Tag: Japan
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Killing for science. Killing for fun. What's the difference?
Japan has to stop capturing and killing whales under its whaling program in the Antarctic, called JARPA II, the International Court of Justice has said. In a judgement issued in The Hague in the Netherlands today, the U.N. court has ordered Japan to revoke existing permits to catch whales for scientific purposes and to stop…
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Science has secrets!? No no no no no!
Japanese scientists and academics are warning that legislation threatening prison terms for those who divulge and publish what the government deems a state secret threatens academic freedom and the public’s right to know. (1) Hypocrites! You never help by lying! Scientific secrets in the form of government or industrial secrets have for a long time…
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Knowledge is NOT power... (or: 知識は力ではありません) 🙂
Taro Aso said that bankers in Japan had not been able to understand the complex financial instruments that were the undoing of major global players in the 2008 crisis, so had not bought them. "Many people fell prey to the dubious products, or so-called subprime loans. Japanese banks were not so much attracted to these products,…
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Mind washing on small children: The new hope...
You will be shocked at how much your child's education is directed... Take Japan for example. A country the citizens of which cannot quite understand why their neighbours hate them. A country which still wants nuclear energy, despite the fact that it is the only country which was hit by a nuclear bomb. The solution…
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