JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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mushroomcloud
Spying on military installations carries a death sentence in China. Perhaps a mass execution for these 4 Japanese are in order, much like how China killed the Japanese drug smuggler criminals back in April of this year.
What type of sentence can Japan give the Chinese skipper for bumping into 2 of their boats? FYI- the Chinese skipper would be home by now if he signed one of those forced confessions that Japan is good at producing. So much for dealing with this in a calm manner.
Posted in: China holding 4 Japanese for illegally filming military targets
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mushroomcloud
Where is everybody?
Everyone else will be attending Wen Jiabao's speech.
Sad but true.
Posted in: Where is everybody?
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mushroomcloud
It should dust over once the skipper is released. Japanese patrol boats are known to ram others around these islands so it doesn't sound like a crime. I believe Yuriotani makes the skippper out to be some kind of murderous thug. Laughable.
Posted in: How bad do you think tensions between Japan and China are going to get over the disputed islands? Is Japan's detention of the Chinese fishing boat skipper the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back?
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mushroomcloud
Indeed, calm is needed. China's 'peaceful rise' will guarantee economic domination of Asia. Any military conflict with Japan and the U.S. would derail China's rise.
China's on an economic roll. China won't jeopardize it's ascendence, way too much at stake.
Posted in: Japan urges calm after China severs contacts
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mushroomcloud
Maybe it's time to give Japan a seat on the Security Council. That would frost China's knickers.
Right you are, it will certainly frost China's knickers, and precisely why China's veto would never let it happen.
Posted in: Japan urges calm after China severs contacts
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mushroomcloud
icyivy,
Thanks for your very first post! In terms of protesting, please, I make no claim that all 1.5 billion Chinese are going to protest this dispute, waste of time.
That said, I do agree with you that Chinese people, all peoples for that matter, want peace. But as we have seen in history, and posters have noted here, it has been extremely rare for a rising nation to have a purely peaceful ascendence.
We shall see what happens.
Posted in: Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute
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mushroomcloud
Yurio,
Hate to break it to you (again), but Japan's mere existence is dependent on China. Why? Check your food supply. China feeds your country, since a significant portion of your food imports come from them. Sucks, doesn't it?
Further, everyone of Japan's companies has huge joint ventures with Chinese companies, in China. China is WAY big in terms of supplying Japan with the components needed to make the products we fat Americans love, your cars, your LCDs, your cameras, photocopiers and such. You remove China out of the supply chain and Japan has no more economy because you guys and gals simply cannot produce the products in a cost competitive manner (hint: Japanese are too old, too lazy, and too expensive).
Lastly, the cutting edge of Japan's products are clean technology exports (hybrid cars, etc). Guess what they require? That's right, rare earth elements, and China controls 98% of that market. You take away this import and Japan is left to producing expensive clock radios.
So, Yurio, my suggestion to you: keep dreaming.
Posted in: Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute
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mushroomcloud
Ossan,
Your comments are silly, childish, and hark back to the McCarthy era.
By your definition, to be a loyal American (and one that does not support the PRC), one cannot or should not purchase anything made in China. Ever shop at Walmart, Kmart, or Target? If you have, you are now a PRC supporter. Did you ever fly in a Boeing airplane or drive/own a GM car? Well, by your definition, you are now a PRC supporter (ask for the details, I'll be happy to provide). See that US aircraft carrier steaming to port? Guess who's in part paying for it?
Get my drift? The 2 countries are connected, very connected, and things simply cannot be summed up in black and white as you typically do.
Posted in: Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute
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mushroomcloud
Yurio,
Not sure you noticed, but the Chinese certainly could care less if you and your people like them or not.
Better to co-exist and nothing more. There will not be war for the simple fact that Japan can't hack it alone, and China does not want to interrupt it's 'peaceful rise', meaning, economic domination of Asia.
Posted in: Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute
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mushroomcloud
paulinusa: 'GW gets it. It's the oldest political ploy in the book, and one that China plays continuously. Get the people angry at "them"(Japan,Tibet etc) so they don't get angry at "us"(the government).'
Then I guess by all practical accounts, the Chinese govt has been quite successful in this endeavor, no? But in this case, the Chinese are angry at the Chinese govt, for not taking a more hardline stance with Japan.
paulinusa, the Chinese govt does not have to do much to whip up anti-Japanese sentiment. The Chinese people (and that includes the large overseas Chinese communities) pretty much hate the Japanese from the get-go. Case in point, as I mentioned before, the protest in New York City by 1,000 Chinese Americans.
Posted in: Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute
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mushroomcloud
'China orchestrated this whole thing from the start, now they dont have to pretend to cooperate with Jpn about sharing resources, China will just take them. Even if Jpn had quickly returned the boat,crew & captain China wud have used this to call off talks & just send in the drills & fishing boats. The only reason either is interested in these small isles is for the oil/gas & fish, now China has manufatured an excuse to just go for it.'
Yes. But at the same time, there is popular anger out there right now about the detention of the Chinese captain. The longer Japan holds him, the more popular protests there will be in Chinese communities around the world, including those in China. That said, China will start drilling unilaterally, without question.
'But China has to be careful because they are their own worst enemy, I predict internal strife will cause China more & more problems for itself, China may well have to wage war on outsiders in order to prevent itself from imploding, time will tell how it plays out.'
Most definitely there will be unrest with the small populations of Uighur and Tibetan minorities. As far as the Han Chinese majority, while there will always be unrest to varying degrees due to curruption and the unequal ratio of rich to relatively poor, an all out rebellion is highly unlikely due to what the 'Red Communist' govt has accomplished; at last count, they moved 300 million out of poverty, and another 300 million into the middle class. No govt in China's history, nor world history for that matter, has moved so many people out of poverty in such short amount of time.
Posted in: Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute
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mushroomcloud
"China’s ruling Communist Party partly encourages anti-Japanese sentiment to burnish its nationalist credentials,..."
Insecurity on the part of the government?
In terms of the subject of this article, it's more like true popular anger. Like I said before, there was a demonstration in NYC (NEW YORK CITY) yesterday that was larger than any in China. Almost all of the protesters were Chinese-Americans and evidently not fomented by insecurity on the part of the (Chinese) government.
Posted in: Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute
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mushroomcloud
It's like the Turkish/Greek animosity, Israeli/Arab hatred, British/Irish etc. These blood feuds will go on forever.
Japan waged 8+ years of war on the Chinese mainland, for which millions died on both sides. Even though Japan lost the war, bitter feelings will remain the norm for the next few hundred years. We can anticipate these islands to be a flashpoint, but neither side is willing to go to war over these unpopulated rocks.
BTW, there was a protest in NYC about this yesterday, roughly 1,000, and not organized or whipped up by the Chinese govt.
Posted in: Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute
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mushroomcloud
16 April 2008: two PLAAF J-10A multirole fighter peremptorily intercepted a Japanese P-3C anti-submarine and reconnaissance airplane that was flying closely above the Senkaku Islands. The two J-10 fighters were suspected of protecting Chinese nuclear submarines that were operating in that area.
20 February 2009: two Chinese PLAAF J-10A fighters intercepted three Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2 fighters flying close to the Senkaku Islands, and locked their missiles onto the Japanese fighters. After a three minute stand-off, the Japanese fighters returned to Japanese air space. The Japanese government stated it was an act of provocation.
7 September 2010: A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the islands. The collisions occurred after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to stop fishing. After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain.
Nuclear subs? I'd say China.
Posted in: Who has the best claim to the Senkaku Islands: Japan, China or Taiwan?
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mushroomcloud
The Chinese appear to be itching for a fight. Dangerous game here.
Japan is in a tough spot, as China is sending their fishing trawlers, large intelligence ships, warships, patrol boats, and submarines in and around these islands on a daily basis.
All this trespassing essentially invalidates Japan's claim to ownership.
Posted in: Taiwan activists head back after protest voyage near disputed islands
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mushroomcloud
2014 for the Indians? While I have no doubt that India will move up in the overall GDP rankings, as of 2009 they were in 11th place at $1.236 trillion, behind Canada. In 4 years, unless the world economy implodes (and India's economy doesn't), it seems a bit off for India to take away the 2nd largest economy title from China, or Japan's new title as 3rd largest economy of the world.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2009/02/indiasgdpsink.html
Posted in: China overtakes Japan in 2nd quarter as world's No. 2 economy
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mushroomcloud
"Japan looks for answers as China surges past"
Rick Wallace, Tokyo correspondent From: The Australian August 20, 2010
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/japan-looks-for-answers-as-china-surges-past/story-e6frg90o-1225907498533
Posted in: China overtakes Japan in 2nd quarter as world's No. 2 economy
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mushroomcloud
roomtemperature, are you ok?
Feeling bad that an international publication (not Chinese propaganda) is broadcasting Japan's shrinking self?
A suggestion, read the title of the article above, as posted by JT. My apologies if The Economist made you feel small.
Posted in: China overtakes Japan in 2nd quarter as world's No. 2 economy
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mushroomcloud
"Watching China whizz by, Japan is now the world's third-largest economy. Can its firms cope?"-The Economist, August 19, 2010
"FIVE years ago China’s economy was half as big as Japan’s. This year it will probably be bigger (see chart 1). Quarterly figures announced this week showed that China had overtaken its ancient rival. It had previously done so only in the quarter before Christmas, when Chinese GDP is always seasonally high.
Since China’s population is ten times greater than Japan’s, this moment always seemed destined to arrive. But it is surprising how quickly it came. For Japan, which only two decades ago aspired to be number one, the slip to third place is a gloomy milestone. Yet worse may follow.
Many of the features of Japanese capitalism that contributed to its long malaise still persist: the country is lucky if its economy grows by 1% a year. Although Japan has made substantial reforms in corporate governance, financial openness and deregulation, they are far from enough. Unless dramatic changes take place, Japan may suffer a third lost decade.
Half the nation’s talent is squandered. Only 8% of managers are female, compared with around 40% in America and about 20% in China. There are more women on corporate boards in Kuwait than Tokyo. Women are paid 60-70% as much as their male counterparts. A manager at one of Japan’s biggest conglomerates says that 70% of qualified job applicants are women, but fewer than 10% of new hires are, since the work may entail visits to factories or mines, where they might perspire in an unladylike way. Kirin, a brewer, seeks to double the number of its female managers by 2015—to a mere 6% of the total.
To get the economy moving, Japan Inc took a page from its industrial-policy playbook of yore. In June the trade ministry released a sweeping new “growth strategy” that identifies a score of vibrant sectors meriting government assistance, from overseas construction to attracting medical tourists. The project calls for hundreds of reforms, big and small. But the bureaucrats most intimately involved were shunted to other jobs in July, so who knows whether any will be implemented. Once again, the practices of old Japan scuttle the new. Richard Katz, editor of the Oriental Economist (no relation to us), believes Japan has trouble tackling its problems because they are all inter-related. “It is hard to fix one without fixing the others,” he says.
The local news media have played down Japan’s slip to third place. Alarmists fear that South Korea—which has a much smaller population—may overtake Japan, too. Is Japan willing to fight to keep its bronze medal for as long as possible?
Supporters say that the country always seems to shuffle its feet but then snaps into action when faced with a crisis. It did so in the 19th century, adopting modern ways to avoid being colonised, and again after the second world war. Japan was the world’s second-largest economy for 40 years. But the traits that made it an economic powerhouse in the 20th century—easy capital, big companies, rote learning, management by mandarins and stable jobs for male breadwinners—are ill-suited to the 21st. Today, Japan’s biggest obstacle is itself. Without dramatic reform, it will slip swiftly to number four, number five and beyond."
http://www.economist.com/node/16847828?story_id=16847828
Posted in: China overtakes Japan in 2nd quarter as world's No. 2 economy
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mushroomcloud
To Peeping_Tom's defense, he takes the position that China's economy has a bubble crisis on it's hands, similar to what Japan had in the 1980's. The difference being that China has, more or less both a quasi-centrally planned and free market economy, for which China could theoretically apply the brakes at any time to reign in excess loans and real estate speculation.
China is currently the only nation that's really pulling the world out of this great recession. If this real estate bubble bursts in China, it will pull the world down into the next Great Depression, because China will no longer be able to float the United States nor Europe with bonds purchases. From last count, China has purchased some $630 billion in Euro-bonds, and ~$900-$1 trillion in US Treasuries, hence keeping both regions on financial life support.
Posted in: China overtakes Japan in 2nd quarter as world's No. 2 economy