JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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OssanAmerica
Wheredoyou see anything abuiot abductions in the article smith? Besides, with an estimated 400 South Koreans having been abducted by North Korea, how do you know South Korea won't bring it up?
Posted in: S Korea's nuclear envoy to visit Japan
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OssanAmerica
All of Southeast Asia and South America are would love to see a "trade war" bewtween China and the United States. And it's true, it would hurt China much more than it would hurt us. I'd say those are empty threats.
Posted in: China slams U.S. after Senate passes currency bill
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OssanAmerica
Yes undoubtedly that is North Korea's thinking. It totaly disregards the fact the vast majority of Koreans immigrated to Japan of their own free will after 1910 because of the higher standard of living and higher wages. While there wrere indeed some Koreans that were brought to Japan during the war as "forced labor" they constitute a very small number of the total Koreans in Japan. If all Koreans had been "kidnapped" to Japan you would experct all of them to have left after WWII was over. The fact here is that these Japanese doctors are willing to assist the few remaining A-B victims in North Korea. That the North Korean government doesn't allow them to leave and seek treatment or file for compensation is typical of that regime.
Posted in: Team of Japanese doctors in N Korea to examine A-bomb victims
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OssanAmerica
This article should stop using the words "Japanese Navy". It's inaccurate. Japan does not have a "Navy" because it is restricted by Article 9 of their constitution. What they have is a Maritime Self-Defense Force. And comments about WWII show how ignorant people are of today's reality. The USN and JMSDF have been training together for decades now. Kinda late to be making Pearl Harbor comments.
Posted in: Japanese navy squadron visiting Pearl Harbor
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OssanAmerica
"It always makes me chuckle how the Japanese make a big deal about their statues and shrines to dead whales. What do they think? That the whales are popping their heads out of the sea and seeing these statues and thinking "Oh, that makes our suffering and slaughter so much easier"."
Chuckle all you want but to anyone with half a brain that's pretty solid evidence that Whaling is in fact a long standing part of Japanese culture, something that mindless anti-whalers are constantly denying.
Posted in: NZ, Australia condemn Japan's plan to go ahead with whaling
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OssanAmerica
smith only you cold turn an article about US soldiers being charged with rape in South Korea today into a blurb about Imperial Japan in the 1940s and "sex slaves".
Posted in: 2 U.S. soldiers accused of raping teenage girls in S Korea
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OssanAmerica
Beats studying Chinese for sure.
Posted in: Clinton: U.S.-Japan relationship remains a cornerstone alliance
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OssanAmerica
Just as it was natural to consder all of Europe as Hitler's backyard and all of Asia as Imperial Japan' s backyard? I believe there are treaties in existece designed to prevent territoral claims and control over antarctic waters. No country has any exclusive jurisdiction over them. Want proof? When has the Austr or NZ maritime authorities ever chased the Japanese scientific whalking fleet out of those waters? Never.
Posted in: NZ, Australia condemn Japan's plan to go ahead with whaling
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OssanAmerica
Why is it that the SKorean people don't demand payment from their own government that setlled everything with Japan on their behalf back in 1965? I suppose for the same reason that 200,000 comfort women is always thrown around but the 240,000 Koreans who served in the Japanese military and made use of those 200,000 comfort women, at a disounted rate no less, are never mention. No, they weren't "slaves" as in "free" they got paid.
Posted in: Japan won't reopen talks with S Korea on sex slave issue
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OssanAmerica
"troyinjapanOct. 05, 2011 - 10:35PM JST When, in 2006, the IWC passed the pro-whaling "St Kitts Declaration", two-thirds of the countries voting for it had received fisheries aid from Japan. This is fact and when Japan does this it acts just like China. CRIMINAL. It makes voting ridiculous. I don't care who this posts bothers one bit. Right is right and wrong is wrong. And bribery is CRIMINAL."
Are you aware that bribing members on the IWC is a practice that was first started by the anti-whaling faction?
"I don't understand why Japan continuous to ask other countries to be sympathetic to it and its issues while completely ignoring how the rest of the world feels about the BOGUS SCIENTIFIC WHALING MALARKEY. When Japan does this it makes everyone in the world think that Japan thinks that the rest of the world is STUPID."
The IWC Scientic committee doesn't seem to think the research is "bogus". Australia will have to prove that before the ICJ. Just being excitred and calling it "bogus" doesn't make it so.
"DO THE WHALING IN YOUR OWN WATERS. Stop traveling half way around the world to someone else's backyard to do whaling."
Whose backyard? Are those waters owned by New Zealand or Australia? Are they in either of their EEZs? How about stop claiming parts of the ocean as yours when it obviously isn't.
"Furthermore, I really don't think that most Japanese are aware of the high amount of dangers chemicals that are even in whale meat. "
That's a Japanese problem for them to solve. Not of aby concern to outsiders except for those who want tp use any argument possible against whaling of any kind.
"Japan, if you want the world and your neighbors to honor and respect you, then don't travel half way around the world to hunt whales."
They already do, I dare Australian and New Zealand to cut off diplomatic and economic relations with Japan. Won't happen. Not in our collective lifetimes.
" Understand this/ You are disrespecting what the whole world except for you and two or maybe even three other whale hunting countries"
So this is a global dicatorship by majority?
"Think about it. The world is not stupid. Consumers have a very good memory. When someone goes to buy a car and they see you hunting whales which they love, they just might pass on buying that car and go and buy a KOREAN ONE."
Koreans eat whale. Don't kid yourself. In fact they resisted the last IWC failed compromise because they weren't included in the list of countries that had a right to resume whaling!
"So, make the choice. Support an industry that draws the disdains of people most of the world over and influences people to not buy your products or show the world that you respect them the same way they want you to respect them."
Most of the people don't care, think whale huggers are retards who need to grow up and get a life, and have bigger problems and responsibilities to worry about. Whaling has abosultely zero influence on consumer buying choices.
"And above all don't go to someone else's backyard to do your hunting."
Back to "owing" a part of an ocean.
"LIke my father used to tell me. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should! Respect others and how they feel if you want the same thing."
I think your father is.was very wise. When you are able to respect their right to legally conduct scientific research whaling within a sanctuary as authorized by Article VIII of the IWC then you will be in a position to discuss this and perhaps negotiate an amicable solution.
Posted in: NZ, Australia condemn Japan's plan to go ahead with whaling
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OssanAmerica
Whaling is indeed part of Japan's culture. There are little shrines called "kujirazaka" all over Japan that pays homage to the whale that serves to feed the people. Those who state that "Whaling is not part of Japanese culture" don't knw their hindquarters from their elbows. As far as "everybody else" let's ask the Noregians and Icelanders, and Danish Faroe Islanders and Inuits if the practice is savage. What's savage or not is subjective and a matter of cultural background. Killing nonendangered whales is not like killing off the last of the dinosaurs, an absurd comment. Get a clue people.
Posted in: NZ, Australia condemn Japan's plan to go ahead with whaling
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OssanAmerica
"smithinjapanOct. 05, 2011 - 10:59AM JST Once again Japan ignores pretty much the entire world and when criticized calls it 'an attack on culture'. I always find that 'logic' amusing -- Japan imposing its so-called traditions on the world and claiming they are being attacked."
When's the last time Japan forced anyone to eat whale? The argument that certain countries are attempting to force THEIR culture on Japan is quite correct. Or does the logic escape you?
Posted in: NZ, Australia condemn Japan's plan to go ahead with whaling
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OssanAmerica
"“It is also entirely disrespectful of the strong concerns expressed by Australian and New Zealand people for whom the Southern Ocean is our neighborhood.”
Yes, but is it NZ or Austr territory? Or is it even NZ or Austr EEZ? Is there any basis for national jurisdiction over these waters?
"McCully also said he was concerned at Kano’s assertion that Japan would boost security for its whaling fleet to guard against harassment by environmental protesters"
Why? Isn't it normal for people to defend themselves from violent attacks by eco-terrorists? If these were US Flag fisheries ships SS would be toast.
"“The New Zealand government has consistently urged all parties to act responsibly during the whaling season, and to avoid actions that may put their lives, or the lives of others, at risk,” McCully said."
But NZ like Austr does not bar Sea Shepherd ships from entering their ports for refueling and replenishing provisions for the sole express purpose of conducting harassment activities which clearly put their and others livers at risk.
Posted in: NZ, Australia condemn Japan's plan to go ahead with whaling
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OssanAmerica
I think we all know there's only one person fully informed and qualified to write a counter commentary. Cleo- Every article that is against whaling claims that Japan is whaing in a "sanctuary". This of course immediately creates the impression that they are doing something illegal. No article ever goes on to explain that the IWC scientific permits ALLOW WHALING IN SANCTUARIES. The same IWC allows scientific whaling to IGNORE MORATORIUMS. And in fact, if the IWC didn't permit scientific whaling in the first place this argument wouldn't even exist. So to make such openly verifiable facts clear constitures a "biased and misinformed one sided pro-whaling diatribe."? It is the complete disregard for the these very pertinent facts in the above commentary which make it biased and misinformed. There are a great many anti-whaling proponents who, as much as they'd like to see all whaling cease, are vehemently against the actions of Sea Sheperd which they consider Eco-Terrrorism, as do some law enforcement agences. I suppose this is what separates those resopnsible people who respect law and order from those who feel that they can take the law into their own hands.
Posted in: No surprise Japan's whaling fleet planning return to Antarctica
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OssanAmerica
So is JT going to run a counter commentary after this utterly biased and misinformed one sided anti-whling diatribe?
Posted in: No surprise Japan's whaling fleet planning return to Antarctica
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OssanAmerica
People who constantly harp on on pre 1945 Japan when it was a military controlled fascist Empire really need to get their brains examined. The history of Japan for the last 66 years has been peaceful without any military conflict with it;s neighbors. Except of course the covert monsweeper operations conducted by the former Japanese Imperial Navy under US Navy direction to ASSIST SOUTH KOREA during the Korean War. As for those harping on "sex slaves" there were over 240,000 Koreans in the Imperial Japanese military who used those very same comfort women services. The nationalist faction in South Korea are obviously infiltrated by North Korean and Chinese elements to ensure that a divide will continue to exist between South Korea and both Japan and the United States by playing on the chip-on-the-shoulder South Korean mentality.
Posted in: S Korea to build naval base near disputed island
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OssanAmerica
The shift in defense on the part of the JSDF to protect the southern islands has included JGSDF training with the USMC at San Diego. You can rest assured that Amphibious Assault, capability for the purpose of retaking an enemy occupied island is a top prority.
Posted in: Boeing, U.S. Navy deliver plan to equip ASDF with Super Hornets
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OssanAmerica
That Japan can afford and is willing to assist other nations in need even while carrying it;s own disasters and problems is a testment to the fact that Japan is still an economcally powerful and responsible member of he world community.
Posted in: Japan to give additional $21 mil in food aid to Horn of Africa
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OssanAmerica
The JMSDF was never created to be a Blue Water Navy. In fact, legally it's not even a "navy" since the JDSF itself was created as an extension of the police force in order to get around Article 9. Of course the creation of Japan's officially non-military military was entirely at the prodding of the United States in the face of the Korean War.
Posted in: Boeing, U.S. Navy deliver plan to equip ASDF with Super Hornets
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OssanAmerica
The latest F18 variant is current use by the USN and allies like Australia would be the correct purchase by the JASDF to close the "gap" until the next generation of fighters are ready. Additionally the air to ground capabilities cooincide with the JSDFs shift towards protecting the southern islands,and perhaps a small step forward towards perhaps ultimately small pocket carriers with VTOLs. China and it's expansionist agenda can go suck an egg.
Posted in: Boeing, U.S. Navy deliver plan to equip ASDF with Super Hornets