hokkaidoguy said...

hokkaidoguy at 01:49 PM JST - 25th December

browny - your cakeshop analogy is both simplistic and absurd.

The French, the Spanish, the Portugese, the Italians, the Croats, the Turks, the Greeks, the Maltese, the Lybians - all of these nations have been found to be overfishing bluefin or fishing illegally over the past 5 years. Among those…

Posted in Environmentalists disappointed with Japan on European bluefin at 01:49 PM JST - 25th December
hokkaidoguy at 12:17 AM JST - 25th December

itcher -

Krill is increasingly popular - and it's being depleted substantially as a result. Ironic, ne?

People who talk about fish farming as sustainable seem to think that the fish are born and raised on the farm like chickens. For the most part, that's not true. In nearly all…

Posted in Environmentalists disappointed with Japan on European bluefin at 12:17 AM JST - 25th December
hokkaidoguy at 09:00 PM JST - 24th December

browny -

Australia is doubling it's quota by catching double the number of young bluefin, and fattening them in pens ("farming"). Likewise Italy and Spain, and Croatia, and many others.

Japan is buying a product being offered for sale. The EU, on the other hand, refuses to regulate it's own…

Posted in Environmentalists disappointed with Japan on European bluefin at 09:00 PM JST - 24th December
hokkaidoguy at 01:38 PM JST - 24th December

Why is this article - and subsequent commentary - painting this as somehow Japan's fault?

If anyone is to be taken to task over this, it's the EU nations who wrote and presented the deal. Japan - along with everyone else - agreed to it.

Posted in Environmentalists disappointed with Japan on European bluefin at 01:38 PM JST - 24th December
hokkaidoguy at 11:24 AM JST - 19th December

Am I the only one that thinks this is a good idea? Must be because I live in a rural area. How many of you people comparing this with the Great Leap Forward have even set foot outside of Urban Japan, let alone lived there?

We'd certainly benefit from having…

Posted in Gov't plans to recruit urban youths to work in rural areas at 11:24 AM JST - 19th December
hokkaidoguy at 11:32 AM JST - 13th December

Non-smokers who hassle me for smoking in a smoking area.

Posted in What bad manners annoy you the most in public places? at 11:32 AM JST - 13th December
hokkaidoguy at 12:53 PM JST - 12th December

Out here in the sticks, one of the services Taxi companies offer is to drive your car for you - you drive to the bar, they send a cab with 2 drivers and take you home in your car, with the taxi tailing behind.

It costs me about 40% more…

Posted in MK to recruit 10,000 workers to dramatically expand taxi services at 12:53 PM JST - 12th December
hokkaidoguy at 08:22 AM JST - 10th December

Unfair treatment?

They broke intro a warehouse and stole mail, then admitted it at a press conference.

Fair treatment means charging them with the crime that they have admitted to - and are financially benefiting from.

What is unfair about being treated like a criminal when you've admitted your crime?

Posted in Greenpeace protests anti-whaling arrests at 08:22 AM JST - 10th December
hokkaidoguy at 01:07 PM JST - 5th December

Why not just raise the sales tax 1%? That way, everyone gets to play. And leave the smoking laws where they are: if you don't like smoke at the bar, you're free to go home - either to your apartment or your home country.

Posted in Masuzoe seeks tobacco tax hike to finance social security costs at 01:07 PM JST - 5th December
hokkaidoguy at 02:46 PM JST - 24th November

My TV has an "off" button.

Posted in Japanese cooking shows and the loss of sanity at 02:46 PM JST - 24th November