jeancolmar comments

"Listened with the dead." No excuses.

The fields of technological progress are littered with the death. If only retrospect could return the dead adventurers to life. Sadly, this is a story of incomprehensible waste. More studies were needed. Hubris makes waste. The ill-written poem will pass. Submersibles will not. Why did not patience take charge?

The 3rd paragraph is not part of the quote..

The last crucial words:

Naruhito noted hearing from his parents, Emperor Emeritus Akihito and his wife Michiko, about their experiences during the war and expressed his determination to continue their dedication to peace and to efforts to atone for the pain of those who suffered during the war.

While the truly weapons crazy LDP is at it, the Emperor and his family are striving for peace.

And in the spirit of George Orwell I am a left-wing monarchist.

Toyota disdains ecology, Don't buy Toyota. Simple.

Whi is a tourist? how do distingish a "tourist" from a business traveler? The answer is invariably if you LOOK like a GAIJIN. You maybe on business but still get stiffed for more bus money because you look like a GAIJIN.

Frankly, my only reason go to Kyoto is to check out the laster Leica cameras and the print exhibitions. I've seen the shrines and temples, thank you, many times. What should I have pay extra when I am NOT a tourist?

Of course if you look like a GAIJIN you are going to nailed as tourist no matter when you get on one Kyoto's overcrowded public buses,

I'm a refugee. Yup. An economic refugee. My country was not giving me the goodies the American Dream promised, so I ditched. Decades later I am a success in my academic field. There is no real difference between me and the refugee who is disqualified from coming or being kicked.

A lot of my ethnic sisters and brothers came to my country when were dead broke. They could have been kicked out of America like refugees in Japan. My dead broke progenitors built the Brooklyn Bridge, vastly improved the school system, give us the weekend and, gosh, Christmas. And there is more.

People who might be useful to tJapan's future are on the verge of being kicked of Japan. Japanese farming is a joke. The Japanese are not having babies. The schooling system in second rate and Japanese universities are moronic. Immigrants have changed nations for the better. They can do this for Japan.

The danger to Sweden in joining NATO is that it could get involved in a war that it does not want to fight but will be forced do so.

"The parliament enacted a law Friday to scrap health insurance cards and incorporate them into the My Number ID cards, effectively making it mandatory for all residents to obtain the cards.

The LDP has enacted a farce. The My Number clown show is just beginning and will bring on disasters unlimited.

Don't worry about the nuclear reactors going beyond 60 years. They'll likely become inoperable before then.

No. Punishment should not be mixed up with revenge or extraneous interference by relations.

Good !!!

So what happens when it's in the middle of a storm and it floats away?

There is nothing wrong with telling the whole truth about Unit 741. The whole ugly truth also connects the Allies with the grotesque Japanese human "experiments."

The last "comfort woman" in Taiwan has died. But the shame of Japan's enslavement of so-called comfort women will live on.

The Japanese nuclear disaster in question was a disaster in waiting. Today a group of South Korean experts are trying to help save Fukushima as best as they can. While the article mentioned nothing negative about the South Korean efforts, Japanese right-wing discontent managed to raise its ugly head in the feedback column. This is a perfect example of a very sick bigotry---one that could well hurt the effort to restore Fukushima.

Too much grandstanding and too few (if any) practical ideas.

Title: Ukraine's Zelenskyy arrives in Hiroshima as G7 leaders sanction Russia

Quote from above:

“Russia’s brutal war of aggression represents a threat to the whole world in breach of fundamental norms, rules and principles of the international community. We reaffirm our unwavering support for Ukraine for as long as it takes to bring a comprehensive, just and lasting peace,” the group said.

You know what is good about this quote and the article? It is straightforward and sane. No comparisons of Hiroshima's atomic devastation and Ukraine and not a "word" about "genocide." The horror of Russia's aggression is enough without false analogies. Ukraine's is not a Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thank goodness. The unspeakable horror of the death of civilian Ukrainians is enough--there is no need to bring in the Holocaust.

The worst that leaders can do is to turn rational language into hyperbole. Thank goodness that has not and likely will not happen.

Oh drat those awful typos! The sentence should read: "There is no evidence that Japan is not a pacifist country. Japan has not gone to war with anyone since 1945.

Time Magazine says: "[It] initially bore the headline 'Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is turning a once pacifist Japan into a military power.' In response to Tokyo's pushback, Time posted a revised headline reading that Kishida 'is giving a once pacifist Japan a more assertive role on the global stage.'"

In both cases Time refers to "a once pacifist Japan into a military power" and then in the revised headline "reading that Kishida 'is giving a once pacifist Japan a more assertive role on the globe stage." Time Magazine's revision is frosting. Time Magazine is being presumptuous, to be polite. There no evidence that Japan not a pacifist country. Japan not gone with anyone since 1945. That is well enough to classify it "pacifist" country. Time Magazine owe Japan an apology.

If Japan does go to war, then, of course, we cannot call it a pacifist country any more.

What a terrible way to go.

I am happy we have in Japan a Monarchy that is humane and liberal-minded, unlike the most of the LDP.

At least Kishida's heart metaphorically aches, though he does not cry real tears.

People who start hurting animals end up hurting people.

Error !! Dunce for day! Here is the correction.

"Note: The U.S. is also experiencing a dearth of teachers, who. with everything else, suffer low WAGES and possible gun violence.'

A generation of Japanese have lived from birth to old age without facing war thanks to Article 9. The only trouble is that too many of us here in Japan have taken peace for granted. The dangers of the erosion of peace are ever present. There is no room for complacency. The forces of militarism and reaction are ever present and must never be allow to turn peace Japan into a warfare state. Postwar Japan has not been rained upon by missiles. Let us keep it this way.

A tragedy.

Everyone's experiences are unique. We all have ways of being attached and unattached. Some people take time to develop or end a relationship. Others jump in. Either relationships do or don't work out, whether you are using social media or beating on tom toms.

The opening paragraph could have been about 30 years ago. The over-workloads. The vacations that actually don't exist. The totalitarian principals. The endless backstabbing between teachers. The vindictive transfers--like to a mountain or an island--that separate families for years. And more.

I only wonder why the attrition of teachers is happening now and not decades ago.

Note: The U.S. is also experiencing a dearth of teachers, who. with everything else, suffer low and possible gun violence.

Someone please some save this poor kitty. And a curse on whoever did this evil deed.