Saturday, May 11, 2013

DTN News - JAPAN NEWS: Japan Protests Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Organ Report Challenging Tokyo’s Claim On Okinawa

DTN News - JAPAN NEWS: Japan Protests Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Organ Report Challenging Tokyo’s Claim On Okinawa

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 11, 2013: Japan registered a protest to China on Thursday over the Chinese Communist Party’s main propaganda organ, the People’s Daily newspaper, questioning Tokyo’s historical claim on Okinawa, Japan's southern-most prefecture, which is also considered a key strategic asset for the U.S. in the Asian region.

In a lengthy article in the People's Daily, two academics from China's top state-run think-tank said: “History’s unresolved questions relating to the Ryukyu [which includes Okinawa] have reached a time for reconsideration,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

Citing treaties from the Sino-Japanese war and from World War II, the article argued that ownership of the Ryukyu islands should be discussed.

One of the authors of the controversial article, Zhang Haipeng, argues that Japan robbed China of Taiwan and its affiliated islands, including the Senkakus, the Pescadores and Okinawa, when the two nations concluded the Treaty of Shimonoseki following the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), as reported by Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper.

He wrote that the Senkaku islands were returned to China after World War II ended in 1945, but the issue of sovereignty of Okinawa is yet to be resolved.

Okinawa was a major battlefield during World War II and a U.S.-administered territory until 1972. Some 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan, of which a significant number is based in Okinawa.

Japan and the U.S. consider maintaining American soldiers in Okinawa bases critical to counter-balance China's rising influence in the region.

On Wednesday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying indicated the country may have rights to Okinawa.

“The history of Ryukyu and Okinawa is a problem that the academic society has long been paying close attention to," said Hua when asked about Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa during a news conference, the BBC reported.

In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Japan will not accept China’s claim to rights over Okinawa.

“If the article represents the stance of the Chinese government, we can never accept that,” Suga told a news conference on Thursday.

He also said Japan has voiced its protest against the article to the Chinese government. The official response from Chinese officials, according to Suga, was “the researchers have written the article in their private capacities.”

The controversy over Okinawa has come amid a longstanding dispute over Senkaku, a small group of uninhabited islands known as Diaoyu in China. Tensions have been simmering ever since the Japanese government signed a contract worth 2.05 billion yen ($26 million) in September last year to buy three of the five main islands from their private owner.

The islands, which lie some 200km (124 miles) off Okinawa and beyond China's 200 nautical mile (370km) exclusive economic zone, are surrounded by an area rich in fisheries and are believed to contain significant hydrocarbon resources.

China has laid claim to the islands since the U.N. returned them to Japanese sovereignty in accordance with the Okinawa Reversion Agreement that ended the U.S. occupation of Okinawa.

DTN News - CHINESE PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAPAN: China's Hollywood 'Killed' Nearly 1 Billion Japanese Last Year

DTN News - CHINESE PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAPAN: China's Hollywood 'Killed' Nearly 1 Billion Japanese Last Year

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 11, 2013: A popular TV drama about the Second Sino-Japanese War. (Internet photo)

Nearly one billion Japanese soldiers or enemies were killed off in TV productions filmed last year at Hengdian World Studios, the studio facilities known as the Hollywood of China, the Guangdong-based Yangcheng Evening News reports, suggesting that Chinese TV audiences like to achieve some degree of catharsis for their anti-Japanese sentiment with a high body count of enemy combatants in historical dramas.

As this figure breaks down as 2.7 million deaths per day for 365 days — a rate of over 30 per second — it seems reasonable to assume that most of these "deaths" occurred off-screen — or that this represents the cumulative total of every death in every series broadcast on myriad domestic networks. Put it this way: somewhere on Chinese television right now, Japanese people are being killed. And probably in large numbers.

In 2012, out of the more than 200 TV series broadcast on national networks, more than 70 of them had a wartime or anti-Japanese theme, more than any other "genre." The trend is definitely set to continue this year, said the newspaper.

The volume of shows where Japanese invaders get their comeuppance clearly reflects a general sentiment, but internet users have been criticizing the liberal use of historically inaccurate and exaggerated plots to get the nationalistic point across, the report said. TV shows have veered increasingly towards dehumanizing Japanese characters and imbuing Chinese characters with fantastic superpowers to satisfy the revenge fantasies of local viewers.

People who grow up in China are exposed from an early age to negative depictions of Japan and Japanese people, a reaction to what is seen as fifty years of national humiliation from the late 19th century to 1945, a period which saw two wars between the two countries with massive loss of life and territory, coupled with the perception that Japan has not shown sufficient remorse for the wartime atrocities committed by its troops in China.

The offspring of such resentment manifests itself in terms like "little Japan" or "Japanese devils" and is perpetuated by the media, teachers, parents and even textbooks.

Long-simmering anti-Japanese sentiment exploded again in September last year when protesters rallied in the streets in several major cities, objecting to Japan's nationalization of a group of islands in the East China Sea called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu or Diaoyutai in Chinese. The islands were handed over to Japanese administration by the US along with Okinawa in 1972.

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DTN News - CHINESE PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAPAN: Nude Scene In Anti-Japan Drama Slammed As Naked Bid For Ratings


DTN News - CHINESE PROPAGANDA AGAINST JAPAN: Nude Scene In Anti-Japan Drama Slammed As Naked Bid For Ratings

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 11, 2013: Sexual Liberation Army? The woman offers a comforting salute to the sex-starved Red Army soldiers. (Internet photo)

A scene from a Chinese TV drama in which a naked young woman salutes Red Army soldiers heading off to battle in the Second Sino-Japanese War has gone viral and been widely criticized on the internet, reports ifeng, the website of Hong Kong's Phoenix TV.

The scene portrays a village girl removing her clothes and saluting the soldiers after she learns that they have not felt the touch of a woman in a long time. Internet users feel the scene is an example of anti-Japanese nationalism going too far and many have called the scene a "naked" attempt to grab more viewers, saying such series should be more serious in their treatment of the historical material.

The note of sexuality introduces a particular problematic resonance. War crimes committed by occupying Japanese troops between 1937-1945 included the systematic rape and murder of Chinese women during the Nanjing Massacre and the use of "comfort women" — women from China and other countries forced into prostitution at Japanese military brothels — crimes which are still a major source of bitterness. The nude scene on one level thus seems to suggest the reclaiming of Chinese women's bodies from Japanese tyranny and restoring them "correctly" as vessels for Chinese men.

One netizen described the drama as "anti-Japanese porn," while another asked how the scene got past the censors. Others said the scene twists history, which would confuse viewers as to the facts of the conflict — though historical accuracy has rarely been a strong point of such dramas.

In 2012 alone, Japanese soldiers were killed off thousands of times over in Chinese TV dramas and there are signs that audiences are becoming tired of increasingly overwrought Tarantino-esque revenge fantasies, including a man tearing a Japanese soldier in half with his bare hands or another blowing up an airplane with a well-timed grenade toss.

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Friday, May 10, 2013

BHGSG News: Japanese Celebrities Receive Cotton USA Awards for 2013

BHGSG News: Japanese Celebrities Receive Cotton USA Awards for 2013

BHGSG News  - TORONTO, Canada - May 10, 2013: Actress Maki Horikita, 24, actress Ryoko Yonekura, 37, TV personality Jun Ishida, 59, and his wife Riko Higashio, 37, pose after being given the Cotton USA Awards for 2013 at the Westin Hotel Tokyo on Thursday. 

The annual awards, given to Japanese celebrities who represent “style, beauty and natural comfort,” are presented by the Washington DC-based Cotton Council International to promote the industry in Japan. Ishida, who famously never wears socks, was presented with a pair of cotton socks which he dutifully put on for the photo shoot. The Ishidas’ six-month old son Ritaro was also given an award.

DTN News: ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: The Queen With Camilla At the Royal Windsor Horse Show, England


DTN News: ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: The Queen With Camilla At the Royal Windsor Horse Show, England

(NSI News Source Info) Toronto, Canada - May 10, 2013: The rain isn't dampening the Queen's day as she and Camilla attend the Royal Windsor Horse Show, England. Photograph: Michael Dunlea/Barcroft Media

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DTN News: ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Prince Harry Meeting First Lady Michelle Obama At The White House, Washington

DTN News: ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Prince Harry Meeting First Lady Michelle Obama At The White House, Washington

(NSI News Source Info) Toronto, Canada - May 10, 2013: Prince Harry meeting First Lady Michelle Obama during a visit to the White House. 
Photograph: John Stillwell/PA

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DTN News: ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Prince Harry At An Exhibition In The Rotunda of Russell Senate Office Building, Washington

DTN News: ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Prince Harry At An Exhibition In The Rotunda of Russell Senate Office Building, Washington

(NSI News Source Info) Toronto, Canada - May 10, 2013: The British are coming or in this case just one Royal Brit, Prince Harry - he is the one in the suit and tie. Prince Harry tours an exhibition on landmines and unexploded ordnances in the Rotunda of Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC on the first day of his week long tour of America. 

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DTN News: ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Ellie Simmonds Receives OBE Medal From Prince Charles

DTN News: ROYAL FAMILY NEWS: Ellie Simmonds Receives OBE Medal From Prince Charles

(NSI News Source Info) Toronto, Canada - May 10, 2013: Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds receives her Officer of the British Empire (OBE) medal from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace, London. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

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Thursday, May 9, 2013

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Victory Day Parade In Moscow - 68th Anniversary of Victory In World War II

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Victory Day Parade In Moscow - 68th Anniversary of Victory In World War II

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 9, 2013: Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, are all smiles watching the Victory Day parade in the Red Square. Speaking at the annual military parade Putin pledged that Russia will be a guarantor of world security. 

Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Victory Day Parade In Moscow - 68th Anniversary of Victory In World War II

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Victory Day Parade In Moscow - 68th Anniversary of Victory In World War II

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 9, 2013: EN.RIA.RU will broadcast live the military parade on Red Square, dedicated to the 68th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, on May 9 at 10.00 am Moscow time (06:00 GMT).

Over 11,000 servicemen and about 100 military vehicles will take part in the Victory Day parade.

The parade will involve Tiger armored vehicles, BTR-82A armed personnel carriers, T-90 tanks,Msta-S self-propelled howitzers, Buk-M2 and S-400 Triumph SAM systems, Pantsir S-1 missile-and-cannon systems, Iskander-M tactical missile systems and Topol-M mobile ballistic missile systems.

A total of 68 combat aircraft will fly over Red Square, including Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters from the famous Russian Knights and Strizhi aerobatics teams.

Massive fireworks at 14 locations will culminate the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow at 10 pm.

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DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Victory Day Parade In Moscow - 68th Anniversary of Victory In World War II

DTN News - RUSSIA DEFENSE NEWS: Victory Day Parade In Moscow - 68th Anniversary of Victory In World War II

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 9, 2013: EN.RIA.RU will broadcast live the military parade on Red Square, dedicated to the 68th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, on May 9 at 10.00 am Moscow time (06:00 GMT).

Over 11,000 servicemen and about 100 military vehicles will take part in the Victory Day parade.

The parade will involve Tiger armored vehicles, BTR-82A armed personnel carriers, T-90 tanks,Msta-S self-propelled howitzers, Buk-M2 and S-400 Triumph SAM systems, Pantsir S-1 missile-and-cannon systems, Iskander-M tactical missile systems and Topol-M mobile ballistic missile systems.

A total of 68 combat aircraft will fly over Red Square, including Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters from the famous Russian Knights and Strizhi aerobatics teams.

Massive fireworks at 14 locations will culminate the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow at 10 pm.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

BHGSG News: Michelle Rodriguez In London For 'Fast & Furious 6'

BHGSG News: Michelle Rodriguez In London For 'Fast & Furious 6'

BHGSG News - TORONTO, Canda May 8, 2013: Michelle Rodriguez attends the World Premiere of 'Fast & Furious 6' at Empire Leicester Square in London, England. 

Photograph: Dave M. Benett/WireImage

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

DTN News - SOUTH KOREA NEWS: South Korean Protesters Hold An Anti-North Korea Rally In Seoul

DTN News - SOUTH KOREA NEWS: South Korean Protesters Hold An Anti-North Korea Rally In Seoul

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 7, 2013: South Korean protesters hold an anti-North Korea rally with a defaced image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at downtown Seoul, South Korea Thursday, April 18, 2013. North Korea would collapse without support from its economic benefactor China, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was on Asian tour last week, said Wednesday, stressing the importance of working with Beijing to address North Korean threats and its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) 

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DTN News - NORTH KOREA NEWS: Kim Jong-Un Inspects The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum In Pyongyang

DTN News - NORTH KOREA NEWS: Kim Jong-Un Inspects The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum In Pyongyang

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 7, 2013: Kim Jong-Un points at things. 
The North Korean leader inspects the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, which 
is under construction in the country's capital, Pyongyang. North Korea has taken a major 
step back from a planned missile test even as it and the South exchanged fresh threats of 
military retaliation to any provocation. 
Photograph: KCNA Via KNS/AFP/Getty Images

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DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: North Korea Has Failed Again Says Obama

DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: North Korea Has Failed Again Says Obama

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 7, 2013: President Barack Obama, right, 
and South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, left, during their meeting in the Oval Office of 
the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

"The days when North Korea could create a crisis and elicit concessions, those days are 
over," Obama said from the White House East Room, after he and South Korean President 
Park Geun-hye met privately in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: North Korea Has Failed Again Says Obama

DTN News - WHITE HOUSE NEWS: North Korea Has Failed Again Says Obama

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 7, 2013: President Barack Obama said 
Tuesday that North Korea can no longer create an international crisis with nuclear 
provocations, asserting the United States and South Korea are fully capable of defending 
themselves.

"The days when North Korea could create a crisis and elicit concessions, those days are 
over," Obama said from the White House East Room, after he and South Korean President 
Park Geun-hye met privately in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: Imran Khan Injured After He Falls During Rally In Lahore

DTN News - PAKISTAN NEWS: Imran Khan Injured After He Falls During Rally In Lahore

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 7, 2013:  Pakistani politician and former cricketer Imran Khan was rushed to hospital with head injuries on Tuesday after falling off a lift taking him onto the stage for an election rally, his party said.

Television footage showed Khan, leader of the Pakistan Movement for Justice party (PTI), bleeding from the head as he was carried by aides through the crowd at the event in Pakistan's second largest city Lahore.

The dramatic development came at the end of a day that saw 17 people killed and dozens more wounded in bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan, taking the death toll in the bloody campaign for Saturday's general election past 100.

The poll will mark a democratic milestone in a country ruled for half its history by the military as the first time a civilian government has served a full term and handed over to another through the ballot box.

Khan, who won only one seat in 2002 and boycotted polls in 2008, has led an electric campaign, galvanising the middle class and young people in what he has called a "tsunami" of support that will propel him into office.

The 63-year-old, who has undertaken a punishing schedule of daily rallies, tumbled from a riser along with several of his staff, seemingly after one of them lost their balance.

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DTN News - ISRAELI DEFENSE NEWS: Israel Played Down Weekend Air Strikes Close To Damascus

DTN News - ISRAELI DEFENSE NEWS: Israel Played Down Weekend Air Strikes Close To Damascus

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 7, 2013: An Israeli soldier carries another soldier as they walk with their comrades during training close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights. 

 Israel played down weekend air strikes close to Damascus reported to have killed dozens of Syrian soldiers, saying they were not aimed at influencing its neighbour's civil war but only at stopping Iranian missiles reaching Lebanese Hezbollah militants. 

The U.N. Security Council voiced concern last week about the increasing spillover into the Golan Heights of the civil war being fought between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to topple him.

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Monday, May 6, 2013

DTN News - SOUTH KOREAN NEWS: Children Becoming Buddhist Monks Ceremony at Chogye Temple In Seoul, South Korea

DTN News - SOUTH KOREAN NEWS: Children Becoming Buddhist Monks Ceremony at Chogye Temple In Seoul, South Korea

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 6, 2013: Children attend the 'Children Becoming Buddhist Monks' ceremony forthcoming buddha's birthday at a Chogye temple on in Seoul, South Korea. 

The children will stay at the temple to learn about Buddhism for 14 days

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DTN News - JAPAN NEWS: Nakizumo Festival Or Crying Baby Contest At Sensoji Temple In Tokyo


DTN News - JAPAN NEWS:  Nakizumo Festival Or Crying Baby Contest At Sensoji Temple In Tokyo

 (NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 6, 2013: The Nakizumo Festival, or crying baby contest, took place at the weekend at Sensoji Temple in Tokyo. 

The Nakizumo is a traditional event, where the babies, accompanied by amateur sumo wrestlers, face to face in a sumo ring to determine how loud and long they cry in the crying contest, held to celebrate babies' growth and pray for their good health.

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DTN News - BANGLADESH NEWS: One Dead And 35 People Injured To Contain Islamist Protestors Says Bangladeshi Police

DTN News - BANGLADESH NEWS: One Dead And 35 People Injured To Contain Islamist Protestors Says Bangladeshi Police 

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 6, 2013: Islamist protestors run as Bangladeshi police fire rubber bullets during clashes in Dhaka. 'At least one person was shot dead and 35 people were injured,' police sub-inspector Rokon declared

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

DTN News - MID EAST HOT SPOTS: Israel Strikes Syria, Says Targeting Hezbollah Arms

DTN News - MID EAST HOT SPOTS: Israel Strikes Syria, Says Targeting Hezbollah Arms

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 5, 2013:  Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah.

As Syria's two-year-old civil war veered into the potentially atomic arena of Iran's confrontation with Israel and the West over its nuclear program, people were woken in the Syrian capital by explosions that shook the ground like an earthquake and sent pillars of flame high into the night sky.

"Night turned into day," one man told Reuters from his home at Hameh, near one of the targets, the Jamraya military base.

But for all the angry rhetoric in response from Tehran and from the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it was unclear whether the second such raid in 48 hours would elicit any greater reaction than an Israeli attack in the same area in January, which was followed by little evident change.

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