CH3CHO's past comments

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    CH3CHO

    Dog

    'Foreigners did not actually buy more made-in-Japan products in May:** the ministry's index of export volumes decreased for the 12th consecutive month, by 4.8 per cent**.

    It is very true. The export quantity index dropped 4.8% from one year earlier. That means that they are making more money for selling less. It is a very good move in terms of the PROFIT of the exporting companies.

    Posted in: Japan's May trade deficit widens on import costs

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    CH3CHO

    Dog,

    It's pretty common knowledge that more than 60% of Japanese workers under 35 are arbaito and 1/3 of the whole Japanese workforce is arbaito.

    It would be very alarming, if what Dog said were true. Let us see the government statistics.

    http://www.stat.go.jp/data/roudou/longtime/zuhyou/lt52.xls As of 2012

    age 15-24 excluding students

    regular staff 68.8% non-regular staff 31.2%

    age 25-34

    regular staff 73.5% non-regular staff 26.5%

    age 35-44

    regular staff 72.4% non-regular staff 27.6%

    age 45-54

    regular staff 68.6% non-regular staff 31.4%

    age 55-64

    regular staff 53.8% non-regular staff 46.2%

    All ages

    regular staff 64.8% non-regular staff 35.2%

    It seems to be half true.

    Posted in: Japan's May trade deficit widens on import costs

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    CH3CHO

    White_Shinobi, I saw your video. It is just amazing. The anti-racist guy was constantly shouting such things like, "You are crazy," "You are lunatic," "You cannot even fight against us," "The Emperor is a wimp," in Japanese. He then turned around and said, "No racism, no hate speach." in English, showing his Yakuza style tatoo around his neck.

    Posted in: 8 arrested in Tokyo after two groups clash over hate speech against Koreans

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    CH3CHO

    I think this "hate vs hate" thing will go nowhere but to more hate until things get uncontrollable. Japan and Korea may learn something from the civil right movement in the US.

    Zaitokukai defines itself as an anti-discrimination group just as KKK, IRA or this Korean group defines itself as an anti-discrimination group. "Good guy vs bad guy" may be a little too simplified view of the issue.

    Posted in: 8 arrested in Tokyo after two groups clash over hate speech against Koreans

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    CH3CHO

    Sentaro, OK, then it should have been translated as "Troops for Whipping and Beating Racists".

    Shibaku is by no means a good word. It is mainly used by Yakuza mobsters near Osaka. If a business leader or a politician ever uses that word, he/she is most likely kicked out of office by the end of the day. I have no idea why the group chose that word.

    Posted in: 8 arrested in Tokyo after two groups clash over hate speech against Koreans

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    CH3CHO

    "Resistance Troops Against Those Who Discriminate"

    What a strange way of translating. Shibaku means unlawful use of violence. Their name should have been translated as "Troops for Lynching Racists".

    Posted in: 8 arrested in Tokyo after two groups clash over hate speech against Koreans

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    CH3CHO

    BlueMind

    It's just another form of the famous trickle down economics.

    Ever wonder why trickle down does not work in the US? It does not, because trade/labor union is weak there. If the trade union is strong, it will squeeze the money from the corporate. "We are the 99%" thing will continue until they re-invent the trade union.

    Posted in: 'Abenomics' hitting consumers from all sides

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    CH3CHO

    National and municipal tax for corporates was 40.69% before March 2012.

    It was reduced to 38.01% from April 2012.

    It is scheduled to be further reduced to 35.64% from April 2015.

    Now Abe is discussing even further reduction in corporate tax.

    Personal income tax was increased by 2.1% from January 2013.

    Consumption tax is planned to be increased to 8% from April 2014.

    It will be further increased to 10% from October 2015.

    You see why I do not support Abe.

    Posted in: Abe's aide says Japan needs to cut corporate tax

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    CH3CHO

    zichi, I do not understand your point. What is wrong with Korean wrokers? From your link, i see almost nothing wrong.

    http://japanfocus.org/-William-Underwood/2219

    WARTIME CONSCRIPTION OVERVIEW

    Koreans began freely migrating for paid employment in Kyushu coal mines beginning in the 1890s and their numbers increased rapidly during the labor shortages caused by World War I. By the eve of World War II there were hundreds of thousands of Koreans in Japan, living in segregated areas amid heavy racial discrimination but materially better off than many in their less industrialized homeland. A modest middle class composed mainly of small business owners also emerged. Wartime labor researcher Donald Smith has noted that class hierarchies in wartime Kyushu coal mines existed alongside racial ones. Korean miners died on the job 20 percent more often than Japanese miners and their nominal wages (in most cases never ultimately paid out, as explained in the next section) were about one-third less. "While the differences in Japanese and Korean working conditions were significant, they were narrow enough to suggest that exploitation of the two groups was fundamentally similar in character, and that Japan's elites were willing to sacrifice working class lives, regardless of nationality, to the imperial cause," Smith concludes. In his view, treatment of Korean miners during the war represented more an intensification of harsh pre-war conditions than a wholly new phenomenon.[31]

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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    CH3CHO

    TheRedsJun. 04, 2013 - 12:00PM JST

    The worst thing is Japanese people are not brave enough to stand up together to fight the government.

    Don't you know how often Japanese kick Prime Ministers out of office? Do you think making noise on the street have anything to do with real life?

    Posted in: Disaster relief funds used to count turtles, promote cheese, wine events

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    CH3CHO

    gaijinfo

    I'll remember this quote next time some Japanese want to play the Nuclear Bomb victim card.

    I have never heard of Japanese playing Nuclear Bomb victim card. If someone has too much sense of guilt, any comment by anyone would translate into accusation against him.

    Posted in: It is amazing how some people can hold a grudge for so long, even centuries. Now that the geopolitical situation is shifting, the former victims think it's time for payback.

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    CH3CHO

    zichi, i am afraid you are streching the definition of "War Crimes" a littel to far. I do not see anything wrong with the labor draft.

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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    CH3CHO

    Geiger counters cannot measure radiation levels of a fish or any food. They should stop this nonsense.

    Posted in: Fish test

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    CH3CHO

    zichi, what is the difference between draft and forced labor? They were randomly selected from draft name lists by National Mobilization Act. What do you mean by saying "mines are dangerous"? Yes, they are more dangerous than a playground in a kindergarten. But they satisfied the workplace safety standards at the time. In that sense, mines were safe place to work. Where did you get the number that 60,000 were killed?

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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    CH3CHO

    Triumvere, if Japan wanted to forcibly change the names of Koreans, it could have done so just by creating a law. What Japan did instead was to create a law that if a Korean did not change the name by the deadline, he retained his traditional name. Why would Japan beat around the bush and make the name change legally optional but verbally mandatory without leaving any evidence at all?

    My god, man. You do understand that working conditions for the miners were absolutely atrocious? Lethal, even? "Living hell" is the term generally thrown about.

    Entire Japan was living hell in the last years of WW2. Everything was scares and rationed. Many Japanese starved to death for lack of food. Koreans drafted for labor worked side by side with Japanese drafted for labor. They worked for the country. That is what could happen in a war in any country.

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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    CH3CHO

    Thomson Reuters should be ashamed of its reporting and lack of journalistic ethics. Anyone can check what PM Abe really said here. http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/96_abe/statement/2013/0603kaiken.html

    He was talking about monetary easing and growth strategy. Growth strategy is not equal to deregulation. I really wonder how and which part of his words Reuters translated into "I acknowledge deregulation is the priority for our growth strategy".

    If anyone is interested in knowing what PM Abe means by growth strategy, look here.

    http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/keizaisaisei/skkkaigi/dai10/siryou.html

    If what you know about Japan is learned from the English-language media, then everything you know is wrong. -Ampontan

    Posted in: Abe stresses deregulation is priority for growth

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    CH3CHO

    Triumvere

    The Japanese government even took people's names from them.

    forced relocation and slave labor

    I am afraid you have been influenced too much by Japan hating propaganda in Korea. It is proven that the name change was optional for those Koreans who want to adopt a Japanese style name. What you call "forced relocation and slave labor" was called labor draft which was applicable equally to both Japanese and Koreans during the last years of WW2. Those drafted by labor draft were exempt from soldier draft. They worked in military factories or mines in lieu of fighting in the battle fields. I do not think there is anything wrong with optional name change or labor draft.

    I hope you learn the true history from an objective stand point. By doing so, true friendship between Korea and Japan will develop.

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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    CH3CHO

    Triumvere

    Acknowledge and understand the sins of the past

    OK. What do you think happened to the comfort women? I think everyone has different idea about comfort women. Even a vocal historian like Yoshimi is not sure about them and uses "possibly" and "probably" everywhere in his text. You cannot preach people without establishing "sins of the past". Please tell us your version of the story of comfort women. Are you sure about the story? Can you swear to the god that your version is the truth? If you are preaching without caring about the truth, no one will listen to you.

    I am not interested in denying. I am interested in finding the truth.

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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    CH3CHO

    zichi

    Germany made all its required payments decades ago but now feels these additional payments are required. The big difference is that Germany has been able to move on from its Nazi past

    The two sentences sound contradictory to me.

    If there is no final settlement clause, some one will show up and say "I have not been paid."

    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/slave.html

    Germany has already made about $60 billion in payments for war crimes, but there has never been compensation for the estimated 12 million enslaved and forced workers.

    This kind of additional claims would go on for ever. Stolen gold, stolen art, and so on.

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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    CH3CHO

    The government investigation also found that many of the Dutch victims were selected from concentration camps and forcibly sent to brothels

    It was Japanese military police that saved and liberated the Dutch victims from the illegal brothels in 1944. I think it unfair not to mention this fact.

    Triumvere, if you are new here, you might find this US Army document in 1944 very interesting.

    <http://www.exordio.com/1939-1945/codex/Documentos/report-49-USA-orig.html >

    They lived in near-luxury in Burma in comparison to other places. This was especially true of their second year in Burma. They lived well because their food and material was not heavily rationed and they had plenty of money with which to purchase desired articles. They were able to buy cloth, shoes, cigarettes, and cosmetics to supplement the many gifts given to them by soldiers who had received "comfort bags" from home.

    I also recommend this reading in 2007. http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/congress-backstabs-us-ally-times-lie-trashes-abe/

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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