Off-Topic Alert
Horny Troops Succumb to Chinese Vamps
crobato: You spoil the fun. 8)
Seriously, since at least the past year or two, Yahoo! Japan News is full of such (IMO amusing) news about JSDF soldiers leaking (inappropriately copied) military data files from their computers, because the computers also use file-sharing programmes, such as WinNY, and get leeched by spyware and trojans.
Last autumn or winter, the JSDF announced they would get their soldiers to sign pledges that they wouldn’t install file-sharing programmes in their computers, but the news of such leaks kept appearing; albeit I respect the honest transparency of the JSDF: after all, Yahoo! Japan News also irregularly reports JSDF soldiers’ misbehaviours, which span from mundane (groping women in trains) to weird (being found naked in an empty building that used to be a restaurant; or being arrested by police for stealing a crystal glass ornament, worth only 20K Yen, in a maid cafe (light restaurants where cute teenage waitresses dress in cute, frilly, lacey French maid costumes) in Akiba (Akibahara, Toukyou), in 2007 January, where the thief was a 47 years old Major (O-4)…).
News about the PLA in Xin Hua news site are just plain bland.
The JSDF also announced that, by 2007 April, they would use file-encryption to protect the military data files in their comptuers, which of course caused the doubt: that they previously didn’t use file-encryption to scrambe their files!?
] In Japan, the military doesn’t get much respect, and many of the bases are in backwaters.
Some Jap friends of mine, who work in civilian commercial companies, consider JSDF soldiers as salarymen paid and trained to operate specail heavy machinery.
] It’s not unusual for Chinese women to be in the country, as many come, legally or illegally, looking for jobs.
Hong Kong TV channels did documentaries about Chinese women, from poor provinces, who get married with Jap farmers and move to Jap villages. Any way to get out of China.
Chinese illegal immigrants looking for work and money to send home, also get trafficked to and pop up in unusual places all over the world, even Africa and Middle-East, such as Iraq and Pakistan, countries that are IMO more deadly and pathetic than China.
For example, a year or two ago, the Chinese embassy in Iraq only learnt some Iraqi gangsters had kidnapped seven Chinese men, after the gangsters released three Brits they also kidnapped. In the released Brits’ press conference, they told the reporters that before the gangsters released the Brits, they took the Brits to a group of Oriental men, and asked the Brits to read the Oriental men’s passports, to see if they were Chinese, Japanese, or South Koreans, probably because the gangsters didn’t understand English, and the Oriental men didn’t understand Arabic or English.
The Chinese embassy in Iraq immediately asked the Iraqi clerics for help, and got the gangsters to release the Chinese hostages, who thought they were going to work in Jordan or Syria.
What I never understand is: if they, or their families and relatives, can or are willing to pay tens of thousands of US Dollars to get them out of China, then why don’t they invest/use that amount of money in their own towns in, say, An Hui or Fu Jian or whatever province?
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