Culture

Tokyo Governor Riles Against Chinese & Korean Immigrants (Japan)

Friday, 05 May 2000 14:05 Last Updated on Thursday, 08 March 2007 08:46 Written by The Editor

Tokyo Chief Starts New Furor, on Immigrants
The governor of Tokyo has set off a swell of criticism in diplomatic circles and foreign communities here by saying that immigrants in Japan, mainly people of Korean and Chinese descent, were quite likely to riot after a major earthquake. The governor, Shintaro Ishihara, called on the military to be prepared to maintain order in such an uprising.

Germ Warfare and Other Terrors (Japan)

Friday, 05 May 2000 14:03 Last Updated on Thursday, 08 March 2007 08:47 Written by The Editor

Congshan, China - When the history of the 20th century is written and the great terrors, exterminations and genocides are fully documented, a grisly footnote will have to be appended from this tiny hamlet in southeastern China. Along with a handful of other remote villages in China, it was the site of the only confirmed biological warfare attacks in modern history, committed by secret units of the Japanese invasion force that occupied much of China from 1931 to 1945.

Émigré Success Secret of the New World (Russia)

Monday, 06 March 2000 06:14 Last Updated on Thursday, 08 March 2007 06:57 Written by The Editor

The unraveling of the Soviet Union released a tidal wave of educated emigrants, thousands of whom settled in Brooklyn, New York's Brighton Beach and other vibrant Russian enclaves. Their intellectual curiosity and growing affluence have given rise, by one count, to 38 Russian-language papers, plus a cable television channel, the Russian Television Network.

The Rape Of Nanking (Japan)

Sunday, 05 March 2000 14:07 Last Updated on Thursday, 15 March 2007 03:47 Written by The Editor

On December 13th, 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army captured the then capital city of China, Nanking. Immediately upon entering the city, the troops with superior officer approval proceeded to murder nearly 400,000 of the city's occupants and rape an estimated 80,000 woman and children.

Religious Tradition Perpetuates Slavery (Ghana)

Sunday, 05 March 2000 13:54 Last Updated on Thursday, 08 March 2007 08:22 Written by The Editor

TEFLE, Ghana -- Just 12 years old, with a shy smile, bare feet and simple printed cloth that serves as her only clothing, Abla Kotor has begun a life of servitude and atonement for a crime she did not commit. For now her duties mostly involve sweeping the dirt courtyard of a local fetish priest, a spiritual intermediary between worshipers and deities of the area's traditional religion, ju-ju. But her responsibilities will grow to include providing sexual favors to the priest who has become her master.

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