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For Australia to abandon the IWC one imagines it has to create its own legitimacy by accusing the IWC of corruption, and thus present itself as the only pure-hearted, interested party on behalf of whales. It’s a bit rich, but I guess this is how politics is played. I just wish people won’t behave like it’s otherwise. It’s just pathetic that there are so many votes in it for both sides of politics.
Posted in: Australia refuses to protect Japanese whalers
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Maybe these old traditional obachan and ogichan desperately need work and they want to process more traditional seafoods to improve their countryside economy. Though richer in protein, whale meat has fewer calories than beef or pork. Whale meat is thus an excellent source of iron and rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids and equal to fish meat in preventing adult diseases. I wouldn't eat it but if you look from the health reasons, they are better than eating cow meat.
Posted in: Japan using quake disaster budget for whaling aid
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If Japan is worried about its cultural traditions, then why are they complaining about not being about to use the Southern Santuary? Japanese fishermen don’t use the Antarctic for fishing in!…it’s a rubbish excuse to slaughter whales, inside a santuary, on the other side of the planet. Especially when all the countries around it are completely opposed to it being done in their neighbourhood waters. I think Japan should not be trying to impose it’s will on other cultures, namely those around the Southern Saunctary who completely oppose this pillaging of their surrounding oceans. All the arguements about killing intelligent creatures is immaterial, they should hunt in their own waters, and if the problem is there are no whales around Japan, then there’s no traditional hunting grounds left..they’ve killed them all, and demonstrates they problem they are causing. It doesn’t mean they get to kill and eat everyone elses whales.
Posted in: Australia refuses to protect Japanese whalers
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YuriOtaniDec. 08, 2011 - 01:24AM JST Well an apology on that date would go well. So Red China does not wish to talk to the PM. China has to let go of their grudges before progress can be made.
The upheaval means that China does not view it as worthwhile to expend much effort on new Japanese leaders. There is no question that the musical chairs in Japan has undermined the seriousness with which China views any individual prime minister. China feels that it’s not worth investing the time because they are not going to last long. That sense only deepen with Mr Noda, given that he is unlikely to be in place after the next general election in 2013.
Posted in: Noda to reschedule China visit
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voiceofokinawa Dec. 07, 2011 - 07:55AM JST. This is an act in blatant violation of Article 46 of Convention Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land. Most U.S. bases in Okinawa thus sit on illegally confiscated land whereby one can definitely say that the U.S. has no legitimate right to use them. The bottom line: the U.S. has no right at all to demand a replacement of a base asked for return. Futenma must therefore be returned with no strings attached. There's no room for negotiation. Period.
Then you need to take up the issue with Japan government. The return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972 was arranged in exchange for the Japanese government’s guarantee that the strategic functions of Okinawa for the U.S. would be preserved. The rule of Okinawa shifted from the early military rule to the direct U.S. rule and then to the Japanese rule. The US presence in Okinawa now became one taken care of by its host country, Japan, based on the Japan-US Security Treaty.The Japanese government guarantees that the U.S. would continue to securely use the bases in Okinawa and shared the common understanding with the U.S. that people’s demands should be met as long as this guarantee was honored.
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globalwatcherDec. 07, 2011 - 04:53AM JST. By considering the dollar (a pegged currency) might continue to decline to Y50-60/$ range in the near future, Japan needs to do this to improve the sovereign debt/GDP ratio of 233.1% now.
Realistically, this will not happen. Here is the problem. If the yen declines from current $77 yen to 50-60 range per dollar, the real problem is more on the U.S. Japan has currently $900 billion in U.S. treasury, and if they pull out 100 percent of the money, Japan would gain 25 percent or more in exchange rate. This would be $225 billion dollars gain on just on the exchange rate against the dollar without doing anything. Also on the same subject, U.S. does not want the same problem Chinese Yuan. Just like the Yen, Yuan will increase or decrease in value slowly.
Posted in: Noda's consumption tax hike plan unpopular, poll shows
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I am not sure if this is a sincere apology. Japan has apologized many times before with no substance. If Japanese goverment is really sincere about the victims of WWII to the neighboring countries, they need to build a memorial museum similar to Hiroshima atomic bomb museum for victims of the war that was caused by Japanese Military.
Posted in: Japan apologizes to elderly Australian POW nurse, others
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YuriOtaniDec. 05, 2011 - 05:50AM JST so you are saying the government can do what it wants? The government violated the 14th amendment and it was never put right. Giving back the land or paying fair market value to the descendants is a start. The government of the United States betrayed citizens of their country and only because they were of Japanese descent. Again what about their 14th amendment rights?
Yuri, what more do you want? In 1988, PM Mulroney gave a formal apology and the Canadian government made a compensation package. The package for interned Japanese Canadians included $21,000 to each surviving internee, and the re-instatement of Canadian citizenship to those who were deported to Japan. The agreement also awarded $12 million to the NAJC to promote human rights and support the community, and $24 million for the establishment of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation to push for the elimination of racism.
Posted in: Japanese return to Canada's WWII internment camps
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TravisBDec. 06, 2011 - 07:48AM JST. But I am completely sure why you are trying to change the subject to China, and its as lame as it is ugly. No matter what Japan did in China, it does not change the fact that anyone who was surprised by the attack on Pearl Harbor just wasn't paying attention.
Wasn't paying attention? Where did you get that? In late 1940. Roosevelt knew that Japan and America are going to go to war, and that Nazi Germany’s going to become a threat to America’s security. Roosevelt knew America has to get into the war. But the public opinion is against that. So, America should do more to provoke Japan to become more hostile, to attack America, so that the public would be behind a war effort. Things like keeping the Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor, and crippling Japan’s economy with an embargo,there was no question that this would cause Japan, whose government was very militant to attack the U.S. U.S. adopt these policies then Japan will commit an overt act of war, which they did.
At the time, U.S. population had a strong isolation movement. Eighty percent of the people wanted nothing to do with Europe’s war. And, you know, German submarines were sinking U.S. ships in the North Atlantic. That did not rouse the American public. Nobody gave a damn. The USS Ruben James was a destroyer that was sunk, and lost a hundred lives about a month before Pearl Harbor. And there were other ships, merchant ships, and other ships in the North Atlantic that were sunk or damaged. But no one cared about it. The American people thought that Roosevelt was trying to provoke U.S. into the German war, or Europe’s war. They didn’t want anything to do with that. But, you see, he got Japan to attack U.S. in a most outrageous manner that really did unite the country.
Posted in: Did FDR conceal Pearl Harbor intelligence about Japanese attack?
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sfjp330Dec. 06, 2011 - 05:04AM JST. OssanAmericaDec. 06, 2011 - 01:08AM JST. US pilots were covertly shooting down Japanese planes over China
I am not sure why you are defending the Japanese planese that murdered thousands of Chinese civilians. You should call yourself OssanJapan.
Posted in: Did FDR conceal Pearl Harbor intelligence about Japanese attack?
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OssanAmericaDec. 06, 2011 - 01:08AM JST. US pilots were covertly shooting down Japanese planes over China and we took a policy of cornering them into attacking us through ultimatums and embargoes well over a year before the attack?
You don't know the reason why U.S. pilots were there? I am glad U.S. got involved. In 1937 and into 1938, in Japan's war with the Nationalist Chinese government,Japanese soldiers systematically raped, tortured and murdered estimated more than 300,000 civilians. This was more than killed in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, and more than the combined civilian losses of Britain, France and Belgium in the whole of World War II.
Chinese men were used for bayonet practice and in decapitation contests. An estimated 40,000 to 80,000 women were raped. Many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. Fathers were forced to rape their daughters, and sons their mothers, as other family members watched. Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs, and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced . . . So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified.
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YuriOtaniDec. 05, 2011 - 12:35PM JST I would like to think that Americans have "outgrown" these wrongs. However I wonder if it could happen again? A lot of Americans are in denial or have made excuses.
What excuses? U.S. goverment has apologized in 1988. What more do you want? Regarding Canada, they are a different country then U.S. and they make their own policies. I guess you really don't understand Canada.
Posted in: Japanese return to Canada's WWII internment camps
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ReformedBasherDec. 05, 2011 - 10:18PM JST. I think the story is about Canadian Japanese but it makes no difference except a line on a map.
It does make a difference. Since U.S. and Canada is a neighbor, if you look from the outside, like yourself, most of the policy seems to be the same as U.S. However, when you get into it deeper, they are completely a different country with different policy. U.S. policy is much more liberal. Canada goverment, like their people are ultra-conservative and they will change slowly without outside interference. I visit Canada about 3-4 times a year, and you probably don't know where New Denver is located, but it's located in a isolated area about 5 hours east of Kelowna, B.C., and 5 hours north of Spokane, WA. I was there a couple months ago in Kelowna, and this area has eastern Washington state feel. It's a beautiful area. If you know Canadian people and the politics of Canada, they have somewhat of a socialist views. Canadians are wonderful people. I doubt any changes will take place on Japanese interment camp issue with Canada.
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gelendestrasseDec. 06, 2011 - 02:48AM JST. I wonder if any of these people had training on how to control a car at that speed, let alone on a wet road.
They probably knew how to drive fast and probably had summer tires. They will slide regardless of how good the driver is. On a wet road, you have to have right tires and these Ferraris probably had wrong tires under the wet conditions. I hope they have good insurance, else they are out of couple millions in total damage.
Posted in: Speeding blamed for pileup involving 8 Ferraris, 1 Lamborghini
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Mistake, Above question is for globalwatcherDec. 05, 2011 - 02:58AM JST
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sfjp330Dec. 05, 2011 - 09:58AM JST. their properties including farm land were stolen by the government and never returned. Think about a property value around south of San Francisco, Watsonville today for an example.
Stolen? Then explain to me why Mr. Sakauye's article. He owned land and house in San Francisco Bay Area prior and during the WWII.
At the outbreak of WWII, Eiichi Sakauye was 29 years old, a seasoned farmer in San Jose, an employer, and a community leader. He recalled the shock of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent flurry of activity preparing to leave the farm for some unknown destination. Neighbors and friends who did not own their own homes were allowed to store their belongings on Eiichi’s property during the internment.
Eiichi developed a special relationship with one particular neighbor, Edward Seely. When Eiichi’s family was evacuated, Edward volunteered to look after the Sakauye farm. Ironically, Eiichi’s family had looked after the Seely’s farm, as well as his invalid mother, while Edward served in the military during WWI. When Eiichi returned from camp after four years, everything was just as he had left it, thanks to the Seelys’ protective guardianship. Eiichi paid tribute to Edward Seely long after his friend’s death by placing flowers on Edward’s grave every week.
Source: http://jamsj.wordpress.com/
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globalwatcherDec. 05, 2011 - 02:58AM JST Not only their civil rights were violated by the government, their properties including farm land were stolen by the government and never returned. Think about a property value around south of San Francisco, Watsonville today for an example. They lost billions to the government.If you are interested, you can go to Japan Town in San Jose to learn more about the darkest history in US. Also I am including website you may be interested in reading.
If you know your history, due to the uncertainty of the situations and not knowing when they will be back, With a limited time that they had, some of the Japanese-Americans had no options of keeping their cars and property (land or home) and they sold it for fraction or discounted rate of what they are worth. However, goverment did not steal the property. They had limited choices. Some of the Japanese-American residents had Caucasian friends who took the responsibilty quietly to take care the house and they returned the house after they were out of the interment camp. Of course, during the war, some Japanese-Americans lost everything during the war. But if you look at American young men and women that fought in Europe and Asia, many didn't come back. Millions of families lost their sons and daughters. I know that 442nd unit is recognized for their sacrfices. At the time, nobody in the U.S. had if fair. Not just Japanese-Americans. The U.S. made apology in 1988, what more do you need?
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DotobockDec. 03, 2011 - 10:25AM JST Think many people should stop considering USA to be the most talented until they actually prove it. When some people still go on about that they are the best in the world, it really is making them look like sore losers.
If there was similar talent in Japan as in AAA there would be tons of players capable of making the jump to the MLB and making an immediate impact. for example a guy like Mark Trumbo of Angels who immediately hits like 30 homers in the MLB. Who is that player in Japan? because we need to go find him and sign him ASAP. According to you Japan has more of those guys then AAA. Very very hard to believe.
Posted in: Free agent Kawasaki only interested in Mariners
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DotobockDec. 03, 2011 - 10:05AM JST. Players from other countries including Ichiro, Darvish, Sugiuchi all played well, not sure why Americans can´t.
Who was the real disappointment? Boston Red Sox were extremely disappointed with Matsuzaka's action. He had arm problem and was ineffective for the entire season. He was getting paid millions to win for the Red Sox team and the dumb guy throws out his arm at the advise of Japanese managers to go all out for Japan. What a dumb team. Now his career is over. It was fun to see Japan lose their top player.
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DotobockDec. 03, 2011 - 09:38AM JST. Actually the Japanese had the most talent.. One solid pitcher after an another, Japan was looking solid.
I don't think so. That is why Matsuzaka wrecked his arm. Was it all worth it? U.S. has the best talent and players don't want to go all out in February and March to wreck their career.
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