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  OssanAmericaDec. 26, 2011 - 11:17AM JST

  t>koind2Dec. 26, 2011 - 09:28AM JST

  Farmboy "criminals" is a term I think applies more to a nation who tries to mask commerical whaling as "science". In any case this annual idiocy reflects far more poorly upon Japan than upon anyone else. So do keep up the good >work of making Japan see backwards and silly. You do yourselves more harm than good with this. Especially now >that the word is out that the government is spending Tohoku money on this. It is shameful beyond words.

  No I think you're completly wrrong. Whether Japan's research whaling is actually research whakling or not, we will have to see how the ICJ rules on that. Because the IWC Scientific committee certainly has not declared the data that Japan submits to it, in keeping with the IWC rules, to be false or invalid. Anyone who claims otherwise simply has no idea what they are talking about.. Whether one is for or against whaling, the fact remains that Japan is doing its research whaling legally and by the IWC rules. Again anyone who claimns otherwise is talking out their hindquarters. Again any doubts will have to wait until the ICJ ruling. Meantime, SSCI are eco-terrorists engaging in criminal activity and the poster is right in that MOMPS are abetting criminals on a par with ALF. The Tohoku money is irrelevant since this has nothing to do with donations and comes from Japan's own taxes. If that bothers you I think it should bother you that SSCI spend all this money to harass the whalers instead opf donating it to the Tohoku victims. Japan does not look backwards or silly for the simple reaso that they are in the legakl right, whether anyone likes it or not. The ones who do look backwards and silly are those who blindly support a criminal organization conducting criminal activity, bearing in mind that even Greenpeace won't go near SSCI with a ten foot pole.

  Posted in: Anti-whaling activists use drone to track Japan fleet

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  OssanAmericaDec. 26, 2011 - 07:01AM JST

  CVHuanDec. 25, 2011 - 05:31PM JST Yea, that's right! Japan needs China more than ever. >=D

  Nobody "needs" China. Except for North Korea. China "needs" everyone else unless it wants to be a backwards economy again.

  Posted in: Noda, Wen discuss N Korea, abduction issue, pandas

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  OssanAmericaDec. 25, 2011 - 12:08PM JST

  All power to theese courageous and patriotic Ruissians willing to stand up against Putin.

  Posted in: Tens of thousands of protesters challenge Putin

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  OssanAmericaDec. 25, 2011 - 05:26AM JST

  Usual Chinese nonsense when China's territorial and military expansion has all of Asia in jitters. Not to mention keeping the North Korean mad dog as a pet.

  Posted in: N Korea transition clouds Asia security outlook

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  OssanAmericaDec. 25, 2011 - 02:59AM JST

  The rather absurd aspect of this claim is that South Korea is demanding compensation from Japan when Japan already did so to a previous South Korean administration in 1965. While the administrations have changed over time it is still the same South Korean government, In contrast the Japanese government up to 1945 was destroyed, many members tried and convincted to death. So today's Japanese government isn't the same government at all.
  That South Korea ignores it's failure to properly compenate the comfort women and makes such a demand really reduces it's credibility and standing as a nation.

  Posted in: S Korean president urges Japan to compensate Korean wartime sex slaves

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  OssanAmericaDec. 25, 2011 - 02:44AM JST

  sfjp330Dec. 24, 2011 - 06:11AM JST What research at the supermarket? Japan should not be trying to impose it’s will on other cultures, namely those >around the Southern Saunctary who completely oppose this pillaging of their surrounding oceans. All the >arguements about killing intelligent creatures is immaterial, they should hunt in their own waters, and if the >problem is there are no whales around Japan, then there’s no traditional hunting grounds left..they’ve killed them >all, and demonstrates they problem they are causing. It doesn’t mean they get to kill and eat everyone elses whales.

  This article isn't about whaling. No country is calling Japan's rsearch whaling as "poaching in their territorial waters". This article is about Chinese fishjing vessels poahing in Japanese territorial waters.

  Posted in: Japan arrests another Chinese fishing boat skipper

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  OssanAmericaDec. 24, 2011 - 05:30AM JST

  smithinjapanDec. 23, 2011 - 02:30AM JST "Elbuda: "Love of ?? $$$?? Fish and other products from other countries territorial waters??" You're seriously posting this as some kind of argument giving Japan's 'scientific research' (for which they send the >coast guard WAY off-coast)?

  You STILL don't undrstand that "Coast Guard" doesn't mean they can't leave the coast? Are you in the 5th grade or what? Not to mention that research whaling isn't being conducted in ANYBODY's WATERS, it;s being done in international waters so what is the point of your comparison?

  Posted in: Japan arrests another Chinese fishing boat skipper

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  OssanAmericaDec. 22, 2011 - 10:08AM JST

  No need for condolences. The world except for China supports the North Korean people not their oppressive regime or heirs.

  Posted in: N Korea leader's death fuels 'condolences' debate among allies

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  OssanAmericaDec. 21, 2011 - 08:13AM JST

  melonbarmonsterDec. 21, 2011 - 07:06AM JST The fact that Germany participated in military action has NOTHING to do with the fact that they have fully embraced >their guilt and responsibility for Nazi atrocities. Japan still denies, whitewashed and then claims to have paid money >the very things they claim they didn't do. It's downright shameful.

  Wrong. Having a peace constitution that prohibits military action is the ultimate form of embracing their guilt and ensuring that it will; never happen again. Japan has in fact apologiozed and paid compensation and consequently are in the legal right.

  Posted in: Former sex slaves hold 1,000th protest outside Japan's embassy in Seoul

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  OssanAmericaDec. 21, 2011 - 08:11AM JST

  "melonbarmonsterDec. 21, 2011 - 07:07AM JST How Wurthington is able to claim that Japan has already apologized for something that the Japanese government claims it never did seems to be some sort of Japanese government magic trick. Pathetic."

  It's not magic. When one administration says one thing at one time and another says something else at a different time that's what happens.

  Posted in: Former sex slaves hold 1,000th protest outside Japan's embassy in Seoul

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  OssanAmericaDec. 21, 2011 - 08:08AM JST

  melonbarmonsterDec. 21, 2011 - 07:05AM JST "Again with the same stupid argument about the '65 money. This isn't about money. It's about reconciliation and admission of war atrocities. A rapist and murderer doesn't get to absolve his wrong-doings by throwing cash at the victim. That is some depraved morality at work."

  Except that compensation (that's money) is being sought.

  "South Korean women forced into wartime sexual slavery held their 1,000th weekly protest outside Japan’s embassy Wednesday, demanding COMPENSATION and an apology from Tokyo as they have since 1992"

  Posted in: Former sex slaves hold 1,000th protest outside Japan's embassy in Seoul

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  OssanAmericaDec. 21, 2011 - 08:03AM JST

  "The pro-Pyongyang minority have maintained their loyalties and have their own civic organizations and educational institutions funded by the North, while integration with the host culture is strongly discouraged"

  I've never seen s better reason for immediate mass deportation.

  Posted in: North Koreans in Japan tight-lipped over Kim's death

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  OssanAmericaDec. 21, 2011 - 08:00AM JST

  It's high time that the coast guards of all Asian countries took the correct measures with these Chinese poachers.

  Posted in: Japan's coast guard arrests Chinese fishing boat captain

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  OssanAmericaDec. 20, 2011 - 10:20PM JST

  Good choice but I still say Ja[pan needs to buy some F18s as a stop gap till then not to mention as a contingency for delayed delivery. On the other hand I suppose the Chengdu may not bereally operational till then either.

  Posted in: Japan formally selects F-35 as new fighter jet

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  OssanAmericaDec. 20, 2011 - 10:11PM JST

  just-a-guyDec. 20, 2011 - 05:18PM JST Japan has been an object of North Korea's aggression....? Oh come on! If japan wants to 'white washing' her >artrocities during imperial-era's occupation of the Korean peninisula

  There were 240,000 Koreans serving in the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces, many of whom were not very nice to Chinese cilivians and Allied POWs in camps.

  Posted in: Japan wants post-Kim talks with U.S., South Korea

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  OssanAmericaDec. 20, 2011 - 08:53AM JST

  hoserfellaDec. 20, 2011 - 07:20AM JST How ironic that this comes at the same time Japan will be bleating on about the handful of Japanese abducted to >NK

  Not the same thing. One is a family dispute the other is foregn government spay activity and kidnapping of total strangers.

  Posted in: Clinton urges Japan to take action on child abduction issue

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  OssanAmericaDec. 20, 2011 - 08:48AM JST

  There is nothing to support the allegation that Japan's research whaling is a scam. The only substantial evidence of that would be the IWC Scientific committee declaring that Japan's research whaling data which it submits to the committee was false and not valid data. This has never happened. The allegation that the research is a scam comes from anti-whalers who are not privy to the data, are not trained in their use and interpretation, or simply have an agenda of stopping all whaling including research whaling. Such an agenda is at conflict with the charter and purpose of the IWC itself.

  Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt

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  OssanAmericaDec. 20, 2011 - 07:11AM JST

  You can't compare Germany and Japan as if their post war circumstances were the same. Those who do never seem to stop to consider that German troops have already killed as part of NATO deployments whereas the Japan prohibits military action in their own constitution and their troops have never killed anyone.

  Posted in: Former sex slaves hold 1,000th protest outside Japan's embassy in Seoul

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  OssanAmericaDec. 20, 2011 - 02:20AM JST

  cleoDec. 19, 2011 - 12:42PM JST So, he's dead. It's neither good news nor bad news, just news.

  Disagree. While we won't know the outcome for a while at least we know that there's a chance that the status quo may not remain, ie; there may be a chance that things may become better for the North Korean people. I don't think any of us thought there was any chance at all while Kim Jong Il was alive and in power.

  Posted in: N Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dead at 69

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  OssanAmericaDec. 20, 2011 - 01:14AM JST

  gogogoDec. 19, 2011 - 05:46PM JST WTF? Whats wrong with you Japan?

  All the 6 party talk countries are having emergency meetings and militaries are on alert at a time of uncertaintly. Whats wrong with YOU?

  Posted in: Japan calls emergency security meeting after Kim's death

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