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Black Tokyo Podcast 5_ Japan Newbie Interview, Part 3 of 3
Black Tokyo Podcast 3: Japan Newbie Interview, Part 1 of 3
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This is like Japan’s morning “radio exercise” (ラジオ体操) Japan Self-Defense Force style.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Teaching English in Japan with Ato – Bananas
I was sitting talking with a female friend in an otherwise almost empty train-car on my way to Tokyo. On the other side of the train, some seats down, sat an old man – grinning maniacally. I know the look: It’s the “I’ve-been-practising-English-all-this-time-and-never-had-the-opportunity-to-speak-to-a-real-live-gaijin-and-now-I’ve-got-one-trapped-on-a-train!” look, so I fully expected him to attempt to have a conversation with me sometime before the ride was over.
Iishiba gets 1-year in prison for firearms smuggling
A U.S. Army captain who was intelligence liaison to the Japanese military was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in prison for a firearms smuggling conspiracy.
U.S. District Judge Marsha J Pechman rejected a recommendation from both sides that Capt Tomoaki Iishiba be spared time behind bars. She says the 34-year-old showed poor judgment.
After serving his sentence, Iishiba faces three years on supervised release.
He was indicted in July for conspiring with another person to export, without authorization, firearm components to Japan from 2006 to February 2008 while working for the intelligence unit at Fort Lewis in Washington state. Such components included 60 sights attached to guns.
He was removed from the unit after his indictment.
Prosecutors said the goods were shipped to officials of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, defense equipment traders and friends.
Iishiba, who acquired U.S. citizenship after moving to the United States, joined the U.S. Army in 1999. He participated in operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan and penned a few books about his military experiences, plus weapons manuals.
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Young People Flocking to Japan’s Communist Party?
12,000 join JPC since September last year, 30% of new members are young people
During the period between September 2007 and October 2008, 12,000 persons joined the Japanese Communist Party (JCP). The JCP held the 5th convention of its Central Committee in September last year. About 30% of the 12,000 are those who are in their teens, twenties and thirties.
Many of the 12,000 said that they joined the JCP to change society, which “treats young people as disposable.” In Chiba Prefecture, many farmers became JCP members, with one saying: “In order to revitalize agriculture, politics must change.” In defiance of the controversial health insurance system for those aged 75 and older, people in their sixties and seventies joined the JCP.
A 22-year-old male member, who had taken part in the Oct. 5 national youth rally, said: “Japanese politics is at the beck and call of the United States. That is a fundamental factor in a society in which people have difficulty making a living. I want to make a society into one in which it is easy for the socially weak to live. After watching JCP Chairman Kazuo Shii’s questioning in the Diet, a young man, a factory contract employee, visited a JCP office in Kanagawa Prefecture to join the party. He said: “I want to change the abnormal working conditions.” (さらに…)
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