Seiharinokaze said...

Seiharinokaze at 02:08 PM JST - 13th June

I dont think the Islands should go back to Japan, yes Russia did break the non-aggression pact with japan, however Japan attempted an invasion of the soviet union in 1939 it launched a surprise attack against Russia in 1905, Japan historically has been the aggressor against Russia.

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Posted in Should Russia return the four disputed islands off Hokkaido to Japan? at 02:08 PM JST - 13th June
Seiharinokaze at 03:10 PM JST - 10th June

Paul Klugman kept calling Japan all sorts of names and insisted on inflation targeting to fix its economy, criticizing the Bank of Japan's tight-money policy all these years. But recently he began to apologize to Japan, saying that wiser men in the west criticized Japan during its lost decades for…

Posted in Japan can do without preaching on how to fix its economy at 03:10 PM JST - 10th June
Seiharinokaze at 03:49 PM JST - 9th June

After the burst of the bubble economy of Japan in 1990's, the U.S. government criticized this country for its lax way of bad debt disposal and window dressing. But what Anglo-Americans are doing now is more than just what Japan used to do.They made new accounting rules to let financial…

Posted in Japan can do without preaching on how to fix its economy at 03:49 PM JST - 9th June
Seiharinokaze at 02:18 PM JST - 5th June

The key note of the peace treaty was to let the world "recognize" that Japan at the time was not able to pay war reparation so that the Allied nations should basically waive war reparation claims including those of their nationals against Japan. (Article 14) This may be an unamendable…

Posted in Should the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco be amended to allow surviving ex-POWs and their kin to take legal action for compensation against the Japanese government? at 02:18 PM JST - 5th June
Seiharinokaze at 01:39 AM JST - 3rd June

Wasn't the peace treaty a means to keep the Emperor's Golden Lily as booty and not to distribute it?

Posted in Should the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco be amended to allow surviving ex-POWs and their kin to take legal action for compensation against the Japanese government? at 01:39 AM JST - 3rd June
Seiharinokaze at 06:21 PM JST - 2nd June

The fox is the messenger of the god Inari. Fushimi-Inari is the guardian god of Hata-clan who originally believed in Nestorianism. Some argue that Inari is a corrupted form of I.N.R.I. or Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews (John 19: 19). It's interesting that Christ…

Posted in Good luck at 06:21 PM JST - 2nd June
Seiharinokaze at 01:00 PM JST - 29th May

Joseph Nye perhaps doesn't want to witness a regime change in this country by a new government that may still possibly be ruled by a supposedly retired boss who undauntedly says that Japan needs not more than the 7th Fleet as any U.S. presence in the Far East, adding that…

Posted in Japan welcomes nomination of Roos as U.S. ambassador at 01:00 PM JST - 29th May
Seiharinokaze at 10:52 PM JST - 26th April

Perhaps after years of peregrination as a widowed refugee with a daughter, Mrs Dewi has got to see things in the cold light of day and rather looks askew at anything overenthusiastic. She also said that China and Korea are making too big a deal over the Yasukuni Shrine. She…

Posted in Dewi Sukarno throws potted plants at rightist at 10:52 PM JST - 26th April
Seiharinokaze at 06:31 PM JST - 23rd April

OK, I will rewrite, moderator. Yasukuni issue perhaps won't go away easily because the Kellogg-Briand Pact was something applied for once in a way to the prosecution/judgement on Japan at the Tokyo Trial. Not something applied consistently or equally. That's why many Japanese are rather non-judgmental and equivocal if not…

Posted in What is the best way to settle the Yasukuni Shrine issue? at 06:31 PM JST - 23rd April
Seiharinokaze at 01:55 PM JST - 22nd April

Why don't they get as upset when the Emperor the head of state sends his envoy to the shrine biannually and has him offer something a bit more gorgeous than a pot of the sacred tree branches and even read a formulary in front of the deities for all these…

Posted in Aso makes offering to Yasukuni Shrine at 01:55 PM JST - 22nd April