Wednesday February 15, 2012

OssanAmerica's past comments

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    OssanAmerica

    smithinjapanDec. 19, 2011 - 02:01PM JST OssanAmerica: "Wow smith, you take this opportunity to bash the USA..." I didn't 'bash the USA' (although it's telling you always seem to think that way), I took a playful jab at the CIA who >said... how many times was it?... that Kim was already dead, along with Castro, etc. Relax.

    Ok. Next time you get onmjy case for bashing anything I'll remind you that I'm just taklng a "playful; jab".

    "...and tell us that we shouldn't be rejoicing the death of the North Korean dictator who has brought nothing but pain and suffering to the North Korean people."

    Don't misquote what I said -- I said no one should celebrate the death of anyone else;

    Considereting the subject ad text of the article I doubt very much you were "NOT" making specific reference to Kim Jong Il.

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

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    OssanAmerica

    Wow smith, you take this opportunity to bash the USA and tell us that we shouldn't be rejoicing the death of the North Korean dictator who has brought nothing but pain and suffering to the North Korean people.

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

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    OssanAmerica

    South Korea, Japan, United States and probaly even China (for fear of refugees) is on high alert. Lets hope that whatever happens, the NKPLA doesn't take over with Jong Un as a puppet head.

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

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    OssanAmerica

    Marion Wm SteeleDec. 19, 2011 - 04:57AM JST gtlobalwatcher: First the Potsdam Declaration was the absolute surrender of Japan from WW11 and the Cairo >Accords gave back all lands "taken by violence or greed."

    The Senkakus were nvberv takewmn from anmy country outy of "violence or greed". They were Terra Nullius when Japan incorporated them in January 1885.

    NOW is the time for diplomacy and I can assure you that unless Japancaarys in a comrimising mood - that >everyone and everything will be as it was in 1941.

    Maybe you weren't paying attention when the Chinedse poaching vessel rammed a JCG vessel twice. Japan got alot of croticism for "compromising" too much. China, your buddies, went off the deep end treating the poacher as a national hero and stopping its exports of rare metals.

    Maybe you haven't learned that China now has a Carrier stationed off the Senkaku Islands and a wrong move by >Japan could plunge us all back in deep trouble.

    Maybe you haven't learned that that second hand Ukranian carrier has no arresting cables which wouyld be a problem if thre PLAN had any pilots capable of landing on a carrier. And it;'s NOT stationed off the Senkakus per your dellusional statement. Apart from he Dairen Shipyard where it was fitted so far all it has domne is conduct sea trials and no home port of station has been declared/.

    Also I have been on Okinawa (off and on) for the past 66 years and I work with Masahide Ota the former governor of >he Ryukyu Islands.

    Unless you were there in th late 1800s he was never the governor of the Ryuku Islands. He was governor of Okinwa Prefecture.

    Incidentally, I am ninety years old and I fought the Japanese and at the time of WW11 China was one of our allies. >apan was our enemy. I am married to a Ryukyuan girl and I am a member of the Taba family on Okinawa and my >ome is in Uechi.

    Yes but the world has changed much since WWII, China is noy our ally anyuomre because they chased our KMT allies off to Taiwan. China killed many US Marines during 1950/51. And we are in a cold war with them now.

    Posted in: LDP's Ishihara wants base on China-claimed islands

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    OssanAmerica

    globalwatcherDec. 19, 2011 - 12:23AM JST To Foreign Ministry of Japan Is there any documents from all Koreans who received compensations? What did it say? You need to review them. >Sounds like there have been some holes on the agreements. Reveiw, review, and review. If there are no holes found on the agreements, the deals are all settled.

    It was the South Korean governents desire to receive the money on behalf of it's people rather than Japan giving it to them directly. The South Korean Foreign Ministry is the one to whom you should be asking this question.

    Posted in: Lee urges compensation for sex slaves; Noda says issue is settled

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    OssanAmerica

    TinMadDogDec. 18, 2011 - 10:30PM JST "And whose fault is that? Japan's who already paid, or South Korea;s who kept it and used it for something else? For arguments sake, let us say that Japan did pay and the amount was for the sex slaves too. First, for those decades that Korean sex slaves marched and filed lawsuits for compensation, why did Japan make >excuse after excuse, but NEVER say, "Oh, we already paid!" and "We made an agreement with your government that >no further compensation can be demanded!"? Whatever you say, Japan is part of the scam. Japan helped hide this >part of the agreement and it was not known until 2005.

    Because Japan was bound by confidentiality that South Korea requested. Everything came into the open in 2005 as you say.

    Japan has been just as much a part of making sure these women never got paid either way.

    How is that? Japan paid compensation to idividuals who suffered. The Soty Korean government took that monbey and used it somewhere else. The only party that took any action so that these women would not get paid is the Soth Korean government.

    And so, my judgement is they still owe them, at the very least, compensation for hiding the truth from these women, >and I see no reason why it should not equal all other forms of compensation. Japan still bears fault even if they did >pay.

    Japan isn't the one who had anything to gain from hiding the truth. It was the South Korean government that got the compensation and didn't give it to the women. Your attempts to demonize Japan alone is pretty ridiculous.

    Second, some of these women can be called slaves because they were forced to work. And while they were >promised wages, they remain slaves because they were forced. Many of them never received their wages, and >wages are NOT compensation. They are WAGES. Japan owes back pay.

    Not all were forced to work. Some were some weren't. The vast majority received wages as evidenced by the fact that the current claims are for compensation, not "back wages" as you say.

    And just to keep things straight, let us remember: If you are forced to work, you are a slave. If you are not allowed to >quit your job, you are a slave. If you sign up, but are not are paid, you are a slave. Most of these meet at least one of >those conditions. They were slaves of Japan.

    Some were, some weren't. "Most" is your individual take. BUt this is irrelwevcaqnt to the issue at hand; ie; Japan has already paid compensation , the South Korean government received it, AND they promised not to seek anymore compensation again. So shall we agree that South Korea is a country that can not keep it's word on International Agreements?

    Third, is it remotely legit to make a deal with an entity to take money on behalf of people they never contacted? I >don't think so. It might be done at the government level,...

    It was done at a government level, by the South Korean government.

    And those supporting it I hope have the same situation come right back on them one day.

    I hope you are billed twice for the same thing one day. Prehaps then you'd undrstand.

    Posted in: Lee urges compensation for sex slaves; Noda says issue is settled

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    OssanAmerica

    Michael Jun Sung ShimDec. 18, 2011 - 09:34PM JST Thing is OssanAmerica nothing will ever satisfy the Koreans. Both sides are to blame for current impasse

    I agree 100% with the above. The question is how can the two nations reach a solution in light of that. Japan and South Korea are the leading economic democratic powers in Asia and both are US Allies. There is an enormous amount of not just trade but cultural exchange between them. The best objective minds of both countries shoiuld work at this or North Korea wil use it to get away with killing more South Koreans and China to bully both nations.

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

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    OssanAmerica

    Michael Jun Sung ShimDec. 18, 2011 - 08:39PM JST I am Korean!! Why not just compensate money & apology to comfort women and call it a day??

    Would you pay for the same thing twice? Or would you say, "I already paid for that"?

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

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    OssanAmerica

    HolaKittyDec. 18, 2011 - 02:35PM JST @OssanAmerica, If you do not agree with my comment, please provide a counterargument. If your reasoning makes better sense, >more power to you. I do not mind. But please do not resort to personal attacks. That is low.

    To what "personal attack" are you making reference? Please clarify.

    I think the key issue here is whether these women fall within the scope of the treaty. People are taking it as if it's a >fact that the 1965 compensation covers these women. But, if the Japanese government do not even admit the >existence of these women, how could they have provided for compensation in the treaty? And what about North >Korean women, and women from other Asian countries?

    Compensation was made to include those who suffered. I don't see howe you can exclude the comfort women. Not being specifical;ly named is irrelevant because no other groups of individuals who suffered are specifically named either. What is fact is that this money ended up being directed elsewhere by te South Korean government. The Japanese government does not deny the existence of these women. Japan does not maintain diplomatic relations with North Korea, and the heads of stateof other nations have not raised a comfort women issue at state level with Japan so both references have little to do with this article.

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

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    OssanAmerica

    TinMadDogDec. 18, 2011 - 07:08PM JST "They already compensated years ago." The former sex slaves were never compensated. That is the point. Until they are actually compensated, Japan >owes them. You can't give my money to Scrooge and claim you paid me since Scrooge never gave me the money.

    And whose fault is that? Japan's who already paid, or South Korea;s who kept it and used it for something else?

    My understanding is that the compensation given did not include compensation for the sex slaves anyway.

    I am certain that the comfort women are included in "individuials who suffered". If hey weren't included, then who was? Nobody.

    Even if it did, see the above. Not one of you would side with either government if it was you that was owed. We all know this. I can only hope that Karma will bite some of you very hard for your heartless hypocrisy.

    Posted in: Lee urges compensation for sex slaves; Noda says issue is settled

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    OssanAmerica

    I agree. Watson, with his many years of violent eco-terrorist activities has found his perfect niche, the Japanese, far less willing to resort to violemt resistance than thje Canadians, Norwegians or Icelanders, conducting research whaling in in waters that are owned by no country but are in the minds of Australian nationalists "their waters" and an anti-whaling country that has a history of racism against Japanese to start with. He has managed to use the ugliest aspects of that country to his advantage.

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

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    OssanAmerica

    HolaKittyDec. 18, 2011 - 11:57AM JST What I do know as a lawyer is that laws are rarely clear cut and are often subject to interpretation. I would be >interested to know if at the time, the two governments specifically discussed "comfort women" or if they only talked >about compensation for other forms of forced service.

    As an attorney I am sure you have no ambiguty with the term "double billing".

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

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    OssanAmerica

    The South Korean gobverment needs to take responsibility and answer to it;s own people why the compensation money from 1965 didn't go to them.

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

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    OssanAmerica

    Not only is the South Korean government ignoring the 1965 treaty agreed to by an earlier adminstriation, abd not taking any responsibility towards it's own people, but there is no gurantee whatsover that any compensation or apology would end this issue. In fact the reverse holds true, by doing so it sets a precedent and opens the floodgates to more claims both regarding the comfort women issue and unrelated ones. I doubt that the South Korean government could indemnify the Japanese government from such endless further claims. Truth is alot of people all over the world suffered during WWII, and sorry to say, a great great many in much much worse ways than these comfort women who survived in one piece to be able to demand compensation 70 years later. .

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

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    OssanAmerica

    Welcome back Maron. I'm afraid that in your absence Okinawa still remains a Japanese prefecture, the Ryuku Kingdom still history having ended in the late 1800s and the U.S. continues to maintain the largest military presence in east Asia there to thwart the threat from your friends in Communist China whom you are unable to distinguish from our friends the KMT under Chiang Kai Shek. And remarkably enough the Cairo Accords are utterly irrelavant to this issue as always. The Senkakus remained Japanese because they wre never taken by force from anyone. Semper Fi!

    Posted in: LDP's Ishihara wants base on China-claimed islands

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    OssanAmerica

    I can't stop laughing...

    Posted in: Christian Bale denies Nanjing Massacre film is propaganda

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    OssanAmerica

    I'd have thought he needed to apologize to Koda Kumi.

    Posted in: Joe Odagiri apologizes for signing name 'Kumi Koda' as autograph for fan

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    OssanAmerica

    The worst of Japanese ultra-nationalists have no idea what the next war will be like. Don't be so old fashion. If you >get into a war with China you'll get nuclear war. Nuclear war is certainly not winnable if it's in full scale. Japan is a >nation that can be obliterated unfortunately. Tokyo, Osaka, Nagasaki, Hiroshima. That's game over in just 4 hits. Pretty scary stuff.

    Japanese ultra-nationalists are a limited bunch and even those in power hardly run the country with most driving around in black trucks and looked up as an annoyance by most Japanese people. The unltrra nationaslism in China is a far more serious issue because it comes from the PLA leaders as well as being used to control the masses, such that it very much can and does influence CCP government policy. No comparison. Talking about China's nuclear capability is pointless because of M.A.D.China knows that if it ever used any nuclear weaon on Japan the favor would be returned twicefold by the United States. In other words, China is also a country that can be obliterated and knows that a nuclwear war is unwinnable.

    Posted in: China sends patrol ship to disputed waters

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    OssanAmerica

    SwissToniDec. 16, 2011 - 08:16AM JST Davidattokyo, Ossanamerica, say what you will to cloud the issue, you cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear. >The Japanese whalers arguments have been demonstrated as a ploy to continue commercial whaling.

    No I don't think it has. Demonstrated by whom? When? Where?

    Stop beating about the bush it's BS. In truth theyre always going to be vilified as long as they are in conflict with >others wishes.

    That's ok. Sooner or later those "others" are going to have to grow up.

    Win or lose the ICJ case, or the suit in the US. Whaling is a popular passtime in whaling circles only.

    I don't think anyone is trying to make whaling "popular".

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

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    OssanAmerica

    I really think your co-worker was pulling your leg. Alo, although whales do eat small schooling fish along with krill, I've never heard of them eating kelp.

    Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.

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