I don't agree with them but banning their products is a step too far for me. I love japanese products, it's not true that they don't admit their fault. Toyota has been widely known as a great car maker because they dare to admit the faulty parts in their cars and recall worldwide production to replace them. Something I don't see european car makers do. Their products are considerably at much higher quality than chinese ****.
The chinese has done very bad things as well. If we want to ban them, we will have to live as caveman as in every electronics there's chinese made element used.
I think the better question is to why we want to stop japanese with dolphin hunt? why is it different than eating chicken? Stop killing chicken? People says that dolphins are smart creatures, if they are that smart, they can move to other places where they don't get hunt right? When the japanese run out of them to hunt, they will stop anyway. They won't for example sail to australia just to hunt the over-populated dolphins there.
The fact that they are ABLE to kill 23.000 dolphins a year must mean that there's more dolphins available right? I quite believe the Japanese know what they are doing, they don't hunt the dolphins to their extinction because then they will run out of dolphins to hunt. But I won't know for sure.
About the happy faces ... just travel around asia, you will find them all the same! I'm an asian and I lived there long enough, they all the same. Lessons from your parents and social: put on happy faces outside, don't let people know you are sad or troubled (i believe it's also written in the Bible).
Besides banning from buying their products won't help your own country. Just think about it, every import/export will generate tax which goes to your country's revenue. You stop buying japanese products, no import or export will take place, no tax, no income for your country, also means less goods to be transported inside your country, transportation companies will have problems, less fuel used which also means less income from the fuel tax, dealerships will have problems, parts sellers will also have less to sell.
To summarize this up, you're damaging your own economy. Yes you can buy korean products, don't they also still producing nuclear weapons? No ban on them?
Buy european products? You get the same quality as japanese at double the price of japanese products.
We are living in a connected world now, we can't live without others with no direct or indirect consequences.
Just my rant ....
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