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Posted in: Japan releases master recording of emperor's war-end speech See in context

The Emperor was prepared to surrender when Russia entered the war - which it did on Aug 9th.That is well documented, and it's also documented that Truman knew it.

Truman, in his own handwriting in his diary, said that he knew Japan was asking for surrender earlier through Russia. Stalin told him about it before Potsdam, but Truman was more interested in scaring Stalin and said that the uncondtitional surrender coupled will come after he "lit up the sky" with the atomic bombs.

Sure, Hirohito used the bombs as a reason. He was speaking to Japanese and not to the world. But, Japan was already defeated and everyone knew the war would close in September. Five of the six 5-star officers in the US military said the atomic bombs were unecessary, that Japan was already defeated. Truman made up the "million casualties" saved by the bombing number at a speech in Washington about a year after the war ended. He was hounded by the press for a year that it was genocide and civilians were targeted, since everyone knew there were no military targets in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It's interesting to note that the final terms of surrender were exactly the same as the terms offered earlier. The surrender was transmitted through the Swiss on August 10th, the day after Russia entered the war and Tokyo had little or no knowledge that Nagasaki had been destroyed yet.

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Posted in: Kyushu Electric aims to restart first reactor Aug 10 See in context

A country that will lose 25% of its population in a generation will not have "growth," no matter what anyone, especially the government, does.

Japan cannot handle nuclear power. Decommission the reactors and move on.

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Posted in: AP Investigation: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth See in context

Is it true that Korea and China are blaming Japan for this?

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Posted in: Japanese butter on the table in Pacific trade talks See in context

I seem to be on a list the moderators keep, so I'll just say that I like farmers, I like big business,I like rice and I like apples.

I trust this will be deleted or voted down soon.

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Posted in: Old and tired, some Japan farmers see trade pact jolt as only answer See in context

I meant to say "...one of every fourth house..."

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Posted in: Japan shouldn't cave to foreign pressure on PM war anniversary remarks, says aide See in context

Stop denying that no one has or is denying anything.

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Posted in: Old and tired, some Japan farmers see trade pact jolt as only answer See in context

Japan's population is going reduce by tens of millions of people, so how in the world can anyone be talking about "growth?"

Deconstructing Japan is the best alternative. Instead of spending on wasted efforts to grow a shrinking economy with more concrete, put those same companies to work making parks. One out of every house and business will be empty soon, make them into parks and make Japan a more hospitable place for the same money.

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Posted in: Japan shouldn't cave to foreign pressure on PM war anniversary remarks, says aide See in context

What do you people think, Abe is going to rescind the surrender and tell everyone that Japan revokes all the dozens of previous apologies?

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Posted in: Engine trouble, excess weight suspected in Tokyo plane crash See in context

Full fuel is 120 gallons @ 6 lbs/ga. = 720 lbs.

That leaves about 1,000 lbs. for passengers/cargo. Gross weght - empty weight of this aircraft 1,746 lbs.

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Posted in: NSA to stop using bulk US phone data in November See in context

Uh huh. Yep, right. Sure.

I trust this will be followed by some ironically-timed attack somewhere...

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Posted in: 12 awesome features of Japanese bathrooms you won’t find in the West See in context

The emergency rooms in the US are loaded with people paying huge fees because they think crawling in and out of a porcelain bowl to take a shower is a good thing. Those two ingredients, water and porcelain, don't mix very well.

The AMA must be lobbying to keep making porcelain, leg breaking showers.

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Posted in: What do you think are some of the main differences between the way Japanese and Western media report the news? See in context

Japanese news media can spell better.

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Posted in: Happy Meals make way for hearing aids in Japan CPI reshuffle See in context

Every country does it, with history and economic reporting.

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Posted in: Abe says Olympic stadium to start from scratch; Rugby World Cup misses out See in context

I'll lower the bid to 40 billion yen!

(Then have a cost overrun of 3x the original price... They'll save 60 billion yen over the last stadium plan. I'll be a hero! My wife does that. She doesn't tell me how much it costs, she tells me how much she saved. Women will understand this idea!)

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Posted in: Abe says Olympic stadium to start from scratch; Rugby World Cup misses out See in context

I'll build it for half the price of 180 billion yen.

I'd dig a big bowl, make the field, then leave grass all around the bowl where people can sit on blankets on the grass all around the "stadium."

No seats, only wooden stairs going up and down the mounds surrounding the field.

Voila!

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Posted in: Keeping the mayo and the comfort in an updated chicken salad See in context

Eggs from GMO corn? Source, please.

There is nothing questionable about MSG. There urban myths and hysteria, but not a single medical study showing any harmful effects from MSG. MSG come from a natural ingredient.

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Posted in: Japan should be explicit over war remorse: animator Miyazaki See in context

Yes, let's add to the relentless list of war apologies:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

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Posted in: Teacher forces 96 students to kneel for 20 minutes as punishment for being late See in context

The kids should consider it practice for funerals. I spent longer than 20 minutes sitting seiza-style at funerals. Haven't all of you Japan experts?

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Posted in: Ball skills See in context

How do we know these are US residents?

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Posted in: Toshiba accounting errors may be over Y100 bil See in context

Good thing no companies in any other countries are doing it.

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Posted in: Fatal fire on airtight bullet train exposes lapses See in context

Let's all just stay awake every night worrying about all of the things that could happen.

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Posted in: Ramadan dinner See in context

Creepy little podium/stage/red carpet thing going on there...

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Posted in: Popular elsewhere, high-speed rail remains elusive in U.S. See in context

The US simply can't do trains because there is no engineering, manufacturing or operational know how to design, build or operate a high-speeed rail system. The political and cultural roadblocks over overwhelming, too.

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Posted in: Popular elsewhere, high-speed rail remains elusive in U.S. See in context

Yes, you're right. ;)

I knew that, but hyperbole and unsubstantiated nonsense is part of the"culture" here. I'm just trying to fit in...

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Posted in: Popular elsewhere, high-speed rail remains elusive in U.S. See in context

No one in USA is resisting. No one is proposing to change to metric.

It's been proposed and discussed in the US for over 100 years. The Metric Conversion Act was signed by President Ford in 1975. You should research before you type.

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Posted in: Popular elsewhere, high-speed rail remains elusive in U.S. See in context

The only country in the world resisting the metric sytem should tell all you need to know about the ability of the US to "change."

Look at the disasters in other ground transportation - taxi service sucks, buses are only for the poor, Amtrak is laughing stock on rails. After having returned to the US after 25 years in Japan, it's a transportation hell in a place filled with slack-jawed, over-sized, lazy people with the competence of chimpanzees. The US cannot do high-speed rail.

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Posted in: MERS sparks mask rush in Asia, but are they effective? See in context

If they're so useless, I guess everyone in operating rooms don't really need them...

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Posted in: Brian Wilson's music genius, mental issues are focus of film See in context

One late afternoon on a beautiful Saturday evening in the summer of 1973, I was driving to nowhere particular on I-64 in Hampton Virginia. I had just returned from Vietnam a few days before and checked in to my stateside duty station for the last few months before getting out of the service. Three guys were standing beside a car stopped on the highway, steam pouring out from the engine. I stopped to give them a ride. It turned out to be a rental car and two of the guys were Beach Boys and one was their manager. I drove them to the Coliseum at the next exit and they asked if I wanted to stay to see the show. I ended up backstage in the dressing room before the show, and they gave me a backstage pass to come back after the show.

I ended up going to a party with all of the guys and their entourage. They were all really nice and down to earth. Well, except for the drugs, booze, wild stoned girls, groupies, hangers on, enablers, pimps, dealers, whackos, tie-dyed hippies, et al.

:)

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Posted in: U.S. tells Okinawa governor new base 'fundamental' to security See in context

I think Japan needs to build some bases on Hawaii since they would be fundamental to protecting the U.S.

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Posted in: Does it bother you when people talk on smartphones on buses, trains or in restaurants? See in context

The average person doesn't konw that the softer you speak into a ketai, the more clear the voice will be ata better volume. The louder you talk, the more the software cuts your voice. If the manufacturers or distributors advertised this, it would make the world a better place.

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