Watching the news in Japan is like viewing the world through a very narrow tunnel or perhaps in a locked room with the lights turned out. If one didn't know any better you might think that Japan was only country on the planet. even though news happens throughout Asia and the world Japanese news programs just ignore it. After all what's more important having an informed populace about the world or hours of news about an actress found with 0.08 grams of drugs. The drugs of course.
Korea is a place where it seems its confidence is easily unnerved. Example the Dokdo islands just off the Korean coast. Korea controls these islands and has controlled since the end of World War II. Yet the countries nerves become jangled when ever some bone headed local politician in Japan claims those islands belong to Japan. Remember Korea controls the islands.
When does something belong to you when it really belonged to someone else. Take Tibet heres a place where the people have developed a completely different culture, society and language but somehow it belongs to China. Or Taiwan which again has an indigenous population with its own language and culture but China claims Taiwan is apart of CHina. How one justifies these claims takes a lot of pretzel making.
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