Wednesday February 15, 2012

NeoJamal's past comments

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    NeoJamal

    The Japanese ordinaries are easy to manipulate. End of story.

    Posted in: Japanese support for U.S. bases grows: poll

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    NeoJamal

    There's not a lot that you can lecture to the new-right who believes that poverty can be eliminated by letting the poor die from their own helplessness.

    Does anyone remember that 80s satire TV series "The New Statesman" where that Tory MP says, "In the good old days, you were poor, you got ill, then you die and yet these days people think they have the God given right to be cured."

    Posted in: Each one of us must be willing to contribute to society

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    NeoJamal

    So this is like CITY HUNTER without Ryo Saeba nor the funky musical feats of TM Network?

    Posted in: Ryoko Yonekura plays bounty hunter in new drama

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    NeoJamal

    This is ironic because those aborigines were relieved of their foreign Japanese masters only to be subjugated again by fleeing KMT elements from the mainland.

    Posted in: Film on uprising against Japan gets rare honor in Taiwan

  • -1

    NeoJamal

    It'll be good to see N'EX back on the usual timetable...

    oh wow, people still take that thing?

    Posted in: JR East announces end to power-saving timetable

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    NeoJamal

    Yes Winston Churchill, the British hero who was voted out of his job as soon as the war ended.

    Posted in: New foreign minister a Churchill admirer

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    NeoJamal

    The Chinese and the Koreans seem to have a lot to say about Yasukuni because they suffered. But that doesn't explain why ASEAN states, Crown Commonwealth and the US that suffered so much under the war don't seem to care at all about the shrine visits. Then again, trying to compare the psyche of our continental cousins to the people that reside in later three entities would amount to no more than an insult. Why? because they are multicultural countries that commit to tolerating weird customs of various ethnic groups on a daily basis, tackling real contemporary issues instead of badgering esoteric nostalgia of others.

    Posted in: Noda says he, ministers will not visit Yasukuni while in office

  • -1

    NeoJamal

    Aren't our taxes paying the Americans to camp here and let them worry about dealing with the Chinese? or are we not so sure now?

    Posted in: China sea power concerns new Japan foreign minister

  • -1

    NeoJamal

    Worship of the vanquished does not only inflicts despair and breeds insecurity in our generation.

    It's telling our kids that mediocracy in team work is OK. Sure, it's encouraged to tell our kids that we love them no matter the outcome as long as they do their best, but the appraisal of their failed ventures is ludicrous.

    Groups that compete with others are not social clubs to make friends. Most of the time when we participate in teamwork for money or prize, we do so by co-operating with strangers we loathe or have straits difficult to work with. The same goes for those conscripts in WWII who were forced to leave their loved ones in droves and served under career officers who saw them no more than disposable human scum. Having lost the war, most survivors got nothing more than bitter memories and beriberi, all the while the inglorious dead were left to rot under shallow graves or taken as trophies back home for the enemy. If I was one of them, I wouldn't want to be worshipped as part of the losing side, neither would the Class-A war criminals who started the war, so would anyone. These individuals only want the praise of their close loved ones and not the attention of anyone else.

    Posted in: Noda says he, ministers will not visit Yasukuni while in office

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    NeoJamal

    Japan, like all nations strives for success (at least we claim to) we ought to worship winners, not the vanquished like those who doomed us into our 6th decade under American rule. It's true that Japan is a nation that love to honor and glorify our winners, such as the Nadesico Japan, and ignore the defeated altogether like the Men's National Soccer Team.

    Posted in: Noda says he, ministers will not visit Yasukuni while in office

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    NeoJamal

    Good man.

    Posted in: Noda says he, ministers will not visit Yasukuni while in office

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    NeoJamal

    Well, the next budget is 7 months away, that's at least how long they hope to survive.

    Posted in: Noda unveils youthful cabinet, including 2 ministers in their 40s

  • -2

    NeoJamal

    But there's a solution to bullying, it's called PRIVATE SCHOOLS some of you high rollers may have heard of them.

    Posted in: Boy jumps to death after telling teacher, police he was bullied

  • 0

    NeoJamal

    @Asagao, that may be true, but let's face it, there are some kids who are and will never be tough to face up to bullies.

    sorry to butt into this private reply, but bullied kids in Japan face groups armed with bamboo sticks and metal baseball bats. You can keep telling your kids to not runaway until the day they end up on a wheelchair.

    Posted in: Boy jumps to death after telling teacher, police he was bullied

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    NeoJamal

    Japan has one major weakness that's not shared with other OECD nations, its white-collar workforce isn't internationally competitive apart from manufacturing industries. Their level of written and verbal communication in English is abysmal. Neither critical or creative thinking seem to govern the course of strategic management planning, instead they've got this collective-hive mind obligatory unanimous consensus mentality going on since the 1930s. This country is pretty much boned.

    Posted in: Japan’s crisis of ambivalence

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    NeoJamal

    Is that really Tokyo? They usually do not let you on the little grass they have here. Also, those Pine trees are not native to Tokyo Parks.

    It's probably Shinjuku Gyoen where you pay to get in.

    Posted in: Afternoon delight

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    NeoJamal

    This is the The Economist's World's Most Liveable Cities survey , one of three most esteemed world's most livable cities indices

    Singapore 52nd?

    Lee Kuan Yew: NO FUN ALLOWED!

    New Zealand’s Auckland (tenth)

    proves that reliability of public transportation or its existence was not a weighed factor for this year's index

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World'smostlivable_cities

    Osaka 12th, Tokyo..18th

    Now I'm starting to suspect that human beings had a limited role in the data collection process.

    Posted in: Melbourne named world's most liveable city; Tokyo 18th

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    NeoJamal

    YuriOtani, this one statement perfectly states why these countries have issues with Japan. The fact that you will not take responsibility for your countries past deeds.The "Oh we didnt do them so its not our problem" sums it up perfectly.

    Darn right, what did we do to stop the Koizumi cabinet from conspiring to wage aggressive war against Iraq through aid and abetment? We let the whole issue slide, no wait, we didn't even consider the legality of the proceedings at all for so much that happened just a few years ago. This is a hanging matter that falls squarely as** Class-A war crimes.: the act, aiding or abetting. conspiring to wage aggressive war**. Many Japanese and German politicians were sentenced to death some 60 odd years ago for relatively minor things Koizumi had done as a conspirator. But we all know that Koizumi himself doesn't think the Iraq War is illegal, that's why he goes to visit the old Class-A war criminals a Yasukuni,

    If Japan does not take a hard stance against elements of its present government that supported the Iraq War, it's hard to imagine if there is any shred of remorse for what Japan role in WWII. It's easy to feign remorse by saying how terrible Japan was during WWII, for the hypocritical and blood thirsty Chinese and Koreans that might be enough. However, applying the lessons from history to the present is where it counts and is a real change. So far Japan is failing hard at it, but most Japan doesn't even know that.

    Posted in: Noda's election sparks wariness in China

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    NeoJamal

    Yeah right, they are convicted war criminals how can they be seen as anything else you twit. They might very well have paid for their sins by being hanged, but they are still war criminals

    How does a trial with the victim as both prosecutor, judge and jury work?

    Posted in: Noda becomes Japan's 6th prime minister in 5 years

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    NeoJamal

    6 leadership turnovers in 5 years? the only other nation in civilized history that could compare is the Roman Empire during civil war, and their emperors didn't resign, they were literally killed off.

    Posted in: Noda becomes Japan's 6th prime minister in 5 years

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