Links for this week.... enjoy!
BLOGS:
- Drew recounts our awesome ride up Alishan on Day 2. Really wish you could have come along.
- Jenna visits a drag show.
- Under the Radar News from AsiaEye
- Craig Ferguson's December calendar
- Letters from Taiwan on the MoE's attempt to pressure students not to protest
- Traveling Taiwan goes to Ershui. Not a bad little town.
- Richard on hiking outside Taipei: don't litter and other pleas...
- Filipino worker in dispute about pay forcibly deported?
- Hozan Airdrome. It's such a crime that nothing is left of the old Japanese airfields in southern Taiwan.
- Memorial vandalized in Keelung
- Two relics from the Taiwan Bronze Age and Placing Taiwan on megalith map
- Taiwan as laboratory for currency imperialism under the Japanese. Details please!
- MoE EMAIL ABOUT STUDENT PROTESTERS: Student leader interviewed, Academics protest. Hilariously, the Minister of Education denies he ever meant to intimidate students, blames staffers, said he is hurt.
- High speed ferry route between Taiwan and Fujian to open next month.
- China Post profiles the awesome Richard Saunders. Go Richard!
- Taichung city is getting a penguin exhibit. The idea is that those flows of Chinese tourists getting off in Taichung harbor will linger in the city, rather than heading for Sun Moon Lake and other places, thus dropping tourist dollars here in The Chung. Yes, you read that correctly. Penguins.
- IPS' Dennis Engbarth on the Next Media buyout
- Illegal Chinese fishing in Korean waters, bogus Beijing claims to Korean islands. Where have we heard this before.
- Chinese managers announce music awards will take place in Taipei without consulting anyone, cause furor
- Taiwan plans smart mines for use against invading Chinese
- Taipei Times on indictments of Chaiyi, Nantou county commissioners.
- Fallows on the crazed announcement by Hainan authorities that China might board vessels in the South China Sea.
- Beijing signals harder line on Hong Kong. Taiwan's democracy must vex them no end.
- Locals protest waste in Hsinchu River
- Taiwan engineers find solution for weakness in flash memory.
- Taiwan donates for infrastructure construction in St Lucia.
- Longtime Beijing correspondent John Pomfret's review of an important new book on China's modern history.
BOOKS: Check out Taffy Canning's Moving to Taiwan guide!
EVENTS:
Also, don't forget....
- Call for Papers, European Assoc of Taiwan Studies.
- US-Taiwan Forum on Sustainable Cities and Ports, Dec 10-12.
- Wilson Center on Taiwan's Economy Dec 13.
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Taiwan as laboratory for currency imperialism under the Japanese. Details please!
ReplyDeleteMichael Schiltz is associate professor at the Institute for Advanced studies on Asia, University of Tokyo.
It's not part of the job description, but most Western teachers at Japanese universities are
racist or at least anti-Japan. This article is another example of how they use any excuse to bash Japan. There are no details, just their biased beliefs.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-29/japan-s-ill-fated-experiment-with-money-doctoring.html
ReplyDeleteThis first example of total subjugation of one Asian country by another was a harbinger of things to come. After the Russo-Japanese War, Korea was also incorporated in the empire. The draconian monetary plan known as the Megata reform effectively relegated Korea to a Japanese satellite.
Even nowadays, it isn’t easy to account for the military rigor with which Japanese reformers sought to control Korea’s currency and national finances. There, money doctors wanted total control over their patient, and ....
money doctors!?!?!?!
No details. Just racist rants.
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/faculty/prof/mschiltz.html
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It was a high-risk gamble to gain primacy in Asia by means of a decisive economic blow (it combined, among other things, large-scale lending for industrial projects with a monetary-reform effort). Its architects made a strategic mistake. Japan suffered a humiliating defeat. Apart from a token repayment of 5 million yen, it was forced to write off the whole loans series, amounting to 140 million yen.(Michael Schitz)
ReplyDeleteThe Nishihara Loans (named after Nishihara Kamezo, Tokyo's representative in Beijing) of 1917 and 1918, while aiding the Chinese government, put China still deeper into Japan's debt. Toward the end of the war, Japan increasingly filled orders for its European allies' needed war matériel, thus helping to diversify the country's industry, increase its exports, and transform Japan from a debtor to a creditor nation for the first time.(http://countrystudies.us/japan/29.htm)
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Even then, the geopolitical momentum was deeply anti-Japanese. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s silver-buying policy was in no small part inspired by a desire to “spite the Japanese imperialists in China.”
Roosevelt's hatred of Japanese is "geopolitical momentum"??
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In 1940, U.S. officials discovered a large war chest of dollars, fraudulently hidden in the books of the New York branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank. U.S. reaction was swift and decisive, freezing Japanese dollars and gold held in the U.S
Japanese - frauds
US - swift and decisive
"It's such a crime that nothing is left of the old Japanese airfields in southern Taiwan."
ReplyDeleteWhy?
Wow, a pretty hard hitting letter from you in today's TaipeiTimes. I would have also mentioned improving the judicial system as a worthy cause.
ReplyDelete~ Thanks for all your work, Michael. Taiwan is lucky to have you and your family here to always enlighten us with your valuable knowledge.