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  RepublicofTexas at 08:55 AM JST - 6th August

  I think the report exaggerates French involvement.

  we fought an honorable war and treated our enemy with respect.

  So Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, and the killing of civilians never happened...right...

  Posted in France took part in 1994 genocide: Rwandan report at 08:55 AM JST - 6th August

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  RepublicofTexas at 08:52 AM JST - 6th August

  If you dont support Bush, you dont support freedom and peace.

  That's the slogan that forced us into the WAR in Iraq. "If you don't support us your anti-american, etc."

  Posted in Bush greeted by demonstrations in South Korea at 08:52 AM JST - 6th August

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  RepublicofTexas at 08:51 AM JST - 6th August

  Japan is a balance of East and West

  Posted in In the world of geopolitics, do you think of Japan as part of the West? at 08:51 AM JST - 6th August

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  RepublicofTexas at 08:18 AM JST - 6th August

  Besides, how about criticizing the rough way these protestors were treated?

  The protestors themselves weren't exactly blameless.

  Posted in Bush greeted by demonstrations in South Korea at 08:18 AM JST - 6th August

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  RepublicofTexas at 08:12 AM JST - 6th August

  Is this true? Not too long ago I saw a show on the History Channel showing Tokyo's state-of-the-art flood control systems (like the G-cans). Maybe they exaggerated the system's capabilities, but it seemed like it would work.

  Posted in Tokyo won't be able to cope with Katrina-like flooding at 08:12 AM JST - 6th August

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  RepublicofTexas at 07:57 AM JST - 6th August

  Though Japan shares many traits with the West, I don't think that Japan is/ever will be a part of the West. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. Too many people confuse Westernization with modernization. A country can be modern and enlightened without being Western.

  Japan is not located in the…

  Posted in In the world of geopolitics, do you think of Japan as part of the West? at 07:57 AM JST - 6th August

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  RepublicofTexas at 07:48 AM JST - 6th August

  Japan needs China and Korea much more than they need Japan.

  Japan and the rest of the world might need China, but no one really "needs" Korea.

  Simple solution: exhume and bury elsewhere the ashes of the war criminals, family objections regardless.

  It is debated as to whether Shintoism…

  Posted in Fukuda says he won't visit Yasukuni on Aug 15, but justice minister will at 07:48 AM JST - 6th August

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  RepublicofTexas at 02:13 AM JST - 6th August

  perhaps there would be less of a negative reaction if the Prime Minister were to visit on the anniversary of the Meiji Restoration.

  Good idea

  Posted in Fukuda says he won't visit Yasukuni on Aug 15, but justice minister will at 02:13 AM JST - 6th August

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  RepublicofTexas at 01:27 AM JST - 6th August

  I believe that what Japan did during WWII was horrible and should never be forgotten, but I wish that people would understand that just as not all Germans were Nazis, not all Japanese were militarists.

  it's a very interesting contrast.

  I think it shows that war is filled with…

  Posted in Japan presents such a different way of looking at conflict because you've got a dichotomy: the treatment of allied prisoners of war by the Japanese and the harsh conditions in Thailand, Burma and Japan itself, and the flip-side of that being the suffering that the Japanese experienced both through the firebombing campaign and the atomic bombs, so it's a very interesting contrast. at 01:27 AM JST - 6th August

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  RepublicofTexas at 01:19 AM JST - 6th August

  The fact that the war criminals were enshrined in the first place is the real problem. Yasukuni itself has been a war memorial to those who have died in Japan's wars since the Bonshin War and it's sad that a Japanese Prime Minister can't properly honor his nation's war dead…

  Posted in Fukuda says he won't visit Yasukuni on Aug 15, but justice minister will at 01:19 AM JST - 6th August