JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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mushroomcloud
From a blogger named 'Clotario' on thelede.blogs.nytimes.com dated November 5th:
"So, basically, the Japanese government knew the Chinese were at fault but knuckled under and freed the captain anyway, and were then afraid of the Japanese people finding out that they are now a lesser member of the east asian community. Ah, just wait until the Chinese start throwing their weight around with us. Humble pie for everyone!"
How telling is this. Japanese did not come out and protest in 2006 during the Koizumi years because they felt secure enough in the notion that their economy was almost 3 times larger than China's. Now we look at Japan in 2010, an economy that is stuck in neutral at best, and surpassed by China in terms of economic size, along with Japan being pushed around by it's huge neighbor with impunity.
Certainly, Japanese are angry that they now are seen as a lesser member of the east asian community.
Posted in: Anti-China protests held in Tokyo
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mushroomcloud
What a major diss.
Japan can't do much as America's protectorate.
Posted in: Russia flexes muscles over island spat with Japan
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mushroomcloud
The United States looking inward to correct problems is not too far off the mark. Japan having to fend more for itself is a possibility.
The United States still needs China and Japan to fund it's deficit. No change here.
Posted in: Do you foresee any changes in the Obama administration's policies toward Japan and China following the midterm elections in which Democrats suffered big losses?
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mushroomcloud
Japan should capitulate, just like she did in August 1945, and September 2010.
Posted in: What is the best way to resolve the territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the four islands off Hokkaido?
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mushroomcloud
A "Chinese saturation attack with hundreds off inbound missles" would trigger the US-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty and China as you know it will be blown off the map."
-Ossan, yes, and Japan will cease to exist. That's why it will never happen.
"and japan pouring billion of yen of ODA to help chinese economy in their bad day few decades ago . how they end up this way...hmm"
-roobus, the amount is $32 billion USD of ODA given to China over a period of 32 years. As a point of reference on how small that is, China gave a similar amount to Japan in JGB (Japan Government Bond) purchases in the first 7 months of this year, while loaning the U.S. $1.1 trillion, and the European Union $640 billion, as both developed entities need this money for financial life support. Point is, look who is helping who now.
Posted in: Japanese ship intercepts ballistic missile in test off Hawaii
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mushroomcloud
"Nothing is ever free, the price of our independence from China is American forces stationed in Japan. So it is with bowed head I give up on the ideal of things changing in Okinawa."
Yuriotani sums it up rather well at this point.
Posted in: Japan, China agree to make efforts to improve bilateral
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mushroomcloud
"Or, they can all function "without" each other."
So that's what Yuriotani has been advocating; pull U.S. forces out of Japan, end the economic relationship with China.
If either act were to happen, resource poor and export dependent Japan would certainly be severely affected, Ossan. But perhaps it takes an imbecile to not realize this.
Posted in: Japan, China agree to make efforts to improve bilateral
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mushroomcloud
Japan needs China for it's economic survival, and the United States for it's security.
As such, Japan is in direct dependence on both countries for it's mere existence.
Quoted from the Japan Times dated Friday, October 29, 2010:
"China must not ask Japan to choose between itself and the U.S.. Japan needs both countries. It needs a strong economic relationship with China and it needs a reliable security relationship with the U.S."
Posted in: Japan, China agree to make efforts to improve bilateral
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mushroomcloud
"A nice display of defensive fire. Same thing will happen to incoming Red Chinese and North Korean missiles."
How about missiles with maneuverable MIRVs, or incoming maneuverable LACMs?
You'll need help from the United States, as 4 Kongos with AEGIS and a few Patriot batteries owned by Japan are simply not enough in a 'Red Chinese' saturation attack with hundreds of inbound missiles.
Yuriotani, still want the United States off of Japanese soil?
Posted in: Japanese ship intercepts ballistic missile in test off Hawaii
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mushroomcloud
all U.S. made equipment, nothing new here.
Posted in: Japanese ship intercepts ballistic missile in test off Hawaii
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mushroomcloud
I agree with some posters here, Hooters won't work.
It has to be much more sick, perverted and twisted to be a hit in Japan.
Posted in: Girls, girls, girls
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mushroomcloud
silly people. Nation of 12 year olds.
Posted in: Maid to order
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mushroomcloud
flat as an ironing board.
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mushroomcloud
Rare earth recycling.
Good luck Japan!
Posted in: Wrong numbers
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mushroomcloud
It's because the world has written off Japan, and China has the upper hand on a weakened Japan.
'Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened'- NY Times, Oct 16, 2010
"Few nations in recent history have seen such a striking reversal of economic fortune as Japan. The original Asian success story, Japan rode one of the great speculative stock and property bubbles of all time in the 1980s to become the first Asian country to challenge the long dominance of the West.
But the bubbles popped in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and Japan fell into a slow but relentless decline that neither enormous budget deficits nor a flood of easy money has reversed. For nearly a generation now, the nation has been trapped in low growth and a corrosive downward spiral of prices, known as deflation, in the process shriveling from an economic Godzilla to little more than an afterthought in the global economy.
China has so thoroughly eclipsed Japan that few American intellectuals seem to bother with Japan now, and once crowded Japanese-language classes at American universities have emptied. Even Clyde V. Prestowitz, a former Reagan administration trade negotiator whose writings in the 1980s about Japan’s threat to the United States once stirred alarm in Washington, said he was now studying Chinese. “I hardly go to Japan anymore,” Mr. Prestowitz said."
Posted in: China’s pyrrhic victory
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mushroomcloud
Klein2,
Very good analogy. But I think it applies more to the countries on financial life support from the Chinese, like Western Europe and the United States. If they were not begging for Chinese money to help solve (or prolong) their financial mess, then they would let China hang, indeed.
The majority of the 3rd world still very much wants China to succeed (minus Vietnam and India).
Posted in: China denies blocking rare earths exports
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mushroomcloud
China withholds rare earth and somehow Japan becomes a WHOLE lot more polite.
Hilarious.
Japan, good luck in finding rare earth somewhere else.
Posted in: China denies blocking rare earths exports
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mushroomcloud
So I understand that this was the same event as mentioned by Yahoo News on 10/6/10.
And I quote:
"Nationalist groups demonstrated in Tokyo on Saturday against what they saw as a diplomatic defeat for Japan while recent opinion polls have showed support for the prime minister has fallen among the Japanese public over the spat."
Key words here: "Diplomatic defeat for Japan".
Posted in: Rally for Senkakus
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mushroomcloud
The US-Japan pact is important. Japan is America's most loyal protectorate, and Japan will continue to be a U.S. dependent for many decades to come.
Posted in: Campbell: U.S.-Japan pact vital in changing Asia
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mushroomcloud
All protests and still America's protectorate makes Japan a nation with little international influence.
No one cares.
Posted in: Rally for Senkakus