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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likeitis
via photoshop???
When it comes to dealing with the mistakes of the former administration, every president does.
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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likeitis
I would play the "we made a mistake but we are learning" card on this one, instead of Bart Simpson's "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, can't prove anything!" card.
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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likeitis
Which is why the next picture you show should depict the torturer sitting in a courtroom in handcuffs. And the next one, the same torturer in a prison cell. And the next picture, soldiers building hospitals and kissing babies.
Obama's waffling is going to be more dangerous than the torture photos. Like his waffling on Guantanamo.
I think this whitewashing can be used against us just as much as a display of the photos. So might as well be forthright, publish the pics, and be DEAD CLEAR that we reject torture and regret that that ever happened.
But this. This is like telling a lie to hide another lie. It becomes a proof in itself about what America is about. I would like America to be about truth and justice and openness. I am not getting my wish.
Apples and oranges. Naturally, you stop a war when you have no proof that its necessary. But blocking pics when you have no proof its necessary, just a gut feeling? Completely different.
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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likeitis
He did not say he "would think about open government". He promised. Going back on a promise is to flip-flop. If he wants freedom from such criticism in the future, I suggest he NOT make promises BEFORE thinking deeply and considering all angles.
I don't think so. I don't think will have any noticeable effect on the troops either way.
But if he is so worried about it, why not drop leaflets over Afghanistan containing photos of U.S. troops building hospitals and kissing babies, instead of covering up the truth? I don't think enough Talibani have access to computers that they are even going to see the new torture pictures anyway.
Obama is over-riding a court decision and going back on his own word on the basis of what amounts to superstition and paranoia.
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likeitis
Boys and girls, the word for today is "flip-flopper". Can you say "flip-flopper"?
Posted in: Obama says releasing detainee abuse photos would endanger U.S. troops
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likeitis
I don't know Yabits. That sounds too much like true democracy. I think they were playing for opportunistic imaginary democracy.
But I think we should be voting on other things every two years rather than whether or not to deny consenting adults their human rights.
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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likeitis
23 year old girl? Who was naturally hung for being an artist right?
The little detail you don't mention is that the charge was no less than murder.
But I have no doubt the Iranian courts are messed up about the guilt though, maybe even in both cases. But unfortunately, I guess she did not have as much political value as Roxana.
Posted in: Saberi, freed from Iran jail, thanks backers
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likeitis
Yeah, but don't spies have the kind that self-destruct? Oops! I am sorry. Obviously she is no spy, obviously.
Maybe a good old-fashioned scan and e-mail? Using hotmail of course.
Posted in: Saberi, freed from Iran jail, thanks backers
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likeitis
Correct. But the big ones are "Single Cookie-Cutter Causasian style face or you don't qualify" pageants. Boring.
Posted in: What do you think about the "look" of women chosen to represent Japan in Miss Universe pageants, such as this year's Miss Universe Japan Emiri Miyasaka, and past winner Riyo Mori and runner-up Kurara Chibana?
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likeitis
Why would she pass it on? I am sure she knows how a fax machine works!
I have avoided commenting too much on this one until some evidence came along. Copying a confidential military related report is a whopper. And yet, those dastardly Iranians are releasing her.
I expect the usual suspects to, rather than admit that the Iranians are not all bad after all, tell us this is just further evidence of how crazy they are. Or, to just say silent until until the good gesture is forgotten.
Posted in: Saberi, freed from Iran jail, thanks backers
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likeitis
I cannot believe kinniku agreed with you. I never so much as implied anything against that. I know perfectly well there are massive differences. Emiri is proof and she is staring me in the face. But certain features are abundant here, and certain faces are uniquely Japanese, maybe not 100 percent, but close enough.
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likeitis
I don't think I can aptly break it down into a words, and I said as much earlier. A picture would be worth a thousand words, but I can't post a picture, and can't be bothered with a thousand words over this.
But you are mischaracterizing my real complaint, and its been happening little by little ever since the first reply to my first post. Its not that she does not look Japanese, its that there is no way she could become Miss Universe without looking so darned Caucasian. I want more variety. Instead, all I ever see is this cookie-cutter material. Even the black girls basically just look white with dark skin.
Some people said I looked Asian when I was a kid and a teen. I did not care.
I think its more hurtful to tout these cookie-cutter pageants like they are experts on beauty, because their narrow focus tends to make other beautiful women feel inadequate.
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likeitis
This is such an extremist opinion, and in my deleted post, I nailed it dead to rights. It is bizarre that this board allows such an opinion as jailing people NOT for what they have done, but for what they think, and that opinion cannot be completely torn apart for the backward and extremist opinion that it is. All my comparisons were dead on the money. But I guess we have a bandwagon to ride around here.
Moderator: You didn't nail anything except yourself. You (and other readers) have to learn to refute other posters' opinions without being impolite to them or going off topic.
Posted in: 57-year-old Saitama tax chief arrested for taking pictures of naked 9-year-old girl
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likeitis
Rectangular face and head, rounded and large eyes, long eyelashes, low cheek-bones, tall thin cheeks, a light curl in the hair, a wide mouth with somewhat thin lips, a nose that is long between eyes and mouth, and quite a lot of chin.
But I cannot believe you cannot just holistically see this, and need it broken down into parts. Also, I do not think I can break it down completely.
A look more representive of Japan would be a rounder face and head, smaller mouth, shorter nose, smaller chin and straight hair. Other things you can give or take. In my opinion, the most beautiful women Japan has to offer need no make-up whatsoever and still look stunning.
My mistress is like that. Her eyes are somewhat round but still narrow and large in comparison to her face, lips not so thick, small mouth, small chin, and fairly pale. Her nose I only see on Japanese people, a little angular with no bridge. Rounder face than this girl. And stunning, even crawling out of bed in the morning with zero make-up. The girl is an angel, and I would take her over Emiri and day.
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likeitis
If that happens, I am going to blame the people who upped the ante by taking it to state constitutions. If it goes to federal, it serves them right. They never should have made it a constitutional issue. I sincerely hope it blows up in their faces as much as I wish it had never gone that direction at all.
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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likeitis
By the way, 2004 was a REALLY long time ago. I mean its like eons ago if you were a fly.
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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likeitis
I am not sure if her name is funnier as an opponent of gay marriage, or if she were a proponent!
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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likeitis
In other news, a Popular Mechanics writer was arrested in Oregon for describing a hybrid engine as a "marriage" between the internal combustion engine and an electic motor. His statement was a clear violation of the Oregon State constitution which, since 2004, has defined marriage as "a union between a man and a woman only." (sarcasm off)
Posted in: Gay marriage leaps ahead in Maine, New Hampshire
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likeitis
I have to concur with that. It really hit a lot of points most of us could not have figured out on our own.
Posted in: U.S. soldier charged in comrades' deaths showed stress
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likeitis
She is representing Japan in name and by the virture of her being Japanese.
What she is not representing is the unique beauty of Japanese women. She is representing a cookie-cutter caucasian style beauty that the simple-minded pageants cannot seem to get over. Yeah, there are some Japanese women like this, and Emiri is proof, but not so many who are even remotely like her. And in case you don't see it, this one needs a lot of make-up to acheive the effect.
The Japanese women who I find to be the most beautiful need no make-up ever. That is the type of woman I would like to see representing Japanese beauty.
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