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Korean campaigns for removal of Japanese flag from French stores
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University of Tokyo gives up on plan to start academic year in autumn
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Iceland kills first fin whales in controversial hunt
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LDP policy chief apologizes for Fukushima disaster gaffe
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Norika Fujiwara says secret of beauty is love
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Alphaape
At least this guy lived a decent life whether some wish to celebrate it or not. I saw that there is a man who is about 83 (back in 2011) who has been in prison for 60 years in the USA. This guy is long lived (for a criminal) and imagine if he were to make it to 100. So many years locked up doing nothing to contribute to society. This guy did more in his retirement years than the longest serving prisoner has ever done, and that is a good thing.
I know there have been stories recently of elderly people committing crimes in Japan in order to get sent to jail since they have no one to care for them, I wonder if the Japanese penal system is equipped to handle advanced aged people like this guy.
Posted in: World's oldest man dies aged 116
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Alphaape
I have not heard of any great legal precedents or history of great civil rights advances coming from Mauritius. As in most cases with the UN, it is normally these 3rd world countries making a big stink over more advanced nations as to why they are successful and they are not, manly because they are corrupt and care less about the plight of their own people.
I admit Japan's legal system could use some work, but having one diplomat tell another to shut up isn't news worthy. It probably was well deserved.
Posted in: Japan's U.N. envoy under fire for telling other diplomats to shut up
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Alphaape
He was the last man from the 1800's on the planet. I do hope that if he was able that he gave as much blood as possible so that researchers can store it. Just imagine all of the immunities that his body had built up over those years, surviving some of the worst pandemics.
I am sure he lived a full life, and I hope that he finds eternal rest.
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Alphaape
Also upon reading he S&S article, there seems to be something fishy from the whole story in my point of view. If the officer did commit an assault, then he should be punished. But if you read the story (and the one in the print paper) you will see that one case of assault took place in a hotel room when both parties were on TAD (temporary duty).
Having spent 20+ years in the military, I can't think of any reasons why a senior officer would take his secretary with him on a business trip. If indeed the officer in question was a senior person, he would have a military assistant to go with him. Also in this time of tight budgets, just taking a secretary on a TAD would really need to be justified when other people who may actually need training are denied trips.
From all accounts I ahve read, the woman submitted the complaint, and the CID was doing it's job. Maybe a bit slow but the process was working. Also as stated earlier, other office workers were complaining that the person was getting unfair treatment being the boss' "favorite" and she was removed.
In no way am I blaming the victim. If the General indeed had looked out for this guy in the past, then he blew it for the general. But, I don't think that it would be enough for him to get fired over it.
Again from the S&S article, this statement tells me a lot. In these days of hightened scrutiny agains US military in Japan, if the Japanese authorities don't act on it and make a case, then they don't think that there is nothing there for them to prosecute. We can see that in many cases when the Japanese govt refuses to charge in cases involving US miltary members. It is a polite way of saying "nothing here to see folks." If there were substantial evidence the officer in question and this story would be front page news in Japan. I don't think the General has enough sway to steer this out of the press.
Those are just my opinions based on what I have seen in cases similar to this. If the suborinae officer is indeed guilty of misconduct, then he also should be fired if he hasn't already. But I still think it is over the top to just go after the General unless he was really covering for the officer.
Posted in: U.S. Army general in Japan suspended amid sex-assault probe
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Alphaape
I personally do slow down, but it is also on the pedestrian to follow the rules. I have seen it where some will just stand and talk at a cross walk, and while the careful driver will pause and slow down to allow them to cross because that's what they believe, they will just stand there as if nothing else in the world matters and when finished saying their "good byes" will just walk out like there is no one else but them. Also, during my presentation, it was the J-Cops themselves who were leading the campaign, geared to the Japanese audience to remind them of the rules of the road and that they too need to be aware of what they are doing on the street.
Posted in: Driver arrested after car hits mother, daughter on bike, killing girl
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Alphaape
Thanks to the poster who provided the link to the S&S article on this situation, I thought that the above quote was interesting. It seems that there were more internal issues at hand than the sexual assualt probe. If he assulted her, that is no excuse for the officer who did it. But the General, I am not fully sure I see why he is being thrown under the bus. If this were the case, then the current USFJ, and CNRJ and other Flag officers should have been removed due to the recent rash of incidents involving US military personnel here in Japan.
I find it interesting that when we have to go to sex assult training, the information that they are putting out is that there has been an increase in male on male sexual assaults recently and not just male/female. But somehow that never seems to make the news.
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Alphaape
Can you provide documentation on that? From what I have seen here in Japan is that the pedestrian thinks that they have the right of way, and they do but they don't understand the laws of physics. Even going at the posted residental speed limit, if someone just jumps into the street of an oncoming car simply for the fact that they are at a crosswalk, a car may not be able to stop in time and the end result could be tragic for the pedestrian. I have actually had to speak at a local Japan traffic safety campaign as part of my job here, and the main emphasis was for the pedestrians and bicyclist to be aware of the road. They also share it and need to follow the rules.
I think that it would go a long way in helping people realize that as pedestrians that they are part of the road and need to be aware. As far as not being drivers here in Japan, you can see it in a fairly innoncent place, a grocery store. You can tell the people who don't normally drive by the way they wheel their carts in the store going helter skelter everywhere as compared to those who are used to following the rules of the road and recognize that they are not the only ones on the street. That's just my opinion.
Posted in: Driver arrested after car hits mother, daughter on bike, killing girl
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Alphaape
Instead of some of the building projects I see around like building new apartments that sit vacant or highways that go nowhere, maybe it is time for Japan to start something more practical like widening streets or making sidewalks. I know I will get the typical "there is not enough room in Japan, etc" argument, but I have seen them build large houses that the door opens right on the street, maybe it is time to do a little road work to make the roads a bit more safer for the public.
Posted in: Driver arrested after car hits mother, daughter on bike, killing girl
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Alphaape
I can believe that someone would say this. To me, I think it boils down to a few issues that some elderly may have in regards to children and noise: 1. These are probably the people who didn't have kids not so much because of some medical issue, but due to the fadt that they devoted themselves to the "company" was business was big in Japan and now they have some regrets about the road not taken. 2. To further the theme from my first point, they may have had kids, but chose not to spend too much time with them for the sake of the company, and they regret that they didn't take the time out to play with their kids, and those kids now are grown and either don't have any grandkids for them to see or they just don't come around anymore.
True kids can be noisy, but I don't mind them. I think you get more noise living close to a train line with trains going every 15 minutes a day than the noise one would hear from kids playing at a school.
People need to learn to mind their own business, and if they are miserable, jsut be miserable by yourself and don't rain on other people's parades.
Posted in: Aging Japan complains over the noise of children
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Alphaape
Why is it that "pot" smoke is good and natural, yet tobacco is not when they both are from plants. Is one plant better than another?
I am not a smoker, and just because I see an add for something, doesn't mean that i need to rush out and buy it. If the WHO really wants to ban advertising of products that kill or not bad for you, then they should go after all of the electronics companies who keep telling us that we need the latest electronic gadget, and creates a demand for it, yet those products are produced by people being paid minimal wages, and the electronic waste that is generated when the old one goes out the door for the new one helps to create massive dumps that contain electronic wastes that can creep into the eco-system.
I say go after that rather than a legally sanctioned product, that helps keep those boobs at the WHO in the lap of luxury living off the taxes and fees paid by governments to the UN.
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Alphaape
I have seen some statements that have been issued from previous events like these. in all of them, they give the blanket comment on how they "deplore the actions" but then if you listen closely they do a turn around and justify the reasoning of why the attack occured, if not the method.
Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks
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Alphaape
Leave it to the British press to try to deflect the real problem. The problem is not that there are Anti-Islamic people, but that the Islamist started it all by killing a person in cold blood on the street. If the anti-Islamist groups would have started attacking Mosque's unprovoked, then that would be a story. But the Islamist groups started this, and now they want to play victim.
If they claim that these guys do not represent Islam, then they need to be the ones out front, denouncing them and if required turning in any cohorts who may have been behind this. Where is their statement condeming the killing?
Mob violence is not a good thing, but I think some of these Muslim groups need to step up and denounce the killings that people are doing in the name of their religion and stop turning a blind eye. If they feel that conditions are that bad in Britian, then they can leave. Same thing that is going on in Sweeden, with mainly Muslim youths rioting in the suburbs about perceived injustices. If they don't like it, they can leave and go back to places where the Muslims are the majority.
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Alphaape
What if this guy was just out of boot camp and had not deployed yet? Is he still guilty of killing Muslims? If those killers wanted to make a statement, then they should have gone to the countries that the fighting is going on and done the killing there. Trying to equate the killing of a soldier just going about his way in a non war zone for supposed killings overseas is a cowards way.
Also, I thought that the war on terror was over and that we are not at war with Islam? That's what Obama keeps saying and the other leaders in the UK, and yet these guys didn't get the memo. One of the differeneces between the US and the UK can be seen in the police reaction. It took the police 20 minutes to get there, and from some sources it may be because the regular cops aren't armed, and they had to call in the special police to shoot this guy. In the USA, all cops are armed and will shoot.
If these guys accuse the British for killing Muslims, then where do they stand with what's going on in Syria? That's a case of Muslim vs. Muslim, and from the press reports innocent women and children are getting killed, and the leader of Syria is really not a friend to the USA and Britain, so where is his outrage. Not sure where these guys are from, but I would suspect that in their ancestrial homeland, there are groups fighting each other, and I bet a good majority of the fighting is between Muslim groups.
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Alphaape
My brother in the States is the opposite of this family. He was an exeuctive and lost his job years ago (well paying) and found work at a much lower rate. After year of doing this, he finally had to move back to the parental home, and live with our father. Not just freeloading, doing work around the house and finding part time work to get back in the "game." These kids just seem lazy to me. I fully understand that the economy can be rough, and maybe a fall back to the parents home is advised. A good way to get yourself back on your feet. But to just do nothing all day long is pathetic.
I've read the comments posted here, and just wonder why in Japan people feel that they need to kick a person down who works with them just because they didn't come in during the "right way" or may be just the new person. I see that in my office place, and when you really boil it down, those who do that the most are the least effective people in the work place.
If I were these parents, I would just let the sons know, by the end of the week, you need to find a job or move out. There are plenty of cooking shows on Japanese TV during the daytime, and I would tell them they had better start learning and preparing meals at home for the working parents, or they will be out of the house.
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Alphaape
Guys like him and Ishihara are funny. Just like some in the US politics are "Chicken Hawks" when it comes to nationalist agendas. I am for Japan having more of a respect in their own well being and not relying on the US to defend them. If that is their wish to do so then do it. What gets me is guys like Hashimoto and others speak loud, but really have no skin in the game. Has Hashimoto ever served in the SDF? From what I understand, belonging to the SDF or working in the Defense ministry is not really seen as a "grerat job" and it is somewhat branded as second best. Yet guys like Hashimoto want a strong military for Japan (which I don't mind) yet have not served and if they had kids old enough to serve would not send them. They just want to start off at the top.
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Alphaape
I'm glad they caught the perps. Now I hope that they just don't go thrugh the turnstyle of going to jail and getting out later without anything being done. Instead of going to the corrupt Oleans Parish jail, I hope these guys get sent down to the prison farm in Angola, known as one of the toughest prisons in America.
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Alphaape
@ Yubaru: Thanks for the clairification, but you sort of made my point. You have to really look for places that cater to the military male, they are not as easily available than the ones that the Japanese men can go to.
Posted in: Okinawan women demand apology from Hashimoto
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@ Tahoochi: I think you are missing the point. If the US service members can't visit the legal sex industry (yes I know the fine line in the Japanese law but it is what it is) in places due to many of them not accepting foreigners, then what do you suggest. Having females brought in to service only US military? Isn't that something similar to what the whole "comfort woman" issue was about?
If a governmental organization is going to employ women just to service males in a sexual nature, then that is wrong in my opinion. If women, not being forced to do that type of work want to do so, then it's up to them. If they want to decide whom they will service that is also up to them. But Hashimoto, being an staunch Nationalist as he is should be aware that discrimination in Japan still exists, and that many of those so called services that are there in Japan simply do not cater to the foreign crowd. On a few forums that I used to read that are NSFW, you can find Asian males who were not Japanese being told that they could not enter.
So the bottom line is it does matter if a person can go to an establishment.
Posted in: Okinawan women demand apology from Hashimoto
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Alphaape
@ SamuraiBlue: The good thing about Wiki is that it gives a summary of information, which can be wrong I admit, but I like to look at the ends or articles to find some source material, and the hunt is on from there.
It has been estimated that between 19,500 and 50,000 Japanese military personnel surrendered The number of Japanese soldiers, sailors and airmen who surrendered was limited by the Japanese military indoctrinating its personnel to fight to the death, Allied personnel often being unwilling to take prisoners,[ and many Japanese soldiers believing that those who surrendered were often killed anyway.
The Japanese military's attitude towards surrender was institutionalised in the 1941 "Code of Battlefield Conduct" (Senjinkun), which was issued to all Japanese soldiers. This document sought to establish standards of behavior for Japanese troops and improve discipline and morale within the Army, and included a prohibition against being taken prisoner. In 1942 the Army amended its criminal code to specify that officers who surrendered soldiers under their command faced at least six months imprisonment, regardless of the circumstances in which the surrender took place. Japanese attitudes towards surrender contributed to the harsh treatment which was inflicted on the Allied personnel they captured.
Whaterve the case, the movie seems interesting and I hope it will be available soon.
Posted in: Filipino director takes new look at Bataan Death March
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Alphaape
I agree. We can get into the fine print and the letter of the law as to what a "sex business" is, but the bottom line is this. 90% of the Buy Me Drink, Soaplands, and booths in Yoshihawa and other locations in Okinawa do not accept foreigners. Some come up with the excuse of "not knowing the English (or whatever) language, even when the foreigner can speak Japanese, or they don't want the stigma of being known to service foreigners since that will cut off their Japanese male customers.
If the women of Okinawa really want to start "clutching the pearls" and falling on the fainting couch, then maybe they need to be focusing more on why the sex business is booming in Okinawa. All he did, insensitive as it was, was to just bring it to light that the sex industry is alive and well in Okinawa.
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