25-08-2005 13:23									#1
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quote: Japan is considering building a lighthouse at a pair of Pacific Ocean outcroppings at the center of a territorial dispute with China, a coast guard official said Thursday. The lighthouse is needed "to guarantee the safety of ships" passing by Okinotorishima islets, said Takatoshi Nagasaki, an official with the Japanese coast guard's media section.

quote: Japan claims the Okinotorishima outcroppings -- heavily fortified by cement embankments -- are islands that enable it to extend its exclusive economic zone far into the Pacific. Yomiuri said the coast guard will ask for 30 million yen in its budget request for fiscal 2006 ending March 2007 to build the lighthouse. China says Okinotorishima is only a couple of rocks, not islands governed by rules of sovereignty. The land therefore can't be used by Japan to extend its economic zone and prevent Beijing from exploiting the natural resources in the surrounding Pacific Ocean area, Beijing says.

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Nice islands we have here.

	25-08-2005 13:40									#2
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	25-08-2005 13:46									#3
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Bosh thought Korea had it bad when he saw the strange ad in a theater.

Then again, maybe he's right. Those rocks are utterly worthless. These rocks aren't - at least they can be used to screw other countries.

	25-08-2005 13:53									#4
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Damn, those are even smaller than Dokdo. Now in the defense of Korea's strangeness this was just one step in a long series of things such as people setting themselves on fire, people chopping their fingers off, months of hacker wars, constant newspaper headlines, Korean poodles being stationed on the islands to ward off evil spirits, special Dokdo triangle sushi made to raise money to defend the islands, korean online computer games that involve defend dokdo adventures or involve attacking monkeys with Koizomi's face etc. etc. The ad just took the whole things to a new surreal level.

The Japanese are being smarter about things, they're going after a definate commercial advantage not chopping their fingers off and screaming about their territorial integrity being threatened.

	25-08-2005 14:01									#5
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You list all those other things, and the ad brought things to a new surreal level!?

	25-08-2005 14:20									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi You list all those other things, and the ad brought things to a new surreal level!?

Hey that was a damn strange ad, you have to see it to believe it. There were giant robots
Always as wierd as the Renys ads back home...

	25-08-2005 14:31									#7
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Still better than Marden's though, right?

edit: Woah, Marden's has a web site!

	25-08-2005 15:01									#8
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hmmmmm

then there was the classic "come on down neighbor, we've got the sharpest pencils in town"

but of course all pales before Bob's Stores ads in CT...

	25-08-2005 15:19									#9
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Maybe the japanese officials have played too much CtP2 and
see the Lighthouse as some kind of watchtower,
which extends the Civilizations borders with a radius of 2 tiles

	25-08-2005 15:19									#10
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Damn, at least on the Falklands, there was something to stand on

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the falklands are bloody massive...

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quote: Originally posted by Bosh but of course all pales before Bob's Stores ads in CT...

I don't know...This is why you don't have an intro to 3D modeling class do your ads for you. (No, I wasn't in that class.)

Sorry. Continue with your thread about rocks now.

	25-08-2005 17:41									#13
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Admittedly the isles look very small, but the distance from which the picture is made could be deceiving us.

	25-08-2005 19:12									#14
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Thanks to such small islands like this, Japan can control more ocean, with its fish and other resources. Fighting over small islands is not always dumb.

	25-08-2005 19:15									#15
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They want to build a lighthouse to improve the safety of ships?

I saw a piece on TV a few days ago about the UK proposing to close some lighthouses because they are redundant with ships having radar and GPS.

Definitely sounds like a BS excuse to grab a bigger economic zone. Like Rockall.

	25-08-2005 19:59									#16
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Potentially, there's a lucrative oil and natural gas under those islands that's rightfully Japan's.

Japan.

Chinese historical revisionist interlopers.

	25-08-2005 20:11									#17
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Where could I see this crazy korean ad?

	25-08-2005 20:16									#18
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This doesn't make the Japanese crazier at all.

	25-08-2005 20:30									#19
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Which part is silly? Any territorial dispute with China, or the mundane buidling of infrastructure on a piece of land?

	25-08-2005 23:30									#20
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The silly part is the Chinese claiming about extending sea territory when they claim nearly half of the pacific themselves. At least Japan is giving a valid argument.

Great thread UR! Really hammers some points home.

	25-08-2005 23:33									#21
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China outdoes both in silliness.

	25-08-2005 23:34									#22
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Verto

	25-08-2005 23:37									#23
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after all these threads I've concluded that

ALL AZN'S ARE CRAZY!

no offense to azn's

	26-08-2005 00:05									#24
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No, just the crazy ones.

	26-08-2005 00:07									#25
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I'm sure this story is all over the Chinese newspapers and news media. Along with a lengthy description of Japanese war crimes. Got to get them riled up for more protests, otherwise China might never have a war.

	26-08-2005 01:05									#26
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It does my heart good to see that at least someone is fighting the good fight to keep the memory of Invader ZIM alive, Da Shi.

Oh, and somewhat on-topic what the heck good computer game can you play in only 3 hours People's Republic??!

Have the commissars ever tried to organize Eu2 multiplayer games??

	26-08-2005 03:11									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Sava after all these threads I've concluded that ALL AZN'S ARE CRAZY! no offense to azn's

If that's the case, where does that put US natural resource policy?