[yakshemash]

Not very often we get stories about Ethiopia on front page of hacker news...

[Apocryphon]

Interestingly enough, the historical amity between Japan and Ethiopia has existed since the early 20th century, as two lone countries that managed to remain independent during the time of European colonialism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia–Japan_relations

[spingsprong]

Thailand was never colonised.

[Habesha]

Ethiopian here....Very true!