A Haiku for Taro Aso: Yottsu

Japan Politics of Shame: Act 2, Incompetence

Support for Taro Aso down to ‘5.5 percent’ as Nakagawa claims ‘alcoholic immunity’

As support for Taro Aso tumbles to just 9.7 percent (if  the 4.2 percent margin of error works favorably, it sinks to only 5.5 percent), and his close sidekick, the alcoholic Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa who was seen plastered out of his tiny mind at a press conference following the G-7 finance ministers meeting in Rome last week, becomes a major liability, it seems the time has come for Aso to say good bye to the nation.

So here’s a parting haiku for Aso [and his protege, Nakagawa]

yottsu [the four-legged]

Despite age-old infamy,
yottsu harms no one!

Source of the image: NiteOwl

Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa is seen during a meeting of the fiscal and financial committee at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo February 16, 2009. Nakagawa denied on Monday that he was drunk at a news conference in Rome and said his political fate was up to the prime minister after the opposition called for him to be fired. Reuters photo. The image may be subject to copyright.

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A Snapshot of Japan’s Faltering Economy

Japan corporate performances are worsening, especially in the manufacturing sector

Instead of going bankrupt manufacturing automobiles, Japan’s auto industry ought to start doing something smart like building wind turbines

• The ratio of job offers to job seekers fell to 0.8 in October 2008, lowest since May 2004, labor ministry said.

• More than 330 job offers have been canceled [students graduating next March 2009, including 302 university and junior college students and 29 high school students.] The cancellation of a job offer is legally regarded as an annulment of a labor contract. The average number of annulments in the past 4 years was about 21 cancellations per year.
• The job offers were canceled by 87 companies [including real estate, 84 jobs; service sector, 66; manufacturing, 59.]

• Reasons for cancellations included 116 job offers nullified due to bankruptcies, and 212 offers were canceled because of the employers worsening financial situation.

• About  30,000 temporary workers will have their jobs during the six months ending March 2009 [including 90 percent in the manufacturing sector.]

• Aichi prefecture, where many of the auto manufacturers are based, topped the list of the job losses with 4,104 workers. Source

Import of Saltpeter and Christianity to Japan

Thank you Christianity!

The Jesuits controlled the import of saltpeter to Japan, since their arrival on August 15, 1549. In Japan’s Hidden Face, Abe wrote, “Many daimyos converted to Christianity in order to gain more favorable access to saltpeter. Between 1553 and 1620, eighty-six daimyos were officially baptized, and many more were sympathetic to the Christians.”

The daimyos bartered women for the Jesuits’ “magic” powder at a going rate of 50 baptized Japanese girls for a barrel of saltpeter. As many as 500,000 Japanese girls were sold on the slave markets and shipped to South America and Europe.

Now the rest of the story

Martyrs or Vatican Spies? Judge for yourself!

188 Catholic martyrs honored

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN – 2008/11/25

NAGASAKI–A Roman Catholic beatification was held here Monday for 188 martyrs who refused to give up their faith despite persecution by the Edo shogunate in the first half of the 17th century.

The ceremony honored Catholics killed between 1603 and 1639. It was the first time a beatification was held in Japan.

Beatification is the second stage in the canonization process .

Those beatified include religious figures such as Petro Kibe, a Jesuit priest and the first Japanese to visit Jerusalem, as well as samurai and ordinary citizens.

Calls mounted to honor Japanese martyrs following the 1981 visit to Japan by Pope John Paul II.(IHT/Asahi: November 25,2008).

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Japan School Violence Hits Record High

Some 52,756 cases of school violence were recorded in 2007 school year - the highest number ever!

Here’s a summary of the breakdown of acts of violence committed by school students in 2007 [school year ended in March 2008] according to a recent education ministry survey:

• Elementary school pupils: 5,214 acts of violence [up 37 percent from the previous year]

• Junior high school students: 36,803 violent acts [up 20 percent]

• Senior high school students: 10,739 violent acts, up 5 percent

Breakdown of violence based on the type of crime:

1. A record 28,396 acts of violence were committed against fellow students [up 22 percent from 2006.]

2.  Some 15,718 cases of damaged or destroyed property were reported [up 18 percent.]

3. Cases of violence against teachers/school staff rose to 6,959 [up 9 percent.]

4. Acts of violence against students of other schools, members of the public rose to 1,683 cases [up 1 percent.] Source

In an agressive, take-what-you-can culture of ’slave’ bullying ’slave,’ the above stats, as mind-boggling as they seem, are just tip of the iceberg. Judging by the conduct of students at our local junior high school, the true numbers of acts of violence are much higher!

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Eight arrested for false labeling of grilled Chinese eel

Beware of the eel of Tokushima!

Eight people have been arrested in Kobe for false labeling of grilled eel produced in China, but sold in Japan as domestically cultivated.

The gang included the president of Osaka-based seafood importer Uohide, the section chief of Kobe-based seafood wholesaler Shinko Gyorui Ltd., and the head of Uohide’s Fukuoka sales office.

It is thought that the gang of eight “violated the Unfair Competition Prevention Law banning false labeling by falsifying the origins of about 256 tons of grilled eel imported by Uohide and its parent company Tokushima Uoichiba.” Ashai Shimbun reported.

Japanese eel population in steep decline

Populations of the Japanese eel, along with anguillid eel populations worldwide, have declined drastically in recent years. This is presumably due to changing water conditions, interfering with spawning and the transport of their young larvae, also called leptocephili. In the case of the Japanese eel, spawning is likely affected by the gradual northward shift of a salinity front created by the meeting of high and low salinity waters. The front is detected by the adult spawning eels and recognised as the spawning grounds. The northward shift has been documented over the past 30 years and has had an adverse impact on larval transport. This is because larvae that hatch too far north arrive at their nursing grounds in freshwater habitats at times when upstream migration is not favourable. (Wikipedia)

Air Self-Defense Force: We Forgot!

Oh, Really? How convenient!

The Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) forgot [sic] to report it had dismissed in September a major general who had sexually harassed a subordinate.

The Defense Ministry removed Major General Kesayoshi Miyashita, 55, from his post as the ASDF’s First Technical School in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on September 18, 2008.

Contrary to their established procedure, ASDF failed to disclose Miyashita’s dismissal because they said  the sexual harassment case was still being investigated.

SDF Member Fined for Photos of Women’s Behind

Another reason why SDF members have 2-digit IQs

I must admit my jaws dropped when I read this article. The first question that came to mind was when so many politicians, employees of the prefectural boards of education and metropolitan police forces throughout Japan get away with raping and molesting underage school girls, what exactly are “widely accepted sexual and moral values” that the judges refer to? Do the judges live on another planet, or do they think the rest of us parachuted in yesterday?

If people are allowed to watch somebody’s backside without the fear of being arrested

If convenient stores, which are public places, can freely display and sell pornographic materials

If the streets, shops, restaurants AND schools, all of which are public places, allow female students to dress provocatively …

Anyway, here’s the story:

SDF Member loses obscenity appeal

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN – 2008/11/14

The Supreme Court has ruled that surreptitiously taking photos of a woman’s behind in a public place constitutes an obscene act, rejecting an appeal from a Self-Defense Forces member found guilty of snapping nearly a dozen such images in five minutes.

The 31-year-old man was indicted for violating a Hokkaido ordinance prohibiting acts in public places that could cause humiliation or concern.

He took 11 photos with his cellphone of the trousers-clad backside of a woman, then aged 27, at a shopping mall in Asahikawa on July 21, 2006.

The man filed an appeal after the Sapporo High Court fined him 300,000 yen in September 2007.

Four of the five Supreme Court justices wrote that the man’s actions clearly constituted an indecent and obscene act that goes against widely accepted sexual and moral values. (IHT/Asahi: November 14,2008).

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APA Goblin, Japan’s ASDF and the Crazy General

Toshio Tamogami Lies – Part 2

ASDF wing’s training included writing essays on Japan’s ‘true’ history

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN (2008/11/7)

The Air Self-Defense Force’s 6th Air Wing had instructed its officers to write essays based on the revisionist theme of a contest concerning the modern history of Japan, the Defense Ministry said.

The essay contest’s theme was “true perspective of modern history” and was sponsored by Apa Group, a hotel operator and real estate developer.

The contest was won by the then ASDF chief of staff, Gen. Toshio Tamogami, for his essay, “Was Japan an Aggressor Nation?” In the essay, Tamogami tried to legitimize Japan’s actions before and during World War II. His writing cost him his job.

Besides Tamogami, 78 ASDF staff members entered the contest, including 62 from the 6th Air Wing, based in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture.

Samurai of the Satsuma clan, during the Boshin War period, circa 1867. Photograph by Felice Beato.

There is nothing glorious about The military history of Japan. It is characterised by foreign conquests, long periods of feudal wars, followed by more foreign conquests culminating with Japan’s defeat in WW II.

[There's nothing glorious about any nation's military history! See: Militarism is a racket!]

Tamogami served as commander of the Komatsu Air Base from 1998 to 1999, and had urged ASDF staff to participate in the contest.

According to the Defense Ministry, the training section at the ASDF’s Air Staff Office learned about the essay contest through a newspaper advertisement in May and called on ASDF staff around the country to enter the contest because it “would be good for self-improvement.”

The timing coincided with the period when the 6th Air Wing trains its officers on essay writing. The officer in charge of the training suggested the theme of the contest as the topic for the ASDF officers’ essays.

Tamogami, who won 3 million yen ($30,796) for the top prize in the contest, was the only SDF member among the 13 winners. The contest received 235 entries.

Tamogami, 60, was forced to retire this week for writing an essay that was in direct opposition to established government policy concerning Japan’s past.

According to Komatsu Air Base officials, the air wing did its own reviews of the essays right before the contest’s deadline.

The contest was held to mark the publication of a book written by the Apa Group’s CEO, Toshio Motoya, titled “Hodo Sarenai Kingendaishi” (Modern history that is not reported).”

In the book, Motoya wrote about his “pent-up feelings of patriotism and concerns about my country.” The contest urged people to submit “essays written from their own perspectives of modern history that will be helpful in revitalizing Japan.”

Motoya is from Komatsu and the founder and chairman of an “association of friends in Kanazawa of Komatsu Air Base.”

Tamogami and Motoya befriended each other during the former’s stint as commander of the base.

Motoya denied asking Tamogami to enter the contest.

“I never thought the ASDF’s chief of staff would submit an essay,” Motoya said in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun.

The Apa Group said the essays were judged with the names of the authors concealed.
(IHT/Asahi: November 7,2008)

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Tamogami’s History Lies

“We must take back the glorious history of Japan. A nation that denies its own history is destined to pursue a path of decline.”

By now most everyone knows that Japan’s air force chief, Toshio Tamogami, was sacked by Defense Minister Hamada .

Tamogami wrote an essay which described Japan as a victim of WWII. The essay won the competition.

He wrote that Japan’s occupation of China was to secure its rights it had obtained under previous treaties. Korea, he added, was more prosperous and safer under Japanese rule [The Law of Rename, put in force in 1940, under which Koreans had to change their names to Japanese, and speak Japanese was coincidental!]

“The history of past discrimination was concealed as top secret the war with China in 1894 -95 [The First Sino-Japanese War] was a must in order to gain independence from the historically subordinate relationship of Japan to China.  The annexation of Korea in 1910 was likewise necessary in order to destroy all evidence that might suggest the true origin of the imperial family and courts nobility.” Said Toshihiko Abe in Japan’s Hidden Face.

Worst still, he denied Japan was an aggressor in WWII, which is another fresh insult added to the Chinese, Koreans, Filipino… injury.

At least a third of a million Chinese were killed in the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Imperial Army.

Either Tamogami is an outright idiot, or a complete nutcase. What’s more worrying than the contents of his essay is the fact that this nutcase/idiot made it all the way to the top of the air force. Did the symptoms of his madness surface just before the essay competition for the first time?

Two aspects of this incident are more worrying than the state of mental health of Gen. Nutcase:

1. The people who promoted this “psycho” through the ranks in the last 30 or so years of his career. Didn’t they detect his mental disorder at any time?

2. The essay competition judges who awarded this maniac first prize. Who exactly were the competition judges? Do they keep their jobs? Do they NOT represent a significant proportion of Japan’s “elite?”

3. What is more worrying still is the fact that so many of these pathological “murderers” [as in 1and 2 above] thrive in Japan like bacteria in a perfect Petri dish.

Buddies? Philippine Air Force WELCOMES GEN TAMOGAMI – 28 May 2008 – MAJ GEN JOVITO GAMMAD, Chief of Air Staff, PAF engages GEN TOSHIO TAMOGAMI, Chief of Staff, Japan Air Self Defense Force, in a light discussion during the welcome ceremony at the dignitaries lounge of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) during the arrival of the Japanese dignitary today (Photo by A1C Abayari). Photo may be subject to copyright.

Firing Tamogami is NOT enough! He must be prosecuted for inciting genocide!

Time to remove the agar from Japan’s Petri dish of nationalism!

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Yamanote Line Halloween Tricksters Face Severe Treatment

Tricksters would be treated more severely than they bargained for, JR East

Yamanote tricksters told to stay home. Photo: Asahi Shimbun. Photo may be copyrighted.

East Japan Railway Co. and the Metropolitan Police Department have placed warning posters at all 29 stations on the Yamanote circle line since mid-October threatening Halloween revelers with punishment, an act normally associated with  the activities of the Stalinist  government in China.

JR East blames the intoxicated foreigners who caused a “mayhem” last year as reason for the harsh warnings.

The conduct of unruly revelers clad in Halloween costumes, many of them apparently non-Japanese, led to a rash of complaints from other passengers … The drunken merrymakers caused delays by jumping on and off trains at many stations, said JR East.