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OssanAmerica
sfjp330, If China weren't so overboard with nationalism the rest of Asia including Japan wouldn't have to be. China wrote the book in using nationalism to direct the people's concerns away from the government so it;s pretty funny that you accuse Japan of it. China bashing is a winning formula not just in Japan but all of Asia and even the United States because of China's territorial and miliytary expansionist agenda. And Japan has always expressed interest in Tariwan's defense for decades, after all a China-controlled Tasiwan would vut off the oil supply to Japan, anmd Japan has always been aligned with the United States on the issue of North Korea. Japan actually served cobertl;y inn the Korean W#ar under US supervision when the Chinese were killing Americans and other UN troops. China would never start a real conflict with Japan because that would cause the US-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty to kick in and China would be be starting a war with the United States. Only North Korra would side with China, as there is zero chancxe of South Korea and Taiwan siding with China as they both see it as a threat. But you are right, the Senkakus are calm because China doesn't dare start a shotting war with the U.S.
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And fueling China's nationalism feeds their territorial anmd miltary expansionisty agenda that has made trhem a threat to all of Asia. Yes, good thinking there. As long as China re,mains an authoritarian one party dictatorship that censors and controls what it's people make produce and watch, they need no help at all from anyone else.
Posted in: Christian Bale denies Nanjing Massacre film is propaganda
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OssanAmerica
I don't what you're LOLing about because I've been to both Hiroshima andNagasaki in August and while there is indeed considerable "war is evil" and "no nukes" sentiment, I have never ever seen any anti-American sentiment.
Posted in: Former sex slaves hold 1,000th protest outside Japan's embassy in Seoul
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OssanAmerica
The Whalers also have mountains of video footage showing the SS conducting acts of violence. The Complaint filed in the Fedral Court refers specifically to them as evidence of their actons. As for the Whalers' "denying" anything, what is there to deny? They are only there to chase he whales. SS are the ones who are there to interefere with their operations. Waston is a weidely recognized liar, video taping the whalers testing fire extinguishers and calling it tear gas, and claiming to have been shot but somehow the bullet didn't kill him. This kind of childish nonsense isn't going to fly in a court of law because once credibility is questioned it will prejudice SS' own position.
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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OssanAmerica
I am sure they would appreciate receiving a watch phone very much. Merry Christmas. http://www.chinatronic.com/products.php/W88
Posted in: China sends patrol ship to disputed waters
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OssanAmerica
My mistake, the Senkakus were incorporated into Japan as Terra Nullius in January of 1885. The Treaty of Shimonoseki and the hadover by Ching to Japan of territories did npt take place until April of 1885. The Senkakus were not included in them because Ching did not consider them to be their to start with and they were not taken as part of the Sino-Japanese War. Arouse Chinese anger? Nobody, not the US, England or Japan cared about the "anger" of the sick man of Asia at the time.
"Japan claims the islands as official Japanese territory in 1895. From 1885 on, surveys of the Senkaku Islands had been thoroughly made by the Government of Japan through the agencies of Okinawa Prefecture and by way of other methods. Through these surveys, it was confirmed that the Senkaku Islands had been uninhabited and showed no trace of having been under the control of China. Based on this confirmation, the Government of Japan made a Cabinet Decision on 14 January 1895 to erect a marker on the Islands to formally incorporate the Senkaku Islands into the territory of Japan. Since then, the Senkaku Islands have continuously remained as an integral part of the Nansei Shoto Islands which are the territory of Japan. These islands were neither part of Taiwan nor part of the Pescadores Islands which were ceded to Japan from the Qing Dynasty of China in accordance with Article II of the Treaty of Shimonoseki which came into effect in May of 1895. Accordingly, the Senkaku Islands are not included in the territory which Japan renounced under Article II of the San Francisco Peace Treaty"
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/senkaku.htm
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OssanAmerica
Yes really. Japan is not "sharing" exploration rights on the islands. They are doing so with China in seabed areas where the borders are next to each other.
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OssanAmerica
Looking for a fighter to come online in 2016 justifies a stop gap measure anyway. The F18 would be the ideal choice as an interim replacement for the aging Phantoms.
Posted in: More headaches with F-35; Japan delays announcement
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OssanAmerica
It was offered by the IWC and included a reduction in catch numbers over time. The only thing this proves is that Japan was willing to negotiate to accomodate the utterly baseless demand to cease research whaling in the Southern Ocean, and that the anti-whaling harliners were more interested in flexing their authority over waters they didn't own rather than reduce the number of whales taken.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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OssanAmerica
The Chinse director was also banned by the Chinese government from making movies for a time.
Posted in: Christian Bale denies Nanjing Massacre film is propaganda
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OssanAmerica
The Pan-pan girls were a Government approved system. GHQ wanted "safe clean" prostiutes for the GIs, and the defeated J-govt complied. Ironically some of the girls were former IJA comfort girls. Lookmat Vietnam: http://zeroempty000.blogspot.com/2007/04/official-brothel-during-vietnam-war.html And even the South Korean troops in Vietnam: http://zeroempty000.blogspot.com/2007/04/comfort-women-during-vietnam-war-for.html And it not just "then" it;s "now" as well. http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/moderndaycomfort_women.pdf And not every woman in the IJA comfort women system was abducted or gang raped. Nor were they "sex slaves" since they were paid with some making moire than the enlisted men. http://studyofenglish.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/report-of-the-usarmy-at-ww2-on-ianfu-comfort-women-japan-sexslave-korea/ There is far far more to the "Comfort Women" issue than the protests and "accounts" of the few remaining WWII survivors.
Posted in: Former sex slaves hold 1,000th protest outside Japan's embassy in Seoul
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OssanAmerica
May sound pathetic to you but it's a fact, Doesn't absolve the Japanese military at all. But to close your eyes to all the others who played a role in this is. just so that you can blame just one party is not only wrong, it's unfair to the women who suffered.
Posted in: Former sex slaves hold 1,000th protest outside Japan's embassy in Seoul
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OssanAmerica
"There is a book written by a Japanese woman who's drunkard father sold her to the army...it's a hard read.
Yup, daughters were often sold not just in Japan but in Korea as well. And that's how most of the comfort women were recruited. SFJP330 is correct in saying that "abduction" was not an issue at the time, Korean fathers who sold their daughters, the Korean middlemen who procured the girls, the 240,000 Korean men in the Imperial Japanese armed forces who also made use of the comfort women system, the South Korean government that negotiated with Japan in 1965 and received money,,,,,there are more villans in this story than just "Japan".
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OssanAmerica
You are confusing the issue of the Senkaku Islands with the entire East China Sea.
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OssanAmerica
globalwatcher, I was unaware that the Secretary of Commerce had anything to do with the State Department. Additonally the scope of US trade relations with Iceland as opposed to Japan is incomparable. Even further, the claim that some country is violating the 1892 moratorium on commercial whaling has no bearing on a country that is NOT engaged in commercial whaling.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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OssanAmerica
The Senkakus are not part of Formosa(Taiwan) or the Paracels.
The Senkakus never became Japanese territory by any agreement between Japan and China.
The Senkakus were never part of Taiwan. Furthermore they were never taken from China (Qing/Ching) by force as they were Terra Nullius when Japan followed proper Internationally accepted procedure to incorpoirate them in early 1884. For these reasons the victorius allied powers did not include them in territories to be returned to their previous owners.
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OssanAmerica
Any Chinese movie about WWII is a propaganda film. Proof is that there have been films that didn't contain ENOUGH propaganda and the director was chastised or worse. Remember Devils at the Doorstep? Christan Bale either doesn't pay too much attention to reality or as a party to this film simply has to tow the party line. He's not much of an actor anyway imho.
Posted in: Christian Bale denies Nanjing Massacre film is propaganda
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OssanAmerica
That's fine. The base will be providing information to the US 7th Fleet. Excellent idea.
Posted in: LDP's Ishihara wants base on China-claimed islands
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OssanAmerica
Japan conducts Research Whaling under the IWC regulations. The IWC itself is a regulatory body for the whaing industry. It is also tasked with ensuring that global stocks are not depleted. To that end the IWC Scientific Committee utilizes the data provided from research whaling. The IWC is not an academic marine biology research center. That is not their charter and not their goal. Japan's position is entirely defended by their compliance with those IWC regulations. The IWC exempts research whaling from recognizing moratoriums and sanctuaries. It's all in writing at the IWC website. Which, explains why the anti-whaing nations can only "express dissappointment" and many anti-whaling advocates can only deny the facts. Of course many of them have never bothered to read the IWC site either. The closest Japan came to ceasing it's completely legal research whaling was when the IWC offered a compromise in 2010 to break the gridlock between the two fafctions. However this was undermined by Australia and other anti-whaling nations who refused to compromise at all. A moment of thought suggests that the anti-whaling nations are in conflict with the IWC charter to start with and they should not even be members. Perhaps they should start an Anti-IWC where their regulations will apply soleley to their members.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt
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OssanAmerica
Really? What action is US State Dept which has absolutely nothing to do with whaling taking? What exactly are they "taking over"? If you read the article you would realize that those countries "expressed dissappointment". That's not exactly what anyone would call an operation of any consequence.
Nope the verdict is likely years ahead and when the ICJ finally gets around to hearing the Australian claim.
Agree SSCSI should cease their lawless acts of violence, go home and demonstrate peacefully like all the other anti-whaling orgaizations.
Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt