JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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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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High value "night soil", or Samurai poop. Now that's a great product to revive!
Posted in: What we can learn from Edo Period about recycling
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Rio di Janeiro for 2016! Those folks really know how to throw a party!
Posted in: Tokyo says it has 17 sponsors for Olympic bid
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Well, let's confirm that the deceased were actually militants, shall we? And not some very poor family in the wrong place at the wrong time. Speaking of which, since when did goat-herders in the hills of the village of Dande Darpa Khel, near Miran Shah in North Waziristan, pose a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States? And does anyone besides me think that "three intelligence officers said condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media," has an oxymoron and a big unanswered question: (a) military intelligence and (b) anonymity usually means CIA involvement, or Mossad. Who is really doing the deeds here and why?
Posted in: U.S. missile strike kills 11 in Pakistan
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Jeers I can deal with, but protesters aremed to the teeth? CNN: Video from KNXV shows the man standing with other protesters, with the rifle slung over his right shoulder, a handgun in a holster on his left hip, and a bullet clip in his back pocket.
The same protester told KNXV separately, "I'm exercising my rights as an American in Arizona."
The protester was among a dozen other demonstrators carrying unconcealed guns outside the Obama event.
Hancock, who said he was packing a 9-millimeter Beretta pistol, added that Phoenix police had known about the group's intent to protest while carrying guns.
"They are the ones standing a few feet away from us" at Monday's protest, Hancock said. "Oftentimes, the citizenry are better armed than law enforcement -- they need us on their side."
Arizona law has nothing in the books regulating assault rifles, and only requires permits for carrying concealed weapons. So despite the man's proximity to the president, there were no charges or arrests to be made, according to Phoenix police.
Methinks a revolution hath begun!
Posted in: Threats, jeers saturate angry health care debate
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Interesting that both suspects are ex-Mossad, and one is a current personal advisor to Bibi Netanyahu, and the former security supervisor for this store. Financing whom, we should ask?
Posted in: 2 arrested over $66 million British jewel heist
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It amazes me that even for half-empty flights, which use less fuel, JAL is so mentally inflexible that it will STILL charge excess luggage fees for even 1kg over, on top of this fuel-surcharge. Gouging JAL, that's why I will never fly them again. JAL Customer Service, the ultimate oxy-moron.
Posted in: ANA to reinstate international passenger fuel surcharge
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Well, Steve, you are what you eat. The French for seal is phoc.
Posted in: Canadian PM dines on seal meat
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The US should stay and pay until it's fixed and functioning again. They broke it, they should fix it.
Posted in: Iraqis uneasy at idea of early U.S. withdrawal
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The US-trained and equipped military of Honduras breaks into the home of the elected president, bundles him onto a plane and flies him out of the country at gunpoint. The basic crime of the deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, is aligning his government with Washington’s nemeses in Latin America, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and carrying out modest popular reforms within Honduras, such as raising the minimum wage.
The event is barely reported by the US press and broadcast media. Neither are the arrests and deportations of ministers of Zelaya’s government, the closures of local media outlets sympathetic to the ousted president, the arrests of foreign journalists and shutdown of US-based outlets such as CNN, and the imposition of a de facto state of siege, including a dusk-to-dawn curfew and the mobilization of thousands of Honduran troops in every major city.
The media has dispensed with any pretense of objectivity. I guess Honduras has no oil to steal.
Posted in: U.S. accused of being involved in coup against Honduras' Zelaya
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This moron is responsible for Suu Kyi's extended house arrest. Should be flogged when he gets back to the US.
Posted in: American man departs Myanmar after release from jail
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"Well, "Mein Kampf" it isn't, nor is it Luther's "On the Jews and their Lies," but speaking of quacking ducks, where there is smoke there's usually fire. Jews have historically run the financial system since the 15th century. (My supporting link was objected to by the moderator.) Remember, calling a spade a spade does not make anyone anti-Semitic. Only promoting hate of semites does that. The Nikkei does the first but not the second. The SWC has been shown to be a bunch of charlatans, whose founder lied through his teeth. It should rather focus on hate speech in its own ranks, and hateful actions by the country whose religion it has nationalized, (My supporting links were objected to by the moderator.) I agree with what ironchef says,
Posted in: Jewish human rights group protests 'anti-Semitic' ad in Nihon Keizai Shimbun
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The Canadian Ice Service, part of the Fed's Environment Canada Dept. have said something different: "Ice choking Northwest Passage: officials" See their report here: http://www.canada.com/technology/choking+Northwest+Passage+officials/1853923/story.html and "The result, the agency said, is that ice conditions "are delaying any potential navigability of the Northwest Passage this year. This is opposite to what Environment Canada observed in the last week of July in 2007 and 2008."
Calling Dr. Gore! Calling Dr. Gore!
Posted in: Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat
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Soon the country will be awash in Senile Delinquents!
Posted in: Police on hunt for man in his 60s after women attacked with liquids, sprays in Chiba
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This is the scoop: One more time. Iran does not have a nuclear weapon.
Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. The available evidence shows that they stopped their fledgling program in 2003.
What Iran is building is a nuclear power station, which they are legally allowed to do under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which both Iran and the United States have signed. Under article IV of the NNPT the United States is obligated to assist Iran in building their power station.
Even if Iran had a nuclear weapon they are not a threat either to the United States, which has thousands of warheads, or to Israel, which has at least 200.
Iran has not invaded anyone for 200 years.
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Israel has nuclear warheads, which they build in a no-longer-secret lab underneath the Dimona Reactor. Israel has never signed the NNPT and does not permit inspections of its facilities by the IAEA. Israel is constantly invading their neighbors.
Israel made the same accusations about Iraq just prior to bombing the power station at Osirik. Subsequent inspections following the 2003 invasion confirmed there was no clandestine weapons factory at the site. Israel's claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction were likewise totally false.
Who is the problem child of the Middle East? It ain't Iran, that's for sure.
Posted in: Israel says it will do anything to stop Iran from getting nuclear bomb
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USARonin to Realist:
To describe the USA and Japan as undemocratic and despotic does have some truth to it. Look at Diebold vote counting machines in the US and the hereditary seats in the Diet in Japan. Both undemocratic and despotic. The projection of that power to poor countries, bringing the Death Penalty to millions of innocents by wars built on lies would seem to fit well. The DPRK has only one difference, no power to project. As for Iran, you'll have to stop reading the US mainstream media. If they were really concerned about democracy they'd report on Honduras, about which there has been virtual silence.
So, USARonin, I agree with your assessment: "So, Japan and the USA are in the same league as North Korea, Israel and other despotic, undemocratic nations that use torture (Bagram, Abu Graibh, Gitmo) and this form of Capital Punishment in 38 or so states in the Union. A nasty "club" indeed." Nice to see you step up to the plate and call a spade a spade. Took guts, that.
Posted in: 3 death row inmates executed
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What I'd like to see are leashed dogs watching a child receiving attention on that testimony to vanity and greed, Ginza.
Posted in: Tight leash
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"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." -- John Sheehan, S.J. (US Jesuit priest)
Israel would be "taking in" nobody. "israel" IS their homeland, and it's called Palestine. It would simply be recognizing that fact, which of course, Bibi would never do!
Dismantle "israel" and remove US bases off Saudi, Iraqi and other Arab lands, and you'd achieve regional peace overnight. It really is that simple. "I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none, and little or no diplomatic establishment. And I am not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe (or others,) entering that field of slaughter to preserve their balance, or joining in the confederacy of Kings to war against the principles of liberty." Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:77Now there's a guy who got it right.
Posted in: Netanyahu: Israel wants 'understanding' with U.S.
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Aaahhh! Japan is safety, I see!
Posted in: Man arrested at Tokyo campus after putting knife to schoolboy’s throat
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Two more brave service personnel dead because of a pack of lies. Go home.
Posted in: 2 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan blast
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Sarah Palin is a walking testimony to provincialism, hick-ness and intellectual and scientific illiteracy. And now she wants to run for a spot in DC? Way to go Amerika! You get the leadership you deserve!
Posted in: Palin resigns as Alaska governor; keeps plans secret