Following the eventual defeat of the Boxer Movement (i.e. the ‘Righteous Harmonious Fists’), the imperialist forces of the UK, US, Czarist Russia and Japan massacred around 50,000 innocent men, women and children in Beijing – after the city had surrendered.
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North Korea has a Right to Defend itself Against US Aggression
The United States is the aggressor in Asia. As a capitalist country, it requires wars to fuel its sagging boom or bust economy, and in
Tokyo War Crimes Trial: Tojo Hideki (Photographs) [29.4.1946 Onwards]
On April 29th, 1946, the Far East International Military Tribunal began the trial of 28 top-level Japanese War Criminals. On May 3rd, the Court began
DPRK: Japanese Kidnappings (1977-1988)
According to both Russian and Chinese language sources, in 2002, the then leader of North Korea – Kim Jong Il – publically acknowledged that ‘rogue’ elements within the intelligence services of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) had initiated a programme of ‘kidnapping’ a non-specified number of Japanese citizens – but that the upper echelons of the DPRK government at the time had not been involved or informed.
Sumo (相撲) Ancient Art of Japan
Sumo can also mean a ‘trial of strength that reveals the unity of nature’. I prefer the latter translation, and believe this is nearer how the Japanese people interpret Sumo wrestling.
Czar Nicholas II (1868-1918)
Then, around 1903-1904 Czar Nicholas II sponsored anti-Semitic riots throughout Russia that saw innocent Jewish people attacked and murdered.