jeancolmar comments

This may be the first time I agree with Trump: He is sure to be arrested. There will likely be protests, even violence. Beyond that, I will make no predictions. Let Justice do its job.

Militarize Japan and bleed it broke while the American war industry hauls in the profits.

Police thuggery is real, as exemplified by this article and similar ones. But the police seem to target specific people who are more vulnerable to discrimination than the general population. It is likely that the police would not have brutally assaulted and inadvertently (?) snuffed out life of the victim in question if he was caucasian.

The issue of wartime Korean slave laborers and Japan is not going away any time soon.

Another reason to home and away from restaurants and other public places.

Kenzaburo Oe was a great writer, but above that he was a fearless fighter for democracy and peace. He is sorely missed.

"Japan wartime labor" should read "Japan wartime slave labor," Its time the Government, industry, media and scholarship come to terms exactly with what imperial Japan did to the Korean people.

The nuclear disaster is 11 years old and on going.

Lousy opening sentence above. It should read, "My sympathies go out to the families of all victims abducted by North Korea."

My sympathies go out to the families of North Korean abductees. No matter how much North Korea suffered in the Bombing of North Korea it is no excuse to abduct or lure innocent people to that country. ( Above writers have mentioned Japan complicity in luring N. Korean residents to N.K.)

However NK's victims push for compensation it is doubtful compensations are forthcoming. NK is it own wound to heal.

The Bombing of North Korea reduced that country to the proverbial mud puddle. Wikipedia quotes: "Dean Rusk, the U.S. State Department official who headed East Asian affairs, concluded that America had bombed 'everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another'.[22]. With agriculture destroyed, the people of NK would starved were in not for the help of the Communist countries.

NK is not happy country because of its past.

"Kishida says ban on same-sex marriage not discrimination"

Yes it is.

How about ending forced retirement? There are people who like their jobs and who do well at theirs jobs and who want to keep working.

There would have been no Paper City if there had not been Pearl Harbor.

" For an apparently highly-evolved species, humans do a lot of stupid things."

When the not highly evolved like Putin get into power we have trouble.

Here is something about those camps in Hawaii. The U.S. War Department argued for a mass evacuation of Japanese from Hawaii (Takaki, 1993: 379). General Emmons argued that Japanese Americans and residents were not doing any damage and furthermore the proposed mass evacuation would create mass chaos. Result was that only 1,444 Japanese in Hawaii were interred (Takaki, 19930). Why the 1,444?

I guess they were the ones put into those camps.

https://www.hawaiiinternment.org/students/internment-camps-hawai‘i

There is more to the story above. On the whole, Japanese and residents were not put in camps. Two days after Pearl Harbor General Delos Emma's declared: "No person, be he citizen alien, need worry. provided he is not connected with subversive elements..." (Takagi, 1993, 378-279). Japanese and Japanese-American children went to school together and taught anti-discrimination. The school system maintained: "Let us keep constantly in mind that America is not making war on citizens of the United States or on law-abiding aliens within America (Takagi 1993: 379).

There more to the Hawaii camps no doubt.

Footnote: There were Internment camps in Hawaii during WWII:

Sand Island Detention Camp

"This camp detained internees until March 1, 1943, having immediately opened after the Pearl Harbor attack. Approximately $500,000 was spent on improving and maintaining the facilities. At one point, it consisted of two enclosures holding 250 Japanese males each, one holding 40 females of mixed races and one for 25 people of German or Italian ancestry."

German and Italian-Americas and residents who were discriminated against in World War 2 were first acknowledged on Nov. 19, 1999: "Congressman Matt Salmon placed a statement on Proclamation 2526 in the Extension of Remarks section of the Congressional Record." He pushed for a full account of all Americans of all who suffered of all Americans who suffered discriminational during WWII.

I truly wish that the devistating 1995 earthquake that hit Kansai had "high building standards and excellent enforcement."

A historical note: Japanese-American internment was limited to Washington, Oregon and California. Significantly, Japanese residents and Japanese-American citizens in Hawaii were NOT interned.

What's missing here? Reparations for German-American and Italian-American internment during World War II.

"Emperor Naruhito, on the occasion of his 63rd birthday Thursday, expressed deep sorrow at the suffering of people in conflicts around the globe and offered prayers for peace in Japan and the rest of the world."

Thinking of the sorrow of others on his birthday was a noble thing to do.

Barefoot Gen is not politically correct enough for the right-wing. You can't have a "real" hero stealing carp to help his hungry family from starving. After a catastrophe you cannot expect people to be 100 % on their good behavior. That's one thing that makes Barefoot Gen an outstanding book.

A case of when love is not a many splendid thing.

The major value of this article is that it contravenes the established cultural, ethnic and racial myth that Japan is one folk, one culture and one language. This ideology goes against the facts and has hurt too many innocent people. I hope to see more articles like this in "Japan Today." Thank you for this article.

Let Kishida and the LDP and the rightists swim in that radiated water and then drink it.

Her spirt will follow us.

When it is cold students have the right to protect themselves against the weather. Any stupid rules and punishments can be sorted out later. Health is foremost.

Another mass murder thanks to lax gun laws and the NRA.

It is hard to believe that in this time that these preposterous dress codes still exist. Keeping warm in cold weather and dry when everything is wet should not just be a matter of human rights but also a matter of common sense.