Posts Tagged ‘ Japan ’

The 9.18 Protest: a Show of Force

September 19, 2010
By C. Custer
Los Angeles Times Mobile News

A small but angry group of protesters turned out at the Japanese embassy Saturday morning to protest Japan's actions in the Diaoyu Islands. We headed down there with a video camera to take it all in.
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One (Bad) Approach to China: Unbearable Arrogance

August 29, 2009
By C. Custer

Fair warning: if you dislike or cannot understand sarcasm, you will want to ignore portions of this post. I recently read, with some displeasure, this translation by Alice Poon in the Asia Sentinel. It’s worth reading all of if you’re the sort of person who likes making yourself angry, but in case you aren’t,...
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Unit 731

January 10, 2009
By C. Custer

Most people know about the horrors perpetrated by the sadistic heads of Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Many also know about the American failures to rescue Jewish refugees and the general lack of urgency about shutting down the camps. Fewer know of the atrocities committed by the Japanese during World War II...
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