Monsieur Kevin Gowen wrote:
> Monsieur Eric Takabayashi wrote:

>>Why is the issue not Japan following international standards that
>>serve other countries well enough?
> 
> Japanese unilateralism in deciding its typhoon naming policy is a danger to
> our planet. Get Kofi on the phone at once.

Terrible isn't it. Though at least Japan's typhoon naming unilateralism
hasn't led to the deaths of nearly 300 of its serving meterologists
either - not yet anyways. Perhaps the weathermen even have an exit strategy.




-- 
"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying
to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor
I against them. They are "only doing their duty", as the saying goes.
Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who
would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other
hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed
bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his
country, which has the power to absolve him from evil"  - George Orwell,
England Your England, 1941