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………for 1st and 2nd jabs

I feel sorry for anti vaccine people seeing that 98% of the population are vaccinated.

Fact check before engaging in such transparent virtue signaling. The true rate is otherwise; for 1st and 2nd jabs

your money is only yours if “they” choose to let you have and keep it.

By depositing money in a bank, you relinquish ownership in exchange for an IOU. Legally, the bank now ‘owns’ that money and you are but an unsecured creditor.

If South Korea had abided by Article 3 of the 1965 Treaty and agreed to an arbitration as Japan had requested.

Anyone who argues thus is being completely disingenuous. Righting the terrible wrongs it inflicted over 35 years of occupation was never Japan’s main concern. Rather, it was about taking advantage of (then) Korean weakness to minimize liability. The assiduous effort it put in to vetoing Korean representation at the San Francisco peace treaty negotiations is of a piece with that.

The assumption that scamming and rorting is endemic predisposes the authorities to engage in a cynical trade off. In return for providing welfare that’s totally incommensurate with people’s needs or the nation’s economic capacity, there’s a certain inbuilt tolerance of malfeasance and propensity to turn a blind eye to egregious abuses such as this. Consider the alternative; crack down and prosecute with the full force of the law, then watch as the proverbial chickens come home to roost and they’re forced to contend with the resultant desperation only just being kept at bay.

National holiday yesterday in South Korea to commemorate the Uprising and patriots such as Yu Gwansun who died an atrocious death at Seodaemun Prison at the hands of her captive nation’s imperial overlords. Yukio Hatoyama’s gesture of repentance at the prison showed what’s possible when people of goodwill aren’t prevented from doing what’s right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Gwansun

Still, Puchi Puchi Uranai doesn’t seem to have alienated netizens with their new price, as many of them flocked online to show support.

Ruling elites, who never have to worry personally about the affordability crisis, salivate at the news that the long suffering masses are completely OK with all this ‘healthy’ inflation.

Can anyone explain the punching in the air that is so common among Japanese politicians? Is it like a salute?

Because outstretched fingers and no bending at the elbow is verboten.

So long as reciprocity is not the guiding principle, Japan will continue to freeload on the privileges extended to resident foreigners elsewhere, while denying foreigners resident here the exact same rights. An antediluvian mindset that will not change so long as indulgent foreign governments continue to mollycoddle it and look the other way.

Yasuyuki Higuchi, president and CEO of Panasonic Connect Co…….Higuchi, a former president of Microsoft Japan Co, said companies worldwide are taking compliance and diversity seriously, and that Japanese companies must follow suit or lose out in the competition for global talent.

An epiphany deriving from personal experience perhaps?

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……but where are the accounts of the curious customs of the Ainu or tales of the heroic deeds of the Seii Taishogun in battle with the Emishi?

Your wish is my command.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/133122

itsonlyrocknroll,

I don’t see any other way to parse “ever dull YOUR resentment” than to assume YOUR refers to myself. Semantics aside, I felt you wronged me Brutus in alleging I’m partial to the ‘other side’. Truth be told, I’m simply an interested observer, fervently desirous of a much more amicable relationship between these two great civilizations with so much yet to be fully realized exemplar potential.

The Japan/Korea relationship is by no means irretrievable and I detect in your writings a genuine desire for a true rapprochement based on respect and willingness to listen to one another.

You know, oyatoi, with all the time, patience, and determination in the world no amount of apologies, political or otherwise will ever dull your resentment.

You know almost nothing about me itsonlyrocknroll; so to engage in petulant name calling by calling me resentful only demeans you. Resentful (bitter indignation at being treated unfairly), prefaced with ‘righteous’, far more accurately describes those who suffered the predations of Japan’s rampaging war machine. For far too many people, Japan is a country that has never truly mastered the art of getting on with its neigbours, who seem only to bring out the cranky and cantankerous in it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22519384.amp

itsonlyrocknroll,

Many I suggest then, comparisons of how governments choose to approach contrition, the political reasoning for doing so play a role for their own domestic audiences and ultimately public opinion.

In your rather convoluted explication of bad relations between Japan and it’s neighbours, you leave the reader with no sense whatsoever of you having an awareness of Japan reaping what has been sown. In the eyes of her neighbours, the heinous acts Japan committed on its rampage through Asia have never been forgiven to the same extent as victims of German predations have generally forgiven and moved on. It was foolish of Japan’s diplomacy to expect that reparations to South Korea could be treated in the same rigidly legalistic and formal way nations conduct peace time diplomacy. Shattered by civil war, run by a war time collaborator, any ‘deals’ were bound to unravel, as we’ve seen happen. The genie is now well and truly out of that bottle and nothing will put it back, save Japan embracing the same spirit in its relations with both Koreas as it did with its nemesis the US, to ‘endure the unendurable’. Perpetuate the memory of the war dead by all means, but do it in a more even handed way that tempers pride with humility and contrition.

For the South Korean government and people the harsh realities of occupation in war were horrendous. The scars of such pain and suffering reach through generations, hence the failure to find a route to settle past grievances.

‘Horrendous scars and suffering’ were not limited to South Koreans; indeed no such country or Government existed during the colonial period. As for North Korea; there never was a post war treaty for Japan to claim, as it does vis a vis Seoul, that its high crimes have been expiated.

However the constant stream of demands that the people of Japan, must annually display contrition, decades of remorseful penitence in the hand of politician becomes a tool for little more than diplomatic gestures. Of course these frail pensioner number dwindle as politicians squabble.

Gestures of contrition no sooner voiced than negated by their opposite, denial and blaming the victim. Nor is it "the people of Japan” from whom contrition is expected, but rather from her elected representatives, for whom ‘sorry' seems to be the hardest word.

Really oyatoi,

You want to go there....

Really itsonlyrocknroll,

The irony of enlisting German (Deutsch Welt) for all three of your links is obviously totally lost on you! Must be embarrassing; the far more genuine contrition of your WW2 allies, who don’t indulge in fork tongue dissembling or wallow in self pity or need to worry about inviting an uyoku death sentence for speaking the truth.

Think carefully, how many cheeks will the people of Japan turn before the country finally accepts that there neighbours are welded to a past that maybe threaten Japan very existence?

Japan’s willful amnesia about the past contrasts unfavorably with Germany’s far more unambiguous contrition. Japan’s neighbors’ hostility too is in stark contrast to the respect accorded Germany by its erstwhile foes. Japan take a hint; more introspection and less doubling down on the fear and loathing.

In fact the judgement is proof that the "comfort women" issue has always been about lining the pockets of a few greedy people.

Makes about as much sense as saying the entire Jiminto apparatus is one enormous grift. On second thoughts……

With a Sinic derived population there now approaching 2 million, the loss of camera privileges can easily be compensated for by China calling in favors. Australia would be well advised to keep this in mind.

If the proposed revisions are enacted, the person listed as the family head in a koseki must notify local government agencies of the kanji readings of their surname and all first names of family members within one year. If they fail to comply, standard name readings may be assigned instead. 

Can’t wait for them to move on to place names once they’re done with people’s.

The only way a plane can finish gangs is by bombing them.

’them’=a goodly slice of America’s future technological brain’s trust, as wishfully imagined by Hollywood in its relentless dedication to distorting reality.

That ‘excess’ ¥64 trillion has further skewed an already egregious wealth imbalance. Clobbered by inflation and seeing their life chances circumscribed in all sorts of ways, there’s a growing anger and resentment among the burgeoning number of those with barely two sticks to rub together. As impoverishment grows, blowback will happen.

Arai said he wouldn't want to live next to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender couples and warned that people would flee Japan if same-sex marriage was permitted. He added he did not even want to look at same-sex couples.

"His comments are outrageous and completely incompatible with the administration's policies," Kishida said.

Arai's comments had come after Kishida had said in parliament that same-sex marriage needed careful consideration because of its potential impact on the family structure.

You can’t make this stuff up!

Things have most certainly taken a turn for the worse here. Whereas once it was every other week, we’re now hearing stories of wanton cruelty and base stupidity on a daily, nay multiple times daily basis. Right now, someone, somewhere, is up to no good; doing their level best to remove any remaining doubts.

Wonder what happens to the rental. Fumigation, then back into the lot. Or, is the first up renter entitled to a discount?

https://tokyocheapo.com/living/jiko-bukken-cheapest-apartments-in-tokyo/

 "express lane" conveyor belt for pre-ordered dishes which doesn't allow anyone but the diner to get their grubby hands on it.

On the same principle as safety barriers on station platforms; have a system where the only gate open is the one adjacent to the table that ordered the item. Or, switch to the high speed delivery belt system already employed at some chains.

How can these morons be unaware of the ceiling cameras that are already widely in use in stores? Life bans (across all sushi chains) if caught are another expedient that should be considered.

Baby, please don't (let) go; Baby, please don't (let) go; Baby, please don't (let) go; You know I love you so

This gang of miscreants and its industrial scale ore ore sagi operation was supposed to have been shut down four years ago. So why are their predations continuing and they’ve become the Untouchables? Endemic corruption at the Philippine end and the J plods myopic inability to connect the dots mean this is a job for Interpol. On the same principle as those wanted posters seen here of sundry chinpira and on the lam Red Army Faction members, pictures of these low lifes need to be prominently displayed at airport terminals throughout the region. Their names and country of origin in big, bold lettering.

This gang of miscreants and its industrial scale ore ore sagi operation was supposed to have been shut down four years ago. So why are their predations continuing and they’ve become the Untouchables? Endemic corruption at the Philippine end and the J plods myopic inability to connect the dots mean this is a job for Interpol. On the same principle as those wanted posters seen here of sundry chinpira and on the lam Red Army Faction members, pictures of these low lifes need to be prominently displayed at airport terminals throughout the region. Their names and country of origin in big, bold lettering.

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