2005.06.14

Japan-Racism Redux (L.A. Times) Little Black Sambo is back in Japan. 2005.06.14

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Japan-Taiwan  [Mainichi] Taiwanese abandon ceremony at Shinto shrine to "take back" souls of conscripted relatives. 2005.06.14

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Japan-Racism (Asahi) Commercial featuring sweating Rastafarian chimp taken off air. 2005.06.14

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Japan-ROK (Kyodo) Koizumi, Roh to meet Monday in Seoul. 2005.06.14

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ROK's top business fugitive returns home (Reuters). The man who created the Daewoo group and fled South Korea when it collapsed in 1999 with about $70 billion in debt was arrested as he returned home today, saying he was "a dying fox" seeking to make peace with the past. 2005.06.14

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Koreas celebrate landmark summit. [BBC News] Some 300 South Koreans arrive in the North to mark the fifth anniversary of an historic summit. 2005.06.14

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Japan-WWII [Mainichi] UPDATED Japan's Education Minister now denies apologizing for remark about Korean sex slaves. 2005.06.14

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USA Sect'y of State says she doesn't  know if DPRK's Kim is sane (Reuters). Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she doesn't know whether the despotic North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is sane, a remark that could anger Pyongyang's unpredictable ruler. 2005.06.14

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Japan-Environment (AFP) Paper or plastic? Soon, in Japan, you won't have a choice. 2005.06.14

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