JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
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Dogdog
UltraOssan is giving the source, the article. Learn to read dog.
So if it's written in a news article, then it's a credible source? I'll remember that next time I come across The People magazine or The Sunday Sport.
Cheers
Posted in: Chinese factory insiders suspected of tampering with dumplings
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Dogdog
Nooooooo, the big difference is that The Matrix was quite a clever movie incorporating such things as parallel universes, human free will and POV (points of view) on what choice would you make, if you were Neo, and how most people feel happy in their comfort zone of ignorance and acceptence.
Admitted Matrix 2 and Matrix 3 were rubbish but they were the prize for making the original. Original, now that's a strange word in Japanese cinema these days....
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Dogdog
Says who?
I don't know about you, but even when an undergrad I had to give the source..
Posted in: Chinese factory insiders suspected of tampering with dumplings
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Dogdog
Sounds like the usual intellectualy substandard movie that has come out of this country for the last 20 years.
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Dogdog
Sources, sources, sources.
Another example of Japan's trial by press. The Japanese might be happy to have their own criminal and civil investigative process conducted on hearsay and leaked sources, but until China admits that they too suspect that the poisonings were committed by a Chinese company employee, the case is still open.
So immature..........
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Dogdog
Every time I put out my wife's under garments to dry, I have to think is it in public view and can we keep an eye on them from the house?
Only in Japan and probably Korea....
Can someone explain to me what is this Japanese male obssession with the under garments of women/girls?
Posted in: 4 charged in underwear theft cases in Aichi, Chiba, Kanagawa and Niigata
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Dogdog
Come on Romulus, this is the first time time this punishment has been meted out to any Sumo wrestler. Then what happened to those sumo wrestlers who aided and abetted in the death of the young kiddie sumo wrestler?
The NHK news made a point of saying this was the third incident involving a non-Japanese sumo wrestler, without mentioning the manslaughter of the young man last year....
Something stinks and it stinks in a very north east asian way...
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Dogdog
Her legs are probably the only authentic thing about her body. They are rather fat and podgy, and probably the rest of her would have been similar without the knife work.
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Dogdog
From William Burns to John Pilger, way to go with those cut and paste quotes from objective sources. **I think you miss the real lesson of the last 70 years of air warfare which is that apart from the nuclear bombings of Japan, no country has ever been forced into surrender by aerial bombardment alone ** Some examples, a little more real than your 'authorative' sources, The Blitz, the war against Germany 1930-45, The Korean war, the US-Vietnam war, the first Gulf war, the second Gulf war etc etc. Yes Japan would have eventually surrendered unconditionally, but not before a ground invasion which would have probably cost the lives of nearly a million Japanese/USA lives and please let's not forget the issue which another poster brought up, but you keep avoiding: that Japanese cabinet vote after the second nuclear bombing.... The Japanese did and do take pride in that spirit of never giving in. Someone should explain to them that the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima was more due to the acts of the their air force (kamikazee pilots), the acts of their army (the looting and mass murder of civilian populations before they evacuated an occuppied area, and the bitter hand to hand fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa), the acts of their navy (battleship yamato) and the acts of their civilians (mass suicides, rather than surrender) rather than any burning desire of the USA to test their 'new toy'. However I will give you the point that there was no way that Truman was going to turn down the opportunity that Japan had offered him to test the nuclear bomb in a real military theatre.
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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Dogdog
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Thank you YangYong for your posts. Perhaps they will silence the handful of misguided who use any argument to prove the use of the bomb was justified, but just repeat over and over again the same stupid hate-spewing set of comments.
I hardly call his cut and paste of William Burn's conspiritorial paranoia a valid conclusive argument that the bombs were not needed. I would say that 1. The ferocious fighting on Okinawa and Iwo Jima, where the US had seen its military body count rise dramatically,proved the Japanese had no intention to surrender. Remember, both battles were fought in 1944-45 when it was even obvious to the Japanese that they had lost the war. 2. 'Surrender' was the priori word of both conflicts, European and Pacific, as far as the allies were concerned. Nobody wanted to see a repeat of Versailles 1919, with a rearmed and more military powerful Japan emerging 20 years later after any negotiated peace. The Japanese might well have been open to negotiations, but in no way were they prepared to negotiate their unconditional surrender. 3. All those military preparations by the japanese for an impending US military invasion of Japan after the fall of Okinawa, including over a million experienced soldiers - many from the Kwantung Army - stationed on Kyushu, were just a negotiation ploy of the Japanese????
Wanna but a bridge?
Posted in: Hiroshima mayor hopes next U.S. president will back ban on nuclear weapons
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Dogdog
Forty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and I think we have had enough chance to reflect on the nature of the war. From reading various accounts from abroad and having been a soldier myself, involved in military education, I do believe that the emperor bore responsibility for the war... -- Motoshima Hitoshi, Mayor of Nagasaki, 1988
And he got stabbed by some free thinking right winger who was expressing his democratic rights of 'voicing opposition to this scumball that had put a spanner in the self pityfest that has become August 6th and 9th of every year in Japan. The point of the whole exercise of memorials is not what the disinterested spectators take away from the memorial, but what the participants take away from what is being remembered. In this case the participants are the Japanese nation and the message being taken away is that we were victims - note the exclusion of 'also' - of world war 2, personified in bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Dogdog
This is solely about Hiroshima, nothing more and nothing less >
A rather myopic interpretation, wouldn't you say? Every historical event as a context and it is this context which is constantly left out when the Japanese 'memorialize' the events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A person with a layman's knowledge of the workings of post-1945 Japan might well agree with your point, but even the most basic knowledge of how the Japanese state has manipulated the 'Hiroshima/Nagasaki experience' can see how the specifics of the bombings are pairt of a larger picture to distort Japanese history 1902-1945. I think the first 2 posters intended no disrespect to the victims of the A bombings, but were commenting on this distortion of historical context.
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Dogdog
Like father like son.
His father, the actor Iko Furiya, was famous for shagging around
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Dogdog
I met the guy at uni a few times, he was doing a paper on the canal systems of the UK and i was studying japanese politics. He was a really nice informal guy without any revealing hang ups about place and position. Genuine bloke.
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