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Seoul man enraged at being wrongfully enshrined among war criminals in Japan

by Yonhap

The bizarre saga of an elderly South Korean man counted mistakenly as Japanese war dead and enshrined at a controversial memorial reached the public on Thursday with news of a Tokyo court decision. "I am neither a war criminal, nor a dead man," Kim Hui-jong, 86, told Yonhap News Agency on Friday, referring to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, a monument that counted him among millions of fallen Japanese, including Class-A war criminals. Kim, who was forcibly conscripted into the Japanese colonial military during World War II, said he has been enshrined for the past six decades at Yasukuni due to an administrative mistake after the war's end. (Yonhap) 

Toyota's new pre-crash technology directs steering

by AP

Toyota is developing a safety technology that takes control of the steering so the vehicle can veer away when it isn't able to stop before impact. Toyota Motor Corp. showed some of its up and coming safety innovations in a demonstration to reporters Thursday at its facility in this town, west of Tokyo, near Mount Fuji. All the world's automakers are working on special safety technology in an effort to woo customers, as competition intensifies among manufacturers already neck-and-neck in delivering the regular features for their products. (AP)