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    ka_chan

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21226068

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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    ka_chan

    Favor stock of day traders for now so I'll wait until the stock goes to 55-60 and/or they come out with a more affordable car. Don't need a 120 mph electric car, don't care that it has a 17 inch gps screen, or is Consumers Reports highest rated car, ever. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/07/tesla-model-s-review/index.htm

    Posted in: Founder to invest $100 million in red-hot Tesla

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    4 dogs, 5 cats, 9 carp,.... a young future psychopath.

    Posted in: 9 carp found mutilated in park

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    Obviously, Hashimoto is a product of the Japanese educational system which Korea and China decry. Court records of the Tokyo Tribunal have references to "Comfort Women" and there are no good estimates on the number since the Japanese Government did as much as possible to burn records or war crimes especially any that link the Emperor. But there are surviving records that do implicate the Japanese Government all the way to the top involving war crimes. The issue of "comfort women" and Japan is not limited to the past. Today, Japan is considered the largest market for Asian women trafficked for sex. You can look this up.

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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    hmm the Japanese trailers don't seem to do it justice. http://www.startrekmovie.com/#video

    Posted in: Voiceover

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    ka_chan

    Honda sponsor HR 121 in 2007 which says:

    A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces' coercion of young women into sexual slavery, known to the world as "comfort women", during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II.

    This resolution was passed with no opposition. Can't believe someone brought up "pan pan girls" who were not restricted to the Japanese government version of comfort women for occupying forces since they though occupying forces would act as the Imperial Japanese forces acted in countries that they occupied. The pan pan girls symbolized the liberation of Japanese women and the emasculation of Japanese men and the Japanese patriarchal system.

    Posted in: U.S. lawmakers urge Japan gov't to distance itself from Hashimoto

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    ka_chan

    Hashimoto does know that prostitution has been illegal in Japan since 1958 but that is only about one type of sex. But the law doesn't seem any defined penalties. They also get around the law by not calling it what it is but things like enjo kosai. But for a Japanese politician to suggest breaking Japanese law is interesting. Maybe he doesn't know it's illegal.

    Posted in: Hashimoto says he lacked sensitivity to U.S. perception of prostitution

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    Compare Ireland to Okinawa is crazy unless you want Okinawa to be a republic like Ireland. I supposed you mean Northern Ireland which is still a bad comparison. If China wants to play that game, Japan can rightfully claim Formosa. China gave Japan Formosa even though they only controlled about 30%. Since China did bring up the subject of tributes, maybe Okinawa should sue China in international court for a return of their tribute, protection money, since China didn't do anything to protect the Ryukyu Kingdom from Japan when Japan took them over. I think Okinawa has a better case then China has.

    Posted in: Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan

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    There are no coincidences. I doubt that complaint is about 731 but that the leader of Japan is in basically a Japanese military aircraft with those numbers. I don't believe that Abe or his team is so stupid that they didn't know the symbolism. As for the Unit 731 and other units symbolized by unit 731 and every Japanese doctor that serviced in the region during 1937-1944, vivisection was a common practice. The majority of victims were Chinese and Russian but it included Koreans, Americans, English, French, etc. Although their job was to spread disease as plague, cholera, anthrax, etc, they also tested grenades, flame throwers, etc on live subjects.

    Posted in: S Korean media slam Abe's 731 jet photo

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    No 24 hr public transportation, no 24 hr city.!

    Posted in: Can Tokyo be transformed into a 24-hour city?

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    Usually these things have a warning that anchors must be used at all times on portable/moveable ones or they can fall over and cause injury. So was someone not doing their job.

    Posted in: 7-year-old girl seriously injured by school goalpost collapse

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    Hashimoto is just say what Japanese men think of women. Although, US put in a provision in the constitution about women's rights, Japan never truly accepted or practice it. It is only on paper. In reality, you know it's not true when teachers get a slap on the wrist for having sex with their students, when policemen get a slap on the wrist for up the skirt camera work and you have to have women only train carriages, usually the last one, to some what prevent "groping". Under this condition of constant abuse of their own women, of course, it is necessary to service men with women and it really doesn't matter that the women doesn't consent. Since basically what Hashimoto is saying is the women are here to service men. And some people wonder why the birthrate is still going down. China just has to be patient, eventually there won't be any Japanese.

    Posted in: Gov't - but not Ishihara - backs away from Hashimoto's comfort women comments

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    Ok, there is something wrong with headline. It should read, "US TV Pioneer anchorwoman.....". I always thought she was a better interviewer than Katie Couric.

    Posted in: Pioneer U.S. TV anchor Barbara Walters to retire

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    The Japanese pension system makes more sense the the US Social Security system. A full time home keeper isn't "working" and paying into the system so the benefits are related to the husbands pension. They can only get a 100% of his pension unlike the US where a husband and wife can get 150%. A financial adviser once advised that a wife start collection he husband SS at 62 but the husband shouldn't claim anything until 70 so the money would grow. Once the wife gets to be full pension age 67, she should claim hers instead. Japan prevents this kind of thing but it doesn't seem to know when people died. The wife died in 2003 and the husband died in 2011, then the son claimed the pension on behalf of his mother ( who he being such a good son, didn't know if she was dead or alive). The fact that he collected the money for 2 years seems to should that the Japanese pension system does not have an independent way of verifying if a pensioner is dead or alive. There must be much more abuse of this system if the son could collect so easily.

    Posted in: Man busted for receiving dead mother's pension

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    Saitama strikes again. I'm beginning to wonder about Saitama. As for the driver not seeing the girl, was he texting?

    Posted in: 7-year-old girl run down, killed at pedestrian crossing near home

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    I never heard of a "nursery school" or a kindergarten letting children go home by themselves. Usually someone has to pick them up or they used to take the kids home. And, a helmet would have helped.

    Posted in: 5-year-old girl run over by truck while cycling in Toyama

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    ka_chan

    Man best friend may be really man's best friend.....

    http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/10/having-a-pet-may-lower-heart-disease-risk/ http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2013/05/09/CIR.0b013e31829201e1

    Posted in: Which are more loved in Japan: Cats or dogs?

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    ka_chan

    Some say the diet drinks are worse than the sugar ones. The chemicals in the diet drinks actually makes you eat more. So, how is this addressing the obesity problem?

    Posted in: Coke takes anti-obesity campaign global

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    ka_chan

    Too bad the Australian Navy just doesn't seize the ICR ships and put an end to it. Australia has said that Japan is illegally poaching in it's waters after all.

    Posted in: Anti-whalers ask supporters for cash to fund next campaign

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    Some of you joke about China next claiming Japan. Well if they use a status of being a “vassal state” that gave tribute to China, Japan certainly was one at one time. But, if Okinawa was a true vassal state and protected by China, how did Japan annex it without fighting China? Seems like China at the time may have been ticked off at loosing it's tribute but not enough to try to get the islands back. In the same respect, China lost the first Sino-Japanese war and lost Taiwan and Korea. So if China gave Japan Taiwan, should they give it back since China doesn't recognize Taiwan as independent from it. Anyway, China never ruled the Ryukyu Kingdom so it was more if a "tributary state". Wonder if China was any different from the Mafia and paying protection? Either way, China didn't protect the Ryukyu Kingdom from Japan.... should China pay back all that tribute?

    Posted in: China should reconsider who owns Okinawa: People's Daily

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