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Mr. Urape died 7 years ago (2004) at age of 83. In those days, the Japanese soldiers were indoctrinated that it was shameful to surrender or to become a POW. Rather than return to Japan in shame, he decided to stay in northern Thailand (Chiang Mai area) and married a woman from the Karen mount...

As a Hawaii-born sansei, I remember seeing 2 or 3 Tora-san (Otoko wa tsurai yo) movies during my college years in the 1970's. A the time, I did not realize that Baisho Chieko-san, who played the role of his sister, was a famous singer. The movie usually began with Torajiro (Atsumi Kiyoshi) havi...

The melody of this song is from the Japanese song "Sayon's Bell" (Sayon No Kane). The bell was made in honor of a Taiwanese native girl, Sayun Hayun, who drowned while guiding a Japanese traveler across a bridge during a heavy rainfall in the late 1930's. The Chinese words have no relationship...

Ironically, Jindo Arirang is named after Jin Island in the extreme southwest part of the Korean Peninsula (South Jeolla Province) far far away from Pyongyang...

Sorry, I meant "Chookbe Reul Teulja".

I'm a Hawaii-born sansei nikkeijin who lived for 2 years in Korea as an English teacher. It's easy to understand why Koreans have negative attitudes about Japan, but I feel if more Koreans travel to Japan and experience the realities of Japanese society, they might change their thinking to a mor...

My grandparents immigrated to Hawaii from Japan and my dad served in the American Army during World War 2 in Europe. He always said that people need to separate politics from culture. Japan was ruled by militarists in the 1930's and caused a lot of misery in waging war in China and other Asian n...

The North Korean communist regime and left-wing groups are always blaming the US for the current political division. Reunification will only come about when the dictatorship in the north is replaced by a truly democratic government that will actively pursue economic reform and engage in meaningf...

This is a typical propaganda video from the communist North Korean regime full of lies. By 1949, US forces in South Korea had already withdrawn to Japan and the South Korean military was not well equipped. So when the North Korean forces launched a planned unprovoked attack on June 25, 1950 the...

Sorry, I misspelled the singer's last name. It should be TABATA.

For those who don't understand Japanese well, this video is a re-enactment of the 1905 Battle of Tsushima involving the Russian Imperial Baltic fleet and the Japanese Nihonkai fleet under Admiral Togo Heihachiro.

I think this song was sung by North Koreans welcoming Koreans who were living in Japan under much social discrimination and decided to move to the so-called working class paradise of DPRK. So the words mean something like Glad to see you, compatriot brothers and sister... Glad to meet you like t...

Both Japanese and Koreans should try to enjoy each other's music, food, and culture and avoid negative stereotypes. I'm a Hawaii-born Japanese with a Korean wife and like spicy kimchi, enka-type "trot" songs sung by singers like YI Mija, etc. Every ethnic group has good points and bad points.

@Nadeshiko637

As a Hawaii-born sansei Japanese-American who has taught in Korean public schools, I think that Japanese and Koreans need to get rid of negative attitudes and stereotypes towards each other. It's a fact that the Japanese royal family had bloodline connections during the 6th centur...

Nice video shots of Tuman River, which forms the boundary between China and northeast Korea. This is a real classic heullu-gan norae of the 1930's era before the communists took over.