JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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WilliB
Tizalleyman:
I think you are missing the point that the Japanese whaling researchers are claiming to NOT to be whailing, but to be doing RESEARCH on whales, thus using a giant loophole in an international convention to sail their factory ship through.
Posted in: Sea Shepherd claims win after fracas with Japan whalers
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WilliB
What exactly are the whale researchers researching in their factory ship?
Have they ever explained?
Posted in: Sea Shepherd claims win after fracas with Japan whalers
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WilliB
My opinion of the J-constabulary is as low as anyones, but you have to admit that dealing with a stalker is an almost impossible task for them. They are not legally able to arrest the guy, and they can not offer 24/24 bodyguards for all of the potential victims. So what do the critics expect them to do?
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WilliB
Let them eat it, as long as it is properly labelled.
I don´t understand the "delicacy" aspect anyway. I tried fugu and found it mushy and tasteless. Definitely not worth the price.
Posted in: Tokyo to relax rules on poisonous puffer fish
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WilliB
almostthat:
It is sitting at the botton of the reactors, close to where it always was. Even the antinuclear activist acknowledge that.
Posted in: From shovels to water -- radiation cleanup is trial and error
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WilliB
They are now trying to lure him back with tape recorded penguin love calls. Don´t fall for it, pengi! They are lying! Swim!
Posted in: Search under way for penguin that escaped from Kasai Rinkai Aquarium
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WilliB
With a declining population, there is no reason for this futile "cleanup". It would be much better to enlarge the no-go zone and re-draw it according to the shape of the polluted area. Whoever wants to live there should do at his own risk, just like the couple of old people who live next to the Chernobyl reactor.
With the passage of time, the radiation will gradually subside (with the strongest radiating isotopes decaying most rapidly), and gradually the no-go zone can be reduced.
The current policy is a combination of bone-headed emotional stubbornness and the traditional government pork to the construction industry. In effect, more "bridges to nowwhere", with which Japan is already riddled.
Posted in: From shovels to water -- radiation cleanup is trial and error
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WilliB
Sensationalism. It could hit tomorrow, or it could hit in 1000 years. Nobody knows. We don´t know, and those researchers don´t know. Of course, the city has to do everything possible to be prepared. But there is no news value in announcements like this.
Posted in: Quake researchers warn of Tokyo's 'Big One'
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WilliB
Clearly she is lying. If had come back "frequently" to feed them, they wouldn´t die of dehydration. Sheesh.
Posted in: Woman arrested for abandoning 12 dogs in house
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WilliB
What they call it... the Hindenburgh bike?
Posted in: Pedal power
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WilliB
I am rooting for the escapee!
Posted in: Search under way for penguin that escaped from Kasai Rinkai Aquarium
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WilliB
I hope if he tries that again he gets an unpredictability lesson by being punched out by the audience.
Posted in: Professor wraps electrical cord around student's neck in class
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WilliB
oginome:
Are you joking? Then why are people from countries with nationalized healthcare (e.g. Britain) travelling to the US for the highest level treatment?
You can me a legitimate argument that healthcare should be nationalized for philosophical reasons. But you can not legitimately argue that the examples of natinalized healthcare we see in reality anywhere are either cheap or qualitatively superior. They are neither.
Posted in: Limbaugh apologizes to student he called a 'slut'
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WilliB
Where Japan has to offer substantial value to particular tourists, they will come (for example the Australians for skiing).
Simply for sightseeing, Japan is an expensive destination, except for Koreans and Chinese, and therefore the number of sightseeing tourists will always be limited.
There is simply nothing anybody can do about that. It is reality, live with it.
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WilliB
So how much public money did Obama plow into this turkey?
That was truly a stimulating experiment in economic mismanagement.
Posted in: GM to suspend production of Chevrolet Volt
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WilliB
Aren´t they the beach grandpas by now?
Posted in: Beach Boys to make first tour of Japan in 33 years
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WilliB
I think cats should have no problem living feral... most of the ones around my house are doing that anyway. I agree that dogs should be rounded up as much as possible.
Posted in: Fukushima gov't rounding up stray pets from no-go zone
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WilliB
Jumping onto a sinking ship... the Serbs just can´t help getting it wrong.
Posted in: Serbia makes historic leap into EU
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WilliB
Evacuating 500 people is one thing... I shudder to imagine the scene with 20,000.
Posted in: Tsunami drill held at Yokohama Station
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WilliB
Next, they will sail to the straits of Hormuz to take their anti-nuke message to Iran, which has promised to "wipe out" other countries.
Of course, they will, because they are not hypocrits, and they are really concerned about nuclear arms......
Or will they?
Posted in: Peace Boat with 130 A-bomb survivors in Cuba to denounce nuclear arms