Koizumi shrine visit ruled unconstitutional

[lexico]

Welcome to the forum, Ryushin !

I don't really like people addressing citizens of China as Chinese.

I can see your point perfectly. China in the traditional sense has officially 56 nationalities within its borders as follows;

Han (汉族 : Hàn Zú)
Zhuang (壮族 : Zhuàng Zú)
Manchu (满族 : Mǎn Zú)
Hui (回族 : Huí Zú)
Miao (苗族 : Miáo Zú) (Hmong)
Uygur (维吾尔族 : Wéiwúěr Zú)
Yi (彝族 : Yí Zú)
Tujia (土家族 : Tǔjiā Zú)
Mongol (蒙古族 : Měnggǔ Zú)
Tibetan (藏族 : Zàng Zú)
Buyei (布依族 : Bùyī Zú)
Dong (侗族 : Dòng Zú)
Yao (瑶族 : Yáo Zú)
Chosen (朝鲜族 : Cháoxiǎn Zú), meaning Koreans.
Bai (白族 : Bái Zú)
Hani (哈尼族 : Hāní Zú)
Li (黎族 : Lí Zú)
Kazak (哈萨克族 : Hāsàkè Zú)
Dai (傣族 : Dǎi Zú, also called Dai Lue, one of the Tai ethnic groups)
She (畲族 : Shē Zú)
Lisu (傈僳族 : Lìsù Zú)
Gelao (�i佬族 : Gēlǎo Zú)
Lahu (拉祜族 : Lāhù Zú)
Dongxiang (东乡族 : Dōngxiāng Zú)
Va (佤族 : Wǎ Zú) (Va)
Sui (水族 : Shuǐ Zú)
Naxi (纳西族 : Nàxī Zú) (includes the Mosuo (摩梭 : Mósuō))
Qiang (羌族 : Qiāng Zú)
Tu (土族 : Tǔ Zú)
Xibe (锡伯族 : Xíbó Zú)
Mulao (仫佬族 : Mùlǎo Zú)
Kirgiz (柯尔克孜族 : Kēěrkèzī Zú)
Daur (达斡尔族 : Dáwòěr Zú)
Jingpo (景颇族 : Jǐngpō Zú)
Salar (撒拉族 : Sǎlá Zú)
Blang (布朗族 : Bùlǎng Zú)
Maonan (毛南族 : Màonán Zú)
Tajik (塔吉克族 : Tǎjíkè Zú)
Pumi (普米族 : Pǔmǐ Zú)
Achang (阿昌族 : Āchāng Zú)
Nu (怒族 : Nù Zú)
Ewenki (鄂温克族 : Èwēnkè Zú)
Gin (京族 : Jīng Zú), meaning Vietnamese or Kinh people.
Jino (基诺族 : Jīnuò Zú)
De'ang (�ｺ昂族 : Déáng Zú)
Uzbek (乌孜别克族 : Wūzībiékè Zú)
Russ (俄罗斯族 : Éluōsī Zú)
Yugur (裕固族 : Yùgù Zú)
Bonan (保安族 : Bǎoān Zú)
Monba (门巴族 : Ménbā Zú)
Oroqen (鄂伦春族 : Èlúnchūn Zú)
Derung (独龙族 : Dúlóng Zú)
Tatar (塔塔尔族 : Tǎtǎěr Zú)
Hezhen (赫哲族 : Hèzhé Zú)
Lhoba (珞巴族 : Luòbā Zú)
Gaoshan (高山族 : Gāoshān Zú).

To indiscriminately call all individuals of the listed groups IN China "Chinese" would amount to ignorance and nothing else. However as long as they hold a Chinese citizenship, it would be technically correct to call them collectively "Chinese nationals," or individually "a Chinese national" for administrative purposes. In your case, esp. if you consider yourself Korean by blood AND place of residence, you have every right to refuse the labeling of "Chinese" eventhough you might have been born in China. The opposite possibility of an ethnic Han Chinese born outside of China have the choice of declaring oneself Chinese, or foreign-born Han Chinese to be precise.

I'm a korean CHINESE. NOt a chinaman. They should be deem as chinaman or something else.

As the poster noted above, "Chinaman/Chinamen" is not considered a respectable way of calling a Han Chinese person mainly because Americans looked down upon the early immigrants from China/Southeast Asia and treated them badly for quite some time. That belongs to the shameful racist past of America which tainted a potentially good name, "Chinaman," as in Englishman.

NOTE : I used the word Chinamen because many international articles DON'T show the difference between chinese and chinamen. Many Chinese have been despised by the actions done by China when firstly their ancestors weren't from china.

That is because the international reporters are ignorant, not sophisticated enough to make a meaningful distinction, but the general readers wouldn't know the difference anyway. It is absolutely mind-blowing how the average reader in the capitalist world is ignorant of China in every way imaginable, so you would be doing a huge service by making these fine distinctions whenever possible, thanks. I would also like to add that the outside world, due to their guilty past of raping China for that past 171 years since the Opium Wars have been so eager to point out how "backward, poor, and savage" China can be. This is also a result of ignorance and guilt, so don't you feel more uncomfortable than you really have to be.

I think hundreds of years ago, didn't Chinamen invade or attempt invasion on korea before ?

Well the greatest invaders of Korea were the Mongols 1231-1256; then there were the Manchus in 1627 and 1636, both non Han groups. As for the Han Chinese, two recent invasions would be during the First Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895 and the Korean War 1950-1953. However no invasion from the Han Chinese, the Mongols, or the Manchus ever resulted in the seizure of Korean soverignty and prolonged occupation as in the Japanese invasion 1875 (Kanghwado Incident) -1910 (Annexation of Korea) that lasted another 35 yrs of blood-sucking rape of the Korean nation for 70 years in all.

[T]he Japanese Meiji government dispatched the navy vessel Unyou into the waters off Kanghwa, forcing the Koreans to open fire, then used this attack as a pretext to demand formal treaty negotiations. Although many Choson government officials oppose entering into negotiations with Japan, King Kojong is persuaded by a few to reconcile with Japan and sign the Treaty of Kanghwa. This marks the beginning of Japan's imperialist designs on the Korean peninsula, which would ultimately result in the formal annexation of Korea under Japanese rule in 1910.

Hence there is ample cause to resent the Yasukuni visits that worship the criminals of the Meiji-Taisho-Showa periods and their victimisation of Korea; the comparison you draw between China and Japan therefore only emphasised the crimes of Imperial Japan in contrast. It is meaningful to note that the first Japanese soldier killed outside of Japan to be enshined in Yaukuni was a sailor who died in the Invasion of Kanghwa Island, Korea, in 1875 on the battleship Unyou (雲揚号). To Koreans, he was the first Yasukuni criminal to be shot down during unlawful entry to Korean territory. To drum up nationalist sentiments in Imperial Japan, he was also memorialised as a war hero at Yasukuni. Now if modern Japanese contuinue in the Yasukuni policy of Imperial Japan, with Tojo Hideki and about 1,068 WWII war criminals decorated as "war heroes," are Koreans to blame to shout down the Yasukuni visitors such as Mr. Koizumi and those in the photos above ?