Japan and Asia News

Hakuho proved an impregnable force for ozeki stalwart Kisenosato in an electrifying showdown of undefeated wrestlers Saturday, putting himself within arm's length of his 25th Emperor's Cup at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament. (Japan Times)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday that his country will provide nation-building support to Myanmar while paying due heed to the needs of local people. (Jiji Press)

At least six researchers suffered internal radiation exposure this week due to an accident during an experiment related to elementary particles, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday. (Jiji Press)

The eleven countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations agreed to hold the next round of talks in Kuala Lumpur from July 15 to 25 as they concluded their 17th round of talks in Lima on Friday. (Kyodo)

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said Saturday he will retract his remark suggesting that U.S. servicemen in Japan use the country's adult entertainment industry in order to prevent them from committing sex offenses against locals, adding that he will apologize to the U.S. people and military. (Kyodo)

Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho and ozeki Kisenosato both powered to their 13th wins on Friday to set up a mouth-watering showdown at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament. (Japan Times)

The Diet passed a bill Friday to set up a system that will assign an identification number to every citizen to improve government management of income, social security and tax information despite public concerns about the potential for data abuse. (Japan Times)

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary has indicated that Japan will closely monitor North Korea, following its senior official's expression of willingness to hold a dialogue with relevant nations on easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (NHK)

Weather officials say the average density of carbon dioxide in Japan is rising above the international standard at all 3 observation points in the country. Carbon dioxide is one of the greenhouse gases associated with global warming. (NHK)

At the Nagoya Castle compound in central Japan, restoration work has been completed on the entrance and reception room of the main residential building for the first time in 70 years. (NHK)

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is expected to start full operations this year of a system to remove accumulated radioactive wastewater. (NHK)

A government research panel says there is a 60 to 70 percent probability that a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 8 to 9 will occur off Japan's Pacific coast in the next 30 years. (NHK)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday becomes the first Japanese leader to visit Myanmar in 36 years as his nation's companies seek to invest in the former dictatorship, which has some of the cheapest labor in Asia. (livemint.com)

A 21-year-old woman was stabbed by her ex-boyfriend Friday at her apartment in Ebina, Kanagawa Prefecture, where she lives with her current boyfriend, police said. (Japan Times)

The Dutch government has confirmed its intention to sell its one-third stake in Urenco, clearing the way for its possible full privatization of the world's second-largest uranium enrichment company.

Two consortia will now compete for contracts worth BRL3 billion ($1.5 billion) to assemble the nuclear and conventional island of Brazil's Angra 3 after owner Electronuclear re-opened bidding.

Moore Tornado Boy

By now everybody has seen the devastation of the tornado that hit Moore Oklahoma which blew down a school that was made not out of straw or sticks but bricks. The census for that town shows it’s 79% white  5% black, 9% hispanic 5% native american but only 2% Asian. Sure enough, one of them showed up in the photos, and it’s evident it wasn’t fun cowering while the roof and walls were being ripped down around a bunch of screaming kids:

 

 

 

 

 

 Kwang Chol Joy Arrested in Murder of Cal State Fullerton Student

At least the latest AngryAsian Man wasn’t a spree shooting. On May 2, Maribel Ramos a Cal State Fullerton student disappeared,

She was veteran  Army sergeant who had served in South Korea and Iraq with an honorable discharge who was ready to graduate with a degree in criminal justice.. On May 17, Kwang Chol Joy  (apparently Korean) 54,  was arrested charged with her murder after the body of Ramos was found in a remote area in Modjeska Canyon by hikers who complained of a foul smell. I don’t have any more information other than Ramos had an argument with Joy when she told him she had to leave her house for not paying rent

Conspiracy sites Veterans Today and Godlike productions suggested that Virginia Tech’s Seung Hui Cho was some sort of North Korean agent. Pretty crazy stuff except that his mom was from North Korea and his dad worked in … Saudi Arabia. Korea’s biggest mass shooter was police officer Woo Beom-gon who in 1982 stole two rifles and six hand grenades, attacking several villages over several hours killing 55 people and wounding 35 before killing himself. That sounds an awful lot like something North Korea would love to take credit for, but alas it  merely because of drinking and a quarrel with his girlfriend, that’s what most Korean men would do right? And that might have something to do with why so many Koreans suffer from Sudden Korean Jihad syndrome like the Discovery hostage situation, the attack on the Korean christian camp, the Oikos christian college, and the Korean beauty parlor.

Asian False Flagger

But what do I know, you could listent to Pao Chang is an Asian American conspiracy theorist of the Alex Jones / Veterans Today school. He says that not only Sandy Hook and the Boston Marathon Massacre but most of the 2012 mass shootings were “false flag attack” attacks staged by a rogue US or Israeli government, so these Asian shooters are probably working for Illuminati Zionist bankers, not terrorist nation states:

16 mass shootings in the US that killed 88 people in 2012.

1. February 22, 2012: A gunman killed five people at a Korean health spa in Norcross, Georgia.
2. February 26, 2012: Multiple gunmen killed one person and injured 20 others at a nightclub in Jackson, Tennessee.
3. February 27, 2012: A student opened fire and killed three students at Chardon High School in rural Ohio.
4. March 8, 2012: A gunman with two semiautomatic handguns killed two people and wounded seven others at a psychiatric hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
5. March 31, 2012: Two people were killed and 12 others were injured when a gunman began firing on a crowd at a funeral home in North Miami, Florida.
6. April 2, 2012: A former student killed seven people and wounded three others at Oikos University in Oakland, California.
7. April 6, 2012: Two gunmen killed three people and wounded two more in Tulsa, Oklahoma. All the targets were African Americans.
8. May 29, 2012: Five people were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a coffee shop in Seattle, Washington.
9. July 9, 2012: Three people were killed at a soccer tournament in Wilmington, Delaware, by multiple gunmen.
10. July 20, 2012: Supposedly a gunman killed 12 people and wounded 58 others at a movie theater during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
11. August 5, 2012: A gunman who is believed to be a white supremacist killed six people and then shot himself in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
12. August 14, 2012: A 35 year old gunman killed three people at Texas A&M University.
13. September 27, 2012: An angry man who had just lost his job shot five people and wounded three others in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
14. October 21, 2012: A 45 year old gunman killed three women, including his wife and wounded four others in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
15. December 11, 2012: A 22 year old killed two people at a mall near Portland, Oregon.
16. December 14, 2012: One gunman, and possibly more, killed 20 students and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Conversely, if conspiracy theorists are actually lying to us, then some other sinister organization besides the United States and Israel committed to killing Americans and Jews might be behind all these killings instead as anonymous incidents of terrorism. In this case, they would correctly assume that Americans are too stupid to recognize terrorism in the absence of criminal evidence. Or they might just be all isolated cases of mentally ill people killing for no reason at all.

 

Sunil Tripathi Fourth Boston Bombing Victim?

There have been a number of mysterious vanishings of college students, including Asian Indian Brown University student Sunil Tripathi.  His body was eventually found by a river after being said to suffer from depression and leaving without his cell phone or wallet. Somebody on a facebook page suggested he had left note which sounded suicidal. He was  falsely fingered in the Boston Bombings by the conspiracy media. 4chan which was a favorite hangout for Sandy Hook’s Adam Lanza had a lot of people circling everybody but the Tsarnaevs and promoting the False Flag theory favored by the “Tsarnaevs were framed innocent boys and their mom is not a terrorist” fan club that sniper Chris Kyler’s Craft International contractors, Israel and the US government were to blame for the Boston attacks, and not an international conspiracy using 9-11 truthers as bombers with ties to to Dagestan and Chechen rebels that usually blow up innocent people in Russia making their American debut in Boston. The media is still stupid enough to call it  a “homegrown” plot by white guy “knock off” jihadis (That’s what VPres Joe Biden called them) with no ties to international Islamist terrorism.

Closing the Susan Cox Powell Case

Funny that Susan Cox Powell also was claimed by her husband Josh who later killed himself along with two songs who were starting to blab about “mommy in the trunk” to have run away after leaving HER phone and wallet at home. West Valley police who have never seriously treated the disappearance case as an obvious  murder have the nerver to have the never to close the case Authorities STILL won’t acknowledge all the evidence points to her being  murdered by the murderer of  her sons, husband Josh Powell who said she ran away.

Now it comes out that Josh’s brother Michael Powell abandoned his graduate degree in Minnesota to jump off a parking ramp in Minneapolis after police started to ask him a lot of questions. Turns out he drove thousands of miles to meet up with Josh, and may have carried the body of Susan in the trunk of a Taurus which broke down, so he had it sold for scrap. Police found the car and found that cadaver dogs seemed to think that was the only car in the yard that smelled like a body, and Chuck Cox got a tip that he might have buried Susan in an Oregon farm, but a search didn’t turn anything up.  West Valley doesn’t believe creepy father-in-law Steven who is supposed to get out of jail soon for his do-it-yourself porn studio had anything to do with the murder even though he was seen with Josh scouting out places in the mountains in street clothes, and he seemed to be chatting with Josh a lot on the day of the disappearance and knock-out pancake breakfast.

Anti-American Pro-North Korean Propoganda Film One Big Joke

Mark Dice a 9-11 Illuminati truther on Fox news is a true patriot who thinks America deserves to be attack by mass stabbing kooks, and endorses a pro-North Korea pro-Islamist, anti-American anti-Christian anti-Bible anti-capitalist anti-Semitic film as a wonderfully hilarious mockumentary. The film “Propoganda” first claimed to be smuggled from North Korea when it was posted to YouTube, but then claimed it was all a joke when the Korean community in New Zealand plus intelligence agencies in Australia and South Korea recognized a local resident who played the part of a NK professor started interrogating him as if he was some sort of NK agent. Heck the film website used to start out with a full-screen statement that “Eugene Chang Is Not A NK Agent” and now has an full explanation of how this upstanding citizen is the poor misunderstood victim of a McCarthyist witch hunt. If you look at the unexplained school attacks, vehicle rampage and  stabbing incidents in Japan and Korea, one wonders what terrorist state in Asia (and the United States names only one Asian state) might be up to such such mischief.

The Fishy Taxi Fire Before the Limo Fire

Remember that limousine driver who was made out to be a hero instead of arrested to make sure he had nothing to do with that fire? I surfed around and found a remarkably similar incident back in June 14 of 2010. Two tourists from Ohio on their way from the San Francisco airport died when their cab caught fire under the trunk. But instead of stopping as soon as there was a fire, the driver claimed that after he smelled smoke, his main and parking brakes went out and he was forced to crash into a pillar. The driver got out OK, but the passengers were so far gone by the time 2 police pulled them out of the car they died in the hospital.

What is really spooky is that some “Scott Williams” was fortunate enough to be in another cab in the very next lane where he could post a picture of flames out of the rear of the car. It was just like that truck in Afghanistan as if somebody knew when and where the plane would crash, so he equipped his rig with a high tech dashcam, and planned to have it pointed in just the right direction and time to catch that 747 crash at Bagram. The UK Daily News had pictures within hours of the KC-135 crash site which could only be reached by horseback which blew up in midair shortly after taking off from the home region of the Tsarnev family. The last time one of these blew up in midair was back in the 70s. An F-16 also mysteriously fell out of the sky on final approach at Bagram. Security is supposedly tight enough that nobody could cause these air disasters by sabotage. Or is it??

There was a lawyer Claude Wyle who was pretty sure it was “Negligent Maintenance or Bad Driving” because “ it almost always involves negligence on the part of the cab company in failing to keep its taxis safe for passengers.” Funny in these cases there is always somebody to make sure everybody thinks it’s an accident and nobody even suspects foul play. Wyle is also a conspiracy theorist, promoting the idea that GMO foods are causing the death of bees, which means that you can be certain that he’s either promoting the truth, or a sinister lie.

Hit and Stab

On May 22, in England a British soldier was run down by a car by a couple of Nigerian Brits claiming to be militant Islamists upset about wars against Islam who then stabbed and hacked him nearly to pieces with various sharp things and waved a gun at people taunting them to take picture and videos. Some police suspect there are clues that this might be some sort of terrorist attack, but media called it merely possible since we can’t jump to conclusions just because they were shouting Allah Ackbar. Later it was disclosed that they were Muslim converts from Christian families who had been linked to terrorism before, but they were merely handing out leaflets promoting death to all kuffars.

Few Americans know that in Japan, one of the biggest attacks after a school attack was when a guy in Japan mowed down a busy crowd in Akihabara with a truck and then got out and stabbed people. Then some guy in Guam did a remake to Japanese tourists there with a smaller car, stabbing people including elderly women and a baby. The Japanese and Guamanian did exactly the same thing as the London attackers, hit and stab. Yet when somebody shoots up a school like Columbine or Sandy Hook or a crowd or a mall, as long as the guy isn’t shouting Allah Ackbar, no one has a clue that terrorism is the most obvious motive, and it’s who could be behind it that needs to be figured out.

Actually in the case of Fort Hood and at least one mall shooting, you can shout Allah Ackbar and have a business card that identifies you as a militant islamist but the Obama administration still won’t call it a Islamist attack though they finally admitted they will send drones against American terrorists like Anwar al-Awlaki.

That same Claude Wyle taxi safety advocate also had the best interests of victims of a June 2, 2010 “road rage” incident. He set up a legal fund for victims of SUV driver David Mark Clark who apparently deliberately ran down four cyclists in the Mission District and pled not guilty to attempted murder.

Americans aren’t familiar with the huge number of “vehicle rampage” attacks that started in Israel, when a construction worker in Jerusalem took his excavator and started wreaking death and destruction on anything jewish. The pro-Jewish Zionists accused him of being a terrorist, but the Palestinian community and his family was sure that he was a nice guy that just snapped.

Then a guy in China did about the same thing even though it was Chinese-on-Chinese murder, Now at a hiker paraded in Virginia you’ve got some elderly person who authorities suspect “had a medical issue” as they are absolutely sure nobody would run over so many people they had to lift up the car to remove people from underneath.

Remember that Puerto Rican guy who accidentally rammed the cab with a jewish couple in it at 60 mph? Palestinians invented the “BMW attack” as a way to mown down Israeli soldiers before they were running over Brits.

Iranians as Victims

The US government calls Iran a sponsor of terrorism, but see if you explain this one. On April 4, at a Saudi airport a service truck went out of control “due to mechanical problems “ which caused it to crash through a glass wall into a gate lounge full of Iranian pilgrims leaving a bloody scene with one woman hanging alive from the bumper and 2 dead.  A driver from Nepal was arrested. This was after a Saudi embassy staff person put 4 bottles of booze in his car which gave him an excuse for ramming  a car in Tehran killing the driver.  When car bombs went off all over Afghanistan in 2012, the Iranian embassy was targeted along with those of the usual western powers.  In Iraq, the shia muslim minority bears the brunt of most of the terrorist attacks, with the suspects usually being the Sunni wing of Islamist militants aligned with Gulf states and the now “peaceful” Muslim Brotherhood that promotes democracy and defends against “violent” Coptic Christians in Egypt. Although Iran consistently denies any link to terror, it may be a case like the Mad Spy vs Spy series of two rival movements that take time out to attack each other when they are not attacking US/Israel interests.

Police Attacks as Terrorism

The US media does not highlight attacks on police in various cities as having a political motive. In Pakistan and Afghanistan it is obvious when terrorist attacks target the police. On April 29, six people were killed and 38 others injured when a suicide blast hit a police van.  On May 29, in northeastern Pennsylvania a taxi driver drove at high speed and allegedly “lost control” veering into the path of a fire police van, killing the taxi driver and hospitalizing the firefighters.  In the same area, a guy’s “pedal stuck” forcing him to drive his jeep across a park and he was not able to avoid (or aim straight for) a parked car injuring the woman inside. And on April 30, a stolen van rampaged around South Los Angeles, ramming a police car head-on playing bumper cars with dozens of police and other vehicles. Washington state saw a number of assassination style attacks on police officers. They were doing exactly what a terrorist taking instructions from AQ might be expected to do, but weren’t showing anybody’s flag to indicate who they might be killing for.

Small Terrorism Is Big

Americans have been primed to expect only “big and obvious” terrorist events like 9-11, Fort Hood and the Boston bombings, and threats of nuclear annihilation from North Korea.  But if these two “hacker” fellows in Britain are any indication, they are perfectly willing to kill or injure single people and risk arrest or death. Sometimes they will proclaim an Islamist motive, but the recent rash of “unfortunate events” suggests the world is under attack by a global network of terrorists who stage their attacks to look like accidents or simple crimes as a response to the War on Terror.  It would be as if the world were in a global war and nobody knew about it, and none of the governments knew about it, or at least would let their people know except in rare cases like Benghazi when the government relented and admitted a protest really was an attack.

Freedom Fighter or Invader

Ironically as much as the Islamists accuse the US, Britain and the west of sending  invaders into Afghanistan and Iraq to kill civilians, the Arab and Muslim diaspora recruits mujahideen fighters from across the world, including cases of Americans caught trying to or joining the Jihad in Syria or Somalia to commit terrorism against innocents across the planet where ironically most of the victims are also Muslims. Aghanistan is complaining that Pakistan is closing down some Madrassa schools so that their students can execute their “final project” of slipping into Afghanistan to set off bombs against civilian targets.

Bogus War on Terror?

Unlike people with normal criminal motives, their sole objective is to harm as many people as possible and they are just as willing to die or be arrested as any assassin, suicide bomber or hijacker pilot. Most of the conspiracy theorists want you to believe there is no global war of terror. But if that is a lie, the opposite is that all or most of the big or small headline “unfortunate events”  could be manifestations of a secret global war of terror, quite possibly by more than one competing terrorist power. Certainly the bad guys consider terror to be attacks from NATO, Israel and drone strikes. If we took off our rose colored glasses and started counting everything that looks like it could be terrorism, then what we have is a war that easily worldwide has as many battles and deaths that dwarf what goes on in the Afghanistan theater alone.

 

Japan's largest bread maker will raise the prices of some of its products from July. (NHK)