Yes, dear reader, it is difficult for me to describe these any other way. Had they not been so ribald, perhaps I could have found gentler words … but they are not. Waseda University in Japan has a wonderful collection of these. So, in the tradition of the Bayeux Tapestry, I bring you the [...]
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 thomo the lost posted this in  Asia Pacific, History, Japan, Korea, Naval, Wargaming on  May 27th, 2010One of the recent searches in Thomo’s Hole was the word “imjin”. There are two Imjins I can think of, both military (well three really, there is that Korean river, the Imjin river too, of course). The first I can recall is the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War. This was a [...]  Tags: Choson, History, Japan, Korea, Naval, Naval History, Ships | 
One comment so far |  Print This Post |  Email This Post |  thomo the lost posted this in Asia Pacific, China, General, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mongolia on February 13th, 2010Tonight is bituun so the home is cleaned and now the belly is full. Tomorrow is Tsagaan Sar (Цагаан сар) for Mongolians, the White Month. So, to my Mongolian friends – I hope you have a happy Tsagaan Sar. This year it also coincides (well, is one day different really) with the Lunar New Year [...] From 11 May to 16 September 1939 Japanese and Manchurian forces clashed with Mongolian and Soviet forces on the border of Mongolia and Manchuria (at that time called Manchukuo by many nations) around the village of Nomonhan near the Khalkhin gol (Khalkhin River). Having spent time in Mongolia my office at the bank used to [...] In a report, Sea Shepherd activists attack Japanese whaler, in the Sydney Morning Herald, there is a note of a conference in which: Onodera spoke of the latest clash as he addressed a seminar in Tokyo with officials from 11 developing states that have recently joined or plan to join the deadlocked International Whaling [...] thomo the lost posted this in Asia Pacific, Japan, Korea, Middle East, Saudi Arabia on May 14th, 2007It was a few days ago that the Lost Nomad commented on discussions about linking Korea and Japan by tunnel. It just so happened that this was the day after the Arab News here ran a piece about a Causeway Linking Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Seems the causeway is a bigger and better link than [...] Recently there was a piece that did the rounds about Japanese buying sheep whilst thinking they were poodles. As is right, this was found to be an “urban myth” picked up by the news services (including CNN – not sure about BBC as the cable was playing up in my hotel room). This was even [...] Tags: Japan, Korea, myth, scam, urban myth |
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