JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
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Danica Patrick wins Japan 300 to make IndyCar history
Another American first.
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"A supposed chef eating at McDonald's.... nothing more need be said about the man."
Sez you.
"The taste of McDonald's french fries played a crucial role in the chain's success -- fries are much more profitable than hamburgers -- and was long praised by customers, competitors, and even food critics. James Beard loved McDonald's fries."
'Fast Food Nation'
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"While trying to run from the scene, he also hit a 45-year-old male worker of the outlet in the face when the worker chased him, the police said."
Pathetic.
Dude probably watches action movies from the time he wakes up til the time he passes out on his one day off each week.
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We are already accepting more and more economic burdens and many in the name of preventing "climate change."
I think what we are being asked is - Do you mind even more gov't control over your life?
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Another surly Brit whose guidebooks,maps and general outlook need updating.
The sun long ago set on the old empire.
Deal with it.
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Sushisake123 wonders: "What strategy do you both support?"
What strategy do you support, sushi?
What is your country doing?
If the problem is so serious why is its resolution left solely to American efforts?
Like "Global Warming" this is huge, no?
What is your PM doing ?
Why are you so ashamed of your own country?
Frankly, in the 20 years I have lived and traveled abroad the only guys I can not trust are those like you.
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"At least the "Empty Suit" has more guts than the Loser in Chief you support."
Do you read, sushisake?
Is English your first language?
Obama has flip-flopped before even winning the nomination of his party. He used to be a typical lib-socialist on the issue, but he is now trying to position himself as strong on terror and therefore unwilling to deal with Hamas until they renounce the goals of their genocidal charter.
Why is it incumbent upon America to solve this ancient feud?
Do you honestly believe that if Israel were denied US weapons they couldn't procure them from other countries?
Do you think this would make the situation equal?
Unlike their Arab neighbors Israel has impressive manufacturing capability.
Again, you seem to have very strong opinions on this.
But you live in Japan - which has declared Hamas a terrorist organization.
Does your bad faith not bother you?
What is your country doing? Have they, for example, divested from what they consider Israeli companies running businesses inimical to the "peace process"?
How do you expect to convince anyone here when you are so evasive?
Are you "Palestinian"?
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Sushisake:"Carter and Obama are at the very least willing to talk face to face."
Obama: "We must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel's destruction," Obama said. "We should only sit down with Hamas if they renounce terrorism, recognize Israel's right to exist, and abide by past agreements."
I guess even foreign libs hear and see what they want when beholding The Empty Suit.
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Headlines and articles like this must really rankle people in Commonwealth hellholes like Jo'burg or Kingston, Jamaica, or in socialist disasters like Caracas, all with murder rates higher than Baghdad but none of the Yankee dollar pouring in.
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sushisake writes:
"Precisely what good, if I may ask, is coming from Bush's strategy of hiding in the White House and hurling insults at Hamas? Nothing. Carter is showing what guts are. Bush and co. are scared and they know it."
And may I ask - what is your country doing?
Has your PM "engaged" with Hamas?
Wikipedia:
"Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization by Canada,[7] Israel,[8] Japan,[9] and the United States,[10] and is banned in Jordan.[11] Australia[12] and the United Kingdom[13] list only the militant wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as a terrorist organization. The European Union lists Hamas as a group 'involved in terrorist attacks' and has implemented restrictive measures against Hamas.[14]"
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"carter got egypt to agree with israel and that peace has held firm. only the deadenders dont believe in dialog."
Sadat's assassins and their surviving followers - are they "dead-enders" ?
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Superlib agrees global warming is a threat?
I think you are putting words in his mouth.
There are climate anomalies, i.e. the weather changes. I don't dispute that. It's something I learned in elementary school.
Simple example - Where did the woolly mammoth go?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth
"Extinction
Most woolly mammoths died out at the end of the Pleistocene, as a result of climate change and a shift in man's hunting patterns. A recent study conducted by the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Spain determined that warming temperatures had reduced mammoth habitat to only a fraction of what it once was, putting the Woolly Mammoth population in sharp decline before the introduction of humans into the territory.[3] Glacial retreat shrunk mammoth habitat from 7.7 million km2 42,000 years ago to 0.8 million km2 6,000 years ago. Although a similarly drastic loss of habitat occurred at the end of the Saale glaciation 125,000 years ago, human pressure during the later warming period was sufficient to push the mammoth over the brink.[4] The study employed the use of climate models and fossil remains to make these determinations.[5] A small population of Wolly Mammoths survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska, up until 6000 BC [3], while another remained on Wrangel Island, located in the Arctic Ocean, up until 1700 BC. "
I agree with superlib's conclusion - there's been no evidence that any of the measures help.
As I pointed out above the supposedly transgressor nations are 33 billion dollars behind in paying their penalties...
Meanwhile, we have punished the world's poor by pushing ethanol as a genuine solution to an extremely complex problem:
"Dr Richard Pike, chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has said that biofuels are a "dead end" and "extremely inefficient", and that the government was wrong to impose a requirement for 5 per cent biofuel content in motor fuel by 2010. Dr Pike points out that "the 80 tonnes of kerosene used for a one-way commercial flight to New York is equivalent to the annual biofuel yield from an area of approximately 30 football pitches." At this rate it would take the whole of Britain's farmland just to run Heathrow.
"It really is time to stop this nonsense. To produce these crops people are farming intensively, using more fertilizers and pesticides. In poorer countries people are cutting down virgin rainforest to plant biofuel crops. Poor people are finding corn and wheat priced out of their market, and the tanks of 4x4s are taking the food from the plates of poor families."
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/environment/time-to-kill-crop%11derived-biofuels-200803291126/
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sushisake writes:
"Good to see Carter is not hiding behind fear and loser excuses like those of the current occupant of the White House and that he is getting out there and getting his hands dirty - actually engaging in real diplomacy."
There's fear and there's ignorance.
Carter is no longer president.
He has no power.
His visits do more harm than good.
Hamas, whose charter is sworn to genocidal destruction of Israel, openly admit though that they benefit from being able to play the 80-year old goof like a violin.
"Hamas says Carter visit a boost to militants' legitimacy By KATARINA KRATOVAC – 2 days ago CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Hamas officials said Wednesday that Jimmy Carter's meetings with leaders of the Palestinian militant group will boost its legitimacy despite criticism by Israel and the U.S. government of the former president's personal peace mission."
Keep in mind Hamas not only kills Israelis but upon gaining power killed Palestinian "security personnel" and their children in broad day executions.
Fatah member interviewed after the Iranian-backed Hamas gainded control of Gaza:
"...The Hamas activists executed him with smiles, with pleasure. They laughed and joked among themselves and then shot him to death. Afterwards they tied up his nephew and held him for several hours, a boy of 16. At one point he asked for water. They returned a few minutes later with a suspicious-looking liquid and the boy understood that he shouldn't drink it. Then they poured it on his hands. Do you know what it was? Acid. Do you understand the depths of the hatred?" Abu Zeida asked. "http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/812598.html
'No interest in talks'
"The BBC's Katya Adler in Ramallah says that in Gaza street corners, rooftops, even hospitals have become battlegrounds with most Gazans too scared to leave their homes.
"In one incident, a senior member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, linked to Fatah, was shot 41 times while in a hospital bed in the town of Beit Hanoun."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6744713.stm
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"Can't help noticing it's the same bunch of reality holdouts who back the Iraq war that also deny global warming is a threat."
China and India, backing the US in Iraq?
Give us more, sushisake.
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"Not to worry though, in a year there will be a democrat in office, and like the Clinton before h/she will actually DO something for the environment (like ratifying the Kyoto protocol). "
Smithinjapan - You really ought to do a little research before you post. You raise suspicions about how informed the other watermelons (green on the outside...) here are.
Clinton never signed on to Kyoto.
It was shot down in the Senate.
By a vote of 97 - 1.
Currently the supposedly transgressor nations have penalties totaling something like 33 billion US dollars.
Who's going to enforce payment?
The UN?
The EU?
"Hahahahaha, too funny!"
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"Oh, I get it now - all those NASA satellite images showing the polar ice caps shrinking at the fastest rate ever must all have been Photoshopped."
C'mon sushi, surely you can do better than NASA. It's an American organization...
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"ha ha ha! redacted is so far behind the times he thinks global warming is a myth LOL!!"
Post here what you regard as proof and I'll reconsider.
Explain also why your hero Al Gore still won't debate the matter publicly .
Seen Big Al's little side businesses that are set to cash on the hysteria that people like you whip up?
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If Carter is right why is Obama parroting Bush? And if he is parroting Bush why do Hamas seem so fond of him? Could it be that they recognize that just as Carter was the best thing to ever happen to militant, theocratic Iran, Obama will be the second best.
"During an interview on WABC radio Sunday, top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign policy vision.
“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,” Yousef said in response to a question about the group’s willingness to meet with either of the Democratic presidential candidates.
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For his part, Obama criticized former President Jimmy Carter’s decision to meet with Hamas, telling Jewish leaders Wednesday that “Hamas is not a state, Hamas is a terrorist organization.”
“We must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel’s destruction,” Obama said. “We should only sit down with Hamas if they renounce terrorism, recognize Israel’s right to exist, and abide by past agreements.”
http://cameron.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/04/16/a-hamas-problem-for-obama/
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"Carter is 100% in the right here."
Whatever.
80 % of Gazans want to emigrate. And Iran-backed Hamas is to blame.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125903
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What are the failed, post-modern pseudo-states of Europe going to do if we don't dance to their silly tune on "global warming"? Are they going to refuse to sell us their cheese? Are they going to launch gratuitous lawsuits against multinationals like Microsoft?
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