JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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lostrune2
Heheheh.......... Let's hope he........
"Go to hell! Go to hell and die!"
Posted in: North Korea says farewell to Kim Jong-Il
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lostrune2
They're all violations of international borders, and Turkey should get pilloried for it too.
Posted in: Turkish air strikes kill 35 Kurds near Iraq
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lostrune2
Heh, China can only copy. Haven't encountered an original Chinese govt idea since declaring the moon was historically part of China, haha.
Posted in: Chinese site hawking Kim Jong-Il T-shirts
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lostrune2
Geez, even the whales smoke in Japan!
Posted in: Whale of a time
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lostrune2
Haha, why so many panels!
They gotta get their act together, rather than splitting it into 7 or how many panels.
Posted in: Gov't to set up 7 panels to deal with abduction issue
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lostrune2
Don't use FEMA trailers................
Posted in: Tsunami refugees dig in for harsh winter
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lostrune2
Kindle Fire is easier to buy as gifts than iPad or other expensive tablets because it is a lot cheaper. Lighter on the wallet, more # of people they could gift it for, less gifter's remorse. Ergo, the surge in sales.
Kindle Fire is basically for people who don't need all the power of an iPad or other expensive tablets, and don't want to pay premium price neither, for power that they're not gonna need nor use. They just want something simple for what they'd use it for. There's an untapped market.
Posted in: Kindle sales on fire: Amazon
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lostrune2
Turkey is violating international borders.
Posted in: Turkish air strikes kill 35 Kurds near Iraq
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lostrune2
Snakes on a Plane - starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Posted in: Airport X-ray suitcase surprise: Poisonous snakes
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lostrune2
Even North Korea, China steals unauthorized use of personal images from, haha!
Posted in: Chinese site hawking Kim Jong-Il T-shirts
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lostrune2
A lot of close games and upsets the first couple days of the season!
Posted in: NBA opens shortened season
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lostrune2
BTW, there are also Japanese parents whose children were abducted from them by their spouses to foreign countries but couldn't get them back because Japan or both countries are not signatories to the Hague Convention, particularly to China, South Asia, or Africa.
Or the story here of Mio Watanabe's daughter who was abducted, ironically enough, to America:
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105240121.html
Since Japan is not a Hague signee, Japan cannot force the US court system to prosecute the case.
Then stop complaining when foreign husbands leave Japanese wives and their children in the lurch.
The mother taxed the daughter with possible years of litigation by taking her away in the first place against the law where they lived. The mother obviously didn't think things through. This whole issue could've been settled conveniently in America, the only home the daughter has ever known at that point. By removing her from her home abruptly, the mother taxed the daughter even more.
Posted in: Girl reunited with father in U.S. 4 years after being taken to Japan by mother
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lostrune2
Because Japan has not signed the Hague Convention.
If Japan is a Hague signee and a Japanese court decides that the American husband has to pay child-support, then the U.S. justice system, that is already a Hague signee, would be legally-bound to follow-through on that court order and deduct child-support money off the American husband's income.
The Hague Convention works both ways. It's supposed to protect children for both sides. So if you're afraid for Japanese children, then have Japan sign the Convention. Otherwise, Japanese children won't be protected when it happens to them.
Posted in: Girl reunited with father in U.S. 4 years after being taken to Japan by mother
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lostrune2
Heh, legions of dancing schoolgirl groups are still around, aren't they? So no, no it doesn't.
Posted in: Lady Gaga to appear on 'Kohaku Uta Gassen'
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lostrune2
So.............. if a South Korean president dies, the North Korean regime would not restrict its borders to North Koreans who want to pay their respects traveling to South Korea?
Posted in: N Korea blasts South's lack of respect for Kim Jong-Il
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lostrune2
What a waste of good boobs..............
Posted in: France advises 30,000 to have breast implants removed
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lostrune2
hoserfella,
Since Xmas break gave me some time to look at it, if you look at the rankings previous to the last one, your guess would be wrong.
Besides, a reader should not have to guess what the sports news is talking about. If a reader has to resort to guessing, then obviously the article wasn't written well. So you just helped prove my point, heh.
Posted in: Furyk among 11 to book Masters trip; Ishikawa misses out
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lostrune2
What the mother did was illegal where she committed it, and that's what matters.
For example, do you know in North Korea, it's not illegal to abduct a Japanese national? So if a North Korean father abducts his daughter in Japan against Japanese court order and then takes her to North Korea, are we saying that what the North Korean father did was not illegal? Of course it is.
And the mother had a U.S. green card, meaning she was a long-enough resident of the States, and she wanted to renew it, meaning she voluntarily wants to be there in the future. These mean the States is not some place that she's unfamiliar with nor a scary place she doesn't want to be. At least she will be granted regular visiting rights with her daughter, which is more than she had ever granted the father.
As for the father, whatever happened in the divorce, he was granted full custody of the daughter, so that means he was deemed a fit-enough father. And him letting his daughter access to both sides of the family speaks better who's morally sound in the mind than a mother who unilaterally decides to take away the daughter from her father and from the life she has ever known at that point (she grew up in America) to a new country that she was not familiar with. Did anybody ever ask the daughter if she wanted to leave America in the first place?
Speaking of unfamiliar surroundings, going to Japan would be more unfamiliar to the daughter than going back to America. She lived more than half her life, her first five years, in America with her father there. She knew America and her father before she ever knew Japan. Plus she's returning to relatives who she already knows and know her - uncles, aunts, cousins on her father side. And getting to know her new family and siblings, single families get remarried all the time, with the children getting to know each other just fine. Remember the Brady Bunch? So it's not like she's a stranger in a strange land - she already lived there, spoke the language, knew the people. She'll be fine.
Posted in: Girl reunited with father in U.S. 4 years after being taken to Japan by mother
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lostrune2
johninnaha,
Read what I wrote just before yours.
Posted in: Are you concerned at China’s growing might in security and economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region?
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lostrune2
Turkey warns of sanctions against France, but there's no French sanctions on Turkey.
Posted in: Turkey warns of sanctions against France over genocide bill