JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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hokkaidoguy
The charge is 威力業務妨害. That doesn't translate to "obstruction of commerce". Sorry. NZ's MoFA has it wrong.
Posted in: Antiwhaling activist Pete Bethune is facing 5 criminal charges in connection with his intrusion onto a Japanese whaling vessel. What do you think about it?
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hokkaidoguy
In two months, Sea Shep will be in the Med, ramming Algerian and Sicilian tuna boats, and cutting French nets. Or so they say.
When that happens, the already disinterested international media will completely forget about Bethune.
Posted in: Antiwhaling activist Pete Bethune is facing 5 criminal charges in connection with his intrusion onto a Japanese whaling vessel. What do you think about it?
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hokkaidoguy
Yeah, curse those nasty Japanese TV execs for not running the film before it's debut.
Posted in: New film has Japan vets confessing to Nanjing rape, massacre
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hokkaidoguy
Knowledge of an event does not equal policy.
Posted in: New film has Japan vets confessing to Nanjing rape, massacre
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hokkaidoguy
BurakuminDes -
Policy? Not even Matsuoka takes that line. Suggesting that it was a policy is historical revisionism on par with those who say nothing ever happened.
Posted in: New film has Japan vets confessing to Nanjing rape, massacre
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hokkaidoguy
What exactly are you waiting for? They're available for sale. My local dealer had one in the showroom back in July.
Go to your Mitsubishi dealer and order one.
Posted in: Mitsubishi Motors to triple electric car output
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hokkaidoguy
You mean these reactions?
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Yeah. terrible. How dare they be in favor of proper stock management when their livelihoods are at stake?
Posted in: Hatoyama, fish dealers welcome tuna ban rejection
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hokkaidoguy
Judyboots: Scanning through the headlines, the "enemy" depends on where you're reading the story. Some sources are pointing the finger at Lybia for killing this. Others are pointing at the EU. There are quite a few bloggers that insinuate Japan paid off everyone (98 countries? How can anyone take that seriously?)
Does anyone have a complete vote breakdown? I can't seem to find one.
Posted in: Japan happy as export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna rejected
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hokkaidoguy
The vote was 20 for, 68 against, and 30 abstentions.
Suggesting that Japan's lobbying is exclusively responsible for such a lopsided result is irresponsible journalism at best.
Posted in: Japan happy as export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna rejected
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hokkaidoguy
sf2k: The photo you were referring to did not contain Atlantic bluefin.
Hence my point. The tuna in the photo you refer to weren't small because of over-exploitation, they're small because they're not atlantic bluefin.
Posted in: Japan leading charge against bluefin ban
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hokkaidoguy
...another expert on marine biology that doesn't know there are different kinds of tuna.
Posted in: Japan leading charge against bluefin ban
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hokkaidoguy
Why does this debate always focus on Chinese food - and completely omit the Western market for shark cartilage supplements as a significant factor in the increased demand for shark?
Posted in: Shark conservation proposal defeated at U.N. meeting
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hokkaidoguy
No.
A ban on trade doesn't stop fishing. A complete 1 or 2 year ban on all catches, followed by a properly regulated and managed quota system seems to be the way to go.
Posted in: Do you support a ban on the trade of bluefin tuna?
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hokkaidoguy
Criminalizing suicide does not lower the suicide rate, it merely covers the problem - in nations with criminalized suicide, police routinely class cause of death as "misadventure", "accidental overdose" and so forth to avoid a charge of suicide, especially in cases where a family will be denied insurance or pension benefits. As a result, actual suicide rates in nations where it is criminalized tend to be significantly higher.
This is not an exclusively Japanese problem - it is a global problem, and the worst affected are males between 18 and 45. The social stresses that men of this age group face are not unique to Japan, nor is the stigma of mental illness.
Japan - along with most of the rest of the world - tends to ignore mens health issues in general. Mens mental health issues are rarely even spoken about, and when they are, they are often treated as a joke. Worse than that, even the idea that there is an unfair discrepancy in funding between funding between male and female mental health programs tends to be met with derision.
As to solving the problem, as with any social problem it can't be solved with simple legislation. In Japan, maybe companies could start a program similar to the metabo eradication program from a couple of years ago (My company has been paying my gym membership since our doctor told me to lose 5kg). Perhaps something similar directed at mental health problems would be helpful in getting the underlying problem some degree of social acceptance.
Posted in: What can be done to stem the suicide rate in Japan, which surpasses 30,000 each year?
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hokkaidoguy
Japan isn't the only country that is against this. Even Australia no longer supports the proposal.
Posted in: Bluefin tuna tops CITES conference agenda in Doha
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hokkaidoguy
There are over 40 species of tuna. Not all of them are big.
Posted in: Tuna sale
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hokkaidoguy
timorborder:
Japan's research whaling program is not at all different from the research fishing programs operated worldwide. Australia runs at least one for Chilean sea bass, NZ carries out a program for a couple of species of Tuna, Canada has had several for cod... the list is actually quite long. Google "research catch". In almost all cases, fish (and crab, and lobster, and on) caught under research quotas are sold. And in most cases (the Australian program for sea bass being a good example) the methodology is the same as the Japanese whaling research program.
In other words, your definition of "scientific" is not the same as the use of "scientific" as it applies to resource management. Just FYI.
Posted in: Japan to push for resumption of commercial whaling
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hokkaidoguy
rajahsahib: The moratorium was put in place to allow stocks to recover, and clearly the stocks of minke have. Under the terms of the moratorium, there's no reason why it shouldn't be lifted.
Posted in: Japan to push for resumption of commercial whaling
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hokkaidoguy
All of the bank branches in my home town closed years ago. They were replaced with 24-hour ATM hubs. I'd say it cost about 20 well paying jobs - quite a few for a town of 6,000.
The banks kept making money from ATM "service charges", so they didn't give a damn. Anything that required face to face banking (business stuff, loan negotiations, etc. ) suddenly required a 30km drive to the next town.
Careful what you wish for, I guess.
Posted in: Banking with the dinosaurs
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hokkaidoguy
IvanCoughalot (and a whole bunch of others)
The story has absolutely nothing to do with preventing terrorist attacks in Tokyo. Read the last couple of lines of the story.
Posted in: New ticket gate that checks for explosives tested at Akihabara station