Freed Japanese hostages return home to scorn, anger, and criticism

Remember the five Japanese volunteer aid workers taken hostage in Iraq and recently freed?  They're back home in Japan now, where the Japanese government has denounced them as "anti-government, anti-Japan," and they and their families are being deluged with hate mail.  Not only is the Japanese government taking credit for their release, the Japanese Foreign Office apparently plans to bill them ¥2.37 million "to cover expenses incurred in their release."

Presumably, their patriotic duty to Japan would have been to be killed by their captors (who had threatened to burn them alive if Japan did not withdraw its troops from Iraq).

Rule of Fives, proximally from smileswhf

Go to your archives and post the 5th sentence of your 23rd entry.

"The latter theory speculates that a meson can be composed of two quarks and two antiquarks instead of one of each."

Three words:

McIlhenny's Chipotle Tabasco.

That is all.

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