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...high? Friesinger: It has been an unbelievable season. Unbelievable. But there's lots of pressure. Now I try not to go onto the Internet too much or to read newspapers or magazines or even watch TV. There's too much coming up now. Everybody is expecting the gold medal. But I have my own goals. My coach and I both have the same goals. But from the outside, people wish things for me. Of course I wish that, too, but it's still big pressure...
...before is going. With this, I will see how the race goes. Sometimes, even when I give 100%, I may only get fifth place - and that's okay. In Nagano, I got a bronze medal. So now of course it would be nice to get a silver or a gold medal. But I know that with one step that's not on the right side, then...
...grappling with the legacy of Nazi art looting and are working to restore many treasures to their rightful owners. But the story of Japan's plunder of Asia and in particular of Korea, where the worst abuses occurred, remains relatively unexplored. While conspiracy theories of hidden troves of gold looted by the Japanese abound, there has been little serious research into the issue of stolen art and artifacts. "It's a wide open area," says John Dower, a professor of history at M.I.T. and author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. "This one got truly...
...Saotome says, "They did this to justify Japanese colonization." By the time Japan declared Korea a protectorate in 1905, hordes of Japanese treasure hunters were making a living excavating tombs and selling the loot. They had dreams of striking it rich, digging out tombs as if they were gold mines, according to a contemporary interview with Akio Koizumi, the Japanese director of the Pyongyang Museum during the 1930s. They were spurred on by tales about golden chickens that would crow from the tombs every New Year...
...Equally rapacious were businessmen like Takenosuke Ogura, who moved to Korea in 1903 as head of a Japanese electric power company. Much of his collection?some 1,100 pieces?today sits in the Tokyo National Museum, including blue celadon vases, bronze Buddhas and a priceless, unique gold crown taken from the late 5th or early 6th century grave of a King from the Kaya dynasty. Koreans nicknamed Ogura the mole because he was so obsessed with buried treasure. Says Takasaki: "(Ogura) was one of the bad guys." A few dozen pieces are rotated through the display cabinets at a time...