JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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In an OECD survey of 36 nations on people's perceptions of their living conditions, Japan ranked 21st in terms of quality of life; Australia, Norway and the U.S. were the top 3. What do you think of that?
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The Fukuoka mayor is banning public servants from drinking alcohol for a month; the Osaka mayor has declared war on tattoos on civil servants. What do you think of all this?
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Why do you think Facebook's stock failed to live up to the hype in its trading debut?
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Which sport, when played well, do you think is the most exciting to watch?
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What's the difference between an average burger and a great one?
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Smartacus
Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Victoria Beckham, Naomi Campbell
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cosmo13
Paris Hilton, Briteny Spears, Anna Nicole Smith, Sarkozy
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Altria
Rolf Harris, Patrick Swayze, Kanda Uno
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cleo
None. I don't read trashy magazines, and my telly has an Off switch.
Haven't heard anything about Rolf Harris in years. I wonder how he's doing.
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greenteaonsens
Cleo - I concur
Stop watching the idiot box and avoid trashy publications if this kind of stuff is annoying you.
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Altria
Uh-oh, there goes half of JT's articles.
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taj
Kumi Koda
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PuffinMuffin
"Which celebrities are you sick and tired of reading or hearing about?" Why, so that more webspace can be wasted? My answer: I'm tired of hearing about none because most of them make me laugh and remind me that they're famous and rich but can be human and miserable too. Not into reading about them if they don't interest me however.
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Cos
All celebrities. I really wonder they are celebrities. I don't their marriages, commercial contracts or drug addition problems should make the news.
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RomeoRamenII
Yoko Ono
RR
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Hikozaemon
Cleo, I believe that last I heard, Rolf Harris was going through the courts on a cruelty to animals charge, in what I understand was a kangaroo-related charge of attempted bondage.
I'm sick of hearing about Brittney but that's about it. I hardly watch J-"news" on the box any more.
Peace
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Nessie
Cleo, I don't watch TV either, but it's hard to visit an online news site without spillover of trashy entertainment news.
Paris "tossed out of the" Hilton, Briteny "the Jitney" Spears, Anna Nicole "Night of the Living Dead" Smith, Heath "That Joker Isn't Funny Anymore" Ledger, Nicole "the Hindenberg" Kidman, Lindsey "Desigate a Driver Fer Crissake" Lohan, Phil "the Expectoration" Spector, and any friggin' loser from American Idol (can't name any cuz I don't watch it). And Hard "Hard - oops said that already" Gay.
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cleo
Oh Nessie, just because there's a trashy headline, no one's forcing you to read the trashy 'news' underneath it.
Hiko - Tie me kangaroo down sport?...But that was decades ago..... at least he isn't injecting them.....
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notimpressed
rolph harris must die for his wobbleboard massacre of stairway to heaven! I'm sick of seeing the same Japanese celebrities on every channel all day and night and on every show...Ive almost watched every english dvd in the video store now...need a video game, perhaps a nice shoot the celebrity game would do nicely.
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Nessie
Cleo, Who say's I'm reading the stories? "Lohan nabbed for DUI." I read the headline and skip to the real news.
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pathat
Aki Hoshino
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ca1ic0cat
ALL of them. I mean, who cares. Isn't your life interesting enough that you don't need to follow the lives of "celebs?" If not you need a new hobby!
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Wottock_Hunt
That ugly woman with the big teeth who's on every show recently, and that twott in his trunks doing an "amusing" dance.
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Alfie_in_Tokyo
I stopped watching TV here when that stupid guy in the underpants seemed to be on every show.
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Taka313
Wottock, My kids LOVE him, much to my chagrin. As for me, Bobby Olugun's star can not burn out fast enough. I find his act to be really offensive.
Taka
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Loki520
I got to agree with Wottock... I don't know her name, but that is one UGGGLLLLLYYY women, and she seems to be on everything. Doesn't matter how good the show might be, if she shows up, I'm changing the channel to anything else.
Don't worry. Like most Japanese "comedians", that little twirp in the underpants doing his dance is clearly at the end of his 15 minutes of fame. He'll soon go the way of Sanpei, Hiroshi, and just about every other dude that had a stupid gag bit that somehow got popular for a month or so.
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Loki520
RomeoRamen...
They said Celeb's. Yoko Ono is not a celeb. She's a sponge off her husbands name, and a wart on Lennon's memory.
But, I am also tired of hearing about sponges and warts.
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Desiderata1967
Japanese talento....PA!
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PuffinMuffin
is (gasp) 'Hard Gay' still making the news? I thought and hoped this fad would be over soon, because one of my colleagues was fond of him for some reason. I had to admit, while women do silly things to gain attention and fame and money and whatnot from men, why not a male (and Japanese at that) doing the same thing, I thought at the time.
But NO, come to think of it, that colleague of mine was quite trashy herself. So no to both men and women doing the chacha or whatever it is that seem to appeal to some folks.
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PuffinMuffin
duh, my share of webspace waste. any chance of recycling it
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eastokyo
I just want to give Becky a nice side drive kick through her solar plexus. I can't stand her pathetic frame surfing that 'BIG lottery' wave. She is an underdeveloped 12 year old, but has blue eyes which are like jewels compared to the black ones sported by most.
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outhousejt
That US navy guy.
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Sarge
Wottock / Taka
Mr. "O-pa-pea" is one funny guy! Why do you guys dislike him?
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Patrick Smash
Becky. She is easily the most irritating woman ever born. She has my wife beaten hands down.
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Sarge
Pat - You've never seen Dakota Fanning, have you? She has Becky beat hands down.
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Sarge
Wottock - Are you telling me when Yoshio "O-pa-piii!" Kojima drops to his hands and knees and starts that "sonna ni kankei nai" routine that you don't even crack a smile?
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Wottock_Hunt
Sarge - in response to your question, I dislike him because he is a tedious, infantile twott. Why do you like him?
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Sarge
Wottock - I like him because he makes me laugh. I'd just like to add that everyone else I know thinks he's funny, including this really super-smart engineer dude I work with.
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Pukey2
Yingling - whoever she is.
I think finally HG Razor Ramon has started to fade... only to be replaced by the more annoying Kojima Yoshio. How long will it take for Jp people to get tired of seeing the same thing? I laughed the first time I saw HG thrust his hips. The second time, I fell asleep.
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Wottock_Hunt
Sarge - in response to your second question, I try to limit the amount of time I spend watching bare-torsoed muscular young men on their hands and knees. I'm glad you enjoy it though, although I still fail to see anything amusing in his schtick. I stand by my original view that he is someone I'm sick and tired of.
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Patrick Smash
Sarge
Dakota Fanning? Okay, so Becky has someone that runs her close as the world's most irritating person. But little Ms. Fanning is only about 13, even if she does act younger. Becky is 24, and has no such excuse. Her having an English father, and being so anti anything not Japanese makes her even worse.
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blvtzpk
There is no such thing as overkill or moderation when it comes to talentos in Japan. If anything, when a one-note celeb becomes big, eveyone wants to seem him all the time, on every show, in as many commercials as possible. And after a run of months, the person starts to fade from the scene. But how and why people in Japan enjoy or even tolerate this initial onslaught is, after many years, still beyond me.
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Wottock_Hunt
I have heard nothing about Dakota Fanning. She was very good in War of the Worlds the other year, though. She's probably not Sarge's type. He likes them becocked, and prone, next to nude. But someone who really gets on my wick is that fat bloke (Ishizuka?), whose job it is to be fat, and eat stuff and show how oishii it is. He does this by squinting his eyes into the narrowest of slits and slavering and getting right on my nerves.
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Simon_Foston
If everyone involved with Johnny's Jimusho just disappeared and was never heard from again I wouldn't be at all upset.
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canadianbento
Bill and Hillary Clinton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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curlygene
For what it's worth, I have to say that it ain't all these celebrities that annoy me, but the media who decide to inflict them on the public.
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romulus3
bradjelina
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frontandcentre
That awful Nishida sensei woman. She thinks she's God's gift to men or something - when in actual fact she's a trout
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Loki520
Yingling of Joytoy... Whatever that is.... Yea, she squats and makes a "M" with her tush and legs. Too bad the rest of her makes a zero.
Just about any of the SMAP crew and their damn commercials.
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Sarge
"Dakota Fanning. She was very good in War of the Worlds"
You must like screaming. And bad movies.
xD
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mp516
I agree with Wottock That the stupid Op pa Pii fool Yoshio is quite annoying. There is nothing funny about him. He is almost as annoying as Paris Hilton in the US. He like paris has absolutley no talent!!!! I never ever even crack a smile when he come out on Japanese programs my wife watches. I'd better stop here before I get really nasty about this no-talent, annoying, embarrasing to the japanese ppl, pathetic, sorry of an excuse for a japanese, moron.
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anderstungtwist
Kimutaku - he always looks aroused.
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kagunlapell
Kimutaku...my God! the least manly man among the least manly men in the earth...what happens to his hairstyle? is he thinking of joining a gym to try to get at least one muscle?
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Wottock_Hunt
"Dakota Fanning. She was very good in War of the Worlds"
You must like screaming. And bad movies.
War of the Worlds took $588,929,061 at the box office - seems it was good enough for people to go and see. And if anyone's the screamer on this board, pal, it's not me.
O-pa-pi? My ringpiece.
But something else that gets on my nerves is Kimutaku's Gatsby adverts, which imply that squirting on some useless deodorant feels like the simultaneous touch of six Playboy Playmates.
Wottock Hunt.
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conqueror_of_Uranus
Kimutaku? Ask a Japanese surfer of their opinion of him.
Evidently he's got a pretty bum-rep with the surfer crowd and can't even go surfing without a 20+ man entourage of his croonies to surround and "protect him" out in the breaks. This dates back to him dissing a pro-surfer a couple years back, evidently....
I'm not too familiar with the details, I'll ask my resident Beach Bum when he gets back from Sri Lanka.
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Sarge
conqueror - Most women I know LOVE Kimutaku. His dramas invariably get the highest ratings.
Wottock - Ever since I started using that Gatsby deodorant, it's been like a replay of that High Karate cologne I used years ago - I can't keep the women off me!
xD
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eastokyo
Boys boys, both of you should redirect your energies into the right direction, that being a relentless bashing of Becky, the underdeveloped little girl whose only feature is her blue eyes. She needs a solid kick through her flat chest, sending her through the stage props and into backstage.
That and/or some copious quantities of nihonshu or other aloholic beverage. It's the answer to everything.
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Sarge
eastokyo - Here's a site you would definitely enjoy:
http://www.sunmusic.org/becky
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anderstungtwist
I could carve a finer figure of a man from a banana.
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curlygene
http://www.sunmusic.org/becky
Bucket? check. Dart gun? check. Shoulder to cry on for anyone unfortunate enough to see this website? check.
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nichibei3
I hate Sanma with a passion. His gritty voice and overreactions are like nails on a freakin' chalkboard. Also Bobby and Becky need to stop.
On the flip-side, I actually dont mind Kojima Yoshio...while the o-pa-pi routine clearly sucks balls...just about everything else he says is mildly amusing/somewhat funny (for japan)
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Ultradude
My recently turned 3 yr old son couldn't stop doing the "O pa pi" thing complete with body movements everywhere: supermarket, crowded train...a bit funny actually, for a couple of times. Finally, we've got him to stop and just clown around in his own original silly way.
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