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FunkMonkey posted:It's been only three years since he got rocked by the funding scandal, and he was only just acquitted of a more recent indictment over misappropriation of funds: He has two mistresses, an illegitimate kid, he took months to visit his home prefecture after 3/11 and he is Ozawa. The fact he has some semblance of career is testament to how awful every other loving politician is in this country. Abandon hope.
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Keep that poo poo quiet. I don't think it affects the average been there done that politician.
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Brown shirt Hashimoto made his mistress dress up as a flight attendant in sadistic cosplay because thats a loving surprise. He will continue to have a wonderful political career in this loving system.
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I can't prove it, but old men who feel obligated to vote as that's a duty. Farmers who are encouraged to vote by a local leader for the people giving them the most subsidies (LDP) I think thats the entire political system accounted for.
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quote:OHN: The official English name of the new Ozawa party is "People's Life First" and the official English abbreviation is LF. Peak LF
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The important thing to remember is that President Lee is deeply unpopular, maybe even more so than usual leaders in the two countries. Lee is trying to do some nationalist garbage to boost his popularity, the Japanese are doing the same but from their more common reflexive position, as no Japanese politician has any ideas. The diplomat will be back after Obon, like the other times they recalled the ambassador (at tax payer expense) for a couple days.
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Lemmi Caution posted:I was very specifically talking about the quote where you said most Japanese women can't even conceive of non-rape sex. This was the exact horrible impression I got from it too, glad it has been clarified, lets certainly move on from that doomed topic.
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Taro Aso repeatedly brought up the abduction issue regarding North Korea, when his family used Koreans and Chinese as slave labour in their mines.
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There are anti nuclear protests every Friday downtown. Some have had incredibly huge numbers. Most of the non right wing politically minded are more naturally drawn to that. And it isn't only China that they are at loggerheads with. There is the issue with Korea, problems with the government and conflict over American hardware deployment.
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The Japanese Finance Ministry has been burning money at a record rate trying to stop the strong yen, with as much effect as anything else they do. I don't think there is a single useful politician here, and that isn't a loving exaggeration. Japan is a case study in how to fail and it is all because of the elected leadership and the bureaucracy and vested interests around them. Countries should study Japan so they can best learn how to avoid all the mistakes. I don't find any of that cynical.
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Munin posted:I was expecting some reaction in this thread to the return of Shinzō Abe. I don't think anyone is surprised at how dire the political choices are anymore. I cackled about it when I heard but even Twitter was quiet. He is a terrible choice, he quit because of making GBS threads too much previously (slightly more complex), but that only makes him as bad as every other choice out there. What we got... Hashimoto, Ishihara (any), Ozawa, Maehara... It is dire.
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Oct 5, 2012 17:07
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Didn't Abe then make Ishiba his deputy?
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Ishihara has stepped down as Governor of Tokyo... to run for a Diet seat! Ishihara/Hashimoto 2013! Doom in our times!
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Oct 25, 2012 08:36
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The latter definitely. The old guard will try to shut out the new blood because that's how it's done here.
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Nov 17, 2012 12:43
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Lemmi Caution posted:Also America minus the shame part. Nothing that a teary apology can't fix.
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mystes posted:Wow, just when you think the Japan Restoration Party can't get any dumber, they manage to outdo themselves. Was Nishimura going to call all the Japanese johns "soldiers" in his racist fantasy?
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Samurai Sanders posted:For someone named Jesus Matayoshi, he sure does want a lot of his enemies to commit seppuku. So do I, at least he's upfront of it instead of through neglect like his opponents.
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And most of the population just watches boring old variety programs. People use TV functions on their devices a lot.
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It's not as much the money in commercials (important too no doubt) but the freedom for directors. Comparing to US TV, there's stuff like 30 Rock. Just not the same. But the thing that really gets me about the TV is the low production values on any drama. It's worse than 1980s Canadian TV.
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Sep 13, 2013 04:33
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Work makes people abandon their families, spend hours in seedy places and drink and smoke too much Imagine what drugs would do.
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Sep 13, 2013 06:32
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One reactor is still "operating"
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Grand Fromage posted:There are a lot of people who believe that exploiting geothermal power will somehow magically cause the onsen to stop working. Enough of these people exist that Japan has close to zero geothermal power generation, despite being one of the best places in the world to do it. Wikipedia claims Japan currently produces 0.1% of its power through geothermal. This makes total sense (to hear about in regards to Japan)
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Glad I'm not Korean or Chinese and the hate speech isn't directed towards me.
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Too complicated for people and not overly worthwhile for the people coming from Indonesia and the Philipines.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Well, if we're talking about nursing and other jobs involving taking care of the half of their population or whatever that will be elderly soon, there's plenty of work to go around. But not necessarily people who want to do it. Obviously if they are looking at Indonesian candidates, local women are too busy pursuing full time pastry making, voice actressy or housewifery to give a poo poo.
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A big problem is that women have started embracing society's low expectations of them and have aimed lower. A big get for the voice actressy and patisserie industries though.
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Oct 26, 2013 06:14
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The swimsuit books of 14 year olds is a much bigger problem I think.
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Kenishi posted:If you removed the sexual innuendo that many of the production companies use. The child/teen models wouldn't be all that much worse than children pageants or regular child/teen (swimsuit) models in other countries. This all sounds like horrible exploitation of children, with Japan at the forefront of it (it is).
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People love to have every little thing explained to them, and they'd hate to offend by omission so as much text as possible is placed on the sign, site or magazine cover.
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Gotta keep those faxes secure yo.
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Nov 27, 2013 08:43
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Zo posted:That won't work because Japan is the only country that actually believes (or sets their official stance as) "there is no dispute". It's pretty funny and basically the political equivalent of covering your eyes to make the scary thing disappear. Well it worked in Fukushima.
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The new NHK chairman said that every country used sex slaves and that the national broadcaster should agree entirely with the other government at his initial news conference. After a reporter pointed out that it was a news conference he said "I retract everything."
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Japan has apologized many times but assholes in the loving government keep making revisionist claims. It doesn't matter how sincere Japan has been when high ranking representatives say the opposite all too frequently.
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Feb 2, 2014 12:03
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China's biggest ally in raising awareness of Nanjing and sex slaves is the Japanese right wing.
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Feb 26, 2014 12:01
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Can we make a compromise based around nuking just Arashi and SMAP?
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deadlypie posted:Has the Japanese government done anything to help? Of loving course not. They would rather fight stupid counterproductive ideological battles than do anything to help the people. I've never had a dimmer view of J politics than now. fake edit: unless the Abe admin is trying to make Japan such a pariah that citizens just circle the wagons to defend it from the threats (that they created) facing them. It possibly is a brilliant strategy to remilitarize the nation.
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Unpopular to the people they can do. Unpopular to big business and the establishment, forget it.
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Urawa had a very strong season last year and generally finish pretty high. They have a much lower number of foreign players than before, just the long serving Brazilian Marcio Richardes who is pretty popular. We did sign Tadanari Lee who having just played for Southampton in the BPL isn't a bargain signing. So I don't really understand the above comment. I'm a supporter and when I go I sit in that section so I was pretty concerned about how this would play out but am pretty happy with the reaction of the league and club. I've never had major problems there and the banner was done by a supporters group which is by no means representative. The leaders of some of these groups like to be the focus and show off and direct the other people. That doesn't work so well with a lot of foreigners who come for a game or two and it's probably where the resentment comes from in my opinion. Also lots of these foreigners who come will wear any football jersey which is petty stupid and annoying but clearly these racist were idiots. Also, they stated that the Stadium was Holy Ground to them. I guess they never knew it was built for a World Cup.
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Zo posted:Yeah a "good" response maybe if you ignore what they said when doling out the punishments. The Club said it was racist.
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