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Saturday, November 19, 2005

Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan - New York Times

Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan - New York Times: "The two comic books, portraying Chinese and Koreans as base peoples and advocating confrontation with them, have become runaway best sellers in Japan in the last four months.

In their graphic and unflattering drawings of Japan's fellow Asians and in the unapologetic, often offensive contents of their speech bubbles, the books reveal some of the sentiments underlying Japan's worsening relations with the rest of Asia."

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