well.. im not as insightful and eloquent as others here but i want to say that jeez, stop with the racism..seriously.we should never judge each other by our race or nationality. it’s very old fashioned really. there are mean and rude people as well as good nice people in any nationality or race.

i’m not an expert in politics, history, or anything concerning this issue. but i do know that my korean friends are some of the nicest people i’ve ever known and korean food is awesome. and fyi, k-pop is very popular in japan. there is even a pachinko slot machine that is themed after a korean actor ( i forgot his name but he wears glasses)

with those said.. goodnight and thanks for reading if ever anyone did

Puedes comprar el dashi en polvo en tiendas de comida japonesas o chinas. Tiendas japonesas tienes en el mercado de Chamartín por ejemplo. Tiendas chinas de comida tienes en muchos más sitios, por ejemplo en los bajos de Plaza de España, en la Calle de Leganitos, Principe Pío o Calle del General Margallo. Allí, además, podrás comprar shiitakes secos y otros ingredientes interesantes.

Un saludo.

To that one racist guy farther up the chain that says foreigners leave Korea hating it:

I’M AN AMERICAN WHO LIVED IN KOREA FOR TWO YEARS AND I LOVED IT!!!

So there. You’re wrong. Along with all the other ignorant comments that people have left stating that the Koreans are this, the Japanese are that, BLAH BLAH BLAH. I suppose you geniuses think that all black people in America eat fried chicken and watermelon, and wash it down with Kool-Aid every day? It’s about the same level of “knowledge.” You people are ridiculous. And yes, I do mean ridiculous, the very meaning of the word, as in “worthy of ridicule” for your foolishness.

Grow up and try to live life in the real world, meeting and interacting with real people from around the world, rather than spending all your time living in a fantasy created in your mind, where people all speak and act exactly as you imagine them to.

This is how I see this. It seems like a lot of people are pretty much retaliating each others comments by bringing out their history books. All I can say is, just stop wasting your time.

Growing up in a traditional korean family and having family members who experienced the invasion, there is a constant upbringing of their dislike for the japanese. That’s terrible that it happened and I am deeply saddened for what has happened to THEM. If you had experienced this personally, then you have every right to feel whatever you choose to feel. But this event has not affected me in any way whatsoever. I did not experience this, I wasn’t there. That does not give me the right to just start developing hate for a country that I do not know. Personally I am a very proud korean but by spending time in Japan and getting to know their culture and people I have fallen in love with their heritage.

To all you people saying Koreans are rude, etc. Here’s a reality check for you. Everywhere you go there will always be those inconsiderate immature pricks who dislike other people. It is inevitable. There will always be those inconsiderate, immature and pretty low human beings in any country. What’s done, is done. Knowing that probably over 90% of people here have not personally experienced this event, its pretty ridiculous and funny to read.

You can lash each other out with your history books but please know that you won’t change anyone’s mind. You are only wasting your time and other peoples time. It’s disgusting to see the amount of hate that exists among human beings. Open your eyes people, we are all the same. We eat, we breathe, we love, we just come from different walks of life. Get over yourselves and fix those narrow-minds of yours. You are only passing down hate from one generation to the next.

Guille, you might be exhausted from those coments.
but let me say something.

I am Japanese and I graduated from high school last March.
so my memory must not fade away so much yet.
then, I will write about history education of japan.
I used the most famous history textbook in school.
The publisher is Yamakawa Publisher.
This history textbook is most used in Japanese high school.
and I now open it and write what it says about the wartime.
it is written so long to translate, so I think I making error.

About Kominka Seisaku (*Imperialst Education)
In 1937, the year of the outbreak of Shino-Japanese war,
Imperialst Education in Korea was strengthened under the name of 内鮮一体(*slogan that Japan as inland and Korea is same?)
Korean people was forced to visit japanese style shrines, to repeat the vow of the Emperor subjects in unison.
Also, in education, 内鮮共学(*Japanese and Koreans learn same thing?) is stressed, so they were forced to use the same textbook as Japanese, to use Japanese language.
The order forced on Koreans to change their names to Japanese ones was enforced in 1940.
The volunteer system was introduced in 1938.
The conscription system was enforced in 1943 in Korea (1944 in Taiwan),
Koreans were compeled to fight with Japanese soldiers in battlefield.
On the other hand, in order to make up the deficit of labor force in Japan, Government brought Koreans and Chinese forcibly to Japan and made them work at mines, coal mines, and dams.
It is said that the number of the people who being moved forcibly amount to seven hundred thousand.
In Korea, about 5 million people were conscripted to work forcibly.
Not a few people fallen victim by being send to South as a civilian employee of the army.
Women were mobilized to work as women’s volunteer corps.
Also, there were women who followed the troops.(what is called comfort women)
In the intensify process of Shino-Japanese war to Pacific war,
we must not forget the people of Korea were in harsh circumstance.

That’s all.
Sorry if I made miss translation.

and, as for comfort women, I have read the comment you wrote that Japan hasn’t apologized to Korea,
as long as I know, that’s wrong.
List of war apology statements issued by Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

July 15, 1998. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. “The Government of Japan, painfully aware of its moral responsibility concerning the issue of so called “wartime comfort women,” has been sincerely addressing this issue in close cooperation with the Asian Women’s Fund which implements the projects to express the national atonement on this issue. Recognizing that the issue of comfort women, with an involvement of the Japanese military authorities at that time, was a grave affront to the honor and dignity of large numbers of women, I would like to convey to Your Excellency my most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women…. By the Statement of Prime Minister in 1995, the Government of Japan renewed the feelings of deep remorse and the heartfelt apology for tremendous damage and suffering caused by Japan to the people of many countries including the Netherlands during a certain period in the past. My cabinet has not modified this position at all, and I myself laid a wreath to the Indisch Monument with these feelings on the occasion of my visit to the Netherlands in June last year” (The contents of the letter of the then Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sent to the Netherlands Prime Minister Willem Kok).

but yes, Japanese Government hasn’t compensate them individually.
Japanese Government has been thinking that
The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea is the role.
Read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea
But the Japanese compensation for Korean people has never been paid Korean people by Korean Government.
the money was used for the infrastructure and something by Korean Government.
So there is still problem with us.

The other day Japanese prime minister and Korean president had a dialogue.
Korean president broached comfort women problem to the prime minister.
but our prime minister said, “this problem already finished at the treaty.”
I think so too.
but if I think about what the victims and war are and really care victims without the notion of international rules or rules of war or something rationalist,
I think it would be better to compensate again.
unless they thin away their sorrow.

Bye.

Cheers.

Here is a picture of naked dead chinese children, killed by the japanese. http://padresteve.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/nanking-massacre-rape-of-nanking-killing-children.jpg

Pleased to have come across this blog.

I’m Chinese-American, 26 years old and I live in Irvine, California. My grandparents fled Communism in China during the Chinese Civil War and my parents were born in Taiwan. They migrated to the United States about 40 years ago (I should know the exact year, but sadly, I don’t) I went to UCLA and studied Geography. My best friend growing up was Korean-American and one of my college roommates was Korean-American. I occasionally play basketball with mixed nationalities on the weekends, some of which are Korean-American. That’s my background.

I feel that anti-Japanese sentiment by the Korean people is justified given the sheer horror of the atrocities. I also feel that the pride felt by the Korean people is justified given the economic success of their country. But, I do not feel that hatred toward any group of people is productive if human beings are to achieve some semblance of solidarity (assuming that solidarity is a goal of course).

The idealist side of me wants world peace! The realist side of me knows that human nature is flawed.

In the words of the late German-American poet Charles Bukowski, “You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is hopeless romanticism or politics.”

Cheers.

Sorry, I can not write English very well.

I know that hate Korea and Japan.
But I do not write anything about it,
But please stop writing lies like this.

http://www.youtube.com/user/rhrnfu12#p/u

Koreans say “Okinawa and Hokkaido, Japan was occupied illegally”
This is a lie…