Rekishika said...

Rekishika at 06:31 PM JST - 6th September

Well, international border disputes happen all the time and everywhere, and most of the time each side drags in feuds from the past as political expedients.

There appears to be no point in letting this escalate. Is there any value except prestige or losing face in these islands?

In the…

Posted in Instead of being apologetic, Japan is becoming more and more brazen. This worries me. It has to stop. at 06:31 PM JST - 6th September
Rekishika at 08:08 PM JST - 16th August

What started out as a discussion on the near-future fate of the LDP has understandably turned into a far more interesting discussion on the possibility of more democracy in Japan. What is democracy in the first place? Some think of free elections, parliaments and institutions like that. Other think it's…

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Rekishika at 06:42 PM JST - 26th July

Lay jury systems have a history of causing injustice. The reason is to let untrained people decide the often complex cases of guilt or innocence. If there is a problem with prejudice of any kind in any society, a lay jury will bring it to light. That being said, I…

Posted in How effective do you think the lay jury system will be when it starts in Japan next year? at 06:42 PM JST - 26th July
Rekishika at 06:35 PM JST - 26th July

A difficult one. There are always some unclarities over borders and territory. Where there's also bitterness over the mutual past, these can quickly erupt into bitter disputes. In this case, one government is in denial over the past and goes to great lengths trying to teach it's people to be…

Posted in S Korea reportedly plans to build hotel on disputed islets at 06:35 PM JST - 26th July
Rekishika at 05:24 PM JST - 12th July

Ranking 5th in this list, with only having to look up to countries with a long-standing peaceful tradition like Iceland and Norway, is certainly a very good achievement. It is difficult to say if Japan can work it's way up still further, the conditions are less in favour than with…

Posted in Japan ranked 5th most peaceful country in world at 05:24 PM JST - 12th July
Rekishika at 05:34 PM JST - 29th June

I'm not a legal specialist, but I think as the defence attorney I would make a great deal out of the incident with the Taiwanese fishing boat. The circumstances are not precisely the same, but they appear to be similar enough to place the prosecution and the courts into a…

Posted in MSDF, 4 officers designated as 'defendants' in accident inquiry at 05:34 PM JST - 29th June
Rekishika at 05:31 PM JST - 29th June

We all have our Tsuyoshi Shimakura's about one thing or another, the holocaust... the Red Indians... slave trade... the Aztecs and Inca... Every country that has been more powerful than another has some black page in history and I suspect that every country that doesn't have one is was incapable…

Posted in Japan's colonial rule of Korea not fact, says city education board head at 05:31 PM JST - 29th June
Rekishika at 02:42 PM JST - 22nd June

Well, in some ironic ways resuming commercial hunting is better to stomach than calling it 'scientific research' and trying to evade the discussion by making it a semantic problem...

The 'scientific research' is not a program that can find easy credibility. We're talking about 1000 'samples' a year, if extrapolated…

Posted in Japan may resume commercial whaling if IWC talks do not progress at 02:42 PM JST - 22nd June
Rekishika at 06:42 PM JST - 21st June

Well, one can argue a lot about the death penalty. In answer to those who asked about 100% certainty about 100% of the defendants being guilty, the system used in European law is based on pushing the number of innocent convictions back to 20%. That is a sobering thought, the…

Posted in Justice chief protests being called 'specter of death' in newspaper column at 06:42 PM JST - 21st June
Rekishika at 06:31 PM JST - 21st June

Well, from what I've been told by now by contacts, it was the crew of the patrol vessel that brought the crew of the fishing boat in a position where the latter could not physically avoid collision anymore... This also fits into other experiences with authorities.

However, it takes moral…

Posted in Japan apologizes, offers compensation to Taiwan over boat sinking at 06:31 PM JST - 21st June