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Some photos I took at the Shrine of Loyalty (忠烈祠) in Taipei

One of my students has just left now to go to Peking University to personally interview Kim Dong-il about this very telegramme for her research project! Recently, Chinese Professor Shen Zhi-Hua (沈志华) provided his interpretation of Stalin's telegram in his interview with the Global Times ( 环球时报 ), a...

Japanese actor Mikuni Rentaro ( 三國連太郎 ) who won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor three times fought in China during the Pacific War. http://ekatocato.hippy.jp/gazou/kiwakor99991.jpg In December 1943 when he received a draft notice in Osaka, he rejected the military service for the fear of d...

Dear Kim Sung! I Know is a bit old post. I'm writing my MA paper about the Hungarian POW's of Niklosk-Ussurisk and Krasnaya Rechka. I red your post from 2005 about the killing of Hungarian POWs by Japanese guards. Yesterday I was at the Hungarian Military Archives, and I have found the report about...

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Next month we commorate the 60th anniversary of the Korean War under the threat of 'the Second Korean War' arising out of the recent sinking of South Korean Navy Ship Cheonan (currently being discussed at http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=165414&start=0). Among a lot of film projects...

A video clip of an intense combat scene in the link above is very impressing. This is a very rare REAL combat scene! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmo04Nw5Vdg * I've met an Iranian guy who worked as a laborer at a construction site in a surburb of Tokyo when I stayed there in 1997. I came to know h...

Thank you. Much appreciated. I was planning on visiting the museum later this year; can anyone tell me who has visited the museum how ‘accurate’ its appraisal of the Nationalists is? Does it blur the heroic contribution of the NRA in Changde and does the Maoist narrative (of demonising the National...

According to a Monthly Chosun report published today , 'Československy Dennik' , a Czechoslovak newspaper published by the Czechoslovak legion in Irkutsk reported about the March 1st Independence Movement ( 삼일운동 ) on March 18, 1919. In the above article, it is also confirmed again that arms and annu...

Although these are not directly related to stg44's original question, I post some photos of Kim Il-Sung's visit to East Berlin. Kim Il-Sung's car parade in Schönhauser Allee on June 7, 1956 http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/6689/kp12060914i2264.jpg Kim Il-Sung inspects the East German honor guard w...

As for your question, I searched Korean newspaper articles of the past in Naver Digital News Archive ( 네이버 디지털 뉴스 아카이브 ). According to this link, Kim Il-Sung visited DDR twice in his lifetime, first in June 7~13, 1956 and second from May 29 to June 2, 1984. He also planned to visit DDR in 1987 for t...

Even after the first sequel came to the end last month, this drama based on the rightist view is still drawing unprecedented media attention and hot controversies in East Asia. NHK will broadcast the second sequel of the largest project in Japanese drama history in December this year. http://www.you...

Hai Kim, Marco from Amsterdam, Netherlands here. I did some research in 'who's the handsome guy' with Marilyn Monroe. According to the Marilyn Monroe website that I use daily ( BIG Monroe fan here) it Colonel Donald Wakehouse. MM was signing his chest. I have two photo's of this event... Greetings,...

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Saka no Ue no Kumo( 坂の上の雲 ), a long-awaited war drama based on the most famous Japanese war novel of all time has finally come! Today I watched the fouth episode of the first phase of this drama on the NHK satellite channel broadcasted simultaneously as in Japan. In terms of the scale, story lines a...