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[WSJ] Japan’s Top Court Rules Married Couples Must Have Same Surname

2015-12-16 08:58:51 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
Japan’s Top Court Rules Married Couples Must Have Same Surname
Ruling keeps in place 19th-century law under which most wives in Japan end up sharing their husband’s name
http://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-top-court-rules-married-couples-must-have-same-last-name-1450267126#lf_comment=430525493

By JUN HONGO
Updated Dec. 16, 2015 8:58 a.m. ET
9 COMMENTS
TOKYO—Japan’s Supreme Court upheld a law dating to the 19th century that requires married couples to have the same surname, rejecting an argument by three women and a married couple that it violates their rights.

The case has drawn wide attention in Japan, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has advocated the advancement of women at companies and government agencies. Wednesday’s ruling means that women who keep using their maiden names in professional situations must continue to cope with extra paperwork and other hassles because their legal names are different.

Japan is one of the few countries that requires married couples to pick either the husband’s or wife’s surname. A United Nations body that seeks to eliminate gender discrimination has repeatedly asked the country to revise its law, but efforts to do so in parliament haven’t gotten far.

“I can’t hold back my tears, I am saddened,” Kyoko Tsukamoto, one of the plaintiffs, said at a news conference following the ruling. “I won’t be able to die as Kyoko Tsukamoto.”

On its face, the law is gender-neutral because a husband could take the surname of his wife. In practice, however, about 96% of couples choose the husband’s surname, according to court papers.

The Supreme Court, upholding lower-court rulings, said the practice of requiring a single surname was well-established in Japan. “We can discern a rational basis for stipulating a single appellation for a family,” the court said.

It said the law didn’t violate the Japanese constitution’s requirement that laws pertaining to marriage “shall be enacted from the standpoint of individual dignity and the essential equality of the sexes.” It said parliament, not the court system, was the proper venue to debate the merits of the law.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party in 2010 wrote in its manifesto that it opposed allowing different surnames. But at a news conference earlier this year, Tomomi Inada, the chairwoman of the party’s policy research council, said there are varying opinions within the LDP.

All three women on the 15-member court as well as two male justices criticized the ruling, saying the law violated the constitution.

Justice Kiyoko Okabe said that forcing a woman to change her name could lead to concrete harm, such as losing recognition among her peers for a patent she acquired under her maiden name. In an age when a person’s name can be searched globally on the Internet, “the utility and necessity of using the surname one had before marriage has increased even further,” wrote Justice Okabe, joined by her two female colleagues.

The plaintiffs had argued that the law breached their constitutional rights. They demanded a total of \6 million ($49,200) in damages from the government.

In another marriage-related case Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down a law that bans women, but not men, from remarrying within six months of a divorce.

The case was brought by a plaintiff in western Japan, who argued that imposing the restriction only on women violated her constitutional right to equality. She had demanded that the government pay \1.7 million in damages.

The Supreme Court said the six-month period should be reduced to 100 days or fewer. It called the shorter period justifiable to avoid confusion over paternity in instances where the ex-wife is pregnant. Parliament must approve the change to a 100-day rule, and Mr. Abe’s spokesman said work to do so would begin promptly.

The court dismissed the plaintiff’s claim for damages.

The rulings came as the place of women in Japanese society is evolving. It remains common in Japan for women to quit their full-time work when they have children or marry.

While most women work, they aren’t paid as much as their male counterparts, with women still making only 72% of what men do, according to a survey by the government released in February.

Many women are waiting until they are older to marry, and because birth out of wedlock is uncommon in Japan, birthrates have fallen, with the average woman having about 1.4 children in her lifetime.

Write to Jun Hongo at Jun.Hongo@wsj.com
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Culture and tradition. In English, family means 'F'ather 'A'nd 'M'other 'I' 'L'ove 'Y'ou. In Japanese, family means clan. Marriage means family ties between man's clan and woman's clan. Woman become a member of man's clan.
Have you ever heard 100th/442nd composed entirely of Japanese Americans ? Half year before the Pacific war between the US and Japan, Hideki Tojo, P.M. later on, sent a letter to Compton Gakuen, a Japanese language school in Hawaii. Mr. Endo, the school principal, introduced the letter to about a hundred students and teachers at a morning assembly. 'This is the letter to you, the second generation Japanese American. You are American. Therefore, It should be obvious to dedicate your loyalty to your own motherland', the United States of America. Hideki Tojo had instructed 'Bushido', the Soul of Japan.
(FYI)
Woman in China continue holding her own surname, and never be viewed as man's family member.
(PS)
Children also have struggle if their parent(s) divorce or re-divorce.

[WSJ] Climate Agreement’s Success Hinges on Countries Making Painful Decisions

2015-12-13 23:30:39 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
Climate Agreement’s Success Hinges on Countries Making Painful Decisions
Supporters hope the deal will unleash an avalanche of investment in renewable energy, new technologies
http://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-agreements-success-hinges-on-countries-making-painful-decisions-1450055578

By GABRIELE STEINHAUSER, MATTHEW DALTON and BILL SPINDLE
Updated Dec. 13, 2015 11:30 p.m. ET
94 COMMENTS
PARIS—The landmark climate agreement that more than 190 countries struck over the weekend ushers in a broad, new international effort to wind down the fossil-fuel era.

But as two weeks of tumultuous negotiations made clear, the pact’s success hinges on individual countries making painful choices—especially in how they produce and consume energy—that could profoundly shape corporate behavior, financial markets and the global economic landscape.

Paul Polman, chief executive of European-based consumer-goods giant Unilever PLC and an outspoken environmental advocate, said the deal sent an “unequivocal signal to the business and financial communities, one that will drive real change in the real economy.”

Others, especially from the fossil-fuel industry and some U.S. companies, were more critical or played down the impact of the agreement on their businesses. Stephen Eule, vice president for climate and technology at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which lobbies Washington lawmakers on behalf of large U.S. companies, said the deal risks damaging the U.S. economy by pushing the country toward most costly energy from renewable sources.

“The Paris climate conference delivered more of the same—lots of promises and lots of issues still left unresolved,” he said. “The White House’s overall domestic strategy of making energy more expensive and less abundant to satisfy international constituencies, many of whom compete against the United States, should worry the business community, American workers and consumers.”

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Supporters hope the deal will unleash an avalanche of financing and investment from entrepreneurs, companies and international lenders into renewable energy sources, technologies such as electric cars and new ways to capture and store gasses from carbon-intensive fuels such as coal.

Still, Benjamin Sporton , chief executive of the World Coal Association, an industry advocate, said the agreement left room for the coal industry to grow, especially with renewed financing for carbon capture and storage to stop emissions from being released into the atmosphere.

At the core of the agreement, reached Saturday evening in a suburb of Paris, is a collection of voluntary plans submitted by every country to tackle climate change, each reflecting its own economic and political situation. Most of them focus on shifting to renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and, for some, nuclear power and away from carbon-heavy fuels such as coal and oil.

While the plans lay out a monumental challenge, in aggregate they still don’t meet the level of cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions that the agreement itself targets. Much of the success of the deal also lies in implementation years from now, by governments that haven’t yet been elected. The accord’s requirement to review the ambition of the planned cuts to emissions provides what supporters hope will be an open-ended commitment to deeper cuts.

The plans aren’t legally enforceable—a condition the U.S. among others insisted upon—though the deal does legally bind countries to a periodic review process that backers of the accord hope will prod countries to repeatedly raise their greenhouse-gas-cutting efforts.

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In addition, developed countries have to help provide at least $100 billion annually from a variety of sources after 2020 to help developing countries cut their emissions.

Getting to that agreement was a bumpy path and an outcome that surprised many participants and observers as ambitions in the negotiating rooms grew—rather than sliding to a lowest common denominator or falling apart altogether, as they have in the past. A key alliance that sprang up was among a group of small developing nations led by the tiny Marshall Islands, along with Mexico and Colombia—and the European Union. All wanted a tough agreement that wasn’t only legally binding but also aimed for a more aggressive target in curbing the rise in average global temperatures.

The conference’s stated goal was to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The islands wanted a goal of 1.5 degrees, arguing that aiming for the 2-degree target wouldn’t be enough to prevent them from being wiped out by rising sea levels, based on most scientific forecasts.

While the U.S. wasn’t willing to go that far, it soon joined forces with the alliance, offering to join their calls for a more ambitious target in exchange for acknowledgment that developed nations wouldn’t take on the liability for the damage to poor countries caused by rising sea levels and more frequent, more intense storms.

One U.S. demand shaped the conference before it even began: In a divided Washington, Republicans who control Congress vowed to reject anything the Democratic Obama administration sent there for approval. For Todd Stern, who headed the U.S. negotiating team in Paris, that ruled out any legally binding commitment to cut emissions, a major goal of the Europeans and some other countries.

That large caveat thrust a top State Department lawyer into the center of the fray. Susan Biniaz was the arbiter on the critical matter of what would or wouldn’t require U.S. congressional authorization during the talks.

“Nothing moves in the U.S. delegation without her approval,” said Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko, the South African diplomat who leads the Group of 77, which represented more than 100 developing nations in the climate talks.

Other domestic concerns also dogged the talks: developing countries had long been treated differently than developed nations in climate talks, since industrial countries have contributed the most to greenhouse-gas emissions and have more resources to address the problem.

This time, the developed countries wanted all of the nations to make efforts to curb emissions and some, especially China, now the largest emitter and world’s second largest economy, to help others financially.

The differences were settled in the night between Friday and Saturday, when developed countries agreed to continue leading on financing, leaving large emerging markets like China free to make just voluntary contributions. In return, developing countries accepted regular reviews and checks of their voluntary plans to curb emissions

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Contrary to past talks and defying expectations, much of the language in the text strengthened as drafts were released to the public, instead of weakened. In the backrooms, the coalition that wanted a more ambitious plan was pushing that along as it gained momentum in the final days of the talks. French diplomats led by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius pressed them into just enough compromise to ultimately produce a text that stunned many with its specific commitments to five-year reviews and common reporting guidelines.

But just as Mr. Fabius was about to enter the conference hall to call a final vote, a last-minute crisis broke out behind the scenes. For many, it recalled the 11th-hour debacle that hit the Copenhagen conference on climate change in 2009.

Mr. Stern, the U.S. climate envoy, was reviewing the final text minutes after it came out when he noticed a mysterious change: A “should” that was in the previous draft of the text had been replaced with a “shall”—a word change that might have required the deal to go through Congress.

Mr. Stern alerted Mr. Kerry, who called Mr. Fabius to ask what had happened. Mr. Fabius and his aides said they had no idea. While Mr. Stern assumed the change was a mistake, fears started to grow that it could stop the process. “This is not a negotiation with rich years of harmonious interaction,” Mr. Stern said.

The U.S. delegation asked that the previously used “should” be put back. Then, the delegation from Nicaragua, led by Paul Oquist an Illinois-born adviser to the Nicaraguan president, used the change as an opening to argue that it should be able to make new demands that developed countries do more.

As hundreds of delegates milled about the conference hall and several thousand journalists watched on a Web feed from outside, the Nicaraguan move set off a flurry of last-minute interventions, including one by Miguel Arias Cañete, the EU’s climate and energy commissioner.

“Don’t block it—we can find a solution,” Mr. Cañete told Mr. Oquist, according to a person familiar with the talks. “You don’t want to do this in front of the world’s eyes.”

The dispute was resolved when Mr. Oquist was granted an early opportunity to comment in the session after the agreement was adopted by all countries.

Mr. Fabius took his seat, looked around asking if there were any objections to the agreement before banging a green gavel on the table to mark the agreement’s adoption.

Minutes later Mr. Oquist stood to denounce the agreement—knowing full well it was too late to change it.

—Carol E. Lee and Colleen McCain Nelson in Washington contributed to this article.

Write to Gabriele Steinhauser at gabriele.steinhauser@wsj.com, Matthew Dalton at Matthew.Dalton@wsj.com and Bill Spindle at bill.spindle@wsj.com

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CCP is stupid today as usual. China has never fulfilled her word.
Just watch her track record for at least 200 years!
While establishing AIIB, China is to receive a $300m (£198m) loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help it combat dangerous pollution levels in Beijing city and its surrounding area.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35067900

China has not finish her repayment to ADB yet, China pledges $60 billion in funding support to Africa.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/04/africa/china-xi-jinping-60-billion-funding/

[WSJ] India and Japan Sign Rail and Defense Deals in Show of Stronger Ties

2015-12-12 18:10:28 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
India and Japan Sign Rail and Defense Deals in Show of Stronger Ties
The two countries also moved closer toward a nuclear deal
http://www.wsj.com/articles/india-and-japan-sign-rail-and-defense-deals-in-show-of-stronger-ties-1449918627?cb=logged0.2877041327301413

By GABRIELE PARUSSINI
Dec. 12, 2015 6:10 a.m. ET
6 COMMENTS
MUMBAI—India and Japan on Saturday signed a $15 billion high-speed rail agreement and a raft of other accords to strengthen ties, as countries across Asia seek to counterbalance China’s growing assertiveness in the region.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra and Shinzo Abe, his Japanese counterpart, said they would run joint naval exercises and agreed to transfer technology to increase arms production in India. They also took a step toward a pact on the use of civil-nuclear energy, but said technical details needed to be ironed out before a final agreement was signed.

“We have made enormous progress in economic cooperation and in our regional partnership and security cooperation,” said Mr. Modi.

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The two countries announced they had agreed a plan to build the 500-kilometer high-speed corridor, a significant upgrade to India’s outdated and slow railway system.

The multibillion-dollar deal to build a railway between Mumbai and Gujarat’s capital, Ahmedabad, comes as the last step of a quick rapprochement between Asia’s two largest democracies over the past 18 months, in what observers see as a concerted effort to build a counterweight to China’s influence.

The railway deal—which comes with financing worth $12 billion on terms Mr. Modi described as “very easy”—also represents a boon for Japanese business, which has suffered embarrassing losses to China in bids for bullet-train contracts in Indonesia and Thailand.

The high-speed railway project will use technology developed to build Japan’s extensive Shinkansen network—on which trains run at more than 300 kilometers an hour—and will be a welcome update to India’s vast but often inefficient and overburdened railway network, which acts as a break on the country’s economic growth.

“This enterprise will launch a revolution on Indian railways and speed up India’s journey into the future,” Mr. Modi said at the news conference. “It will become an engine of economic transformation in India.”

An energy accord with Japan would allow India to boost its nuclear-power production, easing international pressure for the South Asian nation to cut carbon emissions generated by its coal-fired power plants.

News of the rail deal came out ahead of the meeting, but officials said that talks on the nuclear deal were continuing Friday evening.

India needs nuclear technology to boost the energy supply to its fast-expanding economy, while keeping its carbon emissions—already the world’s fourth-largest—under control.

Japan, the only country to have suffered nuclear attacks, sought assurances from India, which isn’t a signatory on the global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a 1968 agreement signed by 190 countries, to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

“I know the significance of this decision for Japan, and I assure you that India deeply respect that decision and will honor and respect its commitments,” Mr. Modi said.

‘This enterprise will launch a revolution on Indian railways and speed up India’s journey into the future.’
—Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Messrs. Modi and Abe said Japan will take part in the India-U.S. Malabar naval exercises off the coast of the South Asian country on a regular basis, to develop stronger capabilities to deal with maritime challenges in the Indo-Pacific region.

Mr. Modi indicated his support for Mr. Abe as Asian nations struggle with their response to China’s moves to reclaim land in small reefs whose sovereignty is contested by its South China Sea neighbors, including Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.

The two leaders stressed the “critical importance” of the sea lanes in the South China Sea for regional security, trade and commerce, and called on all states to avoid unilateral actions that could lead to tensions in the region.

“We stand strongly for ensuring freedom of navigation and oversight on maritime commerce. We believe that disputes must be resolved peacefully and that all countries must abide by international laws and norms on maritime issues,” Mr. Modi said.

The two countries also signed agreements on military intelligence and the transfer of defense technology to manufacture weapons in India.

Japan said it supported India’s application to join the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, a group of 21 Pacific Rim member economies that promotes free trade throughout the region. It also allocated 1.5 trillion yen ($12.41 billion) to promote bilateral trade.

Write to Gabriele Parussini at gabriele.parussini@wsj.com
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India Nationals have strong mathematical skill. The significant upgrade to India’s railway system is the big potential to illuminate and to prevail fundamental quality control expertise/insight faster not only in Indian domestic manufacture but also in civilian's heart.
Let's say "5S" (fundamental quality control attitude and technique), "Yubisashi Kosho" (pointing and calling method deceasing mistakes to 1/6 ), and "Goanzenni" (blessing fellow's safety and pledging own safety behavior from the bottom of heart), ideas which were made of Japanese "Omotenashi".
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@Mitsuru Hashimoto
You stupid just wanted to say anything with distortion against Abe-cabinet as typical communists in Japan do.
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@Mitsuru Hashimoto
Whatever you say, stop distortion.
Focus on the fact, not denying but accepting.
Write in detail clearly, precisely, honestly and fairly.
Never depend slur nor just show image/fantasy you want for your stupid propaganda.
Your way of writing is very typical way of Asahi-Okinawa-Kyodo-NYT Marxist Media.
At least you should go and comment on the relevant article.
You can proud of your position of left wing, but never try to cheat public.

[WSJ] South Korean Arrested in Connection With Yasukuni Shrine Explosion

2015-12-09 04:50:01 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
South Korean Arrested in Connection With Yasukuni Shrine Explosion
Shrine honoring Japanese dead, including war criminals, has been targeted in the past
http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korean-arrested-in-connection-with-yasukuni-shrine-explosion-1449646156?cb=logged0.2982864489313215

By JUN HONGO in Tokyo and ALASTAIR GALE in Seoul
Updated Dec. 9, 2015 4:50 a.m. ET
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A South Korean man was arrested in Tokyo on Wednesday in connection with an explosion last month at the controversial Yasukuni shrine in the Japanese capital.

The incident highlights the historic fraught ties between the two nations, but is unlikely to significantly worsen relations, experts said.

Jeon Chang-han, 27, was arrested for entering the shrine with unlawful purposes between 11 a.m. on Nov. 22 and 10 a.m. on Nov. 23, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said.

An explosion occurred inside a public bathroom near the shrine’s southern gate at around 10 a.m. on Nov. 23. No one was injured in the blast.

The Tokyo police spokesman declined to offer further information about Mr. Jeon, including whether he had denied involvement in the blast. Japanese media reported that Mr. Jeon said he didn’t know anything about the incident. It wasn’t clear if Mr. Jeon was represented by a lawyer.

The South Korean Foreign Ministry said it had been informed of Mr. Jeon’s arrest and a local consular official has been dispatched to assist him.

Yasukuni honors 2.4 million Japanese war dead, including 14 convicted Class-A war criminals. It is seen by many, including some in Japan, as a symbol of the country’s militarism before and during World War II.

Visits to the shrine by Japanese prime ministers, including Shinzo Abe in December 2013, provoke outrage in China and South Korea, which were invaded by Japan.

The shrine has been targeted in the past. On New Year’s Eve last year, a 25-year-old Japanese man was arrested after he set fire to one of the shrine’s outer buildings. In 2013, a South Korean man was arrested for entering the compound with inflammable liquids.

South Korea angered Japan by refusing to extradite a Chinese man for trial following an arson attack at Yasukuni in 2011, but experts said single incidents such as the latest attack aren’t major irritants to Seoul-Tokyo relations.

“I don’t think it’s that important. If this had resulted in some casualties then there would’ve been a reason to look at it very seriously,” said James Kim, a research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a Seoul-based think-tank.

The Mainichi Shimbun reported Wednesday that Mr. Jeon became a suspect after local surveillance cameras recorded someone resembling him carrying a paper bag near the shrine before the explosion occurred. Mr. Jeon left Japan after the incident but was arrested at Haneda airport in Tokyo upon returning to the country Wednesday, the paper and other news reports said.

Media reports in South Korea described Mr. Jeon as living alone and having little contact with neighbors in a town in the southwest of the country. He was discharged from his position as a noncommissioned air force officer this year, an official at South Korea’s air force said.

—Min Sun Lee in Seoul contributed to this article.

Write to Alastair Gale at alastair.gale@wsj.com
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As US Nationals respect veterans, Japan Nationals respect Yasukuni war memorial shrine.
Assuming Jeon Chang-han is the criminal, uncertainty exists.
(1) How did Jeon Chang-han bring the bomb to Japan?
(2) Why does the time bomb looks like Japanese communist left wingers' type?
(3) Who supported Jeon Chang-han's terrorism in Japan?

At the day of the Harvest festival 'Daijousai', the explosion occurred with sound on the floor in the toilet, and the sound was the dirty trick to gather people. Fortunately time bomb on the ceiling failed to explode. The time bomb was the same type as Japanese communist left winger's type.

This incident must be a sample case.
Japan's national security scheme must rebuild in order not to allow any terrorist to easily go abroad just after crime.

[Al Jazeera] Japan combats rise in hate speech

2015-11-30 05:00:44 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
Japan combats rise in hate speech
Japan is the only developed country without anti-discrimination laws, and ethnic Koreans are often targeted
November 30, 2015 5:00AM ET
by Daniel Krieger @daniel_krieger & Norica Panayota Kitano

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/30/japan-encounters-rise-in-hate-speech.html

On a chilly February evening in 2013, Shinhae Lee, a journalist and ethnic Korean woman who has lived in Japan her whole life, was at home by herself in Osaka when her computer pinged with a message from a friend. It said the leader of the nationalist group Zaitokukai had just announced on the Internet that he was sending her a spike, known in Japanese lore for its ability to curse someone to death.

Sensing she was up against thousands of faceless ultranationalists who wished her the worst, Lee went to the police, who said there was nothing they could do. She had been told the same thing two years earlier, when she reported that she felt threatened by a wave of hateful comments online and in public. A 44-year-old freelance writer who lives with her Japanese husband and teenage son, Lee got on Zaitokukai’s radar in 2011 after criticizing the group, which claims to have about 15,000 members, in a series of articles and TV appearances. Zaitokukai followers retaliated against Lee at rallies and on social media, calling her a “Korean hag” and other ethnically and sexually charged invectives. Once, after a Tokyo protest, a 28-year-old office worker wrote on Twitter, “Let’s expel Koreans, the good ones and bad ones, and let’s kill that woman,” referring to Lee. The police questioned him, and he apologized, but she was deeply shaken by how casually and gleefully strangers could champion her murder.

There are half a million ethnic Koreans in Japan, people known as Zainichi. They have kept their South Korean citizenship out of ancestral pride, but Zainichi are permanent residents. They're assimilated into Japanese culture, and many don’t speak Korean or have ties to Korea. Even so, ultranationalist groups like Zaitokukai have singled them out and used Japan’s very liberal protection of speech to harass, intimidate and silence Zainichi with noisy street protests and attacks online, often anonymously.

As a Zaitokukai spokesman said in a recent email, the ultimate goal of the group is to repeal the Immigration Control Act, which grants Zainichi permanent residency status and entitlement to health care, welfare and social security.

Zaitokukai, Japan, ultranationalism, Lee Myung-bak
Zaitokukai members wave imperialist Japanese flags, which are associated with nationalist causes, during a rally in Tokyo. In the front, a man holds a poster featuring former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak.Toru Yamanaka / AFP / Getty Images
Japan is the only developed country without anti-discrimination laws. Although the government has long maintained that racism and discrimination don’t exist in Japan, the reality has gotten harder to deny. The rise of Zaitokukai has led to the spread of anti-Korean rallies across Japan, which draw dozens to hundreds of supporters from a radical fringe. They have marched with imperialist Japanese flags, described Koreans as parasites and criminals and called for their death. At one of its gatherings two years ago in Osaka, a 14-year-old Japanese girl told a small group of demonstrators, “I hate the Koreans so much, I can’t stand it. I just want to kill them all now.” She then proposed a massacre like the Rape of Nanking, prompting cheers of approval.

In the last few years, however, Zaitokukai has encountered a backlash. Japanese people have confronted members at their rallies with larger counterdemonstrations, a few of which turned violent. And in an unprecedented decision, the Japanese Supreme Court upheld a groundbreaking ruling forcing Zaitokukai to pay about $100,000 to a Kyoto elementary school for harassing ethnic Korean students after members stood outside the school shouting through bullhorns that children were cockroaches and children of spies. This summer, a Zainichi woman in Osaka filed suit against her company and its chairman for distributing discriminatory materials about Japanese-Koreans at work. And there is Lee’s case: After the online attacks, she filed suit in the Osaka District Court against the Zaitokukai and its then-leader, Makoto Sakurai, for $45,000.

“When I realized that criminal charges were difficult,” she said in a recent interview, “I felt that I had no choice but to take civil action.” In response, Sakurai, whose real surname is Takata, told the Japanese press, “She should take a good look herself at what she said. We plan to countersue her for groundless articles she wrote online.”

‘We are just saying that people who don’t like Japan should go back to their own country. What part of that is hate speech?’
Makoto Sakurai, former Zaitokukai leader
Lee is also suing the website Hoshu Sokuho for about $183,000 for compiling what she said are hateful anonymous messages about her and highlighting them on the Web message board 2channel. The case still has a long way to go, and the stress of it wears on her. She is often fearful in public and makes sure no one follows her from the courthouse. Though the harassment hasn’t let up, she and other Zainichi have noticed that anti-Korean rhetoric has become tempered lately. It’s now more common to call Koreans guests than to be explicitly racist and, in lieu of death threats, to complain about the special privileges they supposedly receive.

In a statement that anticipated Donald Trump’s infamous diatribe about Mexican immigrants, Sakurai expressed his concerns about the Zainichi at a 2013 rally near Tokyo. “Many Japanese are losing their lives because of crimes committed by Korean residents. Murder. Robbery. Arson. We are just saying that people who don’t like Japan should go back to their own country. What part of that is hate speech?” he said. More recently, a Zaitokukai spokesman claimed to be unaware of the extreme tactics often employed by the group, saying, “That Zainichi are discriminated against is a delusion.”

Japan, racism, ultranationalism
People hold signs and shout anti-racist slogans during a rally against an ultranationalist march in Tokyo on February 8, 2015.David Mareuil / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
Another Zainichi woman to file a lawsuit, who is withholding her name to avoid harassment, disagrees with that assessment. A 47-year-old, third-generation Zainichi who lives with her Japanese husband and children in Osaka, she worked at Fuji Corp. without incident for a decade. But a few years ago, she said, her boss began sharing nationalistic propaganda and offensive comments about Zainichi, circulated in house on photocopied handouts. The material called them liars, expressed hatred and claimed they avoided paying taxes. “Some colleagues actually asked me if I ever pay taxes,” she said, deeply upset by all of it.

The woman went to Japan's Labor Standards Bureau and was told such statements were protected by free speech. So she got in touch with a lawyer and, before filing suit, wrote a letter asking the company to stop the offensive comments. In response, she was given the option to resign with compensation or to keep working without making a fuss. Instead, she initiated a lawsuit in August against the chairman and the company, suing them for about $275,000 for causing emotional distress.

After being reached for comment, Fuji Corp. posted a statement on its website calling her claim “groundless.”

According to Yasuko Morooka, a human rights lawyer and the author of the 2013 book “What Is Hate Speech?” these lawsuits will help anti-hate-speech legislation along by proving such discrimination does exist. “Almost all ethnic Koreans living in Japan have experienced discrimination,” she said in a recent interview, “so hate speech is nothing new.” With the recent increase in hate speech, a ban is necessary, she said, though it’s not a panacea.

“Education at school is essential to eradicating hate speech,” Morooka said, adding that erroneous beliefs about ethnic Koreans, like those promoted by Zaitokukai, arise from ignorance of Japan’s history with minorities. For much of the 20th century, anti-Korean sentiment was pervasive in Japan and affected government policy. “The Japanese government has been discriminating against ethnic Koreans living in Japan — the main target of hate speech — in its legal system since its colonial, expansionist era and postwar,” she said.

Yet there are signs that the government may be taking a more proactive approach. The national government launched an investigation into hate speech in July, and in May, Osaka became the first city in the country to propose a bill aimed at curbing hate speech. The same week, a group of national lawmakers submitted a bill that would outlaw racism and hate speech. Both proposals have stalled, yet in another sign of the momentum behind Japan’s anti-hate movement, more than 100 local governments across the country have formally condemned hate speech and made it harder to use public areas for hate rallies.

“We must stop hate speech now,” Morooka said, “so we don’t repeat history.”
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Al-Qaeda school won't be allowed in the USA
But, Japan has something anti-Japan racism.
pic.twitter.com/lFSNXHlXkX

North Korean begging for North Korean school fee to Japan with soiled Japanese flag.
twitpic.com/cg9y58
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Sure. “Hate-speech and racism must be stopped. BOTH Japan and Korea should not allow such activities, policies and education.”
I have appealed above my opinion to JPN Gov., P.M. Abe, JPN P.M. Office, Tokyo Gov., JPN Mofa., Korean Gov., Pres. Park., Seoul Gov., Korean Mofa., and, “Korean embassy in Japan” and “Korean Residents Union ’Mindan’ in Japan” as well as Zaitokukai and “CRAC”.
As a result, “Korean embassy in Japan”, “Korean Residents Union ’Mindan’ in Japan, and “CRAC” deleted my post and blocked me!
Does everybody really understand what real problem has been?
You will find who has wanted to keep hate-speech demo and real racism.
Zaitokukai’s opinions about issues make sense so majority of Japanese seems to support the opinions despite showing strong concerning and disagreement with their way of demo and attitude.
Zaitokukai’s leader, Makoto Sakurai, issued the book which had become best-seller in Amazon.

Today's Japanese hated emotion against Korean has been born by anti-Japan ideology and consecutive Japan discount campaign such as Sea of Japan, Takeshima, and statue of comfort women.
Essential real problem is anti-Japan ideology fabricated by Korean and Korean Government supported by communists in Japan. The faked idea as tool for brainwashing BOTH Korean and Japanese has abused even at school and mass-media to hold strong hated emotion against anything Japan.
Most lies which are used as influential method among Zainichi issues are below.
(lie 1) Korean residents in Japan were forced to migrated from Korea to Japan during Japan-Korea Annexation.
(lie 2) Korean name were forced to rename into Japanese style.
(lie 3) Korean language was abolished by Imperial Japan.
(true 1) All the Korean residents other than criminals has lived in Japan by their own will. NO EXCEPTION.
On Feb. 1955, JPN Mofa issued researching result about the reason of immigration and stay asking 610,000 Korean residents in Japan when registering them. Only 245 requisition workers staying in Japan existed and even they stayed in Japan by their own will.
(true 2) Korean name were maintained. Japanese style name were allowed to use as well. NO RENAME.
Imperial Japan emancipated slaves consisting 30% of Korean population during Yi chosen era who did not have family name. Of them, women did not have even first name such as dog and livelihood. Imperial Japan recommended them to create own family name. Japanese style name was allowed as well.
(true 3) Imperial Japan built over 5,000 primary schools and over 1,000 schools such as universities, then prepared, organized and outreached Hangul or Korean language resulting raised literacy rate in Korea from 4% in 1910 to above 61% in 1944.

[WSJ] Russia-Turkey Tensions Simmer After Jet Shootdown

2015-11-25 17:02:17 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
Russia-Turkey Tensions Simmer After Jet Shootdown
Moscow resumes airstrikes in Syria near border, calls strike ‘planned provocation’
http://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-prime-minister-says-relations-with-turkey-nato-are-damaged-1448439816?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks_3

By EMRE PEKER in Istanbul and THOMAS GROVE in Moscow
Updated Nov. 25, 2015 5:02 p.m. ET

A day after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane, Russia resumed its airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday, hitting near the Turkish border even as both sides steered clear of further direct military confrontation.

Russian forces recovered the surviving crew member from its downed plane in northern Syria, while opposition activists reported fatalities from what they said was an airstrike on civilian supply trucks near the Syrian town of Azaz.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, traded barbs on the airwaves, with Turkey vowing to protect its borders and Russia pledging to destroy any threat to its forces in Syria.

“After what happened yesterday, we cannot exclude some kind of other incidents. And if they occur, we, in one way or another, will have to respond,” said Mr. Putin, who sent one of Russia’s most advanced air-defense systems to its air base in Syria.

The shootdown has raised fears of conflict between major powers entangled in the Syria conflict. But Russia’s immediate threats to Turkey appeared to be mostly along economic lines.

With a migrant crisis engulfing Europe, civil war in Syria and a proliferation of terror groups in the region, Turkey finds itself as a geopolitical hotspot. WSJ's Niki Blasina explains the key flashpoints, including Russia, the U.S. and the European Union. Photo: AP.
French President François Hollande was due in Moscow on Thursday, two days after talks with President Barack Obama, to discuss efforts to coordinate international efforts to fight Islamic State, which has been blamed for recent attacks on Paris and a Russian passenger jet.

The U.S.-led coalition accuses Russia of targeting groups beyond Islamic State in an effort to prop up its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom the West wants replaced.

Russian airstrikes have recently hit around Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, where pro-regime forces and their allies have been pressing a ground offensive against Islamic State and a coalition of rebel groups.

Those airstrikes continued Wednesday, including one near Azaz, about 3 miles from the Turkish border and 30 miles north of Aleppo.

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency, citing a rebel group commander, said the strike hit a Syrian convoy delivering supplies to refugees, killing seven drivers and setting 20 trucks ablaze.

But there were conflicting reports over the target of the strike. One local Syrian activist said the trucks had just come from Turkey, while another said they were mostly from Aleppo and parked at a depot where they normally load up on imported goods for delivery to opposition-held parts of northern Syria.

Russia’s Defense Ministry couldn’t be immediately reached for comment.

Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu outlined plans to ramp up security at Russia’s Hmeimim base in Syria, with an S-400 missile system, one of Russia’s most powerful air-defense weapons. He also announced the arrival of a missile cruiser to bolster Moscow’s air campaign in support of Mr. Assad.

But there are no immediate signs it plans to take offensive action in retaliation for the downing of the jet. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia does “not plan to go to war with Turkey.”

While sounding tough on border security, Turkish officials echoed that stance.

Mr. Erdogan said the nationality of the jet wasn’t known until Russian authorities announced it was theirs, and he reiterated that Turkey’s military had warned the warplane repeatedly before Turkish F-16s fired on it.

“We had been showing great effort for a long time to prevent such an incident from happening, issuing the necessary warning to all relevant countries,” Mr. Erdogan said. “We have absolutely no intention of escalating this incident.”

Leaders from Germany, the U.S. and China urged steps to de-escalate the situation following the first shooting down of a Russian warplane by a North Atlantic Treaty Organization member since 1952.

Mr. Lavrov canceled a visit with his Turkish counterpart, but the two had an hour-long phone conversation in which they agreed to share details about the shootdown via diplomatic and military channels.

Mr. Lavrov said the incident looked like a “planned provocation” but added that Turkish businesses and citizens wouldn’t face “artificial problems” even as Moscow re-evaluated its relations with Ankara.

Turkey and Russia managed until recently to compartmentalize their differences over issues such as Syria and Ukraine and forge a tight economic alliance.

Trade between the Black Sea neighbors has doubled to more than $30 billion annually over the past decade. Turkish exports make up about 20% of the transactions, while imports from Russia, led by natural gas, make up the rest.

But after Turkey first reported Russian violations of its airspace in early October, Ankara threatened economic repercussions—a warning reciprocated by Moscow.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said joint projects are at risk of being canceled, and Turkish businesses could lose access to the Russian market, though he didn’t give specific details.

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Mr. Erdogan has said Turkey could look for other natural-gas suppliers, and that Ankara would seek another partner to build its first nuclear plant if Russia halts the project.

Diverting the energy trade wouldn’t be easy. Turkey buys some 60% of its natural gas from Russia, an amount that would be hard to immediately secure elsewhere.

Russia also relies on gas sales to Turkey, its second-largest customer after Germany, for revenue to cover its budget, which is already suffering from a recession caused in part by Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and low oil prices.

Russia’s Federal Tourism Agency advised tour operators to stop selling trips to Turkey. Russian tourists account for around $2.5 billion, or 0.5%, of Turkey’s annual gross domestic product, according to Charles Robertson, chief global economist at Renaissance Capital.

Ankara and Moscow’s deteriorating diplomatic ties also risk damaging the nascent effort by France to include Russia in the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State.

Turkey and its NATO allies, including the U.S., are pressing for the departure of Mr. Assad from power after a transition period to end the Syrian war, while Russia backs the current president’s bid to stay in power.

Russia’s ambassador to France, Alexandre Orlov, told the Europe 1 radio station Wednesday that Moscow was still keen on forging a broad alliance.

Mr. Erdogan once again chided countries supporting Mr. Assad, without naming his principal sponsors, Russia and Iran.

Diplomatic efforts to end the Syria conflict must be safeguarded, Mr. Lavrov and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini agreed Wednesday following a phone call, the EU said.

—James Marson and Andrey Ostroukh in Moscow, Nick Kostov in Paris and Laurence Norman in Brussels contributed to this article.

Write to Emre Peker at emre.peker@wsj.com and Thomas Grove at thomas.grove@wsj.com

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360-degree means the same....
Turkish Prime Minister: ‘“There is a 360-degree, not 180-degree, difference between the Islam we defend and what Daesh has on its mind”’
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/15/turkish-prime-minister-there-is-a-360-degree-difference-between-turkish-islam-and-isis/

On the other hand,
Turkey disclosed voice record of warning to the bomber, while Russian pilot said 'There is no warning.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_cYTbl-5HE

神風特攻隊が残した戦果は、実はすごかった。

2015-11-21 04:07:02 | 頭の整理メモ
神風特攻隊が残した戦果は、実はすごかった。
http://blog.livedoor.jp/abechan_matome/archives/46956654.html

■ダグラス・マッカーサー陸軍元帥

「沖縄では、大部分が特攻機から成る日本軍の攻撃で、
 米側は、艦船の沈没36隻、破壊368隻、飛行機の喪失800機の損害をだした。

これらの数字は、

南太平洋艦隊がメルボルンから東京までの間にだした
米側の損害の総計を超えているものである。」

■アーネスト・J・キング海軍元帥 

「四月六日からはじまった日本機の攻撃は、いままで嘗てなかった激烈なものだった。この特攻戦は凄惨を極めた。

(略)海上では戦死行方不明4907名、戦傷4824名であった。

 艦船は沈没36隻、損傷368隻であり、飛行機の喪失は763機であった。」

■チェスター・W・ニミッツ海軍元帥

「我が海軍がこうむった損害は、戦争中のどの海域よりも、はるかに大きかった。

 沈没30隻、損傷300隻以上、9000人以上が死亡、行方不明または負傷した。

この大損害は、主として日本の航空攻撃、とくに特攻攻撃によるものであった」

■第五艦隊司令官スプルーアンス大将

「敵軍の自殺航空攻撃の技量と効果および艦艇の喪失と被害の割合がきわめて高いので、今後の攻撃を阻止するため、利用可能な、あらゆる手段を採用すべきである。
第20航空軍を含む、投入可能な全航空機をもって、九州および沖縄の飛行場にたいして、実施可能なあらゆる攻撃を加えるよう意見具申する。」

■第3艦隊司令長官ハルゼー大将
「神風攻撃は、日本海軍の敗戦にもかかわらず、大変面倒なものになった」

■第38任務部隊司令官ミッチャー中将
「神風特攻阻止には空母機動部隊群の増強が必要で、海兵隊の戦闘機隊を空母に搭載すべき」

■RLウェアマイスター海軍中尉

「神風は米艦隊の撃滅には成功しなかったが、多大の損害を与えた。 在来の戦法ではとてもこんな成果を上げられなかったであろう。

日本の飛行機に関する数字が正しいものならば、

日本が失った飛行機の12%で、

米損傷艦艇の約77%、

米海軍人員の死傷者中約80%をやっつけたことになる。

すばらしい戦果といえよう。

また神風の特攻があったため、多数の米高速空母がハリツケになったことも、大きな成果のひとつである。

もしも神風攻撃がなかったら、

これらの空母は、

自由に日本本土の基地や工場を破壊することができたはずである。」

■マルカム・ハーバート・マックガン大尉(護衛空母「サンガモン」乗組パイロット)

 炎上中の特攻機を海中に投棄するのを手伝ったマックガンは、ずっとのちになって、日本軍パイロットを賞賛して、 「わが艦の飛行甲板を突き抜けたあの男は、私より立派だ。私には、あんなことはやれなかっただろう」と語った。

■ハンソン W・ボールドウィン(米国の従軍記者)

「4月末になっても、菊水特攻隊の作戦は衰えをみせなかった。この恐るべき死闘は、なお2ヶ月間も続くのである。

・・・4月以降になると、これほどの艦船の沈没、損傷の危険は二度と無かった。

5,6月両月を通じて、沖縄の戦いは徐々に爆弾対艦艇の戦闘から人間対人間の意志と耐久力の試練に変わっていた。
毎日が絶え間ない警報の連続だった。ぶっつづけに40日間も毎日毎日、空襲があった。そのあとやっと、悪天候のおかげで、短期間ながらほっと一息入れたのである。ぐっすり眠る。これがだれもの憧れになり、夢となった。頭は照準器の上にいつしか垂れ、 神経はすりきれ、だれもが怒りっぽくなっていた。艦長たちの眼は真っ赤となり、恐ろしいほど面やつれした。」

■アルバート・カフ(UP通信社)

「カミカゼ特攻隊は、確かに大きな損害を米軍に与えた。そしてカミカゼのパイロットたちが、
勇敢な人たちであったことは疑いがない。

そしてアメリカ兵が“カミカゼ”を恐れ、怖がったことは否定できない。

実際、パニックが起こりかけていた」


■マルカム・ハーバート・マックガン大尉(護衛空母「サンガモン」乗組パイロット)

 炎上中の特攻機を海中に投棄するのを手伝ったマックガンは、ずっとのちになって、日本軍パイロットを賞賛して、

「わが艦の飛行甲板を突き抜けたあの男は、私より立派だ。私には、あんなことはやれなかっただろう」

と語った。

■アンドレ・マルロー(フランス 元文化相)

「日本は太平洋戦争に敗れはしたが、そのかわりに何ものにも替え難いものを得た。
それは、世界のどんな国も真似のできない特別攻撃隊である。スターリン主義者たちにせよ、
ナチ党員にせよ、結局は権力を手に入れるための行動だった。
日本の特別攻撃隊たちは、ファナチックだっただろうか。断じて違う。彼らには、
権勢欲とか名誉欲など、かけらもなかった。祖国を憂える尊い情熱があるだけだった。

代償を求めない純粋な行為、そこには真の偉大さがあり、逆上と紙一重のファナチズムとは
根本的に異質である。人間は、いつでも、偉大さへの志向を失ってはならないのだ」

[WSJ] Japan Postpones Official Visit by U.N. Free-Speech Representative

2015-11-20 03:33:41 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
Japan Postpones Official Visit by U.N. Free-Speech Representative
U.N. representative on freedom of expression planned to raise controversial state secrets law with Japanese government
http://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-postpones-u-n-meeting-amid-concerns-government-chills-scrutiny-1448008431?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks_4&cb=logged0.9116259545553476

By ELEANOR WARNOCK
Nov. 20, 2015 3:33 a.m. ET
1 COMMENTS
TOKYO—Japan postponed an official visit by a United Nations representative for free speech, the latest move to prompt questions about the government’s commitment to freedom of expression.

David Kaye, U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of expression, said he planned to discuss a controversial state secrets act passed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government in 2013, among other issues. The law toughens penalties for leaking intelligence, but critics say it could be used to intimidate the press as wells as government whistleblowers and watchdog groups.

The government, which had invited Mr. Kaye to come the first week of December, said it ended up not being able to make the necessary preparations for that time and would reschedule.

Thomas Hughes, executive director of the free-press advocate Article 19, on Friday called the postponement worrying, adding, “Scrutiny of official attitudes to freedom of expression should be unproblematic, and indeed a priority, for a democratic country like Japan.”

A Japanese foreign ministry spokesman declined to comment on whether the meeting was delayed to avert criticism.

The postponement comes amid other charges that Mr. Abe chills scrutiny of the government. During last year’s election, for example, news media outlets said they felt his government pressured them to suppress negative coverage.

Meanwhile, international scholars have criticized the government and ruling party politicians for challenging portrayals of Japan’s activities in World War II. The concerns include Japanese diplomats unsuccessfully pressuring a U.S. publisher last year to change passages in a textbook about Japanese soldiers forcing Korean and other women to serve as prostitutes in WWII.

The government has denied interfering in press or academic freedom, saying it is merely seeking fairness and accuracy in the media and depictions of history. Japan’s top government spokesman has also said that he thinks freedom of expression and speech is of utmost importance.

One topic in the meeting was going to be the state secrets law.

The U.N. Human Rights Committee said last year that the law contains broad definitions and set “high criminal penalties that could generate a chilling effect on the activities of journalists and human rights defenders.”

Government employees convicted of revealing designated state secrets can be sentenced up to 10 years in prison, and abetters up to five.

Mr. Abe has vigorously defended the law, saying it is strictly aimed at spies and terrorists.

Mr. Kaye said in an email response Friday, “I am still hoping that we’ll arrange a mission in 2016, but I also have a number of other country missions and thematic studies on the agenda, so it’s hard to know if we’ll find a time that works for us and the government.”

The Abe administration’s relationship with the U.N. and its agencies has been tense at times. The government demanded this month that a U.N. human rights envoy retract her comment that 13% of Japanese schoolgirls participated in “paid dating,” in which older men pay teenage girls for dates, some involving sex. Japan’s top spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters than the envoy had since promised not to use the data in the future.

Write to Eleanor Warnock at eleanor.warnock@wsj.com
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The UN envoy Maud de Boer-Buquicchio who comes from a family with long ties to the former Bulgarian Communist Party and current Bulgarian Socialist
Party (BSP) has ignored Japanese citizen's angry, while she SILENTLY replied to JPN government and withdrew her words.
She must show the clear apology at international conferences. She have absolute accountability with your words.

Author Eleanor Warnock must show evidence as soon as possible unless no evidence from the beginning. You made serious false statement to humiliate Japanese.
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UN and UNESCO are severely corrupted. They must be restructured in order to function fairly, clearly and correctly.
Not only stupid Ban Ki-moon but also fierce loyal communist Maud de Boer-Buquicchio attended CCP's military parade on September 3, 2015.
http://goo.gl/makO06
http://goo.gl/qfkiLe

[WSJ] Japanese Feeling Happier, Prouder of Their Country

2015-11-18 12:48:52 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
Japanese Feeling Happier, Prouder of Their Country
By ELEANOR WARNOCK
12:48 pm JST
Nov 18, 2015
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/11/18/japanese-feeling-happier-prouder-of-their-country/

Japanese are feeling less apprehensive about the future and more satisfied with their lives, but are also becoming more cautious, according to a survey by Nomura Research Institute.

The company asked 10,316 Japanese about their values, spending habits and use of technology. The company has surveyed more than 10,000 Japanese every three years since 1997. Here are some of the recent findings:


Fewer Japanese think that the economy will worsen, while more think it will improve over the next year. “In 2012, there was very strong pessimism,” said NRI consultant Motoko Matsushita. “Now, it’s not like people really want to spend money, but there is less pessimism. People are taking a wait-and-see attitude, thinking ‘I guess it will get better from here.’”


More than three quarters of respondents said they were fairly satisfied or satisfied with their lives, the highest percentage since NRI started the survey in 1997. Ms. Matsushita said the number of Japanese expressing satisfaction with their lives had risen since 2011, as many felt happy to be alive and with their loved ones.


The survey found that Japanese are becoming more conservative in their lives. “People want to maintain the status quo,” Ms. Matsushita said. “There are fewer people who want to challenge him or herself.” A rising sense of satisfaction was likely linked to the feeling of not wanting to change things, she said.


Japanese are becoming prouder of their country, the survey found. That would be good news for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has said he feels many of Japan’s youth don’t feel pride in their country, which has led to a broader lack of self-confidence.
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In reality, even brainwashed anti-Japan residents in Japan won't dare to answer the following very basic questions by self-brain-freeze.
(1) Which country do you want to live other than Japan?
(2) Which country do you think democratic more than Japan?
(3) Which country do you think successful socialism more than Japan?

[WSJ] French Authorities Raid Suspected Islamists After Paris Attacks

2015-11-16 05:10:17 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
French Authorities Raid Suspected Islamists After Paris Attacks
France conducts airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria
http://www.wsj.com/articles/french-authorities-raid-suspected-islamists-after-paris-attacks-1447661092

By INTI LANDAURO
Updated Nov. 16, 2015 5:10 a.m. ET
3 COMMENTS
PARIS—French police on Monday searched the homes of suspected radical Islamists across France and named another suicide bomber, hours after airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, as the country responds to the attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people.

Authorities carried out raids in several cities across France amid fears that attackers may strike again in the country or elsewhere in Europe, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said.

“We are showing our will to fight terrorism and those who are related to terrorism, radical Islamism, Salafist groups and all those who preach hatred towards the Republic,” Mr. Valls said in an interview on RTL radio.

The crackdown on radical groups comes after French jets struck Islamic State positions near its stronghold of Raqqa in Syria. Mr. Valls said the country was now at war with terrorism and that the Paris attacks were “conceived, organized and planned” in Syria.

Twelve planes took part in the airstrikes, delivering 20 bombs, targeting a command center, including an arms depot and a recruiting post, and a training camp, a French defense official said.

Mr. Valls warned terrorism could strike again in France “in the coming days or weeks.” Intelligence reports show attacks are being prepared in France and in other European countries, he said, adding that no fewer than five terror attack plans have been foiled since the summer.

Mr. Valls also said the French authorities are planning to cancel events related to the Climate Summit to be held later this month, while the summit itself will go ahead as planned.

Separately Monday, Paris Prosecutor François Molins identified Samy Amimour as one of the suicide bombers who attacked the Bataclan concert hall. He said the 28-year-old had preliminary criminal charges filed against him in a case of terrorism in Oct. 2012 and an international warrant was already out for his arrest.

Mr. Amimour was involved in the organization of a trip to Yemen, possibly to join terror groups there. He was placed under surveillance but escaped in 2013 and was wanted by the police since then, the prosecutor said. He was never stood trial for the case.

Three relatives of Mr. Amimour’s were detained Monday morning and held in police custody for questioning.

Parisians Shaken in Wake of Attacks
Paris mourns after attacks that hit the French capital on Friday, killing at least 129 people

Fans gathered in the field as they waited for security clearance to leave the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris.
Mourners left candles and flowers at Place de la République in Paris on Sunday after the attacks on the city on Friday.
A Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral honored the victims on Sunday.
People gathered outside Notre-Dame Cathedral to attend the Mass.
The Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral.
People gathered on Sunday at Place de la République.
People laid flowers and lighted candles on Sunday at La Belle Equipe restaurant, the site of one of the attacks.
Augustin Grezes, 3, left a candle outside of Le Petit Cambodge on Sunday, one of several restaurants that was targeted by terrorists on Friday.
A crowd gathered to lay flowers and candles in front of the Carillon restaurant in Paris on Sunday.
Flowers were placed in bullet holes at Le Carillon restaurant.
A French soldier stood guard at Sacré-Coeur basilica on Sunday in Paris.
French soldiers patrolled at the Eiffel Tower, which was closed as part of three days of national mourning.
Soldiers stood on the tarmac of the Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Saturday as part of a security reinforcement following the attacks.
Bono and band members of U2 paid their respects and placed flowers on the pavement on Saturday near the scene of Friday’s attack at Le Bataclan concert hall.
Forensic experts on Saturday worked outside the Cafe Comptoir Voltaire, one of the scenes of the Paris shootings.
French President François Hollande, addressing the nation on Saturday, said Islamic State was behind the attacks in Paris.
Survivors were tended to at a cafe after gunfire in Le Bataclan.
A victim under a blanket outside Le Bataclan.
A French policeman assisted a blood-covered victim near Le Bataclan.
Rescue-service personnel worked outside Le Carillon immediately after the shootings.
Fans gathered in the field as they waited for security clearance to leave the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris.
Mourners left candles and flowers at Place de la République in Paris on Sunday after the attacks on the city on Friday.
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Fans gathered in the field as they waited for security clearance to leave the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. FRANCK FIFE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES Mourners left candles and flowers at Place de la République in Paris on Sunday after the attacks on the city on Friday. TOLGA AKMEN/ZUMA PRESS A Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral honored the victims on Sunday. NASSER BERZANE/ZUMA PRESS People gathered outside Notre-Dame Cathedral to attend the Mass. ZHOU LEI/ZUMA PRESS The Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral. ZHOU LEI/ZUMA PRESS People gathered on Sunday at Place de la République. MAYA VIDON/ZUMA PRESS People laid flowers and lighted candles on Sunday at La Belle Equipe restaurant, the site of one of the attacks. JEFF J. MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES Augustin Grezes, 3, left a candle outside of Le Petit Cambodge on Sunday, one of several restaurants that was targeted by terrorists on Friday. DANIELLA ZALCMAN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL A crowd gathered to lay flowers and candles in front of the Carillon restaurant in Paris on Sunday. IAN LANGSDON/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Flowers were placed in bullet holes at Le Carillon restaurant. DANIELLA ZALCMAN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL A French soldier stood guard at Sacré-Coeur basilica on Sunday in Paris. DAVID RAMOS/GETTY IMAGES French soldiers patrolled at the Eiffel Tower, which was closed as part of three days of national mourning. PETER DEJONG/ASSOCIATED PRESS Soldiers stood on the tarmac of the Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Saturday as part of a security reinforcement following the attacks. MICHEL SPINGLER/ASSOCIATED PRESS Bono and band members of U2 paid their respects and placed flowers on the pavement on Saturday near the scene of Friday’s attack at Le Bataclan concert hall. JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES Forensic experts on Saturday worked outside the Cafe Comptoir Voltaire, one of the scenes of the Paris shootings. MARIUS BECKER/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY French President François Hollande, addressing the nation on Saturday, said Islamic State was behind the attacks in Paris. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES Survivors were tended to at a cafe after gunfire in Le Bataclan. ANTOINE ANTONIOL/GETTY IMAGES A victim under a blanket outside Le Bataclan. JEROME DELAY/ASSOCIATED PRESS A French policeman assisted a blood-covered victim near Le Bataclan. PHILIPPE WOJAZER/REUTERS Rescue-service personnel worked outside Le Carillon immediately after the shootings. PHILIPPE WOJAZER/REUTERS Fans gathered in the field as they waited for security clearance to leave the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. FRANCK FIFE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES Mourners left candles and flowers at Place de la République in Paris on Sunday after the attacks on the city on Friday. TOLGA AKMEN/ZUMA PRESS
The developments come as investigators continue to try to piece together a chilling picture of Europe’s security: a continent at a loss to detect, let alone foil, a plot as coordinated as that unleashed on Paris on Friday evening.

As France remains in mourning, authorities are racing to find one suspect believed to have been involved. Officials began retracing the paths of the assailants, who they believe carried out the massacre on behalf of Islamic State.

One of them, they said, appeared to have spent time in Syria in 2013 and 2014. Another, they suspect, came into France possibly posing as a refugee. At least several of them had moved undetected by both the French and Belgian governments, using an operating base just 50 miles off France’s border, in Brussels.

“The attacks were planned abroad, and mobilized a team operating from Belgium, which may have received help from France,” French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

As of late Sunday, an international manhunt was under way for Abdeslam Salah, a 26-year-old man born in Belgium, whose brother was among the seven suicide bombers who wreaked havoc at a sports arena, a concert hall and through the streets of Paris.

Police suspect Mr. Salah rented the car used by the attackers to drive to the Bataclan theater, where gunmen killed 89 people and wounded hundreds before blowing themselves up using explosive belts.

French police named a 29-year-old French national as one of the attackers who killed at least 129 people in Paris on Friday. Police are also investigating a car with firearms inside that was found on the edge of the city. Photo: Getty.
Belgian’s foreign minister, Didier Reynders, said Monday that the two countries need to exchange more intelligence to catch all the perpetrators of the attacks. Belgium on Sunday arrested a total of seven people in connection with the Paris attacks, two of whom are French nationals.

At least three of the Paris attackers were French nationals, authorities in France and Belgium said. Belgian prosecutors said that two of them had resided in Belgium and that two of the cars used in the attacks had been rented in the country.

In France, police named the other French national as 29-year-old Omar Ismail Mostefai and said he was believed to have traveled to Syria in the past two years. Authorities said Mr. Mostefai—who had eight convictions between 2004 and 2010 for petty crimes and had been on an extremist watch list since 2010—was identified from a severed finger found at the Bataclan.

Prosecutors say they suspect he spent time in Syria between crossing into Turkey in the fall of 2013 and returning to France in the spring of 2014. Police detained seven of the Frenchman’s friends and family for questioning, including his brother and his father.

How the Attacks in Paris Unfolded
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Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they were in retaliation for French airstrikes against the group in Syria and Iraq, but it hasn’t provided specific information that would allow the claim to be verified.

The revelation that at least several of the attackers were French was a jarring reminder of the reach of militant groups in using European nationals to launch attacks on their home turf, sometimes after training in Syria. The terrorism spree in Paris in January on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and other sites was also carried out by French citizens who were radicalized at home.

The Paris attacks began on Friday evening at the Stade de France, France’s largest stadium, during an exhibition game between the national soccer teams of France and Germany. Three attackers set off suicide vests at the stadium, killing themselves and one other person.

Meanwhile, two groups of gunmen drove around eastern Paris, firing at customers in several restaurants. One of the cars arrived later at the Bataclan theater, where a large crowd had gathered for a concert with California band Eagles of Death Metal. Three gunmen entered the theater began spraying the room.
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Purpose of killing innocent citizens is very much crime. ISIL is genociding not only Levant area. As ISIL want to make ancient age to live , some will make ISIL stone age. While ISIL has denied anything western civilization, ISIL has used western- made weapon, jewish-made internet SNS and Japanese - made cars, but not international law built by overcoming bloody experiences . ISIL must be destroyed. It is good for people in Levant. We know millions of refugees in Levant are still there.

【WSJ】 China’s Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou Meet in Singapore

2015-11-07 12:16:30 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
China’s Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou Meet in Singapore
Meeting is the first between leaders of the two sides since Taiwan and China split in 1949

By CHARLES HUTZLER and JAKE MAXWELL WATTS
Updated Nov. 7, 2015 12:16 p.m. ET
http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-s-xi-jinping-and-taiwan-s-ma-ying-jeou-meet-in-singapore-1446880724?cb=logged0.3537242340389639

SINGAPORE—The leaders of China and Taiwan met for the first time in more than six decades, capping a robust but far from stable engagement between the historical antagonists.

Presidents Xi Jinping of China and Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan shook hands and waved before the media and then met in a function room of a hotel in the Southeast Asian island nation of Singapore, chosen as neutral ground. Both men spoke of the historic moment after 66 years of separation and the need to preserve the stable ties of recent years.

“Today we are sitting together so as not to replay the tragedies of history,” Mr. Xi said before reporters were ushered out of what was scheduled to be an hourlong discussion.

Messrs. Xi and Ma’s summit is freighted with history, being the first such encounter since Mao Zedong’s Communist forces drove Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government from the mainland in 1949. At the same time, it also shows how political relations have lagged behind trade, investment and tourism and other contacts.


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While relations between the two sides for decades wavered between disregard and outright hostility, tensions have eased as those economic and other contacts have grown. That trend has accelerated under Mr. Ma, who has overseen a concerted rapprochement with Beijing in the more than seven years since he took office.

Still, behind the pleasantries spoken by Messrs. Ma and Xi lies an uncertainty over how long Beijing will tolerate lack of movement toward its goal of political reunification with the island.

China’s Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou met in Singapore Saturday, marking the first meeting for the leaders of the two sides since their governments split in 1949. Photo: AP
Mr. Ma, in a meeting with reporters earlier in the week, said his dialogue with Mr. Xi aims to preserve the status quo in which there is no unification, no outright declaration of Taiwan’s formal independence and no military threats.

In remarks to Mr. Xi at the start of their meeting, Mr. Ma called for maintaining the current situation and suggested they set aside more difficult issues.

“On those persisting sensitive issues both sides must be realistic,” Mr. Ma said.

‘Today we are sitting together so as not to replay the tragedies of history’
—Chinese President Xi Jinping
He urged the two sides to move ahead with a trade in goods agreement and set up a hotline between their governments.

Neither Mr. Ma nor Mr. Xi are likely to be able to move too far in pushing for closer relations, if they were inclined to do so.

Taiwan has developed into a robust democracy, with public opinion polls showing broad support for keeping relations with the mainland as they are. Mr. Ma’s engagement policies, while popular with some in the business community, have cost his Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, popular support. The opposition is leading in polls to recapture the presidency in January, and in advance of his summit with Mr. Xi, Mr. Ma promised there would be no agreements signed or made under the table.

While Mr. Xi remains a political force more potent than the lame duck Mr. Ma, he has promoted the idea of China as a great power. Analysts have said he is unlikely to walk away from the idea of ultimate reunification.

Write to Charles Hutzler at charles.hutzler@wsj.com and Jake Maxwell Watts at jake.watts@wsj.com
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CCP is trying to harvest Taiwan. Who believes that people in Taiwan would be intact if such a consolidation occurred?
Poll shows that Ma's supportive rate is below 10% or so, meaning that over 90% or so of Taiwanese dismissed the stupid minister.

Film Exposing Forced Organ Harvesting in China Wins UK Award
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1892378-film-exposing-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china-wins-uk-award/
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@Justin Zhou
We conclude that it is the time for talking when CCP disappears.
That's the good for whole Chinese to be very happy.
Even after that, PRC and Taiwan do not need to be one nation, as U.S. and Canada do not need to be one nation.
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@Hongyi Xin @Robert Scheppy
When did PRC is democratic?
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@jerome ogden @Robert Scheppy
Which party has ever said '6/4 Tienanmen'?
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Taiwan's future shouldn't be predestined by such stupid ministers.
CCP is stupid today as usual.
Xi is stupid. Ma is stupid. Here, N=1=Xi=Ma=stupid.
Assuming N=k=Xi=stupid, N=k+1=Xi+Ma=stupid is satisfied.
Therefore, thanks to mathematical induction, we can conclude that the meeting is stupid.
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@Hongyi Xin
If you know China more than I do, Would you please explain below.
(1) What happened in Tienanmen square on June 4 1989?
(2) What is the real Chinese GDP number?
(3) Does PRC have democracy, rule of law, fundamental human right, free trade, and freedom of soul?
(4) Why does PRC still decorate Mao's picture on Tienanmen Gate?
Decorating Mao’s Picture on Tienanmen gate is the same as Hitler’s on Brandenburger Tor gate.
(5) Why have Chinese made obvious false statement at international conference?
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@jerome ogden @Robert Scheppy
PRC has prohibited Uighurstan, Tibetan an so on from meeting among 3 or more than 3 persons, hasn't it?
中国のチベット族やウイグル族 3人集まると即懲罰の対象に
http://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20130528_188586.html
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@Pin Kui Ting @Justin Zhou
Why not? If PRC is governed not by CCP but by Liberal Democratic Party or Republic Party who has principal value of freedom, fundamental human right and rule of law, then keeps peaceful and non-corrupted record for decades, whole picture will change.
Even after that, PRC and Taiwan do not need to be one nation, as Spain and Portugal do not need to be one nation.
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@Pin Kui Ting
Therefore, Taiwan's future shouldn't be predestined by such stupid ministers.
Doesn't Chinese eager principal value of freedom, fundamental human right and rule of law, and peaceful and non-corrupted society?

(FYI)
Taiwan is belong to Japan, still now, based on International law, meaning belonging to western freedom world.

【WSJ】 China, Japan, South Korea Skirt Sensitive Subjects

2015-11-01 22:43:53 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
China, Japan, South Korea Skirt Sensitive Subjects
Leaders’ summit focuses on trade, cultural exchange, rather than historical disputes and South China Sea concerns
http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-japan-south-korea-meet-amid-tensions-over-south-china-sea-1446355289?mod=WSJ_article_EditorsPicks_1

By MITSURU OBE And JONATHAN CHENG
Updated Nov. 1, 2015 10:43 p.m. ET
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SEOUL—The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea held their first three-way summit since 2012 on Sunday, but glossed over some of the contentious issues that have chilled relations between the East Asian economic powers.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye agreed to accelerate talks for a trilateral free-trade agreement and to bolster cultural exchanges between the countries. They said they would push to resume stalled talks with the U.S., Russia and North Korea on the latter’s nuclear program and expressed hopes of getting their annual meetings back on track. The trilateral meeting was held annually between 2008 and 2012, but has been suspended in recent years as historical and territorial disputes strained ties between the three countries.

Yet neither Mr. Li nor Ms. Park discussed the issues in detail, a spokesman for Mr. Abe said, and none of the three leaders mentioned tensions in the South China Sea, where China has been building islets to reinforce its disputed territorial claims.

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After the meeting, China’s Mr. Li said that the three countries had broadly agreed to act with goodwill in resolving their disputes.

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Mr. Abe stressed in the news conference that “the three countries share major responsibility for regional peace and prosperity, and stability of the international community.”

Japanese officials say the remark was intended to remind China of its responsibility to promote rule of law, and not to undermine the rule of law by changing the status quo with force.

“It’s progress alone to see Abe and Park in a room together,” said Robert Kelly, a professor of political science at Pusan National University in South Korea. However, he said, Ms. Park’s call upon all parties to “face up to history” suggested that Seoul’s quarrels with Tokyo over World War II, including the issues of Korean “comfort women” and Japan’s colonial past, remain deeply entrenched.

Japan and South Korea agreed on Monday to reach a solution to the issue as early as possible after the talks.

China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, demanded that Japan stay out of maritime disputes in the South China Sea dispute, which involves Southeast Asian countries such as the Philippines and Vietnam.

Beijing has sought to limit the issue to the U.S. and China, while Japan and the U.S. have sought to involve more nations in the region to counteract the island construction. “I wonder what Japan has to do with the South China Sea,” Mr. Wang told reporters in Seoul on Saturday.

Japan relies on the waters for trade with Southeast Asia and to transport oil from the Middle East. Japan is also concerned that China’s territorial ambitions, if unchecked, could spread to the East China Sea, where the two countries are locked in a standoff over islets held by Japan and claimed by China.

Sunday’s meeting came a week after the U.S. Navy sent a destroyer near one of China’s man-made islands, its clearest message yet to Beijing that the U.S. doesn’t recognize territorial claims made by China for the artificial structures it has been building in the South China Sea.

China’s military subsequently conducted aerial and maritime drills, its official news portal said. The reports didn’t specify where they took place but said they involved aircraft and warships from China’s southern Guangzhou Military Region and the South Sea Fleet, whose primary area of responsibility is the South China Sea.

Ms. Park, who is playing host at this year’s forum, appeared eager to avoid antagonizing China, an important player in maintaining peace on the Korean Peninsula. In that spirit, there was a lighthearted moment when Mr. Li lavished praise on South Korea’s traditional ginseng chicken soup, promising to encourage its export to China.

The three-way talks have in the past rarely delved deeply into the domain of high politics. China, as it has done previously, sent its premier, Mr. Li, to the gathering, rather than President Xi Jinping. Mr. Li is seen as being responsible for economic policy, while Mr. Xi handles security matters.

Write to Mitsuru Obe at mitsuru.obe@wsj.com and Jonathan Cheng at jonathan.cheng@wsj.com
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Three countries had agreed not to disclose urgent critical issues at press conference. Japan of course kept the promise surely. However, PRC broke the agreement very quickly and addressed only CCP's opinions.
China has done the same thing since over 200-1,500 years ago, including cease fire agreement during the Sino-Japan war and Qing-Japan war era.
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(1) CCP is stupid today as usual.
Just show real GDP numbers. Never say obvious false statement at international conference.
Just show real evidence/numbers and never say fabricated stories about historical issue at international conference.
BTW, Japan dismisses AIIB of CCP, by CCP, for CCP.
(2)Japan has nothing to talk with South Korea.
Resent poll among 6,030 businessperson (Japan 5,000 and S.Korea 1,030) shows
(i) 80% of Japanese said 'Korea is NOT necessary for business.'
(ii) 70% of Korean said 'Japan is necessary for business.'
BTW, S Korea seemed to ask Japan to accept S. Korean membership for TPP, but it is your business to be a member of free fair trade. Just show IMF test result, get marine insurance policy, guarantee freedom of media, and return Buddhism statue theft from Japan.

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@Mark Donners
(1) JPN typical sonar for whaling easily found Aussie submarines in antarctic area so Aussie has propaganda against JPN. Aussie has thought antarctic area belong to her.

(2) Unlimited non-whaling is unsustainable fishing industry.
A certain number of whales should be culled each year to maintain their numbers. An excessive whale population is a veritable threat to the marine ecosystem and Japan, being one of the largest fish consumer nations in the world, is rightly worried about depleted fish stocks.
Whale eat fish volume of 280-500 million ton per year, which is 3-6 times more than fish volume of tons people in the whole world eat per year.

(3) St. Lawrence River has seal hunts. Every year about 30,000 infant seals were killed by heavy stick.
http://goo.gl/tWHMux

(4) The U.S. is the most whaling country in the total.
NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, Voyager have used the unfrozen whale oil which can not be artificially made so far. Such unfrozen oil also used for military reasons.

【WSJ】 Q&A: South Korea Says ‘Comfort Women’ Classes Aim to Avert Future Abuses

2015-10-29 05:27:34 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
Q&A: South Korea Says ‘Comfort Women’ Classes Aim to Avert Future Abuses
Gender equality minister wants teaching about forced prostitution by Japanese in WWII held during victims’ lifetimes
http://www.wsj.com/articles/qa-south-korea-says-comfort-women-classes-aim-to-avert-future-abuses-1446110867?cb=logged0.5181071814149618

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Related article: Seoul Brings ‘Comfort Women’ Dispute Into Classroom
http://www.wsj.com/articles/seoul-brings-comfort-women-dispute-into-classroom-1446075141
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By ALASTAIR GALE
Oct. 29, 2015 5:27 a.m. ET

In September, South Korea introduced a nationwide education program called “Accurate Understanding of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery.”

The program gives children at elementary, middle and high school one-hour lessons on the history of a system of forced prostitution by the Japanese military from the 1930s to 1945. Children are also taught about the dispute with Japan over redress for Korean women used as what has come to be known as “comfort women.”

A spokesman for the Japanese embassy in Seoul said it would be “inappropriate” to comment on another country’s curriculum, but said in a statement, “Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has repeatedly stated clearly that he is deeply pained by the immeasurable suffering experienced by the former comfort women, and that his cabinet continues to uphold the Kono Statement [a 1993 government apology]. In his statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Prime Minister Abe said that women’s dignity and honor were damaged during the wars and conflicts of the 20th Century, and that we must make the 21st Century one in which such events are not repeated ever again.”

Japan had taken other steps, the spokesman said, including delivering an official apology to around 60 “comfort women” in South Korea and providing them with \2 million of atonement money from private donors, as well as \3 million of medical and welfare support from state funds.

The Wall Street Journal spoke with South Korea Minister of Gender Equality and Family Kim Hee-jung about the program. Edited excerpts follow:

WSJ: Why is there a need for this new program?

Ms. Kim: Students only know the word “comfort women” and don’t know exactly what the women experienced. Through this one-hour special class, we are trying to accurately educate students on how we are trying to solve the “comfort women” issue and deliver a message about women and human rights.

Truthfully, this is something that should have been done earlier. We are using the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonization this year as an opportunity to move forward. In order to be future-oriented, we thought we should clearly classify facts. Also, there are not many “comfort women” left; 238 were registered but now only 47 are alive. This is something we should address while these women are still alive.

WSJ: Is this program designed to apply political pressure on Japan?

Ms. Kim: No, this is not a political or diplomatic issue. It’s a human rights issue. An examination of past facts has to be done clearly so there won’t be any more women and children suffering from the same damage in the future.

WSJ: Isn’t there a danger of developing general negative feelings towards Japan among children?

Ms. Kim: The students’ workbooks mention both how the current Japanese government doesn’t properly address this issue, but also how former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono and others in Japan made efforts to solve the problem. The workbooks are not trying to give a portrait of Japan as collectively bad.

WSJ: How have you ensured that these teaching materials are appropriate for children?

Ms. Kim: This was one of the most difficult things. We made separate workbooks for elementary, middle school and high-school students. We tried to design workbooks with appropriate expressions for each age group.

WSJ: If the dispute with Japan is resolved, will the program continue?

Ms. Kim: The workbooks all have exactly the same details about our requests to Japan to resolve the issue. Firstly to have Japan acknowledge historical facts; secondly for Japan to give a sincere apology in the eyes of the world; and thirdly for Japan to educate people about this. Until all of this is achieved, our education program will continue.

Write to Alastair Gale at alastair.gale@wsj.com

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[Points]
1. Perjury was the testimony by Seiji Yosida in 1980's. He was the only person who confessed his crime about comfort women issue. Asahi Simbun had published articles 16 times by citing the Yoshida's testimony as the true story over the world, and finally and officially admitted that his perjury was fabrication in August 2014.
2. Never appeared has even a person who had witnessed the forced recruitment from annexation period to this day, though Korea has appealed thousands of comfort woman victims.
3. Never found has been any evidence of JPN's coerced prostitution in JPN gov., JPN military, Korean gov., Korean local gov., Korean police and the U.S. gov.
4. Never existed has any comfort woman's testimony saying 'JPN moved me forcibly', while existed testimony 'Business agents kidnapped me' and 'My father sold me.'
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Comfort women are not sex slaves as the same as soldiers are not bloodthirsty killers.
The word ‘sex slaves’ humiliates comfort women’s pride as the same as the word ‘bloodthirsty killers’ does solders’ honor. Such wording obviously mislead real features.

Comfort women dedicated to raise soldiers’ morale and spirits, and to prevent rape crimes in countries. Comfort woman earned monthly income as much as soldier’s annual income. Dedication of comfort woman was priceless as same as dedication of soldier was precious. Duty of comfort women was horrible such as extraordinary repeating prostitution, while duty of soldier was cruel such as murder.

I tell comfort women are not sex slave case.
Comfort women earned as much as soldiers’ lifetime income only for 3.5 years.
If a large poor family had a member who became comfort woman, her family could live on without worrying money any more.
On the other hand, there are 100,000 Korean prostitutes world wide today. They usually have bad loans whose interest rate is 40-300%. It is obvious that such super-high interest rate loan can’t be repay forever.

I tell another case.
White people hunted black African people as non-human animals and took them to the new world as slaves.
Black women were often treated as sex slaves for masters.
On the other hand, Imperial Japan did not systematically implement forced recruitment and management. Imperial Japan outsourced the leisure house called comfort house and Korean merchants recruited women by advertisement in newspaper.
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Basic 13 questions about comfort women issue related with Japan.
(1)What Korean men were doing if their wives or daughters were abducted for sex slaves? Why did NOT those men defend women and protest against criminals?
(2)Mayors of ALL villages in Korea were ALL Korean, NO EXCEPTION.
What were mayors doing if so many women in their towns were abducted, raped and to be forced sex slaves?
(3)The military police in Korea who clamp down military soldier’s misconduct were ALL Korean, NO EXCEPTION because Korean language was necessary for duty.
What Korean military police were doing if Japanese military in Korea came to a village and took women?
(4)About 40% of governors of prefectures (equivalent to state in the U.S.) were Korean.
What were Korean governors doing if so many women in their prefectures were abducted, raped and to be forced sex slaves?
(5)There was a Korean lawmaker of the House of Representatives in Tokyo.
What was he doing and why didn’t he complain if so many women in Korea were abducted, raped and to be forced sex slaves?
(6)There were many Korean members of the House of Loads. Their power was so strong and cannot be compared to current member of the House of Council (Similar to the U.S. Senators).
Why didn’t they say anything if so many women in Korea were abducted, raped and to be forced sex slaves?
(7)There were so many Korean dukes and counts as Nobleman.
What were they doing if so many women in Korea were abducted, raped and to be forced sex slaves?
(8)Furthermore, there were so many Korean in the Japan’s imperial family. They were Yi imperial family whose rank was higher than Japan’s crown prince. The rank was (1) Japanese emperor, (2) Yi imperial family, (3)Japan’s crown prince.
Why didn’t they complain if so many women in Korea were abducted, raped and to be forced sex slaves?
(9)Just after the Asia-Pacific war, Syngman Ree came back from the U.S. He started anti-Japan campaign in the fierce manner. He started to demand money for Korean People who fought for Japan. Notwithstanding, Syngman Ree did not mention comfort women at all, even a word. Why?
(10)Toward the Japan-Korea Basic Relation Treaty in 1965, both Japan and Korea had negotiated for 14 years. During 14 years, Korean government did not mention comfort women at all, even a word. Why?
(Here, a disclosed confidential document mentioned that South Korea had explained Comfort Women issues to Japan and settled it on the treaty.)
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(11)From 1965 to 1991 for 26 years, Korean government and Korean mass media did not mention comfort women at all, even a word. Why?
(12)The person started abduction story was Japanese. The abduction story was fabricated by a Japanese, Seiji Yoshida. Later he admitted his fabrication. Also, Cheju Newspaper in Korea, August 14, 1989 had revealed“Coerced comfort women by Japan is fiction” U.N. Coomaraswamy report E/CN.4/1996/53 in 1996 and United States House of Representatives proposed House Resolution 121 in 2007 were based on such Seiji Yoshida’s perjury. Revised U.S. resolution 121 report removed Yoshida’s perjury on April 3 2007 but its public hearing on Feb 25 2007 was based on the Yoshida’s perjury.
Why does Korea still want to stick the Yoshida’s perjury?
(13)Korea accepted the apology of Kono DANGO but still require further apology. Therefore, Japan tried to review Kono DANGO due to insufficient. However Korea criticized Japan in order not to review the Kono DANGO.
Why does Korea criticize making the past to be recognized honestly and fairly and to be accounted clearly?

Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese and people in Sakhalin were considered as people evenly protected/embraced by Japanese Emperor. If Korean women and children were taken forcibly to be sex slaves, Emperor Showa would never have allowed that.
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On April 14, 2015, Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family admitted that there is no evidence that Korean women were forced into prostitution.
http://goo.gl/Nh6nm0

Changes in Lee Yong-Soo Testimonies.
https://goo.gl/cQ3tDZ
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U.S. Gov managed to fail to find evidence of JPN's coerced prostitution by investing $30 million
U.S. Gov researched confidential 8.5 million page official documents for Comfort Women issue during Pres. Bush and Pres. Clinton era for 8 years by IWG (Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Records Interagency Working Group). The research revealed that NO U.S. Gov nor military documents existed which proved organized sex slavery system by JPN government or Military. 6 members of IWG issued additional report, too.

'Nazi War Crimes & Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group Final Report to the United States Congress April 2007' (U.S. archives)
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/final-report-2007.pdf
'Researching Japanese War Crimes Records Introductory Essays'(U.S. archives)
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/japanese-war-crimes/introductory-essays.pdf
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Let me introduce real Korean textbook like 'Fantasy'.
(F1) BC17-BC11, Chinese first kingdom 'Yin' fought against Great Korea Empire 'Chosun'.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CViWKXBUAAAOi8V.jpg
(F2) AD7-AD10, Chinese Empire 'Tang' was smaller than Korea 'Shilla' occupying Japan.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CViadXKUAAA-deI.jpg
(F3) AD10-AD13, Chinese Empire 'Song' got smaller due to expansion of Korea 'Goryeo' occupying not only Japan but also Taiwan.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CViadXKUAAA-deI.jpg
(F4) Korean three dynasty dominated over East Asia.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVZDifEVEAAp6bH.jpg
(F5) Korean ancient civilization was paralleled with Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus, China.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVZCs1PUsAAsUXj.jpg

Here is 'World' standard liberal-arts.
(W1) AD7-AD10, Chinese Empire 'Tang' is diffrent from Tibet and Manchuria.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVkv17FUkAAQyEV.jpg
(W2)Samuel Phillips Huntington's civilization classification.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVY7CFTUsAEI2o_.jpg

【WSJ】 Exceeding Expectations in Indonesia

2015-10-25 12:23:14 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
Exceeding Expectations in Indonesia
The perception that this administration has given Indonesia little to celebrate is resoundingly wrong.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/exceeding-expectations-in-indonesia-1445790228?cb=logged0.5392019643913954

By KAREN BROOKS
Oct. 25, 2015 12:23 p.m. ET
1 COMMENTS
Indonesian President Joko Widodo will meet U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday in his first official visit to the United States since assuming office last October. Domestic reviews of Mr. Widodo’s performance are mostly negative due to deteriorating economic fundamentals. But the president’s tenure has exceeded expectations in other ways, and he is undertaking economic reforms that could help restart growth. As a potentially transformational leader, he deserves U.S. engagement and support.

Over the past year, the Indonesian economy has grown at its slowest pace since 2002. The rupiah lost more than 11% of its value, trading at its lowest level since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. The Jakarta Composite Index is down more than 7%.

Slowing growth in China, a prolonged commodities slump and weak overall external demand have hurt Indonesia. But the country’s problems are not just a function of external headwinds. The administration disappointed early on with a proliferation of self-defeating protectionist measures, continuing a trend of narrow nationalism under way since the previous administration.

Some policies, such as bans on certain food imports and the imposition of local-language requirements on expats, were so clearly counterproductive that they were quickly walked back. But the policy flip-flops created an air of dysfunction exacerbated by open conflict within the ruling coalition. Meanwhile, contract disputes continue to plague Indonesia’s natural-resource sector. It’s no wonder foreign direct investment has slowed.

So it would seem that there is little to celebrate as Mr. Widodo comes to Washington. But that perception is resoundingly wrong.

For starters, the democratically elected president is still in office, and the nation with the world’s largest Muslim population is at peace. This was all in doubt when Mr. Widodo narrowly won the most bitterly contested election in Indonesian history.

The president’s opponent, a former special-forces commander accused of human-rights abuses, refused to accept the results until the courts ruled in favor of Mr. Widodo. Bloodshed was averted, but the newly elected president still faced an opposition juggernaut in the legislature, with hostile parties controlling 63% of the seats. The prospects for Mr. Widodo’s legislative agenda looked bleak.

Through a combination of good luck and deft maneuvering, Mr. Widodo lured opposition legislators both formally and informally to his camp. Within a matter of months, the coalition aligned against him had all but collapsed, enabling the president to pass critical pieces of reform. That included the restoration of direct elections for local government posts, which were controversially rolled back in the waning days of the previous president.

Mr. Widodo’s consolidation of legislative power also enabled the passage of a revised state budget, in which the president implemented his campaign pledge to dramatically cut fuel subsidies. During the prior 10 years, those subsidies accounted for more than 12% of government spending. This ballooned to almost 14% in the budget handed to the president by his predecessor. Mr. Widodo slashed that number to about 3%, enabling a reallocation of resources into more productive areas of the economy, the first and foremost being infrastructure development.

In addition to expanding the budgets for public works and transportation, Mr. Widodo made an unprecedented capital injection into state-owned enterprises, more than 70% of which was allocated for infrastructure projects. He then sought and received $50 billion in infrastructure loans from China.

The importance of the president’s focus on infrastructure can hardly be overstated. For years, the Asian Development Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Bank have cited Indonesia’s poor infrastructure and resulting high logistics costs as the main reasons for Indonesia’s lack of competitiveness in manufacturing.

Pleas for higher infrastructure spending fell on deaf ears during the commodities boom, when natural resources drove years of economic expansion. The end of the commodities cycle laid bare the costs of complacency, as the current account swung into deficit and the rupiah suffered steep declines.

Mr. Widodo’s big infrastructure bet aims to reduce dependency on commodities exports. He has rolled out ambitious plans for the building of roads, ports and power plants. While the hard work of implementation lies ahead, dozens of state-funded projects have already broken ground.

Mr. Widodo has also started to overhaul Indonesia’s education system to better prepare students for the jobs of the future. He has provided more resources to vocational programs and put greater emphasis on information technology. The president will bring this message to Silicon Valley on Wednesday, where he will seek to drum up investment from the likes of Apple, Facebook and Google.

That will require sustained efforts to improve Indonesia’s investment climate. To that end, President Widodo reshuffled his cabinet in September, placing seasoned technocrats in important economic posts. Since then the team has rolled out five economic stimulus packages, aimed at cutting red tape and facilitating investment and exports. It has also taken an initial step to tackle the politically sensitive problem of labor reform.

While these reforms don’t go far enough, they signal an awareness of the urgent need for pro-market policies. If Mr. Widodo delivers on even a portion of his infrastructure promises and continues to deregulate Indonesia’s economy and provide greater legal certainty, he has a real shot at transforming the world’s third-largest democracy into the economic powerhouse it should be.

Ms. Brooks is adjunct senior fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Indonesia lost her honor. Japan disappointed Indonesia's betray very much.
Japan made a tender of super express railway project with thorough planing such as route, location of stations and boring surveys.
However, PRC got the bid with the very same plan of Japan, even without any boring survey.
Indonesia leaked the Japan's plan to PRC, and accepted such a dirty cheat for money. Indonesia lost her honor.
In the future, when the default in the project happens in Indonesia, some lands or port in Indonesia will be PRC's leased territory

Indonesia has learned NOTHING from POSCO tragedy.

What a complex difficult but simple culture UK has!

2015-10-22 21:17:09 | あしあと(海外投稿記事)
【Independent】Xi Jinping China state visit: Chinese media describes UK public as 'potato lovers who can't drink tea properly'
State media avoided mention of anti-China protests or British politicians raising human rights concerns
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/china-state-visit-how-chinese-media-is-reporting-the-visit-and-calling-british-people-potato-lovers-a6703786.html

【Guardian】David Cameron and Xi Jinping to talk business on day two of state visit
PM and Chinese president expected to discuss issues from global security to poverty and climate change during meeting in Downing Street
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/21/david-cameron-xi-jinping-talks-day-two-state-visit#comment-61902121

【WSJ】Video: Five Things to Know About Xi Jinping’s U.K. State Visit
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/10/22/video-five-things-to-know-about-xi-jinpings-u-k-state-visit/
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What a complex difficult but simple culture UK has!
Xi made a speech for 11 minutes at UK Parliament.
(1) PM Cameron did not take a simultaneous translation device in order not to listen to him.
(2) Nobody made even a hand-crap for Xi from the beginning to the ending.
Xi visited the Buckingham Palace.
(3) Queen Elizabeth II told Xi to keep promise at 1997 that PRC guaranteed Hong Kong autonomy.
(4) Prince Charles absented from the official dinner party for Xi.
Xi was hosted in UK in front of TOILET.
http://goo.gl/CRlM8j
World media needs to report correctly in order not to mislead world citizens.
Now and then, in the international conference, Chinese makes obvious false statements,
because no one can point out the lies in such situation due to diplomatic etiquette.

Ways That Are Dark: the Truth About China (Ralph Townsend 1933)
http://goo.gl/OQKwzJ (University of Michigan)

Behind the news in China( Frederic Vincent Williams 1938)
http://goo.gl/JF3Ifw (University of California)
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At the dinner reception, UK offered the red wine named 'chateau haut brion 1989 graves'.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR3VVA-XIAAEFmj.jpg

What a complex difficult but simple culture UK has!