2016-02-08, 15:46 | Link #1 |
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Japanese Events
We have threads for Japanese politics and culture, but none where other news stories about Japan might be posted, so I've started this thread for that purpose.
I begin with this video from the NY Times showing the eruption of the Sakurajima volcano on Kyushu. http://nyti.ms/23Ozqe8 The Times notes the volcano is just thirty miles from a nuclear power plant, but the volcano is on an island, and the plant on the opposite side of the adjacent peninsula. It doesn't seem to be much of a threat to the plant. Kagoshima, a city of 600,000 people, is right across the bay from the volcano, though the biggest threat to them is probably wind-blown ash.
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Japanese mum made daughter eat 30 pet goldfish
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2016-02-17, 19:38 | Link #6 |
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Sad thing the US and UK did the same thing decades ago for years, the progress is slow but eventually Japan will be doing the same, for better or for worse (CPS while a important service, they have also done more than good on occasion unfortunately)
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Japanese man plants thousands of pink flowers to get people to visit blind wife
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2016-02-22, 13:48 | Link #8 | |
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That was before all the more recent 'child protective serivices' routines got started, but is it any better? Now, the state seems to relish taking kids away, not from these obvious cases, but the opposite, from even regular homes, if the parents won't sign off on giving their kids vaccinations or other standardized treatment for any illness, even if that illness turns out to be a lie they made up... and like the asset confiscation problem these days, the authorities take first and then it's up to the 'owner' or parent to try and get them back. One problem is the type of people attracted to management in these govt jobs seem totally corrupt... and the entire system is increasingly full of them, from these agencies serving as feeders for the 'homes' or the same in the jail system, now privatized and promised a yearly profit.. etc. Greed. Power. Emergence of the police state... step by step here in the States, the West and it is the usual pattern in any empire. It's interesting to see that Japan isn't any different... like most data from the govt., you have to understand if and how manipulated it is... and with child abuse cases, how much longer, if any, will they even be reported by the state media like NHK? They now have to serve the govt as a mouthpiece and cannot speak ill of the emperor and his lack of clothes... to use that old analogy. Any responsible reporter with a conscious is being 'let go', so any complacent types will remain, same as here in the States, no one gets a job unless they've been 'vetted' on their way up the ladder, same with policians, judges, etc... Germany had a reporter come out about this last year... speaking how it has been this way for a long time... here in the States, after WW2, everyone was on the same 'page'... only needing to be pointed to a new enemy, which was the USSR at the time, now it's 'terrorists', who seem to show up everywhere our covert ops and later regular troops are looking to operate. CIA latter called it Operation Mockingbird I think it was... typical false flag ops throughout history. Japan, under Abe, is trying to bring back the old system, same as Erdo the Idiot is attempting in Turkey, et al... and we complain about authoritarian leaders only when they aren't working for us... even Saddam couldn't understand why he was targeted, as he was working for us for decades, since Ike... Saddam didn't understand the game was changing.. the psychopaths had finished taking over and ponerizing the entire system. [ Political Ponerology] This is a good anime... the creators can bring in all kinds of social commentary as long as it doesn't become too noticed in the state media monitors and the show's ratings remain high... though shows can get pulled even if they are... but usually that happens in the development process... which is why some topics never get the light of day. So far, this one is a whodunit, with some scifi elements brought in and social issues used to give the characters impetus to action. Nice to see some good stuff and not the usual kind. |
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It's official: Japan's population is shrinking
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2016-02-28, 20:10 | Link #11 |
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Robots and Foreigners Are Key for an Aging Japan:
"Policy under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is being shaped by an awareness that Japan’s citizens are the oldest in the world. The government is doing everything from promoting greater female participation in the workforce to taking small steps toward welcoming more overseas workers in a nation where foreign residents make up less than 2 percent of the population. While Sawakami says he’s for selective opening of the border, he’s betting on the machines." See: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...japan-sawakami |
2016-03-19, 21:55 | Link #12 |
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The godmother of manga sex in Japan:
"A recent UN report weighed into a debate that provokes intense controversy in Japan, by including manga in a list of content with violent pornography. The BBC's Yuko Kato went to meet one of Japan's leading female manga artists, Keiko Takemiya, seen as the woman who opened the floodgates to sexually explicit manga. Some readers may find some of the sexual details that follow disturbing." See: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35714067 |
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7.0 earthquake in Kumamoto. It was shallow, so it shook pretty hard.
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2016-04-20, 22:13 | Link #14 |
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How Japan came to rank worse than Tanzania on press
freedom: "The state of press freedom in Japan is now worse than that in Tanzania, according to a new ranking from the non-profit group Reporters Without Borders. Japan came in 72nd of the 180 countries ranked in the group’s 2016 press freedom index, falling 11 places since last year. Europe's media was deemed to have the most freedom this year, but the situation has worsened significantly in most of the Asia-Pacific region. For Japan's journalists, things have taken a turn for the worse relatively recently. Just six years ago, the country ranked 11th in the world." See: http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la...420-story.html |
2016-04-27, 01:16 | Link #15 |
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Mitsubishi Has Been Falsifying Fuel Economy
Numbers for 25 Years: "For more than a quarter century, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. has been falsifying its fuel economy numbers, the company’s president acknowledged on Tuesday. Just how many vehicles have been affected by that subterfuge, and whether any were sold in the U.S., may not be known until the automaker completes an internal investigation. For the moment, the focus is on about 468,000 Mitsubishi-made vehicles sold in Japan through both the automaker’s own showrooms and those of its partner, Nissan. It was the latter that called attention to the problem earlier this month, when Nissan said it discovered inconsistent fuel economy test data. This is the latest in a series of scandals plaguing the troubled Mitsubishi. The company was previously caught covering up safety defects that were blamed for at least one death. And the mishandling of its finances nearly led to its bankruptcy during the recession, until a consortium of Japanese banks stepped in to bail the automaker out." See: http://www.thedrive.com/news/3190/br...s-for-25-years |
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Missing Japanese boy found alive in Hokkaido
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2016-06-21, 22:57 | Link #17 |
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Japanese Government Enlists Pirate Hunter to Track
Down Illegal Streams, Downloads: "Starting next week, the Ministry will hire a specialist whose job will be to find unlicensed, copyrighted videos on streaming and download sites and evaluate possible damage to the rights holder. The specialist will look for both anime and live-action videos." See: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/inte...nloads/.103457 |
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2016-07-20, 11:28 | Link #20 |
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Is Japan taking advantage of the post-Brexit weakness of the pound given the blockbuster purchase of ARM Holdings by Softbank? It only makes sense for Japanese businesses to look abroad for investment opportunities given both economic stagnation and demographic trends. As one commentator observed the other day on CNBC, the market for adult diapers in Japan now exceeds the market for baby diapers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/bu...igner-arm.html
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