Blinky's at it again....

[den4]

The Chinese are ignorant, so they are overjoyed. That spacecraft was an outdated one. If Japan wanted to do it, we could do it in one year.
Tokyo Gov Shintaro Ishihara, dismissing China's manned spacecraft launch last month. (Yomiuri Shimbun)

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=quote&id=838

He is also the co-author of the infamous book, "A Japan that can say No." all those years ago...
http://home.earthlink.net/~rufusis/japanno/part01.html

He is so funny with his outrageous commentaries, meant to inflame nationalism in Japan...he would be an adequate role model for one of the posters (or more than one) at the www.despair.com site....

Next to the former Foreign Affairs Minister, Makiko Tanaka, and a host of other political nitwits, I must wonder how much time they take to think up these lame-brained comments... :D

Like Daffy Duck used to say: "It's to laugh..."

[noyhauser]

I'm going to have to agree with Ishihara on this one (GASP!!!) the Shenzou Capsule is one big propaganda rocket, and marks no real advance of technology. The market for space launches is in shooting up satellites, and since China can already do that there was no real point of launching a rocket. The thing is like most chinese military projects, a copy of a russian system (this time the Soyuz capsule). Japan was going to make a mini shuttle in the late 80s, early 90s but decided against it because the price was prohibitive, and would have little commercial gain. It was much more economical and profitable to send up a section of the International space station and get real valuable research out of that. Great China can be proud of shooting up one rocket into space, but if they continue to plow money into the program, then they have no sense of worth and are going to spend themselves into oblivion.

[waverider]

the Chinese got almost 1/4 of the Earth's population excited about space again. I find that exciting.

Ishihara is a biggot and a racist. I can't believe he has a 70% approval rating.

[djl_ottawa]

the following is gotten from
He is also the co-author of the infamous book, "A Japan that can say No." all those years ago...

We believe that the urgency of our country's situation justifies our disregard for the wishes of the book's authors. Their interest in analyzing the United States' problems seems to be motivated at best by a penchant for self-congratulation and at worst by one for jingoistic sentiment and self-promotion. The fact that they are attempting to ensure that their audience remains exclusively Japanese reinforces our sense that they do not see our country's interests as theirs. Still, much of what they say is accurate, and we believe that reading it may help our country to act in its own interests

Now. I loved the book because I did not know alot about this stuff, being Canadian. But that last quote from the "Side note" Is probably the reason the book was written.

I know in Canada we adopt alot of Americanism, but for myself I would love to work for the type of company that has some of the Japanese work ethics, from both workers and the company. There are alot of things of Japanese thinking that we North Americans can use with great results.