Tokyo’s Muslim

Japan and Korea have had an entire history of unpleasentness, ever since one of the first Shoguns decided that he would let Korea play host to the extra soldiers left over at the end of the Sengoku Jidai. The nonsense has gone on, in the form of brutal rapes and other sorts of intransigence from the Japanese in World War 2, and the subsequent polite forgetfulness which translates to history books in which such actions never happened.

Koreans were never one to take things lying down. They ripped off a lot of Japanese technological innovations (such as those in the car market), and claim that a North Korean attack on South Korea necessitates a South Korean attack on Japan. However, nothing is as bitter as their feud over cartoons. A Japanese writer released a comic book called (something along the lines of) “I hate the Korean-wave” (Korean-wave being the reference to a growing popularity of Korean culture in Japan). I have conflicting reports about how bad it was (some say that it was meant to be a carciture of the right wing), but it was taken as a direct insult in much of Korea. Korean artists responded with releasing comics detailing grossly (and I mean that in every sense of the word) exaggerated carcitures of Japanese women.

Now the fued has spread to Youtube. I’ve said this before, but both countries are better off wondering why they need constant (read: expensive) protection from the United States rather than sniping at each other. Don’t expect sense to enter this feud anytime soon though.

Unfortunately, this young man forgot the ironclad rule of borrowing money – namely that you have to return it some day. Now he is 2.2 million in debt. Admittedly, this entertains me, hence the category I dumped it in.