Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    imagawa

    Sailwind

    As was said, the shrine is now private, not related to the state, so who is there really isn't anybodies business unless they are related to you or you have a personal reason (comrades for example)for going there.

    What I might ask you is why you personally want to argue against this shrine, what torch do you carry that leads you to condemn the people of another country from respecting their own dead?

    Posted in: Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine

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    imagawa

    If my father, grand father, uncle or great uncle had been tried & convicted of being a war criminal & executed they would still be my father, grand father, uncle or great uncle & as such would still be entitled to my respect because of the kinship we would share.

    Maybe we should all look at our own family (even if they are already dead) & ask ourselves, what if my xxxxxxx (who ever) was to be found to be a war criminal, how would I then behave toward that person, how would I feel toward that person? And just to test yourself a little ask what the difference would be if they were tried & found guilty by a foreign power?

    I am not defending war criminals, I am defending peoples rights to respect who they believe they have a right to respect. They are not asking you share in that, only to mind your own business.

    Posted in: Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine

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    OssanULTRA

    "both parties are going to work together to investigate"

    I hope that really happens, but I doubt it.

    NK will promise anything to get what it wants, & deliver nothing. Still something must be tried, if only to prove how pointless it is try anything with these people.

    Posted in: Japan, North Korea agree to reinvestigate abductions

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    Noripinhead

    "What's amazing about this photo is that they are alone in Tokyo"

    Take a closer look, they are not alone.

    Nice picture though, even if it did take a lot of power to light it up.

    Posted in: Tokyo Midtown

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    imagawa

    I think everybody needs to look at who is doing what & why. The Yasukuni shrine is not one thing to all people, yes, in the sense that it a shrine to the dead from war, but how we as indeviduals see that depends very much where we come from. An American, Australian, British will have a view that since “war criminals” are enshrined there it must ba a bad place, but there are tens of thousnads of simple soldiers enshrined there too, people who were conscripted into their country’s army. Maybe they agreed maybe they didn’t, we will never know, but they died fighting for THEIR country the same as the Americans, Australians & British did. Remember the little guy tends to have very little say in what is happening but does also tend to be the one that gets dead first. How many people of any nationallity would go to their grandfather’s grave to pay respects to the man but would also, if asked, say that they think the war he fought & died in was wrong? It happens, we are not our country, we are not our country’s foreign policy, be that todays foreign policy or one from any point in our country’s past. War is a dirty nasty business, it’s all about killing people, we take that as said & one would hope try to avoid it, but it happens. But in a simple one country against one country war there are at the very least two opinions about who is right & who is wrong. No, it is never that simple. Country A wins the war against country B, & convicts those that it sees as being war criminals. I am not saying if they are or not, that isn’t the issue. There is no reason here why the people of country B should agree that these people were war criminals, they could just as easily point the finger at country A & say you have war criminals too but they have not been convicted. Only the victor says who goes to court & who doesn’t. The people of country B still have a right & for some to some degree a duty to respect their dead, even if they have been convicted as war criminal & a member of country A has no right to say that they shouldn’t, not if they wish to keep the right to respect their own war dead. I am trying very hard here not to use any examples because to do so is to invite an “history lesson” from of the many “experts” we have around here. Which in a way is part of the point I am trying to make, there are many opinions to any subject, & they can all be right depending on where you happen to be standing. In the case of the Yasukuni shrine anybody, including the Japanese government, has a right to go there & pay their respects to their dead, it makes no differnce if the war was a “right” war or a “wrong” war, the dead at this shrine died for their country. They do not have to go believing that it was a “right” war, they could & on some cases perhaps do go believing to was “wrong”. The shrine is there for people who died for their country, right & wrong doesn’t come into it. Think of a topical story from todays press, let’s say the Chinese man in Canada that killed another man on a bus. If he was a member of your family would you today disown him? You might not be at all happy about what he did & maybe even pretend to outsiders you don’t know him, but at home he is still family & if he kills himself tomorrow you would still go to his funeral, he’s your family. When we come to the gist of this article we are looking the opinon of some catholic priest & how he sees this shrine, a man with religious blinkers on. The vatican judgments on this shrine? Well when did the vatican have any real inpact on the world? Not for a long, long time & they have always been standing on thin ice whenever they have made judgments, they have a history as bloody as any country & a doctrin as backward as most religions, only a catholic would give credence to anything they might say (or have said). Your judgement on the Yasukuni shrine is the right one, for you, as mine is for me, & no I haven’t been & have no plans on going, I am not Japanese, I have no direct family there, I have no reason to go (except as an escourt). But if my wife were to go (she hasn’t) I would respect her right to do so, what ever her reasons & not another person (outside of her direct family, perhaps) anywhere in the world has a right to say she would be wrong to go.

    Posted in: The Catholic Church and Yasukuni shrine

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    imagawa

    Who today watches tv? It is just a means of getting more adverts to more people.

    usversusthem

    When in Rome you will only get to see the Romans. That's how the game is played everywhere. I am in Spain at the moment & guess what is on the tv? THE Spanish olympics, sorry, but you get not what you would like but "where" you are. The Japanese are no different to any other country in this.

    And when you think about it, it is only sport, it's not important.

    Posted in: What do you think of the TV coverage of the Olympics so far?

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    imagawa

    “Do you think the Olympics will bring democratic and economic reforms to China?”

    This isn’t a question, it is two questions.

    Economic reforms are a possibility, they like making money & will go some way to making changes if those changes help them make more.

    Democratic reforms? People with power never hand it away without a fight & while the people in power have their foot on the necks of the rest of the people there is no one to fight.

    So my answer to your two questions is, “No” & “Yes”.

    Perhaps if you want people to vote you should work out what it is you want them to vote on first.

    Posted in: Do you think the Olympics will bring democratic and economic reforms to China?

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    Sarge

    Do you know what ecstasy is?

    Aside from what you have read in the paper that is?

    Posted in: Australian police claim 'world's largest seizure of ecstasy'

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    some14some

    "You can get perfectly good made-in-China nylon swimsuits for under $15.

    and may be at 100 yen shop in Japan."

    Yes, but you miss all the colour & backgroud.

    Besides, haven’t you noticed the decrease in Chinese goods in the 100 yen shops?

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    imagawa

    How many have died in these two countrie this last week Sarge? Sorry but if you don't watch the news every day it's easy to lose count.

    One other point, when was it that this war was won?

    "failed policies indeed!" That's about how most people see it too.

    Posted in: McCain says Obama wants to forfeit war in Iraq

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    imagawa

    What was she doing going up to his room WITH a knife? If you take it you at least mean to be able to use it.

    What was wrong with the less expensive idea of cutting the mouse cable?

    Posted in: Woman, 37, arrested for stabbing 14-year-old son with knife after argument over PC

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    imagawa

    You can most anything in China for under $15

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    imagawa

    Sorry

    Who wins will make a difference,

    Sorry, I'm just having a bad day today, I got my keyboard working & now3 I can't use it.

    Posted in: McCain says Obama wants to forfeit war in Iraq

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    imagawa

    There is a large amount of truth to what you wrote, but it really doesn’t change what I wrote. What happens in the US over the coming months is all our businesses. Won win will make a difference, even if we are not American & cannot vote. And maybe you can feel the trace of bitterness there, we can’t vote, but can & very often do pay the price for who runs your country.

    Posted in: McCain says Obama wants to forfeit war in Iraq

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    Designismylife.

    "Have you people no sympathy? No compassion?"

    After an 11 hour flight? No

    Posted in: How airlines deal with 'customers of size'

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    imagawa

    Why can’t we just call fat people what they are,fat? How they got that way is really not my business any more than it is my business how somebody ended up with three screeming kids & why they have to travel half way round the world on the same plane as me.

    Adding to this is that they pay the same seat price as me. And don’t tell me a baby weighs less, that in it self is too obvious, but have you ever seen a mother & baby with less than twice the luggage that you have?

    I am not allowed to smoke on a plane because it upsets other people, fine, I can accept that, so why must I be “upset” by these people who think that fat & baby are just fine & I must be a monster for not wanting them anywhere near me? I weigh 61Kg & yet I am reading about weights of 250Kg being alright, no they are not.

    There should be a simple rule for all, you walk up to the check in & you & your luggage are weighed & you pay accordingly. No, not double price because it is really only the extra fuel that fat people should be paying for.

    As for offending somebody by saying they are fat, well if they are they are, get real & face the facts of life. If it is used as an insult then yes, but if you are stating a fact because you are talking about weight & seat sizes, that is not an insult.

    Think of this, a special new diet centre has just opened in XXX & it has proved to be amazing good, so a diet club at YYYY sends 100 of it’s member to try out this new centre. What happens, plane can’t get off the ground or crashes through shortage of fuel half way there.

    Maybe giant mirrors & scales at all check ins could bring about a sea change, anything butdon’t sit them next to me.

    Posted in: How airlines deal with 'customers of size'

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    imagawa

    It isn’t (yet) a choice between America or Chnia, thankfully.

    Given the percentage of both American & Chinese that live outside their respective counties it seems I might not be the only one thinking this way.

    Posted in: Bush calls for freedom of speech in China

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    skipthesong

    "and his family name is equally foreign"

    What is a "foreign" name to an American?

    Sarge

    "We were winning in Vietnam until the liberals forced us to pull out before the job was done."

    Don't you dare ever say another word about Japanese history after that remark.

    Or did you mean by "job was done" there were still some locals left alive?

    "If they get out too soon, the only Iraqis managing their own affairs will be the extremist wacko Iraqis like the ones we ousted."

    That I agree with, when the foreign troops leave there will be civil war, but that will happen whenever they leave, now or at any time in the future. Why stay losing men by the day & costing the US insane amounts of money it doesn't have for what will happen anyway?

    The one serious mistake an outsider can see clearly is that the Republicans make a really stupid mistake sellecting McCain, he is far too old, he belongs to the wrong generation & some don't even believe he would live out a single term in office.

    And as an outsider some might tell me to mind my own business, what happens in the US is all our businesses until somebody gets a grip on the way that country runs it's foreign policy we all pay for it's mistakes.

    Posted in: McCain says Obama wants to forfeit war in Iraq

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    Badsey

    "Without the athletes there would be no Olympics,"

    It's alway about these poor athletes that have trained for FOUR or more years to get to this games. So what? They have acted with a degree of selfishness that beggers belief. They are seen as being so special, more special than the human rights of the Chinese people?

    The games should never have gone to China & the fact that did should have meant that many athletes should have started to look at the 2012 games rather than these games.

    It is nothing but sport, there are far more important things in life. Little boys infront of their TVs need to grow up. It is not important & only the childish hype makes it important.

    Posted in: A big black eye for the IOC

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    SiouxGirl

    "also meaning no gays or non-christians,"

    Sorry but I just have ask, where the hell do you live?!

    Smithinjapan

    Why should anybody take against Lolitas? They are harmless, mostly silly cute, sometimes very odd, but always harmless. Leave the girls alone they are doing what they enjoy & they are NOT telling you how you should live. Alot of the clothes they make themselves so they not spending stupid money on stupidly expensive bags & whatever else. They are fun & they can make the streets fun & interesting too.

    Posted in: Tokyo's Lolita subculture thumbs nose at men

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