JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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OssanAmerica
Racially (genetically) the people of Okinawa are closest to the original inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, the Jomon people. The only other group that can say the same are the Ainu in the north. Okinawa was known as the Ryukyu Kingdom an independent state which paid tribute to the Chinese Dynasties as all asian countries did back then. Racially, culturally and linguistically the Okinawans are much closer to the mainland Japanese than to China, with whom they have had cultural relatioms for a very long time. Okinawa became part of Japan in the late 1800s when it came under pressure from the west, including the United States to open up trade and was squeezed between Japan and Ching (Qing dynasty/China). The United States has always recognized Okinawa as Japanese, in fact it is a prefecture (like a state).
Posted in: China sends patrol ship to disputed waters
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OssanAmerica
Japan buys US planes because they are proven and built better than any copycat flying garbage that China can build. Not that anyone with half a brtain would buy Chinese military good anyway. They can't even build their own aircraft carrier. Of course they don't have any pilots that can land on them either so I guess that's ok.
Posted in: China sends patrol ship to disputed waters
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OssanAmerica
"They're supposedly not allowed to hunt any in order to eat the meat."
That's wrong. What 's to keep Japan from doing exactly what Norway and Iceland are doing? Raisng an objection and contiuning to hunt wehales commercially.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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OssanAmerica
It won't because the suit has nothing to do with whaling, commercial or research. It has to do with acts of violence. Did you read the full complaint?
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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OssanAmerica
The Senkakus hasve been Japanese since Jan 1884 when it was uninhabited and unclaimed by anyone. China only made a claim in 1969 when oil/gas was discovered. The Southern Kuriles are Japanedse terriotory currently under Russian occupation. The US, UK and European Parliament have taken he position that Russia should return them to Japan since the USSR took them AFTER Japan surrendered in WWII. The Takeshima/Dokdo issue is tainted by "bullying" by South Korea because trhey unilaterally built a small coast guard base there and have occupied it. Japan has 4 territorial arguments with it;s nbeighbors while China leads all of asia with 17 arguments, Best get your facts straight.
Posted in: LDP's Ishihara wants base on China-claimed islands
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OssanAmerica
We told China that if they try to take the Senkakus by force they will be answering to he United States. Good enough?
Posted in: China sends patrol ship to disputed waters
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OssanAmerica
The only thing that Japan is "desperate" to accomplish is to eliminate or minimize the risk of human death and injury as well as propertyy damage caused by SSCI's eco-terrorst activities. They have no need to be "desperate" about anything else as they are in the legal right. Let Australia attempt to beat this at the ICJ against the advice of the other anti-whaling nations.
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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OssanAmerica
The Senkakus were never part of he Treaty of Shimonoseki terminating the Sino-Japanese War of 1884/85 because they were never considered pat of China (Ching/Qing) to start with. They were already Japanese territory when China handed over Taiwan. In other words, they were never taken by force and hence remained Japanese after WWII when many other terriotories that had been taken by force were returned.
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OssanAmerica
No that's not true at all. Whale meat has been available instores in Japan for as long as anyone can remember. And Article VIII of the IWC regulations REQUIRE that whales taken for scientific research be consumed so as not to go to waste.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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OssanAmerica
It is also how the west views Sea Shepherd and Paul Watson (thew douche)
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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OssanAmerica
JURISDICTION AND VENUE 7. The court has subject matter jurisdiction as follows: 7.1 This action arises under the laws or treaties of the United States as alleged below, and thus jurisdiction exists under 28 U.S.C. § 1331. 7.2 Plaintiffs are citizens or subjects of Japan, defendant SSCS is a citizen of Oregon and Washington, and defendant Watson is deemed a citizen of Washington; thus this action is between citizens of a state and citizens or subjects of a foreign state under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)(2). The amount in controversy exceeds the sum of $75,000 exclusive of interest and costs. 7.3 This action arises under the court's admiralty and maritime jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1333 as defendants' activities occur on the high seas or occur in Washington and Oregon but result in injury on the high seas. 7.4 This action is by aliens for torts in violation of the law of nations or treaties of the United States, and thus jurisdiction exists under 28 U.S.C. § 1350. 7.5 The court has supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1367. 8. Venue in this court exists under 28 U.S.C. § 1391 as defendants reside in this district, defendants are subject to personal jurisdiction in this district, or a substantial part of the acts or omissions giving rise to the claims occur in this district.
http://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/files/2011/12/Sea-Shepherd-lawsuit.pdf
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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OssanAmerica
Yes, the US Secretary of State did.
The PLAN is garbage. Just like everything else China produces.
The humiliation was China's as the entire world saw just how arrogant, barbaric and lawless China really is.
Posted in: LDP's Ishihara wants base on China-claimed islands
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OssanAmerica
Ishihara's comments are bang on. Not only is China a threat to Japan, Taiwan, all of Southeast Asia, but is challenging the United States. China is the most mistrusted country in Asia with a terrotorial and military expantionist agenda. The mistrust is fueled by their bullying practices towards their neighbors and non-transparent military agenda. China has NO legitimate claim to the Senkakus, a claim they only created in the 1970s when it looked like oil and gas was there. It was not won in the Sino-Japanese War of 1884/85. Chinas simply seeks to expand her territorial borders by bullying, force and propaganda.
Posted in: LDP's Ishihara wants base on China-claimed islands
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OssanAmerica
I would never marry someone who only went by their online sign-on name.
Posted in: Kumi Koda announces upcoming marriage to KENJI03
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OssanAmerica
Japan does not build it's own military planes now, not because they can't, but because they would be restrained in any ability to sell them outside of Japan. This in turns means, among other things, that R&D resources will suffer. Japan has continured, for he most part, to choose the economically, as well as strategically sound method of purchasing from the United States through licenbsing agreements.
Posted in: Japan likely to buy Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighters: media
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OssanAmerica
It;s already packed in a crate and destined for China.
Posted in: Obama requests Iran to give back downed U.S. drone
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OssanAmerica
Good choice by Japan. Millitary spending when living next door to to an aggressive giant is only wasteful if you have nothing to protect or lose.
Posted in: Japan likely to buy Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighters: media
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OssanAmerica
China will never land on the Senkakus nor will they deploy PLAN ships there for the simple resason that the United States has already declared the Senkakus to be wthin the US defense perimeter. Unless China wants to srtar a war with the United States, the country that has kept them from trying to take Taiwan for 50 years, thy will not dare.
Posted in: LDP's Ishihara wants base on China-claimed islands
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OssanAmerica
Not only should the JSDF build a base there, the USMC from Futenma should be placed there as well which is easy since so many JSDF bases are shared now. I say the United States should be right in their faces.
Posted in: LDP's Ishihara wants base on China-claimed islands
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OssanAmerica
Amerijap- SSCI is incorporated in and exists under rhe laws of the United States. That is sufficient to establish the jurisdiction of the US fEdral Court for the Southern District.. End of dicission.
<Moderator- why do you permit a user to have a sign-on name that contains a degrogatory word for Japanese people and is considered offensive especially by Americans and Canadians of Japanese descent? And no, the abbreviation for Japan was changed from JAP to JPN years ago.
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