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
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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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
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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sabiwabi
Are Americans a race? Canadians? French?...
No.
Are Israelis a race? No. There isn't even a Jewish race, its a religious group.
Just because a group has wiped Palestine off the map, it does not mean the Palestinians have ceased to exist. In fact, the UN still recognizes the Occupied Palestinian Territories; they are not called the Occupied Arab Territories.
These people are Palestinians, and their land is Palestine.
Posted in: Palestinians to seek U.N. membership if no peace treaty by Sept
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sabiwabi
When will we learn that we should not listen to "opposition officials".
Is there any real evidence that Gadhafi is attacking civilians, rather than armed militia? I suspect not.
Posted in: France to step up airstrikes in Libya
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sabiwabi
Yes!!! Especially since we're dealing with Tepco. They have done dirty stuff before.
If top heads don't role, they should shut down all nuclear power plants because this sort of incident will repeat itself.
I would include any government person who looked the other way, rather than doing their job.
Posted in: Once the nuclear crisis is brought under control, should TEPCO executives face criminal charges at some point in the future?
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sabiwabi
This war has nothing to do with protecting civilians.
Posted in: France to step up airstrikes in Libya
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sabiwabi
No serious scholar, even Israeli, says that today.
Regarding the U.N Security Council Resolution 242, you forgot to mention that it emphasized the "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war". What part of inadmissible do you not understand?
BTW, you seem to be excluding the many Palestinian Christians. Why?
Posted in: Palestinians to seek U.N. membership if no peace treaty by Sept
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sabiwabi
There is no reason why anyone would not recognize Palestine. The pre-1967 border is recognized by the whole world, except "Israel".
This is not only land that the Palestinians want, it is land that already belongs to them, the whole world says so. And these so-called settlements are not settlements, they are illegal occupations (theft).
Posted in: Palestinians to seek U.N. membership if no peace treaty by Sept
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sabiwabi
Nothing justifies using white phosphorous on civilians, let alone on a known UN school packed with unarmed civilians.
All Israel has to do to stop the rockets is to stop this several-decades-long illegal occupation and start respecting international law.
Posted in: Palestinians to seek U.N. membership if no peace treaty by Sept
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sabiwabi
No, Palestine still exists, its still there. If you go to the UN website, you'll see that they often mention the "Occupied Palestinian Territories", where they state that the land belongs to the Palestinians. I guess, if it'll make you happy, you could call them Occupied Palestinians.
The people are Palestinians, and their land is Palestine.
Posted in: Palestinians to seek U.N. membership if no peace treaty by Sept
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sabiwabi
Just because Palestine has been wiped off the map does not mean that the Palestinian people ceased to exist.
Posted in: Palestinians to seek U.N. membership if no peace treaty by Sept
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sabiwabi
Yeah, the Israelis continue to say this and they continue to do everything they can to sabotage dialogue. So basically, a Palestinian state will never be established if we continue waiting for Israel's and America's blessings.
In fact, we do not need their blessing. The world is now firmly behind the Palestinians. The Palestinian state already exists, we don't need the UNSC or America to officially recognize it.
Posted in: Palestinians to seek U.N. membership if no peace treaty by Sept
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sabiwabi
Are you sure about that?
The Tokyo tap water was contaminated enough when the wind changed and it rained after hydrogen caused an explosion over one of the reactors.
If one of the reactors had actually blewn up, all the plant staff would have had to be evacuated and so there would not have been anyone left to cool down the other reactors. Eventually all six reactors would have blown up.
Tokyo is not all that far away. I certainly would not want to be around if the entire Kanto region needs to be evacuated. I would have felt much more at ease if I could leave, but I didn't.
I suspect many of those most critical of the "flyjins" are those who wanted to leave but chose not to, for whatever reason (pressure, money, lazy, ...).
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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sabiwabi
Are British summers hot?
Regardless, I hope the do it. They should have done it long before this crisis.
Posted in: Do you think switching to daylight saving time in summer in Japan will help ease the power shortage?
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sabiwabi
Indeed. That is why the trains I take every morning now have their lights off.
Posted in: Do you think switching to daylight saving time in summer in Japan will help ease the power shortage?
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sabiwabi
They could always make long term or permanent change of time zone.
Excellent point. Every placed I have lived in had crappy insulation. The moment the heater (in winter) or air con (in summer) is turned off, the temperature immediately approached the outdoor temps.
Posted in: Do you think switching to daylight saving time in summer in Japan will help ease the power shortage?
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sabiwabi
I can just imagine a morning rushhour train, jam-packed and without aircon.
I think the switching will help. But regardless, I hope they do it by two hours. Having the sun rise so early is mottainai! I would very much like to go too work in the morning while its still cool, and return home before sunset.
Posted in: Do you think switching to daylight saving time in summer in Japan will help ease the power shortage?
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sabiwabi
Well, if nobody is going to live or farm on this land, it might be a good time to replace them with wind farms, fill them up with wind turbines.
Posted in: Gov't bans rice planting in contaminated soil
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sabiwabi
Lieberman2012, You've painted a beautiful picture of "Israel". Strange that this is the same one that recently murdered 1400 unarmed civilians in Gaza, including attacking a packed UN school with white phosphorous.
hworta269, Thank you for pointing out that Palestine has been there since the days of the Romans. But what exactly gives certain Jews the right to go there and kick out the Palestinian inhabitants?
Posted in: Israel wants Germany to drop Palestinian statehood plan
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sabiwabi
This is not about two neighbours who can't get along. It is about followers of one religion from all over the world getting together to steal land, and terrorize and murder the inhabitants, who have been living there for many generations.
Gazans still do not control their own border. They cannot freely leave/enter their own land. They can't export. There are many things they still cannot import. Even when they grow their own food, Israel sends in large tractors escorted by tanks to destroy their crops (recent YouTube video documents this). Despite all this, as the world sits on the fence, most of the Palestinian response has been peaceful, but we only hear about the occasional rocket.
Posted in: Israel wants Germany to drop Palestinian statehood plan
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sabiwabi
I'm glad you admit that it has been Palestinian land for hundreds of years.
But why would followers of a religion be allowed to kick out the inhabitants of a land just because the land was previously inhabited for a short time thousands of years ago by followers of the same religion?
Posted in: Israel wants Germany to drop Palestinian statehood plan
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sabiwabi
That is clearly a zionist talking point you are repeating. No serious scholar believes that, even Israeli ones.
And the democratically elected Israeli government attacked with white phosphorus shells a UN school packed with civilians.
There is a recognized state of Palestine, with the 1967 borders. Some countries have yet to recognize these borders officially, but that time will come. "Israel" can't do anything about it.
Posted in: Israel wants Germany to drop Palestinian statehood plan