BEIJING // China has gained direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time in 100 years through a North Korean port, leaving the other two regional players, Japan and South Korea, deeply concerned about the communist state’s ambitions.
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Kill tally: At least 3,000 killed in experiments at the Unit 731 biological weapons facility. Approximately 200,000 killed in field tests of biological weapons. Between 20,000 to 30,000 Chinese killed when plague-infected rats are released from Unit 731 at the end of the Second World War.
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China often gets a bad rap for its failures to protect intellectual property rights—from knock-offs of luxury handbags to copies of music and videos. Google cited an alleged theft of its intellectual property as one reason for its decision last month to consider pulling out of China. Yet the picture isn't as bleak as you might think.
read more »A Chinese activist who has spent more than three months living inside Tokyo's international airport said Tuesday that Chinese officials have given him permission to return home.
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- Japan acknowledged its wartime military caused tremendous damage to China in the "Rape of Nanking" massacre, but the two sides failed again to agree on the death toll, a joint study obtained Monday said. The massacre was one of the worst incidents during Japan's invasion of China in the first half of the 20th century,
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Shanghai citizen Feng Zhenghu never thought he’d find himself in a plight similar to Viktor Navorski, an East European stranded in an airport in Steven Spielberg’s 2004 movie "The Terminal." He also never expected to become a Twitter star followed by 7,000 people in just one month since he started to tweet about his exiled life at Tokyo’s Narita Airport.
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Japan's call for an East Asian Community similar to the European Union has been welcomed by a senior Chinese official, Liu Hongcai, vice-minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. Supporters of the idea say it will accelerate the process of regional integration.
read more »Henry C. from the Libertines Pub is back on TDS. This time he reports about a retarded test developed by the government to check how patriotic our secondary school students are. Try it out yourself!
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A fascinating profile on Lu Chuan and the controversy surrounding his widely successful and criticized film "Nanjing Nanjing" about the Nanjing Massacre. Acclaim to death by dismemberment - success is a fickle thing.
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Chinese buyers are expected to receive all goods ordered within two days via air mail delivery and distribution through China Post. The mall will be the biggest of its kind in China, with initially 20,000 different Japanese products listed. Buy-J.com (inactive as of now) will be run by Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Card and China UnionPay.
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