Utada Hikaru On Comfort Women

[Mulboyne]

[amdg]

All I want to know is whether or not her mom has applied to get her seized drug money back.

[blackcat]

or the double standard of japan constantly complaining about 40 or so kidnapped
locals from N Korea, after the tens of thousands they have kidnapped,murdered raped.

Still she is only a dumb J pop bitch anyway

[American Oyaji]

Seems like HIki has a good head on her shoulders for the most part.

[DrP]

..unfortunately the head can't communicate to the vocal chords ... but does it need to? NIJ

[Takechanpoo]

or the double standard of japan constantly complaining about 40 or so kidnapped locals from N Korea, after the tens of thousands they have kidnapped,murdered raped.

Hey, do you know there was return-home project for zainichi Koreans in 1959~84? Huh?
Zainichi Koreans who still remain in Japan rejected to return home at that time.
Before saying impertinently like that, study more.

[Jack]

She is telling things rather intelligently. She's not only talented in music but she is obviously very smart as well.

[Mike Oxlong]

Didn't the US admit they had a slave problem (i.e. slavery is bad, ok), and when they couldn't get a national concensus, they duked it out until one side (the anti-slavery side) won. That was what, oh say 150 years ago or so. Japan has yet to admit anything about an event already more than 50 years old, let alone take any action resembling a solution.

If Hikaru really wrote that, then she's shallower than her persona & music suggest.

[Iraira]

Didn't the US admit they had a slave problem (i.e. slavery is bad, ok), and when they couldn't get a national concensus, they duked it out until one side (the anti-slavery side) won. That was what, oh say 150 years ago or so. Japan has yet to admit anything about an event already more than 50 years old, let alone take any action resembling a solution.

If Hikaru really wrote that, then she's shallower than her persona & music suggest.

Let's see, she dropped out of Columbia University, had a song that didn't crack the Billboard 100, and basically has (as stated before) a mom who is laundering money. Now she's trying her hand at social issues. Look just stand there and and let the rubes who believe that lip-syncing to songs that you had no part in creating means that you have talent.

[Doctor Stop]

Good idea, Mike. Maybe what Japan needs to settle the Nanjing Massacre and comfort women issues is a good old fashioned civil war. Too bad Japan can't have one because they've abided faithfully with Article 9-2 of their constitution:

2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.

You can't have a civil war without any war potential, can you? Aw shucks, there goes that idea.

[Mike Oxlong]

Good idea, Mike. Maybe what Japan needs to settle the Nanjing Massacre and comfort women issues is a good old fashioned civil war. Too bad Japan can't have one because they've abided faithfully with Article 9-2 of their constitution:

2) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.

You can't have a civil war without any war potential, can you? Aw shucks, there goes that idea.

There are guns in the hands of private citizens. Hunting rifles, shotguns, and competition rifles are relatively easy to obtain (with equally easily obtainable permit) in Japan. Along with all the ammo. Civil war is doable. And what about all those kyudo practitioners?

[IkemenTommy]

Wow, just like the other thread, she now has more problems than her weight.

[Doctor Stop]

There are guns in the hands of private citizens. Hunting rifles, shotguns, and competition rifles are relatively easy to obtain (with equally easily obtainable permit) in Japan.

And there's the JSDF and police as well. I bet they have weapons, even though that would be unconstitutional, right?

[kamome]

[quote="Mulboyne"]A sleepy Utada Hikaru posted a quick comment on the net following the peace ceremony in Hiroshima. Her first thoughts are to wonder why people seem focused on banning the bomb when conventional weapons are also capable of wholesale destruction. War is the evil, she says. She notes that America still holds its nuclear arsenal while wanting other countries to halt nuclear development or reduce stockpiles. Double standard, she muses, just like the comfort women issue where America criticizes Japan even though the country has its own dark history of slavery.

"あ]
She's equating apples and oranges. Although both countries have black marks on their past, the reality that slavery took place in the US is not swept under the carpet or obfuscated by semantics the way the reality of comfort women has been in Japan. The Japanese still can't even form a consensus in recognizing its role in promoting the use of comfort women in wartime, and there are elements who want to cover it up completely. The US still struggles with the effects of slavery, but at least no one legitimizes any attempt to debate that slavery existed.

[amdg]