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As the chinese are urging the Japanese to play a constructive role, I expect the Japanese to urge the Chinese to play a more "mature" role (Note Emphasis on mature)

The sins of ones father should be acknowledged by his progeny but not entirely shouldered by an individual who didn't even take part in the orchestration of that sin; always bringing up the memories of the Sino-Japanese wars and not specifically encouraging their citizens(the Chinese) to truly work towards a lasting peace with its long time neighbour would only unveil the so very often orchestrated circumstances of yet another conflict. In other words, the younger Chinese generation of today shouldn't be playing the blame game with the younger Japanese of today because in the end, there will be no benefits, only mutual distrust.

Niantic really ought to be careful, I can smell some lawsuits coming their way real soon.

I find it really annoying when individuals in each of these affected nations debate over issues just for the sake of having some work to do in their boring jobs, especially the oversized navy of the PRC that are so bored with involving themselves in peaceful maneuveurs but choose to be tools of annoying politics and unnecessary selfish interests. The senkaku islands are not Chinese or Taiwanese for that matter, they are more likely to be Japanese - this is supported and affirmed by international law of which the Chinese a so-called perm member of the U.N has an obligation to follow. They should just go ahead and simply say they just have a problem with the nationalizing because they are distrustful of the Japanese and their cozy attitude towards uncle Sams presence in the region. There really shouldn't be any debate on this matter, it is crystal clear what each nations goals and grievances are most times. Politics and bureaucracy only helps to prolong issues not shorten them.

@Guru - in accordance with the said declarations, Japan officially renounced the rights to the sakhalin islands and the other little islets that were occupied by the Soviets towards the end of the war. At no time did Japan renounce the rights of the Senkakus but instead had no choice but to follow a hands off policy because of the occupational forces of whom eventually gave back the rights of those islands back to Japan. So in the end, the islands are legally Japanese under international law and there should be no dispute in this matter. Furthermore, China just wants to increase its sphere of influence and provoke the Japanese into an armed provocation, this is a battle to see who would be stupid enough to fire the first shot, hence the reason as to why Abe is trying to prepare the Japanese for any grim eventualities-the chinese will hesitate when faced with a worthy foe and resort to compromise instead of overestimated conquest

Atimes, when the train may be really filled up, a guy may accidentally sidel a lady by her chest and she may exagerate and call it molestation, I've seen this happen before.

I grow tired of the recalcitrant nature of these so called powerful nations, they all talk of peaceful resolutions to certain disputes but turn around to commit another provocative act.

These pacts are being signed as a precautionary measure and in order to deter any possible hostile initiatives that the North may try to undertake, if that were the case, communication by phones aren't going to be enough in terms of early warning coordination between Japan and the South, because phone-line communication could so easily be rendered useless by the effect of an electromagnetic pulse from let's say.....a pre-emptive nuclear strike above major Telecom routers/towers/masts or just the entire city. I'd assume they aren't letting the public know the full extent of their early warning system.

Prime minister Shinzo Abe is truly a force to be reckoned with, he made this possible.

The "drunk" excuse can be easily corroborated by the woman, as to whether his breath had the scent of liquor. If the woman says "yes" to his claim, then he gets a light sentence, but a punishment nonetheless. If the woman says "no" to his claim, he gets a heavier sentence. I would have to hope for the latter, he needs a heavier sentence, because the rate at which sexual harrassment is skyrocketing in Japan is indeed frightening. People spend hours on porn with the most unrealistic of everyday scenarios and choose to practise them - as such, many lonely Japanese men come off as being increasingly perverse and simply stack raving mad. Japanese men ought to spend more time in getting into serious relationships and making more babies for the economy, instead of seeing a woman and illegally kiss-groping her; In the uncivilized world, the masses would agitate for his immediate castration for such an act.

A visit long overdue but well planned. All nations burdened by grieviances of the past limit themselves to their naivety of the present and just can't foresee the posibilities of the future. Imperial Japan is gone, Nazi Germany is gone, fascist Italy is gone, now we have nations that are impacting positively on the world stage while carefully avoiding a possible reemergence of past idiosyncracies. If people keep on talking about the 71 year old devastation of war, the atrocities committed during that war, and still go ahead to admonish the perpetrators of that war, the cycle of hate would be never-ending and there will never be peace.

Even after two devastating nuclear bombs, the imperial japanese army still wanted to continue the fight. Imagine what could have happened if the Americans decided not to drop the bombs. The war could have ended in 1946 - that's an additional 50,000 lives lost on the American side.

Residents’ safety is our priority,” Kanetaka said.

He should be more honest and state in addition to this that the reputation of the entire institution of government in Japan is at stake here, it would be bad if there was an incident during a visit by the worlds most powerful leaders.

When something is unusual, you should defend the fact that it is truly unusual; but the truth is that everyone has the right to be who they want to be, everyone should try to respect that and live a violence free life- and these words are what pass for appropriate teachings in school. But let's also be realistic and consider the severe decline in births in Japan for the past couple of decades, more rights for gays could be an additional threat in that regard. Teach tolerance and morality to our kids please.

Let's all be honest and just say that it was a "pretty" good idea.

Lol, some people even go as far as to worship the penis to piss off government. Just a little reminder to all people out there, "Art is everything". And also, this is just my opinion but I really do think that the non-lucid, incoherent, and outdated nature of Japanese laws are the greatest problem of that country.

Just wait for it, it's almost time to see the occasional signature head bowing the Japanese are so good at; afterwards, people like myself would say "it takes a lot of guts to admit wrongdoings when admittance is due, and to subsequently take responsibility for it, u know what, Japan should go ahead and give us the best Olympics of our generation", and the matter is done.

I am not surprised really, hardly any election soliciting for votes from a couple of individuals of any one organization must have a certain degree of foul play; my advice is, if the french prosecutors want to investigate the tokyo bid, they might as well investigate the lobbying of the other two loser host cities, Istanbul and Madrid. No matter what happens, the Olympics will still hold in Tokyo, too much is already at stake as it is, too much in the tune of billions of dollars and a plethora of powerful individuals with interest in the games.

There should be no apology, the act was absolutely justifiable under conditions of war and was legal at the time; the best thing to do is acknowledge the devastation caused by the bomb and strive to avoid a future occurence, I believe that's the significance that the Japanese are trying to evince - they do not need an apology, just acknowledgement.

This ought to be exciting for everyone else except the local businesses that stand to be threatened by the abolishment of import tariffs, there are hard and difficult times ahead for them (Local businesses) I'm afraid.

From every indication, Putin is always quite frank and knows little about constructive diplomacy, its the Japanese that are overly diplomatic and aren't compromising as a result.

Abe doesn't have a choice when it comes to the U.S - Japan alliance really; besides, I'm quite sure Abe may even prefer Donald to Obama considering how much Donald is indirectly pushing for increased Japan involvement in global security of which Abe desires very much.

The stringent immigration policies of Australia are known world-wide, why do people still choose the backhand means of trespassing while knowing fully well that they would get the embarassing treatment if they are caught. It is sad that individuals that have left their original nations for one reason after another end up being subjected to discriminatory treatment on their way to a safe haven; but the truth is that the safe haven status is only preserved by those stringent immigration policies that foreigners are so quick to criticize. I absolutely understand the Australian position as it is an established fact that amongst 10 asylum seeking refugees, 5 of them may be suspicious or truant or a nuisance.

Thus, the ushering of another cold war era; its spy time, its suspicion time and its competition time. Try encircling a wolfpack and they are sure to respond at some point.

They might as well just attach more rights to the label "foreign worker" or there really will be great cause for concern as an unattractive Japanese working environment will certainly do well to attract a nuisance; in other words, if they want law abiding and asset driven foreigners to come help their economy, they should reciprocate respect and shun wage discrimination just to name a few.

Please notice that China doesn't care....in my own opinion, I'd say Shinzo Abe ought to go take a bow at Nanking before Obama does the same at Hiroshima since everyone wants to bring up the past and acknowledge past actions as mistakes.

"As long as this region is resource rich, and as long as it lies within our reach, it is an integral part of our territory" -this is what Japan and Russia are probably all thinking. If it was a lump island of sand sticking in some "dead sea water" kind of location, none of these nations would have put so much emphasis on the ownership of these islands, PERIOD! Therefore, there will be no agreement, PERIOD!

When Japan and SKorea join forces to contain a common foe........what next? Should be the question.

Does NKorea really think like the rest of the world would like to believe?

What does the U.S stand to gain from testing their deterrence theory in that south east asian region?

Is China truly bothered about Nkorea's idiosyncracies?

Where does Russia fall in all this? Last I checked, Russia is suspicious and mindful of each and every single one of those nations that have been listed in this article.

Its about time we started calling a spade a spade, seriously.....a person can't tell me that I have no right to own a car when he himself has one, what in the world makes him so much better than I am that he deserves to possess one and I don't. This is the case for the fact that the U.N doesn't discriminate against the so called 'powerful nations' from possessing a H-Bomb but would discriminate against what they would term 'aggressive states' rebutting the idea of their creation of such bombs. If these powerful nations suddenly lose control of their arsenal and fire at the weaker nations, in the end the stronger nations would still remain at the top because they supressed the technology of their arsenals. In my own opinion, if the world wants peace, then there should be no exceptions for any one nation, PERIOD!