JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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genji17 at 10:14 AM JST - 16th November sjfp330...is that really relevant? Who ties ropes across roads without any other intention of causing what happened. Dude got off way to easy. Fractured skull...pretty serious injury.
It is relevant. I guess you never driven a motorcycle. I've driven many motorcycles and dirt bike. If you wear helmets, this is extra protection against the fall. Point was if she was not wearing helmet, you have no margin for error and you if you make mistake, you will have major injuries or death.
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This young lady fractured her skull. She was not wearing a helmet? Does Japan have a helmet law for motorcycle? If she had a helmet on, maybe the injuries might not have been severe.
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jruaustralia at 10:29 AM JST - 12th November. The Chinese are regional bullies-- there's only one way the Japanese people would outsmart a bully like China by insisting approachment, with the CCP on the multilateral table. You're Foreign Minister should get the sack by failing to insist on it!
China-Japan bilateral ties are currently in the state of in-depth cooperation. Japan's development and prosperity cannot be separated from China's development and prosperity. Japan cannot afford the cost if it pursues a continued rivalry with China. Moreover, the U.S. gave Japan reassurance to set its mind at ease, but it also has to take U.S.-China relations into account itself.
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limboinjapan at 09:12 AM JST - 12th November. This island was and has always been part of Ryukyu and therefore now part of Japan and Japan can do with it as it pleases .
Then tell me this, If Japan can do with it pleases, why don't Japan put JCG personnel and build military installation in Senkaku? They are afraid of upsetting China?
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limboinjapan at 08:21 AM JST - 12th November. Please name the countries that Japan has invaded or attacked prior to 1885 and after 1945? China has been THE invader of other countries and territories and it is only natural that its neighbor keep an eye on it.
Did China EVER INVADED Japan in the last 100 years? What did Japan do between 1931 and 1945? They Butchered and raped all of young children, women and old men in China. Even though texbook denies this, the reality is Japan did 300 years of damage and further by their successors by having denials.
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OssanAmerica at 07:55 AM JST - 12th November. Secondly, textbooks designed for Japoanese schools within Japan are really none of China's business. As they love to say "don't interfere in our interal affairs".
So what does apology by Japan mean? Nothing? Japan approve of the textbook that are not factual. No wonder Chinese continued to be pissed off. The History textbook for approval for use in high schools by the Japanese Ministry of Education in late 2000. The highlights of the first draft are by now well known: the Japanese invasion of Asia was called the “war in Asia and the Pacific” and the word“invasion” (shinryaku) changed to “advancement” (shinshutsu), or replaced with neutral phases like “extension of the battle line” (sensen o kakudai). References to Unit 731, a bio-warfare unit that most authoritative researchers claim caused thousands of Chinese deaths, were dropped. The 1937 Nanjing massacre, when some historians estimate imperial troops slaughtered thousands of Chinese civilians, was changed to the “Nanjing incident” and the number of casualties downplayed, with the implication that China fabricated the episode. References to “comfort women,” or an estimated 100,000-200,000 sexual slaves from across Asia forced to service imperial troops, were not included. The comfort women, said Professor Fujioka in a famous essay, were prostitutes and “There is no need to teach children these kinds of facts.” Your right, these textbood is designed for manga Japanese schools.
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OssanAmerica at 05:43 AM JST - 12th November. If an apology is given at all it is sincere. What's not sincere is that some Chinese refuse to accept it. In the first instance they always claim that Japan has never apologized. CNN reports that Japan has apologized at least 17 times. The first time was in 1972 when Mao Tse Tung and Chou En Lai themselves accepted PM Tanaka's apology resulting in the 1972 Sino-Japanese Friendship Treaty. Faced with evidence of this kind that Japan has apologized, the next step is always to claim that it is insincere.
Talk is cheap but how sincere is Japan textbook? Japan's action has been a problem. Japan's WWII history textbooks for schools continued under PM Koizumi whose LDP had a history of supporting the cover-up of Japan's war guilt and war crimes, and then backing down when the level of protest from Asian neighbors, especially from Korean and China, resulting in Japanese liberals causes embarrassment to Japan internationally. Even today, China has distrust in Japan due to actions of last four decades. This is why they call Japan, the land of two faces.
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ICBM70 at 05:12 AM JST - 12th November. is the 2.5M coming directly from the Japanese government? if not, it would just be considered personal donation.
Let me clarify. There is are over 2,500,000 veterans of Japanese Imperial Army (1931-1945). Yasukuni stands for shrine/cemetary that remembers these veterans that served in WWII. These 66 lawmakers attended prayer for these veterans. Other than PM Koizumi, all other recent PM never visits there.
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jeffrey at 05:01 AM JST - 12th November. Japan has apologized several times over the last decade and went one better by being pretty much responsible for the Chinese "economic miracle" as the primary initially supplier for capital and technology transfer.
But how sincere is Japan's apology? This year you have 66 lawmakers going to Yasukuni to pray for 2.5 million war veterans that massacured China and Nanking. This is incease from 48 two years ago. The taxpayers are paying for these lawmakers to attend. How ridiculous Japan thinks.
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The main focus for Japan is about increase in detailed surveillance from new technology satillites, unmanned planes, submarines, and new fighter planes. The change will focus on direct monitoring of China's military and civilian behavior, activities, and other information. Japan has to make drastic changes in gathering of intelligance. It's about time Japan is finally becoming aware of the potential dangers of surroundings.
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This is not just East China Sea problem for Japan. There are 2,000 miles of coastline in Japan itself. With unpredictability of China military buildup, Japan has to adjust to securing their borders. With the future budget cuts in the U.S. defense, Japan has to take increase responsibility of their borders and surroundings. Time to wake up.
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Take only what you can eat. Don't waste food. Alot of people feel they have right to take as much as possible but they only finish half of what they put on the plate. They have no common sense. These restaurant should start charging fees for food that is left on the plate. They need to put up a sign.
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globalwatcher at 05:43 AM JST - 5th November. Barack Obama has done a lot in short time for Americans. For some reason, this guy does not get a credit as he is a black.
Unquestionably, a lot of Americans hate their national leader being black, and, worse yet, a black who is the smart. Then there
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Russia has in the past suggested that it might agree a deal to divide the islands, with two being kept by each side, a stance Japan has rejected. This might be the only solution for Japan.
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OssanAmerica at 12:26 AM JST - 31st October. The only party guilty of "pirate behavior" is the Chinese captain who rammed the JCG vessels, legal law enforcement vessels in those waters. And China's behavior following has been nothing less that hysterical and childish.
OssanJapan, who has childish behavior and change of policy? The Japanese Coast Guard has been stationing patrol boats to track Chinese fishing boats around the Senkaku Islands, but it had never captured or arrested a Chinese boat, although it vigorously monitored boats from Taiwan and Hong Kong. In the Senkaku territorial sea, partly because of the agreement with Deng Xiaoping to shelve the territorial dispute between Japan and China, both countries adopted the attitude of avoiding conflict at the governmental level, even if political activists among the people demanded the protection of the Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands. This time, however, the Japanese authorities captured a Chinese boat and arrested the captain. This is an epoch-making event that signifies a reversal of policies toward China. Why now?
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OssanAmerica at 12:26 AM JST - 31st October. No, Japan owns the Senkakus and crtaibly controls them and has EEZ rights. If China doesn't like it they can become an ICJ signatory and present their argument. Or they can try to invade and take it by force. The only party guilty of "pirate behavior" is the Chinese captain who rammed the JCG vessels, legal law enforcement vessels in those waters. And China's behavior following has been nothing less that hysterical and childish.
Then why don't you clarify for me the 1997 Japan-China fisheries agreement allows China and Japan fishermen to operate free of regulation around the Senkaku islands.
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SamuraiBlue at 01:59 PM JST - 30th OctoberNo they cannot since there is an Exclusive Economic Zone which is 200 nautical miles or inter median from each others coastline. Japan claims Senkaku islands so this rule also applies placing the Chinese fishing boats within Japanese jurisdiction. The PRC and Taiwanese boats have right for safe passage without any need for declaration but have NO rights to fish within the boundaries without permission by Japanese authorities.
You need to look at facts rather than dream. A 1997 Japan-China fisheries agreement allows both sides' fishermen to operate free of regulation around the Senkaku islands. So it's not clear why the Japanese coast guard needed to stop the Chinese boat.
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smithinjapan at 12:40 PM JST - 30th October. China is no flower in all this by any means, and can easily be called guilty, I would think, in distorting facts to their purpose as well.
If China is so guilty, why is there 20,000 Japanese companies in mainland? Time to go home.
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OssanAmerica at 09:46 AM JST - 30th October. Because it rammed the two JCG ships instead of complying like all the other chinese fishing boats.
OssanJapan, does Japan own the international waters and make their own rules the boundaries? What Japan did was nothing but a pirate behavior 40 nautical miles off Senkaku. There would be mass chaos in not knowing where each countries have boundaries. Territorial waters is defined as Inland and coastal waters under the jurisdiction of a nation or state, especially the ocean waters within 12 miles or 19.3 kilometers of the shoreline. Japan has acknowledged for long time the international rule of 12 mile of territorial waters. Chinese fishing boat can fish outside the 12 mile zone anywhere and JCG should stay away.
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Japan knew the dispute of the EEZ boundaries. If Japan and China do not agree and honor the EEZ boundaries, how can Japan enforce the unrecognized boundaries that Japan goverment claims? JCG went out 40nm to create an incident. What if China did this to Japan fishing boat in unrecognized EEZ boundaries? You will say China does not have self control. Well, in this case, Japan did not have self control.
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