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A sign of the maturity of a people is its ability to have sufficient confidence to forgive. We should love and forgive the Japanese without asking them to love and forgive first.

Tags: china, war, japan, Civil_Society, propaganda on 2008-02-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The "Your lucks so good" patriotic virus

Tags: china, hackers, nationalism, 中文, internet, taiwan, japan on 2007-10-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Scans of China's Century of Humiliation Atlas

Tags: china, map, nationalism, history, identity, imperialism, independence, japan on 2007-05-20 -All Annotations (0) -About

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To reconsider “Asian history” is to attempt to reconstruct nineteenth century European “world history,” and to attempt to break out of the twenty-first century “new imperial” order and its logic. - Ed. Loooong. But somewhat interesting.

Tags: asia, china, history, japan, nationalism, philosophy on 2007-05-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Forget Drudge. 2-Channel Rules Japan. This like some Neal "Nipponese" Stephenson shit.

Tags: crime, internet, japan, media, politics, Panopticon, activism on 2007-04-19 and saved by5 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Takeshi Kitano's new movie Banzai. I wonder if this trailer would make sense even if I did know Japanese.

Tags: humor, film, japan on 2007-04-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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eponymous

Tags: cool, art, tech, japan, robot on 2007-02-24 -All Annotations (0) -About

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newspapers in the People's Republic of China have been known to express bewilderment and unease about Murakami's runaway popularity with young readers there. - Ed. really? Murakami is popular in China and the media worries about it?

Tags: writing, china, U.S., japan on 2007-02-10 -All Annotations (0) -About

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the way Harry Potter has been translated into these totally non-European languages, where they got their names for the days of the week, how their naturalists approach the scientific naming of birds, and, of course, the nature of the scripts the three lan

Tags: asia, china, japan, linguistics, translation, vietnam on 2007-02-02 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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"The Battle of China," Chapter VI of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, explains why the Empire of Japan possessed such a strong interest in ruling the disparate lands of China.

Tags: china, U.S., war, propaganda, japan, burma, film, history, video on 2007-01-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Satoshi Kon! Satoshi Kon!

Tags: anime, japan, cool on 2007-01-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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For the last 25 years he took pictures of one parent with one child in a white studio setting.

Tags: art, japan, photos, children, history, development on 2007-01-25 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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The world's second-largest economy will have about 44.7 million workers by 2050, 21.7 million fewer than in 2004, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said in report yesterday

Tags: 2050, japan, population on 2006-11-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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In the late 1990s they would charge their borrowers monthly interests of 30-40%. This reflected very high risks: these lenders had virtually no protection against the state, criminals and, above all, bad debtors. Ed. - Markets were nonexistent until 90s.

Tags: korea, economics, development, china, japan on 2006-11-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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It came in an unmarked box -- and in many, many parts. As I leafed through the assembly schematics, an inch thick and in Japanese, I got that sinking feeling. But, oh, what I wouldn't do to ingratiate myself with our future robot overlords.

Tags: robot, japan, cool, tech on 2006-11-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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pioneer of avant-garde documentary, experimental film, multimedia, and video art in Japan. Both at home and abroad, has presented experimental short films

Tags: film, art, japan, video on 2006-10-22 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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These are some of the fruits of a remarkable solidarity that links Asian - American community activists, Latino hotel workers, former Chinese slave laborers and Japanese leftists in a common struggle against an arrogant empire with a dark history, known a

Tags: japan, corruption, war, labor, china, manchukuo, U.S., hispanic, tourism on 2006-10-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Lau well recalls the days when teachers refused to believe that her older son Kam-fung had a learning disability. "They just told me my child was lazy, that I was lazy for not teaching him or pushing him further, that we as parents were finding excuses fo

Tags: asia, china, japan, india, dyslexia, education, linguistics on 2006-10-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The movie of the massacres of tens of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops will be based on Iris Chang's best-selling account, 'The Rape of Nanking' and involve a U.S. production company and British investors.

Tags: china, history, propaganda, war, nanjing, japan on 2006-09-02 -All Annotations (0) -About

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"Chad signifies the worst of Africa," says Peter Kagwanja of the International Crisis Group in Pretoria, South Africa. What about Japan exploiting Africa? Does that not make good copy?

Tags: africa, Chad, oil, Sudan, japan, business, development, economics on 2006-08-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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