cleo said...

cleo at 11:54 AM JST - 5th August

The US rate is only higher due to the large amount of illegal immigrants who murder their kids. Otherwise US would be way down the list.

The states with the highest infant mortality rates are Alaska, South Dakota, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Wyoming. Are these states with a high proportion…

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cleo at 09:07 AM JST - 5th August

Hatoyama's replacement chastised by Hatoyama!?!?!?

Different Hatoyama (I think they're brothers or cousins or some such).

Aso really does live up to his name. How he got were he is I don't know.

Moderator: Readers, please refrain from making derogatory references to Aso's name.

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cleo at 11:55 PM JST - 4th August

to most non-Japanophile ears, 'half' sounds like 'half-caste', or something similar.

So your problem is not with some imagined deep-rooted prejudice against people with 'tainted blood' that stops them from getting on in Japanese society, but with the sound of a Japanese word? It sounds too much like an…

Posted in 1 out of 30 babies born in Japan had non-Japanese parent in 2006 at 11:55 PM JST - 4th August
cleo at 06:55 PM JST - 4th August

the people you mention are, as you say, celebrating their ancestry, and the terms have positive overtones.

It wasn't me who said that they were celebrating their ancestry, but never mind. How can someone like Obama be said to be celebrating his ancestry when half of it - the bit…

Posted in 1 out of 30 babies born in Japan had non-Japanese parent in 2006 at 06:55 PM JST - 4th August
cleo at 05:50 PM JST - 4th August

Willib -

OMG please NO!

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cleo at 04:57 PM JST - 4th August

nandakanda -

For a long time I thought 'ai-no-ko' meant illegitimate - I only ever heard it used in reference to the children US servicemen left scattered around the country immediately after the war. Took a while before I realised it was 合の子(mixed child) and not 愛の子(love child).

'Konketsu-ji' is…

Posted in 1 out of 30 babies born in Japan had non-Japanese parent in 2006 at 04:57 PM JST - 4th August
cleo at 04:22 PM JST - 4th August

taiko -

there must a reason why Japanese refer to some kids as 'haafu' (which you must admit they do.) That habit alone is indicative of Japan's attitude to race issues.

Duh. It's just the Japanese word for a person of mixed ancestry. How is it any different from folk…

Posted in 1 out of 30 babies born in Japan had non-Japanese parent in 2006 at 04:22 PM JST - 4th August
cleo at 02:03 PM JST - 4th August

nandakanda -

Another factor affecting 'visibility' is that the non-Japanese wives in the villages tend to be Asian, ie virtually indistinguishable from Japanese unless you look at their passport, while the Western men tend to be highly visible due to height, hair colour, etc.

Posted in 1 out of 30 babies born in Japan had non-Japanese parent in 2006 at 02:03 PM JST - 4th August
cleo at 01:50 PM JST - 4th August

cost? monetary loss?

A lot, I hope.

Better still if it was uninsured.

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cleo at 01:40 PM JST - 4th August

Doyoushinohi -

The chauvinists will want to tell you that that means 26,000 Japanese men losers had to settle for non-Japanese wives because they couldn't get a way cute Japanese wife. In fact it's all in the eye of the beholder. Some Japanese men are very hot and wasted on…

Posted in 1 out of 30 babies born in Japan had non-Japanese parent in 2006 at 01:40 PM JST - 4th August