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Ya so you can join the other d bags for being jerks and jack@$$ and ignoring international law and indangering world peace good luck with that bid
What is needed to mend Japan-China ties
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Ya so you can join the other d bags for being jerks and jack@$$ and ignoring international law and indangering world peace good luck with that bid
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No point in mending ties when Abe surrounds himself with neo-Nazi sympathizers. 
Two of Abe's new picks deny neo-Nazi links
Politics Sep. 09, 2014 - 12:45PM JST ( 71 )
Newly-appointed Internal Affairs and Communication Minister Sanae Takaichi AFP
TOKYO —
Two newly-promoted Japanese politicians moved Monday to distance themselves from allegations of extremism after pictures emerged of them posing alongside the leader of a domestic neo-Nazi party.
Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi and party policy chief Tomomi Inada are seen in separate photographs next to Kazunari Yamada on the home page of the National Socialist Japanese Workers Party.
The pictures will add fuel to claims that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is increasingly surrounding himself with people on the right of Japanese politics.
Yamada’s blog postings indicate admiration for Adolf Hitler and praise for the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
In video footage posted on the website, Yamada is seen wearing a stylised swastika during street demonstrations.
Captions for the photographs claim they were taken “sometime in June or July 2011 when (Yamada) visited the conservative lawmakers for talks”.
Spokesmen for both senior lawmakers acknowledged Monday that the photographs were genuine and had been taken in their offices over the last few years, but denied there was any political affiliation.
“He was an assistant for an interviewer, and was taking notes and photos,” a member of staff at Takaichi’s office told AFP, referring to Yamada.
“We had no idea who he was back then, but he requested a snap shot with her. (The minister) wouldn’t refuse such requests.”
Following media inquiries, the office has asked that the pictures be removed, he said.
“It was careless of us,” he said, adding that Takaichi did not share Yamada’s view “at all… it is a nuisance”.
A staffer at Inada’s office said the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) policy chief did not subscribe to Nazi ideology.
“It is disappointing if there are people who would misunderstand that she does,” he said.
Abe has courted criticism for his strident nationalism and views on history that some find unpalatable.
In particular, his unwillingness to condemn Imperial Japan’s behavior up to and during World War II has proved a sticking point in international relations.
His equivocations about the formalised system of sex slavery—known euphemistically as “comfort women”—has particularly irked South Korea and China, and both regularly call on him to re-think his views.
Abe’s new 18-strong cabinet, announced last week, includes a number of people with hawkish views.
Takaichi and Inada have both visited Yasukuni Shrine, the supposed repository of the souls of Japan’s war dead, including a number of convicted war criminals. The shrine is seen in Asia as a symbol of Japan’s lack of repentance for the war.
This thread is about China and Japan. No one's talking about giving away free shoes, free Pho noodles, or free T-shirts, so no need for any Vietnamese input. I think there's another thread about Vietnam begging for free crap. That's the thread you probably meant to post in. Mistakes happen, and I ain't mad at ya.
Two of Abe's new picks deny neo-Nazi links
Politics Sep. 09, 2014 - 12:45PM JST ( 71 )
Newly-appointed Internal Affairs and Communication Minister Sanae Takaichi AFPTOKYO —
Two newly-promoted Japanese politicians moved Monday to distance themselves from allegations of extremism after pictures emerged of them posing alongside the leader of a domestic neo-Nazi party.
Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi and party policy chief Tomomi Inada are seen in separate photographs next to Kazunari Yamada on the home page of the National Socialist Japanese Workers Party.
The pictures will add fuel to claims that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is increasingly surrounding himself with people on the right of Japanese politics.
Yamada’s blog postings indicate admiration for Adolf Hitler and praise for the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
In video footage posted on the website, Yamada is seen wearing a stylised swastika during street demonstrations.
Captions for the photographs claim they were taken “sometime in June or July 2011 when (Yamada) visited the conservative lawmakers for talks”.
Spokesmen for both senior lawmakers acknowledged Monday that the photographs were genuine and had been taken in their offices over the last few years, but denied there was any political affiliation.
“He was an assistant for an interviewer, and was taking notes and photos,” a member of staff at Takaichi’s office told AFP, referring to Yamada.
“We had no idea who he was back then, but he requested a snap shot with her. (The minister) wouldn’t refuse such requests.”
Following media inquiries, the office has asked that the pictures be removed, he said.
“It was careless of us,” he said, adding that Takaichi did not share Yamada’s view “at all… it is a nuisance”.
A staffer at Inada’s office said the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) policy chief did not subscribe to Nazi ideology.
“It is disappointing if there are people who would misunderstand that she does,” he said.
Abe has courted criticism for his strident nationalism and views on history that some find unpalatable.
In particular, his unwillingness to condemn Imperial Japan’s behavior up to and during World War II has proved a sticking point in international relations.
His equivocations about the formalised system of sex slavery—known euphemistically as “comfort women”—has particularly irked South Korea and China, and both regularly call on him to re-think his views.
Abe’s new 18-strong cabinet, announced last week, includes a number of people with hawkish views.
Takaichi and Inada have both visited Yasukuni Shrine, the supposed repository of the souls of Japan’s war dead, including a number of convicted war criminals. The shrine is seen in Asia as a symbol of Japan’s lack of repentance for the war.
This thread is about China and Japan. No one's talking about giving away free shoes, free Pho noodles, or free T-shirts, so no need for any Vietnamese input. I think there's another thread about Vietnam begging for free crap. That's the thread you probably meant to post in. Mistakes happen, and I ain't mad at ya.
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you should look at his username, it sends shivers down your spine doesn't it?
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More than half of Chinese see war with Japan: poll
September 10, 2014, 5:19 pm
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AFP More than half of Chinese see war with Japan: poll
Tokyo (AFP) - More than half of Chinese people think their country could go to war with Japan in the future, a new poll revealed Wednesday, after two years of intense diplomatic squabbles.
A survey conducted in both nations found that 53.4 percent of Chinese envisage a future conflict, with more than a fifth of those saying it would happen "within a few years", while 29 percent of Japanese view military confrontation as a possibility.
The findings come ahead of the second anniversary Thursday of Japan's nationalisation of disputed islands in the East China Sea that have formed the focus of tensions between the Asian giants.
Underlining the lingering row over the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku Islands, four Chinese coast guard vessels sailed into their territorial waters on Wednesday morning.
China regards them as its territory and calls them the Diaoyu Islands.
The survey was conducted by Japanese non-governmental organisation the Genron NPO and the China Daily, a Chinese state-run newspaper, in July and August.
It questioned 1,000 Japanese aged 18 or older and 1,539 Chinese of the same age range in five cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenyang and Xian.
In the annual opinion poll which started in 2005, 93.0 percent of Japanese respondents said their impression of China was "unfavourable," worsening from 90.1 percent last year and the highest level since the survey began.
The percentage of Chinese who have an unfavourable impression of Japan stood at 86.8 percent, an improvement on 92.8 percent last year.
"The most common reason for the unfavourable impression of China among the Japanese public was 'China's actions are incompatible with international rules' at 55.1 percent," Genron NPO and the China Daily said in a joint statement.
That was closely followed by "China's actions to secure resources, energy and food look selfish" at 52.8 percent.
The third most commonly-given reason was "criticism of Japan over historical issues" at 52.2 percent, while "continuous confrontation over the Senkaku islands" came fourth place at 50.4 percent, it said.
"On the other hand, 'The Diaoyu/Senkaku islands' (64.0 percent) and 'historical understanding' (59.6 percent) were the two prominent reasons for the unfavourable impression of Japan among the Chinese public," it said.
- Ties in decline -
Despite a huge trade relationship and their deeply interwoven economies, relations between Tokyo and Beijing have seen several periods of deterioration over recent decades.
But ties have been particularly bad since late 2012 when Japan nationalised the Senkakus, a move it says was just an administrative change, but which China says was a provocation.
Beijing regularly insists that Japan has not atoned enough for its imperialist past, and lambasts nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for an "incorrect" understanding of history and what it describes as his intention to remilitarise.
For its part, Tokyo accuses Beijing of dwelling on the past for domestic political reasons and says that in the seven decades since World War II it has apologised repeatedly and trodden a pacifist path.
In an editorial, the China Daily described the poll as "worrying", commenting that "these findings should be concerning" for leaders in both countries.
"There is a need for a meeting between the leaders of both countries to reverse the deteriorating relations," the paper said, but added: "the ball is in Japan's court."
"Abe needs to show Chinese leaders with his actual deeds that he is sincere about improving relations."
Abe has repeatedly said his door is open for dialogue and called for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, but has so far been rebuffed.
September 10, 2014, 5:19 pm
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AFP More than half of Chinese see war with Japan: poll
Tokyo (AFP) - More than half of Chinese people think their country could go to war with Japan in the future, a new poll revealed Wednesday, after two years of intense diplomatic squabbles.
A survey conducted in both nations found that 53.4 percent of Chinese envisage a future conflict, with more than a fifth of those saying it would happen "within a few years", while 29 percent of Japanese view military confrontation as a possibility.
The findings come ahead of the second anniversary Thursday of Japan's nationalisation of disputed islands in the East China Sea that have formed the focus of tensions between the Asian giants.
Underlining the lingering row over the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku Islands, four Chinese coast guard vessels sailed into their territorial waters on Wednesday morning.
China regards them as its territory and calls them the Diaoyu Islands.
The survey was conducted by Japanese non-governmental organisation the Genron NPO and the China Daily, a Chinese state-run newspaper, in July and August.
It questioned 1,000 Japanese aged 18 or older and 1,539 Chinese of the same age range in five cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenyang and Xian.
In the annual opinion poll which started in 2005, 93.0 percent of Japanese respondents said their impression of China was "unfavourable," worsening from 90.1 percent last year and the highest level since the survey began.
The percentage of Chinese who have an unfavourable impression of Japan stood at 86.8 percent, an improvement on 92.8 percent last year.
"The most common reason for the unfavourable impression of China among the Japanese public was 'China's actions are incompatible with international rules' at 55.1 percent," Genron NPO and the China Daily said in a joint statement.
That was closely followed by "China's actions to secure resources, energy and food look selfish" at 52.8 percent.
The third most commonly-given reason was "criticism of Japan over historical issues" at 52.2 percent, while "continuous confrontation over the Senkaku islands" came fourth place at 50.4 percent, it said.
"On the other hand, 'The Diaoyu/Senkaku islands' (64.0 percent) and 'historical understanding' (59.6 percent) were the two prominent reasons for the unfavourable impression of Japan among the Chinese public," it said.
- Ties in decline -
Despite a huge trade relationship and their deeply interwoven economies, relations between Tokyo and Beijing have seen several periods of deterioration over recent decades.
But ties have been particularly bad since late 2012 when Japan nationalised the Senkakus, a move it says was just an administrative change, but which China says was a provocation.
Beijing regularly insists that Japan has not atoned enough for its imperialist past, and lambasts nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for an "incorrect" understanding of history and what it describes as his intention to remilitarise.
For its part, Tokyo accuses Beijing of dwelling on the past for domestic political reasons and says that in the seven decades since World War II it has apologised repeatedly and trodden a pacifist path.
In an editorial, the China Daily described the poll as "worrying", commenting that "these findings should be concerning" for leaders in both countries.
"There is a need for a meeting between the leaders of both countries to reverse the deteriorating relations," the paper said, but added: "the ball is in Japan's court."
"Abe needs to show Chinese leaders with his actual deeds that he is sincere about improving relations."
Abe has repeatedly said his door is open for dialogue and called for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, but has so far been rebuffed.
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Viets dont mind the name at all, remember the other thread about the crime commited on viets by American (including agent orange which is still affecting viet citizens up to this days), while most non viets showed sympathy with the suffered victims, all viets without exception were defending the american positions, how they apologized and were forgiven, so proud of viet spirit to the point of insulting other who would acuss the americans. In fact is is possible that some secret after effects of agent orange might be affecting their minds, at least that would explain lots of things for the abnormal behaviours(including delusion and no feeling for any shame).
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