Rekishika said...

Rekishika at 04:30 PM JST - 15th June

Isn't this the third time in about four weeks? Regardless of any opinion on Japanese defense spending, for which there are many good ways as long as they fit in with what you want to achieve, this must be becoming a bit tedious. Someone in the Pentagon seems to think…

Posted in US official urges Japan to boost defense spending to keep forces on ready status at 04:30 PM JST - 15th June
Rekishika at 04:24 PM JST - 15th June

An interesting situation here.

First of all, the nationality of the fishing boat. I'd like to believe that, but what motive would Taiwan have to escalate the matter over a Chinese fishing boat, and China for that matter to keep quiet? It would make more sense were this the other…

Posted in Taiwan recalls top Japan rep as tensions rise over ship collision at 04:24 PM JST - 15th June
Rekishika at 05:53 PM JST - 31st May

It seems like a strong debate has flared up about the defense policy in Japan this week. Let's say it first that the choice how to deal with that is the Japanese choice to make, for better or worse. It may help though to have an outside view of the…

Posted in From war to peace - Japanese style at 05:53 PM JST - 31st May
Rekishika at 03:37 PM JST - 25th May

An interesting comment by Mr. Tamogami. His comment, which at the same time is both very right and very wrong, shows how difficult history is. Without deep and careful thought into the underlying causes, and without understanding how and why things worked as they did, it is very easy to…

Posted in ASDF chief urges students to learn about foreign views of WWII at 03:37 PM JST - 25th May
Rekishika at 03:26 PM JST - 24th May

Hmmmm, I suppose the best advice I could come up with when it comes to an enlightened self-interested urge by the honourable ambassador would be to carefully examine the idea to it's own merits... Japan is following her own course when it comes to defence. One can have criticism, that…

Posted in U.S. Ambassador Schieffer urges Japan to boost defense outlay at 03:26 PM JST - 24th May
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…

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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