Thomas Anderson's past comments

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    Thomas Anderson

    I'd say put more cameras on trains, and let the women report anonymously. If they're caught on camera then they'd be arrested or forced to pay a hefty fine.

    Posted in: Tokyo police hold events to help stamp out molesting on trains

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    Thomas Anderson

    It certainly doesn't need to be nuclear-armed, but it does need to revise Article 9.

    You need some kind of healthy economy to afford a military.

    No, Japan already spends 3rd or 4th the most amount of money on military worldwide.

    Posted in: It seems that Japan can only be taken seriously by its Asian neighbors, especially rising China, and become a normal nation-state if it emerges from under the American security umbrella. It needs to revise MacArthur’s constitution and become a nuclear-armed military power.

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    Thomas Anderson

    It is rather sad, that some people are still making excuses. Perhaps the Japanese should wonder, instead of feeling victimized and "bashed" whenever they are criticized over this, why their own view of their country's past is so different from the views of the rest of the world? Perhaps the reason is because THEY got it all wrong, and not the rest of the world?

    You are being fooled by your own government. Your government commits mass war crimes, and they get it away because you have been conveniently brainwashed to "defend" your own government whenever they are criticized. Are you still going to make further excuses when the Japanese government commits crimes in the future? Probably. Who is going to lose over this? What do you gain when you defend your own government? Nothing. You lose everything and gain nothing.

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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    Thomas Anderson

    Sadly, the only people who are still denying Japanese WW2 atrocities to this day are the JAPANESE... I'd say this is mostly the fault of the Japanese (right-wing) government.

    (the Russian raped over 2,000,000 women, which is somewhat worse since there were not paid, given food, or housing by the Russians).

    This is kind of off-topic, but actually they were "paid"... the Soviet soldiers who raped those women left cigarettes and some foods after they raped them... which obviously does not make the act any better. Apparently, to the sex slave deniers the fact that they were "paid" makes it all okay. It does not make it okay. Those "comfort women" were denied of any freedom, freedom to go outside, freedom to leave, freedom to deny, thereby effectively making their "occupation" equal to slavery.

    http://www.47news.jp/CN/201306/CN2013060401002072.html

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

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    Thomas Anderson

    With TPP, corporations will have more rights than the host country.

    Posted in: Lawmakers press Obama to include currency rules in TPP trade deal

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    Thomas Anderson

    I wonder how many people in anti-whaling countries know the latter half of paragraph 10(e).

    lol @ you for thinking this has anything to do with "pro-whaling countries vs anti-whaling countries". Actually, why are countries involved at all?

    Posted in: Endangered whale meat imported from Iceland used for Japan dog treats: NGOs

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    Thomas Anderson

    I doubt it... Hashimoto is done. I'm not sure why Komeito opposed it.

    Posted in: Censure motion against Hashimoto voted down

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    Thomas Anderson

    lol, people still defend whaling "because it's our culture"... So irrational...

    Posted in: Endangered whale meat imported from Iceland used for Japan dog treats: NGOs

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    Thomas Anderson

    Wow, you really don't get it, do you. The US government obviously wants to keep North Korea as the big, bad, irrational hypothetical enemy.

    It does not prohibit negotiations with "Rogue States".

    looooooool, they are called rogue states because they are considered to be (supposedly) irrational, self-destructive and can not be negotiated with. But obviously this is all just propaganda. Why would the US want Japan to break off that illusion? North Korea is no supposed to be able to be negotiated with!

    Posted in: Abe says N Korean leader capable of settling abduction issue

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    Thomas Anderson

    Well it looks like he won't be facing censure motion because Komeito opposed it.

    Posted in: Censure motion against Hashimoto voted down

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    Thomas Anderson

    Banning whaling because of inhumane killing methods is a comically absurd and is a very, very poor reason.

    Lol. It already is banned for many animals.

    Posted in: Endangered whale meat imported from Iceland used for Japan dog treats: NGOs

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    Thomas Anderson

    If YOU were American, you'd be aware that North Korea was removed from the list of States sponsoring terrorism several years ago.

    North Korea is still considered a "rogue state". And no, I'm not an American.

    Posted in: Abe says N Korean leader capable of settling abduction issue

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    Thomas Anderson

    ＞You can direct a series of incidents, they are trying to divide the friendship of Japan and the United States.

    I thought Hashimoto has done that job already.

    Posted in: Censure motion against Hashimoto voted down

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    Thomas Anderson

    Why does Japan always seem to be a hot topic in a South Korean news site?

    why do Japanese news site care so much about what goes on in Korea and Koreans?...hilarious.

    It's because they secretly love each other... they just can't stop talking about each other.

    Posted in: S Korea's plastic surgery fad goes extreme

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    Thomas Anderson

    Anyone who actually believes that the U.S. is "upset" at Japan for communicating with NK at a time when their rhetoric and actions have burned all channels between NK and the US and SK, is very very naïve.

    I thought you were an American, you should know this stuff. The US government doesn't believe in "negotiating" with the "terrorist" "rogue nations". The US wants everyone to believe that the NK is so evil and irrational that it can't be rationally negotiated with.

    Posted in: Abe says N Korean leader capable of settling abduction issue

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    Thomas Anderson

    Who writes this stuff? I know SK is upset because of their utter failure in Kaesong as well as anything Japan does but U.S.??

    Uh nigelboy, I'm pretty sure the US doesn't want Japan negotiating with North Korea.

    Posted in: Abe says N Korean leader capable of settling abduction issue

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    Thomas Anderson

    Vast Right-Wing Conspirator

    If you want to save an endangered species, the best thing to do is to commercialize it and throw it open to the free market.

    lol market fundamentalist.

    As is attacking it.

    No, because there is a legitimate reason for attacking it. Whaling defenders have no reason but "it's our culture", which is no real explanation.

    Posted in: Endangered whale meat imported from Iceland used for Japan dog treats: NGOs

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    Thomas Anderson

    Imagine if the plane crashed in Tokyo?

    Posted in: Air Force grounds F-15s on Okinawa for inspections

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    Thomas Anderson

    Well anyway, I don't know how US is supposed to win a war against China when they can't even win a war against the Middle East. Vietnam was a disaster as well. Even if China starts a war, it would be a lose lose situation for all. That's why after the WW2 the we have all internationally agreed to focus more on diplomacy and peaceful resolutions for any conflicts between countries.

    The US has been completely bankrupted since the "war on terror". The US has been going downhill ever since, and the world doesn't even know it, especially Japan who should not really be depending on US at all for defense and diplomacy anymore.

    Posted in: U.S. F-15 fighter crashes 115 kms east of Okinawa

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    Thomas Anderson

    CH3CHO

    Thomas Anderson, if many people eat whale meat, does that justify whaling?

    Of course not.

    There are many opinion researches on whaling and large majority of Japanese support sustainable whaling. Many say that they will restart eating whales once commercial whaling is resumed.

    Again, who? Show some data.

    Assuming there is little demand for whale meat is a very shaky ground for anti-whaling group to stand on, because pro-whaling people can topple that assumption just by eating whales. What a delicious way of proving demand.

    The entire argument is that there aren't enough people who even want to eat whale meat in the first place. Who are the pro-whaling people? There aren't that many.

    The argument about humane killing and intelligence of whales is in the realm of religion for me.

    It's not religion, you don't go out and torture and kill your dog or some other pets, do you? In fact I believe torturing animals is illegal in most countries.

    @ihope2eatwhales

    Your plea for "tolerance" and using the "culture" defense is often repeated in Japan and is amusing, but ultimately futile. You can't possibly defend whaling just because it's supposedly part of culture. You're not actually giving out any rational reason why whaling should be continued, other than that it's "culture". "We do this because it's our culture" is tautology, which is another way of saying "We do this because we do this".

    Posted in: Endangered whale meat imported from Iceland used for Japan dog treats: NGOs

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