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mindovermatter
@nimbus
You can take that to the bank!
These are the same Flags, Banners, and Posters shipped up from Okinawa, you just have to flip them over, the other side says: "Go Home America!"
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mindovermatter
@limboinjapan
Fair enough, you're point is made, I am certainly not an expert on domestic japan politics, but it just seems quite peculiar, that the only ones that make the news, involve protesting the U.S., or something related to the U.S.
As for your children being taught all about the atrocities, although I am bit skeptical of this this statement, you should consider yourself and family lucky enough, to have found a school or district that will teach them anything at all regarding events in the 1900 ~ 1945 range. Good for you, and good for them.
My point isn't to call all Japanese a bunch of war criminals, it would be quite a stretch to say there might be more than a few hundred even alive today, that participated in those such atrocities, but rather to call attention to the fact, cause and effect, what happens to a society that fails to learn from history...
The Vietnam war is taught in American history books and schools, most american's other than a few neocon's like Bush, Cheney and some other war monger, draft dodgers, truly believe the war was bad thing to do, hence, you will see thousands and thousands of protesters, every time, the military does anything.... And I mean, literally anything....
Bottom line, Japan does not clearly understand what kind of relations it created 60+ years ago, if they did, You would never read about incidents like this, they would never happen. Those islands are close enough to geographical China (albeit Taiwan) to spit on.
Posted in: Japan asks China to pay for damage to patrol boats
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mindovermatter
Couldn't have said it better myself...
Now as they, Japan, "Time to stand the xxxx by....!"
Posted in: U.S. lawmakers pressure Japan on child custody rights
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mindovermatter
Well. that's one of them...
Another one is the fact that Japanese have no recollection of history greater than 50 years ago, 70% of the Japanese population, still view Japan as a victim of WW2.... WHY..? Because Japan doesn't teach REAL History and what really happened from around 1900 ~ 1945!
If they did, you would never read about BS incidents like this...
This is the major reason Japan has such problems with ALL their neighbors.
Funny thing too, you never see any protests in Japan, where the people are protesting the Government, UNLESS it's about the Japanese Government helping the U.S.
But where's the outrage over the government acting like idiots in this instance...?
Posted in: Japan asks China to pay for damage to patrol boats
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mindovermatter
Unbelievable.... And the hits just keep on coming...
Japan! How about just leaving the matter alone...?
Patrol boats are NOT suppose to be aggressors, the are public safety officers... Even if the Chinese wacko captain, intentionally tried to hit you, you're NOT suppose to play bumper cars, with large ships.
Why doesn't Japan just be the bigger party in this dual of wacko's....
Both countries are acting like a bunch of spoiled rotten kids... No harm, No Foul, everyone is ok, nobody was killed, just let it go Japan... You ran amuck with your military 60+ years ago all over Asia, everyone else, except Japan, remembers exactly what you did!
Here's a novel idea, how about showing the world, Japan can be the bigger, better person in the dual of knit-whits, and just leave it alone...
This is about as silly as Japan demanding the Northern Islands back from Russia... You wreck havoc all across Asia, raping and pillaging, not giving a damn about anyone else, but then after things don't go your way and you end up being beat, you want everything back the way it was when you started... TOO BAD! Grow UP!!! You made your bed, now you have to learn to live with the world around you, and all the sore feelings.
Posted in: Japan asks China to pay for damage to patrol boats
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mindovermatter
Here we go again...
60+ years ago, Japan goes on a "Blitzkrieg" across Asia, literally no country within a 6000 mile radius escaped Japan's War Machine...
But then after they're finally forced to surrender, here they are...
Japan's playing their games again...
They want their cake, and they want to eat it too...
Japan needs to just shut it's damn mouth.. Not to mention, you have a country full of people, that have no clue the kind of damage and hell you perpetrated on the rest of Asia...
You guys are living on borrowed time... But you're so blind, you think you're in the right.... What a country...
Posted in: Japan urges calm after China severs contacts
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mindovermatter
Japan, strangely enough, is void of any reference to WW2, other than the memorials and monuments, dedicated to themselves, i.e... Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a kind of "Halo of Righteousness."
They are lucky they, they even heard them acknowledge it happened... A apology will never happen...
Posted in: Former U.S. POWs want Japanese companies to apologize
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mindovermatter
Yea... Where are the cops now...?
Do you think for a split second, that they are going to find out who-ever did this...?
Not a fricken chance, unless they turn themselves in, it will be one of the hundreds of violent cases, that goes unsolved...
Is it really worth expending two of three police stations, to arrest 7 clerks, who were told put some labels on eels?
These are the kinds of cases that NEED to be solved, NOT harassing Obasan's and Salary-men on bicycles...
But you see, they've never had to solve any cases that require any critical thinking, so it's a vicious circle, and it will continue...
Yes, it's Yakuza, or you would have read about a group of 5 bozozoku's turning themselves in, or some construction guy, blaming it on too much to drink..
Posted in: Man dies after beating in Fukushima Park
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mindovermatter
Are they joking...?
It should be a hand book of where non-smokers can find a place to not have someone blowing smoke in their face...
You can't walk 5-meters down a sidewalk or street without being in the wake of someone's smoke contrails!
Posted in: Guidebook of Tokyo restaurants where you’re allowed to smoke
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mindovermatter
Those N.Korean players might as well skip their return flight, and try to find asylum some place, they are almost certain to executed for getting beat that bad, when they get back home....
Posted in: Portugal pulverizes North Korea 7-0 as N Korea broadcasts game live
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mindovermatter
Because China doesn't care, one way or the other... And when it comes down to it, China will never take the side against N.Korea.
Posted in: N Korea accuses South of faking warship sinking
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mindovermatter
Anyone can have these devices, mace, stun guns, you name it... But Japanese law does NOT allow anyone to carry these items on their person, they must be kept at home, or you are in violation of the law.
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mindovermatter
The TOEIC is written for people who are NON-Native English speakers, so it wouldn't surprise me one bit, and I'm sure you could find more than a few Native English Speakers, who are NON-Native Japanese speakers, running the streets here in Japan, that could score higher than most Native Japanese speakers on the JPL test.... What does it mean...? Not a damn thing... But I highly doubt she would score higher on an ACT or SAT in English than a Native speaker, and conversely, it would be true for a Foreigner taking a Japanese university entrance exam.
Btw: The TOEIC is graded on a points scale, 990 being the highest, not a percentage score. But I understand what you mean.
Posted in: Why is teaching at English conversation schools in Japan such a maligned profession by some people?
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mindovermatter
@SoggyGyoza
Indeed!!!
I don't know what it takes...? And it's the same kind of deaths / accidents occurring, week after week.... Either a kid is being left unattended and falls out of a window, or gets backed over by a car, with parents, less than 1 meter away, or letting their 2 year old cross a busy intersection, while mom is on the keitai, typing a mail...
It's like, nobody learns, anything from what happened yesterday, last week, or last year... Pitiful!
Posted in: 4-yr-old girl falls to death from 6th-floor hotel window
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mindovermatter
Not quite, it took a guy getting arrested, (maybe the first and only time for that, but other people have been screwed over) after the fact that a judge in Tennessee had stipulated the children not be taken out of the U.S.
Yes, and Japan isn't going to do anything unless there's economic pressure behind it... And that maybe be the next step for congress, eventually, if Japan doesn't act... Sure I doubt anything will happen in the next couple years, these things take time to play out, but give it a few years... Who knows, maybe this issue will find itself as a negotiating point for the next base re-alignment treaty's.
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mindovermatter
Not only do they have some of stupidest pedophiles, they are also total wimps... And how in the hell, do they know, he wasn't just breathing, or gasping for air...? Those rush-hour trains, are pretty crowded, it's not hard to be pressed up, to within a few inches of someone's face or ears...
"Oh, ok, just take me to the police, I've got nothing better to do..." crazy... Let's suppose for a minute he's innocent... Now, he's he's going to be locked up for 21 days straight, until the police can force a confession out of him... Loser... Anyone tries to detain me, over some BS, better stand the fxxx by.... It's not going to happen... And they've tried...
Posted in: JR employee arrested for blowing in woman's ear on train
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mindovermatter
Has absolutely nothing at all to do with this "1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction," the reason it has no effect in Japan, is because there is NO EXTRADITION TREATY between Japan and The U.S.
Posted in: Dad who tried to take kids from Japan sues Tennessee judge
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mindovermatter
That's absolutely ludicrous!
It comes down to stupid parents with no common-sense.. A very common trait in Japan... If government and society are doing anything wrong, it's allowing Japanese to go through life, acting like 12 years olds...
In the U.S., these parents would most likely have been charged with child abuse or negligence, you can't leave young children unattended...PERIOD....
And didn't we just read this same story like 3 weeks ago...?
Posted in: 4-year-old boy dies after 12-story fall from Chiba apartment
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mindovermatter
What a dumbass.... Anyone, Japanese, American, British, you name it, that puts a battery powered device that is designed to create heat, without, at the very least, removing the batteries... And if the batteries cannot be removed... Leaving the thing at home...
300 innocent passengers are very lucky that thing didn't decided to get switched on half-way across the pacific, and then we have another value-jet type crash...
They need to make up a checklist for dumbass's, that asks specific questions, "Are you carrying and flame or heat producing devices... Oh, like a charcoal grill battery powered heater...?" A Battery powered Iron...?
It's very rare these days, in which hotel rooms do not have AC outlets, so people do not need to carry battery powered devices designed to generate heat!
Posted in: Hair iron blamed for Narita airport suitcase fire
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mindovermatter
These are the same wacko's and nut-jobs that are in the process of re-writing Japan's history of everything, up and including WW2. God forbid if anyone really knew the truth of what really happened..
Posted in: Right-wingers vow to block release of 'The Cove' in Japan