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I hope the police find him soon. I live really close to the place where happened…
Posted in: Student attacked by knife-wielding man on Kanagawa street
Read this line under the photograph: "The tactic, however, appears to have done little but harden…
It's about Y5000 per month in Japan, but they only charge the equivalent of Y3000 per…
Posted in: Adobe changing its products to cloud services with monthly fees
Awwww how cute! Whatever they are smoking... they should quit now!!! China is horrible.
But wait, there's more... http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/15/irs-sued-for-improperly-seizing-the-medical-records-of-10-million-americans/
Posted in: Obama calls IRS targeting of conservative groups outrageous
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mimitchy
If Japan learned ** its lesson** that would only encourage anti-US sentiment to grow in light of the invasion of Iraq and even hostility on behalf of the Iraqi people. Or even worse, fuel pro-Chinese sentiment.
I'm sure many people here have stakes in friendly US-Japanese relations and its continued antagonism against Beijing. Let's not ruin it all by some fervor over an issue that only Asians give a crap about.
I'm not saying Japan should deny the atrocities, not at all! If the US and its cool attitude towards the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has taught us, Japan should grow up and justify/excuse itself before any attempts at making apologies.
Posted in: A night out at Yasukuni Shrine
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mimitchy
If Japan learned ** its lesson** that would only encourage anti-US sentiment to grow in light of the invasion of Iraq and even hostility on behalf of the Iraqi people. Or even worse, fuel pro-Chinese sentiment.
I'm sure many people here have stakes in friendly US-Japanese relations and its continued antagonism against Beijing. Let's not ruin it all by some fervor over an issue that only Asians give a crap about.
Posted in: A night out at Yasukuni Shrine
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mimitchy
When you are out having fun at 3.AM in the morning, you are no longer a kid and must accept the risks and consequences of partaking in such adventure. This 16-year old learnt the hard way. I hope the wound isn't too deep.
Posted in: 16-year-old boy attacked by knife-wielding man in Chiba
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mimitchy
Wasn't there a similar article on JT sometime ago? except, the breath-taken Japanese damsels in love..were not necessarily damsels but investment bank managers and their exhilarating and brilliant foreign admirers were their ambitious security analyst subordinates.
Just face it people, non-Japanese are not necessarily great lovers, they are good at talking sincerely.
Posted in: 10 things foreign guys do that make Japanese girls fall head over heels
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mimitchy
Which translates to: We are hipsters and we think that anti-nuclear rallies or too mainstream.
Posted in: Japan Anonymous pick up litter to protest download laws
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mimitchy
Try reasoning with a regime that is widely accused of ballot stuffing and stifles democratic intervention in Syria.
Posted in: Russia PM's defiant island visit angers Japan
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mimitchy
You're right, there is not much difference between getting your own food and getting spoon-fed.
For a country with less than a 1/10th of the population and 1/30th of the landmass of China, Japan *kind of * did pretty well for the last 150 years or so. I guess Japan was good at getting its act together better compared to other larger countries up 'till now.
Posted in: Whaling nations defeat proposed Atlantic sanctuary
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mimitchy
Furthermore there was another alternative to provide protein to Japan, and that was to provide SPAM meat as was done for the needy peoples of South Korea and Okinawa during the early post-war period. I dare say that Japan took the honorable route to sustain themselves with their whaling fleet rather than receive charity consisting of offal meat that few Americans considered desirable to consume. I believe that SCAP rekindled the spirit of self-sustenance for the Japanese people which lead to the unprecedented accelerated pace in industrial and economic development unmatched by any of their SPAM fed counterparts.
Posted in: Whaling nations defeat proposed Atlantic sanctuary
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mimitchy
I never said or implied that the Americans are to blame, Japan could've shaken it off by now but they don't.
But I'm sorry that you feel that America can only be blamed and not credited and praised for taking the initiative to feed protein to the growing kids of this country.
Posted in: Whaling nations defeat proposed Atlantic sanctuary
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mimitchy
WRONG..coastal whaling is part of Japanese culture, sending factory ships to the south seas and culling hundreds of these creatures on long expeditions is a scheme that was introduced by the American occupational authorities like other blindly accepted practices that modern Japan thinks it is part of their culture..like Christmas at KFC.
Posted in: Whaling nations defeat proposed Atlantic sanctuary
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mimitchy
Modern Japan has and will continue to move on with or without Korea.
I'm afraid I can't say the same for vice versa
Posted in: S Korea's president raps cabinet on bungled pact with Japan
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mimitchy
The next generation in automobile fuel that could save the planet is now available in a typical run-down town in Saitama.
Screw upgrading carriages for the Noda line man, drive eco-friendly cars!
Posted in: Charge it
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mimitchy
I drove down the the R296 last week, a national 'highway' that traverses through Sakura. It's a narrow road shared by both large trucks and smaller vehicles with little or no curbside relief between roads and buildings along a great portion of the route. My understanding is that this road was originally built for pilgrims who made their way from Shinjuku to Narita-San temple on foot and some modern age bureaucrat thought it was a good idea to pave it and let industrial traffic pass through. I saw schoolchildren perilously walking on the sides with trucks zooming by along the Usui-Old Sakura segment. It's now virtually unsafe for pedestrians to follow what used to be the original pilgrim trail.
I know that many newer suburbs in Chiba towns like Urayasu, Usui, Yukarigaoka and Narita have good pavement for peds but much older towns of this prefecture are not pedestrian friendly at all. I never imagined saying this but, it feels safer to walk down the narrow streets of Tokyo than to do so on similar roads in Chiba.
Posted in: Driver arrested after 7-year-old boy run over, killed in Chiba
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mimitchy
I am lost for words.
Posted in: Oshima's win in AKB48 election big news in Japan
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mimitchy
What a magnificent fleet the US has, and yet they can't finance even the most crude form of universal healthcare. The mind boggles.
Posted in: U.S. to shift most of its naval fleet to Pacific by 2020
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mimitchy
The jury is still out on whether they will use these fuel for power plants on Japanese soil or to build nuclear weapons. We certainly hope it's the latter. Japan's been asking the world to stop stockpiling nuclear weapons but they won't listen. What other choice Japan should take to prevent another Hiroshima?
Posted in: Japan to make more plutonium despite big stockpile
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mimitchy
but isn't that the argument those Korean nuke victims are relying on?
Posted in: S Korean forced laborers during Japan's colonial rule win 1st legal victory
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mimitchy
You sound like a victim to me.
Heisei generation bro. We've got so much to lose but little or nothing to gain.
Posted in: S Korean forced laborers during Japan's colonial rule win 1st legal victory
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mimitchy
To think that Japan was actually awesome some time long before my birth brings tears to my eyes. We sure weren't victims. No sir, we have British and other Europeans demanding justice from OUR IMPERIALISM!
Posted in: S Korean forced laborers during Japan's colonial rule win 1st legal victory
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mimitchy
Um..you see, most sane people who are not sullen with vengeance this green world tend to have problems in justifying the indiscriminate vaporisation and immolation of a few hundred thousand people with the infliction of traditional imperialist malpractices. It would certainly be nicer next time for the US to resort to methods that don't harm their allies or anyone who doesn't truly deserve it.
Posted in: S Korean forced laborers during Japan's colonial rule win 1st legal victory