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Posted in: Archie to be shot saving gay friend in comic book See in context

I used to read Archie in my teens, more than 40 years ago. At that time there were not so many comic books. But I preferred Beano and Dandy. Although I have not read Archie for so long, it is sad to hear of his passing. Maybe this can change some gun laws in the US for their own sake!

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Posted in: N Korea abductee probe stirs speculation of early Japan election See in context

NK needs aid and Abe needs votes. If he can help it, do it. US500 billion is good for starters.and that can uplift many NKoreans lives. Some commentators here would be delighted to do this.

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Posted in: Japan seeks talks with China at November summit See in context

Of course Japan is still a threat. She may not be strong like imperial Japan, but combined with the US, they are still the superior force. For this reason Japan clings to the US although it was the US that dropped the 2 bombs. China wants to talk without pre-conditions. It is Japan that sets the Diaoyus as out of bounds and constantly drag WW2 issues to stir emotions. Not only China and SK are annoyed. We in Asia who have suffered tremendously under imperial Japan are alarmed. One moment you deny the Nanjing massacre, then you doubt the comfort women, then you pray at Yasukuni. Then you try to stir the Philippines and Vietnam etc.. Then you say you are open to talks. Where''s the sincerity? That is what I meant as playing to the gallery!

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Posted in: Japan seeks talks with China at November summit See in context

Some people really make me laugh. They really are too insular or have never seen the world. In the first place, Mao is not my Mao Zedong and I have no love for him whatsoever. If you give me a Japanese Lexus car of any model or a Mao Zedong portrait, I will take the Lexus anytime. We are talking facts, not imaginary fantasy. If Abe wants to talk, of course China will talk. They just want the talks to be substantive. In a democratic society, you play to the gallery. China has no wish for that. You can accuse of China for many wrongdoings, but you cannot deny history and pretend you can still bully China. Modern China is no longer imperial China, even if it is not as strong as the US. Modern Japan is no longer imperial Japan where they were supreme in Asia. The first time that I visited Japan in 1984, I found the place so civil. What happened. The first time that I visited China in 1992, I was totally taken aback. Today, I choose to stay frequently in this country.

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Posted in: Japan protests Chinese paper's map of atomic clouds See in context

Well, well ,well. Someone thinks that the Yuan is useless whereas the US government thinks that the Yuan is too cheap. Maybe the someone is the smartest and the US government are all fools! Anyway the Yuan is never forced on us and we trade in all currencies.

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Posted in: Japan seeks talks with China at November summit See in context

@highball7- I am impressed. I have lived in China since 1998 and was in charge of China's business from HK since 1995. I have witnessed the performance of the leaders from Deng onwards. Now that I have retired for 7 years, I have had plenty of time traveling throughout China. I therefore agree with you totally. Since Xi and Li took over, the changes in China are spectacular for the country. I have never seen so many trees and greenery planted in so short a period of time. Local reforms are carried out throughout China and they affect everyone, from babies to the centenarians. Corruption and pollution are tackled without mercy and SOEs know that they are no longer spared the knife in pollution. Corruption is pursued in the party, banking, finance, medical, education, media, infrastructure, etc.. Doing business now is so much easier. China therefore has no wish to talk to Abe if he is only talking to the gallery! Time is on China's side. It is best that Abe get his intelligence right and change course. There is a Turkish saying, " no matter how far you have travelled on the wrong road, turn back!" Hopefully Abe can see beyond his nose instead of following wherever Xi and Li go!

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Posted in: Hotel in Seoul refuses to hold party by Japanese embassy for SDF See in context

I always shop at Lotte supermarket in Beijing. I don't know if they are related. No matter what, I will shop more at Lotte from henceforth! Fancy holding a 60th anniversary of JSDF in Korea at this moment. What audacity and lack of diplomacy! Hopefully, fair thinking Japanese will take up this issue. Good for Lotte!

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Posted in: Japan seeks talks with China at November summit See in context

China is talking to everyone except Japan. Who says China is belligerent? Xi received a rapturous reception in SK. Merkel came to China and said people must face the history of WW2. Kerry and Lew just concluded a pretty successful summit in Beijing. The UK and China are almost on sleeping terms and even when Australia was speaking to Abe, there were missions in China. Abe thought he could try NK and NK fired 2 missiles near Japan. Nobody supports the firing of the missiles! And here people say that the world finds China belligerent and that China will bite the ass. I wonder whose ass? Like the whole world knows, Abe opened Pandora's Box and now he is haunted. His arrows have been fired and we in Asia say, "the horses went to the hills to graze.". Now he is posturing that he wants dialogue with China, but China knows that there is nothing to talk so long as he is the belligerent one, not Japan!

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Posted in: Japan protests Chinese paper's map of atomic clouds See in context

We in ASEAN especially means Malaysia, Singapore and Myanmar. We have memorials to remind us of the pain we suffered under Japanese hands. If not for the 2 bombs, we would all be singing imperial Japanese anthem and still be flying the Japanese flag! Syonanto was flooded with useless banana Japanese notes thank God for the US!

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Posted in: Abe says horrors of war must never be repeated See in context

Abe dug a big hole for himself and Japan. He tried to discredit China everywhere he went to no avail. His intelligence must have told him how his aggressive stance has failed in Europe, prompting even Merkel to hint at his belligerence! African nations ignore him and the Middle East is too complicated for insular Japan to understand. Even ASEAN is wary of him and he knows that. Good at least he is toning down.

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Posted in: Japan able to aid U.S. ships under attack, says defense minister See in context

Now that Japan and the US have joined forces militarily, the military expenditure by China is pittance. China should from henceforth spend more on the military to protect hegemony forces so that she will not be humiliated and devastated once again! In this way we in ASEAN can prevent from suffering like we did the last time!

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Posted in: Japan protests Chinese paper's map of atomic clouds See in context

I believe the atomic bombs should be re-implanted in Japanese memories to prevent them from being so gung-ho. Similarly, China should re-visit the shame they went through to remind the people to be vigilant. China must not suffer such humiliations again whether under the Japanese or other invaders. Over time they too must confront their ghosts from the past. But first, they must be strong and build a country that others will not find it too easy to attack! Isn't this right for a country. Let's not live under pretensions. Abe has no goodwill towards China. He will do his utter most to travel the globe to put China down. The Chinese know it and we in ASEAN know it too! China has to be strong so as to counter balance Japan. We in ASEAN were humiliated and nearly totally destroyed. If not for the US, we would all be singing the same national anthem. However the US is now on Japan's side!

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Posted in: China starts publishing daily Japanese war crimes 'confession' See in context

Even now people deny history. They even deny confessions from the criminals. How ridiculous can you get? Then they try to equate Tiananmen with the WW2 atrocities. Then they say China must move on when Japanese leaders of different shades and colors continue to cling on to history. Their version of history. Shakespeare should be alive and write a good play of all these ironies!!!

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Posted in: Japan slams Korea-China proposal to jointly mark end of war next year See in context

If Japanese leaders can continuously visit Yasukuni and pray where there are Class 1 criminals, why can't China and SK remember the anniversary? In fact there should be combined effort by all Asian countries who suffered under Japanese hands to mark the occasion. Actually Japan can defuse everything by joining the occasion and move on with the chapter of shame.

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Posted in: China's Xi highlights Japan militarist past in Seoul speech See in context

Abe was in Singapore recently for a meeting and he voiced concern over China's military build-up. Singapore was Syonan-to when Japan attacked and conquered the little island. In proportion to the population, the number of innocent people led to be slaughtered is probably the highest in Asia. Did he even lay a wreath or at least pretend to to be anguished with the families of the comfort women? NO!!!

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Posted in: Japan pushing on with reform of constitution despite fiery suicide bid See in context

Read the news and be true to yourself even if you want to fool others. Singapore has great relations with China. So does Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, Myanmar, Australia, EU, Brazil and Latin American nations, South Africa and many African nations, North and South Korea, Middle Eastern countries and west Asian countries. So don't give the false impression that Japan has friends and China has none. If China has no friends, Japan would not climb up the wall!!!

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Posted in: China's Xi calls for stronger frontier defenses See in context

Highball7 puts it very well. Our former PM Lee Kuan Yew calls Xi the Mandela of Asia after reading his biography and talking to him. Xi knows that a very strong China is useless if China implodes internally. He therefore sets out to weed out corruption and abuse of power. Farmers now pay no taxes and have very affordable medical care. Agriculture is progressing at an astounding rate as the government tackles pollution, education, employment and builds on infrastructure. China knows that these have to be balanced with a very strong military so that China will not kowtow to others again and suffer great humiliation. Because of developments in China, practically every super rich overseas Chinese is in China for business, building schools and hospitals, and investing. These include those from the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, other ASEAN nations and Taiwan, US, EU, Latin America etc.. The US monitors every detail and in the next 10 years will engage China positively like never before. Japan too knows all these and that is why she is doing what she is doing. The 20th century belonged to Japan because China was in shambles for a hundred years till the 70s. The 100 years from the 70s is a totally different story. As our PM very intelligently puts, " Japan will simply stroll into....."

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Posted in: China's Xi calls for stronger frontier defenses See in context

The US protects Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Thailand and will cosy up to them so long as it serves US interest. It is only practical and logical. As China builds with the EU, Africa, Latin America, Russia, India and SK and Japan, the US will not be stupid to fight China. They may not get to bed together, but hugs and kisses are okay. The day when the US and China can work together as partners, Asia will be a great place to be. China will continue to work with the EU and the US economically and soon Japan will not be the 3rd largest economy. Japan can of course cosy up to the Philippines and Vietnam. However after the economic fallout in Vietnam after the incidents in Vietnam, Vietnam is working closely with China again.

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Posted in: China's Xi calls for stronger frontier defenses See in context

China and Japan are both pots calling the other kettle black. The difference is one was invaded and the other the invader. The US is now realizing the communism in China is liveable with and as the politics in China slowly evolves and the US finds palatable, the desire to nanny Japan will diminish. The US is the strongest country on earth. When they really begin to work together with China militarily, the world can spend less on military spending. Japan on the other hand will agititate for a position in the world!

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Posted in: Japan set for landmark easing of constitutional limits on military See in context

Japan has been so peaceful these seven decades because she was not really involved with others' problems. Once she follows in the US foot-steps, she will quickly know that Japan would not be so peaceful.the US is what she is in today because she attacked so many countries and sent her troops to control lands that are not hers. She now fears all kinds of attacks and toothpaste and nail cutters cannot even be brought up planes.shoes and belts need to be checked and the NSA spends billions every year to monitor everybody's phone call. Before they interfered in Afghanistan, these were unheard of.

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Posted in: Japan marks 20 years since sarin attack in Matsumoto See in context

I was totally disgusted several years ago when I saw a photo of the Dalai Lama cosying up to Asahara? Asahara is a thoroughly wicked and evil thing to lead the evil cult?

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Posted in: China's Xi calls for stronger frontier defenses See in context

For a nation that has been so humiliated in modern history, robbed and plundered; territories carved away and treasures stolen, is it so wrong to make sure that her defenses can stand up to future threats? The western powers and Japan have been imposing their wills on China and even after the 2WW have been writing their rules when China was in no position to protest. Now that China is stronger, she has all the right to rewrite those unfair rules! Good for China.

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Posted in: Singapore PM asks Japan to turn page on history See in context

PM Lee has spoken. If you want to listen, listen. If you don't want to, then don't. Don't go and claim that ethnic Chinese Singaporeans killed in Sook Ching are not innocent! If you are not careful, you will have SK and China and then Singapore against you. Then Malaysia and Myanmar and Philippines, Vietnam, Australia and India and Britain and so on! The more you deny......!

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Posted in: Singapore PM asks Japan to turn page on history See in context

Well, my Prime Minister is right. Turn the page on history. It is not to Japan's interest to constantly wishing to rewrite and revisit whether the PM, or a Minister or some Mayor. Each time you deny something, the merry go round starts afresh again. I am surprised that PM have it in him to speak out at a forum. All the while we can only hear from SK and China.

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Posted in: S Korea holds live-fire drill, ignoring Japan's protest See in context

People here suggest that if SK wants to ally with the US and Japan,, then she should not do anything to annoy Japan even if SK is just exercising her rights. All talk is about containing China. Then in the same breath, they say they do not want to contain China. Then Japan tries to stir Vietnam and Philippines. Then they criticise China. What double standards!

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Posted in: China preserves WWII Japanese military brothel See in context

People here are correct. When China was weak she had to suffer many injustices in the silent. Now that she is stronger, it is about time that certains wrong be righted! Of course when wrongs are righted, victimizers will cry foul and look for excuses. Victims and victimizers should just accept the truth and move on!

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Posted in: Hashimoto says allied soldiers raped women after D-Day See in context

It is at least good that he admits Japan's atrocities.

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Posted in: Japan demands China withdraw plane encounter video footage See in context

Japan can't run away this time. If this is fake, then China is really stupid! If this is real then China should submit this to UNESCO and let Japan jump into a fit again! People who compare this to Soviet times are really silly. Technology has advanced so much and shots so clear that experts will know a fake and a genuine one instantly. Japan thought that the world will believe their lie until China showed the video and now the only way out for them is to claim that it is a fake. Comfort women is fake. Nanjing is fake and that the world is round is fake. The apple that fell onNewton's head is also fake!

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Posted in: Japan blasts Chinese bid for U.N. recognition of Nanjing massacre See in context

I support China's actions. Our SEAsian governments should similarly submit our documents to UNESCO for safekeeping if they have enough courage.

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Posted in: Japan demands China withdraw plane encounter video footage See in context

I have seen the Chinese news report on HDTV. It is clear as daylight and the evidence crystal clear. It is now China's duty to show it to all embassies throughout the world to show who is lying through the nose. The US Congress, Senate, CIA, FBI and Hagel and Kerry must have seen the video and kept their traps shut! Let's see what comments finally come from them after close door deliberations and conniving!

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