Thursday February 16, 2012

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    OssanAmerica

    ravagesoftimes at 12:39 PM JST - 24th December I would like to see a Nanjing film that was actually objective, but of >course any Chinese director who made such a film would be censured by >his government. then i suggest you go watch the 'City of Life and Death' which is >actually very objective and convincing. the film not only focuses on the >chinese viewpoint of the massacre, but also from the viewpoint of a >japanese soldier. matter of fact, the potrayal of the japanese was way >too kind in the film.

    Why "way too kind"? Smacks of severe prejudice, after all not every single IJA soldier sent to China was a monster. It's a simple matter of statistics.

    Posted in: China's Zhang says Bale to star in Nanjing project

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    oberst at 12:27 PM JST - 24th December Ossan, i would love to see the japanese movie version on the " china >Incident ". Do you believe some people in japan still cannot bring >themselves to call that " war " ??

    To my knowlege there never was any China incident. Are you refering to the Manchurian Incident?

    Posted in: China's Zhang says Bale to star in Nanjing project

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    smithinjapan at 11:19 AM JST - 24th December Some people need to get over themselves and stop trying to wildly >deflect from the issue. The man wants to make a movie on this topic, and >since it's still relatively 'recent' history (compared to what you and >Ossan bring up in an effort to deflect), people have been affected by it >are still alive, and it's still a subject that brings about a lot of >intense and complicated feelings. If someone wanted to make another >movie about the atomic bombings and how tragic and wrong they were, I >doubt (aside from possibly some Americans denying it was wrong) you'd >hear some of the moaning and excuses or "this again?" you post.

    No, you're wrong. I'd be saying "this again" about an A-bomb movie as well. And I think it was wrong. Necessary, but wrong. The fact is that regardless of the real historical facts and issues surrounding Nanjing, movies about it are made entirely to the Chinese viewpoint. To that I say "this again?" I would like to see a Nanjing film that was actually objective, but of course any Chinese director who made such a film would be censured by his government.

    Posted in: China's Zhang says Bale to star in Nanjing project

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    Pukey2 at 07:58 AM JST - 24th December "Yes, the Europeans were no saints, I'm sure. But can you please tell me, did they do anything that was more vile and inhumane than experimenting, dissecting and bayoneting people who were still alive, ripping fetuses from women, raping women and girls, subjecting the mass public to diseases on purpose? Distain? Oh please!"

    The problem here is that the "massacre" moved from killing to rape to just about every imaginable atrocity one could come up with although there is little hard evidence to suppport something as simple as the actual number of civilian deaths. Unfortunately a great many "Nanjingers" take evrry acusation as proven fact. For example, yes biolgical experiments were done by the Japanese Army (Unit 731) however that unit wasn't even formed until well after Nanjing. Then there is the head chopping competition. Horrible for sure, if true. But the Manchus beheaded an estimnated 2,000,000 Chinese men for simply refusing to wear pigtails. What is noticable about Nanjingers is that every other horrible thing that has happened to the Chinese whether at the hands of foreigners or other Chinese, right down to the current CCP, despite the obscene numbers involved seem to entirely ignored for the sake of demonizing the Japanese.

    Posted in: China's Zhang says Bale to star in Nanjing project

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    paulinusa at 12:21 AM JST - 24th December "NK threatened a "holy war" in response. Who writes this stuff?"

    Same folks who declared that lighting a Christmas Tree was a provocation that could lead to war.

    Posted in: S Korea holds massive new drills after North attack

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    OssanAmerica

    So lighting a Christmas tree is a provocation that can lead to war? To to a psychotic maybe. I say we send the entire NK military command Christmas cards and fruitcake to the Kims.

    Posted in: S Korean Christmas tree sign of new propaganda war

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    Antonios_M at 08:15 AM JST - 21st December I don't know how bad the tension on the Korean peninsula is going to be, >but i DO know that NONE of us here should wish a war in this region.

    Nobody anywhere is wishing for war. However te South Korean people are fd up with giving and giving and getting killed in return. Can you blame them? A military strike that defangs the rabid dogf need not necessarily become a toral "war" particularly since all perties, including China and Russia don't want one.

    As someone wisely said, this North Korea is not the '50s North Korea. >They have nuclear weapons and they are willing to use them.

    How do you know this? I don't think North Korea can ever use nuclear weapons without China's approval.

    It's not Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq. Rather, its a Cold War crisis >coming back to life... People should not joke about it or wish things >that might cause a new chaos in the region.

    No it's not the cold war because today despite China and Russia being North Korea's "allies" they aren't going to throw their weight into supporting the Kim regime if it wants to start a war.

    Guys, this is not a Risk board game. I truly hope that both Pyongyang >and S. Korea/U.S.A will come to a bilateral agreement. I also hope that >China will stop supporting N. Korea's insane policy.

    If there is a bilateral or even a mutilateral agreement that will meet South Korea's satisfaction that it will ensure North Korea will never again kill more South Koreans I'm sure they'd be all ears.

    Posted in: How bad do you think the tension on the Korean Peninsula is going to get?

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    Zenny11 at 12:44 PM JST - 20th December SK produces a lot of the electronic, etc goods of the world if they get >involved in a war it will after their economy and their ability to >support Samsung, LG, etc products.

    AS gfar as I am aware SKOrea does not export anything to the world exclusively. If the Samsungs and LGs are set back, the world till has all gthe electronics it wants from Japan, Southeast Asia, and dare I say it...China.

    oberst at 02:32 PM JST - 20th December This is pure wishful thinking, a " clean " war that'll be over in weeks( >if not days ).

    Actually days if not hours.

    As we type here, there are thousands of artillery pieces ranged at >Seoul. Even if you managed to knock out 50 % ,

    No the idea is take out 99%.

    By the way, we haven't taken into consideration possible nukes . You >just don't know what a desperado will do when the end is near.

    Sure I have.You think China is going to let NKorea use nukes? In an attack that leaves Pyongyang anmd the Kim regime untouched?

    Posted in: How bad do you think the tension on the Korean Peninsula is going to get?

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    Zenny11 at 11:34 AM JST - 20th December I think the consequences will be wider reaching than people expect right >now. Not saying everybody gets involved in the war, there are also >economics, etc to consider.

    OK. Let's say everyone else stays out. Nobody, the US, China, Russia, Japan wants a total war. SK do their drills and NK attacks again killing SKoreans. SK retaliates in a big way sweeping a 100km zone north of the borderline clear of all NK military assets, artillery, missle launchers everything ina massive aerial attack. But no invasion is conducted, pyongyang is untouched. Now, is China going to let NKorea start a total war with SKorea? Or will China see that the status quo has been maintained with NKorea unable to give anymore headaches for China to be concerned about? Under such a scenario I don't see anyone suffering economically either.

    Posted in: How bad do you think the tension on the Korean Peninsula is going to get?

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    Zenny11 at 09:21 AM JST - 20th December One thing to prepare for war, another thing to sit back home behind the >keyboard wishing/pushing for a war that will be fought by others.

    Most government officials responsible for wars are in that very same position.

    I don't think Sk wants a war but they might have to fight one soon. And >it will be a war with worldwide impact and consequences.

    Yes SK doesn't want a war, it conducts drills as a deterrence to war. However it now appears that the deterrence isn't working. Firing on an inhabited island amd killing people is "wanting war". It is very possible that SK may retaliate in such a way that NK's ability to keep killing SKoreans will be eliminated but at the same time will not result in a total "war with worldwide impact amd consequemces".

    Posted in: How bad do you think the tension on the Korean Peninsula is going to get?

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    MicahDLM at 10:11 AM JST - 20th December as they say it takes two to tango! It seems to me that to use life fire >drills in a disputed area is quite insensitive and a provocation.

    How is firing into the sea, whether disputed or not a provocation? Firing artillery at an inhabited South Korean island and killing people is what's called a provocation.

    Posted in: How bad do you think the tension on the Korean Peninsula is going to get?

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    OssanAmerica

    While it's easy to tell people that they shouldn't wish for war, what exactly was North Korea's killing South Korean civilians? That wasn't war right? That's a provocation? I can understand the anger and frustration that South Koreans feel. Too bad China and Russia can't. Or simply don't care.

    Posted in: How bad do you think the tension on the Korean Peninsula is going to get?

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    KevininHawaii at 01:29 PM JST - 19th December With a culture based on the group (rather than the individual), Japanese >nationalism is NEVER a good thing. Wait until some of the younger >members of this group get angry enough to actually do something about >the "China problem", and assault a Chinese tourist in Japan. This is the silly stuff that wars are born out of...

    Funny that all you attribute to the Japanese is a hundred times more valid when addressing the Chinese living under a totalitaria dicatatorship. The risk of a Japanese tourist being assaulted in China is far far greater than the reverse if we take past anti-japan demonstrations and store and car destroying activities as an example.

    Posted in: Your shout

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    mindovermatter at 11:06 AM JST - 19th December They would be much better served protesting their government to make a >formal apology for all the acts of atrocities committed against China, >Korea, and the rest of Asia, instead of taking this arrogant righteous >victim attitude.... But that's why common-sense is so UN-common in Japan...

    Japan has apologized to China, South Korea, Asia multiples times. Over 17 according to CNN. Let's move on shall we? The issue isd China's military expansion threatening all of it's asian neighbors.

    Posted in: Your shout

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    JeffLee at 08:50 AM JST - 19th December Japanese nationalism is trendy again! That last time that happened was >in the 1930s, and we know what happened as a result of that.

    Cute but totally off the mark. The Nationalism in Japan of the 1930s, actually starting in the 20s, is entirely different in both objective and scope as nationalism in Japan today. The Nationalism in China today is what mirrors Japanese nationalism and military expansion of the 1930s.

    Posted in: Your shout

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    OssanAmerica

    Since Japan already considers them Japanese territory and has done so since the late 1800s, what "action" is there to take? If it's getting the U.S. to declare that the islands fall under US defense parameters, it's done. If Japan needs to shift it's military focus in that direction, it's done. What more do these folks want?

    Posted in: Your shout

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    OssanAmerica

    Clearly South Korea is ready to retaliate should North Korea attack them again. They've already said so. In fact they're practically egging them on.

    smithinjapan at 01:22 AM JST - 19th December South Korea should take the high road and do these drills elsewhere

    Doing nothing while North Korea kills South Korean civilians is the "high road"?

    Posted in: S Korea to hold firing drills despite N Korea threat

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    OssanAmerica

    Are they the original members?

    Posted in: Golden oldies

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    Yea...33 looks waaaayyy hotter than 16. But of course 33 can't sing. But she's top heavy so she doesn't have to. I could ponder this all night...

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    OssanAmerica

    smithinjapan at 10:20 PM JST - 15th December hey'll all be harvested for 'scientific research' and sold at extremely >high prices for sushi.

    The people of Ulsan have practiced whaling for centuries, and the drawings discovered there provide us with evidence of this. The Bangudae Petroglyphs, which is a historic site from the late New Stone Age or early Bronze Age, were discovered in Daegok-ri, Ulsan, and depict whales and whaling scenes.

    Posted in: Scientist says he found Japan fish thought extinct

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