th, 2011 at 3:55 am » Comments (10)

Over at Japan Probe there are some images posted of alleged Korean copies of Japanese products. Here is an example: Head over to Japan Probe and check the rest out and ...more »

Japanese Whaling Fleet Sets Off To Begin Whaling Season

» by GI Korea December 9th, 2011 at 10:45 pm » Comments (14)

Another season of whale nonsense is about to kickoff: Japan's whaling fleet left port Tuesday for the country's annual hunt in Antarctica, press pictures showed, with security measures beefed up amid ...more »

North Korean Defectors Sent to Japan After Three Year Wait In China

» by GI Korea December 9th, 2011 at 8:32 am » Comments (0)

It must have been pretty uncomfortable to be under what is pretty much house arrest for the past three years in a consulate building: The Japanese government has submitted a written ...more »

After US Pipeline Delay, Canada Looks To Sell More Oil To China

» by GI Korea November 25th, 2011 at 7:16 am » Comments (44)

It looks like the Canadian government is moving on with finding another buyer of their oil since the US delayed making a decision on the building the pipeline to export ...more »