JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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cechanju
Foreigner bashing on the rise in China and the rest of the world too... sigh.
Posted in: Foreigner-bashing rises amid China's domestic woes
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cechanju
If a CIA double agent seeks out Al Qaeda and proposes to be the protagonist in a terrorist act... can it really be said that Al Qaeda is responsible for the plan?
Posted in: Al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant
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cechanju
But great story.
Posted in: 84-year-old woman found alive after being buried in snow for 4 hours
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cechanju
ShinJO deshou.
Posted in: 84-year-old woman found alive after being buried in snow for 4 hours
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cechanju
Pronounced dead is a formal procedure that goes with issuing death certificates. It doesn't mean they weren't dead when they were found.
Posted in: Death toll climbs as heavy snow grips northern Japan
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cechanju
Tokyo's Edo ward?? Koto ku?
Posted in: Couple held over murder in Tokyo linked to arson murders in Yamagata
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cechanju
The cheap Aussie beef has a massive tarrif on it... Even with the tarrif it is often cheaper than beef in Aus.
Posted in: Food self-sufficiency a weak argument against TPP participation
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cechanju
Older people whose cells divide slowly are at little risk of developing thyroid and other cancers from radiation. It makes perfect sense to take an onsen trip in Fukushima. Places along the Tadami line (which isn't very close to Iwaki) are stunningly beautiful. I stayed at a minshuku in Miyashita several years back. Such a pretty area. It's my intention to go back soon.
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cechanju
There is no traceback on fruit & veges and rice. It's very easy to relabel - I'm sure it's happening.
This week my supermarket has super discounted Nagano vegies...
But a look at a cesium map shows clearly that there are high levels of cesium in parts of Tochigi, Gunma, Chiba and places in Fukushima where it's much lower. What guarantee is there that food testing positive for cesium will be taken out of the foodchain?
Posted in: Fukushima rice given all-clear after radiation tests
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cechanju
Look at a map! Miyako is just about next to Aomori, - further from Fukushima than Tokyo. Things like car wreckage have potential for recycling. Concrete which is a huge component of the debris may also have potential for recycling.
There is no possible way that they can rebuild with so much junk still there - the piles are phenomenally large.
Radiated waste is a different matter, and there is no justification whatsover for spreading radioactivity. It makes sense to ship it to the area close to Daiichi and rope it off for the foreseeable future.
Posted in: Tokyo gov't agrees to take 1,000 tons of debris from city in Iwate
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cechanju
Which are the four cities?
Posted in: Only 4 of 31 tsunami-hit sites have finalized reconstruction plans
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cechanju
Elizabeth Andoh is not a rabid militant vegan!! :)
Posted in: Celebrating Japan's vegan and vegetarian traditions
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cechanju
I have seen so many TV shows here that normalise this kind of bullying - and show clearly to kids how to bully. These kinds of shows aren't morally instructive (not that everything has to be) and rarely show at best a passive empathy, but rarely empowerment for the victim.
Years ago I saw an drawing competition for anti-chikan posters. Almost all had a passive girl with tears dripping down her face while being molested by a chikan. Schools don't empower victims, the society doesn't empower victims.
A school where I taught one of the homeroom teachers (who admittedly was a jerk but that's irrelevent) came into his classroom one day with the blackboard covered in DIE ! WE HATE YOU! No students were suspended or expelled.
There are many things that could be done, as there have been in other countries, to reduce bullying.
My heart aches for her parents.
Posted in: 8-year-old girl hangs herself at home in apparent suicide
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cechanju
I am puzzled why aggitating for the right to vote takes priority over agitating for allowing dual citizenship.
The right to vote would follow naturally from acquiring citizenship.
Posted in: Japan weighs up whether to give foreign residents the vote
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cechanju
Great going Uniqlo. They also treat their workers well to from what I understand, prefering to employ people as full time workers with benefits rather than as minimum wage albaitos with no benefits. A company that sees workers as an asset and also demonstrates social / environmental responsibility seems like a rare gem here.
Posted in: Uniqlo puts old clothes to good use
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cechanju
This article ignores the fact that the Chinese government have actively encouraged anti Japanese sentiment. The war movies that used to be shown repeatedly on CCTV showed a govt. determined to maintain division at the same time as they happily accepted aid money from Japan.
It also ignores the Chinese govts determination to stick to the 300,000 figure. The number is written in huge figures outside the new memorial in Nanjing. It is unthinkable that the number would be reduced or removed to improve relations. Chinese govt. statistics from that era are notoriously unreliable in other areas. It is impossible to determine the veracity of the number.
That said, Japan's repeated apologies carry no weight with Chinese people, in part as the article suggests because ot the lack of specificity.
Japanese people in general do understand that their army committed atrocities. What they don't understand is why despite apologies China has so much antipathy to them about something that happened so long ago. Vietnamese attitudes to American and Australia are an interesting contrast. (though the fact it was a civil war makes the situation quite different).
I hope Hatoyama can go with an open mind and an open heart and feel the pain of the Chinese. It would be a long over due gesture.
Posted in: Japan, China play Nanjing numbers game that both will lose
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cechanju
I was in shinjuku gyoen late yesterday afternoon. It was relaxed, happy and festive :)
Posted in: Hanami rush hour
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cechanju
She was Korean it said on the news. Presumably they could only have known that if he admitted it.
Posted in: Man arrested over headless body in suitcase admits killing foreigner