PEACE

There has been serious complaints by sushi purists that sushi making and other revered forms of Japanese food has fallen in quality, with many reports of so-called sushi chefs not knowing a thing about how to properly slice, preserve, and serve raw fish, you know, the one thing they're supposed to know how to do.

Wannabe sushi chefs will have to travel to Japan and be tested on their understanding of Japanese cuisine, their ability to prepare and serve dishes, and their customer service standards.

Japanese traditional cuisine, known as washoku, was registered a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage in 2013. As of July 2015, there are almost 89,000 registered Japanese restaurants across the globe.

The media regulator—formally called the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television—late last year told Chinese video-streaming sites that foreign content could make up no more than 30 percent of accessible content, but at that time, foreign shows made up more than half of the TV content of popular video sites such as those run by Youku Tudou Inc. and Sohu.com Inc.

With illegal downloading services, bootleg disks, and the emergence of new online websites that offer legal content, the legal DVD sales in China has been practically non-existent.

The new rules will allow China’s leaders to control what citizens watch and limit overseas influence.

“Comfort Women” is a euphemism to refer to about 200,000 predominately Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers throughout Imperial Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. While the Japanese government believes it has provided enough compensation for war atrocities done to Korea, it has avoided formally acknowledging the existence of, let alone apologizing for, “comfort women.” 

The South Korean and Japanese governments were close to reaching an agreement under previous administrations, but all progress was scrapped after plummeting Japanese popularity and the election of conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. 

The simple fact that South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe even held a bilateral meeting is progress. The two had never had a formal meeting ever since Park’s election three years ago because of historical and territorial disputes. 

China has officially decided to discard their previous policy of allowing one-child and is now allowing two children per family.  

Catch me up: The original purpose of the implementation of the one-child policy was made in 1979 in an effort to slow the population growth. Its implementation prevented an estimated 400 million births and, with an aging population, the Communist Party is under pressure to boost the population.  

Some skeptics still argue that because of the social norm of having one child, some families may chose to only have one child and will not boost the population birth adequately.