sangetsu said...

sangetsu at 10:42 AM JST - 18th December

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This is the failure of Japan to have an adequate welfare state in place. Instead of spending the fat of the land from the good years of a cheap yen by making preparations for the inevitable bad times to come, the politicians spent the money on struttung the world…

Posted in 26 cities request emergency support for foreign workers at 10:42 AM JST - 18th December
sangetsu at 10:33 AM JST - 17th December

Biofuel works, there is no argument about that. A jet turbine can run on pretty much any type of fuel, kerosene, diesel, and even gasoline or alcohol. The problem is that it takes vast amounts of plants to make a limited amount of fuel. Increasing use of biofuels in recent…

Posted in JAL to test biofuel for airliner in January at 10:33 AM JST - 17th December
sangetsu at 10:20 AM JST - 17th December

gaijintraveller, are you in Japan? It's not like that here. Very few people have pets and cats are shunned for the most part.

I'm in Japan, in Tokyo as a matter of fact, and pets are incredibly popular here. One cannot walk for any distance and not seeing the most…

Posted in Pro shogi player Kato sued for feeding stray cats at condo at 10:20 AM JST - 17th December
sangetsu at 10:07 AM JST - 17th December

Man I hate these hip hop dressing Japanese guys. So lame.

Such is all fashion created in Japan. Japanese department store fashion ranges from "all out geek" to "high end bizarre". There is very little fashion created in Japan, and for good reason.

Posted in Actress Riho Makise marries fashion designer Nigo at 10:07 AM JST - 17th December
sangetsu at 09:58 AM JST - 17th December

Just make the conditions similar to emergency rooms in America. Crowds of people moaning in Spanish, with their children and other relatives present waiting 8 or 10 hours to see a doctor.

Posted in What is the best way to discourage people from calling ambulances and using hospital outpatient services when they are not in need of urgent treatment? at 09:58 AM JST - 17th December
sangetsu at 09:45 AM JST - 17th December

Wonderful, they are doing something learned in America, except in reverse. When America had a Social Security surplus, bills were passed allowing Socical Security money to be used for other things, like education and welfare. Not surprisingly, Social Security is now destined to go bankrupt in 30 years, and yet…

Posted in Aso wants Y60 bil from road-related tax revenues for welfare costs at 09:45 AM JST - 17th December
sangetsu at 02:59 PM JST - 15th December

"Great job Bushlover, maybe it has not occurred to you that new technologies are always more expensive then their conventional counterparts. The reason these people are advocating the global warming crisis, is because they want a large scale change to the system in which we receive and consume energy. Doing…

Posted in Japan gets 2nd-highest score after Canada in shameful awards on climate at 02:59 PM JST - 15th December
sangetsu at 02:50 PM JST - 15th December

Interesting article, now that the global warming phenomena seems to have stopped. It snowed in New Orleans last week for the first time in living memory, April of 2008 was recorded as the 29th coldest since measurements begain taken. Cold weather records around the world were broken last winter. Now…

Posted in Japan gets 2nd-highest score after Canada in shameful awards on climate at 02:50 PM JST - 15th December
sangetsu at 02:33 PM JST - 15th December

"Hunters getting their jollies", what a joke. I suppose it's more humane to raise a pig in a sty on a farm for 2 years, and truck it live to a processing plant with a couple hundred other panicked pigs rather than to hunt one after it has grown up…

Posted in Wild boar goes on rampage in Wakayama; four injured at 02:33 PM JST - 15th December
sangetsu at 01:13 PM JST - 11th December

What we are experiencing isn't the failure of capitalism, but the results of political manipulation of the marketplace. There has been no "deregulation". The problems we are facing now are the result of one thing, the American Federal Reserve system keeping interest rates too low. Had the market decided the…

Posted in In view of the worsening global economic crisis, is capitalism a failure? at 01:13 PM JST - 11th December