Dual nationality and Zainichi Koreans
Via the Marmot’s Hole, it appears that South Korea is currently drafting a law that would finally allow for dual citizenship of adults. The dual citizenship law in Korea is currently more or less the...
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Jade Mountain, or Yushan (玉山), is the tallest mountain in Taiwan at 3,952 metres (12,966 ft) above sea level. It had previously been known as Mount Morrison in English, after an American sea captain in...
View ArticleThe gold standard in wartime
I was just reading the 1938 edition of “Social Education in Taiwan,” published by the Japanese colonial government, when I came across this rather neat line in the middle of a section (page 76) on how...
View ArticleActivists stalk English teachers in South Korea – a glimpse at Japan’s future?
The LA Times has a story on how an activist group in South Korea, sinisterly named the “Anti-English Spectrum” has been following foreign English teachers to ferret out suspected wrong-doing: The...
View ArticleRace: to be ignored or over-emphasized?
Exhibit 1. Michelle Malkin’s blog (hat tip to Adamu): Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s [U.S. Census] form is taken up with questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate...
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Zainichi players on the North Korean soccer team
With all the World Cup excitement in Japan right now, I just thought I’d link to this Bloomberg report on the two players from Japan on the NK soccer team: North Korea, the lowest ranked team in the...
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English necessary for today’s Japanese workers?
There has been some debate recently over the state of English in Japan. Most notably, Rakuten President Hiroshi Mikitani has announced that all his employees must be able to conduct daily business in...
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Karen refugees to start resettling in Japan next month
Starting toward the end of September, a group of 27 Karen refugees will resettle in Japan. The refugees currently live in Thailand, part of more than 100,000 Karen people living in refugee camps in...
View ArticleThe threat of foreign labor
I was just skimming some old journal articles looking for an appropriate citation for the paper I’m writing and ran across a 1929 paper entitled The Philippine Problem: Attitude of American Labor...
View ArticleRegarding Sovereignty of the Spratleys, and the threatening neighbor
I have already considered, and rejected, doing some sort of detailed post on this subject (at least for the time being) as there is no shortage of such reporting already, but I did just stumble on one...
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