JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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cleo
illsayit, I make no claim to know anything of Aussie politics. The quote is obviously a quote (in italics an' all) and clearly attributed to the person who said it. I'm sure the activists' expressed reasons for their actions are relevant to the story, whether or not anyone else understands or agrees with them.
Anyway, this topic has shifted to its own thread. You saw it here first.
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cleo
Yup, I can think of some places where the hapless animal would be 'dealt with' by the local Ryoyukai and end up in a nabe doused in soy sauce.
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cleo
They're still (deliberately, I imagine) breaking the law, but the Shonan Maru 2 is the property of Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, not the Japanese government.
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cleo
Whether I've been following Aussie politics or not is neither here nor there. They're Mr. Petterfy's words, not mine. You need to take it up with him and his mates. After they've finished talking with the whalers, I imagine.
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cleo
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"No decision has been made yet on the fate of the men who boarded the vessel," ICR spokesman Glenn Inwood said.
"But they risk being taken back to Japan to face charges and possible imprisonment.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whale-watch/japanese-whalers-issue-jail-threat-to-activists-20120108-1ppuz.html
(The boarding happened inside the 200-mile Aussie exclusive economic zone, from which whaling ships are supposedly excluded....)
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cleo
Developments.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/three-activists-prisoners-after-slipping-aboard-japanese-ship/story-e6frg6nf-1226239220637
THREE Australian activists have been detained by authorities accompanying the Japanese whaling fleet after slipping aboard their vessel.
The activists took the action to board the ship because the Japanese were operating in contempt of Australian courts and in defiance of the will of Australian people, they said.
"We are onboard this ship because our government has failed to uphold its pre-election promise to end whaling in the Southern Ocean," Mr Peterffy said.
They hope the action will remind the government of what they say is its obligation to prohibit whaling vessels in Australian waters.
They are "insulted and disappointed" in the government for allowing the transit of whale poaching vessels in Australian waters, Mr Peterffy said.
So far the icr doesn't seem to be saying anything.
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cleo
＞I know more than a few couples who actually have gone for help and they've basically put ALL the blame one person - the wife.
Sounds a bit like the disgruntled CharismaMen with Japanese exs we meet on JT.....
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cleo
Contains gelatin.
...sigh....
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cleo
Basically because not even the people buying the darumas really believe they bring good luck or anything, it's just a harmless custom. No one's life is ruled by a daruma.
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cleo
All kids are unique.
My experience is the same, and their kawaii little heads are not so little anymore. Our little rural town also has Philippino haafs, Chinese haafs and Taiwanese haafs who may not stand out as much as my UK haafs but who also do not seem to suffer from this so-called well-known ubiquitous looking-down on haafs that we are told goes on everywhere.
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cleo
She had over 21 minutes before he opened the door to shout out a warning. Maybe that would have spurred him to go off and steal himself a gun from somewhere. It would also have given the law more time to get to the scene, talk to her, ensure her safety and then go after the thugs - she knew who they were.
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cleo
I used to give blood regularly both in the UK and in Japan. I gave in Japan so often I filled up several of the little red stamp cards they give you, and was given a lapel badge. Even asked to appear on local TV urging people to give blood. Then mad cow happened and a couple of trips back home meant my blood was no longer required - nor the kids', since they came with me. The man was very nice about it and even gave me a dozen eggs as a consolation prize.
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cleo
Newsman, I knew everything too when I was 18 :-)
It's the uncalled-for, over-the-top praise that bothers me. So many people so ready to hoot'n'holler 'cause she used her gawd-given right to own a gun. As for whether her actions are unimpeachable - as in unquestionable? No. Nothing is ever unquestionable. Ask questions, find out what really happened, then decide. Never be afraid to ask questions.
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cleo
Some quotes from your link, Ossan -
(JARPA1)
there was some disagreement over the necessity for the use of lethal research methods
JARPA results were not required for management under the Revised Management Procedure
For humpback whales the abundance estimates provided useful steps towards acceptable estimates of abundance (without killing a single whale)
The estimation of natural mortality was the main initial objective of JARPA. However, the confidence limits around the current estimate spanned such a wide range that the parameter is still effectively unknown (=thousands of dead whales, and no results)
the nature of the analyses presented at the JARPA review meant that relatively little progress had been made in addressing the role of Antarctic minke whales in the ecosystem.
If a Sanctuary is in place, it can be argued that information on improving management of whaling in that region is unnecessary. On many occasions, the Commission has (by majority vote) passed a Resolution urging Japan not to issue a permit for these catches.
(JARPA2)
At the 2007 Annual meeting there was considerable disagreement over the value of this research
In 2005 a Resolution was passed (30 votes to 27 votes with 1 abstention) that strongly urged the Government of Japan to withdraw its JARPA II proposal or to revise it so that any information needed to meet the stated objectives of the proposal is obtained using non-lethal means
In 2007 the Commission passed a Resolution asking Japan to refrain from issuing a permit for JARPA II
Looks like the IWC isn't terribly impressed with the lethal 'research' programme.
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cleo
Nicky is right; it is easy 'To sit here behind our computers all cosy and warm and say "She should have done X, she should have done Y".' What bothers me is how common is the knee-jerk 'yee-haw' reaction of the gun crowd sitting behind their computers and supporting the lethal use of arms without even bothering to check the facts, and even creating stories whereby a pathetic loser after prescription drugs becomes an evil monster whose sole intent 'obviously' is to kill the young mother and her baby. No one is saying that the young thug didn't deserve what he got. But to crow about a death - any death - is surely wrong. It's not a triumph for the gun laws that she shot him/saved herself and her baby; it's an indictment of the protection services that she was put in this situation in the first place (she had complained before about painkilling drugs going missing from her home, so the police knew she was vulnerable) and a huge blot on American society that this kind of crime is common enough to make people feel they need to protect themselves with deadly force. This is not a good news story. It's an embarrassment.
(The woman herself doesn't make things any better by posing for pictures with a gun, and popping off one-liners like, ‘There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a child.’)
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cleo
While Google raises more questions, it also answers some of the ifs.
The daily mail reports that she shut herself in the bedroom - only one door to worry about.
Terrified, I'll give you (though she sounds remarkably calm on the 911 recording). But dark? at 2pm?
It took longer than 21 minutes. Doesn't seems to have been that easy.
I'm unclear why so many - I'm not concerned what bent you are - have this mentality that asking questions and wanting to know the whole story somehow means you're, as smitty puts it, 'condemning her and praising the bad guys.'
With all these evil crazy drug addicts apparently on the loose, you'd think they couldn't afford not to have the required number of officers.
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cleo
Not at all. At least not any kind of research that is meaningful, or necessary, or justifies the deaths of thousands of whales and the wasting of billions of tax yen.
I could spend an afternoon pulling the legs off spiders then write papers about how many legs a spider needs to get around, what happens when you mix spider legs with hot coffee, stick them into marshmallows, freeze them, mince them up and feed them to the cat, and my 'research' would be no less deserving of recognition and public funding than the whaling 'research'. And about on a level in terms of meaningless cruelty and bloody-mindedness.
The whales are not being killed for research (the icr claim); the faux 'research' is being done as an excuse to kill whales. It fools no one except those who want to be fooled.
Absolute rubbish. I've lived in Japan for over 35 years and not once has this so-called 'staple food' ever appeared on any dining table I have shared with Japanese people eating their daily fare. It's about as 'staple' here as grilled sheep's eyeballs.
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cleo
At 18 I doubt she would have the financial wherewithal to hire a guard (she apparently had to sell most of her guns to pay for the funeral), but in addition to the picture of her posing with the gun there is a picture of her posing with the baby and a huge German Shepherd. I wonder what the dog was doing during the drama.
The 911 dispatcher confirmed that all the doors were locked, so she did have time to do that even though 'it is not customary to lock one’s doors in the rural community of Blanchard, Oklahoma.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082716/Sarah-McKinley-Teen-mom-shoots-dead-intruder-Justin-Shane-Martin-looking-prescription-drugs.html
Does shooting out of the window necessarily mean shooting at people? or even in their direction?
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cleo
Well, she did ask first. She asked if she could get away with it.
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cleo
No, it simply puts a question mark on Dictator's capitalised assertions.
No one is claiming they were not doing wrong in breaking in. Of course they were doing wrong, though pathetic is probably a more accurate description than evil for low-lifers after prescription drugs. That doesn't necessarily mean she should be taken at her word, or feted like a hero.
If guns are as effective at deterring crime as the gun crowd claims, surely simply shouting 'I have a gun!' through the door or out of a window - or firing a shot out of the window to show she wasn't bluffing - would have been enough to deter them. If they still came on after that, then fair enough.
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