OssanAmerica's past comments

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  OssanAmericaJun. 18, 2013 - 08:20AM JST

  YubaruJun. 18, 2013 - 07:56AM JST In all the movies I have seen in theaters in Japan it seems to me that it's only the Japanese who stick around to watch >the credits anyway. (Unless it's a Jackie Chan flick!)

  I guess you haven't seen any of the many recent Marvel Comics movies then.

  Posted in: Moviegoers upset about Studio Ghibli anime’s trailer after film they came to see

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  OssanAmericaJun. 17, 2013 - 09:59AM JST

  Yuriotai, The "war" ended long before the current U.S. leadership was born as well. The Osprey travels at twice the speed of a helicopter with 5 times the operating range. It is ideal for a country like Japan that has many small islands spread about.

  Posted in: U.S. Marines land Osprey aircraft on Japanese naval vessel

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  OssanAmericaJun. 17, 2013 - 08:45AM JST

  voiceofokinawaJun. 17, 2013 - 06:07AM JST

  Eventually, therefore, there will be a call for the revision of the constitution, saying the constitution doesn't conform to the reality. LOL.

  There already is and has been a call to revise the J-constitution. And it hasn't conformed to reality since 1950 when the United States forced Japan to create the JSDF. However the principles of Article 9 prohibiting offensive wars is a separate matter from recognizing that Japan already has a standing military..

  Can you imagine a situation where the U.S. constitution must be revised for the convenience of foreign armed forces? >And that's really what's going on in Japanese politics these days. A vassal country, indeed.

  If the U.S. had lost a war, adopted a pacifist constitution written for it by the victor nation, and relied upon it's defense, yes I can certainly imagine it. Otherwise, no.

  Posted in: U.S. Marines land Osprey aircraft on Japanese naval vessel

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  OssanAmericaJun. 16, 2013 - 02:15AM JST

  When is Japan going to grow a pair and bulld a station on these islands? A joint use station for the JSDMF and USN will keep these "PRC surveillance" vessels away for good.

  Posted in: Three Chinese ships back in disputed waters

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  OssanAmericaJun. 16, 2013 - 02:11AM JST

  BertieWoosterJun. 15, 2013 - 10:09PM JST Well, when we say "friends" we mean friends in the sense of a puppy dog who obeys his master blindly and who is >sucker enough to cough up large wads of dough every year.

  Apart from being a pathetic rather meaningless anti-J comment. when you stop to consider British and other nation's casualties in our "coalition" wars over he last 30 years, Japan comes out far less of a "puppy dog" than most of our allies.

  Posted in: U.S. Marines land Osprey aircraft on Japanese naval vessel

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  OssanAmericaJun. 15, 2013 - 09:24PM JST

  YubaruJun. 15, 2013 - 04:02PM JST Japan doesn't have Marines. This is totally unique training for them.

  True, the JSDF was created to defend against an all out attack and to hold until US support arrived. The Cold war ensured that no one would "play games" like China is doing today. But Japan certainly did have Marines prior to 1945 and history shows Japan's island fighting skills were nothing to sneeze at. Perhaps that's something that the JGSDF and JMSDF need to think about for the future.

  Next the defense ministry is going to ask the US military to purchase the Osprey for the SDF to use!

  Excellent idea. Replace those old CH-47s and put those small carriers (oops..destroyers) to use!

  Posted in: U.S. Marines land Osprey aircraft on Japanese naval vessel

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  OssanAmericaJun. 14, 2013 - 10:51PM JST

  Guy needs to be canned. Yesterday.

  Nelson SurjonJun. 14, 2013 - 08:00PM JST hank you Mizuno san. People like you can only help in shortening Abe's "reign" in power

  What does this guy have to do with Abe? Did he personally appoint him or something?

  Posted in: Fukushima aid official under fire for Twitter tirade

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  OssanAmericaJun. 13, 2013 - 09:31AM JST

  I was already lost at "shortages". I can't even begin with "impotence".

  Posted in: Japan's U.N. envoy under fire for telling other diplomats to shut up

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  OssanAmericaJun. 11, 2013 - 08:28AM JST

  tian4670Jun. 10, 2013 - 08:33PM JST Only one obstacle: Japan doesn't want to talk.

  If I wanted to take part of your back yard would you talk to me? The only message Obama sent to Xi was don't even think about taking the Senkakus by force. Pull back your shops and planes and de-escalate the issue. China is an aggressor in all the disputes with it's Asian neighbors.

  Posted in: Obama urges dialogue in China-Japan maritime row

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  OssanAmericaJun. 10, 2013 - 09:08PM JST

  “It’s another dot that the Chinese will connect to show this significant expanding military cooperation,”

  Well yes, I hope so. This "military cooperation" has been going on since 1950. And that is now including training to take back islands is merely a response to China's current behavior towards it's Asian neighbors.

  Posted in: Japan to hold unprecedented military exercise in U.S.

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  OssanAmericaJun. 10, 2013 - 07:12AM JST

  China, having replaced "communism" with "nationalism" is the biggest threat to peace and stability in the region, perhaps ultimately the entire world. There is little that the leader of the world's most powerful democracy is going see eye-to-eye with the leader of the world's most powerful dictatorship. Because of this relationship, all nations in the world are affected.

  Posted in: Obama, Xi wrap up summit

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  OssanAmericaJun. 09, 2013 - 10:35PM JST

  This Comfort Women issue is used by the South Korean government as a political and diplomatic tool. It conveniently ignores the fact that the matter was settled in the 1965 Treaty where Japan paid for "individuals who suffered". I have heard some argue that the Treaty doesn't specifically mention Comfort Women. but last I checked they were and are all individuals. I have also heard arguments that the 1965 South Korean government did not represent all South Koreans. Well I hardly think that the Imperial Japanese government represented all Japanese between 1910 and 1945. Even though it has been established that the South Korean government spent the money that should have gone to the comfort women on other things they take no responsibility for this and continue to blame Japan. Until South Korea is willing to be honest about it's own role in this and other WWII matters, I see no possibility of a reconciliation between the two countries.

  Posted in: U.S. lawmakers visit 'comfort women' memorial in New Jersey

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  OssanAmericaJun. 07, 2013 - 05:11PM JST

  smithinjapanJun. 07, 2013 - 01:02PM JST Ossan: "Since I reject the notion that Whales are any more "special" or "sentient" than any other animals I am not the creationist at all."

  You are the fictional 'creationist' in your own argument, in terms of your thoughts about whaling and what is right and >wrong, and especially believing in the myth that it is for 'science', hence I put it in quotation marks.

  What exactly is a "fictional creationist"? And how is conducting research whaling for the purpose of determining population stocks to allow the IWC Scientific Committee to make recommendations "not science" and a "myth" as you call it?

  Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

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  OssanAmericaJun. 07, 2013 - 09:38AM JST

  smithinjapanJun. 06, 2013 - 10:45PM JST Ossan: "Sort of like discussing astrophysics with a creationist."

  With you being the 'creationist', yes. The rest of the world knows what's right and what is wrong.

  Since I reject the notion that Whales are any more "special" or "sentient" than any other animals I am not the creationist at all. Furthermore, questions relating to use of natural resources of any kind for human benefit are hardly ever a simple case of "right and wrong".

  Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

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  OssanAmericaJun. 06, 2013 - 09:38PM JST

  ihope2eatwhalesJun. 06, 2013 - 07:10PM JST OssanAmerica, were you not frightened that eating whale would make you unhealthy, as anti-whalers often suggest?

  Not in the slightest. The whalemeat I had was a small portion of "kara-age" and I don't consider Minkes from the pristine Antarctic or North Pacific waters to be on the same level of mercury risk as smaller cetaceans on a diet of larger fish. When you consider the hormones and antibiotics used in farmed animals, combined with the quantity that we consume, I tend to think that probably poses are gar greater health risk over time.

  Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

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  OssanAmericaJun. 06, 2013 - 06:59PM JST

  I had some fried Minke Whale last week. It wasn't bad. Not great, but not bad and pretty interesting. I am so glad I'm not some vegan that defies the natural biological character of being a human; an omnivore. Even our favorite fugitive Paul Watson looks down on vegans. Anyway, just what kind of objective view one could expect from one in a discussion about whaling is beyond me. Sort of like discussing astrophysics with a creationist.So Japan is conducting more Research Whaling as authorized under IWC Article VIII. No big deal. The Minkes aren't endangered and taking a whopping 34 certainly isn't going to make them go extinct.

  Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

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  OssanAmericaJun. 06, 2013 - 11:31AM JST

  Give it a couple of years and some scholars will come up with proof that the Aztecs and Mayas
  were actually tributary kingdoms of China.

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  OssanAmericaJun. 04, 2013 - 08:46PM JST

  China is such a wonderful country. I don't know why everyone in the world doesn't want to live there.

  Posted in: China blocks Tiananmen anniversary remembrance

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  OssanAmericaJun. 04, 2013 - 06:53PM JST

  BertieWoosterJun. 03, 2013 - 08:17AM JST There are right wing nuts in every country. Japan has its fair share of them, so does the U.S.A. and so does China.

  True, But China has them among high ranking officers in their military.

  Posted in: China distances itself from claim it owns Okinawa

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  OssanAmericaJun. 03, 2013 - 05:49PM JST

  Japan isn't going to "instigate" or "start" any war. They are a peaceful country with a constitution that prohibits the use of military force to settle diplomatic issues. Their troops have killed no one since WWII ended. China on the other hand has fought wars with the UN, India, Vietnam and is threatening all of Asia. Japan is not considered a "threat" by anyone, even the PLA Generals, despite anti-Japan education and harping on WWII forever.

  Posted in: Chinese patrols in disputed waters 'legitimate': top general