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昨晩のなでしこJapanと米国チームとの戦い：真珠湾の仕返しだそうです。

昨晩のなでしこJapanと米国チームとの戦いは、一部米国人にとっては、真珠湾の仕返しだそうです。以下がその事例です。

8.10.2012

this was to be expected

Yesterday, the U.S. women's soccer team defeated
Japan in the gold medal match at the 2012 Summer Olympics. For some American
fans, it was payback for Japan's victory over the United States at the 2011 FIFA
Women's World Cup Final. For other idiots, it was seemingly payback for
something else:

A Twitter search for "japs" yielded many more similar results. Yeah, you're so
awesome, America. More here: Not
Again, America.

Angry Asian Man

#LondonOlympics #Olympics2012 Unfair German Chief Referee !

矢住勝大(やずみかつひろ)‏@yazumikatsuhiro 

tweets as follows:

Japan Football Association must raise a question over two major misjudgements Chief Referee made in the gold-medal match of women’s soccer between Japan and US although we know that FIFA will never overturn them. In the first half, the American player obviously committed a foul of handling the ball (This foul is called if the player is trying to control the ball with his or her hands or arms) in the penalty area that should have given Japan one penalty kick (a penalty kick is awarded when a defender commits a a penal or major fouls with the penalty area). In the second half, Ms. Kumagai of Japan was all surrounded by the American players, one of whom was holding Kumagai's body with two arms around and pushed her down in the penalty area that should have given Japan another penalty kick.

日本サッカー協会はロンドン五輪の女子サッカーの決勝戦の主審のミスジャッジについて判定が覆ることがないとしても絶対にFIFAに問題提起せよ。アメリカのペナルティエリアでの前半のアメリカ選手のハンドと後半の熊谷さんが服を掴まれて倒されたことにPKが与えられなかったことは大きな問題だ。

Who will be the Queen of "fouls" in Women's Olympic Football Tournament !

Japan defeated France 2-1 at Wembley Stadium on August 6, the 67th anniversary of Hiroshima Massacre, to book her place in the final of the Women's Olympic Football Tournament while USA didn't miss a chance to play gold medal match with the world champion Japan by scoring a lucky goal in a semi-final with Canada, ending 4-3 after extra time.

Is this predtermined or just coincidental that Japan will face USA in the gold medal match on August 9, the 67th anniversary of Nagasaki Massacre ?

Just out of curiosity, I accessed FIFA official web site to study some statistics of the ongoing tournament and then was surprised to find out that US team has so far committed 65 fouls, the largest number among all the participating teams whereas Japan has been far behind US team, more precisely the smallest, only 23 fouls committed in the last five matches. US team has suffered 58 fouls while Japan 40.

Quite interesting to watch the gold medal match on August 9 to see who will be the Queen of "fouls".

 Statistics-Top Cards

ロンドンオリンピック女子サッカー”なでしこジャパン”のフェアープレイ―の美しさ

ロンドンオリンピック女子サッカーにおける”なでしこジャパン”と”米国チーム”との反則数の比較を確認してみると米国は、圧倒的に反則数で”なでしこジャパン”を超えていることが判る。
”なでしこジャパン”は、その名の通り、今回のオリンピックで最も反則数の少ないチームであり美しいサッカーをしていることが判る。
米国は、反則数では、世界一位であり、日本は、最下位を保っている。
準決勝までの５試合で、米国は、６５回の反則を犯したのに対して日本は、２３回とオリンピック女子サッカー出場国で最下位です。そして、日本が被った反則数は、４０回となっております。

皆さん！”米国の声”＝Voice of Americaご存知ですか。

Voice of America‏@VOA_News

Day 1 of London Olympics Earns Praise, Criticism http://bit.ly/MSJqLn
日本の皆さんへ：このVOAアメリカの声の記事の中に日本のことをJAPと略してあるのをご覧ください。これが現実です。米国では、普通に、日本人や日本のことをJAPとしております。拡散願います。日本の正式の略字はJPN或いは、JNです。

米タイムス紙が史上最悪のオリンピック開会式として１９８８年ソウルオリンピック開会式を選定

米タイムス紙が史上最悪のオリンピック開会式として１９８８年ソウルオリンピック開会式を選定しました。
その選定理由が韓国をらしい納得できる理由です。それは、世界の人々が注目する中、多数のハトが聖火台点火と同時に丸焼けになるといる珍事というか動物愛護の精神に欠ける事態が発生したことです。
多数のハトが放たれ競技場を飛び回り平和を演出しようとの机上プランが世界を驚かす事態へと発展。”韓国焼肉”ならぬ”ハトの焼き鳥”が出来上がってしまったから、サー大変でした。

 

The Worst Ever Opening Ceremonies

【国際】米タイム誌、史上最悪の五輪開幕式に「ソウルオリンピック」を選定…"始まりから不幸だった"

 

ギリシャの美人選手パラスケビ・パパフリストゥ（２３）が人種差別発言をしたことで今回のオリンピック参加資格を剥奪されるそうです。その発言とは、「ギリシャにはアフリカ人が多く、西ナイル熱を持つ蚊も自家製の餌にありつける」でした。皆さんの反応は？

Voula Papachristou

Nadeshiko Japan has defeated Canada 2-1 in first 2012 Olympic soccer match today

Nadeshiko Japan has defeated Canada 2-1 in first 2012 Olympic soccer match today.
In history of Japan, women have always played important roles in nation-building, contrary to what the West preaches on Japan and her culture. They are the women who deserve to be called "Yamato Nadeshiko", literally meaning "Japanese Dianthus", a flower believed to be lovely and yet spiritually strong resembling to the Japanese women.

 

Read Nadeshiko Japan-related stories:

Japan Defeat South Korea in Women's Qualfier for 2012 London Olympics

The Best Shot of the Year 2011: Ms. Sawa of Nadeshiko Japan

A Japanese Sports Journalist Thrashes WBC For "Good" #CNN #NYT #Obama #Clinton @BarackObama

Mr. Hirotada Ototake, a well-known figure in Japan for his successful work in sports journalism, gives us a fair analysis of "Japanese baseball players' decision not to participate in the next World Baseball Classic slated to be held in the United States in the spring of 2013.

Mr. Ototake writes in his official blog (see WBC不参加に思う～乙武洋匡のベースボールコラム );  Although some criticize The Japan's Baseball Players' Union of giving priority to money by voting against Japan's participation in the next WBC, I believe that their criticism has missed the mark because in the frist place, there is no way to approve of the unfair practices seen not only in deciding on tournament revenue and merchandising and sponsorship rights for the Japan National Team but also in scheduling tournaments, etc.

He continues to say "I have observed a ridiculous aspect of WBC in which the American umpires unilaterally selected by the Americans enforce the rules of the games and the grounds, making judgment calls on plays, and handling the disciplinary actions on the American soil although MLB claims it to be an international competition."

 

 

Related stories:

 Discard Unequal Treaty with WBC (World Baseball Classic Company) !

Japanese Players Vote Against WBC Participation

 

 

 

Discard Unequal Treaty with WBC (World Baseball Classic Company) ! # WBC #CNN #NYT #UN #ROK #DPRK

Uh-oh. This sounds so great for Japan and her people.

Japanese professional baseball players have unanimously voted against Japan's participation in WBC games slated to be opened next spring despite the well-known fact that Japan won the previous two editions of the WBC in 2006 and 2009.

Not many people are aware that WBC is a private company established by Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). After two major international baseball events (Olympic Baseball and the Baseball World Cup) have been discontinued since 2008 and  2011 respectively, WBC company seems to have focused on importance attached to WBC games as a lucrative business which has so far generated sizable amount of dollars almost exclusively for the company.

Believe it or not, 70% of profits WBC games generate reportedly comes from the Japanese sponsors, however, WBC company grabs 66.6% of the profits while only 13% is available to Nippon (Japan) Professional Baseball Organization, abbreviated NPB. Besides, every commercial right is exclusively owned by WBC company.

WBC reminds some Japanese of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and U.S.A. signed on July 29, 1858, in which extraterritoriality and rights to decide on import-export duties were granted to the United States. Japan had endured inquality deriving from the treaty signed at gunpoint more than four decades. Japan successfully remedied the treaty only four years after Japan won the First Japan-China War in March 1895.

A direct cause of the war between Japan and China was chiefly China's rejection of the British proposal of jointly assisting Korea secure independence and promote domestic policy reform, thereby realizing abolition of the master-slave relationship between China as a brutal colonialist and Korea as her vassal state.

As the existing relationship between Japan and the United States has remarkably improved in the last 150 years, nobody wants to see the United States inundating Japan with unequal terms anymore. 

Read this related story

 Japanese Players Vote Against WBC Participation

Terrorist State "North Korea" Must Be Expelled From FIFA

North Korea banned Japanese supporters from bringing in "Rising Sun flag", banners, mobiles, GPS, etc. for FIFA World Cup Qualifier match held on November 15. Besides, after arrival at Pyongyang International Airport, Japanese soccer team was questioned by North Korean authority who held the team at the airport for 4 hours, thus giving the team the limited time to exercise. Only 30 minutes of exercise after they checked into the designated hotel.

Japanese soccer supporters were seen surrounded by North Korean soldiers armed with rifles.  Japanese supporters looked almost like constrained and threatened at gunpoint. They just had to sit there. North Koreans were waving their national flags and were loudly booing while Japanese national anthem was played. And it was hardly heard at all. Even FIFA judges looked feared that North Koreans might stampede into the soccer field during the match. One of the Japanese supporters said "He was so scared that something terrbile would happen if Japan won the game."

Japan should submit a complaint to FIFA that FIFA should not have allowed a terrorist state to hold FIFA Qualifier matchin North Korea. FIFA should have chosen a neutral state instead since North Korea is the country where no democracy and fairness exist, posing an increasing threat to democracy and freedom in the Far East.

However, as observed in the match, the whole world has noticed some definite similarity between North Korea and South Korea in terms of their behaviors no other nations normally practice. It simply proves that not only North Korea but also South Korea regard Japan and her people as their enemy. Both Koreas have long remained outrageous.

A New Discovery! Koreans Scratch Their Faces Whenever They See "Rising Sun Flag"

Japan Defeat S. Korea in Asia Women's Qualifier for 2012 London Olympics

Nadeshiko Japan won the game 2-1 in Asia Women's Qualifier for 2012 London Olympics held tonight at Jinan, the capital of Shandong, China. Nadeshiko Japan became world champion after beating U.S. team in a penalty shootout in the final match of the FIFA Women's World Cup on July 19.

Jinan is well known both in Japan and China for Jinan incident that occurred on May 3, 1928. In the incident, 400 Japanese residents were victimized by looting, beating, killing, etc.  An official telegram sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan in those days describes the brutal killings of the Japanese nationals by Chinese.  Autopsies of those killed show "removal of abdominal viscera, insertion of wooden sticks into the female genital, etc.

 

Volleyball Women World Grand Prix in Japan

Volleyball Women World Grand Prix:  Japan-South Korea women Volleyball on Aug. 20 Set 1  25-19, Set 2  25-22, Set 3  29-27 Result full time Japan won 3-0 against South Korea.

Now Japan-Russia game is going on. Japan won 2 sets against Russia. In the third set, Japan 19- Russia 12.

Mrs. Clinton's SportsDiplomacy works for Japan? Or, against Japan?

@AmbassadorRoos: RT @sportsdiplomacy: RT @talleyatstate: @cnnjill reports on #SecClinton's #SportsDiplomacy w/ #Japan & @RipkenBaseball: owl.li/633M9 -end of tweet- My comment: The government of U.S.A. should educate its own people that "American baseball" was introduced to Japan in 1872 and that Mr. Hiraoka is the man who first organized a baseball team called "Shinbashi Athletics" in 1878. A majority of the American citizens are ignorant of the fact that Japan had made every possible move to promote friendship with U.S.A. in those days.  The government of U.S.A. still tends to pick up stories it considers suited to propagate only a good image of U.S.A. while neglecting a true history.

Japan lifts ban on North Korean team to enter Japan only for its World Cup Asia Third Preliminary Round

The Government of Japan has indicated that it would allow North Korean team to enter Japan for its World Cup Asia Third Preliminary Round to play against Japan. However, the Japanese families of those abducted and still held by North Korea have expressed their deep concern that every one of those accompanying the team must be strictly scrutinized to see if there are any North Korean operatives slipping through. サッカー北朝鮮チーム入国許可に家族会声明　「同行者の審査、厳格に」