And the root of the rise of Communism in China actually link to Western Imperialism (including Japan); so no, we do not thank UK. After all, they are the asshole for stealing us from Republic of China (the weak but nice parent) after ww2 and handing us back to Communist bastard in PRC (the strong but terrible parent) just so they can save their own economy. Yet, it is undeniable that British Colonial rule in Hk did allow the city to blossomed.

I heard that the next Korean President was born in Osaka. I hope that the relationship between the two countries will be improved during his term, since he probably would not have prejudice against Japanese.

The following is just for information. The reason Koreans living in Japan came to Japan was not due to the war. In 1959, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan conducted a research on the Korean residents. The reseach showed that there were about 610,000 Koreans in Japan at the time and that, of the 610,000 Koreans, only 245 people had come to Japan as drafted workers during the war. Majority of drafted workers returned to Korea after the war by order of GHQ. Remaining people were those who came to Japan as migrant workers with their free will. There were about 1,000,000 Korean migrant workers in Japan in 1939 that was two years before the start of the war.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/239120/-245-
(Asahi shimbun; July 13, 1959)

One other thing I feel so sick about Japan is that, they sure like to brown-nose USA. And of course, they are beginning to shake their asses to Chinese now that China is a recognizable force.

I will never trust Japan!

1. The two Chinese men were not illegal aliens nor laborers. One was a company executive and the other an employee.

2. The police officer was off-duty, not in uniform, and according to recent news reports, he was also intoxicated. It happened around 11:30 PM.

3. There is a good chance that the two men had no idea he was an off-duty police officer.

4. The two men indicated the off-duty police officer was angered by the two men because they were supposedly talking too loudly. Whether they were really talking ‘too loudly’ or ‘too loudly in Chinese, we don’t know. In any event, the off-duty officer started using physical force, grabbed one of the men and was pushed away. And, he apparently fell upon the tracks.

I’ll be interested in hearing more details on this case.

Since many have jumped to certain conclusions based on the fact that the two accused were Chinese, let me offer some of my own biased guesses:

A few times, I’ve been verbally and physically accosted by drunk Japanese men on the train who took offense at one or more of the following: 1) I am white 2) I was speaking English 3) I was with a Japanese gf I’m not saying that’s what happened, but it certainly is not hard for me to imagine how a drunk middle-aged off-duty Japanese cop might take offense and umbrage at two Chinese chatting away in their gutter language in HIS Nippon. It’s certainly happened to me – but fortunately no one got hurt. Yet.

The fact that they are Chinese has everything to do with this as most Japanese would never think about arguing with much less scuffling with a police officer. It isn’t inconsequential.

those “pushers” need some serious punishment