SamuraiBlue
Captain
I haven't found this news anywhere in Japan. Basically a news a big as this would have been taken up by all news agencies.
As for maiden flight of the ATD-X, it looks as if they pushed back the schedule to January next year at earliest. The reason for postponement is to make some more improvement to the engine.
shen
Senior Member
interesting, SCMP article is very detailed, and SCMP is of course very well respected, unlikely to be fake.
why do you think the story is not covered in japan? what do average japanese feel about these payments?
SamuraiBlue
Captain
Well I did some further digging and I found the news posted at on the house of representative bulletin board. The actual story is as a DEMOCRACY the Omoiyari budget is reviewed every five years and this year just happens to be that year.
Looks as if SCMP was trying to make a mountain out of a anthill.
Wait, I don't understand, what does being a democracy have to do with a budget being reviewed? Is the suggestion that entities which are not democracies do not have budget reviews?
SamuraiBlue
Captain
At the house of representatives reviewed and debated with the minority parties?
That can only happen in a democracy to my knowledge.
That can only happen in a democracy to my knowledge.
Phew, for a moment there I thought you were saying the idea of regular budget reviews and debate surrounding budgets of controversial topics were somehow only present in democracies. Boy, that would've been a difficult generalization to make and defend. I see what you really mean is debate and budget review under the form of democratic political system which Japan has -- though the answer is quite clear regardless of the elucidation regarding the method in which the budget review is being undertaken.
I hope you can appreciate the confusion, because the emphasis on the word democracy made it seem like it was an important part of your answer to Shen's question.
So in other words, this is just the five yearly budget review regarding the matter, which SCMP then exaggerated for its own purposes.
GreenestGDP
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Onaga Okinawan governor says Tokyo and
Washington stepping on human rights
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Washington stepping on human rights
... ...Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga halt construction of a new U.S. military base in his prefecture, claiming people’s human rights were being ...
...Japan-U.S. security alliance that has been continuously violating the freedom, equality, human rights and democracy of the Okinawan public.
“I wanted people in the world to sound an alarm,” Onaga said, referring to his speech on the issue at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday....
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