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The Senkaku plot thickens
THE PLOT for the story about the Japanese arrest and non-trial of Zhan Qixiong, captain of the Chinese fishing boat Minjinyu 5179, near the ....
29 Sep 9:07 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The Senkaku plot thickens
THE PLOT for the story about the Japanese arrest and non-trial of Zhan Qixiong, captain of the Chinese fishing boat Minjinyu 5179, near the ....
29 Sep 9:07 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Better late than never
BETTER LATE than never. From a Kyodo report: Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara on Tuesday cited China’s official People’s Daily as describi....
29 Sep 3:27 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Japan looks at China looking at Japan on the Senkaku Islets
THERE’S A REASON that Rashomon, Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s literary montage, is considered a classic in world literature, and the film versio....
29 Sep 2:04 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
New kid on the block
EAST ASIA is already one happening place, but excitement in the neighborhood will climb to breathtaking heights tomorrow when the North Kore....
27 Sep 11:31 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Lost in space
LOST IN SPACE was a popular brain-dead television program in the United States in the mid-1960s, based on the premise of a lost family of sp....
27 Sep 2:34 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
No touch
I say a pressure drop, oh pressure Oh yeah pressure drop a drop on you I say when it drops, oh you gonna feel it Know that you were doing wr....
27 Sep 3:15 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
No touch
I say a pressure drop, oh pressure Oh yeah pressure drop a drop on you I say when it drops, oh you gonna feel it Know that you were doing wr....
27 Sep 3:15 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Letter bombs (11): Boomerangs
READER M-BONE has given me permission to quote his comments before, so I’ll take the liberty of quoting two more, because they’re quite ....
26 Sep 12:32 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Snowing in July
WHENEVER I do something like vacuum the floor on my own initiative, my wife enjoys pretending that it’s so unusual for me to do housework,....
25 Sep 5:15 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Snowing in July
WHENEVER I do something like vacuum the floor on my own initiative, my wife enjoys pretending that it’s so unusual for me to do housework,....
25 Sep 5:15 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Coming attractions
The build-up of Chinese military capabilities is a real threat. - Maehara Seiji, the new Foreign Minister of Japan, speaking in the United S....
24 Sep 8:59 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Getting old
MONDAY the 20th is Respect for the Aged Day in Japan, which is a national holiday. One manifestation of the custom of Japanese (and other Ea....
20 Sep 10:47 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Purges and predictions
PRIME MINISTER Kan Naoto rearranged his Cabinet on Friday, adding nine new members to the 18-person lineup and redistributing a portfolio or....
18 Sep 6:01 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The greatest mass murderer in world history
If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow. - Lennon/McCartney, Revolution THE RESULT of histo....
18 Sep 3:29 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The greatest mass murderer in world history
If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow. - Lennon/McCartney, Revolution THE RESULT of histo....
18 Sep 3:29 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Reprise: The oppressors and the oppressed
THE MARMOT HIMSELF at The Marmot’s Hole links to this article in The Korea Times by Prof. Andrei Lankov about Korean members of the tokko ....
17 Sep 10:14 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Be careful what you ask for
BE CAREFUL what you ask for, say the gods, because you just might get it. Here’s a case in point. Toyota must be feeling slighted with the....
17 Sep 1:06 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Be careful what you ask for
BE CAREFUL what you ask for, say the gods, because you just might get it. Here’s a case in point. Toyota must be feeling slighted with the....
17 Sep 1:06 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Kan the man
TO READ SOME descriptions in the English-language print media, one would think Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto is a “fiscal conservative....
17 Sep 1:42 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Modern times
They have to get money from someplace. - Edwin Merner, president of the Atlantis Investment Research Corp. in Tokyo CALIFORNIA GOV. Arnold S....
16 Sep 1:19 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
But then, I regress
IN 2001, brothers Bradley and D. Craig Willcox teamed with Makoto Suzuki to publish The Okinawa Program, a plan for life extension based on ....
15 Sep 5:34 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Eda Kenji on the DPJ election
IN FOUR SENTENCES on his blog, Your Party Secretary-General Eda Kenji says all that needs to be said about Kan Naoto’s victory over Ozawa ....
14 Sep 7:31 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The worst and the worse
If there’s one thing I’ve learned up here (in Washington)…is the only way to get Congress to balance the budget is to give them no cho....
12 Sep 6:54 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The fundamental things apply
TEN DAYS AGO, in this post about labor disputes between China and Japan, I wrote about the Chinese government’s decision to limit rare ear....
10 Sep 11:47 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
The fundamental things apply
TEN DAYS AGO, in this post about labor disputes between China and Japan, I wrote about the Chinese government’s decision to limit rare ear....
10 Sep 11:47 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
More inspired musical goofiness from Japan
POSTER 21st Century Schizoid Man uploaded some YouTube links here of some inspired Japanese musical goofiness from the pre-war era. The fir....
10 Sep 2:24 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Marching through Yamagata and Tokyo
ARE YOU READY for this musical mix? The Tohoku University of Art and Design in Yamagata City held a concert on Tuesday night with performanc....
9 Sep 2:40 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Does a lower house election loom?
OPPOSITION PARTIES in the parliamentary form of government must remain alert for signs that the ruling party will steal a march by unexpecte....
8 Sep 6:00 am  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Let’s make a deal
Many (on the left) are correct when they bemoan the collusion of government and corporations. They even have a point when they decry special....
7 Sep 2:34 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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