JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Damien15
If they were actually feeding some people with this hunt, they'd have better argument. But the meat is toxic. They are actually poisioning people, just in sake for keeping their income.
Posted in: 'The Cove' wins Oscar for Best Documentary
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Damien15
Skip,
I was talking about the reason for not slughtering them. Cuteness can't be a good reasos, because what's cute differs from person to person. Intelligence though is something we are searching vigorously outside of our planet. It's a good reason for not killing. We believe the intelligence we posses makes us unique. How can we keep on slughter what maybe the closest to us, when it comes to intelligence.
It's sad that they are being held captive in small spaces. But it's still better than rounding them up in a small cove and heck them to slow death.
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Damien15
Because you are not familiar to this topic?
Posted in: 'The Cove' wins Oscar for Best Documentary
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Damien15
Sorry not sure, they maybe the smartest.
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Damien15
It's not about cuteness. They are the second most intelligent creatures on earth after humans.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/02/is-a-dolphin-a-person.html?etoc
And whales and dolphins are just about the same.
Moderator: No discussion of whaling please.
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Damien15
Same here, my J wife sheds more tears than most white man. And not just becuase they are cute. They have a life just like our own, they don't deserve to be chopped up in a small cove.
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Damien15
WOW!!! Yes!!! This is a great news!!
Posted in: 'The Cove' wins Oscar for Best Documentary
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Damien15
Not only that, reproduction must require a licence. All the world's troubles are generated by unloved, uncared children.
Posted in: Woman arrested after trying to strangle 1-year-old daughter
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Damien15
I never watch war dramas, there are enough in real life. We already know very well that nothing about war can be good. No need to watch this one either.
Posted in: 'Hurt Locker' producer barred from Oscars
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Damien15
Yuna is much better skater than Mao. She deserved the gold medal and there's nothing more to say about this.
Posted in: Kim Yu-na wins figure skating gold with record score; Asada 2nd
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Damien15
If we're talking about quality, US animations can't be beat. Frame rate is much higher in US animations as well as mouth movements must match. Japan anime is not mostly for children, but lack's smoothness or attention to detail.
Posted in: Are American animated films better than Japanese ones in terms of quality?
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Damien15
We'll see about how many people care about this issue very soon. Even in 2 channel, times are changing. More and more Japanese started defending whales. Good days are ahead.
Posted in: Japan says its whaling is conducted under international accord
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Damien15
You're not alone on that. We were also very dissapointed and worried of the future, when this happened. It looked like a step back. I would have loved for non-religious government could be well trusted, but unfortunately, people believe only the fear of god can enable for one to be honest. When they came to power, they just kept doing a good job and kept their position. So far, I haven't seen even a small hint of them trying to bring the Islamic agenda or sheria law and don't believe it's their intention. But even if today, where there's no issues, we're finding out concerned guards of secularism is taking action to throw out the semi-islamic government, I can say that secularism is in good hands and won't dissapear anytime soon.
Posted in: Over 50 Turkish commanders held over coup plot
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Damien15
One reason of me thining this way is because majority of Turkish, if not all, love Ataturk. And they can't be fanatic muslims while loving Ataturk. Also among my friends and family, there are no fanatic muslims at all. People think that religious people are less prone to corruption and that's why they selected the religious leader, but it means no way that they want to be ruled by sheria laws. Plus, it's been sometime since Islamic government came to ruling. Not much has changed and I don't think they have a hardline Islamic agenda. Religious dress still prohibited in universties and government offices. Secularism is the root of our government and don't think it's going to change, ever.
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Damien15
I don't think it's a systematic disabling. They really tried hard to defy the ban for islamic dresses in schools or government offices, but they failed. People of Turkey will never let Islamic fanatics to come to power, will never be like Iran. We are children of Ataturk and we will not go back in time.
Also like to say that none of the 400 people are charged with any crime. If they had concrete plans to shot down and airplane, they'd be charged by now. I think it's semi-serious, and their intentions are not that bad, so I don't see any jail sentences coming out of this. We'll see I guess.
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Damien15
One has to exist before he can be a gay. Jesus is an image, not a real person. I'm sure for Elton, Jesus must surely be gay. How can a gay person respect a straight prophet!!
Posted in: Jesus was gay, says Elton John
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Damien15
This is less likely, because Iran has always been non-secular, hard-line Islamic country, even before the islamic revolution. This will never happen to Turkey, because we have been a secular country for a long time.
This could be a good argument, if they uncovered an Islamic militant group which was planning a coup and had major followers. It's the opposite to this though. There are group of elite ex-military and others, who are concerned about government’s Islamic agenda and planning to do something about it. Not that they have done anything, or had concrete plans of doing it. I personally think religion is similar to disease. We caught it while passing by the highly infected Arabic nations centuries ago. Still trying to shake it, but people need to embrace science before they can kill the religion disease.
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Damien15
It's hardly self declared, people need army to be a guard of secualrism. Last think Turkey wants to be is another Malasia.
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Damien15
If that was really the case, if there were too many Japanese demainding for the whale meat, we wouldn't be having this much argument over it. Problem is they don't. Whalers just want to keep their ways and keep on making money. 460tons of meat in frozen stocks and they keep add more to it each year. It's a scam, wasting taxpayers money. 71 millin dollars of it just last year alone.
Posted in: Japan says its whaling is conducted under international accord
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Damien15
It maynot be so funny after all. Surely it's a stretch to say each penny, but Japan have bribed caribbean nations to vote for them in IWC. They have plans to bribe more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1MH1yA-ZcM
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