The Tsushima Island Was the Territory of Korea

In the midst of dipllomatic squabbles over territorial rights of the Dokdo islets, international pundits are coming forward to come up with tips. Wise pieces of advice are coming from Japanese academia, which is very impressive and gives Koreans ammunition for diplomatic disputes to be tackled with the militaristic Japanese leadership. Lee Hyun Bok, Professor emeritus of Seoul National University, revealed an international e-mail and publicly appreciated the efforts. Lee introduced the author and sender of the e-mail as Professor Kiyoshi Shimizu of Kumamoto University of Japan, who cited very authoritative historical archives of foreign authorship (History of Korea by Hulbert, 1905) in which the Tsushima Island of Japan is described that it had been under the administrative domination of the Silla Kingdom, the ancient Korea. Prof. Shimizu of the Japanese university has expressed his intention for the resolution of the pending issues by peaceful means based on reasonable historical grounds and hoped that the relevant materials would be used for the benefit of the Korean government. Hulbert, The author of [History of Korea] must have quoted pertinent parts from [三國史記 :The Journals of Three Kingdoms], in which Prof. emeritus Lee Hyon Bok introduced one or two intriguing descriptions pertinent to the property rights of the Tsushima Isaland: It is important to notice that the island of Tsushima, whether actually conquered by Silla or not, became a dependency of that kingdom. On account of the sterility of the soil the people of the island were annually aided by the (Silla) government. You can see the article on: http://www.chosun.com/national/news/200503/200503 [...]

The Old Order of Power Politics Reverberates!

Yes. You are right. Japan is right. The U.S. who cuddles, sides with, and pats Japan on the shoulder, is also right. All the rights you claim over us Korean people and our territory are also right. Yes. the small country of ours is up for grabs. Everything here is yours. Come here and take all you like, Tokdo and the like. We are speechless. We are powerless. We know power precedes logic. Law? The reason of the state? The international law? Forget them all. Come on, you Goizumi of Japan, go and take the helmsmanship of the U.N. Security Council (with the endorsement of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice of the U.S. and Kofi Annan of the U.N.). You know and all the rest of the world community also realize that there are no huddles in the way for you to take the Tokdo islets. (Your mighty lobbying has worked in Africa and in the other countries.) Declare to the U.N. community that the Korean peninsula belongs to you that had once done to you) We are not afraid. We are not angry. We have lived through all the torments and brutalities inflicted under the evil Axis Powers of Hitler's Germany, Tojo's Japan and Mussolini's Italy. We are still alive and we'll live on. We'll be rolling and rolling like nameless rocks. We'll hold on like moss and survive and see the day--the Day of Thunder and Lightning and the peoples of Evil scream scorched to death and into ashes. As a grassroots people in this global village, I beseech Uncle Sam in a small voice unheard of, "Beware of Japan!" The piracy in the evil lot had not died with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They are the Devil incarnation of Tojo's militarism. They are already imagining themselves on the ethereal route to the Second Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. From time immemorial, they have never lived in harmony with their neighbors. They have paid indebtedness with enmity to the utmost degree. They have been the most ungreateful lot on earth. They have repaid Korea's transmission of civilization with cruel invasions--pillagings, plunderings and rapings. They have also repaid America's enlightenment efforts including the modern civilization and culture with Pearl Harbor attacks.

Let Taiwan Remain Free

The freedom-loving peoples in the global village say, albeit muted and in subdued atmosphere, from their bottom-heart "Stop short of your greedy touch! Let Taiwan remain a decent sovereign entity." Taiwan had been Free China and she has remained so in the hearts of the rest of the Asian peoples and should remain as such in the future. China, are you suffering from historical amnesia? Who had kicked and driven the great Chang Kai-shek and his followers down to the desolate island? Who has changed the deserted land into a fertile and prospersous country which deserves the praise, respect and love of the world community?

Uncle Sam, Did You Forget Pearl Harbor?

Japan is a fearful country. She is a predator nation which has been making prey of any nation or human entities whose status of sovereignty the nation has never taken into consideration. The focus of their concern has been their value as a prey and their availability.
The Japanese people have been reputed all over the world to be kind, courteous and considerate. Conversely, the Japanese leadership (the government at large) has gained the notoriety as a greedy, haughty and cruel lot. It must be weird aspect of human nature (or condition) that the ordinary citizens turn animal if and when they took helmsmanship as leader.
I might take a rap for generalizing things. But your horse sense tells you that Japan is a very dangerous country of sorts, which has been inclined to pay its indebtedness with enmity to its utmost degree. Korea had transmitted civilization and culture but they repaid her with ill wills. Their age-old pillages, plunders, rapes and all sorts of barbarity humanly imaginable had ended up colonizing Korea for 35 years (1910-1945).
Japan had proved itself to be an ungrateful nation to the United States and for the world to see. Since the Japanese leadership had opened their country to the West in 1860, the country had been credited with modern civilization mostly by America which ranged from modern education, bureaucracy, democratic political system, etc, but they had taken advantage of modernization to hit the road for imperialistic expansion, which ended up attacking, of all the countries, the country of Uncle Sam, that is, the benefiter, at the dawning hours of Sunday.
The brazen country of Japan is not a learning type. She has not learned from history and her past. Not even from the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nor from millions of burnt and entangled human deaths which had been their incurrence.
In brief, she is suffering from historical amnesia. Before you know it, the Japanese leadership is imagining themselves on their ethereal route to Hawaii, that is, they might be dreaming of the Second Pearl Harbor. Madam Condolezza Rice, Secretary of State of the U.S., Don't allow the evil country of Japan a seat at the Security Council of the U.N.

Pat Your Husbands on the Shoulder, Japanese Ladies!

Initially I was pleased with the news--the Yon Sa Ma craze. Then thankful for heartwarming hospitality that Yon Sa Ma's Japanese fans (mostly women) would be gladly determined to offer their admiring star. And then excited over the prospect of rich financial revenues he would garner.


As days of ceaseless international passion elapsed, threads of human doubts and skepticism erupted in me. Footages of those human rush to a handsome young man of foreign nationality struck me as bizarre, in this age of sovereign states.


Has the Japanese populace come down with a strange plague, called the historical amnesia, that they had been a terrorizer, from time to time, of a peaceful nation across the East Sea? That they had dominated the peninsula as a colonizer for not less than 35 years? What if members of the fearful Yakuza family went nuts over the"heart-rending" and mind-boggling craze?


It's time you restored normality, you Japanese ladies, as human beings and as a nation. Stop for a moment and think about human dignity as a nation there. Don't mob Yon Sa Ma (Korean movie star Bae Yong Joon) anymore. Don't cross over the "police line". Don't do anything ever to hurt the pride of your husbands, your boy friends and the Japanese men in general.

I don't like to think that you Japanese ladies might be the reason. You might not be the one and only reason, but you might be one of a few reasons for the weird behaviors of the Shimaneken Prefecture City Council. Because of you, the hurt machos of your male brethren might have awaken the Samurai warrior in them and might have driven them to hit the road for the groundless territorial claim for Tokdo (pronounced Tokedoe), which has been historically, geographically and physically Korea's (Republic of) territory.

The gender counterpart of yours have been national builders. They have rebuilt your nation from the ashes of the World War II, of which you should have been proud and by which they should have deserved due respect from you. Your nation has become a huge creditor nation to almost all the nations across the world, the United States included, of course, courtesy of your male brethren. I think it's time you Japanese ladies patted your toiling husbands and boy friends on the shoulder and expressed warm-hearted appreciation for their efforts.

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Time is fleeting
My hairs are thinning
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My wife is nagging
My blood pressures are rising
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The bully of the village is running amok
The dam of the nation is crumbling
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Kim in the North is bluffing with alleged nukes
He is blurting crabs on and off
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