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  Thunderbird2May. 18, 2013 - 02:44AM JST

  this is quite expected in a country full of aging pple

  So just because people are old they should start murdering each other? I fail to understand your logic.

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  Thunderbird2May. 18, 2013 - 02:41AM JST

  It was a metre long bear... not a giant slavering monster with drool dripping from its blood stained fangs...

  Wait a sec... how many of those who advocate the bear being shot are Americans for whom hunting bears and other wild animals is a rite of passage?

  Posted in: Bear shot dead after entering school in Ishikawa

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  Thunderbird2May. 17, 2013 - 11:28PM JST

  there were no rapes, those Japanese women were prostitutes. US soldiers should get what they paid for. Where are the evidence that there were any Japanese women and children being raped? I do not see any evidence at all, because there are no evidence of them. Give me one credible evidence that there were rapes of Japanese women, just one.

  You sound just like Hashimoto now. Read the section I took from Wiki... after the brothels were closed down the US servicemen started raping women. Whether Wiki are citing lies I don't know, but I took it to be factual.

  Again, not meaning to turn this around, but I felt I had to reply to Chucky's Hashimoto-esque rant.

  Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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  Thunderbird2May. 17, 2013 - 10:26PM JST

  I don't think any of here for a moment condone what Hashimoto is saying, but the stuff about the rapes in the early years of the occupation of Japan does make your stomach turn. American and French forces also gang-raped over 11,000 women in occupied Germany. Of course this has nothing to do with Hashimoto's remarks, but seen in context you can start to see why he would say what he said.

  Don't get me wrong, I despise the man to his very core... I just wanted to perhaps illustrate where he's getting his ideas about US rapes from.

  Personally I have always thought that there was something rather nasty about the US attitude towards the Japanese during the war, as if they saw them as sub-human. After all, US forces would call the Japanese monkeys for some reason, and the allied war effort was against Japan as a nation, unlike in Europe where the war effort was to defeat the Nazis.
  This is all probably off topic, but I just wanted to shove my opinion in.

  Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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  Thunderbird2May. 17, 2013 - 04:54PM JST

  Just found this on Wiki...

  Many Japanese civilians in the Japanese mainland feared that the Allied occupation troops were likely to rape Japanese women. The Japanese authorities set up a large system of prostitution facilities (RAA) in order to protect the population. According to John W. Dower, precisely as the Japanese government had hoped when it created the prostitution facilities, while the RAA was in place "the incidence of rape remained relatively low given the huge size of the occupation force". 130 However, there was a resulting large rise in venereal disease among the soldiers, which led the US army to close down the prostitution in early 1946. The incidence of rape increased after the closure of the brothels, possibly eight-fold; Dower states that "According to one calculation the number of rapes and assaults on Japanese women amounted to around 40 daily while the RAA was in operation, and then rose to an average of 330 a day after it was terminated in early 1946." Michael S. Molasky states that while rape and other violent crime was widespread in naval ports like Yokosuka and Yokohama during the first few weeks of occupation, according to Japanese police reports and journalistic studies, the number of incidents declined shortly after and were not common on mainland Japan throughout the rest of occupation. Two weeks into the occupation the Occupation administration began censoring all media, this included any mention of rape or other sensitive social issues...

  Just threw this in to widen the debate a wee bit. It doesn't justify any of Hashimoto's comments, but does expand the argument a bit.

  Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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  Thunderbird2May. 17, 2013 - 04:27PM JST

  Hey now the kids can have some bear meat for lunch instead of whale or dolphin!

  You're all heart...

  I'm pretty sure the bear could have been darted and released in another area free from people.

  Members of a local hunting association were alerted and one of them shot the bear behind the emergency stairs at the school building.

  Sounds like they cornered the poor bear... and he was only a metre long? That's tiny! I was expecting something like a brown bear, you know, man size. Big brave bear hunters...

  Posted in: Bear shot dead after entering school in Ishikawa

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  Thunderbird2May. 17, 2013 - 04:19PM JST

  That must have been a horror story in there... did he murder the mum first then go after the kids? This is horrible. RIP Shino and your children.

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 10:29PM JST

  Thunderbird2 - since very few people in Japan outside of a women's group in Okinawa have complained about Hashimoto's remarks, or Ishihara's constant racism, and indeed keep voting them back into office, Japan IS saying these hurtful things. The "ordinary man and woman on the street" is culpable if they don't have the integrity to speak up against these animals.

  So unless a person actively goes out of their way to condemn something in public you assume they agree with it?

  Posted in: Hashimoto offers to meet 'comfort women' to apologize

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 09:51PM JST

  Oh, and thanks for the negative marks above... I've never had so many ^_^

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 09:50PM JST

  I don't know why Japan keeps raising this issue with constant hurtful comments

  It isn't Japan that is saying the hurtful things - it's scum like Ishihara and Hashimoto. By generalising you are insulting the people of Japan. By all means hurl abuse at the politicians and apologists on the right, but leave the ordinary man and woman on the street out of it.

  Posted in: Hashimoto offers to meet 'comfort women' to apologize

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 05:08PM JST

  Wow, so many music experts.

  I'd rather listen to Japanese female pop singers than any number of rap, R&B or wet boy band stuff any day.

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 04:33PM JST

  As for Japan being a whipping boy for Asia wouldn't be if those in power were educated rather than de-educated.

  So turn on those in power, not my friends and loved ones, or the rest of the Japanese people.

  Posted in: Hashimoto offers to meet 'comfort women' to apologize

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 04:29PM JST

  I'll never understand how people can kill members of their own family. Yes, we all fall out and argue, but to KILL?

  RIP Sachiko.

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 04:20PM JST

  Beijing and Seoul maintain Japan has never faced up to its guilt or expressed sufficient remorse for its brutal warmongering.

  Yes it has... or what would be 'sufficient remorse'? Sacrificing the first born? Everyone in Japan signing a big card saying 'sorry'?

  But many in Japan feel events that took place seven decades earlier are used by nationalists abroad as a stick to beat it for their own domestic ends.

  And they are right - no other reason to keep on about it. It's purely political... a smokescreen for their own broken societies and corrupt governments. Japan has become SE Asia's whipping boy. Got a problem in your country? Blame it on Japan's war record. Easy to do and costs less than a press conference.

  Posted in: Hashimoto offers to meet 'comfort women' to apologize

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 04:11PM JST

  After the attacks on Japanese women and girls in Okinawa this piece of crap piles on even more hurt onto the island female population. Kick him into touch now... he really does need to be silenced.

  Posted in: Okinawan women demand apology from Hashimoto

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 04:06PM JST

  Graffiti is just vandalism... hoodie-wearing yobs with spray cans painting garbage onto walls.

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  Thunderbird2May. 16, 2013 - 04:02PM JST

  There are girls and young women in Glasgow starting to dress in Loligoth gear... not so much the normal Loli stuff, just the black and red gear with stuffed bunnies and silly little hats... oh and lots of frills. Sorry, but it IS kind of cute. (Prefer maids myself lol)

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  Thunderbird2May. 15, 2013 - 10:29PM JST

  That's standard practice on all Japanese military aircraft... last three digits repeated at the front, even if they start with a zero.

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  Thunderbird2May. 15, 2013 - 10:19PM JST

  I posted a link to a photo of the aircraft. The 731 is on the nose, the full code is towards the rear of the plane. The numbers seem to be mostly in the 720s.

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  Thunderbird2May. 15, 2013 - 10:13PM JST

  Could you give us a link for that please? I can't see anything but 731 in the videos and photos of this plane with Abe I've seen.

  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/T-4_of_the_Japanese_Blue_Impulse_aerobatic_display_team_(5251520789).jpg

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