There are good non-covid reasons for some people to mask, but some people look down their noses at maskers.
Maskers, of course, cannot look down their noses at all
Typhoon is our resident authority on nuclear fishin’.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Jun 06, 2023 5:54 pm .
Content of radioactive element in fish at Fukushima's Nuclear Power Plant 180 times of safe limit
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-06-06/R ... index.html
Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie ?
Typhoon wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:41 am The article is mostly correct, your extrapolations are not even wrong.
The firebombing of Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and other J-cities killed far more civilians than the two nuclear weapons combined.
So the Imperial Japanese govt did not surrender due to the nuclear bombings despite their concentrated and horrific destructive power.
Rather, the threat of a Russian invasion and occupation lead to the choice of the "lesser of two evils" - surrender to the Americans and an American occupation.
Considering the experiences of the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and the Ukraine under the barbaric Soviet-Russian occupation, this was an exceptionally prescient and fateful decision. The Karafuto | 樺太 [Sakhalin] islands remain under Russian occupation to this day.
By relative comparison, the American postwar behaviour towards Japan [and Germany] was magnanimous.
However, MAD [Mutual Assured [Nuclear] Destruction] is the reason the US, Europe, Soviet-Russia, and Maoist-China were not in state of permanent conventional war. One which would have also involved Japan. Our [here referring to the forum members] quality of life, if we had survived, would be immeasurably worse.
MAD acted as a deterrence during the "Bay of Pigs" crisis.
Unlike the keyboard wannabe warriors of today, both leaders, Khrushchev and Kennedy, had experienced the reality of war and neither wanted to be remembered, and to be cursed in perpetuity, as the madman who destroyed human civilization.
MAD prevented a conventional war between Soviet-Russia and Maoist-China after the falling out and following border war in the 1960's.
Nuclear weapons were considered, but rejected by more rational minds, during both the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Soviet-Russia could have presumably used nuclear weapons during the Afghan War but did not do so.
In 1945, there existed three nuclear weapons in the entire world.
In 2023, there exists sufficient nuclear weapon stockpiles to destroy the earth several times over'
So, what is mad, rather than MAD,
is the naive and flippant suggestion of the first use of nuclear weapons in response to a 21st century conventional war.
Frankly, it's insane.
Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:15 pm .
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/busi ... ticleShare
Interesting
It's remarkable how even the dumbest ideas, with overwhelming historical evidence that they are disastrous in practice, continue to find a new generation of adherents.“The world would not be in such a snarl,
had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.”
― Irving Berlin
This is more about PR China than Japan. PR China is experiencing an economic - financial crisis.
It was the 16th month in a row for Chinese orders to tumble year-on-year.
Machine tool orders from China's automobile sector fell 76.4% in June to 3.2 billion yen.
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Machine tool exports to China had also been supported by brisk demand for smartphones, but this began to wane in the late 2018.
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"Everything is on a downward trend," Iimura said. "It is difficult to forecast unless the uncertainty over international affairs is cleared up."
It was nothing more than a propaganda campaign by Imperial Japan targeting Muslim nations.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:47 am .
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QaAL7cGDYY4
Hmmmm
Didnt know
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Typhoon wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 1:58 amIt was nothing more than a propaganda campaign by Imperial Japan targeting Muslim nations.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:47 am .
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QaAL7cGDYY4
Hmmmm
Didnt know
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The reality is that it was less probable than Iran converting to Judaism.
What is amusing is that, a century or so later, there are Muslims who still believe it.
AndHow Japan is willingly ceding the future to China
A decade’s reliance on aggressive monetary easing took the onus off CEOs to innovate, restructure & take risks
TOKYO — The next blow to the collective Japanese psyche will be falling behind Germany to become the fourth-biggest economy.
On 1 January 2024, at 16:10 JST, a MJMA 7.6 or Mw 7.5 earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
The earthquake also generated a tsunami measuring up to 1.2 m along the Sea of Japan.
The Japan Meteorological Agency officially named this earthquake the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
Well, phone PM Kishida and inform him know that you've figured it all out.Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 4:34 pm .
On 1 January 2024, at 16:10 JST, a MJMA 7.6 or Mw 7.5 earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.
The earthquake also generated a tsunami measuring up to 1.2 m along the Sea of Japan.
The Japan Meteorological Agency officially named this earthquake the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
7.6 Richter is very strong
30,000 homes without electricity
Some nuclear power plant are damaged, slightly
Japan should close all nuclear power pants and change to LNG gas turbine power station.
Plenty of LNG just from next door Russian Sakhalin (Sakhalin-II)
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"There have been racial barriers, and it has been challenging to be accepted as Japanese."
That's what a tearful Carolina Shiino said in impeccable Japanese after she was crowned Miss Japan on Monday.
The 26-year-old model, who was born in Ukraine, moved to Japan at the age of five and was raised in Nagoya.
She is the first naturalized Japanese citizen to win the pageant, but her victory has re-ignited a debate on what it means to be Japanese.
While some recognised her victory as a "sign of the times", others have said she does not look like a "Miss Japan" should.
TOKYO, Jan 29 - Three foreign-born residents of Japan filed a lawsuit on Monday against the national and local governments over alleged illegal questioning by police based on racial profiling.
It is the first such lawsuit in Japan, according to the plaintiffs' lawyers, and comes amid a sharp rise in the number of foreign workers coming to the country to help stem labour shortages as its population ages and declines.
Statista | Distribution of foreign workers in Japan in 2022, by country or region of originHeracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:06 am .
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 024-01-29/
TOKYO, Jan 29 - Three foreign-born residents of Japan filed a lawsuit on Monday against the national and local governments over alleged illegal questioning by police based on racial profiling.
It is the first such lawsuit in Japan, according to the plaintiffs' lawyers, and comes amid a sharp rise in the number of foreign workers coming to the country to help stem labour shortages as its population ages and declines.
Not blaming Japan .. japan has a very (I think sophisticated) distinct "Japanese culture", very distinct, and I very much doubt that any foreigner, let alone Africans or Muslim Arab or Pakistani ever would grasp that Japanese culture
But there a problem as Japan population dropping dramatically, workforce aging, there need for immigrants
Maybe, comet push to shove, Japan must look @ Korean immigrants, maybe even Chinese.
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Typhoon wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:41 amStatista | Distribution of foreign workers in Japan in 2022, by country or region of originHeracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:06 am .
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 024-01-29/
TOKYO, Jan 29 - Three foreign-born residents of Japan filed a lawsuit on Monday against the national and local governments over alleged illegal questioning by police based on racial profiling.
It is the first such lawsuit in Japan, according to the plaintiffs' lawyers, and comes amid a sharp rise in the number of foreign workers coming to the country to help stem labour shortages as its population ages and declines.
Not blaming Japan .. japan has a very (I think sophisticated) distinct "Japanese culture", very distinct, and I very much doubt that any foreigner, let alone Africans or Muslim Arab or Pakistani ever would grasp that Japanese culture
But there a problem as Japan population dropping dramatically, workforce aging, there need for immigrants
Maybe, comet push to shove, Japan must look @ Korean immigrants, maybe even Chinese.
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Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:57 amTyphoon wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:41 amStatista | Distribution of foreign workers in Japan in 2022, by country or region of originHeracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:06 am .
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 024-01-29/
TOKYO, Jan 29 - Three foreign-born residents of Japan filed a lawsuit on Monday against the national and local governments over alleged illegal questioning by police based on racial profiling.
It is the first such lawsuit in Japan, according to the plaintiffs' lawyers, and comes amid a sharp rise in the number of foreign workers coming to the country to help stem labour shortages as its population ages and declines.
Not blaming Japan .. japan has a very (I think sophisticated) distinct "Japanese culture", very distinct, and I very much doubt that any foreigner, let alone Africans or Muslim Arab or Pakistani ever would grasp that Japanese culture
But there a problem as Japan population dropping dramatically, workforce aging, there need for immigrants
Maybe, comet push to shove, Japan must look @ Korean immigrants, maybe even Chinese.
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Well, I know Asians "all look the same", but there are vast cultural differences between Japan, Vietnam [including internal differences], and PR China [including vast internal cultural differences between provinces].But
My point was that Japan must only take in foreign workers, immigrants etc, who are "culturally" closer to Japan .. otherwise, down the road, there will be problems
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