JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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imagawa
TheFunnyMan.
"The bases in Japan today have lost any meaning they might once have had and as such should be removed, for both the Japans and Americas sake."
"they might once have had"
I think, though for different reasons, we were in agreement.
I would add that I think Bibric wants the bases in Japan so as to keep them out of Korea, but still close to hand should South Korea need a little helping hand.
Posted in: Does the U.S. need to have military bases anywhere in Japan?
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Bibric
Like most deep poets your words will not be understood in your life time. This sad but how it is.
Now can I ask are you for or against US bases in Japan?
Posted in: Does the U.S. need to have military bases anywhere in Japan?
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imagawa
Is anybody really listening to anything that Bush says, aside from a few you here that is?
Posted in: Bush says N Korea must verify denuclearization
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imagawa
The Funny Man
"but rather with the intention of preventing the spread of communism, which was considered an threat to American interests, and therefore an indirect threat to American security."
American security or American business? Is there in fact, for America, a difference?
You go on to say;
"I think that forward deploying military forces to East Asia is expensive and at this point the costs far outweigh the benefits. "
But hasn`t this alway been the case? The "fight" against communism was alawys going to be unwinnable when you are fighting against what a native population "believes" they want?
In any real sense I agree with you, but I believe the US has handled the last 60+ years so badly that they have lost trust where they had it and confirmed a lack of trust where that already existed.
The bases in Japan today have lost any meaning they might once have had and as such should be removed, for both the Japans and Americas sake.
Sorry but my keyboard seems to have gone totally mad, the keys have all changed and I have to give up. Sorry.
Posted in: Does the U.S. need to have military bases anywhere in Japan?
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Sarge
"Heck, if we'd just let Europe figure out what to do when Hitler attacked..."
That is exactly what the US did do. Germany declared war on the US or had you forgotten the minor detail?
Hairforest
You leave very little to be said & I agree with you about 99% sadly as you can see many people really do still believe the rubish about the US protecting Japan. After the second world war the US created a series of defence rings around itself. For either the USSR or China to attack the US they would first have to go through these defence rings. It would have stopped them, but it would have expensively slowed them down. This is the prime reason the US nearly went to war with the USSR over bases in Cuba. The USSR had come right inside the final shield. Britain, Germay & Japan are military bases. Remember Britain was an ally of the US & yet they are still an occupied country today, & who are the US defending them from?
If you are an American I can well understand you believing what you were taught to believe, it is the drip drip feed of your education, but should you have the courage to step outside what you have been taught without feeling you are betraying your country, which you would not be doing, you might just be able to see the world & the US from a surprisingly different poiint of view. You are not seen as the worlds policeman, you are seen as a reckless threat to world peace who only ever act in your own self interest with little thought give to those you ask & expect support from.
Nobody (I hope) is damning the American people here, but we see an America that Americans seem to be blind to.
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MrMukatsuku
"The local tyre sales outlets must be wringing their hands in glee!"
Maybe you hav ejust found the guilty party
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Taka
I agree, I don't have any real reason for expecting something, other than the Chinese being the Chinese, but I am half waiting for something to go seriously wrong.
These are the people that supply the 100 yen shops, the todo cien shops, the world's provider of cheap crxp & that alone should be a worry.
Mid-August headline;
"Birds nest disaster"
It's a possible.
Posted in: Do you think the Olympic Games will be a success?
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imagawa
What type of interview did he go to that he needed a big knife or for that matter scissors?
I suppose living in Canada would drive anybody to murder, the biggest sleepy little country in the world.
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imagawa
The mans got only a few months left in office, so why should ahybody take any notice of anything he says or does? This is not a US government trip, this is a Bush business trip. Hey the mans got to earn a living after he's out of the white house. Japan's a done deal, no point going back, but maybe there are a few contracts that need signing else where.
Would you buy a second hand car from that man?
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imagawa
I hope the bear got away without two holes in it, that would be cruel. The old guy was a hunter & failed, sorry, but he went where the bears live & got killed by one. I can't feel bad about that.
Zen builder. Are there no supermarkets where you come from, I mean, do you really NEED to go out killing things for food? Maybe it saves money, & maybe if that is true then I'm on the side of boar & I don't wish you luck next time you go out killing. It didn't come looking for you remember.
Posted in: Hunter dies in suspected bear attack in Hokkaido
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imagawa
For China it is already a success, they got the olympics. What happens from this point on means nothing, they conned the world & got the games, now they can con their own people & say " look how wonderful we are, we got the games".
I could say more but I'm getting tired of being deleted by the censor.
FairandBalanced at 12:14 PM JST - 1st August
"US should hold all future games, for freedom, security and world class facilities."
Very funny.
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imagawa
The olympics is sport, sport sucks in the suckers who get sucked in by the advertising so the advertisers pay out big money, but only because the suckers are there watching.
China never intended keeping it's promise on free internet access & those that believed they would did so because it let them of the hook when it came to China getting the olympics in the first place. They should never have been allowed to host the olypics. Now the big money advertisers are making all their silly excuses.
Yes, I know, don't mix politics & sport, get real, most of the suckers just want to watch sport & don't give a damn. Their sport & their country are more important than anything else. Little people with little minds, but a lot of them to keep the advertisers happy. Money, sport & politics, what a very sick mix? Welcome to China suckers.
Posted in: China reneges on Internet freedom during Olympics
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imagawa
One very important point nobody seems to be asking about is why was this crazy carrying a very big knife? Is this normal on buses in Canada, does one need a big knife on buses in Canada? I know that it is a big country with large open spaces, but does mean that there are no rest stops, do passengers have to get off the bus every few days & hurt some fresh meat? So therefore needing a big knife?
I did think Canada was one of those really sad countries where nothing ever happens. Well they made a bid for the murder olympics with this one.
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FairandBalanced at 07:15 AM JST - 1st August
"Bush should have a firm talk to the Chinese and express his displeasure with this.
This would surely presuad the cHinese to change their mind, and people could use the internet safely."
You wrote this as a joke right?
The rest of the world think Bush is an idiot, why should China think any diffrent?
Posted in: China reneges on Internet freedom during Olympics
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imagawa
How incredibly predictable. Why do so many of you sound so surprised & disapointed? This but the beginning, wait until we start getting reports about visitors being arrested, it will happen.
And if you think you can't do anything about this you are wrong, you can. send an email to every one you know & get them to do the same, blanc ALL coverage of the olympic games, spread it like a virus. Let China & the IOC have their games, in private.
And try to keep in mind it is only sport, your life does not depend on seeing it, & you country will win (or not) even if you are not watching it, they don't NEED you infront of a TV. That's what China, the IOC & the advertisers need, not the sportspeople.
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imagawa
"and lists of 120,000 individual clients"
I can't see where it says "Japanese clients"
Let's just hope that the Japanese police share this list with other interested police around the world. Where child porn really does matter.
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imagawa
“Those who carried out this crime are making war on God, on the security of Gaza, and on the resistance,” he said. “They will not be released after six months but will be hanged from the gallows and shot.”
Not nice when it happens to your own is it?
I wonder what the press would have to say if someone in Israel said this about the palestian killers?
Libertas. I half agree. A new game of "let's you & him fight". I don't think they set it up, but they are not going to be unhappy about it. Why should they be?
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imagawa
Can show sub titles!
Very, very, very little sub titles.
Kawaii it is not. I hate that cat.
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imagawa
Hermitage.
you are an idealist living in a black & white world & I sort of respect you that. But I do think you are setting your self up for disapointments. Getting any Japanese & Korean to agree about anything is beginning to feel as though it might be impossible. And that is so sad.
Posted in: S Korea reportedly plans to build hotel on disputed islets
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Bibric.
Thank you for the apology. I'm sorry that I over reacted in relation to you personally. I found that I was being deleted so often that I was losing track of what I had & hadn't said. T
I still believe that you are avoiding a simple way of dealing with the island problem, if you are as confident of your position as you say then you have no reason for not going before an international court. Your arguements against this are so thin that I have to believe that you are not confident or that you have some other not stated reasons for avoiding court. I am not Japanese as I have already told you, but I openly admit that I do side with Japan on this issue because all historical evidence points to Japan being in the right. This is not because I am being anti-Korean, because I am not anti-Korean. If I believed you were in the right I would back you that.
Perhaps what is more important here is something that Rekishika touched on above. Whatever the value to anybody of these islands a fight over them between Japan & Korea is really stupid, for both of them. So much more is going to be lost & for so little. There is so much that the two countries share & so much more that they could go on to share & all this stands to be lost over these islands. They are not worth that to either country. Outsiders like Rekishika & myself, plus many others can see this, you are holding your national pride too close & losing sight of what you stand to lose. The very idea that your two countries could come to blows over these islands is madness. Would you personally be comfortable with the idea that people, Japanese or Korean, might die for these islands?
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