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So about the chaotic time, more than a dozen countries had war crimes tribunals and more…
Posted in: Hashimoto to apologize to U.S. at Monday's news conference
Who on earth "spotted" a guy from Arakawa-ku on a train in Aomori and how did…
Posted in: Man arrested on train in Aomori after knifing girl in Kanagawa
Upgrayedd: "So you admit that the allies and South Korea did not consider the comfort women…
Posted in: Hashimoto to apologize to U.S. at Monday's news conference
Everybody likes fried chicken. Who cares? Is it racist to say, KFC sucks? Just poking at…
Posted in: Can a person say something racist but not BE a racist?
smithinjapanMAY. 26, 2013 - 08:28AM JST though I give her some points for finally getting out…
Posted in: Porn star Sora Aoi's calligraphy sparks art debate in China
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realdoll
Anyone who reads closely sees that he said "Japan isn't the only one who did wrong (had comfort women)" and "the root of Japan having comfort women is the war to rid Asia of US (western) Imperialism" squarely giving equal blame to the imperialists.
Posted in: Japan's wartime brothels were wrong, says 91-year-old veteran
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realdoll
Power hand position?? WTF?. Anyone that notices something like that or plays them type of games certainly feels inferior and doesn't even have power over themselves.
Posted in: A visit from Thai PM
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realdoll
Outlaw knives!
Posted in: Student attacked by knife-wielding man on Kanagawa street
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realdoll
The better questions are "what percentage of comfort women did the job by force" and "were they getting paid and how much" and did the sytem decrease rape of local women"
Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation
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realdoll
Idiot knee jerk liberal reaction: Outlaw guns and hunting!!
Common sense conservative reaction: Realized that hunting and lawful gun ownership has been in Japan for over 70 yrs and accidents are extremely rare, then do nothing except remind hunters to be safe and wear hunters orange (blaze orange) as they do stateside (deer are color blind).
Posted in: 64-year-old deer hunter shot dead by fellow hunter in Miyagi
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realdoll
I knew a guy who did this and actually got married... later told his wife about it and they laugh about it. She thought it was romantic.
Posted in: Businessman suspected of slashing up to 1,000 tires in effort to meet women
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realdoll
I stop in to get a Y100 icecream cone after I eat sushi at a nearby sushi place.. and about once every two months I get two or three hamburgers *plain, and dip them in ketchup just for something different. If my cholesterol wasn't high, I'd go more often..
Posted in: Free gifts, cheap coffee no help as McDonald’s Japan troubles continue
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realdoll
Lets outlaw rice cookers now that we found the Boston bombs were made using rice cookers. I think the senate did the right thing.. Obama will use any tragedy to take away your rights. Backround checks don't tap into psyciatrist records of individuals mental illnesses.. they are useless. Also if a felon tries to purchase a gun and a backround check stops him from doing it, nothing is done to the felon, who by the act of trying to buy a gun is committing another felony. The govt claims there is no manpower to do anything about it. Congradulations to congress for setting aside emotion and siding with reason and logic.
Posted in: U.S. Senate blocks gun background check legislation
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realdoll
Obviously our "friends" in Japan aren't as scared of the so called threat as the US wants them to be.. I say move the Marines out of Japan and Okinawa. If they aren't living up to the secuity agreement in good faith, why should the US tax payer be stuck with the bill.
Posted in: U.S. footing greater bill for overseas bases
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realdoll
I wonder how N Korea got the technology to miniaturize nukes to fit on a missle warhead? China maybe? We're fools to think otherwise, we have no friends in Asia except people who want to use us.
Posted in: Kerry defends U.S. strategic pivot to Asia
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realdoll
haha... you're right but I was saying this because expats are the ones on this discussion. I think the timeline is exaggerated and is a PR stunt to get the Okinawans to "feel good" about getting something if they agree to the Henoko land reclamation. I wouldn't trust them however because promises have been broken before, the most the Okinawans should do is agree to a Kadena merger.
Posted in: U.S. military to return some Okinawa land to Japan
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realdoll
Why people feel as they do has a lot to do with the discussion. A lot of expats don't want to return to the states because they have a good job in Okinawa. Many can't return if they want to keep the family together as they married out of lonliness and now realized the f'd up because the wife is lazy and won't learn english. She wants to stay here in Okinawa near her family, having BX privileges having the best of both worlds. He on the other hand is stuck and feels if the bases leave he will loose his civilian job on base. A bad situation.
The local economy is no expats business, they are a foreigner and do not exactly belong here anyway and should really shut up as bases don't exist for the good of the economy or for their ego's.
Posted in: U.S. military to return some Okinawa land to Japan
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realdoll
It is a PR ploy.. you're right Yubaru and looking at the Okinawa times this morning the timeline is exaggerated.. they could shave up to five years off each "return date" if they wanted to and if they merged Futenma with Kadena.
Posted in: U.S. military to return some Okinawa land to Japan
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realdoll
Yubaru, It wouldn't matter if their were bars in them areas and who owned them.. they are irrelivent and a drag on society anyway. As far as other expats that are "stuck" on Okinawa and have a job on base, they are stray dogs and married a wife that is lazy and won't learn the language so they are stuck on Island if they want to be with their kids because the wife isn't moving to the states.. he is a prisoner to the Island (even if he likes things about it) and wants the bases to remain so he can continue to support his family. There are two or three thousand retirees and others who fit that boat and will say anything on these discussions to stretch the truth (rather than tell the truth about their life) about the importance of the bases for the local economy.
Posted in: U.S. military to return some Okinawa land to Japan
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realdoll
Yeah, most of the bar owners will loose business, about 90% of whom are ex pats that don't want to move to the states or have a wife that won't follow them there so they are stuck on Okinawa trying to make a living. They need the beer drinking GIs running loose. Another group cashing in on the beer drinking GI's is mainland screwballs that come to Okinawa to open a bar to excape the quick life of mainland Japan. In reality, who really cares about them outsiders? It is the locals who I care about. Futenma can be merged on the s/w side of Kadena AB if it is soo important, plenty of room for 5-6 hangars but the Air Force doens't want to move the road into the golf course it seems.
Posted in: U.S. military to return some Okinawa land to Japan
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realdoll
Does the land still get returned to Okinawans if the Okinawans don't agree to give up land for the reclamation project moving Futenma to Henoko? OKinawa is only in danger because the US bases are on Okinawa..
Posted in: U.S. military to return some Okinawa land to Japan
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realdoll
Apparently you have never heard that the Japanese constitution forbids eminent domain for military bases...
Posted in: Suga seeks Okinawa's understanding for base relocation plan
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realdoll
In Stars and Stripes a few days ago, a Japanese study said the project would take at least five years!... not practical and the base needs merged with Kadena AB on Okinawa.
Posted in: Suga seeks Okinawa's understanding for base relocation plan
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realdoll
Must need a job.. or getting tired of sitting around the house doing nothing, feeling forgotten and useless.. needs a good hobby, like bass fishing or something.
Posted in: Robert Redford to appear in new 'Captain America' film
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realdoll
Thanks is a powerful word...
Posted in: U.S. governor thanks Japan for help with tsunami debris