Hikozaemon said...

Hikozaemon at 10:11 AM JST - 31st March

Shumatsu Samurai - the DPJ is eager to kill the tax because it has been a campaign promise of the DPJ for 10 years now, but only now do they have the ability to implement it. Is it more immature that the opposition is trying to keep a promise to…

Posted in Gasoline prices set to fall as political showdown looms at 10:11 AM JST - 31st March
Hikozaemon at 07:11 PM JST - 29th March

Kimigano - if "we" are Japanese, then "I" am a chicken.

His holiness...

Tresbien - thank you, your comments are a veritable bundle of sunshine on these boards.

Peace

Posted in New education guideline calls for promoting patriotism at school at 07:11 PM JST - 29th March
Hikozaemon at 10:31 PM JST - 28th March

Maruku, do you agree with point 1? That would let school boards pick right wing or left wing textbooks as they wanted. Remember all that fuss when a handful of private schools chose a rightwing textbook?

I think it is better to have too much freedom to choose however, than…

Posted in New education guideline calls for promoting patriotism at school at 10:31 PM JST - 28th March
Hikozaemon at 10:27 PM JST - 28th March

I don't see how making sports fans switch from eating hot dogs to eating beans is going to reduce greenhouse emission. If anything, I would assume it would increase them.

Peace

Posted in PETA urges baseball stadiums to go vegetarian at 10:27 PM JST - 28th March
Hikozaemon at 09:59 PM JST - 28th March

apecNetworks - Thanks for the response.

But I still don't get it. Obviously you understand the perspective of the US in a way that I don't. Are you implying that the US looks at Tibet on a map with a felt pen as something that it can rub out of…

Posted in Tibetan gov't-in-exile hopes for Japan's help at 09:59 PM JST - 28th March
Hikozaemon at 09:48 PM JST - 28th March

People are picking up on that phrase “think about our country’s national security and defense as well as international contribution”, but I don't get it.

I think that creating a country of people who feel that they have better history than everyone else is precisely what one would want to…

Posted in New education guideline calls for promoting patriotism at school at 09:48 PM JST - 28th March
Hikozaemon at 07:43 PM JST - 28th March

I doubt that these missiles were any kind of threat, but overall, NK seems to be backpedalling on its nuclear promises and expelling foreigners again, indicating another upcoming round of aggressive begging.

I'm sure that China, the US and Russia will cough up more appeasement money for Kim Jong Il…

Posted in N Korea fires short-range missiles off western coast at 07:43 PM JST - 28th March
Hikozaemon at 07:25 PM JST - 28th March

apecNetworks - in English, please. You are not making any sense. What Indian Ocean incident?

I don't think that anyone is talking about fighting China over this - least of all the Nobel Peace Prize winning Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile. What the world hopes is that…

Posted in Tibetan gov't-in-exile hopes for Japan's help at 07:25 PM JST - 28th March
Hikozaemon at 06:35 PM JST - 28th March

apecNetworks - once again, I find myself in complete agreement with you.

Japan would have real problems accepting unskilled Han refugees from Tibet. Maybe China should simply relocate them themselves, and show that no outside interference is necessary to bring justice to the people of Tibet.

There again, I think…

Posted in Tibetan gov't-in-exile hopes for Japan's help at 06:35 PM JST - 28th March
Hikozaemon at 06:26 PM JST - 28th March

The posting function is a bit buggy... Sometimes a post will go in and I will go to a black and white posting page - if I hit BACK on the browser, I go back and the thread is updated, but if I hit RELOAD on the black and white…

Posted in What do you think of the new Japan Today design? at 06:26 PM JST - 28th March