Comments on: Justice Minister Hatoyama = Grim Reaper?

By: parkmount

parkmount — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:28:37 +0000

The Asahi should have come up with a better hogwash or hoax this time as they always do.

By: helical

helical — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:36:11 +0000

[sarcasm] So surprised that of all the newspapers out there, the one that would resort to such namecalling would be … Asahi Shimbun. Yup, so surprised. All of you obviously can see the shock on my face. [/sarcasm]

Seriously, if they’re so against it, can’t they come up with better tactics like, say, arguing rationally?

By: Good Nickname

Good Nickname — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:28:54 +0000

hmmm

Living a life in the public light means that Politicians etc… get nicknames that match their character / attitude.

‘Honest Abe’ = Abraham Lincoln.
‘Iron Maiden’ = Margaret Thatcher.
‘The Chimp’ = Bush the Younger.
‘Tricky Dicky’ = Richard Nixon.
‘Grim Reaper’ = Hatoyama.

Want a new nickname? – Change your character / attitude!

By: It's true!!

It's true!! — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:59:38 +0000

It's true!

By: Level3

Level3 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:30:58 +0000

Oops, but that doesn’t mean there are LOTS of elgitimate reasons to criticize Minister Hatoyama, who seems to think the only terrorists in Japan are gaijin, the Japan in which the few acts of terrorism were ALL carried out by native Japanese people.

By: Level3

Level3 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:27:49 +0000

Why not criticism for all the people who help those on death row to keep dodging the noose for years?

The child-killer/cannibal Miyazaki is probably the most notorious killer in Japan, but many gaijin have never heard of him because he killed those girls in the late 1980′s, long before most of us came to Japan. Only recently has he come back into news, in the wake of the Akihabara Slayings, as he was the first labelled “Otaku killer”.

I really don’t understand how someone who was PROUD of his killings, unapologetic, etc. could be allowed to live, much less why the Justice Minister should be criticized for making sure he was put to death.

Psychiatrists gave him an extra 7 uears of life as they tested him, but were eventually ignored when he was sentenced to die in 1997. Lawyers gave him an extra 9 years of life until his final appeal was denied by the Supreme Court in 2006. THEY should be the ones being criticized.

By: Osakesan

Osakesan — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:09:48 +0000

[...] It was a ridiculous sentence [...] (nice pun)

By: Randwulf

Randwulf — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:29:14 +0000

No win situation. He’s lambasted for giving the approval for the executions. But if he didn’t, he’d be lambasted as being too soft on criminals.