sfjp330 comments

some14some DEC. 18, 2016 - 04:42PM JST China may not be interested in increasing its liabilities

Why did China capture U.S. drones 50 miles (92km) from Subic Bay in Philippines?

elephant200 DEC. 18, 2016 - 04:49PM JST Mr.Abe believes Russia is a vast massive country that is even bigger than China and Canada combined.

In oil and natural gas.

commanteer DEC. 18, 2016 - 11:08AM JST I will bet this guy can't give one example of nightlife that Japan lacks. LA and San Francisco have plenty of tourists,

Do you want to be out in the streets in certain parts of L.A. in late hours? Your nightlife will be shot.

By maintaining a belligerent stance in maritime conflicts, China just ends up undermining its own position. China's rigid attitude toward the South China Sea problem in recent years has given the U.S. a chance to once again enhance its presence in Asia. China does not understand the meaning of international waters.

@igloobuyer

Comparing notes of denials by Japanese politicians of "comfort women" issues, how do you explain the evidence of the Dutch women whose testimony of sexual enslavement in the then Dutch East Indies? To be sure it had been preceded by a long series of denials in Japan government, but the main allegations had been proved in a Dutch court under Western rules of evidence as far back as 1948. That court, which had been convened in what was then the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), had considered allegations that Japanese army officers had forced many Dutch women seized in the Dutch East Indies into sexual slavery. One Japanese military official was executed and many others were sentenced to jail terms. The Dutch went on in 1956 successfully to press the J-government to pay compensation to the women. In 1985 details of the comfort women story were published in an official Dutch government history of the war.

If Korea had agreed back in 1965 for Japan to handle individual compensation, as Japan had first suggested, Japan would have immediately publicized, and given claimants a deadline by which to submit claims with substantiating evidence. Japan would have honored the claim. But based on the treaty, it was up to the South Korean government to set up these measures. the South Korean government did not take sufficient interests in its people such as comfort women who actually suffered from the colonial times, but that was the responsibility of their own government. Japan made reparations in good faith to the Korean government instead of to individuals because that’s the way the Korean government wanted it. The Korean government was supposed to pay the individual reparations. Even if comfort women reparation was included in the 1965 treaty, the Korean government would've kept the money anyway. It was not Japan’s fault that Park Chung-hee used the money for infrastructure instead. Many Koreans for years didn’t even know that Japan paid reparations.

In 1992, Korean Prof. Ahn Byeong-jik of Seoul University talks about Japanese comfort station system. An investigation conducted in South Korea by Professor on 40 survivors resulted in all testimonies not being credible. He also concluded that half of comfort station owners were Korean. The fact that half of comfort stations were run by Koreans maybe surprising to you. The brutality of some segments of the Imperial Japanese military is well known and have been tried at the Tokyo trials. Problem is that surviving Korean comfort women tells different version each time they recount their experiences. The South Koreans started attacking even the good will of former PM Murayama who spent working for the surviving comfort women as a head of AWF. Based on the testimonies that they gave, many are now questioning the stories behind it.

igloobuyerDEC. 18, 2016 - 08:02AM JST Sigh. Did you even bother to search yourself? Jan Ruff-O'Herne was an Australian woman so called 'comfort woman' and she is well known in Australia. http://tinyurl.com/zf8fuzd

Is that the best you can do? She wasn't even born in Australia. Jan O’Herne was a Dutch was born in 1923 at Bandoeng, in central Java. She emigrated to Australia after the war. How many Australians that were born in Australia was taken to comfort station?

gloobuyer DEC. 17, 2016 - 10:17PM JST Just because you didn't know something doesn't mean it isn't true. The information you seek is easily available - if you really wanted to know the answers to these questions you would start searching and reading.

Maybe your confused. Your talking about Dutch women. This case was settled in the 50's. Where is the Australian women? Where did it happen and how many? Send me a link.

igloobuyer DEC. 17, 2016 - 06:11PM JST First, yes, there were indeed Australian women who were used as sex slaves - plenty of eyewitness accounts of that.

Where and how many?

Problem with Obama is that foreign countries do not take him seriously. Look where it is today. Obama's opinion doesn't matter.

igloobuye rDEC. 17, 2016 - 05:37PM JST Australians can put up statues of humanitarian symbols as much as they want. With our without pressure and approval from certain shameless people.

This is a joke. Since you know, how many Australian comfort women were a victim? Maybe zero?

roosterman77DEC. 17, 2016 - 05:08PM JST The Korean comfort women, or all who were raped by the IJA, or the Japanese-Americans who were falsely accused of rape? Sorry, but I'm a bit slow today. When I said "unbelievable" I meant that it was unbelievable that the priest or the Korean community expected that such a monument would have been allowed in a public place.

Do you know anything about the settlement? Japan made an apology and promised millions payment that would provide care for the women. The Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers said each side considered it a “final and irreversible resolution” of the issue. What more do you want?

It would be interesting with major conflict with U.S. Is china really prepared with the consequences of 1.3 billion people of the conflict with U.S. and japan? Do China think it's a 'win win" situation?

roosterman77DEC. 17, 2016 - 04:11PM JST0 sfjp330. Sorry, I'm not sure what you're alluding to.

Your quote: "So, it's from the Australian Korean community and the priest allowed it to be displayed on the grounds of his church... I don't know why I'm surprised; and to think they wanted to display it in a public park and he's upset the council rejected the initial proposal ... unbelievable".

So how many Austrian victim were actually from rape of IJA? Many victim of Japanese-American were guilty without due process? 120,000? Most were born in U.S.

roosterman77DEC. 17, 2016 - 03:54PM JST Can Germans complain about any such monuments?

Why don't you ask about the Russians? Germans are silent? Why?

Another thing to bear in mind, the Chinese only derive 40% of their GDP from consumption (compared to the US deriving 70% of GDP from consumption). In other words, the Chinese have a long way to go before this transformation is as complete as this article would lead on to it being.

It doesn't matter if Australians want the statue. Maybe the native Aborigines want the statue too of the treatment. Last year, South Korea and Japan reached a agreement to resolve their dispute over Korean women who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan’s Imperial Army. The agreement, in which Japan made an apology and promised millions payment that would provide care for the women. The Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers said each side considered it a “final and irreversible resolution” of the issue.

Historically, Japan and China have always been the two strongest rivals in the Asia-Pacific and Russia is hoping to capitalize on that history. As it stands now, what forms an obstacle to these Russian desires is Japan’s position in the U.S.-Japan alliance. Due to current Russian-American tensions over Ukraine and Syria, Russia can only move so far in improving its Japanese relations which in turn would result in less investment risk from the Japanese perspective.

HonestDictator DEC. 11, 2016 - 08:10AM JST What I'm predicting if Trump and his cronies and/or the GOP have their way, Americans will become nothing but wage slaves to a system that only makes more money for those that already have enough money. Where there used to be a choice of "Working to live, or living to work" will just become, "living to work" in the US.

Most believe that wages are set by fundamental laws of supply and demand, that people earn basically what a fair, free market determines they should make. If you look at employment, Republicans do not see three decades of wage decline or stagnation for the vast majority as anything but an unavoidable result of globalization. They do not see the impact of neoliberalism and supply-side economics gorging a few and squeezing the many. Again, they do not see the possibilities and justice of trade policies broadly established and enforced by the world's lone superpower, where U.S. can police the world, but can't regulate its economy. What they do see is things the way they are and the way they basically must and should be.

Strangerland DEC. 10, 2016 - 04:46PM JST So now it's very clear that Obama supports raising the middle wage, as evidence by his comments in the state of the union address, and his support for a Democratic bill in congress to raise the minimum wage.

If that were the only problem, the policy might still make sense as part of a larger poverty-reduction package. But evidence suggests that a minimum wage hike can actually move more people into poverty than it moves out of it. Here’s why: An increase in someone’s hourly wage won’t translate to an increase in their annual take-home pay if they lose hours or employment as a result. That’s exactly what’s happening.

StrangerlandDEC. 10, 2016 - 04:36PM JST I don't know. But either way, I proved your claim that Obama doesn't care about raising the minimum wage wrong.

Huh? The President acknowledged as much in his speech, indicating that Congress should consider Senator Harkin’s bill. If passed, it is estimated that nearly 7 million low-wage earners would be lifted out of poverty, including more than 4 million seniors.

@strangerland

Why didn't Obama support Harkin's proposal?

StrangerlandDEC. 10, 2016 - 04:21PM JST Sorry, what does that have to do with the fact that the Republican congress not raising the minimum wage?

Nothing. Your democratic and Obama didn't care.

Strangerland DEC. 10, 2016 - 03:59PM JST Hah! The Republican congress didn't raise the minimum wage. In fact, Republicans vehemently opposed it,

The biggest question mark is President Obama, who did not publicly endorse Harkin’s proposal, despite heavy lobbying from labor groups. Harkin said he is not certain whether all 55 members of the Democratic caucus would back his proposal, which would also raise the minimum rate in jobs that rely on tips to 70 percent of the standard minimum wage.“There are different views on proceeding to it, as an amendment, as a direct bill, how do you do it,” he said. “That’s what we've got to figure out." Harkin said one of the goals of the meeting is to find out how many fellow Democrats will back the bill. “There are some who may want to add something to it, put something else on it, which other people would not want,” he said. “I think people deserve a clean-cut bill. Raise the minimum wage.”

Strangerland DEC. 10, 2016 - 03:42PM JSTAnd under Obama.

Where have you been? Reality is a struggle for middle and poor class. Obama didn't raise a minimum wage. U.S. has been a country traditionally where consumers drive the economy but now become one where the government is more and more involved in driving the economy and taking the power away from consumers.

turbotsat DEC. 10, 2016 - 03:38PM JST Because when speaking English, "Apple devices overheat" can mean either "All Apple devices overheat" or "some Apple devices overheat".

if any devise overheat, Apple should learn from Samsung Note 7.

Strangerland DEC. 10, 2016 - 03:36PM JST Under Obama.

After Trump was elected in November.

Laguna DEC. 10, 2016 - 03:33PM JST Perhaps - but for what? His new labor secretary pick, chairman of a hamburger stand, is vehemently against raising the minimum wage.

Sock market is at a highest point. Are you fooling these investors?

LagunaDEC. 10, 2016 - 02:59PM JST Watching how jovial Trump middle-class supporters will be as they lose their insurance.

Who said anything about losing insurance? Obama care will eventually be revised under proposed Trump care. This will take few years. Nobody will lose insurance if they keep paying for their premium.

LagunaDEC. 10, 2016 - 02:59PM JSTThe storm is coming, and it will rage fiercely.

Trump is picking the right people.

Strangerland DEC. 10, 2016 - 02:49PM JSTAnd?

Where did Clinton win? Tell us. Few major states? Trump won majority of the states. Midwest and East coast.