» 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 »

» by GI Korea December 28th, 2009 at 4:30 pm » Comments (32)

Yeah this is pretty low sending someone a check for 99 cents after laboring for two years with no pay: The Japanese government fanned anger among Koreans after news came this ...more »

» by GI Korea December 11th, 2009 at 8:29 am » Comments (24)

Incredibly the Taft-Katsura Agreement which Koreans have long used to blame the US for the Japanese colonization of the peninsula in the last century; is now being used to blame ...more »

» by GI Korea August 8th, 2009 at 5:27 am » Comments (3)

Today is the 64th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki that ultimately led to the end of World War II.  So take a minute and ...more »

» by GI Korea July 22nd, 2009 at 11:42 pm » Comments (12)

So I wonder if these educators were taught anything about Korean World War II war criminals?: A group of Canadian and a pair of Australian educators invited by an NGO based ...more »

» by GI Korea June 6th, 2009 at 1:00 pm » Comments (1)

Today is the 65th anniversary of the Normandy D-Day landings.  Roughly 6,600 Americans died during the landings, which  is more than the total number of soliders killed during the entire ...more »

» by GI Korea March 17th, 2009 at 5:50 pm » Comments (8)

This is not the first time I have heard about old World War II war trophies being returned to their Japanese owners, but it is still always good to see happen: A lot of ...more »

» by GI Korea November 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pm » Comments (42)

This General is just repeating a belief that I have personally had Japanese people express to me: JAPAN was not the aggressor in World War II, according to the country's air ...more »

» by GI Korea August 10th, 2007 at 12:43 pm » Comments (95)

In what would become the final days of World War II, the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were destroyed by atomic bombs dropped by the US Air Force, ...more »

» by GI Korea August 8th, 2007 at 5:46 pm » Comments (12)

The atomic bombing of Nagasaki The city of Nagasaki during World War II was one of the largest sea ports on the southern island of Kyushu. Along with the seaports the ...more »

» by GI Korea August 6th, 2007 at 5:00 pm » Comments (10)

Today is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. There is much controversy centering around whether the US should of dropped the atomic bomb ...more »