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    ka_chan

    With all the years of English language education in Japan, you would think subtitles won't not be needed.

    Posted in: What do you think of the quality of Japanese subtitles on English movies shown in Japan?

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    ka_chan

    There is no confirmation that the victim was a soldier. The only thing that can be said is the the victim was wearing a T-shirt for a military charity Help for Heroes. Some reports have him also carrying a military style backpack. The only one that called him a soldier is the President of France but British PM Cameron at the same press meeting did not confirm this. The attack was more in line with line with conflicts in sub saharan african.

    Posted in: Anti-Islamist protests flare after British soldier butchered near London barracks

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    Ok, the adult in most countries, try to kill a girl that he doesn't know by whacking her with a metal bat from behind. Seems like a capital crime. Most murders or attempted murders are between people that now each other. For someone to try and murder as complete stranger makes him a psychopath. But this is Japan and it's a guy trying to kill a girl so he will probably be tried as a juvee and be out in a couple of years to succeed where he once failed with someone else.

    Posted in: Youth arrested for hitting 16-year-old girl with baseball bat

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    So why isn't anyone from Japan Atomic Power Co going to jail? It isn't like the fault just now happened, it had to be there before they built it.

    Posted in: Nuclear watchdog agrees Tsuruga nuclear plant sits atop active fault

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    Well if Ishihara did something to affect the anime and manga industry in Tokyo, it explains why there has been an explosion of anime and manga coming out of Kyoto and Osaka. Lately, most of the stuff is crap except for one or two. NHK been pushing anime and manga via programs like "Imagine-nation". Still think NHK doesn't understand the industry and haven't seen any good anime on NHK in a while. The most likely reason why anime and manga are so popular in Japan is because Japanese real life is that good and people need escapism. It popular in the other countries for other reasons. In the US, the "cartoon" industry is very young children driven with not real storyline. Good anime has a arching storyline similar to the old time serials and can even have a grand story line that stretches over years.
    Using Moe characters is not much different than using a sexy girl to sell items but "kawaII" is also popular with girls and women. The sex sells to guys and the cute sell to gals. There is the danger of over saturation. Anime been selling things as tourism for years. A popular anime of the early 90s, took it's characters to tourist setting from Miyashima to Hakodate and even Okinawa. Marmalade Boy was very melodramatic. The popular Korean drama "Winter Sonata" (2002) seem to be almost a rip-off of Marmalade Boy. Today series as Marmalade Boy, Maison Ikkoku, Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, etc where the story line ran for years are no more. The quality isn't there anymore. Like the stock market, you know it is almost over when every is trying to get into the action and talking about it.

    Posted in: 'Moe' madness: Gov't realizes selling power of cute 2D girls

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    ka_chan

    ABEnomics has another problem. If Abe is successful at getting out of deflation, Japan can go straight to hyper inflation because of the debt.

    Posted in: Gov't panel warns of dangers if debt not addressed

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    ka_chan

    Are radios obsolete? Do people still go to the movies? Is television obsolete? BTW, aren't PCs where apps are written for Android and iphones.

    Posted in: Global PC units in the first quarter fell by 14%. Will PCs soon be obsolete?

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    ka_chan

    He also reflects the current situation in Japan noted in a 2012 US State Department report.

    Japan is a destination, source, and transit country for men and women subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking, and for children subjected to sex trafficking.

    In addition, traffickers continued to use fraudulent marriages between foreign women and Japanese men to facilitate the entry of these women into Japan for forced prostitution. Japanese organized crime syndicates (the Yakuza) are responsible for some trafficking in Japan, both directly and indirectly. Traffickers strictly control the movements of victims, using debt bondage, threats of violence or deportation, blackmail, and other coercive psychological methods to control victims.

    Japanese men continue to be a significant source of demand for child sex tourism in Southeast Asia, and, to a lesser extent, Mongolia.

    The Government of Japan has not officially recognized the existence of forced labor within the Industrial Trainee and Technical Internship Program, a government-run program designed to foster basic industrial skills and techniques and to provide opportunities to acquire practical skills and techniques.

    The Government of Japan does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking

    http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2012/192367.htm

    Posted in: Do you agree with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's comments on comfort women?

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    No evidence, that funny. Related material start with the Dutch administered war crimes tribunal. They there are sources as: http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/NaziWarCrimes_Japanese-Records.pdf

    http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1242&context=bjil&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dtokyo%2520tribunal%2520comfort%2520women%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D30%26ved%3D0CFcQFjAJOBQ%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fscholarship.law.berkeley.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1242%2526context%253Dbjil%26ei%3DntCbUZbPFYnXygGxoCQDw%26usg%3DAFQjCNHAjMSsBeGrQ8r8VuBxQzSEDuPJNA#search=%22tokyo%20tribunal%20comfort%20women%22

    http://faculty.virginia.edu/setear/students/japanwc/LinkPage3.htm

    Posted in: Hashimoto says S Korean troops guilty of wartime sex abuse

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    I always thought cosplay and anime conventions went hand and hand. The only restrictions were for cosplay weapons, for safety reasons. The only occasion that I ever saw a restriction was when Anime Expo held it's convention at Disneyland. That was a disaster for multiple reasons. In Japan there are Cosplay conventions. Generally speaking, real cosplayers make their own.

    Posted in: The lowdown on Japan’s cosplay industry

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    ka_chan

    http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/17/18316420-chef-to-the-stars-miki-nozawa-dies-following-confrontation-over-unpaid-bill

    Posted in: German resort island shaken over Japanese chef's murder

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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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    ka_chan

    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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    ka_chan

    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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    ka_chan

    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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    ka_chan

    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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