mimitchy's past comments

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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

  • 3

    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

  • -1

    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

    In IRC (Internet relay chat), somebody proposed cleaning as a means of protest as we didn’t want to follow the style of mass anti-nuclear rallies which are getting too much,

    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

  • -4

    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

    Heaps of Okinawans eat spam, my friend. It's a key ingredient in goya-champuru for those who don't want to fork out for actual bacon. As for what is 'honourable', are you serious?

    You're right, there is not much difference between getting your own food and getting spoon-fed.

    Is that why they sank to third below China in the past few years, and are predicted to sink to fifth in the next decade?

    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

    Well, I wouldn't go as far as to blame the Americans for Japanese whaling. They needed protein at the time. You could say the U.S. let them whale because there was no better option. They don't need that protein now.

    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

    Well, I wouldn't go as far as to blame the Americans for Japanese whaling. They needed protein at the time. You could say the U.S. let them whale because there was no better option. They don't need that protein now.

    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

    Japan argues that whaling is part of its culture and accuses Western nations of insensitivity.

    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

  • -1

    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

    “This general election sprang from the demands of the audience; it was a democratic movement against dictator Akimoto. It may sound wild, but the movement is comparable to the Arab Spring,”

    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

    These politicians are idiots!

    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

    Ah yes, the same old "you, too" argument... Two wrongs don't make a right, and Japan still just wants to justify, make excuses and whitewash their history. Japan is still not sorry for the atrocities that they've done during the war, they still genuinely believe that they were the victims!

    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

    In her book Unjust Enrichment, in a chapter called "Mitsubishi: Empire of Exploitation," leading researcher Linda Goetz Holmes writes: "Mitsubishi occupies a unique place in the history of corporate Japan's use of POW slave labor during World War II. This company built, owned, and operated at least seventeen of the merchant 'hellships' that transported prisoners to their assigned destinations; and this company profited from prisoner labor over a larger range of territory than any other."

    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

  • -2

    mimitchy

    impretty sure it was Japan that bombed pearl harbour, Japan that brutally colonised Korean, China, Singapore, japan that treated its POWs like lower class animals

    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

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