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LOL Don't forget about John Stewart. I'm guessing you can make up some stuff about him,…
Posted in: White House: Obama is no Nixon
I just watched NHK report (only 2- 1 hour a day in Int's news channel I…
Posted in: Okinawan women demand apology from Hashimoto
Well it doesn't suck.
Posted in: Winning ticket for $590.5 million Powerball lottery sold in Florida
such kind of companies need to reconsider changing shifts for men doing night time shifts, women…
Posted in: Student attacked by knife-wielding man on Kanagawa street
Oh Oh Oh it said Atsugi....can we blame this on US forces too??? By the way…
Posted in: Student attacked by knife-wielding man on Kanagawa street
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Jaymann
I just realised that I couldn't name more than 5 or 6 international soccer players... so Yes, Beckham would make the team!
Posted in: Name your best soccer team of all time. Would David Beckham be in it?
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Jaymann
you know.. the media is partially complicit here by referring to the imperial japanese army's sexual slaves as 'comfort women'. One would expect a free press to call it like it is. And why would these past sexual slaves want to meet this moronic demagogue anyway. If they do I hope it is to further their just case for compensation and unreserved apology from the japanese government for past and present slights.
Posted in: Hashimoto offers to meet 'comfort women' to apologize
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Jaymann
@Toshiko
If what you write is true... then why do so many Japanese rush to defend these practices?... or attempt (rather poorly) to excuse them? If what you say is true then why are the survivors not being compensated justly? It paints Japan in a rather grubby and dishonest light does it not? Certainly, given that the global community can now pick and choose it's international leaders (a declared aspiration of Japan at UN level)... one couldn't see how Japan could qualify for such honours given the repeated inanne ramblings of her leaders.
Posted in: Gov't - but not Ishihara - backs away from Hashimoto's comfort women comments
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Jaymann
watching Hashimoto's career disintegrate is actually going to be quite pleasant viewing. The amazing thing is that he has even survived such a bile-inducing, moronic display of stupidity. It is equally amazing (but sadly par for the course) that so many like-minded Japanese rush to his defense. It really does speak volumes.
Posted in: Gov't - but not Ishihara - backs away from Hashimoto's comfort women comments
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Jaymann
I wonder if the reverse had happened in a systematic way to the women of Japan if these matters would be 'rationalised' away
Posted in: Hashimoto says comfort women system necessary for wartime troops
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Jaymann
and that is not a dig at you... just pointing it out.
Posted in: Hashimoto says comfort women system necessary for wartime troops
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Jaymann
@Bassfunk
They take it seriously because they are people in extremely important positions in charge of lives and vast amounts of tax-payer money (including the huge amount of Japanese tax-payers who are forbidden to vote because of their race)
Posted in: Hashimoto says comfort women system necessary for wartime troops
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Jaymann
The movie is not too bad... he's the wrong guy for it in some ways... his age is a factor now in the movies he chooses to do. It has a slight Philip K Dick feel to it.
Posted in: Fans' favorite
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Jaymann
Actually this would be quite good for schools with a decent media department - better than iPad certainly.
Posted in: All-in-one movie creating device for professional use
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Jaymann
it is difficult to respect or have any time for those who propose that anywhere or anyone should follow the clearly invented rules of sky-fairy worship. In the 21st century we should be looking to establish globally acceptable laws based on humanist and atheist principals. We should be seeking a total end to the lie that is religion existing anywhere outside of the private sphere. It is afterall logically indefensible.
Posted in: Most Muslims want sharia law, but divided on interpretation
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Jaymann
Man of Steel is going to be epic!
Posted in: Summer of sequels as Hollywood hopes for box office gold
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Jaymann
we should ALL be concerned about nationalism in ALL of our countries. Nationalist sentiments are growing globally if one is honest.
Posted in: China says U.S. should be concerned about Japanese nationalism
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Jaymann
Needs a caption: "Hello, good evening and thank you for your tax-servitude". "Allow us to spend your hard earned tax dollars and provide a reminder of all the things you cannot have" . " Bow now please and call me a fawning name".
Posted in: Royal gathering
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Jaymann
Saiaku... was his father not a classified War Criminal? And his father-in-law a member of the disgraced Tojo cabinet? Essentially part of the historical restitution set; bringing you such horrors as 'comfort women denial', WWII victimization stories and new history textbooks for the kiddies since 1952.
Posted in: National pride
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Jaymann
a barbaric reminder that too many countries are unable to provide anything more than blood-lust revenge for criminals; condemning murder on one hand, but committing it with the other. Barbaric and very, very sad. A truly atheist, humanist society wouldn't allow such barbarity.
Posted in: 2 inmates hanged, bringing number of executions to 5 under Abe
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Jaymann
This country's legal system is full of morons. The driver and employer are of course culpable; to blame and punish the mother who now sees her already disabled son inside for 7 years is cruel and unusual. I despair for Japan so often... articles like this make me glad my Japanese son is being raised in NZ. Why would we bother to return?
Posted in: Mother, employer of epileptic crane driver ordered to pay compensation over fatal accident
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Jaymann
magic sight... just love them. Last one got ripped pretty bad in the wind... must get another..
Posted in: Blowin' in the wind
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Jaymann
oh Joy!!!! For all the poor people in India struggling to survive... this visit by a foreign tax-paid-for Royal will just raise their spirits!!!
Posted in: Emperor, empress to visit India
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Jaymann
@somenumbers. It was the death of ANZACs (sent to their deaths by the gin-swilling, incompetent inbreeds that led Britain then) in proportion to their respective populations that was so horrific. A quarter of all NZ men of fighting age were injured or killed defending Britain's disastrous imperial policies.
Posted in: Victory over Japanese at Kohima named Britain's greatest World War II battle
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Jaymann
yes... and payment for your blatant money-printing even more years away... and squarely on the shoulders of my son's generation. How typical of that Aso that others will slave away to cover his excesses.
Posted in: Aso says economic recovery a few years away