Like in that other great bastion of human rights
The United States of America
You will be fingerprinted and photographed like a common criminal upon your arrival.
Today it's 2 fingers,
soon it will be all 10 fingers!
See: http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/427187
Welcome to Japan!
And if you refuse, you'll be strip-searched while being videotaped,
body-cavity searched and then forcibly fingerprinted!
(And so will your Japanese spouse if s/he protests!)
(Even the hyper-secured 
doesn't fingerprint visitors/residents!)
Japanese nationals are only fingerprinted when charged with a criminal offence.t B
Your crime is being a foreigner!
Welcome to the land of Government sponsored xenophobia!
And that's just the beginning!
You see, ONLY FOREIGNERS commit crimes
in Japan.
Only FOREIGNERS are terrorists!
But look closely! ALL of the faces on the "Wanted" posters at the police station are JAPANESE! And if you're assaulted or killed by a Japanese, the Police will do
to help you! You're a foreigner. You count for nothing in Japan!
http://no.tokyo2016.googlepages.com/home
*****J A P A N*****
The only G8 country where discrimination is legal, and
racism is a Government sponsored program!
And for those people who are screaming "This is a hate site" in spite of the links to Nan-King and the comfort women above, just check out the friends of the thug the denizens have elected as Governor of Tokyo, not once, not twice, but three times! What were you thinking?
Are you thinking? To the world it would appear not!
Meet Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara.
He's the President of the Tokyo Olympic Committee for 2016.
He wants the prestige and the profit from holding the games in Tokyo. But he HATES non-Japanese people with a passion! He's on record as calling foreigners "dirty dogs, who'll only kill and steal from us Japanese if there's an earthquake or some other natural disaster." Hardly in keeping with the Olympic spirit, is it?
Let's meet his personal friends!
These are his extreme right wing neo-Nazi supporters longing for a return to the glorious days of the Japanese Imperial Army. You know, the one which invaded, raped, pillaged and enslaved its way across Asia. The same ones who, to this day, say "We did nothing wrong!"
These are the people who are asking for the Olympics to be held in Tokyo!
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I'm exceeding my available space....so
I'm continuing to update at
http://no.tokyo2016.googlepages.com/home
See you there!
Update March 26th 2008
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Japan gets weirder by the day...
Geek-hunting turning Akihabara into dangerous place http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/geek-hunting-turning-akihabara-into-dangerous-place
Poll: 73% oppose bailout of bank
03/26/2008
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN 61 percent of Tokyoites said they want the brainchild of Ishihara to be liquidated. (Or is that, "Ishihara to be liquidated to pay for this?")
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200803260102.html
Serial rapist Obara's appeal starts http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080326a4.html
Joji Obara's appeals trial started Tuesday before the Tokyo High Court with his defense team arguing that the life sentence he received for serial rape and for causing the death of one of his victims is too harsh. (Too harsh! Is that because he's Japanese and his victim was English?)
Prosecutors, who are also appealing, meanwhile want
this time around to ensure Obara is convicted of murdering British bar
hostess Lucie Blackman, whose dismembered corpse was found buried in a
seaside cave steps away from one of the condos owned by the defendant,
who was also her client
Update March 25th 2008
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The "kenpetai" or "Thought Police" have
been reactivated in Japan. http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200803250090.html
Lindsay A. Hawker's father appeals for help in apprehending his daughter's Japanese murderer in Tokyo March 24th. Although he fled barefoot, the Japanese Keystone Cops haven't a clue where he is.....one year later! No marching in the streets, though. She's a foreigner. Japanese don't care.
Update March 24th 2008
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Japanese are taught to repress their emotions, and not to express their feelings. It's a way of keeping everyone controlled, and preserving the calm face of public life. The problem is that they seethe inside, and sooner or later, it all comes out. One of the most common manifestations is rage expressed in a crowd. Multiple slashings like this are a symptom of Japan's social repression, and now happen almost on a daily basis.
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/431920.
Murder suspect attacks 8 people in Ibaraki mall, killing one
Attending police officers did not have radios!
If this is how they treat each other, just imagine what could happen to innocent athletes, coaches and managers if they had an Olympics.
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An appeal from a buddy of mine in Japan who's getting the runaround from these guys.
It might be better not to buy one of their cars, as they don't really seem to care once you're off their showroom floor. Warn your friends.
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Update March 21st 2008
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"I'm fine thank you. And you"
Suddenly, faced with the reality of having to prove they DID something at school, university and juku for 18 years, Japanese executives heading to English fear .....an English test! Hah!
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/431717
Japanese community concerned about Britain's plans for English tests
How'dju like THEM apples, gov?
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And who IS this dead guy that they keep
trotting out at strategic moments?
Go way down to the bottom of this site and you'll find all the links you need to be convinved that OBL is long since dead. So, in whose interest is it that YOU think he's alive? FOX News, that great bastion of truth has already admitted he's dead. So have Egyptian, Afghani and Pakistani authorities. So WHO do they keep resurrecting as OBL and why?
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Update March 19th 2008
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Premier Wen of the People's Republic of China just accused this man...
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
of inciting civil unrest in Tibet! What rubbish! Free Tibet! 
Human Rights NOW! Or lose the Beijing Olympics 2008!
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Ishihara's at it again!
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080318TDY02305.htm
He should resign immediately for fraud,
waste and abuse of taxpayers' money.
N O W! Today
Shinginko did Ishihara's bidding / Financially troubled bank bought art from
group tied to Tokyo governor
At the suggestion of Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, debt-ridden bank Shinginko Tokyo bought artworks in autumn 2005 from a cultural group that was the subject of nepotism charges a year later, when the group's adviser, Ishihara's fourth son, was accused of going on junkets at the Tokyo taxpayers' expense, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Sunday.
The Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo-based bank, which is saddled with huge accumulated losses due to soured loans, bought three pictures for a total of 516,000 yen from Tokyo Wonder Site (TWS), a group established by the Tokyo metropolitan government to support young artists and promote cultural activities, according to sources.
The director of TWS, which has three art centers in Tokyo, is a friend of Ishihara's fourth son, and Shinginko's purchase of the pictures from it was the only time the bank bought artworks. Around the time the bank purchased the pictures, it started to incur bad loans. The purchase, therefore, likely will prompt questions over the relationship between the bank and the governor.
According to sources at the metropolitan government and the bank, Ishihara visited the bank in March 2005, just before it started business, and told bank officials that the bank should buy pictures from TWS, saying: "The bank looks bare. How about buying pictures by artists exhibiting their works for the TWS project?"
Following the suggestion, the bank set up a picture selection committee comprising its officials in charge of sales and marketing, fund-raising and other tasks to discuss the suggestion. In November 2005, the bank chose three pictures by two artists from among five pictures by four young artists submitted by TWS, according to the sources.
By that time, the bank had started to rack up uncollectible loans, with defaults by debtors including companies that received loans without collateral amounting to 2.4 billion yen for the period between October 2005 and March 2006.
Though the pictures in question were displayed in a guest room of the bank's central branch and at other branches in turn for a period of six months each time, they have been kept in a storeroom at the bank's headquarters since September 2007.
Yusaku Imamura, a director of TWS and the de facto head of the group, is a friend of Ishihara's fourth son and also serves as a consultant on special issues to the Tokyo governor, as an outside expert of the metropolitan government. In November 2006, it was learned that the son, an artist, had traveled to France and Germany at the metropolitan government's expense as an adviser for TWS, prompting criticism during last year's Tokyo gubernatorial election campaign that Ishihara mixes private and public business.
Shinginko Tokyo, established by the metropolitan government as Ishihara's brainchild, had incurred accumulated losses of 93.6 billion yen by the end of September as a result of its chalking up a huge amount of uncollectible loans and other reasons.
The metropolitan government, therefore, submitted a budget that includes a plan to inject 40 billion yen of fresh capital into the bank to help its management.
While the metropolitan government claims the former management should be held responsible for the bank's financial difficulties as the large quantity of bad loans resulted from lax screening of borrowers, observers point out that the government's original plan for the bank was unrealistic and led its operational costs to balloon.
When the bank was opened, Ishihara proudly called it "my bank." Recently, however, Ishihara has been saying at the metropolitan assembly and other places that the metropolitan government is "just an equity holder in the bank," and that it is "totally wrong" for people to say he played a central role in establishing the bank
"The governor just advised the bank to buy pictures to give more opportunities to young artists supported by TWS. Both projects were promoted by the metropolitan government, so if the pictures' prices go up, it'll also benefit the bank," an Ishihara aide said.
Meanwhile, Takashi Yamaguchi, professor emeritus at Meiji University, said it seemed the bank felt it could not turn down the request from Ishihara.
"It's a serious problem that the bank bought the pictures when it started to incur bad loans. I don't feel any sense of responsibility from them that they were operating the bank by keeping and using a large amount of taxes," Yamaguchi said. "It's unavoidable for Ishihara to be accused of mixing up private and public matters."
Update March 17th 2008
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Japan's Unspeakable Arrogance!
Meet Astronaut Doi, from Japan
Without in any way detracting from his singular accomplishments, nor his professionalism, I am reporting a terrible disservice to his reputation by none other than the LDP mouthpiece, NHK Japan. I just received a phone call Sunday pm my time, Monday 0815h Japan time from an irate friend in Tokyo. NHK's 0800h BS1 Channel News started their broadcast news with the phrase
"Doi-tachi wa..."
"Mr. Doi's team, on the space shuttle Endeavor docked with the ISS..."
Correction NHK: Doi is a single addition
to
the US crew on the International Space
Station. The US crew and the 9 or
10 others are most definitely
NOT members of
"Doi's team!"
Doi is just one member of the
"International Team."
What unspeakable arrogance!
Japan has WAY bigger problems...
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Update 15 March 2008
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Even Foreign Exchange woes are caused
by foreigners!
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/431024
So primitive is Japan's economy, what has been termed a pre-industrial mindset in a post industrial world, that the sole solution to the perceived problems is to seek "its own economic recovery through exports," In other words, foist your problems elsewhere and refuse to change with the times.
The US dollar's R E A L value?
About 36円!
Just wait until THAT hits the fan!
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Update 14 March 2008
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The "Self Defence Forces" can't defend an
ATM!
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430927
Y20 million stolen from ATM, safe on Self-Defense Force base in Shizuoka
Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 10:18 EST
SHIZUOKA — Military police at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) base in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, said Thursday that 20 million yen was stolen from an ATM in a communal area and a safe in an office sometime on Wednesday night........!
And these are the folks charged with the security of the nation! Quick! Blame the FOREIGNERS for this!
Who needs terrorists?
Japan has incompetents! (With G U N S!)
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I'm reluctant to put the words "justice" and the "USA" in the same sentence, given their slaughter of the innocents in Iraq, and in Gaza by proxy. Today the Governor of New York is being forced to quit because of an alleged indiscretion, (a Class B misdemeanor with a $50 fine,) yet even though George W. Bush has been proved to be a lying warmonger, and a war criminal, he stays in office?
The State Dept issued this report yesterday, and it nails Japan good for its flawed justice system:
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430834
U.S. gov't report criticizes Japan's criminal court system
(Definitely worth a read.This too.)
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Japan’s Skewed Olympic News Reporting
Headlines screaming phrases like: "Suzuki Comes in fifth," "Miyazato falls to 10th place," &
"Takahashi makes last place" regularly grace newspapers in Japan. Similar reports abound on TV and radio reports. Web pages for all major Japanese news outlets are no different. No mention of who came in First, Second or Third in any of the above events.
Why? Because they’re foreigners, so they don’t count. And it doesn’t matter to Japanese.
My first Olympics viewed on Japanese TV was Albertville in 1992. From winter games to summer games, from FIFA World Cup the ONLY athletes or teams reported on were Japanese. And when these stars lose to foreigners what do they do? They lie on the field and cry like babies. Mollycoddled spoilsports all. Their unequivocal sense of entitlement is arrogant beyond comprehension. Sportsmanship is dead in Japan. The standard of reporting is equally as appalling. Government sponsored ethno-centrism in the extreme. An Olympics in Tokyo would be no different. We’d only hear news about Japanese athletes in the Japanese media, if foreigners won, they'd be voiced over in Japanese, so nobody could hear what they actually said, only what the LDP wants heard.
To hell with the foreigners. Take their money and send them home after two weeks.
After all, we are J A P A N E S E!
The lack of professionalism or sportsmanship by Japanese athletes and players is typified by this photo of Hidetoshi Nakata who sat out on the field crying and sulking after the game in which Japan was eliminated from the FIFA World Cup. Expect the same in Beijing, Vancouver and 2016! So much for the stoicism of the samurai spirit!
Japan is currently reporting about the ONLY astronaut in space right now! That's right! He's JAPANESE!
Nobody else up there! Isn't Japan wonderful!
Update 13 March 2008
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Morality & Ethics Japan Style:
Rule 1: Do whatever you want.
Rule 2: Don't get caught.
End of lesson.
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Japan's Food Mis-Labelling Scandal
goes all the way to
First Class
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430771
You know, the high-and-mighty, holier than thou LDP politicians like Aso and Koike who have used the recent tainted dumplings from China as a soap box on which to spout their racism are totally selective in their criticism. Japan's food production is downright unsafe. Old and best-before dated food has been continually re-labelled to show that it is safe, while it had expired. The industry is replete with Meat Hope Inc., Fujiya Inc., other beef producers which mixed pork, chicken producers who used sick birds, and some which even tried to slaughter H5N1 infected birds and put them into the food chain. ALL of this skulduggery was
Made in Japan
Food Made in Japan is questionable at best, and probably poisoned at worst.
15 million expired food items sold on JR shinkansen bullet trains
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 09:16 EST
TOKYO — A catering subsidiary of Central Japan Railway Co said Tuesday that it sold an estimated 15 million food items with expired dates for safe consumption on shinkansen bullet and other trains.
JR-Central Passenger Co has received no complaints of health problems stemming from the expired box lunches, sandwiches and other food items but company President Takeshi Tategami apologized for "undermining public trust," saying the false labeling "became habitual due to familiarization of the process." The company sold expired items accounted for 30 percent of what were sold between April 2005, when the company shortened its period for safe consumption of the products, and February this year, when the false labeling came to light, it said.
Don't believe ANYTHING written on a food label in Japan! Nothing! Once or twice is an omission. 15,000,000 is a PLAN!
JR Broke Rule 2 Above: They got caught!
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Update 12 March 2008
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Shintaro-Ginko Tokyo,
Ishihara's pet project, is
bankrupt!
Just I M A G I N E how he'd
mismanage an Olympic Games!?
Let's join the dots, shall we?
Firstly, we have a failed bank....
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430623
...then we have the failed Governor of a bankrupt city, Tokyo.
This failed Governor is an avid supporter of a failed Empire.
So, it's a fair bet that a Tokyo Olympics would fail too!
Ishihara has what's called a "Proven Track Record" in failure!
The choice is simple.
Anywhere But Tokyo!
Update 11 March 2008
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Japan; A Has-Been Nation Fast Fading to
Economic Oblivion.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20080310ve.html
Although the word "subprime" may have been understood only by a few industry insiders a few months ago, it is certainly entering the global lexicon with some force these days. Governments around the world have been deploring the state of their economies, usually invoking the dreaded problem as a key factor.
In Japan, recent trends toward isolationism — even xenophobia — are adding a new dimension to the term.
By raising barriers to foreign investment and impeding the flow of foreign nationals, Japan, as a nation, is at risk of becoming a "subprime state."
Japan's global position is becoming increasingly alarming. Even the minister of economic and fiscal policy, Hiroko Ota, told the Diet in January that Japan is no longer a "first class" economy and that she had a "sense of crisis" concerning its future. Strong words indeed, and all the more so coming as they do from the halls of power.
But Ota is not alone in her pessimism over the current state of affairs. In 2007, the Tokyo Stock Exchange was ranked 53rd out of 54 exchanges worldwide in terms of annual returns, according to data from I-Net Bridge.
For a city aiming to present itself as a financial hub of Asia, this is a sub-par performance, especially when compared with the Shanghai or Hong Kong markets, which are ranked No. 1 and No. 3, respectively.
Or perhaps ask the people at Steel Partners, the activist fund that unsuccessfully tried to take over Bull-Dog Sauce Co. The Japanese Supreme Court ruled against the United States investment fund and upheld the original verdict, which labeled the fund an "abusive acquirer."
Opposition to hostile takeover attempts that originate off-shore is nothing unusual in Europe, or even in the U.S., but it was the blunt phrase coined by Japan's highest legal institution that shocked the foreign business community.
For many observers — both Japanese and foreign — the overwhelming lesson to be learned from this case was that external capital is no longer welcome in Japan.
This trend against foreign capital has continued in the early months of 2008, with more and more Japanese firms engaging in cross-shareholding as a pre-emptive measure against would-be takeover attempts.
Most recently, Sumitomo Metal and Sumitomo Corp. announced that they were increasing their cross-shareholdings, while Nippon Steel increased its share in Sumitomo Metal at the end of last year. Other industries are seeing similar actions.
The Nikkei business daily recently ran an article describing how this process of cross-shareholding eventually results in lower share prices for all parties concerned, but the practice seems to continue in Japan without much regard for the market place.
Another example of the trend toward economic isolation is the debate concerning foreign investment in Japan's airports. The transport ministry attempted to present legislation that would prevent foreign entities from taking control of any of Japan's airports, on the grounds it would present a security risk in times of emergency. Although the ministry backed down from the attempt in late February, it is nevertheless indicative of certain tendencies in the bureaucracy.
But these isolationist discussions have not been limited to airport investment; there are also steps that affect the people who move through them, in particular, foreign nationals. Not only are foreign residents required to pay for their re-entry status every three years (a practice unique among industrial nations, according to the European Business Council, which recommended abolishing this system in their 2007 white book), but since November of last year, all foreigners — visitors and residents alike — must also submit fingerprints and digital photos.
In the future, long-term residents may also face language testing to qualify for visas.
It is hard to imagine another world-leading nation engaging in such regressive and exclusionary behavior. Certainly, from the European perspective, all of these movements represent a truly deplorable inclination for a country from which more has been expected.
In contrast to the increasing threat of protectionism and isolation in Japan, one of the defining aspects of the European Union is its commitment to the free movement of capital and labor among its member nations.
But Japan does not have the benefit of belonging to a pan-national group like the EU. And although discussions and negotiations of various free-trade agreements hold out the promise of future integrations, it seems a very long way off indeed before anything approaching an EU-style community can take root here.
To the contrary, the current trend of exclusion and isolation is only suggesting that Japan is closing itself off from such an opportunity. It is all the more regrettable, as it is done without any real public debate or discussion, apart from concerned editorials in the Nikkei.
To put it more strongly, Japan cannot afford to restrict itself in this manner for much longer, without putting its own future at risk, both economically and socially. In today's world, there can only be a word for this kind of behavior: subprime.
Update 10 March 2008
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Taxpayers' Money Used for Employees'
Vacations and Massage Chairs!
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430304
While hospitals have no doctors, people starve in their homes, and the latest noticeable group in Japan are "Internet Cafe Refugees" who are the working poor & homeless.
Don't that make you prouder'n'shit Yasuo?
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Slashings like this run about 3 per week.
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430480
And it can happen to Y O U if you come to Japan too! And when you realize the prevalence of hyper S & M violent animated videos and games, you see why this kind of attack is common.
Update March 8th 2008
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Taxpayer double-funded NHK
(by tax money and user subscriptions)
is the official, and manipulated,
mouthpiece of the corrupt-to-the-core
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
(Goebbels would be proud!)
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430296
Gov't wants NHK to play up abduction issue in international radio broadcasts
Friday, March 7, 2008 at 07:02 EST
TOKYO — The government is planning to request that public broadcaster NHK take note of North Korea's past abductions of Japanese nationals in its shortwave international radio broadcasts in fiscal 2008, government officials said Thursday. The request will demonstrate that Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda places priority on the abduction issue, as did his predecessor Shinzo Abe, they said. In November 2006, then Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga, citing the Broadcast Law, ordered NHK to focus on the issue in international broadcasts. The minister renewed the order in fiscal 2007 that started in April last year. As media organizations criticized the government order as infringing on the freedom of the press, the Diet amended the law last fall to replace the term "order" with the softer term "request."
And given the universal media illiteracy prevalent in Japan, the sheeple all nod dutifully and accept the party line.
Update March 7th 2008
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Le racisme japonais, pur et simple!
Les idiots de Michelin! Qu'est-ce ils
comprennent de la cuisine japonaise?
Rien!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/business/worldbusiness/24guide.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Toshiya Kadowaki, a chef, says he turned down a Michelin listing because foreigners are not qualified to rate Japanese food. “Japanese food was created here, and only Japanese know it,” Mr. Kadowaki said in an interview. “How can a bunch of foreigners show up and tell us what is good or bad?”
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430103
Right-wing activist dies after shooting
himself in head in front of Diet
Another one of Ishihara's goons tops himself because the Japanese government is appearing to foster positive relations with the PR of China. These are the kinds of people who caused me to cancel my trip to IOC headquarters in Lausanne. They'd shoot anyone who doesn't share their Japanese Supremacist views. Just imagine what they'll do to all those "inferior race" Untermenchen if Tokyo has an Olympics?
This is the kind of person who protested the teachers promoting "unpatriotic anti-war, peaceful" education! Oh, well, one less black-van man noise-polluting the city, I guess!
TOKYO — A man believed to be a right-wing activist from Osaka died Wednesday shortly after shooting himself in the head with a pistol in front of the Diet building in central Tokyo. The man, believed to be 58, held in his left hand two envelopes, including one addressed to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and containing a letter of request about Japanese diplomacy with China, when he fired a shot to the right side of his head at around 8:15 a.m., according to the Metropolitan Police Department. (Site author's note: Maybe this is the guy they sent to kill me in Lausanne, and he failed......so!) Japan is a dangerous country!
This could happen to YOUR country's athletes...http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430239 Olympics to somewhere else I say!
Update March 6th 2008
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http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/430031
Japan worried over China's double-digit
defense budget rise!
What hypocrisy!
TOKYO — Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said Tuesday that China's double-digit defense outlay increase for the 20th year in a row is beyond comprehension for neighboring countries and that Beijing needs to address a lack of transparency in its military spending.
"A country which will hold the Olympics...and is trying to attain economic development peacefully in the world should make efforts on its own to clarify that area," Machimura said, following China's announcement earlier in the day that it will increase defense spending by 17.6% in 2008. "To tell the truth, I think it's beyond comprehension for countries nearby as well as for countries in the world why double-digit growth has continued for 20 consecutive years," the top government spokesman said, adding that Beijing has not necessarily accounted for how that increased spending has been disbursed.
Memo to dopey Machimura: Calling China "non-transparent" on this is the pot calling the kettle black. Japan, whose LDP backroom, under the table and devious politics are infamous worldwide, is in no position, moral or legal to complain. THINK about this: China's neighbour, Japan, is an undeclared nuclear power (shock!), and has recently reinstated the Imperial Japanese Army, Navy and Air Force. It is now seeking to backhandedly remove the peaceful provision from its constitution, to permit a re-arming.
Regardless of the tensions across the Taiwan strait, China's BIGGEST worry, like most people in Asia, is a b