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Unsafe Korean forged aluminum cookware

Flying Dutchman - May 24, 2022

After I received a quite unsatisfactory reply to a complaint, last Sunday I thought I finally had a bad experience with one of the...

Asian history

The Treaty of Portsmouth ends the Russo-Japanese War

Flying Dutchman - September 5, 2020

The negotiations between Czarist Russia and Imperial Japan about ending the war they had been fighting since February 8th, 1904, arranged by then US...

Asian history

Last kamikaze mission during World War II

Flying Dutchman - August 26, 2020

The desperate Japanese suicide missions flown during the last stage of World War II in the Pacific, carried out by what was officially known...

Asian history

25 years ago, demolition of Japanese cultural remain begins

Flying Dutchman - August 22, 2020

On August 15th, 1995, 50 years after Japan´s unconditional surrender in World War II and the end of its 35-year rule in Korea, the...

Politics

Fake Spanish “Nationalists”

Flying Dutchman - August 7, 2020

In China, Korea, Japan and even Taiwan, the term “Nationalist” describes people defined as such in the traditional sense of the word. In Western...

Asian history

Taiwan´s imperial subjects still speak Japanese

Flying Dutchman - July 28, 2020

Many of the elderly that were educated under Nippon’s colonial rule still are fluent in Japanese and happy to use it among their fellows.

Asian history

The Korean War-Containment of Communism

Flying Dutchman - June 25, 2020

The Korean War was a typical Cold War struggle between East and West.

Asian history

The Battle of Tsushima, the beginning of the end for Czarist Russia

Flying Dutchman - May 27, 2020

At the beginning of the 20th century, declining Russia suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of emerging Japan.

Asian history

125 years ago, Taiwan became a Japanese colony

Flying Dutchman - April 18, 2020

Shortly before the turn of the 19th century, taking advantage of China’s weakness, Japan took over Taiwan for 50 years.

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