Posted in: Report says famine 'imminent' in northern Gaza as Israel launches another raid on main hospital See in context
According to some commentators in here, children are also Hamas operatives and they are not victims (even those unborne)...
By now there is no way you can justify what the Israel goverment and its armed forces are doing. If I may say so, they were not even justified to do so since Novemver last year....
Israel has a state of the art military tech, well equipt army and more so a very well trained intelligence organization (spies) and operatives. They brag about how effective they are!!... and still, the operation to "save the hostages" can only be done by lauching missiles, leveling the cities with tanks, raid hostpitals with assault teams and create a blockade preventing the pass of humanitarian ade?
Hilf mir, aber wie sagt man "Das Führer" auf Hebräisch?
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Posted in: Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine picks ex-admiral as chief priest See in context
@Yubaru
I know.... it was more of a rethorical question.
If I may you can also put a soundtrack for these type of articles. My suggestion, Fire starter by The Prodigy.
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Posted in: Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine picks ex-admiral as chief priest See in context
I see that the title and the photo selected is trying very hard to frame the narrative in a very particular way.....
First the picture is an archive one, not sure but I think far right members cosplaying...
Combined with the title, make it seem like the "ex-admiral" is from the Imperial time era (not possible though because time)... but it is a former member of the MSDF, an institution with a mentality very different of what was the Imperial Navy....
Is the article author or the editorial is trying to be incendiary on purpose??
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Posted in: Would a Trump return to the White House after the November election be good news for Japan? See in context
The real question is... who are the vicepresidents... I think no matter what side wins... the one who got elected won't live to end his term... Biden 'cause he is very old.... Trump 'cause he is old and very unhelty
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Posted in: 'Manhunt,' about hunt for John Wilkes Booth, may make you wish you paid attention in history class See in context
The assumption that History is centered in US is kind of Imperialistic stand isnt it?....
I really care very little about Bolivar's love interests, yet that apparenlty that was very important...., I did payed attention to history class, but the part about Lincon was a brief mention.... Though the part about Simon Bolivar was extensive to exhaustion.....
I was also tought about Japanese history, my favorite shogun of the time was Takeda Shingen.... but i kind of wonder why the time to teach previous eras (Azuchi momoyama, Asuka, etc.) was so short.
That is to show, that what is thought in history depends heavily on where you are and what kind of culture you are living in.
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Posted in: Mercedes-Benz fined ¥1.2 bil for misrepresenting safety in Japan See in context
Do I need to?
OK... Fraud and irregularities detected, investigated and fined to Toyota group including Daihatsu and Denso.
Systematic oppretion to providers by NIssan.
Just yesterday (although not relatd to auto industry) the possibliity of Oligopoly practices (cartel) by the sesame seed oil industry.
All those are Japanese companies investigated, fined and punished by the government of Japan.
In the case of Toyota, the manufacturing process was even stoped for weeks (in some cases still not operating), that is not a "scolding".. but if you say it is.. then the 1.23 billion JPY fine is also just a scolding.
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Posted in: U.N. atomic agency chief reassures residents treated wastewater discharged from Fukushima nuclear plant is safe See in context
I just want to be clear you're saying that's the only rafionuclide present in the discharged wastewater, or at least that you know o
Well if you are asking that I am somewhat involved in the analysis of the discharge water, I am not.
That is why technicians of TEPCO and the IAEA are there for.
I asume you are saying that neither TEPCO nor IAEA are to be trust, but that only leads to turst noone (a ruse that a lot of kids and conspiracy theorist love). But trust is a pilar of civilization.
No doubt that some people and organizations abuse of that trust, but usually there are backups that detect those abuses.
In this case, any one (with the means) can get samples and look for the result. Until now, noone has being sounding the alarm, at least noone with hard evidence and trustworthy.
And if you say that "the government and IAEA and the US are supressing the...so and so" that is just conspiracytheoristy talk
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Posted in: Norah Jones: 'People have sex and give birth to my music' See in context
@Jeremiah
"Sex sells"...
So Norah Jones has a new album?... take my money!!!
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Posted in: U.N. atomic agency chief reassures residents treated wastewater discharged from Fukushima nuclear plant is safe See in context
Water with residual tritium?
Are you being transparent saying that?
Well, yes. I haven't specified any amount of Tritium in drinkng water... and Tritium is a natural ocurring isotope
... So yes i am being clear "transparent"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057633/
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Posted in: Court orders gov't to hand over Aum founder remains to daughter See in context
@リッチ
Are you commenting well aware of who Matsumoto was and what his daughter and followers may give meaning to the reminds?
Or you are just mumbling what come out first in your mouth?
I understand the ruling of the court and probably if I had be the one to give a ruling I would have do so... but honestly making the ahses disappear for good would have been better.
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Posted in: U.N. atomic agency chief reassures residents treated wastewater discharged from Fukushima nuclear plant is safe See in context
The need to wear mask and protective gear in an area were hazzarous material is being handeled does not necesary mean that the resulting product (in this specific case, water with residual Tritium) is harmful.
Just thinking by 5 seconds, you sould understand that despite being in a radioactive hazzard area, the "protective gear" is minimum... just protective glasses, a mask and pair of cloath globes. The other items like a helmet and the blue garment are more for general head protection and identification.
It is clear that wide skin areas are unprotected, so there is very little concern forn contamination where the inspection is being held.
A food producing industry worker has far less skin area exposed than the people in the picture.
And the suggestion of drinking the water directly from the source... shows how little this persons knows about the whole process.
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Posted in: Mercedes-Benz fined ¥1.2 bil for misrepresenting safety in Japan See in context
...Meanwhile, Japanese companies can lie and lie again about their cars' safety and fuel consumption and get off with just an official scolding. The Consumer Affairs Agency fails repeatedly to live up to its alleged aims. And, let's face it, why isn't th...
A clear example of how to make a comment with selective blindness combined with hate
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Posted in: Conditions inside Fukushima's melted nuclear reactors still unclear 13 years after disaster struck See in context
@Desert Tortoise
I bet those people haven't even bothered to look what Tritium is.....
And their image must be something in the likes of brownish red glowing ooze or something.
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Posted in: Conditions inside Fukushima's melted nuclear reactors still unclear 13 years after disaster struck See in context
I seem a couple of commentators (the usual ones) saying "13 years of incompetence" or that Japan is slow to clean up the accident site, and so on....
May I just remind you not about Chernovyll... but of the Three mile Island?
By the way I am not critisizing the efforts done in either cases, but just pointing out that when these type of accidents occur, cleaning up takes a LOT of time.
In the particular case of the Three mile Island, the incident happened in 1979... and just recently (june 2023) there was a news that the cleaning up effort entered a new phase.
https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2023/05/11/tmi-enters-new-phase-of-cleanup/
....and the Three mile Island accident was much smaller than Fukushima.
And about those anti nuclear comments... so what is the solution? More hidrocaborn generation? that is a problem not a solution, more Hydro power? Japan does not have more space to create dams, and that causes probelms, Geothermal? land and development cost are high, takes time too... it is an option but that means need to buy land from private owners. Wind also it is an option but Japan suffers from Typhoons season the cost for tubines that can take typhoons is high (not sure the damage rate), Photovoltaic, it is being done but space is the problem and production rate is a challange, Tidal power, it is an option and there are small scale projects in operatioin... but again space and typhoons.... A combination of all renewable energies? yes that is ideal and that is what the Japanese government is pushing for, but still not able to reach the goals, because time, money and space issues.
Being negative is easy, specially if just to have "fun"
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Posted in: Monday will be 13 years since the March 11, 2011 disaster. If you were in Japan, what are your memories of that day? See in context
I just got out of the elevator from my office in Kameido to go to a meating in Shinjuku, everything started to shake some tiles falled down. One old lady couldn't get up and she was in the middle of the street, so I helped her to get to the plaza in front of the station. Every sinlge building was waving and everything stoped.
I return to the office and everyone evacuated, so went to the designated meeting area where I met with everyone.
After waiting a while, the CEO gave the instruction that everyone go to their home (those who cannot, they could chose to stay at the office or go to a hotel).
Back then I was living in the next station of Kameido, I went back walking. Few cars and taxies on the streets.
Got to home and every single piece plate and glass were shattered, there was no gas (at that moment I didn't know how to reset the gas supply), so that night I decided to go to the izakaya I usually went... they were open and many patrons that I usually met were there so I spent a couple of hours drinking there. I lern then how to resent the gas supply.
By 20 hours, a lot of people were walking the Kuramaebashi doori, some for already a few hours and they had yet 10 km more to walk towards Funabashi.
So the izakaya owner decided to welcome some people, to give them something to drink and eat and rest.
All the patrons, including myself, help a little, like bringing a fresh tower, a glass of water and so on.
Although the earthquake and the aftermath was terrible, I have good memories of that night.
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Posted in: Osaka Prefecture eyes collecting fixed fee for inbound tourists from 2025 See in context
@Antiquesaving
Did you read my comment of you are just mad because the seasons?
I am nos discussing with you about how, why or for what end a "tourism tax" is implemented. That sort of tax exist is all that I am saying.
By the way, as you stated in your comment it is stll a proposal which as you fervantly pointing it has it holes. Specifically, how can you identify a japanese tourist from a none japanese tourist.. if the proposal is a go, I suspect there will be changes.
You keep saying "third world countries"... so Italiy, US and Spain are third wordl countries?? (did you know that term is derogatory also?).
...calm down, I am not fighting you... although you semm you wanna pick a fight though.
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Posted in: ‘Volunteer’ gets suspended sentence for stealing fruit from quake-hit home See in context
First, why we are commenting about what politicians do? is the person of the article a member of the diet or something?
Second, yes the "inequality" of how the law aplies to the powerful and to the none powerful is shocking... though not as shocking since you can see a kind of similar tune in EVERY COUNTRY in the world.
Third, stealing is bad and you should not do it. If you do it you should by punished for that.
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Posted in: Osaka Prefecture eyes collecting fixed fee for inbound tourists from 2025 See in context
@Antiquesaving
By the way I have not said at any moment that taxation is a good or bad idea... I am just stating that tourism tax do exist in other parts of the world. The reason for aplying them vary a lot.
Is it a bad or good idea, don't know. It is a way to gather founds, yes it is..
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Posted in: Trans-skeptical U.S. book finds new Japanese publisher See in context
@virusrex
mmm, well as I must say I disagree with you. Censorship is none the less, before publishing or not. Kadokawa's decision may have been based on public opinon or otherwise but still it is a form of censorship.
The only way to fight miss information is pubilshing the correct information, not censoring it.
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Posted in: Osaka Prefecture eyes collecting fixed fee for inbound tourists from 2025 See in context
@Antiquesaving
Counter point
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240306-the-new-costs-of-travel-that-tourists-should-know
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Posted in: Trans-skeptical U.S. book finds new Japanese publisher See in context
The thing is, yes desinformaton is bad should be try to eliminated it. But that means to begin censorship, that will eventually end up in some sort of radicalitation or open the way for corruption to dictate what is worng and what is right
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Posted in: Trans-skeptical U.S. book finds new Japanese publisher See in context
Pulling out of print a book that can objectively be proved to lie and have a negative effect in how society treats a vulnerable population is not regretful, it is quite positive.
By that stand then there should be a plethora of books that should be unshelfed and taken out of publication.
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Posted in: Osaka Prefecture eyes collecting fixed fee for inbound tourists from 2025 See in context
Why so many people are angry about this? It is a failry common practice...
Places like Greece and Venice have this kind of taxation at city level... and I've heard (though I am not sure if its real) that New Zeland also have a tourist tax.
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Posted in: Trans-skeptical U.S. book finds new Japanese publisher See in context
Why so many here are "discussing" about the content of a book?
Is a book, if that book is good or bad is another thing. That Kadokawa pulled off its publications is regretful, though.
About the theme of the book, if you are interested you read it, if not leave it. The same as to what the personas that decide what to do with their body.
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Posted in: Execs at 4 major Japanese insurers to take pay cut over price fixing See in context
Do this elsewhere in the OECD and you're fined a hefty percentage of company earnings. These practices and the piss-poor penalties prevent Japanese companies from knowing how to compete in global markets.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Just saying....
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Posted in: Small drone flies into damaged Fukushima reactor for first time to study melted fuel See in context
France's and the USA's robots.
errr.. sorry to burst your bubble... but radioactive stuff is radioactive. Robots (or any equipment) at that time were not able to operate in those conditions.... but you must know that... robots and electrical machinery are as much as sensitive to radiation as humans are.
Yes special shielding can be use to protect the robots, but that meant at the time more weight that the motors (to move the robots) could not stand... so you needed a bigger heavier robot that could not enter the areas with high radiactivity, in this case because there was no way to fit a big bot in a small whole.
So the reason at the time for not using the French and USA robots was because there would be useless under those conditioins.
The water problem was another matter, the technical teams that was assesing the damange notice the water problem after assesing the disaster area, unfortunately in the real world and util this moment there is no system or machinery that can detect instantly everything everywhere under the conditions that the Fukushima reactor was at that time.
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Posted in: Paris Olympics security plans stolen from train See in context
Whaaaaat?
This cannot be true, but if it in France were (form some commentators here) the people and procedures there are near to perfection.
Like, high security plans in a bag, which the porter put in to the overhead compartment, instead of haveing them "sticked" to the porter himself?
As someone already said... this must be a trap set in the style of Ocean's 11 or Lupin...
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Posted in: IAEA chief to inspect wrecked Fukushima plant in mid-March See in context
They will discover the extent of the ongoing leaks and unfortunate incidents that TEPCO has been experiencing all this time. Negligent errors such as leaving the radioactive waste faucet open need to be addressed and managed effectively.
You mean those leaks that were made public by TEPCO?, those same leaks and incidents that TEPCO has kept informing and making public to everyone know about it, even the IAEA? So Mr. Grossi will find out what the IAEA already knows?
Is that some sort of time travel shenanigans?
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Posted in: Hotels, flights booked out as 'Swift effect' hits Singapore See in context
In 1965, I drove to Raleigh, NC to see Bob Dylan and Joan Baez perform in a local coffee shop. My admission ticket couldn't have cost more than $5. Popular culture has certainly evolved over the past 60 years.
Considering inflation and everything, USD 5 in 1960s is about USD 52 today. Also, a ticket for a concert of The Beatles in NYC 1964 was about USD 10 (about USD 104 today).
Add to it cost of venue that most certanly is a bigger, cost for setting the stage light and sound, everything is either bigger or didn't exist for than what was for Dylan or The Beatles,
The ticket cost are not that different from 60 years ago to now.... but I suppose selective memory is an issue here (by the way the first concert I went by myself was in 1991. I may be still younger compare to those who went to see Dylan for USD 5)
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Posted in: Japan's moon lander survives second lunar night, beating predictions See in context
I don't remember if it was here... but people were realy negative when the news about SLIM landing "failed", and saying that Japanese technology is obsolete, outdated, wrong and so on.
But then just the other day the lunar lander IM-1 from a joint venture of NASA and a private company, also landed and tiped of uncorrectly.
Landing technology something remotely is difficult, both landers perhaps didn't success 100% but, they certainly didn't fail, more over it were succesful at least in 70 % (for the japanese prove)
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Posted in: An expanding NATO uses its diversity as strength
Posted in: Bank of Japan ends negative interest rate policy, opting for its first hike in 17 years
But most advanced? Not so sure... looks like we are all going to find out so enough
Posted in: An expanding NATO uses its diversity as strength