davidattokyo said...

davidattokyo at 01:02 PM JST - 24th October

When one person exercising their human rights does not infringe upon the human rights of another, such as is the case with Taiji folks killing and eating dolphins, then there is no comparison to be made with wife-burning etc. Whales are not humans.

Not countries, people!

I think most…

Posted in 'The Cove' gets mixed reaction from Japanese audience at 01:02 PM JST - 24th October
davidattokyo at 06:56 PM JST - 23rd October

Damien15

Still you're rude.

You are calling other folks you've never met or tried to understand properly "mindless", etc. You get what you dish out.

Have you seen the video?

I have seen some nasty videos of it. It's not pretty, that's for sure. Out of this, I…

Posted in 'The Cove' gets mixed reaction from Japanese audience at 06:56 PM JST - 23rd October
davidattokyo at 06:41 PM JST - 23rd October

Criticism is fine, but there comes a point where people have to accept that although they voiced their criticism, their criticism wasn't convincing and nothing changed.

At that point, one can be a real prat and keep criticism anyway, which is pretty arrogant and quite obviously likely to be insulting…

Posted in Okada calls for respect for culture amid criticism of dolphin hunting at 06:41 PM JST - 23rd October
davidattokyo at 12:22 PM JST - 23rd October

distance versus time... Kanto still has good train systems so even though Narita is far away it may be easier to access than a place with a near by airport but crap transport?

Posted in Tokyo 4th in city functions in global city ranking at 12:22 PM JST - 23rd October
davidattokyo at 12:11 PM JST - 23rd October

PC drones who think that all cultures should be respected

Ouch... so it's "politically correct" to think that even minority cultures should be respected. Hmmm, great I am looking forward to more needless violence and wars. (I always thought it was politically correct to think whales were too good…

Posted in Okada calls for respect for culture amid criticism of dolphin hunting at 12:11 PM JST - 23rd October
davidattokyo at 12:06 PM JST - 23rd October

The 'wareware nihonjin' factor trumps their own misgivings.

When exposed to biased one-sided propaganda everyone would have misgivings.

Posted in Okada calls for respect for culture amid criticism of dolphin hunting at 12:06 PM JST - 23rd October
davidattokyo at 12:03 PM JST - 23rd October

cleo,

For those of you from a country that allows non-residents to vote, that's fine.

Yeah I vote in New Zealand elections. My preferred party got more than 1% last time round too! Once we hit 5% I might move home.

A lot of us don't have that…

Posted in PM suggests giving foreigners local voting rights in near future at 12:03 PM JST - 23rd October
davidattokyo at 10:34 AM JST - 23rd October

Dilbert14 / Damien15,

So you gree that it was a mistake.

Sure. That was bad, unsustainable whaling. I support good, sustainable whaling.

That we know the difference between bad unsustainable whaling and good sustainable whaling is because "we learn from our mistakes. At least some of us do" -…

Posted in 'The Cove' gets mixed reaction from Japanese audience at 10:34 AM JST - 23rd October
davidattokyo at 07:12 PM JST - 22nd October

Damien15,

If Koreans, Chinese, Russians etc want to catch whales, fine. What matters is that in the 21st century we don't repeat the mistakes of the 19th and 20th centuries when people really didn't have a good clue about how many whales there were or even think too hard about…

Posted in 'The Cove' gets mixed reaction from Japanese audience at 07:12 PM JST - 22nd October
davidattokyo at 02:35 PM JST - 22nd October

Go for it. You could not have more room for improvement.

Why so negative?

Posted in 'The Cove' gets mixed reaction from Japanese audience at 02:35 PM JST - 22nd October