Emma's In Stock’s Reviews > Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan > Status Update

Gwangju Uprising: series of student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, SK in May 1980 against coup of Chun Doo-hwan; violently suppressed by SK military in massacre

Imjin War: series of 2 Japanese invasions of Korea in 1500s

“Not to go on about this kind of thing,…” *proceeds to go on about this kind of thing*
Like dude get to the history part please

kenchu-zokan book genre in Japan, revisionists of Japanese colonial period (“dislike China, hate South Korea”)
That is fcking wild

shame/guilt distinction between Asian societies and Western societies

Ok there are some things the narrator describes that I think could’ve been done away with.