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Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Saw a huge anti-China demo in Roppongi yesterday including shitloads of little children whose parents had decked them out in Rising Sun flags...it had the class of fundamentalist Islam (or any other fucking oddball belief).
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Saw a huge anti-China demo in Roppongi yesterday including shitloads of little children whose parents had decked them out in Rising Sun flags...it had the class of fundamentalist Islam (or any other fucking oddball belief).
Japanese Coast Guard vessels fired water cannon to turn away about 40 Taiwan fishing boats and eight Taiwan Coast Guard vessels from waters Japan considers its own on Tuesday in the latest twist to a row between Tokyo and Beijing.
pheyton wrote:Seems Japan has prepared for the apocalypse.
Japanese unveil iPhone-controlled battle robot
A Japanese electronics company has unveiled a cutting-edge battle robot Kuratas, signifying a new era in military industry.
Monstrous robotic behemoth brings anime fantasies to life
---Mad inventors use inspiration to build giant working robot---
The Japan Times Online | Sept. 28, 2012
cstaylor wrote:Looks like FGL may get his wish after all.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:FGL, I agree with a lot of what you're saying.
Allow me to point out one area where you're severely misguided...if you think Japanese politics is dominated by politicians, you're greatly mistaken. They're mere bit-players, serving the will of the bureaucracy and Few-reaucracy.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:FGL, I agree with a lot of what you're saying.
Allow me to point out one area where you're severely misguided...if you think Japanese politics is dominated by politicians, you're greatly mistaken. They're mere bit-players, serving the will of the bureaucracy and Few-reaucracy.
cstaylor wrote:At least until Herr Hashimoto has his say. Chaos for the sake of chaos, regardless of the outcome, is suicidal.
FG Lurker wrote:...just that people are getting really fed up with the status quo.
FG Lurker wrote:Let's recap the choices faced by the average Japanese voter:
LDP: Known devil, has proven itself to be mostly useless since the bubble burst over 20 years ago.
DPJ: Leftover dregs of the LDP, have proven themselves beyond any doubt to be completely useless.
Nihon Ishin no Kai: Unknown and unproven but run by a guy with a reputation for not taking bullshit and for kicking asses when needed.
It's not hard to see why people might be attracted to that 3rd option and at least willing to give it a try. They might be wrong. It might be bad for Japan. It might even be disastrous. With the other two options looking like they do though, it's easy to see why there is interest.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Can't dispute anything you have to say there. It seems perfectly rational and logical. Which is why the LDP will be back in office following the next general erection.
FG Lurker wrote:Theymight beare wrong. Itmightwill be bad for Japan. Itmight evenwill be disastrous. With the other two options looking like they do though, it's easy to see why there is interest.
cstaylor wrote:FG Lurker wrote:Theymight beare wrong. Itmightwill be bad for Japan. Itmight evenwill be disastrous. With the other two options looking like they do though, it's easy to see why there is interest.
FTFY. Before they give a 43-year old Hitler-lite a shot why not give China's only friend in the Diet a chance to cool things off?
cstaylor wrote:FTFY. Before they give a 43-year old Hitler-lite a shot why not give China's only friend in the Diet a chance to cool things off?
FG Lurker wrote:cstaylor wrote:FTFY. Before they give a 43-year old Hitler-lite a shot why not give China's only friend in the Diet a chance to cool things off?
I find it interesting that you strongly dislike Hashimoto and feel he's fascist, yet seem to think Japan should back down and scurry around trying to appease a brutal authoritarian government.
The world needs to start standing up to China, and seeing Japan make even token efforts in this direction is a good start IMO.
FG Lurker wrote:I find it interesting that you strongly dislike Hashimoto and feel he's fascist, yet seem to think Japan should back down and scurry around trying to appease a brutal authoritarian government.
FG Lurker wrote:The world needs to start standing up to China, and seeing Japan make even token efforts in this direction is a good start IMO.
cstaylor wrote:If China wants (and does) brutalize its own people, that's the Chinese peoples' fault.
cstaylor wrote:I don't like Hashimoto because he's another hustler on the make with nothing to offer Japan.
cstaylor wrote:He's a modern-day Toyotomi, and I'd rather not have one of my foreign ears on the pile, thanks, just because I'm a member of his target group of the week.
cstaylor wrote:Please wait until I've vacated China's latest nuclear testing site before electing Herr Hashimoto. Without Russia providing a united diplomatic front against the PRC, Japan's only trump card is to pull America into another war, but not before sustaining massive civilian casualties first.
FG Lurker wrote:Seriously? Man, that's rather out of place. China rules its people with an iron fist and the largest standing military in the world. People who step out of line (to this day) tend to just disappear. This is not an environment where people can just elect a new government and throw the old one out.
FG Lurker wrote:He's a politician so somewhat of a hustler by definition. As I said before, I'm not sure what I think of him on the national stage but it's nice to see someone with a backbone stand up for Osaka. (Even though I don't agree with some of the things he has done with regards to running the city government.)
The point I was making was Toyotomi using the a foreign invasion to solidify his control of Japan. Like Napoleon, he cut off the route he himself took to power.FG Lurker wrote:Not sure which event you're referring to here. If it's the Mimizuka and related events it's actually wrong, it was noses that were cut off (not that it changes the brutality of course.)
He will be if he takes Japan into a third world war. (where's that nuke icon when you need it)FG Lurker wrote:In any case, I don't see how Hashimoto is in any way similar to Toyotomi and I can't see he will be remembered and talked about several centuries into the future.
FG Lurker wrote:There is no chance that China would nuke Japan, the response would be a massive American nuclear attack on China.
Considering how close we are to Tokyo and that Yokosuka and Yokohama have military bases, I'd rather not get caught in the crossfire over these puny rocks.FG Lurker wrote:If China does nuke Tokyo though it would probably get rid of the theoretically elected Hashimoto which would make you happy, no?
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