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  amerijapFeb. 02, 2013 - 01:57PM JST

  Video is so funny. Looks like it's similar to a fake rhino-costume (two guys inside) walking away from the Ueno Zoo park.

  Posted in: Zoo staff chase keeper dressed as zebra in escape drill

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  amerijapFeb. 02, 2013 - 01:51PM JST

  Wonder when Japan will ever stop their backward-looking national politics. Anyone?

  Posted in: Abe says he will release new statement on World War II

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  amerijapNov. 01, 2012 - 05:27AM JST

  Okkkaaayyy. So they made a choice to relapse the past irrelevant to the island dispute in a way to renew culture war? I don't have a problem with Chinese doing research, but why does it have to be now?? And what's the point in doing so since there's plenty of credible work made by Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars already out there?

  Posted in: China plans 80 books on Japan war trials

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  amerijapOct. 31, 2012 - 05:02AM JST

  If Republicans had a better candidate --at least as better as Reagan and Eisenhower, and not like W or Nixon, I would not hesitate to vote for him. Too bad Romney is mediocre at best. His habitual flip-flopping and his terrible choice of running mate, including Ryan budget plan that hits hard by many economists and an attempt to privatize social security--which is exactly the scheme W did at the cost of tax cuts for wealthy people in the past-- convince me they will unlikely make much difference than W or current administration.

  Posted in: Who do you hope will win the U.S. presidential election on Nov 6?

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  amerijapOct. 31, 2012 - 12:59AM JST

  Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Makiko Tanaka has called outgoing Tokyo Gov Shintaro Ishihara a “wild, reckless old man.”

  WROM. She said it very clearly. Like father, like daughter. You don't want to mess with her especially you're working as MEXT bureau.

  Posted in: Tanaka calls Ishihara 'reckless old man'; Gemba also critical

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  amerijapOct. 31, 2012 - 12:55AM JST

  So they are having contaminated water at break neck speed--much faster than getting it purified and pumping it back to the reactor. And there’s little extra space available for water tanks? This is so called situation hanging on the cliff with nails.

  Posted in: TEPCO struggling to find somewhere to store contaminated water

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  amerijapOct. 31, 2012 - 12:39AM JST

  Mitt can't compete with Obama in lying. Obama lies while thinking he's telling the truth

  Highly doubt it. I agree Obama is not immune to this as he has been following a similar logic the W administration engineered in their last eight years to fix a total mess. But Romney is not the same guy he used to be as a governor of MA. He is getting addicted to ugly hard line Republicans who miss no opportunity to upset Americans with a lot of non-sense. He and his running mate Paul Ryan are indeed a perfect duo for that. He would be in the same situation as Obama is, within a year or two, assuming that he would make a stunning upset in the election and take the office in January next year.

  Posted in: Obama says Romney cannot be trusted to deal honestly with public

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  amerijapOct. 30, 2012 - 07:13AM JST

  In their statement, prosecutors did not offer an apology to Mainali.

  They won't because they don't care about the rights of foreigners in the first place-- accountability? Who cares!? That's their attitude.

  Posted in: Retrial of Nepali convicted in 1997 murder case clears way for acquittal

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  amerijapJul. 01, 2012 - 09:08AM JST

  I don't have a problem with mandating the citizens to obtain insurance, regardless of Medicare or private, since the system is already broken and national economic recession has kept more people out of insurance. However, I do have a problem in regards to the accessibility, cost, and quality of care to those who are uninsured. There's still no guarantee that these people will get public option--due to eligibility issues. And it goes easy on many private health care industries regarding the ethics of business practice—i.e., denying or terminating service in the middle of contract due to pre-existing condition. The worst nightmare--for them is that Obamacare would eventually lead to the privatization of public health and medicine-- corporations and money over people's common sense, which is exactly the problem with Washington and Wall Street.

  Posted in: US high court upholds heart of Obama health law

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  amerijapJun. 28, 2012 - 11:41AM JST

  Someone, please help me!!!! I almost got vomit when I saw the headline above.

  Posted in: Police investigate man who cooked his own genitals

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  amerijapJan. 15, 2012 - 01:06PM JST

  Only Wyoming Republicans and hard line rightists will praise this hawk-eye criminal. Imagine he stands nearby the main entrance of the US Supreme Court alongside with his culprits--Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Carl Rove, Rice, and GW. And he snickers himself with black brief case titled "Plan B."

  Posted in: Showtime making documentary about Dick Cheney

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  amerijapJan. 15, 2012 - 05:50AM JST

  They could be as much annoying as radical environmental activists like Earth First! or the extremists like ELF. Terrorists? Dunno. Obsessed with fame? No doubt about it. They’ve got a name for the Wrecking Sea Crew.

  Posted in: Do you consider the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd to be eco-terrorists?

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  amerijapJan. 15, 2012 - 05:22AM JST

  TEPCO doesn't care about what will happen to the workers who died unless the cause of their deaths is related to radiation poisoning. They don’t even know for sure that they are responsible for putting the workers and volunteers into an excessively hazardous environment for over 10 months that will seriously affect human health. I wonder if they pay condolence to the families who lost their loved ones in the plant.

  Posted in: Fourth worker at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant dies

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  amerijapDec. 21, 2011 - 05:00PM JST

  The pro-Pyongyang minority have maintained their loyalties and have their own civic organizations and educational institutions funded by the North, while integration with the host culture is strongly discouraged.

  Here’s the conundrum. How come is Japanese government still leaving these institutions un-investigated if they are indeed financed by a hostile regime? Although there’s absolutely no reason to harass Korean students walking in the streets or at school like Zaitokukai racists, the central government should put their interests—i.e.,Korean General Headquarters and Korean schools—in Japanese soil on the radar on a growing tension of crisis.

  Posted in: North Koreans in Japan tight-lipped over Kim's death

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  amerijapDec. 19, 2011 - 08:28AM JST

  You mean settling the conflict on a national/diplomatic level, right? The thorny problem is that national government’s attitude and perception fundamentally skew the public understanding of the issue for many years, rendering compensation as the end in itself—rather than the means to an end. Sadly, it just serves as hush money to silence the victims because it’s a great embarrassment to a national government. This is exactly the reason for establishing a controversial Asian Women Fund, which ended up in defunct due to the flaws in its strategic framework for fund-raising and political correctness. I personally don’t believe both governments are capable of hammering out the solution through financial means, unless they are willing to change their bureaucratic attitude on the issue involving culture/gender sensitivity.

  Posted in: S Korean president urges Japan to compensate Korean wartime sex slaves

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  amerijapDec. 18, 2011 - 06:03PM JST

  I think the key issue here is whether these women fall within the scope of the treaty. People are taking it as if it's a fact that the 1965 compensation covers these women.

  The treaty was supposed to function in that way. The problem, however, is that the gender was/is a common vocabulary in neither government at the time of 1965 Treaty due to masculine character of ideological warfare culminated into anti-communism and anti-Vietnam War movement. South Koreans have claimed many times that Japan owed compensation to the victims based on bi-lateral framework, while conveniently ignored the contexts for which the accounts of victims were constructed. Remember the South Korean government was the one who got blamed by the victims for neglecting the issue--in the late 1980s. Indeed, the SK regime didn't blame Japan on this when the female victims divulged their shady pasts for the first time.

  Are they finger-pointing Japan as solely responsible for the issue? It sounds more like shoving off the blame of gender insensitivity on your partner by refusing to admit your role in neglecting the issue. That's why we hear such an axiom like "Man cannot speak for her." It’s ironic that Japan and South Korea are very similar in this respect.

  Posted in: S Korean president urges Japan to compensate Korean wartime sex slaves

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  amerijapDec. 15, 2011 - 04:54AM JST

  If Japan wants to keep practicing what they preach, go on. Just let them do it if they can keep their faith in their 'questionable' business to the detriment of fallen, schizophrenic national image.

  Stand by what you say. If you justify whaling for scientific purpose and insists that it depart from commercial purposes, make an utmost commitment to that practice. All you need to do is prove how your practice is different from that of local whalers going off the Antarctica to catch the whales for business. Defend your position by providing the evidence that you are indeed studying the ecology of cetaceans and mammals for academic/scientific purpose at an international level—i.e., preservation of marine biology and/or oceanography. That's the only way you can brush off the criticism from international community for the restoration of your national credibility. And don't even think about flip-flopping from pure science to business/consumption practice—like many pro-whalers when you face a mounting criticism. That will make your position indefensible.

  Posted in: U.S., Australia, NZ 'disappointed' over Japan whale hunt

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  amerijapDec. 14, 2011 - 01:56AM JST

  The jobless rate for men stood at 4.8%, while that for women was at 4.0%,

  You say what??? How come this is going to be a serious problem?

  The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Monday that the number of welfare recipients in Japan reached a record high of 2.60 million as of Aug 31

  I heard it last month. The figures are slightly higher this time--the ministry fixed the data, I think. Still, this represents only 2% of a total population. I wouldn't say it's not a big deal to Japan, but there should be an impending concern Japanese government should address to the public, I think.

  Posted in: No. of welfare recipients reaches record high

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  amerijapDec. 14, 2011 - 01:47AM JST

  I just don't want to hear this again.

  Posted in: Virginia Tech gunman kills officer; later found dead

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  amerijapDec. 14, 2011 - 01:44AM JST

  NG's comments are indeed NG. But he doesn't care. Let him say whatever he wants until he throws the fit and says, "Calling me NG is totally unacceptable!"

  Posted in: Gingrich stands firm on blunt Palestinian stance