Rekishika said...

Rekishika at 05:07 PM JST - 11th May

The LDP's idea is understandable, but like it's being said, it has been tried before. The results have not alway been stellar. It is one thing to provide human beings equal protection and equal opportunities. That balancing such a policy out without falling for the trap of the euphemistically called…

Posted in Gov't looks to immigrants as population shrinks at 05:07 PM JST - 11th May
Rekishika at 05:04 PM JST - 25th April

Well, Himajin, GrouchyGaijin, Dano2002, regarding the fingerprintin, the potential for deterring tourism is assuming that people go to other countries where that rule applies. To me, personally, that is the other way around, Japan is the exception where I go to despite the fingerprinting. I do not set foot in…

Posted in New Tourism Agency faces several barriers to boosting visitor numbers at 05:04 PM JST - 25th April
Rekishika at 04:42 PM JST - 25th April

About the idea of an aide to the Prime Minister, at first glance this looks like a good idea. However, there is an important problem to it. A painful history lesson. In your previous system, the Minister of War had to be a general in active service. Likewise, the Minister…

Posted in LDP panel proposes SDF officer as aide to PM at 04:42 PM JST - 25th April
Rekishika at 04:20 PM JST - 25th April

The discussion about moral decline is something of all places and all times. Interestingly enough, the same two arguments always rise to the surface about the source, that is comes from the modern age and that it comes from other cultures. These things are not exactly the same thing. Every…

Posted in Japan in need of moral education at 04:20 PM JST - 25th April
Rekishika at 04:31 PM JST - 21st April

It´s interesting that Japan Today chooses this particular comment. Looking up the article´s introduction (http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/content/news/MONdonaldmates0407.html), it turns out that this Donald Mates will take part in a Japanese documentary on Iwo Jima, the battlegrounds where he met them so long ago under such different circumstances. Regarding the motives, there´s more…

Posted in Back in the 1940s, every newspaper, every magazine, the movies, the radio, everything was geared that the Japanese were short, myopic, everyone wore glasses, they all had buck teeth, they were all interbred, they were rapists and they were just evil people. We had that drummed in our head. When I look at movies from the 1940s that I saw as a kid, they're absolutely ridiculous. You never saw such evil people. at 04:31 PM JST - 21st April
Rekishika at 01:58 AM JST - 18th April

I'm sorry to say that, apart from simply the bad PR of costs and inhospitable people (neither of which happen to be my experience), one of the obstacles would be the seizure of biometric data, and especially the difficulty in finding information/reassurance about how safe that data actually is in…

Posted in New Tourism Agency faces several barriers to boosting visitor numbers at 01:58 AM JST - 18th April