sageb1 said...

sageb1 at 07:35 PM JST - 12th March

IMHO I'd rather maintain a balanced view of Taiji and whaling.

What's at play here is the marketing value of conservation vs culture & tradition.

So I agree with Kobekid that it's about money.

Posted in 'The Cove' puts Japanese fishermen everywhere on the defense at 07:35 PM JST - 12th March
sageb1 at 11:49 AM JST - 10th March

this is absolutely horrible.

Posted in Woman says starved 5-year-old son 'looked like her husband' at 11:49 AM JST - 10th March
sageb1 at 04:37 PM JST - 27th February

We'll only know the consequences of this "vote-buying" after March 7.

Posted in Iraq to reinstate 20,000 Saddam-era army personnel at 04:37 PM JST - 27th February
sageb1 at 02:06 PM JST - 27th February

Qutbism influences the Taliban and other militant Muslims who embrace Islamic-Fascism.

Their kind of Islam is not mainstream Islam, since they may follow the writings of Sayyid Qutb and other writers who influenced Islamic-Fascism in the 1930s.

Mainstream Islam, represented by 54 member states of the Organisation of the Islamic…

Posted in Japan offered to hide Bamiyan statues, but Taliban asked Japan to convert to Islam instead at 02:06 PM JST - 27th February
sageb1 at 06:38 PM JST - 17th February

This makes me shake my head.

Although the lack of parental guidance may have contributed to this tragedy, it's on the boy's shoulders now for the murder of 2 innocent people.

Posted in Teenager’s domestic violence leads to murder and abduction at 06:38 PM JST - 17th February
sageb1 at 06:13 PM JST - 17th February

I'm certainly glad one of the boys had the sense to call the victim's brother.

This isn't vigilanteeism; this is school bullying at its cruelest.

IMHO there's more here than just three friends, there's a fourth student from a different middle school.

Could it be rather than talking to his…

Posted in Four youths arrested for beating student unconscious at 06:13 PM JST - 17th February
sageb1 at 05:59 PM JST - 17th February

Train groping in Japan will never go away as long as the chauvinism is assumed to be inherent in Japanese society.

However, education in women's magazines and the "Train #1 for women only" policy makes it easier for train security and the cops to catch them red-handed.

In America, this…

Posted in NEC research chief arrested for molesting girl on train at 05:59 PM JST - 17th February
sageb1 at 10:59 PM JST - 16th February

Imagine on a plane where passengers are fighting with someone, someone yells terrorist, air marshal shows up, head shot, and it turns out the guy was some ordinary drunk or someone who doesn't speak the language but was pointed out because he looks foreign.

The TSA also profiles people based…

Posted in Do you think it is a good idea to have armed guards on planes as an anti-terrorism measure? at 10:59 PM JST - 16th February
sageb1 at 10:36 PM JST - 16th February

Suddenly all those enka come to mind about love lost.

Posted in Saitama woman arrested after stabbing lover in Nagano car park at 10:36 PM JST - 16th February
sageb1 at 10:27 PM JST - 16th February

All this fuss for protecting a whale species (the minke) which isn't being over hunted anymore. The cull rate by all countries still hunting whales is far below the birth rate of said whale. I am not saying this to condone whale hunting, even for "scientific" reasons.

I'm just stating…

Posted in Activists claim Japanese whalers were hurt by their own pepper spray at 10:27 PM JST - 16th February