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Posted in: Japan society on transgender issues to drop 'disorder' from name See in context

2 years ago, it seemed like transgender identity was the most pressing issue on the planet, pushed hard by a militant and extreme minority in the West, so this; 'expressed hope that the name change would help increase public awareness of transgender people', certainly isn't an issue there. The pronoun thing remains one of the biggest loads of social nonsense and hysteria I have ever witnessed.

But Japan and other countries in Asia do things at their own pace, according to their own values and social perspectives, and I respect this about them - I admire the fact that they don't bend to the extreme agitation and hype of the social media generation from the West, and chart their own course according to their own cultural norms.

See, the 'D' in DEIJ is about respecting a diversity of views and perspectives on all issues, and you can't be liberal and tolerant if you don't allow others to think differently to you. So if Japan, and other Asian countries need to work through these kinds of definitions at their own pace, I have no issue with it whatsoever.

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Posted in: Ship with Gaza aid preparing to inaugurate sea route from Cyprus to war-ravaged strip See in context

zibala

The frustration is aimed at Hamas, its supporters, and UNWRA, because there is no blockade by Israel on any humanitarian aid.

At the same time, Israel is supplying food, medicine and other necessities to people in Gaza.

What is Hamas providing to those people?

A lot of people have been very slow on the uptake over a number of decades over just how badly the Israelis have treated the Palestinians, and much they have been oppressed, marginalized and blamed for their own predicament.

But now, the cat is out of the bag, the Genie is out of the bottle and no amount of pro-Israeli propaganda posted by you, or others, can hide that any more. The world can finally see the situation for what it is. Israel are killing with reckless and wholesale abandon, and whether you bomb people in homes or hospitals, or shoot people trying to get to food trucks, or starve them to death, the result is all the same.

This is Israel's great crime, Israel's great shame. A murderous rogue state.

The world can see.

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Posted in: Trump backs Israel's war in Gaza See in context

Dumb.

Is the US really going to go there again???

Dumb too.

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Posted in: City in Saitama Prefecture to require multilingual trash rules posted for foreigners See in context

anonymouse

Ah, that old conservative well-worn meme.

Studies show diverse teams outperform in areas like creativity, problem-solving, and decision-making. Exposure to different backgrounds fosters new ideas and perspectives.

You've never spent any significant stretch of time in Japan, have you.

The Japanese don't want diversity, they ARE deeply conservative and prefer things the way they are as a monocultural country. That's just the reality, and more power to them.

No amount of you pushing a diversity agenda is going to change that one little bit.

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Posted in: Netanyahu rival’s visit to U.S. highlights cracks within Israel’s wartime leadership See in context

The US are 100% complicit in enabling, aiding and arming the Israeli monster and are now having to deal with increasing international pressure to stop, whilst figuring out how to wriggle their way out of looking like this genocide that they have backed to the hilt, is actually very much their doing.

The thing is, lots have people have known this for a long time, but this conflict has actually highlighted it in very, very stark view for a large range of people who, for whatever reason, couldn't see it before.

It's rather ironic to see the US dropping relief packages on Gaza, whilst Israel drops US made and supplied munitions simultaneously.

The Palestinians need to be protected from both the US and Israel, as neither have proven capable of looking after their best interests whatsoever.

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Posted in: Japanese teacher beats up student for making fun of his body by calling him anime character name See in context

Reading between the lines on this one, the teacher had probably been enduring the insults for some time, and maybe often. If he followed a professional line of action, he would have raised this with line managers but a lack of action meant that the kid was able to tease him with impunity.

In the end, he reached his limit and taught the kid an old school lesson. People my grandfather's age would have approved.

What I find interesting here is that, by Japanese standards, this isn't seen as a heinous crime either, unlike many Western posters here on JT. Japan has retained a little of the old school, as has other Asian countries. Horses for courses. I always het a kick our of watching the judgy, cultural Imperialist Westerners stamp up and down in outrage here on JT.

What worries me more in this article is the groomer taking one of his girls for a private ride and petting session, though...

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Posted in: Biden approves military air drops of aid into Gaza after chaotic encounter left more than 100 dead See in context

CapuchinToday  08:15 am JST

There's a horrifying, twisted duplicity to America simultaneously funding the dropping of bombs and dropping of aid on the same people. Then calling for a cessation to violence and vetoing all international ceasefire proposals.

100% spot on. This is the long and short of it.

Exactly. Hamas started this, not Israel. When you have a terrorist inside your country, it is irresponsible NOT to deal with them completely until they have no desire or ability to fight any longer.

This is the one sided, myopic view of those that con not see the context and history of the whole story.

You should take a trip to Israel, it's rather revealing.

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Posted in: Biden approves military air drops of aid into Gaza after chaotic encounter left more than 100 dead See in context

This is story simply incredible.

In a nutshell. Israel have razed Gaza, killed over 30,000 people, hearded them into the south and have effectively cut off food, medicine and water so that the population is now starving.

BUT, as details start to emerge from this latest atrocity, it's even damning that first thought for Israel.

It appears that the military have tailed the convoy, then as the starving people desperate for food have rushed to the trucks, the Israeli military have shot them. I would urge people to look at the current BBC headlines into the incident, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68445973

A couple of quick grabs:

"Israelis purposefully fired at the men... they were trying to get near the trucks that had the flour," he said. "They were fired at directly and prevented people to come near those killed."

Dr Mohamed Salha, interim hospital manager at al-Awda hospital, where many of the dead and injured were taken, told the BBC: "Al-Awda hospital received around 176 injured people...142 of these cases are bullet injuries and the rest are from the stampede and broken limbs in the upper and lower body parts."

The Israeli account of the incident?

At 13:06 local time on Thursday, an IDF statement posted on Telegram stated: "Early this morning, during the entry of humanitarian aid trucks into the northern Gaza Strip, Gazan residents surrounded the trucks, and looted the supplies being delivered.

"During the incident, dozens of Gazans were injured as a result of pushing and trampling."

He said the tank commander decided to retreat to avoid harming civilians and "they were backing up securely, not shooting at the mob".

He said the IDF had opened fire in a separate incident not related to the lorries, but did not provide further evidence.

Mr Regev added: "In the incident of the truck being swarmed there was gunfire, that was Palestinian armed groups. We don't know if it was Hamas or others."

So the Israelis are involved in wholesale murder again, and are openly lying about what they have done.

The levels of horror and dishonesty here by Israel ranks up there with the very worst examples of human atrocities in history now. This is just evil, callous killing with not a shred of conscience or remorse. They are just lying to the world.

Israel is a monster.

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Posted in: The Japanese look at the West and see that mass immigration is hardly helping ailing economies like Britain, France, and Germany. Japan's national cohesion also makes for a very liveable and safe country, unlike Germany or the UK. See in context

Japan has the right to say no to mass immigration, and other people simply don't have the right to tell them they are wrong to do so. It's their country, they have the right to decide what is best for them. If the Japanese prefer a much smaller sized population that retains the same monocultural complexion of today, I'm 100% fine with that. In fact, I admire them for that. Partly because that's one of the things I personally like about Japan, but partly because they don't wilt to international pressure on the matter.

Good on 'em.

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Posted in: Israel's defense chief says military 'thoroughly planning' offensive in crowded Gaza border town See in context

at the very least organise some form of evacuation.

This looks to be an attempt by Israel to force the Palestinian refugees across the border into Egypt, and out of Israel altogether. Once they do this, they will not let them back in, it's almost a guarantee.

At some point in the future, I bet it is revealed that this is actually Israel's ultimate current objective, even if it is secret right now. They are razing Gaza, systematically destroying it from North to South so that it is effectively uninhabitable, hearding the people into a corner, then attacking them so as to send them out to safety to the South and into exile. Israel will then lock the gate behind them.

Modern day Barbarians.

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Posted in: Israel's defense chief says military 'thoroughly planning' offensive in crowded Gaza border town See in context

Any civilian casualties, which are expected and accepted in a war, are the responsibility of Hamas and its supporters. Israel, though, has done an incredible job of minimizing civilian casualties to a degree never seen before in a war like this

This is abject propaganda nonsense. Israel is choosing to slaughter tens of thousands of civilians, including a huge number of children and women in a red mist of hatred and revenge killing. It's murder, genocide.

Israel is a terror state, and has full responsibility for their actions.

Here's hoping a Palestinian State is the result.

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Posted in: Israel's defense chief says military 'thoroughly planning' offensive in crowded Gaza border town See in context

He said that if other countries unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state, it would give a “reward to terrorism.”

The irony and hypocrisy here is truly something to behold - surely Netanhayu must has great difficulty preventing himself from choking as these words as they exit his mouth.

Israel are clearly the terror state here - and have been for a long time. All this war has done is draw back the curtain on the truth for those that have been blind to it for so long. There's no longer any doubt anymore.

What army in the world rounds up a couple of million people into a tiny space and then plans to attack them? Talk about terror.

A Palestinian State is the only solution to protect the Palestinians from Israel.

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Posted in: Woman, boyfriend arrested after her 5-year-old daughter dies from hypothermia See in context

Yeaaaah, you have agencies that are supposed to protect children from abusive adults. Sounds like they received fair warning from people in the know that the kids were being abused, and didn't investigate properly, so this is really on them. I'm guessing that's probably not the first time that little girl had to stand in a cold shower in freezing cold Aomori, either.

Being tortured to death by your parents is a terrible way for a child to die.

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Posted in: Kim's powerful sister says N Korea, Japan can open 'new future' See in context

Japan are neither stupid nor diplomatically naive when it comes to North Korea, so the hand wringers can settle down here.

If she is open to talks with Japan, then it's most certainly in the region's best interests to do that. There's no harm in a few handshakes, a meal or two and a couple of annyeonghaseyos in the very least.

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Posted in: High school girl killed, likely after being dragged 5 km by car See in context

How in the Earth's Blue Sky do you NOT notice a body being dragged under your car????

And HOW DO OTHER DRIVERS NOT SEE IT UNDER YOUR CAR EITHER??!!

This just does not sound even remotely feasible.

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Posted in: Israel unveils tunnels underneath Gaza City headquarters of U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees See in context

So the Israeli army are now occupying the UNRWA Gaza? Whilst the grind Palestinians into the pavement and block supplies to feed the starving? There's my main takeaway from this article.

All class, Israel.

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Posted in: Japan's current account surplus doubles to ¥20.63 tril in 2023 See in context

Japan just doesn't feel like a country that is doing well.

Funny, because where I live in Setagaya, the place is positively dripping with money....

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Posted in: Ukraine-born Miss Japan relinquishes crown after reported affair See in context

Funny. I would have thought having an extramarital affair makes her quintessentially Japanese....

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Posted in: Japan Inc opens door to more women directors, but managers remain rare See in context

I currently have a bit to do with super smart, highly educated, multilingual Japanese, Korean, Chinese women who are native level English speakers because they come through the International schooling system in Tokyo. I was completely shocked when I first met them - they are contemporary thinkers, global minded, sound like they've grown up in the US, some of the most impressive people I've come across anywhere in the world. My first thought on meeting them was 'My god! Why aren't these people running this country???'

'Course, the answer is Japan Inc. Almost all of them study abroad if they can, and exactly none of them have any desire to work in Japan, especially not within the rigid boys club of the corporate world. And why would they? There is literally nothing for them in that world whatsoever, and they know it, despite their considerable talents. In fact their talents I venture to suggest, are simply too substantial for Japan Inc to know what to do with. Heaven forbid they be more capable than the boys. Heaven forbid Japan promoted talent over gender. Heaven forbid they lead corporate Japan into a more contemporary world.

The boys don't want that, and its silly stuff.

These women in these positions would be tough, hard nosed fighters who have put up with a stack of nonsense to get where they are, so my hat goes off to them. But there is a whole pool of talent that have much better options that simply aren't interested in wasting their time with it.

And Japan is the poorer for it.

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Posted in: U.S. reprisals against Iran-linked groups anger Iraq, Syria See in context

It's also far from Iranian and Russian territory.

Distance from Jordan to the US: around 11,000 km. Distance from Jordan border to Iran border, around 650km.

So the US and others can be attacked with impunity and they must sit there and do nothing?

Tower 22 was a secret US base in Jordan, until recently. What's the US doing with secret bases dotted throughout the Middle East? Talk about meddling in regions. Wow. Does Iran have any secret bases in Canada? Or Mexico maybe?

Wealth buys power. I'm sorry our wealth and size offends you.

Wealth doesn't offend me at all, it's the misuse for hegemonic and nefarious purposes that greatly offends people, because it becomes a misuse of power - and then a tyrannical regime. If you study your history, you will see that all tyrannical powers fall. The US will too. As a global citizen, I have every right to call the US out on it's hypocrisy though and I'm pleased that offends you.

We had to fight two world wars because that innocent belief that we didn't need the other continents didn't really hold up to reality.

That's pretty funny, if you actually believe that. WWI taught the US that arming warring states made it fabulously wealthy. A lesson it has leveraged to its fullest capacity ever since.

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Posted in: U.S. reprisals against Iran-linked groups anger Iraq, Syria See in context

If you can't beat us, join us.

Why would we?

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Posted in: U.S. reprisals against Iran-linked groups anger Iraq, Syria See in context

How this isn't bigger news is dumbfounding to me. The hypocrisy of this is simply staggering and at this point the US seems free to do whatever it wants with impunity, and the majority of the World just sits quietly on thweir hands and says nothing.

Firstly, this is a LONG way from US sovereign territory. A LOOOONG way. On one hand they have diplomats traversing the region effectively warning surrounding states not to get involved in escalating the conflict, whilst on the other, they arm Israel and back them to the hilt in their genocide of Palestine and militarily strike all over the region to subdue the growing dissent that comes from both their, and Israel's actions.

The US narrative is that Iran are the dark masters, the evil empire in the region, but zoom out a little here and the story looks completely different. This is Star Wars stuff, and Iran ain't the Empire here. It's pretty clear who is though.

We are well and truly in the age of the US Empire. What was once a country that was founded on non-interventionist ideas has become the monster in 100 years or so. Bristling with weapons, aggression and hegemony. Acting with arrogance and impunity, whilst subjugating all others that oppose it.

最低.

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Posted in: Hamas says it's studying Gaza cease-fire proposal, but appears to rule out key provisions See in context

Of course. If enemy combatants from a territory that elected a governing body that openly calls for the destruction of my country and aligns with groups who openly call for the death of my people just parachuted in and started massacring innocent civilians I’d be opposed to giving them a state as well.

Ignoring my point. Strawman.

Why do you “bet realistically they would take it” when there is literally 0 polling evidence to suggest so? Are you just using your imagination to justify your position?

Why? Use your common sense. The current alternative is they exist under Israeli control with no Statehood whatsoever. That's the other real choice - not some pie-in-the-sky alternative. Go and conduct a poll with these 2 choices, and let us know what numbers you get.

Palestinians had every opportunity to have their own state in 2000 at Camp David and they walked away from the table.

Go and do some homework on Camp David 2000 and deep dive into why they rejected the negotiations. You'll find it enlightening.

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Posted in: Hamas says it's studying Gaza cease-fire proposal, but appears to rule out key provisions See in context

JboneInTheZone

I'm not your bro.

Hamas and the Palestinian people don’t want a two state solution. They believe the entirety of Israel belongs to them

So, no different from the Israelis on that score then.

Having lived in that region for eternity though, you can understand their position, if not agree with it. Particularly in light of the fact that the people parachuted in to form the new state are turning out to be genocidal madmen. If I were polled under those circumstances, I'd probably respond similarly.

Given that they clearly aren't going to ever remove the Israelis now though, I bet realistically they would take a 2 state solution, were it offered to them, every day of the week.

Given Israel seems to be trying to either exterminate, or drive them out of Gaza completely, 2 states is not going to occur without the International community, and particularly the US, doing a full 180 degree switch on their current stance and most likely sending in the blue helmets.

How else do you deal with the mad dog that has broken the chain?

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Posted in: Hamas says it's studying Gaza cease-fire proposal, but appears to rule out key provisions See in context

The United Nations said Rafah is becoming a “pressure cooker of despair."

Yeah, because not only are the many member states of the United Nations not actively opposing one of the worst human catastrophes for 70 years or so, they are actually complicit in supporting it. It's absolutely appalling.

Right from the start, there was a distressingly small minority of voices that were critical of Israel on their actions. It's slowly grown as the horrors of what they are actually doing in Gaza have increasingly been laid bare, but it's still way too slow.

I'm going to just come out and say this: Israel has been given a Hall Pass for violence, oppression and land stealing because of their own traumatic history for far too long. Countries are too afraid to criticise and intervene for fear of being called 'Semitic', which is just a shrill card the hysterics play in their defence. This has absolutely nothing to do with Anti-Semitism. Nothing.

Imagine in the roles here were exactly reversed - the world would roll in the armed forces en-masse to protect Israel from the Palestinians, so why don't we do the same in this situation??? Its global hypocrisy and double standards on an epic scale.

Hamas are right to demand a total cease fire. They should also be demanding a 2 state solution and the world should be backing them on it.

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Posted in: Israeli forces dressed as women and medics kill 3 militants in West Bank hospital See in context

This occurred in Jordan???

Oh wait, that's right. Israel stole that land from Jordan ages ago.

Crimes on top of other crimes.

All class, Israel, eh?

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Posted in: Australia's resources minister seeks investment from S Korea, Japan See in context

geronimi2006

Help! I need some money. Help! Not just any money (Chinese). Help! You know I need some Won. Heeelp!

Geography is a challenging concept for some, I know, but Japan and China aren't actually all the same country mate. They even use different currency - one is called the 'Won', the other has the 'Yen'. The Australian minister isn't visiting China. If you take a careful look at a map, you'll see what I'm getting at.

Australia is courting SK and Japan because it is currently trying to diversify investment away from China, which has heavily invested in Australian mining over the last 20 years. This is strategic, and involves broader partnerships with countries like the US.

Western Australia, where this pic is from, is flush with money. It currently has a budget surplus of around 4 Billion dollars.

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Posted in: Aso's comments about Kamikawa expose Japan's ongoing sexism impasse See in context

Someone switch his mic off and quietly lead him away from the lectern.

People like this shouldn't be public representatives in any country, let alone here.

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Posted in: Top U.N. court orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza but stops short of ordering cease-fire See in context

Good decision, the right decision made by the right people.

Israel's arrogance means that they will complain and reject the decision of course, but this is the world officially putting them on notice, as it should, as it needs to.

Too late of course, for the 25,000 people they have decided to slaughter as retribution on their blood crazed revenge killing spree.

Palestinians need to be fully protected and insulated from Israel by a 2 State solution. It's the only fair, logical and safe solution for all.

These last couple of months have fully illustrated that fact to the world, and it's irresponsible to ignore it.

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