JeffLee said...

JeffLee at 07:25 PM JST - 15th July

The bombings quickly ended the most destructive war in the history of mankind. There is NO need to apologize for achieving that.

This isn't merely an opinion. Read the emperor's surrender speech or read about how the Japanese govt decidedly ignored the Potsdam declaration isssued days before the bombings took…

Posted in Designer Issey Miyake, writing in NYT, asks Obama to visit Hiroshima on Aug 6 at 07:25 PM JST - 15th July
JeffLee at 05:02 PM JST - 12th July

Bobbafett's comment is on the money. Similar with the Osaka train derailment. Prosecutors were looking to pinpoint blame, so they arrested the head of the railway company to appease the grief of the victims.

As it was raining at the time of the bus accident and there's no mention of…

Posted in Driver arrested after bus carrying high school baseball players tips over, killing 1 at 05:02 PM JST - 12th July
JeffLee at 09:56 AM JST - 12th July

110,000 people?!? In scale, that overshadows the Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony and just about every major global event. I mean, get a life, people.

Posted in More than 110,000 fans of Yujiro attend memorial in Tokyo at 09:56 AM JST - 12th July
JeffLee at 07:17 PM JST - 11th July

A really smug attitude by these folks. As a Canadian resident of Tokyo, I should form a group to install litter bins on Tokyo's street corners, in local parks, and in hiking areas, where they are nearly always absent and where garbage can be found scattered around regularly.

Then I…

Posted in Japanese volunteer group cleans New York with environment in mind at 07:17 PM JST - 11th July
JeffLee at 08:58 AM JST - 11th July

Only a 12% increase in perm. residents in the last decade? I assumed it would be much higher.

Posted in Registered foreign population in Japan hits record-high 2.21 million at 08:58 AM JST - 11th July
JeffLee at 08:19 PM JST - 8th July

I don't understand why Japanese business and government say Japan desparately needs foreign workers, when many foreign workers here can't find work.

I'm from Canada, and it's similar. The country has long been wracked with unemployment, yet we're always told we need more foreign workers. Don't make sense to me.…

Posted in Jobless woman arrested for setting Hello Work adviser ablaze on street at 08:19 PM JST - 8th July
JeffLee at 09:36 AM JST - 8th July

Hiroshima was a pile of rubble after the war. To make all of this damaged rubble "sacred" really is going a bit far.

Posted in British man defends his decision to sell Hiroshima A-bomb artifact at 09:36 AM JST - 8th July
JeffLee at 04:56 PM JST - 7th July

If you stop using XP or IE, then you're giving in to the hackers. I don't want them to have the satisfaction.

Posted in Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole at 04:56 PM JST - 7th July
JeffLee at 11:23 AM JST - 7th July

And the sidewalk?!? A sidewalk would have prevented this tragedy. I'm amazed at the lack of sidewalks in construction-saturated Japan. Little kids sharing busy roads with trucks and cars is a common sight here. My neighborhood has few sidewalks but it does have telephone poles installed right on the road,…

Posted in 72-year-old man arrested for hitting 8-year-old girl with car in Chiba at 11:23 AM JST - 7th July
JeffLee at 09:47 AM JST - 6th July

Ummm, Ossan, whether they plan to pay the tax or to fight it. Now THERE'S a news story...

Posted in Japan orders Amazon.com unit in Seattle to pay Y14 bil in back taxes at 09:47 AM JST - 6th July