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To be honest, human rights issues in Saudi Arabia are irrelevant at this point. However, the fact that Saudi Arabia is currently fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Iran is not good news for strengthening relations, especially considering the large number of civilian casualties that have occurred.

The decline of carbon dioxide emissions trading is bad news for those hoping to profit from global warming. In the end, it's all about money, not the environment.

The Chinese Communist government refused to accept it.

However, Chinese people are not prohibited from filing lawsuits against Japan. Therefore, Chinese who worked as prisoners on Gunkanjima received compensation from the Japanese government.

If it were a historical fact, the Japanese government would apologize, and the companies would also agree to compensation.

They just don't respond to Korean lies.

By the way, China's way of doing things is to cover up things because it is inconvenient for its people to receive compensation. They don't know that the airport was built with Japanese funds.

In November last year, Mitsubishi Materials erected a "Monument of Japan-China Friendship, Peace and Non-War" in a park in Nagasaki City, and engraved the names of 845 Chinese victims who were forcibly taken to three coal mines, including Hashima and Takashima, on nearby stone structures.

The monument reads, "We frankly and sincerely acknowledge the historical facts and historical responsibility for the violation of the human rights of Chinese people, and express our deep remorse, deep apology, and condolences."

In 2016, Mitsubishi Materials acknowledged the fact that Chinese people had been forcibly taken and worked there, and decided to pay a settlement of 100,000 yuan (approximately 2 million yen) to each victim. The erection of the memorial was made possible by Mitsubishi's promise at the time to cover the costs of a settlement project. It has been learned that similar memorials will be erected in four other locations besides Nagasaki, including Hokkaido, Akita, Miyazaki, and Fukuoka, where Mitsubishi coal mines were located.

Japan's declaration of war on America had nothing to do with Germany.

And the only thing the Soviet spy Sorge wanted to know was whether the Japanese army would advance north or south.

If they had advanced north, it would have meant that Germany and Japan would attack the Soviet Union, and it would have been seen as cooperation with Germany, but the truth was the exact opposite.

Hitler must have been very disappointed lol

The failure of the Imphal operation was simply that the Japanese army's advance stopped after failing to capture the city. Even China and the Soviet Union would have defeated the Japanese army locally.

After the war, not only the ASEAN countries, but also India eventually gained independence from Britain. The colonial rule of the West came to an end. This was thanks to the efforts of the Asian nations and Japan.

By the way, the Japanese army was still fighting on the continent, but it was thanks to the American army that they annihilated the Japanese navy in the Pacific, bombed the Japanese mainland, dropped the atomic bomb, and continued to fight the Japanese army until the Soviet Union entered the war, which led to Japan's surrender.

In sagamihara, 80% of drivers are on their phones while driving .And 80% run a red light .

I was once caught by the police in Sagamihara while driving and talking on my cell phone. I regret it.

We are where we are now because talks have not gone well so far. Talking to North Korea in such a weak manner will not solve anything.

Ishiba is even more incompetent than Kishida.

Ishiba's administration is completely filled with ministers who are pro-China, which is why even Trump is ignoring him. Incompetent.

＠TaiwanIsNotChina

Of course you have data on exactly where and how many massacres took place outside of Nanjing, right? If it's just delusional victims, you can make up any number of stories, like the massacre of 200,000 Korean comfort women.

Even in the city of Nanjing alone, the number of victims increased from 30,000 at first to 300,000 today, but even if that were true, we would need about 70 more places like that, right? lol

You're just exaggerating the numbers, but the content doesn't match up.

Japan didn't drop atomic bombs, and didn't have extermination camps like the Nazis, and yet there were 20 million victims, more than the Nazis lol

Even Chinese propaganda doesn't show that many deaths.

The fact is that the Japanese army actually didn't even have enough bullets.

What could the Japanese army, who were supposed to be out to procure resources, have gained by massacring local residents?

Many people mistakenly believe that the fact that Korean workers were working there means that they were forced laborers.

Coal mining at the time resulted in many casualties, and the working conditions were much worse than today, regardless of whether the person was Japanese or Korean. On Gunkanjima, there were brothels exclusively for Koreans, and the wages were high, so workers flocked to the island.

It is unclear what kind of people were forced laborers, as they received a salary, had a pension system, and were given cigarettes.

There was no adequate research, and Korean textbooks list Japanese coal miners who died in Hokkaido as Koreans.

We don't need historians who only speak delusions, and the Japanese who worked on Gunkanjima and the Sado Gold Mine are still alive, so the lies that Korea claims will not hold up in Japan.

＠smithinjapan

Germany was busily killing Jews in extermination camps such as Auschwitz, but if you don't wonder how the Japanese army, which didn't even have concentration camps, could kill more civilians than Germany, then the box in front of you is truly worthless.

Did the Allies defeat Japan?

Have you forgotten that the only country that actually defeated Japan was the United States, and that China and the Soviet Union couldn't even stand up to Japan without the support of the United States?

I've never heard of the United States, which defeated Japan, being tried in a court of law. How many people were purged in the Soviet Union and China during and after the war? No one has ever taken responsibility for it.

Because America won the war, no one was charged with using weapons of mass destruction or massacring civilians.

Isn't it the same situation in the Vietnam War or the Gulf War?

The Japanese military didn't have the time to go around massacring Asian countries.

The US could have easily avoided war with Japan.

It was only the US that continued to provoke Japan at the request of Britain so that Germany and the US could fight.

And while only a small number of American civilians were killed, such as at Pearl Harbor, how many Japanese civilians did the US kill?

In the first place, how many lives were lost as a result of Western colonial rule?

It seems that American justice means that it is perfectly acceptable to massacre civilians in the Philippines and Vietnam, as well as in Japan.

"Content correction"

The US sided with South Korea during the Korean War, but more than 50,000 people were killed in the war. The reason for this was that South Korean soldiers who were given American weapons quickly surrendered and turned those weapons against the US military.

In the Vietnam War, South Korea also sent troops for money, but they repeatedly committed acts of treason by committing acts of rape and massacres at the bases of the friendly South Vietnamese army.

The reality is that no country in history has ever been victorious with the South Korean military on their side.

In China and Europe, there are histories of frequent battles to annihilate cities, in which the inhabitants were massacred en masse, but in Japan, when a stronghold fell, the person in charge would often commit seppuku, thereby saving his subordinates and the inhabitants.

It was a ceremonial occasion for reciting death poems and such, and certainly not something that should be made into a spectacle.

If any of China, Korea, and Japan will remain in 100 years, it will be Japan.

Korea should prepare to be swallowed up by North Korea, which is supported by the Chinese Communist Party, once the US military withdraws.

China will continue to be under Xi Jinping's dictatorship, but opposition will likely grow.

Political instability could lead to the country splitting apart at any time.

China and Korea were in a relationship of master and servant until Japan gave Korea independence, and that will not change fundamentally even if the US military intervenes.

If China's hegemonism grows stronger, the Korean Peninsula will be swallowed up by China.

What Japan must prepare for today is that it would not be strange if China invades Japan. Japan will need to be prepared to defend itself against the Chinese military.

Being ruled by a dictatorial China, which suppresses freedom of speech, controls thought, burns books and buries scholars, would be a nightmare.

If we are to learn from history, Japan stopped learning from China in 894 and has since developed its own culture.

There is not much to learn from China, whose intellectual class disappeared due to Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.

And China's sophistry is now known to the whole world.

No one trusts or believes in China.

Since the dawn of history, no country has ever sided with Korea, even the United States, and they have lost wars against Korea, so Korea is not a country that should be on your side, even as a joke lol

By the way, there are many defective weapons in the Korean military, and it is an unfortunate fact that military enthusiasts laugh at them.

All Korea should do is draw the Rhee Line, return Takeshima, which they seized by massacring Japanese fishermen, and continue to apologize and pay compensation until Japan, the victim, is satisfied.

If Biden, a senile old man, and Kamala Harris, famously an empty-headed woman, can be of any use to Japan, please give some concrete examples.

Biden's half-hearted sanctions against China will not change anything.

If China dislikes Trump, the American people should choose him.

Considering why the late former Prime Minister Abe was so close to Trump, there is no doubt that Trump will be of use to Japan.

That's stupid.

Cozying up to the Chinese Communist Party won't solve any problems, and a weak prime minister will not be supported in Japan either.

Ishiba's political career is likely to become even shorter.

Currently, the Japanese Imperial Family is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records, proving that it has the oldest lineage.

There are clearly countries that are not happy about this.

The Japanese Communist Party has been calling for the abolition of the Emperor System.

I mean, you can probably tell which country it is, right?

And there have certainly been female emperors in the past.

But they only served as regents until the male emperor came of age. It would be good to think again about what is needed to recognize a lineage that has continued since before Christ.

This is not a simple matter of gender equality at all.

And if the UN wants to impose Western value judgments on other countries, they should first make the Pope a woman at least once and then try again.

And allow Islam to introduce a female leader.

At least after that, they can talk with Japan.

To make a living in the countryside, you may have to choose a career in agriculture.

Is it possible that the reason agricultural workers are not getting younger is because, like men, women have avoided farming?

No matter how much the government tries to support them, rural customs and culture are difficult to change. If we want to change that, young women should speak out more and say, "The countryside is hard to live in!!"

Isn't it strange to just ask the government for help without doing anything? It's about public assistance, mutual help, and self-help, isn't it? Especially in the countryside.

@shogun36

What is it about Japanese men that is rude?

Without concrete examples, it's just slander, right?

Please tell us about any rude behavior by Japanese men that you or the foreigners around you have encountered.

China was able to catch the culprit!?

Is it really the culprit? Is it not a scapegoat for Communist Party members?

And has his motive for the crime been revealed?

Currently, most of Japan's electricity is supplied by thermal power plants, but carbon dioxide emissions are increasing.

Renewable energy sources are no substitute for thermal power, and solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal power all have their own problems.

I think the cheapest cost for Japan's economy would be to replace nuclear power plants and continue to use them in the future. As for risks such as earthquakes, no nuclear power plants have collapsed in earthquakes, so we should learn from the experience of Fukushima and prepare for tsunamis.

There is a reason why China is hated all over the world.

It shows that China is willing to invade Japan, to the extent that pacifist Japan had to choose a military alliance with the United States.

There is no leader who is more suited to massacres than Mao Zedong, Stalin, or Hitler.

The so-called massacres happening around the world today are nothing compared to what they committed.

China's military is not for foreign expeditions, but is merely a violent organization that oppresses the people. This is because there is no country that China has been able to win a proper war with. It has even lost to Vietnam.

No matter how much you defend China, the actions of this backward imperialist country are in no way justified.

If his parents are Japanese and Chinese, then he has both nationalities.

And in this case too, the Chinese government has been unable to catch the perpetrator or uncover the motive.

Correction of a slight mistake

Unlike other countries, only Korea praises itself as a cultural powerhouse. Why?

The answer is that no one thinks of Korea as a cultural powerhouse, so it has no choice but to praise itself.

Whether a country's culture is attractive to other countries is not something that the country decides. It is something that other countries evaluate.

Since some K-pop began to dominate the Billboard charts, Billboard has changed its calculation method many times. This is because there is fraud.

The same thing happened with Netflix, where as soon as they changed the calculation method, Japanese anime began to dominate the viewing rankings.

Korean Wave may seem popular in various countries based on superficial statistics, but unfortunately this is not the case at all.

The amount reflects this, and as the article says, Korea's cultural exports in 2022 are about $13.2 billion, with the majority of that sales coming from video games, which are very popular in India and Pakistan.

In other words, it's not music or dramas.

By the way, sales of Japanese manga alone amount to nearly $30 billion worldwide. This does not include games and music.

It's hard to say that Korean content is popular, as sales of the content are simply not enough.

Unlike other countries, only Korea praises itself as a cultural powerhouse. Why?

The answer is that no one thinks of Korea as a cultural powerhouse, so it has no choice but to praise itself.

Whether a country's culture is attractive to other countries is not something that the country decides. It is something that other countries evaluate.

Since some K-pop began to dominate the Billboard charts, Billboard has changed the way it tallies its charts many times. This is because there is fraud.

The same thing happened with Netflix, where as soon as they changed the way they tallied, Japanese anime began to dominate the viewing rankings.

It may seem like Japanese anime is popular in each country based on superficial statistics, but unfortunately that is not the case at all.

The amount reflects that, and as the article says, Korea's cultural exports in 2022 are about $13.2 billion, with the majority of that sales coming from video games, which are very popular in India and Pakistan.

In other words, it's not music or dramas.

By the way, sales of Japanese manga alone are nearly $30 billion worldwide. This does not include games and music.

It's hard to say that Korean content is popular, as sales of the content are simply not enough.

Developing countries like China need a certain level of economic growth to support their huge size and population. 5% is too low.

The situation is completely different from developed countries that have grown to a certain extent, such as the United States and Japan. The income gap between rural and urban areas in China is only widening.

Even Chinese people probably won't believe this 5% figure.

As you can see from looking at Chinese coronavirus patients, there is no way they can collect decent statistics.

Xi Jinping has failed to take measures against the coronavirus, and even economic measures have not been taken properly. If China's economic downturn continues, it will not be surprising if it collapses. The signs are becoming more and more apparent.

As TaiwanIsNotChina claims, there is no Western country that would use nuclear weapons as a threat.

And the reason why I intentionally did not cite the US, France, the UK, etc., without hypocrisy or anything, is because they could give up nuclear weapons if they had alternatives.

However, countries with low technological capabilities and no alternative offensive means would never let go of them.

It would not be strange if Argentina "does not have nuclear weapons," but said "it would use them" against the UK if necessary. (In the Falklands War, for example). This is not just Israel.

It's the same for every country. South Korea is dying to launch nuclear weapons at Japan.

Without the United States, the Philippines and other countries would have been swallowed up by China already. China's method is to send large numbers of Chinese people to other countries, seize administrative power, and encourage rebellion and independence.

This method has led to the encroachment of territory near the Russian border, Myanmar, Tibet, and eastern Turkmenistan.

Thanks to Japan, Asian countries were liberated from Western colonies,

but China has never contributed to peace in Asia in history.

Kukrit Pramoj, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, said, "Thanks to Japan, all Asian countries have become independent. Mother Japan suffered a difficult birth and was injured (Japan's defeat in the war), but her baby is growing up healthy.

To whom do we owe it that the peoples of Southeast Asia can talk on an equal footing with the United States and Britain today? It is because of Mother Japan, who sacrificed herself to be benevolent. We must never forget December 8, 1941 (the day the war began), when Mother Japan, who showed us this important idea, made a great decision at the risk of her own life."

＠Simon Foston

The reason why the emperor can no longer visit the shrine is not because Class A war criminals are enshrined there, but because Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone made a distinction between public and private citizens when he visited the shrine.

The emperor has no status as a private citizen, only as a public citizen. When criticism of this became a problem, he stopped visiting the shrine.

If the past emperors were really considered problematic, the imperial family and the imperial family should not be allowed to visit the shrine either, but it was only the emperor who stopped visiting the shrine, and the emperor's family and the imperial family continue to visit the shrine.

Just because Japan allied with the Nazis does not mean that it accepted the Nazi doctrine. Few countries have contributed more to the treatment of Polish orphans and Jewish refugees in Siberia than Japan. You should find out why Chiune Sugihara is called the Schindler of the East.