When Japanese suicide pilots (known as kamikaze in Western countries or tokkōtai in Japanese) bid farewell to their comrades before their final missions, they would say: “See at Yasukuni!”
A bronze statue of a tokkōtai pilot at Yasukuni commemorates the numerous young men who died this way during the final months of the already lost [...]
Entries from May 2008
Yasukuni school trips OK: Japanese government
May 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: politics
Update Manager hangs in Ubuntu 8.04 (and how to fix it)
May 17th, 2008 · 24 Comments
Last month I upgraded my notebook from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 (”Hardy Heron”). Since then, whenever I tried tried to install the up to 133 updates that had become available, the Update Manager would hang indefinitely instead of prompting me for the user password.
If you’re in the same situation, the following tips might help you. [...]