AlexNoaburg comments

the world needs fewer spy agencies. stop sticking your nose in other countries business is best solution

so Japan wants to be like the US, "defense" through invasion

pretty proud of my jtodayers for standing up to xenophobia in japanese media if not racism.

telling koreans to forget about it is like telling Jews too, but wait they have actual memorials to remind people for them

im all for japan standing up for itself, but south china sea patrols will unnecessarily embroil them in south china sea conflicts. let those nations that are actually close by stand up for themselves.

there's courage and then there's endangering lives of hostages. abe is unfit to lead.

abe is taking the lesson opposite to common sense from this

the guy kills almost three hundred iraqis and is celebrated when WE ARE THE INVADERS

sweden is making it work without immigrants

movie was dumb, funny in parts. I generally like seth rogen type comedies, too

agree with igloo. they said japan ripped off the west, even killed vincent chin for it (a chinese american mistaken for japanese which shows how stupid this intraasian bickering is), said the same things about korean and taiwanese when they emerged in the 90s and 00s, but now what appliances do we have in our house? I have a taiwanese tv, a korean ac, still a japanese car though koreans are gaining percentages in the us. nothing I loathe more than blind nationalism.

Problems are depopulation, lack of competitiveness with Korean, Taiwanese and Chinese companies, cost of energy without nuclear

oh damn

with abe now having majority he needs to push through right wing agenda thanks to middle class apathy, I worry japan is heading down a path to the past

psychologists have documented this phenomenon when people are shown information that makes their group look bad. they will deny, deflect, accuse, minimize, move goal posts, change definitions, justify

lifetime pay smacks of communism. human beings are meant to do more than just toil at a cubicle

had a honda for many years, took it once a year to get it maintained as per the vehicle maintenance light. then i read recently a letter by honda corp warning its dealers not to push unnecessary maintenance procedures like transmission flushes. why did i have to buy a new car recently despite have less than 130k miles on my honda? transmission needed to be replaced.

i'm talking of the china-japan issue. not china or japan-another country issue.

logical fallacy, scipantheist. one issue at a time.

on abe: "it was seventy years ago. you should get over it. we apologized many times even though we've also taken it back. and we're gonna not teach our children any of this. so we good to make it rain?"

on abe: "im gonna visit and honor war criminals that slaughtered and experimented on your people at yasukuni and other temples but its cool if we do business right"

glad for this. I think we will see the anti japan and china rhetoric die down in both countries in favor of getting back to growing economies. this is the power to influence and set agendas the people the leaders of states have.

If you live in a diverse community, surprise, you'll have opportunities to marry outside your own race. Check your cynicism at the door please

Sorry rightwingers, common sense seems to have prevailed

http://thediplomat.com/2014/10/japan-caves-to-china-on-senkaku-island-dispute/ http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1618699/japan-said-have-floated-idea-negotiated-settlement-diaoyus-row

What's more important, that on paper Japan's economy stays third or that the country doesn't become a radioactive wasteland

This is a win for both countries http://thediplomat.com/2014/10/japan-caves-to-china-on-senkaku-island-dispute/

The west forgets that Russia is still a regional power with nukes. I think they, whether valid or not, have a fear of being encircled. Give east Ukraine more autonomy and let's be done with this issue

Horrible law to have on the books. South Korea should be ashamed here

Yasukuni, the monument to ww2 denials

Nhk is such a tool for government propaganda. They force you to pay because they know if you're paying for something you're likelier to watch it. Then forcefeed you their line