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  hatsoffMay. 21, 2013 - 08:32AM JST

  Also, large people should pay for two seats. If someone cannot get their armrests down then they need to purchase another ticket.

  Riiiight....and you don't think airlines will slowly start to make their seats smaller then in order to screw more money out of passengers - while passengers like you encourage them.

  Posted in: Do you think airlines are sneaky about fuel surcharges, fees for extra baggage and other charges for various services?

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  hatsoffMay. 20, 2013 - 10:54PM JST

  Ha Ha - now that's what I call a Japanese thinking outside the box. Give him a slap on the wrists. After all, it's nice that he loves his grandma and was willing to make such an effort to visit :-)

  Posted in: Man arrested after taking Lexus for test drive to grandmother’s house 180 km away

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  hatsoffMay. 20, 2013 - 10:47PM JST

  Airlines buy fuel futures to fix their costs but we still get told the surcharge is because of rising prices. They want us to think it's like filling up at the gas station on a daily basis with the daily fluctuations being paid for out of their pockets and passed on to us.

  They hedge the prices via futures contracts and hedge some more by having customers pay a surcharge, which last time I flew to the UK was more than the ticket itself.

  Posted in: Do you think airlines are sneaky about fuel surcharges, fees for extra baggage and other charges for various services?

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  hatsoffMay. 20, 2013 - 10:36PM JST

  Guru29

  For example, the Potsdam Declaration says:

  "The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out and Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we (US, UK, China and Russia) determine."

  You're not really saying anything there. It's a nice quote from Wikipedia but you seem to be ignoring the fact that of the nations you mention, ONLY CHINA IS CAUSING A FUSS, and the USA has actually vowed to SUPPORT with military force Japan's right to administer the Senkaku Islands.

  If you'd been less hasty in posting that little tidbit, you would also have discovered that the Potsdam declaration was signed for China by Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Nationalists and very much anti-Communist and anti-Mao. Furthermore, Chiang was pretty friendly towards the Japanese military in China. He had studied in Japan before the war and had close personal relationships with some of Japan's top officers.

  Chiang actually asked the Japanese in China to postpone their surrender for a year. This didn't happen, but armed Japanese soldiers remained in China until well into 1947.

  Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

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  hatsoffMay. 20, 2013 - 08:31AM JST

  Okay, take all Senkaku discussions off the table, change Article 9, build up weaponry and enlarge the Japanese military. That will make China think again and shut up the whiners who keep saying Japan is hiding behind the USA. (Ah yes, but when war breaks out the JT whiners won't hang around long).

  Posted in: China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa

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  hatsoffMay. 20, 2013 - 08:27AM JST

  Ah yes, re-education has always been a guiding principle of China's one-party rule. No chance of "Tiananmen: the Musical" anytime soon then.

  Posted in: China cracks down on over-the-top anti-Japan dramas

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  hatsoffMay. 18, 2013 - 10:26PM JST

  Why doesn't this party just call itself "We are jealous of Korea's Success Party"

  (1) Because it wouldn't be true. Japan is the world's 3rd largest economy and South Korea is 15th (source: Wikipedia)

  (2) Because they are scumbags, regardless of Korea's economic standing.

  Posted in: Restoration Party member ousted over Korean prostitution remarks

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  hatsoffMay. 18, 2013 - 10:18PM JST

  The storage tank for the highly irradiated water are just plonked onto the ground without any thought about earthquakes or tsunamis.

  There are hundreds of water tanks. As much as I dislike TEPCO, the reality is there's nowhere else to put them. And it's better that they're closer to the plant than further away. Just glad the earthquake hasn't caused a calamity there.

  Posted in: M6.1 earthquake strikes off northeast Japan

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  hatsoffMay. 18, 2013 - 09:14AM JST

  Brilliant news! And like Serrano says, I hope they bring back Chloe. But...whatever happened to the movie they were supposed to be making?

  Posted in: Jack Bauer is back: TV thriller '24' to return in 2014

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  hatsoffMay. 18, 2013 - 09:01AM JST

  Double standards. They'll expel one of the rank and file but not the top man. They are rotten from top to bottom. This minor party of toytown rightwingers have already damaged Japan's international reputation. Time for the public to voice their opinion and let the world know these idiots are more about destruction than restoration.

  Posted in: Restoration Party member ousted over Korean prostitution remarks

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  hatsoffMay. 17, 2013 - 08:45PM JST

  So funny. The Chinese establishment really does come out with some good ones, doesn't it? And all with a straight face.

  Luo emphasised that the islands were historically in a vassal relationship with imperial Chinese dynasties.

  Erm, these are the Chinese dynasties the Communists disowned, no? oh please stop, China, my sides are hurting.

  Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

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  hatsoffMay. 17, 2013 - 05:48PM JST

  zichi

  he is hated in England by so-called football fans

  I have never heard of that before. He now deserves his knighthood, "Sir David"

  I'm guessing you don't follow the football websites then. Unfortunately the comments are always full of hate and spite whenever Beckham gets mentioned.

  What did you think about Robinson asking not to be selected for England, or Scholes or Crouch? Players shouldn't refuse to play because they don't like the manager; they are serving their country. Beckham will always have my respect because he would have shed blood to play for England.

  Here's a link to the Daily Mail. Read the comments at the bottom. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2325558/David-Beckham-retires-football--world-exclusive.html

  Posted in: Beckham announces retirement

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  hatsoffMay. 17, 2013 - 07:43AM JST

  Beckham has been great for the game and he has been passionate about playing for his country, saying he will always be available if called upon. Despite this, he is hated in England by so-called football fans. It has been a pleasure watching him play.

  Posted in: Beckham announces retirement

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  hatsoffMay. 15, 2013 - 09:59PM JST

  Abe should have better advisors, but then again it's not as if it would be the first thing to come to mind.

  Posted in: S Korean media slam Abe's 731 jet photo

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  hatsoffMay. 15, 2013 - 09:44PM JST

  DeDeMouse

  Even just skirmish, US will definitely intervene no matter what happen. Therefore the notion "Japan hiding behind US" is absolute.

  No mate, it's called a Japan-US alliance. You want Japan to militarise on its own? No problem, let's bring it on. Increasing weaponry will be a big boost to the economy, and Japan can start selling high-tech arms to other countries too. You want a swing to the right and a militarised Japan - really? There's never been a more likely time in the past 70 years than now.

  Be careful what you wish for son, it might just come true.

  Posted in: Abe warns of possible military response to intruder subs

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  hatsoffMay. 15, 2013 - 09:57AM JST

  Abe's "military response" is simply to hide behind the US.

  Oh come on, play another record Smith. You say this every time, and yet you would be the first to complain if Japan ditched the USA and militarised on its own. You can't have it both ways. It is the US / JAPAN alliance you are so scornful of that has kept peace in the region for all these years.

  Posted in: Abe warns of possible military response to intruder subs

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  hatsoffMay. 15, 2013 - 08:25AM JST

  Submarines entering the waters while submerged would be a serious issue, and one that's very black and white (i.e. no misunderstandings on China's part about what the subs are doing).

  I don't say this lightly, but Abe should authorise a military response for any intrusion.

  Yubaru said:

  Sending patrol boats is one thing, submarines, totally different. You don't play chicken like that.

  That's exactly right.

  Posted in: Abe warns of possible military response to intruder subs

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  hatsoffMay. 15, 2013 - 08:10AM JST

  Hashimoto's comments have been reported all over the world, including in The New York Times and on the BBC. He's an idiot who is damaging Japan's international reputation - which will lose Japan support over the Senkaku Islands issue.

  This is the problem:

  China’s Foreign Ministry said it saw the comments as further evidence of a rightward drift in Japanese politics under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

  Although China's Foreign Ministry should know better, in that Hashimoto is in a rather minor opposition party, the perception of this across the world is very damaging.

  The public really needs to give this cretin a good kicking at the ballot box, and the people of Osaka should be questioning why their Governor is not concentrating on his prefectural duties.

  Posted in: China, S Korea criticize Hashimoto over comfort women comments

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  hatsoffMay. 14, 2013 - 09:31PM JST

  Hashimoto and Ishihara are self-serving clowns who have no sense of diplomacy (which, incidentally, is not a sign of weakness) and should not be voted for by the public at the next election. Kick these clowns out. They are bad for Japan.

  Posted in: Gov't - but not Ishihara - backs away from Hashimoto's comfort women comments

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  hatsoffMay. 13, 2013 - 08:04AM JST

  Gotta be a wimp too if the woman just grabbed his arm and took him to the cops without a fight.

  What a thing to say! You truly reveal your morals on this one, don't you?! Anyway, no doubt the man was shocked, believing that he hadn't actually criminally molested this woman. Still, it shouldn't be happening on a train even if it had been arranged with consent. No doubt that's the thrill for these people, though.

  Posted in: Man arrested for molesting woman after being invited to do so online