Seiharinokaze said...

Seiharinokaze at 11:51 PM JST - 14th May

Prisoner of Love (the theme song of Last Friends) is just like Utada's tune again. Up-tempo minor ballad. I heard she wrote it in just 3 or 4 hours by making the best use of the drink bar at Jonathan. What a cool way of making a hit and wealth!

Posted in Singer Hikaru Utada hits million sales with new album at 11:51 PM JST - 14th May
Seiharinokaze at 02:42 PM JST - 14th May

To: borscht

Yes, I remember the Swiss rescue squad standing on the tarmac with calm yet somewhat painful expressions on their faces. I was impressed by such a prompt humanitarian action that a faraway western country took as a matter of course. Japan should follow. But Japan sent rescue/medical squads…

Posted in Japan to give Y500 million in aid to quake-hit China as death toll nears 12,000 at 02:42 PM JST - 14th May
Seiharinokaze at 04:59 PM JST - 13th May

Sorry I may have digressed. Anyway "Goshintai" such swords as housed in the shrine were never used during the wartime. The craftsmanship of the sword-smith in the film, the military action of Japan during WW2 and the worship object of Yasukuni have nothing to do with each other in themselves.…

Posted in 'Yasukuni' opens under heavy security; gets mixed reaction at 04:59 PM JST - 13th May
Seiharinokaze at 06:31 PM JST - 11th May

To amerijap:

But, it's quite hard for me to agree that such tension was caused primarily by the US, because Japan was also showing great hostility toward China. Both China and Japan had a historical bad blood for more than hundred of years.

It was not a one-way hostility. Japan…

Posted in 'Yasukuni' opens under heavy security; gets mixed reaction at 06:31 PM JST - 11th May
Seiharinokaze at 07:20 PM JST - 10th May

I agree that the U.S. shift in military strategy had tempted Chinese nationalism after WWII.

It's not about the U.S. military strategy after WWII. It's about the unrealistically friendly attitude of the U.S. toward China in 1920's after the Washington Conference that tempted Chinese nationalism to go out of control…

Posted in 'Yasukuni' opens under heavy security; gets mixed reaction at 07:20 PM JST - 10th May
Seiharinokaze at 07:40 PM JST - 8th May

For this reason, JP government's current intent of worshipping as the pursuit of everlasting peace is hampered by the role of shrine which produces seductive discourse of nostalgia for war legacy.

Perhaps such nostalgia might be more aptly termed as the Tokyo Trial syndrome or something. In Japan's view or…

Posted in 'Yasukuni' opens under heavy security; gets mixed reaction at 07:40 PM JST - 8th May
Seiharinokaze at 01:41 PM JST - 23rd April

Bottomline is nationalism is tradition and culture.

Everybody knows that CCP utilizes nationalism as its centripetal force to rule China. And it's been quite successful. Compared with decades ago, the Chinese people are now freer about how they speak and behave. By being enabled to give full play to their…

Posted in China urges 'calm' as anti-Western protests continue at 01:41 PM JST - 23rd April
Seiharinokaze at 05:48 PM JST - 16th April

“We continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we’re buying from Wal-Mart.”

Well they might think that they continue…

Posted in China demands apology from CNN after commentator calls Beijing 'bunch of goons and thugs' at 05:48 PM JST - 16th April
Seiharinokaze at 01:07 AM JST - 15th April

thepossum, actually that's what I wold like to ask. Japan's oil consumption has decreased from 5.7 to 5.1 million barrels a day in the last decade. So why CO2 increases to everybody's alarm and anxiety? Is that some kind of fraud?

Posted in Japanese increasingly concerned about prices, food safety: poll at 01:07 AM JST - 15th April
Seiharinokaze at 05:31 PM JST - 14th April

paolo27th, then I might say "we are facing crisis because we are getting greedier because of money"? I am surprised to know by reading a new book by Soejima Takahiko that Milton Friedman said that the financial market which was made complex out of the conventional futures market by the…

Posted in Japanese increasingly concerned about prices, food safety: poll at 05:31 PM JST - 14th April