JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You say what??? How come this is going to be a serious problem?
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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I just don't want to hear this again.
Posted in: Virginia Tech gunman kills officer; later found dead
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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
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Ossan America:
You are apparently ignoring the characters of US courts in this respect. The point I'm asking is not about the defendant's position. It's the plaintiff's. Go check out the ICR's website, if you can read Japanese. What part of the US do they have a legal entity? NONE. This is crucial.
It really matters whether you have a legal entity in the US or not. What the US courts consider important for jurisdiction is how the infringement of plaintiff's interests matter from American perspective. If you don't have one, that's gonna make you extremely difficult to make the case. That's the norm of legal practice in the US.
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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This reconstruction minister is too young to adjust his own thoughts to the standards set to conventional politicians. He's younger than Edano. And don't let the MOFA pull the wools over you. They're sneaky, stinky rats--as always.
Posted in: Gemba says he feels 'deep emotion' about Pearl Harbor
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The truck must have been long enough to carry all 100 pigs. That's quite a lot.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the traffic accident by a senior driver. It’s happening in any country. The DMV should reconsider the driver-license law for them.
Posted in: Truck carrying 100 pigs collides with car in Tochigi
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I don't know why but, to me, it just doesn't seem to have a nice ring on it. Are they still being haunted by the ghost of Kakuei Tanaka???
Posted in: Japan likely to buy Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighters: media
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When did the island ever become an 'undisputed' territory of the PRC??? Did Chinese national media report that at the risk of undermining their credibility while the sovereignty is still up for grab? Claiming the island as a legit sovereignty while ignoring the voices that oppose to such claim is not persuasive at all.
Regarding Nobuteru Ishihara, I think he has decent qualifications for the future national leader. He has certain political skills, visions, and humbleness--unlike his father.
Posted in: LDP's Ishihara wants base on China-claimed islands
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It is not ordinary Japanese citizens who failed to recognize and accept responsibility for what their nation did against their neighbors during World War II. Faulting the citizens while ignoring the existence of totalitarian state-control, which functioned in a way to fixate the citizens to a mouthpiece to a military regime and punish/execute those who attempt to oppose the regime, is simply disingenuous. It took more than 24 years for J-government to recognize the event on the surface—no J-diet members and politicians are forced to resign due to the gaffes regarding the issue after 1995. Most Japanese people are astute to know what happened in the past--some of them even got the information despite a strict control by the military regime in the wartime.
In this respect, J-government deserves the blame for a long history of obfuscation and ineptness that are reflected on any political spectacles until today.
Moreover, questioning the validity of or quality of existing account of specific event itself does not lead to denial in the end. The imperial army destroyed most of critical documents at that time—which is the very reason there are various historical accounts ranging from Chinese, US, German, Japanese perspectives. Don’t make an assumption that there’s only one answer because no one can make it.
Snap it out and be realistic. Mixing up your interpretation of past history with present context like this doesn't give anything but a spectacle.
Posted in: Christian Bale denies Nanjing Massacre film is propaganda
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Wonder who are behind these crazy Chinese fishermen.
Posted in: Chinese fishing boat skipper kills S Korean coast guard officer
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Funny, the way the media frames the issue to instigate the controversy as if this man made the nasty, disgusting comments-- instead of an ex-Okinawan defense bureau. Ignorant and arrogant are not the same words, you know.
Posted in: Noda says he won't fire Ichikawa
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LOL. Funny. Somebody still believes in the myth that political celebrities or elites--rather than authentic historians and scholars-- are the best source of historical truth. Quite pathetic.
Posted in: Christian Bale denies Nanjing Massacre film is propaganda
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Bring me evidence that the US courts are indeed good at dealing with the cases involving the international interests. How many cases out of tens of thousands of the US courts have ever taken throughout its legal history? I have never seen any of them so far, to the best of my knowledge.
That’s insufficient. Again, answer me clearly what convinces the US court to take the jurisdiction in the case. What will ever be a convincing reason for them to take the case????? Just because the defendant has an entity in the US alone is not strong enough for the plaintiff to convince the US court for the jurisdiction--regardless of the issue. How does plaintiff’s interest become their utmost concern? That’s exactly the plaintiff’s job to demonstrate that.
The US courts have way too many domestic cases dealing with the environmental justice--especially in the West Coast. I highly doubt their capability to handle these cases-if any,since so many legal scholars identify the problems with American legal system today (i.e., international child abduction). Even if they were able to hand the jurisdiction regarding the issue, it is highly questionable if it substantially hampers the SSCS from traveling the oceans outside the US to harass the plaintiff over whaling. They are NOT an alternative to an international court. It's chimerical to count everything on US justice regarding the issue.
LOL. Ditto to you. You haven't provided any compelling reason yet regarding the case--i.e.,why does the issue primarily become concern with the US court? You have started off with an ‘if’ statement regarding the likelihood of US jurisdiction, haven't you?
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.