- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 26, 2012 02:32 JST
- Tags: History, Internet, Korea, Military, Osaka, Politics, Prostitution, Tokyo, WWII

Tokyo mayor Shintaro Ishihara’s latest foray into promoting international goodwill is to assert that Japan’s wartime “comfort women” were all willing Korean prostitutes only interested in the money.
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South Korea’s glorious Olympic victory parade, held amidst a torrential downpour and attended only by a handful of soaked photographers and the even more sodden athletes themselves, is currently attracting much attention online, having proved an unintentionally fitting epilogue to an event which has become a virtual parody of itself.
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Korean net cafe signage informing patrons that the establishment enforces a strict “No Japs Allowed” policy – unless the prospective customer shouts “Dokdo is Korean territory!” three times – is currently attracting much attention online.
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South Korea’s president has caused a scandal by demanding “the Japanese king” grovel before the Korean people in apology should he wish to set foot on that peninsula’s sacred soil.
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An exploding refrigerator which blasted a hole in a brick wall is the latest object to menace China with its unexpected self-destruct functionality.
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South Korean Christian groups have reportedly succeeded in forcing school textbooks to drop inconvenient evidence of evolution from their pages, lest they poison the minds of Korean children with the satanic notions of science and rationality.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 23, 2012 11:54 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Comparison, Events, Korea, Mass Media, Okinawa, Politics, Space, Video Gallery

A South Korean English language report on the launch of a “domestically produced” Korean satellite on a Japanese rocket which used footage of the rocket from which “Nippon” and the Japanese flag had been conspicuously removed have outraged many Japanese.
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According to a global survey conducted by the BBC, Japan is now regarded as the nation with the most positive influence on the world, and China is now regarded as a more positive (and less negative) influence even than the US.
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The White House reports that South Korean accesses downed their homepage after a petition demanding the US make schools stop using the “Sea of Japan” name in their textbooks inflamed the passions of nationalists.
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A Korean otaku has taken the hand of Akemi Homura in matrimony, disgusting commoners and annoying creepy otaku in both Japan and Korea.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Apr 24, 2012 03:29 JST
- Tags: Brazil, Comparison, Fashion, Greece, Korea, Plastic Surgery, Rankings, Statistics, USA

Statistics showing just which nations engage in the most cosmetic surgery demonstrate the rather impressive lead the likes of South Korea, Brazil and the US have over everyone else – something admittedly evident from looking at the less than natural wonders each of these nations is so blessed with.
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North Korea may not be able to feed its people, but the grandeur and technological sophistication of its nascent “space” program’s launch control is currently the subject of mass marvel online.
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