JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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Presto wrote:
Do you work for Yokoso Japan? Try taking the blinders off and being a little more objective, please.
Tokyo will not win its bid for the 2016 Games; they will go to Chicago or Rio de Janeiro. I hope the successful city is Rio.
Posted in: Aso addresses IOC evaluation team as Tokyo inspection begins
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Spot on, Hakuho.
Posted in: Hakuho supports more foreign wrestlers in sumo
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No, I do not want the Olympics held in Tokyo in 2016.
The next Football World Cup will be held on the African continent for the first time in 2010, so why not give South America a chance to hold the Olympic Games in Rio?
Posted in: Would you like to see Tokyo get the 2016 Olympics? If your answer is no, then why not?
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1) News stories debated on the old JT and this one for the past several years have made it abundantly clear that Russia will not give up the Kuriles (Northern Territories) for various reasons, including the rich mineral resources that Russia is giving contracts to Russian-owned companies to extract. I pointed this out in the first part of my post.
2) Japan has lived in "heiwa boke" much too long. Russia, Korea and China view any strong-sounding statements about disputed territories by Japan as idle threats at best. And part of this is due to Japan's insistence on having it every which convenient way at the time with its constitution, #9, the SDF, etc. Only when Japan is truly willing to take responsibility for all facets of its defense and foreign affairs will its neighbors take it seriously outside of the economic realm. I pointed this out as well.
3) The Kuriles (Northern Territories) DO belong to Russia at present, Takeshima (Dokdo) is a Korean possession, and the Chinese will take the lion's share of the oil/gas from the disputed areas of the East China Sea in my opinion, regardless of Japan's wishful thinking to the contrary about "agreements" last year.
And I further think Japan is stretching international law to the breaking point with its actions on Okinotori Rocks, and many reasonable arguments to support my assertion have been made in newspapers and elsewhere.
4) I think Mino Monta became too big for britches a number of years ago, and it's not just his job on "Omoikkiri TV" that needs to go. Mino Monta may sincerely believe that Japan should buy the islands back from Russia. As he is entitled to his opinion on this matter and others, so am I.
Japan will not regain possession of the Kuriles (Northern Territories) for the foreseeable future. PERIOD.
Posted in: TBS clarifies Mino Monta’s remark that Japan should buy back Northern Territories
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Mino Monta had better live to be a centenarian if he wants to see the Kurile Islands returned to Japanese control. It won't happen in Vladimir Putin's lifetime, and it also won't happen until Russia mines the islands for their mineral wealth. Even then, it would cost Japan a pretty penny to regain possession of them.
Honestly, I can't see it, especially when Japan has lived more than a half century in a dreamy peaceland, while expecting the U.S. to protect the country.
Not to worry, though, as Japan can keep making maps that show the Kuriles as Japanese territory.
The Kuriles belong to Russia, Takeshima is Korean territory, and China will take what it wants from the East China Sea, so Japan had better console itself with building up the Okinotori Tetrapods to expand its EEZ.
It is high time for Mino Monta to retire anyway-move up the date.
Posted in: TBS clarifies Mino Monta’s remark that Japan should buy back Northern Territories
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I really liked this line in the review.
Noripinhead: I think the dearth of comments is more reflective of the overwhelming number of books on Tokyo than anything else. This book might be a somewhat interesting read, but is it really necessary? What's new?
Posted in: Tokyo: A Cultural and Literary History
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No baseball in the Olympics!
Posted in: Baseball to add women to Olympic bid
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The guy holding the sign, "Bankers Are Wankers," pretty much sums up my feelings, too.
Posted in: Some 4,000 environmentalists and anti-capitalists are demonstrating against the G-20 summit in London. How do you feel about the protests?
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john113: I bet you I do know the JMSDF has been wearing it since 1954. I worked alongside JMSDF members in the '90s on Atsugi and Yokosuka, but thanks for asking.
Let's see what the JMSDF and Japan Coast Guard members do when they encounter hostile fire from some Somali pirates.
And with no one to protect them like in Iraq, so good luck, Japan!
Posted in: MSDF anti-piracy mission
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With the Navy Captain in the middle wearing the "Kyokujitsu ki," he looks more likely to say, "Climb Mt. Niitaka," than to be chasing pirates off the coast of Somalia.
Posted in: MSDF anti-piracy mission
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Campbell Brown is not interesting, and her temporary replacement, Roland Martin, is nothing other than an affirmative action poster boy.
If I see Nancy Grace on, I immediately change it to another channel.
Larry King outlived his usefulness many years ago.
Lou Dobbs is annoying and dominates every conversation, instead of letting his guests express their opinions.
It's good to have a variety of sources for news, rather than a too-big-for-its-britches CNN trying to control everything. People need to hear and read real news. CNN losing the ratings war is a healthy development.
Posted in: CNN in third place in prime time for first time
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Pakistani Taliban chief threatens strike on White House
Not to worry as Pakistan will use the additional $1.5 billion in aid from the U.S. to chase down the bad guys in their country.
Posted in: Pakistani Taliban chief threatens strike on White House
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"The White House says Obama is staying out of it. “The president believes that the case should run its ordinary course, and neither he nor his representatives have had any involvement,” spokesman Ben LaBolt said last week."
A more likely explanation for the president's seeming ambivalence is that he doesn't want to draw attention to questions surrounding his own birthplace, and, therefore, his eligibility to be President of the United States of America.
Posted in: Obama's aunt becomes symbol in immigration debate
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The simple fact of the matter is that the world recession is going to continue for the foreseeable future, and the U.S. and Japanese governments do not have the cure for what ails the patient.
Posted in: Japan stocks plunge as U.S. auto crisis mounts
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The troubled U.S. auto sector is part of the problem, but the huge dropoff in industrial production in Japan is a big part of it, too.
Posted in: Japan stocks plunge as U.S. auto crisis mounts
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The Christian Conspiracy that has billions in the 21st century still believing passionately that a virgin gave birth to a male who was actually the son of god and all the mumbo-jumbo about his life, death and resurrection.
What Hath God Wrought? A lot of pain and misery for so many for two millenia based on fiction and propaganda used and abused by the Church and its offshoots.
Posted in: Which conspiracy theory would you most like to find out the truth about?
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Dangle enough carrots in front of the horse and you can get it to do almost anything.
If the U.S. under the George W. Bush administration had not put the cart before the horse in its misguided, doomed-to-failure, preemptive war in Iraq, and concentrated its efforts against terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan the last several years, perhaps the situation would be much better at present.
As it is though, the U.S.-led effort in Afghanistan and Pakistan will ultimately end in failure, or history seems to say so.(How does the Obama administration define ultimate success in these countries? Don't tell me they borrowed from the peace, freedom and democracy chapter of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld Iraq playbook.)
There is an eerie similarity to what is going on under the fledgling Obama administration with regard to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and our buildup in Vietnam under the guidance of Kennedy and the early part of Johnson's days as president. Only time will tell, I guess.
I think Obama has too much on his plate thus far in his presidency, but he is still a media darling during the honeymoon phase of his administration, so it's full speed ahead with this war, and hopefully not on the road to perdition.
Posted in: Afghan, Pakistani leaders praise new U.S. strategy
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"At this year’s “North Wind” exercises, annual maneuvers held with the United States, U.S. commanders said training involved more joint attacks, more collaboration, closer command and control—just the kind of thing that would be needed if the Japanese were to be fighting alongside the U.S. in Iraq or Afghanistan."
We already know the "contributions" Japan made in Samawah, Iraq while being protected by forces from other countries, so it's rather ridiculous to expect the SDF to "fight" alongside the U.S. and other NATO forces in Afghanistan down the road, and this doesn't even take into account limitations imposed on the SDF by Article 9 of Japan's Constitution, which was so magnanimously bestowed on Japan after WWII by the victorious U.S. and its allies.
But then again, Barack Obama's "Yes, We Can" is all the rage right now, so perhaps the Japanese will have the courage to amend their constitution, and show their fighting spirit in something other than a few sports.
Posted in: Japan military assuming more global role
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England thrashes Japan 50-0
Japan is terrible at rugby, even with their foreign players. Japan is also awful at American football.
I'm sure the England squad wanted to play against a better Japan squad.
Posted in: NZ, England win 2nd matches at Hong Kong Sevens; England thrashes Japan 50-0
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Kazue Fukiishi was quite a healthy beauty before she went on the typical post-gravure idol days starvation diet, so that we'll appreciate her for her acting and not her bustline.
Anyway, you guys be the judge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW11ZPtYdbY
Posted in: Kazue Fukiishi looking for man to kick around and drink with