What’s wrong with this Maxim Korea cover?
Let me rephrase that. What is unusually wrong with this Maxim Korea cover?
Can’t read Korean? That bit circled in red reads, “How to date Japanese women who haven’t been exposed to radiation.”
An inflammatory headline, to say the least, and one that Korean readers were quick to point out as inappropriate given the sensitive nature of Japan’s continuing recovery after the 2011 tsunami and Fukushima disaster.
Japan‘s media caught wind of the controversy this week, and the rest is viral history.
The original article on Japan Today has been removed, but we’ve captured the cached version for you.
Maxim Korea’s editor-in-chief said the article, in the February issue of the magazine, was about how to get a Japanese girlfriend, regardless of her exposure to radiation, and he apologized (sort of) for preying on readers with an egregiously provocative headline.
Here’s what he said:
“I would like to apologize for causing discomfort and inflicting harm on a large number of Japanese people as a result of the text on the February issue. I am reflecting on this incident in my heart and would like to apologize to anyone who was deeply offended.”
But he didn’t stop there. No, he didn’t stop there.
“The recent brash remarks coming from Japan concerning Dokdo/Takeshima and the island dispute (the International Court of Justice case), Prime Minister Abe’s visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, and the issue of comfort women, have unintentionally caused us to make a mistake.”
“I will apologize for a second time to the many Japanese who harbor amicable feelings towards South Korea and continue to wait for the correct resolution to Dokdo/Takeshima and other historical problems. I wish to thank the readers who reprimanded us out of love.”
Japan and Korea have a number of disputes that periodically flare up, and the man succeeds in naming three of the most prominent: the Japanese PM’s visits to the Yasukuni shrine, Japan’s claims over South Korea’s easternmost Dokdo islets, and the so-called Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution in Japan during WWII.
Take your pick, Japanese netizens. And they did, here are a few choice responses.
“The idiot insults Japanese people a second time by giving excuses within the apology. It’s incredibly insensitive for him to apologize only to those Japanese who believe in the fabrications of South Korea.”
“I’m amazed that the mass media is able to link any article to anti-Japanese sentiment, regardless of what the incident is.”
And if not a reprimand out of love, certainly a plea from the heart:
“I’ve gotten tired of looking at these ridiculous stories day after day. I’m begging you, please just ship everyone off to Mars.”
Categories: Hmmm?
Engineering Evil 
Oh dear, just noticed that Youtube has censored my first video link. never mind, people can always download the book from the scribd link.
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Forget about the Japanese women. People should be more worried about dating New Yorkers who were exposed to radiation after 9/11.
A new book on 9/11 is out. The author knew the Mossad agent who organised the events of that day.
Dimitri Khalezov has spent 10 years researching and writing this book. Download links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0pdmokX9s8
Or read at:
In a 2010 interview, Khalezov explained that you can’t build a skyscraper in NYC without an approved demolition plan. On 9/11, the World Trade Center’s demolition plan was put into action to demolish the complex.
Khalezov learned of this demolition plan from his job in the Soviet Union. He had worked in the nuclear intelligence unit and under an agreement between the Soviet Union and the USA, each country was obliged to inform the other of peaceful uses of nuclear explosions. The WTC was built with 3 thermo-nuclear charges in its foundations.
Note: underground nuclear explosions do not produce mushroom clouds. This is only ever seen when the explosion takes place above ground. On 9/11, the explosions were deep underground.
More info:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_911_154.htm
You can watch the 2010 interview at:
http://www.disclose.tv/forum/dimitri-khalezov-wtc-nuclear-demolition-full-playlist-t21675.html
Video # 4 – WTC’s demolition plan
Video # 14 – WTC 7 (which fell ½ hour AFTER the BBC announced its collapse).
Videos # 24/25 – chronic radiation sickness of WTC responders (their cancers are not due to asbestos poisoning)
Khalezov was interviewed on 4 Sept 2013:
http://www.renseradioarchives.com/harris/
Here is a recent article mentioning Khalezov:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/28/mossad-bush-planned-executed-911/
I know it is preposterous to claim that the WTC was brought down by nukes. But note that the place where the WTC once stood is called ‘Ground Zero’. If you look up the meaning of ‘ground zero’ in the old dictionaries you have at home, you’ll find that there would only be one definition. It is what you call a place that has been nuked.
After 9/11, the US government sent people out to switch all the dictionaries in the public domain. The replacements differed only in the meaning of ‘ground zero’. They show extra definitions for that term, to obfuscate the original single meaning.
For example, if you have a genuine old Merriam-Webster dictionary, you would see this:
ground zero n (1946) : the point directly above, below, or at which a nuclear explosion occurs.
The replacement books (even of old editions) show two extra definitions and this is what you’ll see:
ground zero n (1946) 1 : the point directly above, below, or at which a nuclear explosion occurs. 2: the center or origin of rapid, intense, or violent activity or change 3: the very beginning : SQUARE ONE
Have a look at this video:
At 6:05 mins, he shows the old and new definitions of ‘ground zero’.
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