Shumatsu_Samurai said...

Shumatsu_Samurai at 06:39 AM JST - 7th May

So groups like these will complain when the US decides to be the "world policeman", yet at the same time they don't want Japan or their respective countries to get involved.

So if the US can't get involved, Japan can't get involved, Russia and China don't want to get involved,…

Posted in Article 9 conference concludes with call for Japan to keep pacifist constitution at 06:39 AM JST - 7th May
Shumatsu_Samurai at 03:50 PM JST - 1st May

After reinstating the taxes, Fukudas plan to use the funds for purposes other than road building will be quietly forgotten.

If so the DPJ will have squandered a good opportunity to change that. They shouldn't have thrown their toys out of the pram and sulked.

Posted in Revote on tax bill set to reinstate gasoline tax surcharges at 03:50 PM JST - 1st May
Shumatsu_Samurai at 10:24 PM JST - 27th April

"unwarranted and unwise" call by Japanese FM

So you think the lies and deception from China are better?

Posted in Komura urges China to come clean on Tibet at 10:24 PM JST - 27th April
Shumatsu_Samurai at 06:22 AM JST - 21st April

Either way, it's clearly a subjective guess on your part, and not at all as 'obvious' as you seem to think it is.

So your other suggestion, especially given the timing, is what then? If the only other option is Japanese trying to undermine relations with China by attacking something…

Posted in Temple sprayed with graffiti after withdrawing from Olympic torch relay at 06:22 AM JST - 21st April
Shumatsu_Samurai at 05:18 AM JST - 21st April

seesonsam that's nonsense. It is highly unlikely that right-wing Japanese would do something like that because they probably respect the temple a lot.

It was probably down to some Chinese students or whatever. Not necessarily a large number, but the timing makes the nationality/ethnicity of the culprits quite obvious. Don't…

Posted in Temple sprayed with graffiti after withdrawing from Olympic torch relay at 05:18 AM JST - 21st April
Shumatsu_Samurai at 06:44 PM JST - 20th April

Is this still the shame thing over the IJA's defeat 60+ years on, or reliance on the US nuclear umbrella or what?

Some countries just don't feel the military needs to be supported much. They probably just take it for granted.

Posted in at 06:44 PM JST - 20th April
Shumatsu_Samurai at 06:57 PM JST - 19th April

Those countries most concern about Tibet should take the exiles/refugees off the PRC border as immigrants. The unrest would lessen.

Not necessarily - it might make things worse if people couldn't go back. They want to remain in Tibet, but they're tired of the oppression there.

The PRC should start…

Posted in Fukuda tells China that Tibet is an international issue at 06:57 PM JST - 19th April
Shumatsu_Samurai at 02:50 AM JST - 19th April

The temple needs to have any tax exempt status taken away RIGHT NOW, since they have announced themselves as a political organization.

Rubbish. If anything it has shown that it doesn't want to get sucked into politics. Beijing made the Olympics political by using it to generate nationalism in China.…

Posted in Zenkoji Temple declines Olympic torch relay role; sponsors cancel plans to offer vehicles at 02:50 AM JST - 19th April
Shumatsu_Samurai at 06:13 AM JST - 17th April

Hu tells (the truth) but who listens?

The only people who believe Hu's "truth" are those with their heads stuck in the sand.

Hu Jintao is a boring robot who was manufactured in a factory somewhere. He gets software updates from time to time, but they're not very good and…

Posted in Hu tells Japanese lawmakers Tibet riots plot to pressure China at 06:13 AM JST - 17th April
Shumatsu_Samurai at 02:13 AM JST - 11th April

Hiko

I wasn't talking about the initial candidates - I was talking about the new deputy governor, which I think was what Fukuda was really annoyed about. Maybe he could live with the initial candidates being rejected, but to indicate someone could take over and then do a U-turn at…

Posted in Fukuda vents irritation at DPJ chief Ozawa at 02:13 AM JST - 11th April