Link time

  • Very bizarre but interesting search engine which gives you a sort of a concept map for your search with hits spacially distributed.
  • I didn’t include it in my last article on resistance but here are some documents related to General Stroop’s reports on his clearing out of the Warsaw ghetto, and here is a good concise article on the uprising.
  • BBC had an interesting article about a mystic who can apparently survive long periods without food and water and was recently tested by doctors to prove his claims.
  • There is some great anti-war propaganda posters for sale on sale.
  • An amazon rip-off site offers a really great range of movies, books, and music from Japan, Chinese speaking areas, and Korea. I recently bought a DVD from them, a Chinese movie on Kawashima Yoshiko, the Manchurian princess/Japanese wartime spy also seen in the Last Emperor.
  • Tony Laszlo pointed out this award-winning site on language education, and specifically promoting the teaching of mother tongues in Swedish schools.
  • My “fun” reading now is a Seagrave book on the “Yamashita gold” and a alleged postwar conspiracy by the US to use Japanese loot for its coldwar slush fund. There is a glowing review of the book by Chalmers Johnson online. I’m about half way through the book, and have very mixed thoughts about it. I have very deep concerns with some of their outlandish claims and exaggerations which I might blog about when I finish the book.