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I'm not okay with young kids seeing junks of adults of opposite sex, for one

Gaijinjland

Today 12:36 pm JST

@Ian,

> Restrooms are a necessity. Onsen is not. And a passable trans woman would probably cause more trouble for everyone and turn more heads if they went into the men’s room anyway

Yes, I agree.

What I'm saying is if they want to use the restrooms of the gender they identify with then of course they also want the same regarding showers and toilets

Antiquesaving

Today 09:22 am JST

ian

> July 10 07:13 pm JST

> Something just occurred to mind.

> What do transgenders put on medical forms? Obviously medical forms ask for biological sex not the gender people identify with.

> But what do transgenders actually put on the forms?

> Good question, and the answer can be seen in other countries.

> Look at Canada, in Toronto the government spent millions on medical busses to sever this after the (LGB) alphabet community.

> Apparently they refuse to go to the hospitals because it "traumatized" them.

> The need to fill in a form with biological sex was "triggering".

That's complicated.

Very difficult especially in emergency situations.

Gaijinjland

Today 10:08 am JST

@Antiquesaving

> That’s a slippery slope and just a what if hypothetical.

> There are so many other things in this world to worry about than the off chance of a trans woman going into an onsen.

You mean they want to use the restrooms for females but don't want to use the showers and onsens for females?

Beijing has conveyed its serious concern to Tokyo over the incident, leading the Japanese Defense Ministry to launch an investigation into the ship's captain

So govt doesn't have prior knowledge and ship acting on its own

Something just occurred to mind.

What do transgenders put on medical forms? Obviously medical forms ask for biological sex not the gender people identify with.

But what do transgenders actually put on the forms?

Kazuaki ShimazakiToday  05:28 pm JST

China "allowed" the Philippines to operate legally in its own internationally-recognized waters?

That's ... actually a bit of a doozy. The problem is whether you believe the Shoals count as land. The Permanent Court of Arbitration's solution was that it doesn't stick out of the water enough to count as land, so it is ocean, and control of the relevant surface is determined by EEZs ranging out from other places that are at least of island size - that happens to make it Filipino.

However, both the PRC and the Phillippines act like that was land (you don't beach a ship onto a random point in the mundane ocean as a makeshift base). If we accept the Shoals are land, then the PRC has a valid, in fact probably leading claim to the land - it helps that China was at least a country when the Phillippines was an US colony. And if it is Chinese land, then even as a "rock" it can generate the 12 mile territorial sea - so we'd have a patch of Chinese territorial sea interrupting Philippines EEZ.

Further, without disputing most of the PCA's judgment, it's still possible to beef about this one because it exceeds the PCA's own self-admitted boundaries - it can't adjudicate sovereignty claims. Refusal of nine-dashed line or downgrading islands into rocks doesn't attack the sovereignty claim, only the extent of water that the claim influences. Defining a piece of land as not land does attack and neutralize the claim, which the PCA admitted was beyond what it can do because it is beyond what UNCLOS controls for - this creates an argument at least this part of the judgment is void ab initio due to ultra vires.

Thus, the PRC's legal claim may be better than what people give it credit for.

I agree. Except for the part that this is the PCA's judgement. As I understand it the PCA was just the registry for the proceedings, the tribunal who made the judgement was just an ad hoc one constituted for this purpose

The high court, meanwhile, maintained that the purpose of the clause on gender confirmation surgery, which is to prevent exposure to genitals of the opposite sex in places such as public baths, is legitimate.

Good to know they place high importance on the reason

The Chinese cowards would never dare to do the same to US ships.

If only the US helped the Philippines resupply that marooned ship then we would have found out already

Is there anyone who can predict Trump's actions?

Snefruscousin

Today 03:29 pm JST

So China thinks that they are in control of the sea. Perhaps Philippines should dig up some old seaminess (ww2) and let them loose in the area so that China gets something else on their mind rather than obstructing Philippines small supply boats. This is the way China treats small neigbours simply because they choose to think they have the right to decide over others. Obviously they still live in the imperial times from several centuries ago. The Chinese cowards would never dare to do the same to US ships.

We'll find out if US ships venture into China territory

If China attacks Philippines' territory then the US is obligated to defend the Philippines under the defence agreement between the US and the Philippines

Just another day in China

Slush funds that to this day are still a total mystery as to their use, without any judge lead open court judicial review published investigation.

Investigators and prosecutors of course asked them how the slush fund is used and ldp probably showed them exactly how.

China claims much of the South China Sea, a conduit for the bulk of northeast Asia's trade with the rest of the world in which Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.

Wondering also why the other claimants are being mentioned now.

Whereas before the Philippines tried to drag China into arbitration as if only the two of them are the claimants

So wondering what Japan can do to help when the US don't or can't

Futaro Gamagori

Today 12:45 pm JST

China owns the Philippines

> Filipinos don't even trust their own government

> I don't understand how Japan can take this seriously

> Not hatin, just sayin what is obvious

If someone owns the Philippines, at the moment it's actually the US

Curious.

What are the reasons some hate the Komodo?

This will surely shore up Kishida's and LDPs diving trust rating and popularity

Everyone uses only what is available, up to the govt to produce energy how they want

Like that

Haha

I only respond sometimes because you quote me directly and mostly when you're fummy

TaiwanIsNotChina

Today 05:42 pm JST

ianToday 05:40 pm JST

> The Philippines had eliminated one of their biggest problems when they kicked out the US bases but presidents who wanted to curry favors from the US brought them back

> Because China trying to chase the Philippines out of their fishing grounds isn't a big problem?

You know there's no point talking to you as you barely comprehend anything

The Philippines had eliminated one of their biggest problems when they kicked out the US bases but presidents who wanted to curry favors from the US brought them back

They just signed a defense pact with the Philippines maybe they could work out something more

Japan and the United States were among the first to express alarm over the Chinese actions and call on Beijing to abide by international laws. Washington is obligated to defend the Philippines, its oldest treaty ally in Asia, if Filipino forces, ships and aircraft come under an armed attack, including in the South China Sea.

Marcos knows now what exactly in exchange he sold his soul and the Philippines for

As mentioned above many factors contribute to heat stroke risk aside from temperature.

A more approprite measure used is wet bulb temp or wet bulb global temp, an index that uses several factors. Here's the forecast site for Tokyo

https://www.wbgt.env.go.jp/en/graph_ref_td.php?region=03&prefecture=44&point=44132

Bellflower

Today 05:57 pm JST

How many of those 119 Tokyo area ambulance trips with sirens blaring were real emergencies?

> Judging by the fact that only 3 people were not already released, we can conclude that the vast majority of cases did not require an ambulance.

> Compare current news from exceptionally hot Shizuoka. Out of 35 heat related ambulance trips, 32 were mild and 3 were moderate.

> This is an abuse of the emergency care system. Meanwhile the few real emergency incidents face slow response times.

You can conclude that the vast majority of cases don't require an ambulance?

How are they going to the hospital?