Share Reading between the lines = Japan will not swallow the guilt and will continue to persuade the world to believe in the right wingers’ version of history. ——————————- Asahi – Embattled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, reacting to a U.S. Congress resolution urging a full apology to wartime “comfort women,” said Tuesday that Japan must [...]
Share Japan expresses regret over U.S. call for apology in WWII sex slavery July 31, 2007 IHT – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described as “regrettable” on Tuesday the approval of a resolution by the U.S. House of Representatives calling on Japan to acknowledge its wartime sex slavery, indicating strongly that the Japanese government would not [...]
Share Really hope Stephen Harper would follow US’s foot steps on this one. ———————— News release from the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia: H.Res.121 Passed in the House with Uninamous Bipartisan Support The vote today in the House of Representative on H. Res. 121, the so called “Comfort Women” resolution, [...]
Share Independent Online – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday expressed regret at a US resolution demanding an “unambiguous apology” for Japan’s use of sex slaves in World War II, saying he hoped to look to the future instead. The conservative leader, who has stirred controversy with his past remarks on so-called “comfort women,” said [...]
Share BBC – US lawmakers have called on Japan’s government to formally apologise for its role in forcing thousands of women to work as sex slaves in World War II. The symbolic and non-binding resolution was passed during a vote in the House of Representatives. Up to 200,000 “comfort women” from across the Far East [...]
Share The Guardian – Japan today said it regretted a US congressional resolution demanding that it formally apologise for the use of tens of thousands of Asian women as sex slaves during the second world war, and insisted it had already made amends to the victims. The US House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution [...]
Share I think services provided by garbage collectors, teachers, nurses should all be mandated as “essential service” and they shouldn’t be allowed to strike. I have had enough of such once every few years… mainly because reporting on strike news is sooooooo boring and tiring. Public servants are providing “public” service and we the taxpayers [...]
Share UPDATE 10 PM The man has been rescued. The 45-year-old New Westminster man was naked when he drove off the cliff! We were joking at the office tonight that perhaps he mistakenly pulled the wrong “stick shift” while driving at an excessive speed…. hor hor hor Anyway, this story is amazing. The van plunged [...]
Share City release – The City of Richmond, British Columbia is pleased to announce it has been chosen as the home for the new Microsoft Canada Development Centre. Scheduled to open in the early fall, the Microsoft Canada Development Centre will focus on software development and will eventually employ hundreds of highly-skilled workers from around [...]
Share So the blaming game begins… “Hong Kong-invested producers will probably be the hardest-hit by this move,” Wang, the industry director, said. The Trade Ministry made the move “due to the changing international and domestic environment and China’s promise to upgrade its industries,” she said, adding that the government would provide some aid and incentives [...]
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