JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Rak: This is 2009. These guys aren't super economic entities like you seem to believe. They've stayed out of South AMerica because they've been told to stay out by the SA's. Say Honda in Argentina and see how maany people will know what you're talking about. DO you know that Mazda was the biggest Japanese brand down there for the past thirthy years? Toyota sold no more than thirthy thousand vehicles per year. Honda sold less than ten thousand. This Argintine factory was supposed to have a build capacity of only thirty thousand per year.
Posted in: Honda to delay production in Argentina
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Told you so folks. Told you for three years that Toyota were in a major numbers scam. They'd never give the reigns back to the family unless major wrongdoing had been uncovered.
Posted in: Toyota asks Japan workers to take pay cuts
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YuriOtani: With views like yours Europe is now shivering. How do you come to such a conclusion? Ukraine is paying a buck for the same amount of gas Germany buys for 500 bucks! Two years ago when Ukraine accepted that it was now fully independent from the Soviet system the Russians said then from now you buy the gas at market prices. What's so difficult about understanding that? Ukraine got conned by a few schyster foreign powers last year and paid a hefty price. This year it seems they're still not with it. Look at how much Russia is losing by not supplying to Europe. On the other hand those little former Soviet Bloc countries that have been snearing at Russia forgot that when winter came... getting the point? About armies on foreign soil, your argument is stale. Look at the international prescedents set by Guantanamo - annual rent $1:00, Kaliningrad, Gibralter... If you support Ukraine I suggest you send some blankets or axes, they're going to need them.
Posted in: Russian gas stays off amid wrangling
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Goodyear follow Toyota? You mean Bridgestone? Jwills: Most Toyota factory workers have been part-time for some years now - regular workers were shanghaid into part-time contracts - hence Toyota's advantage over the US makers. I called this two years ago - Toyota were in a serious numbers scam and would be hit hard when it came time to pay the tax on phantom profit. This shut down is supposed to generate a paper loss which then writes off the profit so-called earned last year. They'll also issue major recalls which on paper cost them a few hundred million. But the actual cost is much much smaller since over 90% of vehicle owners never respond to recalls. If I'm correct you won't see a major crisis with suppliers since this whole thing was planned with their knowledge - they're not expecting any orders. It's the kanban method - only produce parts on build order from the maker. SO most parts suppliers (including tire makers) sit and wait until orders come in, even if it takes a year - this explains why the transplant suppliers in the US could find time and line space to accept US maker orders.
Posted in: Toyota to suspend production for 11 days in Japan
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Turns out some votes were for Gary Coleman. Hey Minnesota - you're dysfunctional alright - Jessie Ventura (not even his real name) for governor, now you're calling Franken a misfit?
Posted in: Coleman sues over Minnesota Senate recount result
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Obama comes in to office, sells the place for 2 billion to Iraq and rents it back for a buck fifty per year like they do with Guantanamo.
Posted in: U.S. inaugurates $700 million embassy in Iraq
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Kawasaki Syndrome ??? It's not a syndrome. And it doesn't lead to inflamed blood vessels. If this is the US medical professions understanding of the condition then please don't blame the Travolta'S for their understanding of it and subsequent path chosen for treatment. I have been working with Hiroshima based researchers in the field for more than a year and what I've learnt is shocking. The disease is more common than ever - one hospital sees at least four child patients with it per day. They average from 14 days to just under two years. The prognosis is dire - most likely fatal if no major surgery is performed. In milder afflictions then sufferer's life may be prolonged through early treatment involving some form of surgery and regular dosages of medicines and caution. Life expectancy is much shorter than for normal children. The condition is basically malformed major blood vessels to and from the heart. The aorta can be up to five times usual thickness. The images are so disturbing that one could never be excused for calling it a syndrome nor for saying it may lead to inflamed blood vessels. The child is born with aneurisms (sp) that are about to rupture. The sad part is that there is very little study being done in the US. If it were not for the Japanese researcher this condition would still be called "irregular heart condition" - see. Star athlete collapses and dies on court. Doctors say he had an irregular heart beat... Boston Celtics The first hint of a possible Kawasakibyo (Japanese name) condition is the super high heart beat in an infant - and it doesn't fall as the baby grows - usually beating at around 200 bpm. I as a pro marathoner never got my heart rate that high. The causes are still being investigated - pre-natal vaccines, chemical contamination... the problem is that it is more prevalent in industrialized areas so it is difficult to isolate possible causes. For the past two years I've helped the Hiroshima hospital prepare presentations for the annual conference of radiologists in Chicago. And to our surprise we're the only ones researching the disease. This is a wake up call to the US. Too many kids are not being diagnosed and dying unexpectedly during gym class and so forth.
Posted in: Travolta says he is heartbroken at son's death
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"usually for there to be a recall there must be tons of accidents." Sorry? According to which country's law? In Japan the law says that if a vehicle model receives ten or more complaints about a part that is classified under "safety parts" the problem must be reported to the transport ministry which then decides whether to instruct the manufacturer to conduct a recall. In the US the law is almost the same except in that recalls are not limited to safety related parts. And at least ten complaints must be made to the manufacturer's designated agent (district service manager)...
Recalls are regulated by written law.
The gripes by US dealers against the Japanese makes is that these vehicle problems they're recalling for in China are being swept under the carpet - repeatedly for years.
Posted in: Toyota recalls more than 120,000 cars in China
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1000 per hour is going to have a bigger fallout than the con job. McD. pays its workers less per hour. And on the record half trillion yen sales let's look it at in real sales and remove the supply of materials to privately held stores which they're in the habit of passing off as retail sales.
Posted in: McDonald's admits 1,000 people paid to join queue for Quarter Pounder debut in Osaka
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This is one that Bush will also come to regard as: "If I knew then what I know now..." To the peanut gallery regardng your "Mugabe this..." and, "Mugabe that... are intentionally veiled anti-black insults. And to the moderator: start showing some guts and let us defend ourselves. I have persistently offered physical evidence of a South African plot to destroy Zimbabwe - a plot in which the British were involved. I have consistently stated that I was in on two meetings ten years ago in which they clearly claimed that they were going to destroy anybody that stood in their way (including Mazda Motor Corporation). They also stated very clearly that Mugabe had to go because he had intervened against a South African led invasion of the DRC by Rwanda. Mugabe had cost their business interests mining concessions they said. He had to go and that Mugabe's cabinet had been bought and brought into the plot - in fact even going so far as to say that a replacement had been selected. The black people of Zimbabwe - especially the rural who support Mugabe, were to be punished so much that they would be the ones who'd actually pull the 'trigger'... Enough of this crap yoy posters keep spewing about a failed democracy when my country was attacked by its neighbor. Worse is how you look to the attacker as the sane man of the region... Do I have personal interests in Mugabe? How can I? I was banished from the country in 1988 and he did not stand up for me though I told them what the white police officers had been doing to me - they repeatedly lied to interpol and foreign governments about me. Mugabe has every reason to fight until his last breathe. It's a simple case of the right of Zimbabwe to defend its sovereignty. Even if every last woman, man and child dies of cholera, hunger and other causes I will never accept Zimbabwe that makes a deal with South Africa again - Never!
Posted in: Mugabe slams Bush's 'stupid' comments
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Contempt of court - on the way in? The judge should be jailed for stupidity.
Posted in: Georgia judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
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some14some: There's a serious hint into the roll they played. Go through my previous posts - even as 111774, and you'll see that I've been saying that the Big 3 have been crippled by the financial reports generated by the Japanese makers, reports that border on securities fraud. How can Toyota cite an 80% drop in profits on 30% drop in sales?
Posted in: U.S. auto industry problems spell trouble for Japan as well
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British representatives ran around Japan in late 1997 and 1998 forcing Japanese companies with business operations in Zimbabwe to help in destroying the economy to inflict serious suffering on the blacks who they said would overthrow Mugabe.... They were stupid to assume all white people share the same hatred for black people - because many of the coup solicitation letters went public. But would you believe it, the media was the one that shared the hatred for they absolutely refused to report it. Read the Herald archive headline article: November 2 1997 South African Bank in Zimbabwe coup plot Last April the following was explained to us in Japan, "Due to South Africa's request no water purification chemicals can be exported to Zimbabwe. From 1997 ZImbabwe no longer had any blue prints of the water distribution system and none for the sewrage as well - the whites had burnt them, removed them illegally... and when apprehended in the act, Britain threatened economic action against Zimbabwe for any prosecutions. It is sickening for us ZImbabweans (including those of us who lost our citizenship years ago) to hear the gabbage being said about the country especially since the story is the other way round. To say Mugabe destroyed the farms is a laugh - what farms? They had stopped growing food years ago. You lot talking about helping ZImbabweans need to get a whiff of reality - Corn is a controlled substance in ZImbabwe (the law forced onto us at Lancaster House in 1979) so are, wheat, barley, rice, potatoes etc. You have zero idea what ZImbabwe is. Twelve million blacks were forbidden to grow these crops reserved only for the commercial farmers union - white. The CFU was by law to grow enough for the national granery. But in 1992 they were told by their handlers in South Africa to drop food for tobbacco and flowers. Mugabe insisted that the law required them to grow food. London told Mugabe to import. He tried - the national budget got screwed when ZImbabwe became an importer from exporter - 4,500,000 blacks saw famine in 1991-93 - the international press ignored our plight. When we had a drought South Africa also had a drought so they couldn't export to us. Mugabe called the CFU in. They told him to speak with John Major. The Tories told Mugabe to allow the farmers to grow tobbacco for Rothmans, BAT et al, in exchange for EU market privileges. Blair took over and Claire Short inherited the farm issue. She wrote to us saying, "Talk to the Tories, in fact I'm Irish... your land buyback promises with the Conservative Party is old news." sic Then the gay rights guy - Peter Thatchel, began to insult Zimbabwe, even going so far as to breach UK security to assault Mugabe in London. Tony Blair apologised but the abuse continued. The Thatchel campaign began to twist into white rights and soon it was landless blacks. Yes, landless blacks. The farm workers were forced by the ZCTU (founders of the MDC) to occupy Iron Mask Range Estate in Mashonaland North. Mugabe sent in the police. The Heralds editor cried foul for removing the squarters - Mugabe sacked him. Strangely Mugabe is vilified for his stance on squarters - people whom he treated with an iron fist from 1980. The super press now says ZANU occupied the farms. But google "ZCTU strike 1997" and you'll see that the farm workers, led by the union which was led by the president of the MDC occupied the farms. And Peta Thornicroft the so called ZImbabwean journalist knows for a fact that her farm was occupied by her own workers at the insistence of the ZCTU. Trudie Evans will tell you the same. A major media rewritting of the story has led to this genocide - South Africa has sabatoged ZImbabwean imports going back to 1994. How much more can the world stand and see us murdered while they blame us for our own death? Take our recent 'discovery' that we have diamonds to rival Botswana - ZImbabwe is a mineral deficient country every report said. We are being killed for our land, for our resources and for helping our neighbors in teh Congo. Mugabe's only crime was to trust that the white farmer could be trusted. He looked the other way when they killed their workers. He looked the other way when they smuggled resources. But he could not continue to look the other way when they stopped growing food. Zimbabwe's struggle is for nothing more than food and water. Believe it or not, the city of Harare - any town or city in ZImbabwe - can never expand one inch. The city limits were set forever a hundred years ago. Harare can not get new land fills unless they're in the city. No new cemeteries can be made for the same reason. But not for the white population - they can build a grave yard on a farm since they sell the land to each other. What the hell is any president supposed to do?
Posted in: Zimbabwe accuses Britain of cholera 'genocide'
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Triumvere: This is only the beginning. This is the Barson team at work. Next will be typhoid and anthrax - like they did in Rhodesia. South Africa is the devil incarnate. Thank goodness the disease is crossing the border.
Posted in: Zimbabwe slams 'dirty mouth' calls for Mugabe to quit
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Mr Ford Dealer has my total sympathy. The guy driving a Turkish built BMW - the thread is about a Ford dealership complaing about the rampant abuse of commercial regulations by Japanese auto makers through so-called friendship socities in the US. The silent recalls or recalls they never conduct cost the car buyer billions per year - FORD alas is forced by regulators regularly prodded by their Toyota handlers to announce a recall. Ford hears about it in the press. Toyota hears about their product defects in closed door meetings in the Toyota offices. I saw too much of the mis-deeds to make me puke for a life time. And don't try tipping off the Feds... Take the Mazda MX3 that entered the US in 1994 without airbags yet all documentation stated "with airbag". A US army soldier was killed in a Texas crash. The judge ruled that somebody in the dealership had produced the cars papers. What a crock!!! The car had been booted out of the European market for safety problems and re-routed into the US with paperwork for a model that was to be built the following year with airbags - which had become mandatory. Three thousand of these death traps entered the US and the company never paid a dime in restituion nor fines. The US dealer of a US brand must pay for all work done in recalls and the costs being so high force the manufacturers to try to pass on part of the cost. These dealers know about the Toyotas because many of them are or have been duel American/Japanese dealer. They know the product defect history and they're surprised that the Japanese makers are not being ordered to conduct the recalls. Many are paying the repair costs under warranty which they try to pass on to the manufacturer. Guess what? The Nagoya boys say, you carried out the repair at your discretion, you pay. Man and people will call this guy a racist for fighting for his rights in his own country?
Posted in: Angry Ford dealer in South Carolina blasts Japanese imports in ads
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Smith: Greek police and Turkish prisons have reputations cemented in bad concrete. And every so often the bad rep gets justified. Take the strip search incident two weeks ago...
Posted in: Greece orders 2 policemen to jail for teen's death
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A Toyota more American than a Ford built in Mexico? Don't me me laugh... Toyota is killing the US auto industry through practices that would send an American exec to prison for a hundred years. People with no understanding of the industry are best advised to sit this one out. And Mr. Mori should should take a good look in the proverbial mirror - nobody bashes Asia, nobody period! It's the other way round.
Posted in: Angry Ford dealer in South Carolina blasts Japanese imports in ads
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Madverts: I can't wait to see you wipe the egg off your face.
Posted in: Zimbabwe slams 'dirty mouth' calls for Mugabe to quit
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Shinseki didn't ask for more troops to fight. He said more troops would be needed to secure the peace. And Donald said we're not in the business of nation building. Let's not forget the Bush daddy never took Baghdad for the same reason - it would take at least 500,000 troops to secure and hold until the Iraqi mind had been cleansed of its instinctive nature to rebell.
Posted in: Rumsfeld nemesis Shinseki named Veterans Affairs secretary
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romulus3 : Toyota buy GM? With what? Make belief money?
Posted in: Obama suggests some auto execs should lose jobs