JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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OssanULTRA
"You do know that there were a lot of convicted Japanese executed elsewhere, right? I would hope so."
Yes I am aware of that. But you fail to realize that the point IS the 14 Class A War Criminals. Until they were enshrined at Yasukuni, this was not an issue. In truth, nobody cared about all other lesser ones, and, perhaps more importantly, nobody excluding yourself cares now either. Are you intereted in resolving this issue? Or expanding it to the point that resolution becomes even more difficult?
Posted in: Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine
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OssanULTRA
"You guys do not mind if they are honored at Yasukuni, too?"
No not really. Anyone who has looked into the Tokyo War Crimes trials knows that it really was a Victor's Trial. Hence, there is no end to the number of people you can blame as "crimminals" of varying degrees. In today's day and age, I would say that many of these convictions deserve to be reviewed, an enormous time and resource consuming process. The 14 Class-A crimminals are the ones at the heart of the Shrine controversy and it can be reasonably resolved. Your suggestion is based on princople but ignores the reality of resources and the desire to close this issue, and opens up a whole new can of worms.
Posted in: Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine
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OssanULTRA
"If you say that Japan supports US aggression by un-qualified self-interest, then either those polis in the Diet are ignoring their constituents or Japan in general hasn't learned its lesson from WWII."
Sure they have. You don't see them re-writing their constitution and sending troops in a COMBAT role to Iraq or Afghanistan do you?
Posted in: Yasukuni
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OssanULTRA
If they would remove the 14 or so Class-A War Criminals from the shrine, I really wouldn't have a problem with it. Officially, the Emperor Hirohito was not completely responsible for Japan's WWII aggression (although he did offer to take the blame entirely) a point which is debatable and may have had more to do with our interests in setting up occupation and keeping the russkies out of Japan. However, it is also a known fact that the Japanese cabinet ws effectivly under the complete control of the Minister of the Army and Minister of the Navy, therefore it is also readily arguable that the Japanese Govt had been hijacked by the military using the Emperor's name as a justification of their authority. A look at Japanese history shows that most of Japan's Imperial rule has not been with the Emperor but with Military Leaders who ran the country. If it makes sense that the men who fought for the Tokugawa Bakufu against the Imperial Army in the Boshin War are not enshrined in Yasukuni, the very same argument could be made for the Class-A WAr Crimminals, most of whom were high level Military Leaders running WWII Japan.
Posted in: Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine
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OssanULTRA
I am sure the NKoreans can get more money and aid out of Skorea simply by shooting more Skorean tourists. Don't know why but it seems to work.
Posted in: South Korea's Lee urges North to abandon nuclear bombs
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OssanULTRA
"Interesting how Germany can honor their dead without a backlash from Europe. Why cant Japan do the same? The answer is there are very distinct differences between the way the Germans and Japanese handled themselves prior to, during and after the war."
I don't see any differnce except for after the war.
Posted in: Yasukuni
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OssanULTRA
'Sarge: Dude... you really gotta pull your head out of your... for this one; they're NOT marking the end of the war, they're showing their support for the Imperial Japan they went to war FOR! I'm sure some of them, in black trucks to boot, would indeed call for the resurrection of the 'glory days' as these pathetic men are doing. I wish they would go to China with these flags and walk down the street... see what happens!"
Smith will you please just take a chill pill and stop jumping on everyone with your silly anti-JP hysterics? Nothing in the photograph or the caption suggests that Sarge may be wrong. Likewise nothing supports your speculation either.
Posted in: Yasukuni
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OssanULTRA
"Now, for those who believe that all the dead worshiped at Yasukuni are just "plain" souls and for that all equal and all to be respected, I would recommend to think a bit about the implications of what was said of them in 1938 in an article of the Japan Times (written on the occasion of a visit there by Tenno). Forgive me for an approximative rendering, this article has been translated into French and back into English"
In 1938 the Emperor of Japan was a God and Shintoism was the national state religion upon which the Military leaders built their facist Imperial Japan. Post WWII the Emperor Hirohito declared that he was not a God on national radio heard by all Japanese. The survivors of WWII anyway. I don't think that statement from 1938 applies today considering the complete change in the position of the Emperor and the Shinto reliogn itself.
Posted in: Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine
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OssanULTRA
Actually alot of people go to the Yasukuni Shrine. Some to pray for deceased family members, some to pay respects to the war dead, and the vast majority to pray for peace.
Posted in: Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine
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OssanULTRA
"Yeoh, who was born in Malaysia, said she was pleased to see “The Mummy” franchise come to China. “Of course, we don’t have mummies in China, though there are a lot of them running around in this movie."
A link for Michelle Yeoh. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/taklamakan.html
Posted in: Mummy's boy
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OssanULTRA
" don't know why so many put Hispanics into one group. We are just as diverse as Europeans are and we, just like they do, have rivalries and discourse."
I believe Hispanics are grouped together based on Spanish being the spoken language, although the official reason would be geographical. The same type of general grouping is applied to Asian-Americans, and as we all know by now, Asians are just as diverse as any other group and ideology wise maybe even more so. There they don't share the same language but do share geography.
Posted in: White Americans no longer a majority by 2042
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OssanULTRA
Make them clean up after the games are over.
Posted in: Up to 8 activists detained after Olympics protest
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OssanULTRA
The NKoreans themselves have admitted to the acts and are prepared to work towards a resolution. People who have nothing to say other than to support NKOrea and aimlessly criticize Japan based on speculation as to what they may or may not do ought to take it somewhere else. Nitpicking about proving death or existence is ridiculous since now that both parties are going to work together to investigate, sufficient circumstancial evidence may be uncovered which may be enough to close a case. Of course if one wants to believe in some wackjob conspiracy theory involving ultranationalists none of this simple logic is going to make any sense.
Posted in: Japan, North Korea agree to reinvestigate abductions
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OssanULTRA
Except it's in China according to the article.
Posted in: Up to 8 activists detained after Olympics protest
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OssanULTRA
"IMDB user comment: "Skinny, attractive woman who couldn't act if it were cursed on her... This movie is about as intelligent as a log."
Personally I'd question the intelligence of any reviwer who expects any intelligence from a J-Horror film.
Posted in: Actress Megumi Okina appears at Japan premiere of horror film 'Shutter'
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OssanULTRA
I've never heard of a Chinese female named Miaoke. If I heard it I'd swear it was Japanese.
Posted in: Olympic opening uses girl's voice, not face
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OssanULTRA
What a question. Sure the opening ceremony was beautiful. But the laborers who built that Birds Nest stadium have all been sent back home to the country. China put on a "pretty face" for the big show. At any price. Just ask the poor who lost their homes to te construction. Once the Olympics are over, I suspect they're going to try to keep that pretty face to the world (see? we're not so bad) but internally they'll be worse than ever before stomping down any resistance in Tibet and that Uigher region.
Posted in: Do you think the Olympics will bring democratic and economic reforms to China?
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OssanULTRA
These uyoku are on the fringe of Japanese society. No one takes them seriously, except perhaps themselves. I hae yet to meet a Japanese person who didn't think they were nutbags. These black truck boys are no more influential on Japanedse government and society as skinheads and neonazis. Of course, the mainland anti-J consistently repeat how the Uyoku control the JP govt because Japan is still the old Imperial War Machine of decades gone by. This is pure hogwash and no better proof exists than the inability of the Japanese govt and people to get rid of Article 9. Worse, it puts the United States, which has been trying to re-militarize (normalize) Japan since the Korean War into the same so-called right wing JP govt group.
Posted in: Each Aug 15, Yasukuni area turns into riot zone
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OssanULTRA
OK, the outfit does leave something to be desired.
Posted in: Kou Shibasaki finishes nationwide tour
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OssanULTRA
She's come quite a ways since the chopfest with Kuriyama Aki in Battle Royale. Good for her.
Posted in: Kou Shibasaki finishes nationwide tour