JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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jeancolmar
This nut case was a convicted felon and yet he could get a gun. That says a lot about the easy access to guns in the US. Score one more point for the NRA.
This is one more hate murder within a fortnight. Dr. Tiller's clinic had to close after his murder. They won't be closing the Holocaust Museum after this. But I wonder how many people will be afraid to go there after this incident.
The real dangerous terrorists in the US are right wing.
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jeancolmar
No doubt the so-call Right to Life terrorists are celebrating. Don't believe their phony condemnations of this political murder for a second.
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jeancolmar
Thanks for the correction B. So you can buy this thing on a daily basis. Yuk.
Anyway, i you know Kyoto it is a largely subdued and not particularly woopie-do city. Also it is not more a college town than nearby Osaka and Kobe. I academic culture in all these places is about the same is it is anywhere in Japan. It is one that hardly lends itself freely to group rape. It article is what happens when you get a pack of ill-educated hacks to write about universities.
I can well understand why the girl waited so long to come forward about this. Being gang raped is not easy to talk about. She has my complete sympathies.
Posted in: Gang-rape incident a by-product of Kyoto's lenient academic culture
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jeancolmar
Yes indeed, a lone African-American blew away a military recruiter. This was a lone incident. Military recruiters are not plagued by systematic violence against them. Abortions providers have been long-term victims of frequent violence and intimidation from the anti-abortionists. Dr. Tiller himself was shot once and his clinic subject to prolonged harassment.
The violence against abortion providers has been such over the decades that it can only be called systematic. Under other circumstances Scott Roeder's "warnings" of further violence against abortion providers could be dismissed as the mere ravings of a madman. Under the circumstances as they are, they must be taken seriously, even accepted at face value.
The US ought to realize that there is a domestic enemy within--the right-wing in all its guises, from the frothy-mouthed talking heads on Fox News to the actual gun toting vermin who do the actually dirty work against truly good and brave people like Dr. Tiller.
Make no mistake: The so-called Pro Life gang are terrorists. And they are only one aspect of the right-wing cancer plaguing America.
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jeancolmar
The title of this article is not appropriate as there is nothing in the article to substantiate it. Gang rapes by university students in Kyoto are rare, as they are at Japanese universities in general. That is why they are big news when they occur.
Anyone familiar with university life in Japan knows it is at best mundane and at worst catatonic.
This is a cheap, ignorant and sensationalistic article that exploits a singular ugly incident for the sake of selling some dubious weekly tabloid.
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jeancolmar
Don't forget that some of the worst Holocaust deniers are right in the good ol' USA. Unlike European deniers, they have no constraints put on them because Holocaust denial is not against the law in the US.
Another thing, there is no question that Stalin and Mao were mass murderers. The Holocaust was different. It went beyond killing political opponents (or letting millions starve to death because of failed programs, as in the Chinese Cultural Revolution). Hitler killed millions--including Germany's own people (which, of course, included German Jews) for eugenic reasons. Besides wiping out the Jews, he wanted to wipe out the Poles and the Russians, as well as Gypsies, cripples, homosexuals, and many others. Obama would have been wiped out if the Nazis had conquered the world.
Other crimes against humanity should not be ignored or downgraded because of the Holocaust. At the same time the Holocaust must be remembered what the extreme horror that it was.
Posted in: Obama calls Buchenwald ultimate rebuke to Holocaust denial
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jeancolmar
From above: "6 millions is quite an astronomical number..." The actual number those who died in the Holocaust is around 11 million. Six million represents the number of Jews the Nazis murdered. I frankly wonder if even 11 million is too a conservative number.
Posted in: Obama calls Buchenwald ultimate rebuke to Holocaust denial
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jeancolmar
The article states: "The victims at Buchenwald included some 11,000 Jews, but also communists, Gypsies and other minorities from across central Europe." This should state clearly that "victims" means those who died. Everyone who was an inmate at Buchenwald ought to be counted as a victim. Furthermore, the wording of this statement sounds like the non-Jewish deaths are somehow secondary. In fact, at Buchenwald most of those who died were not Jewish. Not mentioned is that many of the people imprisoned in Buchenwald were POWs, and the worst treated were those from the Soviet Union. Poles also make up a large number of the dead.
I am harping on these details to stress once again that the Holocast was far worse than most people think. The Nazis had in for all "neidermenchen," not only the Jews. I am aiming this at the Holocaust deniers, who are basically anti-semitic. If Hitler had won, you too could have been a victim. No doubt the Nazis would have eventually gotten at the Arabs.
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jeancolmar
So is USARonin the true voice of the "pro-life" terrorists? You wonder. Abortion is not murder under the law. Shooting a man dead without provocation is a crime. If you rejoice in this illegal act you are in fact condoning it and all other murders of abortion providers.
Operation Rescue is a terrorist organization. Make no mistake about that.
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jeancolmar
A correction. Of the some 56,000 people who perished most were not Jews. This is from the AP article "Facts about former Buchenwald Concentration Camp": "Approximately 250,000 prisoners were held at Buchenwald from its opening in July 1937 to its liberation in April 1945. An estimated 56,000 people were killed, including approximately 11,000 Jews." It may be that of all the various groups of people killed at Buchenwald--Gypsies, POWs, dissidents, etc.--Jews might have had the largest percentage of their people killed (I'll need to check more).
I've been to Buchenwald and the first thing that shocked me was the utterly beautiful landscape that the Buchenwald bluff overlooked. I had been prepared for the remnants of the horrors I saw there but not for the breathtaking beautiful of the surroundings. I had to wonder how people could commit the cruelties that this did in the midst of such natural beauty.
I am glad that Obama denounced Holocaust denial. I want to remind people once again that the Holocaust was worse than is generally imagined. Along with the 6 million Jews some 5 million non-Jews perished. This includes some 250,000 Gypsies, who lost the greatest proportion of their population than anybody, including the Jews. Remembering only the 6 million Jewish victims and forgetting the other 5 million victims I believe is a form of Holocaust denial. The Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. has detailed records on all of the Holocaust victims.
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jeancolmar
To states will achieve peace faster than when one is an extended concentration camp under the other state's rule.
Posted in: Obama, in Germany, calls for new effort for 2-state solution in Middle East; blasts Holocaust deniers
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jeancolmar
Maybe the guy was murdered.
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jeancolmar
China is a backward repressive regime which is also not communist. It's an example of a successful failure. I hope people do rememberTiananmen Square, and who supported the mass murder of peaceful protesters, who was neutral and contemned it.
The fact is that the murderous old goats who run China cannot stop the internet revolution. It will eventually get them. Then maybe, if the Chinese have tired of free market economics with an iron fist, China can have a real socialist revolution.
The evil old men running China have reason to fear the memory of Tiananmen Square and Tweeter, for China's streets are destined to be filled with the blood of tyrants.
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jeancolmar
It says something that this psychopath was welcomed by the anti-Abortionists. It makes you wonder how many more suicide bomber types these right-winger terrorists are harboring and nurturing.
Posted in: Man charged in death of Kansas abortion doctor
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jeancolmar
People who bomb abortion clinics and kill abortion doctors, on top of intimidating women going into those clinics are hate-filled fanatics. While we have our share of hate-filled fanatics in Europe and Japan few if any of them would bother with a woman's right to choose to abort or not to abort. I am pro-choice. Being pro-choice is actually quite neutral, as it does not demand that women follow any rules except their own consciences. I know of women who were pro-choice but chose to have their babies out of wedlock. Their choices was personal and not signals that people who chose otherwise were wrong. China with its forced abortions is not pro-choice.
If this assassination were an isolated incident it would not have to worry the Right to Lifers as much as it does. They are worried because it is not an isolated incident. It is a part of a pattern that has been with us for decades.
Posted in: Abortion foes fear backlash to doctor's murder
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jeancolmar
And right about, 'Said the Rev Patrick Mahoney, an anti-abortion activist: “No one should use this tragedy for political gain.”' Truly an opportunist creep of the first order. In other words, be quite, leave the Right to Life Bin Ladens alone. Hey, the Dr. Tiller was assassinated on political grounds. This is a political issue. And that issue is Christian terrorism against abortion caregivers that has been allowed to go on for decades.
Posted in: Abortion foes fear backlash to doctor's murder
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jeancolmar
I meant if Randall Terry is convicted and sentenced he will become a martyr to the "Right to Life" terrorists.
You know why the abortion debate is either low-key or not a debate in Japan and Europe? The absence of large numbers of religious fanatics. The US is unfortunately crawling with Christian coo-coos.
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jeancolmar
If this wasn't attached to an AIDS awareness concert I'd say this was damned funny. As it was, Marie should have said she has only protected sex every time with a regular partner, or regular partners. The moral would be it's not how often you do it but how you do it.
There is nothing wrong with sex five times a day. I only hope dear little Marie isn't walking around Tokyo with a tin cup that has "Spare Sex" written on it.
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jeancolmar
This is like the KKK fearing backlash over a lynching. It is the so-called Right to Life terrorist filth that set the moral and emotional tone for Dr. Tiller's assassination. Do not forget that Dr. Tiller's clinic was bombed in 1985 and he was shot in both arms by an anti-abortion terrorist in 1993. Note: "According to the National Abortion Federation, Tiller was the eighth U.S. abortion provider murdered since 1977, and 17 others had been targeted with attempted murder."
Also note that Randall Terry is not the proverbial lone gunman. He is "a veteran anti-abortion activist whose protests have often targeted Tiller." This is a man who is steeped in the ideology and tactics of the anti-abortionists. His is not simply a loner who drifted into a movement for muddled personal reasons; he is a part of the whole cloth of the anti-abortion movement. He is a trained fanatic, just like any Al Qaeda suicide bomber.
We are hearing the anti-abortion Bin Ladens condemning this killing, as you would expect. But what are they really thinking, and what is the rank and file saying behind our backs. I'll bet the farm that not a few of them are saying Randall Terry did a good thing and good riddance to "Tiller the killer" and too bad a good man like Randy had to sacrifice himself" and so on.
The anti-abortion gang is worried about a backlash against them because of this assassination. If there is a backlash it will be one that they have brought upon themselves. They can be fairly certain it will not reach the fanatic violence that their people have perpetuated on abortion providers over the years.
What worries me is that Randall Terry will become a martyr to the cause will inspire more violence against abortion clinic and doctors.
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jeancolmar
Bill O'Reilly is certainly an instigator. The creep ought to at least be taken off the air. But the real culprit is Operation Rescue, which has established itself as an ipso facto terrorist organization targeting abortion clinics and doctors. They are the Christian version of Al Qaeda.
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