The above picture is from a children’s book found on the shelves of a kindergarten playroom by Matt, an English teacher in South Korea who blogs at Gusts of Popular Feelings. The picture books contained images of Japanese torturing, shooting, and stabbing Koreans. There were also images of heroic Koreans killing Japanese:

These aren’t [...]

The Guardian has featured a letter to the editor by Jenny Holt, a lecturer at Meiji University who believes that the international media has used the Lindsay Hawker murder case as an excuse to “indulge in practically the only form of overt racism still tolerated today – the demonisation and denigration, en masse, of Japanese [...]

A 23-year-old man in Australia has been arrested for drunkenly beating to death an Asian whom he believed was Japanese:

James Anthony Dean-Willcocks, of Illawong, was yesterday charged with the murder of Magno Alvarado, 67.
Residents of Elouera Rd, Cronulla, told police of being woken about 5.30am on Saturday by a male yelling: “F … off back [...]

The Korean branch of an American perfume company has released a scent that is supposedly based on the odor of a couple of rocks occupied by South Korea and claimed by Japan [via Brian in Jeollanam-do]:
“We wanted the consumers to feel Dokdo closer to their hearts, by imagining its scent,” said a Demeter Korea employee.
To [...]

Since most Japanese place names are written the same in Japanese and Chinese, one occasionally comes across Chinese links when running kanji search queries through Google News.
While searching for news stories about Taiji, the Japanese town that is being targeting by animal rights activists because of its dolphin hunt, I found the following tasteful cartoon [...]

A follow-up to yesterday’s post about Korean fishermen illegally entering Japanese territorial waters, this time about the trash they leave behind and its effect on Japanese beaches:

Larger Korean fishing boats can carry over 10,000 eel traps. According to the news program, some 10% of these traps are lost on each fishing trip. The [...]

Asahi TV reports on the growing problem of South Korean vessels that are illegally fishing in Japanese territorial waters:

South Korean fishermen have depleted their own coastal waters, so now many are sneaking into Japanese waters to catch more crabs and eel. Some are caught and have to pay fines, but the rewards are so [...]

South Korean nationalists have paid to have a tour bus in New York city decked out with propaganda airing their grievances against Japan:
The full five-meter LED (light-emitting diode) ad, attached to a double-decker that tours around Manhattan, flashes to pedestrians that the proper name of the international sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan is [...]

The Australian media is reporting that there has been an surge of hate directed at Japanese people in Broome Shire, a town that had a sister city agreement with the Taiji, a town in Wakayama prefecture. Anger at Japan forced the town to dissolve its sister city agreement and now graveyards are being targeted:
Councillors [...]

A group of Buddhist monks at Beomeosa in Busan show their national pride for Korea’s “Liberation Day” by tearing down a stone fence that was apparently built during the Japanese occupation. [via Brian in Jeollanam-do]
Meanwhile, South Korean netizens are outraged by the existence of a Japanese poop character that is meant to insult [...]

A South Korean teacher explains why no Koreans have won a Nobel prize for literature:

His statement of “fact”: Korean is superior to all other languages. Japan, a culturally inferior nation, has won two Nobel prizes for literature because Japanese is a crude language that is so simple to translate into English. Korean, [...]

The above photo shows the injuries sustained by Ryotaro Wright, a Japanese-born New Zealander who was nearly beaten to death by bullies:
The teen, Japanese-born Ryotaro Wright, needed emergency brain surgery in Waikato Hospital after the attack at Forest View High School in Tokoroa this week. Doctors say he was close to death.
Four students have been [...]