Japanese - Businessman | June 19, 1966 -
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
Joichi Ito
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I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.
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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
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We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
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But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
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Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
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Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.
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When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
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Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
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It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
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Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
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