Recent content by Uso.. Shinji

And thus the debate for the legalisation of prostitution continues. Legalise prostitution, they pay tax. They pay tax, Japan's AIDS/HIV problem goes doen because condoms become "tools of the trade" and are covered by both the health scheme and the tax department. That and all of a sudden there...

China is know for one of the largest illegal download rates (especially for porn) in the world. It isn't that amazing that Sora Aoi is so well known. Side note: Always wondered why her name goes from sora to sola in English. Even if it is her porn name, there is no "l" in Japanese...

My source article is http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/coming-attractions/ for all those interested. Obviously it can't be 100% unbias, but it contains both Japanese and Chinese sources and history for those who want to engage in the historical debate.

@Ceewan I must say after doing much of that research a couple of years ago I came to that conclusion. I also managed to find documentation from the Chinese Emperor that thanked the Japanese for saving its shipwrecked sailors from "Japan's Senkaku Islands". As well as documentation from the...

@my_car244 I am not quite sure of your question on energy... As for the other one... China and South Korea do not share a friendly relationship and are tied over quite a few things (such as China's support of North Korea, it's many economic blockades and it's ever-increasing buildup of...

Firstly lets address everyone else before doing my own take. @TravellingWind It's all about oil... And the fact that China wants to ignore a couple of hundred years where they declared the islands Japanese territory. @bollock So you are all for mass suicide in America, Asia and Europe...

As one who studies East and South East Asian Security (Especially the Senkaku Islands dispute) I can tell you it is neither China's want to push the Senkaku as territory so much as it is the US's current use of 3 of the four islands as a bombing test ground for its Air and Navy Forces operating...

I do have to say, you can't judge a race by a few douches. Most of the people I have met and talked to in Japan (in CEO, or government positions as well as business leaders as well as the general public), aren't as bad as this. I worked in Japaese TV and even the abuse that foreigners are meant...

This isn't as logical when you consider each market. US has more money hands down, but the reson for it being in debt are usually due to corruption and bad financial practices. Japan's current outlook is due in a very large part to the way it invested in the US financial system. Upon its...

Yet you can have the US in debt by so many trillions of dollars and still have a triple A credit rating (until the start of the January just gone). It isn't a matter of giving money so much as the country taking on the debt as its own. Intricate system, very illogical.

It does sound true. I write a lot of essays on the Yakuza and to tell you the truth they control, whether directly or indirectly, most of the goings-on in the Japanese corporate world. All building companies are Yakuza-controlled (hence the reason foreign building companies are almost if not...

I live in Japan and I am a foreigner. I also have a Japanese girlfriend and speak fluent Japanese. I write a lot of reports into Japanese societal problems, specifically 3 of the main 7 (low birthrate, aged problem, work availability) [out of those and inefficient government, stifled job market...

First of all, apologies for semi-ranting earlier. The phrase "The government controls the media, the government controls the people." is essentually not incorrect nor specifically about America. During WW2 Japan used the phrase, "every inch of film is a bullet". It was this time that all...

Yeah, I am aware on the US' media blanket. It does like to control information quite strongly. They don't care about you. As you have seen by the wall street protests lately, there is too much money in politics. I could never understand that about the US system. That you can get private funds...

megatroll, the whole point of most of the wording in these types of legislation is so that they are not easily understood by the polititians passing them, let alone the masses under which the bill applies. Happy to translate twaddle when needed :pandalaugh: When considering the beast that is...