Seiharinokaze said...

Seiharinokaze at 12:02 AM JST - 5th November

Okinawans' outcry which the government seems to make most of at present may augur something bigger than just the locals' long standing complaint. In a broader perspective, it's not so much about the discord between Japan and the U.S., still less security crisis of East Asia, as about the emergence…

Posted in U.S. warns Japan against reneging on Okinawa base relocation deal at 12:02 AM JST - 5th November
Seiharinokaze at 03:55 PM JST - 2nd November

Historically speaking, China doesn't consider herself to be in East Asia. East Asia or east ocean 東洋 from the standpoint of China means Japan. China thinks she is the center of Asia or even the world. So China may rather think herself to belong to the Central Asia or more…

Posted in Australia ponders place in Japan's East Asian Community at 03:55 PM JST - 2nd November
Seiharinokaze at 05:07 PM JST - 29th October

At last they are calling a halt to postal privatization which is no less than selling the national wealth of postal savings and life insurance to foreign capitals as part of the U.S.-Japan Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative which pursues American national interests all the way more than anything…

Posted in Japan Post under new management led by former bureaucrats at 05:07 PM JST - 29th October
Seiharinokaze at 07:01 PM JST - 26th October

The enemy is not necessarily on the horizon but on the home front. I hope he may not have to pay a price for the defi.

Posted in No Futenma relocation, no transfer of Marines to Guam, Gates says at 07:01 PM JST - 26th October
Seiharinokaze at 11:32 PM JST - 25th October

Seeing ASEAN at core of East Asian community and stressing U.S. ties may be counterbalance by Japan who is put on the defensive against emerging China. But I didn't know that PM Hatoyama's great-grandfather was a member of the secret society Genyosha. The concept of East Asian community is sometimes…

Posted in Japan sees ASEAN at core of East Asian community, but stresses U.S. ties at 11:32 PM JST - 25th October
Seiharinokaze at 02:41 PM JST - 24th October

Something unheard-of and extraordinary seems to be happening.

Posted in U.S. urges Japan to decide on base issue before Obama's visit at 02:41 PM JST - 24th October
Seiharinokaze at 01:39 PM JST - 24th October

Probably the irony or fury of the shrine is that the perpetrators of aggressive expansion and other atrocities by Japan were condemned while those by the West were not even in the contemporary sense, though you acknowledge that they were no less evil and wrong. Visiting the graves and memorials…

Posted in 54 lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine for annual autumn festival at 01:39 PM JST - 24th October
Seiharinokaze at 11:05 PM JST - 23rd October

And so the Westerners lost grounds for continuing to have Asia unliberated too by condemning their stupid follower either intentionally or unintentionally. That may be part of what the shrine is telling tacitly abhorrent to the whole world. A site of present day Onryo shinko.

Posted in 54 lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine for annual autumn festival at 11:05 PM JST - 23rd October
Seiharinokaze at 04:40 PM JST - 21st October

Simon_Foston,

Japan was not a hero but an awkward late comer who tried to follow the West and blundered. And she was charged for what she did. If so how could the West hold on to what they obtained by doing almost similar things as Japan?

I agree, however, with…

Posted in 54 lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine for annual autumn festival at 04:40 PM JST - 21st October
Seiharinokaze at 03:22 PM JST - 21st October

Kyotoites don't trust French sense of taste, perhaps. See what Rosanjin did at La Tour d'Argent.

Posted in Prominent Kyoto restaurants say no to Michelin at 03:22 PM JST - 21st October