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Posted in: Japan's trade deficit expands nearly 70% in April
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Upgrayedd
As opposed to deflation?
Posted in: Japan's trade deficit expands nearly 70% in April
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Upgrayedd
I can't see the other pictures clearly but I'm pretty sure the woman is Tomomi Inada, Minister for Administrative Reform.
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Upgrayedd
There's no evidence so the Japanese must have burned it excuse? There's plenty of evidence of other Japanese war crimes but nothing on comfort women. Very strange.
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Smith
Yasuji Kaneko lied about when he joined the Japanese army, about murdering Chinese people in the Nanjing massacre, and about being in Unit 731 yet you believe his testimony about comfort women?
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Upgrayedd
You must be mistaken. The balance of trade in 2009 was +2.6 trillion yen.
http://www.customs.go.jp/toukei/shinbun/happyou_e.htm
Perhaps you are confusing trade deficits with budget deficits?
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Chin4Sailor
100 more years of Japan being the world's most respected and well regarded nation?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18038304
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Upgrayedd
I can't remember where I read it but something like 65% of global smart phone components are supplied by Japanese companies. For example, the iPhone is more than 50% Japanese.
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Upgrayedd
@Chin4Sailor Perhaps you should have made it clear what you meant when you said no one protests Germany.
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Upgrayedd
Japan didn't run trade deficits while the nuclear plants were running. There might have been a few but it was mostly surpluses. The recent spat of trade deficits started 3/2011.
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Chin4Sailor
*Sigh
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3051/naziflagswavedincyprusasantigermanyprotests_continue> http://www.dw.de/greek-protesters-attack-german-official/a-16381676 http://rt.com/news/greek-protesters-coffee-german-768/
Japan is the most positively viewed nation on Earth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18038304
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Upgrayedd
The deficit would disappear tomorrow if the government turned on the nuclear plants.
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Upgrayedd
In summary, the only physical evidence about comfort women in existence is Japanese government orders to not recruit anyone against their will and to arrest those that do. Meanwhile, there is testimony that Japanese soldiers frequently violated orders.
Agreed?
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@Thomas
More testimony? Testimony of actions in violation of Japanese military orders?
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Upgrayedd
You can't trust French film reviewers anyway...
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Upgrayedd
The Japanese document that Mr. Yoshimi discovered in the 1990s makes it clear that the Japanese military had orders to not kidnap women.
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Why would the Japanese military order Army units in China to not deal with brokers who kidnapped women and to arrest those that did? Could it be possible that sexual slavery was not sanctioned Japanese policy in WWII?
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@Thomas
Mr. Yoshimi discovered China Area Army Document No. 745
The document is an order for the Japanese military to only hire/recruit volunteer women to be comfort women. Have you ever read it?
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Upgrayedd
@Thomas
You posted documents...of testimonies.
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Upgrayedd
@Thomas
You just posted testimony again.
There is a difference between testimony and physical evidence.
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Upgrayedd
Another reason to turn back on the nuclear reactors.
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Upgrayedd
Thomas, post the rest of the paragraph that says they were charged with violating Japanese orders to hire only volunteer women.
No one is denying that massive amounts of war crimes were committed. We are arguing if it was state policy to kidnap women into sexual slavery or not. The evidence supports that it wasn't policy but it frequently happened against orders unsanctioned by govt leadership in Tokyo.
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