nigelboy's past comments

  • 2

    nigelboy

    Well, if it is true that she had a restraining order, then the cop ignored the court and the law. The detective agency is also liable since they didn't really check who they were working for. They actually conspired and broke the law. Don't know if this cop put in his resignation and was refused or not. But he probably should have. The cop and the gun incident didn't cause any harm. But in Japan, women don't count for much.

    Not really. The restraining order is for the ex-husband to stay away from the victim. While many are basing the cops actions or inactions based on the attempted murder after the fact, you simply cannot arrest an individual on what "he or she might do".

    Posted in: Cop who failed to prevent man attacking ex-wife to be retrained

  • 0

    nigelboy

    In a posting on the micro-blogging site, Yasuhisa Mizuno said citizen groups demanding measures to protect people against radiation were “leftist shits,” a report said.

    It's a true statement but as a government official, he should of kept his opinions to himself.

    As the March 7, 2013 meeting with these "groups" indicate, they simply do not let up. They are so desparate to attach the detected thryoid cancers and thryoid abnormalities to the Fukushima Daiichi incident that they don't even let the government officials state their finding and the basis of these findings without yelling across the floor room.

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  • 3

    nigelboy

    Unfortunetaly, the explanation on this article does not tell the whole story.

    http://blog.goo.ne.jp/alcoholdependent/e/cfdd3c5cae8fd6d4703c3ffe82893ac7

    To summarize, the victim had already divorced the husband due to DV. She fled to the shelter and the ex husband was issued a restraining order. The victim had changed her son's name and lived in anonymity from her ex-husband for years. The ex-husband, through his mother, hired a detective agency to find the whereabouts of the victim. The detective agency was able to locate the victim and set up hidden camera on a bicycle inside a box just outside her residence. The victim reported the suspicious bicycle to the police and went on to further state that her ex husband may have planted this. Upon further investigation, the bicycle was indeed registered to the detective agency but the agency denied the involvement. The bicycle was removed by someone two days later. The police made no efforts to contact the victim despite earlier statement that they did in fact call her on the cell phone. It was also revealed that the victim had already planned on moving out of the apartment by June after the discovery of the suspicous bicyle as per landlord.

    Now the question lies how could the police prevented this crime from happening?

    The police could not arrest or even warn the ex-husband especially in light of the fact that no laws were broken except for the illegal parking of the bicycle. However, the ownership of the bicycle belonged to the detective agency who in turn have denied any involvement.

    Should the police have contacted the victim about the ownership of the suspicious bicycle with a hidden camera? Definitely yes. But it appears that the victim suspected her ex husband invovlement anyways for she was about to move to another residence by June.

    Posted in: Cop who failed to prevent man attacking ex-wife to be retrained

  • 4

    nigelboy

    You should do a little bit more reading, before you opine. Here is one proof, but the Japanese auto quota limits is a pretty well known fact to most people http://blogs.automotive.com/u-s-looks-to-eliminate-tariff-on-japanese-imported-cars-u-s-big-three-miffed-134365.html

    Except for the inconvenient fact that the quota is for "Preferential" Handling Procedure in which these imported vehicles are EXEMPT from the normal, rigourous certification procedure which ALL domestic cars have to go through.

    https://www.mlit.go.jp/common/000997128.pdf

    The recent proposal to increase said quota to 5,000 is in essence, extending the favor.

    Like I said on the previous related article, I would not be surprised if U.S. Auto industry starts demanding for wider roads, left side steering, and speed limits to be displayed MPH within Japan for they see this as a non-tariff barrier (sarcasm)

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  • 1

    nigelboy

    you are wrong.

    No. What I'm talking about is your ultimate theory is that people/companies don't borrow as much when the lending rates are high.

    For instance, in 1994 the average contract on interest rates for new loans was about 3.4%-3.9% but the outstanding amount of loans outstanding as 480,267 (billion yen). Ten years later, despite the interest rates for new loans ranging in 1.5 percentile, the loans outstanding reduced to 404,000 (billion yen). Despite BOJ efforts to get the lending markets going for over a decade now ,the December 2012 average interest rates of new loans less than 1%, it still only 433,000 (billion yen).

    Posted in: Japan's current account surplus doubles as exports rise

  • 5

    nigelboy

    1.Nobody, least of all the senators, have used the term hyper quantitive easing, whatever it might mean.

    No. But you did.

    .Nobody is disputing that the Fed has used a lot of QE since 2008. What the detractors are questioning is the different primary motovation for the QE.

    It's the same thing. Pumping wads of money to kick start the economy except when the U.S. did it, it caused a surge in yen． And no. To say that the "primary" function of Kuroda's policy is "weaken" the yen when they could of done this EASILY through DIRECT increase purchase of USD denominated instruments is the fallacy of your argument. Where I come from, this is called a currency manipulation.

    Again, Quadruple, as in four times the size.

    http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=jjE

    Posted in: Lawmakers urge Obama to act on currency manipulation by Japan

  • 3

    nigelboy

    well according to basic economics theory, if interest rate goes up, the cost of borrowing money goes up. if the cost of borrowing goes up, it would discourage a person of rational mind from borrowing money. but the money-lending has increased even though the cost of borrowing money has gone up. so one would obvisously become curious to know the nature of this money lending business, right? is this money-lending politically motivated or is it based on a sound economic model?

    That's not an "economic theory" at all. People borrow on the anticipation that rates may be even higher in the future and in some cases like housing which had a 2.1% increase, wants to purchase before the increase in consumption tax kicks in.

    Posted in: Japan's current account surplus doubles as exports rise

  • 3

    nigelboy

    higher bond yield leads to low capital on banks that leads to reduction in the amount of money bank can lend which leads to the increase in high interest rate which results in the increase in debt payment which leads to high interest rate. so what were people borrowing money for? to pay their debt?

    You mean people stop borrowing when the interest rates go up?

    Posted in: Japan's current account surplus doubles as exports rise

  • 6

    nigelboy

    That's all they are saying. Is it that hard to understand and you really cannot distinguish between Japanese and US QE?

    From 2008, the Feds nearly quadrupled their monetary base and you have the nerve to call Abe's policy as "hyper quantitive easing"

    <http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=jjE >

    Sometimes you just got to wonder about the mentality of the detractors here.

    Posted in: Lawmakers urge Obama to act on currency manipulation by Japan

  • -1

    nigelboy

    Perhaps some of Japan's defenders and apologists can't convey a story accurately, or without misleading themselves and others.

    What about the war damages? It appears that your focus us solely on the holocaust victims. Do you have anything that relates to the damages caused by Germany invasion throughout Europe? What I'm talking about are billions and billions of funds to nations she invaded as well as forfeiture of billions and billions of overseas assets.

    http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本の戦争賠償と戦後補償

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  • 3

    nigelboy

    Better yet, keep the moratorium, which is there for a reason, and simply stop the subsidies, which are not.

    Like I said, stay consistent with the argument.

    The moratorium was set to reevaluate the stocks through research. Perhaps you should actually start reading some of the publications in IWC including the Scientific Committee reports.

    Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

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    nigelboy

    The so-called "lawmakers" here are simply echoing these lazy inefficient U.S. Automakers. (John Dingell leading the pack) Most of the 'House' members are clueless when it comes to global economy.

    Posted in: Lawmakers urge Obama to act on currency manipulation by Japan

  • -3

    nigelboy

    Nobody is delusional enough to believe that Germany could have signed a single treaty that would resolve the matter. Why do some Japanese suffer these delusions?

    Perhaps it 's because Gernany lacks in bilateral treaties with the nations she invaded unlike Japan. Perhaps it's because the Germany high court has ruled no more compensations in regards to war damages. Perhaps it's country like Greece who still claim for damages yet to no avail.

    Under most civilized nations, the treaty does in fact solve pretty much everything and hence, considrered to have supremacy clause with ratification requirements from the respective legislative bodies. This is why it should not be taken lightly.

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  • -1

    nigelboy

    The Japanese whaling industry won't agree with you. Sure lift the moratorium but they'll want to keep the yearly ¥9.7 billion gov't subs

    Wanting the subsidy and actually getting them are two different things. The current ICR will lose their zaidanhoujin status so whomever decides to do this on a commercial basis will have to determine the feasibility of going to Antarctic would be profitable. If not, they won't go. Simple as that.

    Anti-whalers need to stay consistent on their argument.

    Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

  • 0

    nigelboy

    Whaling is truly a dying industry.

    So let it die out by lifting the moratorium. No tax money to be allocated. Whaling industry dies off naturally. Win win situation for anti-whalers if you ask me.

    Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

  • 1

    nigelboy

    The supply has gone down drastically in recent years (thank you SS), yet figures show that inventory has almost tripled. So less stuff is coming in, and even less is going out. It isn't selling. No right-minded trader would see that as evidence of a healthy demand.

    As your article indicates, it appears that the annual consumption is about 4,000 tons and since you feel that there isn't any healthy demand to sustain the said industry, perhaps the moratorium should be lifted and that government subsidies be terminated and let the industry die off on their own.

    Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

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    nigelboy

    Is this not proof that the Army was directly managing indentured sexual servants?

    Yes. They also regulated the operation hours of brothel houses, pay scale, health check ups, age verfication, as well as the right of workers to refuse customers and to such minor details as to not bring alcohol inside the brothels but implemented the rule for them to buy them inside the brothels. This is documented in the Asian Women Funds archives.

    Posted in: Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

  • -5

    nigelboy

    So you propose watching whales... and then killing them?

    No. Read what I stated before.

    "Secondly, the whale watching consists mainly of the larger species which unlike the Minke's are banned for catching. As for the Minke's, they are not the main targets of whale watching simply because they are small, elusive, and stay underwater for a long time. (Primary reason for NZ/Aust inability to get fart/$hit samples from them)"

    Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

  • -6

    nigelboy

    Ok, I'll bite on such a ridiculous statement. Can you tell me what more is supposed to be gained from whale research other than migratory patterns, reproduction rates and current populations?

    Pretty much the latter two which requires extensive biopsy from catches. That's how most all of marine resources are determined by. Did you actually think the population estimates of marine resrouces that number in the millions were determined by a guy with a counter in his right hand? Oh wait....

    Or, are you suggesting Australia and New Zealand should follow Japan's lead and research the viability of commercial whaling?

    That's what the IWC is for. I'm quite positive that many posters have in the past posted the IWC convention stating the purpose of the said organization to you on similar threads. I still can't figure out why you haven't took the time to read them. But in any case, if your nation doesn't agree to the purpose of the IWC, perhaps they are the ones who should leave.

    The whale watching industry earns 1,000 times more money than any commercial whaling industry could.

    Probably not. But why can't you have both? Personally, I think whale watching is boooring. Secondly, the whale watching consists mainly of the larger species which unlike the Minke's are banned for catching. As for the Minke's, they are not the main targets of whale watching simply because they are small, elusive, and stay underwater for a long time. (Primary reason for NZ/Aust inability to get fart/$hit samples from them)

    For less than a hundred whales from the northern and southern whale hunts. How much is that per kilo, knucklehead?

    This all depends on the total weight of the stocks.

    Meanwhile, whale watching is a multi-million dollar industry in Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. you want to eat whale?

    Yes. Don't know why one has to be banned in order to save another. I don't think the pro-whaling nations have lobbied to stop whale watching.

    Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

  • -6

    nigelboy

    Japan's research is of whales. I heard Australia would try to research shit of whales, but it is failed.

    Of course, the media in Australia and NZ kept this quiet. Utter failure of their exclusively non-lethal research which amounted to virtually meaningless.

    Posted in: Japan's spring whaling haul at record low 34

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