JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Ah_so
Why would the Japanese government not take a hostile view of the yakuza. This pathetic piece of journalistic apology for the yakuza is beneath contempt
Posted in: Yakuza 'misunderstood' by foreign media
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Ah_so
Some brands are just silly - JVC is part of National/Panasonic and Aiwa is part of Sony.
Posted in: Japan has too many major electronics firms. The market is over-serviced.
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Ah_so
The legal point is surely that under Californian law, he could not have been charged following the trial in Japan due to its double jeopardy law. That law changed in 2005, and the question is whether he would fall under the pre-2005 double jeopardy law or the current system which says he can be charged.
If he is found guilty, the years that he spent in prison in Japan should be deducted from whatever he gets.
Posted in: LA prosecutors argue double jeopardy not applicable to Miura's case
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Ah_so
Cleo, again it shows a different picture, but a slightly different age group. I think that Japan generally has very good health care for diseases and has a smaller illegal population than many of the other industrialised countries it ranks above. Illegal immigrants' children may be more prone to disease and less willing to go to hospital earlier.
My experience of trying to get emergency paediactric care was bad in Japan and based on this experience, I am not surprised at the findings of this report.
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Ah_so
The article does not state this - it states that Japan is placed 12th out of 13 industrialised countries. You are making the assumption that these 13 countries are higher than all the others.
These figures are for those aged under 1, not 1 to 14 which is the matter of this report.
Japan's relatively poor performance in this area does not surprise me at all. I have needed to find a paediactric emergency centre late at night (for a broken bone - not life threathening, but still) and it took ages for the ambulence crew to ring round every hospital to find a working paediatrician. Eventually we found one working a long way away at a small hospital. It was absolutely discraceful that even the big hospitals did not have a fully functioning 24hr accident and emergency room that could cater for children.
The statistic above does not surprise me from a very bitter experience. Had my child's injuries been life-threatening I doubt whether the system could have coped.
If you live in Japan with children, make sure you are near a big hospital that will take child emergencies at any time.
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Ah_so
They have a pretty good deal - plenty of food, fun each day and no pesky killer whales to come and eat you or the young.
No wonder they both seem to be smiling.
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Ah_so
This book was a worldwide success. Surely we should be getting some Chinese actresses and Jet-Li to play the main parts.
But seriously, if this film is made well, it is likely to be just as big a success out of Japan as inside, so care should be taken when selecting the right actor and actresses.
Posted in: Haruki Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood' coming to big screen
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Ah_so
Pole dancing for London 2012!
Posted in: Pole dancing
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Ah_so
*Very cute picture, however, why is the quality so low? *
I tried to use it as my wallpaper - but it looked to fuzzy.
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Ah_so
The Bourne films. I think the first one with the Mini was the best. The chase in the Blues Brothers was just a bit comic book, but fun if you do not take it too seriously, as with the original Italian Job.
French Connection is up there with the Bourne Trilogy.
Posted in: Which movie has the best car chase?
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Ah_so
That has got to be the cutist picture ever. But what was JT doing in a small village in Niigata?
Moderator: The photo was submitted by a freelancer.
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Ah_so
Yes it is.
I expect a lot of what was classed as "illegal" was under copyright law.
Posted in: 11 men arrested in record porn DVD bust
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Ah_so
This is certainly not a problem that Japan alone faces, but one that is widespread. It affects men as well, but in reality men have longer to settle down and get married and have kids (children are ultimately what this is all about - let's not shy away from this).
Japan more than some Western counterparts, arranges life around the family and I think it is probably hard to fit in if you are not part of a recognised family unit. Once people are married and have a family they have many other things to worry about. Keeping in touch with old friends is good, but not something you can do every weekend.
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Ah_so
A "custom"? It is practical in hot countries. It is regularly done in Turkey in summer months (although not on pavements) and it hardly ever seems to rain there. If you have the water to spare, it is a practical thing to do, so hardly a quaint "custom".
This is not "wasteful" of water. Japan has lots of water - it is a very wet country and there is no shortage. The water is just going back into the rivers via the drainage system. There may be countries around the world with a shortage of water, but Japan is not one of them and we have not yet reached the stage of shipping water around the world to relieve relative water shortages (as opposed to drout emergencies).
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Ah_so
Taebe, surely it has fishing rights, minerals, possibly natural gas and military "worth". Worth having. I can see good reason why neither country wants to "give" it to the other.
Posted in: S Korea reportedly plans to build hotel on disputed islets
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Ah_so
There is not a man alive who has not been through this phase in one way or another.
You are young, like going out and drinking with friends. The fact that you got married does not mean that you never ever want to go out again, especially if you are 29. Then your wife says she is pregnant. Great you think, but the baby has not actually been born yet, so you continue to go out for drinks or hang out with friends. Then the baby is born, so you cut down on the going out, but hey, it is aspleep most of the time anyway...
Perhaps being seen in the company of young women on a regular basis is not the best thing for any married man, but I would rather have had the life of Mick Jagger than Paul McCartney any day.
Posted in: Pregnant Megumi has to contend with husband's partying
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Ah_so
Cold drinks are like trying to cool a volcano with an icecube. It makes little difference and the relief is temporary. You are fighting a losing battle. The same goes for cool baths and showers.
Hot drinks help as does non-chilled water. A hot bath is by far and away the best. Bringing your body temperature up makes the air around you feel cool.
Posted in: What drink do you recommend to help cope with hot, humid days?
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Ah_so
Naruki Oni, it has a lot to do with managing daylight. You clearly *know nothing *despite your zealous hatred of it. Look at countries on or hear the equator - they do not have a daylight saving system. It is countries closer to the extremes that benefit most from it.
Daylight saving is simply our way of making sure that we get up earlier in summer when it gets light earlier. The alternative is to change business hours from twice a year, but for some reason people generally prefer to change the clocks.
People are not going to change business hours. The only alternatives are to keep things as they are or employ summertime. Nearly all the world realises that a summertime system is better. Apart from a few tin-foil hatters.
Posted in: What are your views on daylight saving time?
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Ah_so
The cost of an hour's extra lighting for 120m people, both financial and environmental, should be clear. Japan has some pretty stiff CO2 targets to meet.
Changing the clocks might also change Japanese workers habits and allow them to leave before it gets dark (although there seem to be plenty going home in the daylight at this time of year).
In terms of it being against Japanese culture or whatever, what do you think would have happened in pre-modern Japan? Do you think that in mid-Summer, when it got bright at 4am, the Japanese lazed around in bed for another 3 hours, waiting for it to get really hot before starting in the fields or at their trade?
Of course not, they got up with the sun, probably been at work by 6am JST, and been in bed by about 8pm JST. In a world without clocks telling you constantly what you should be doing, the sun is the guide.
"Daylight saving" is way of getting back to the natural order (a little bit)and away from the artificial order of the timepiece. Nothing could be more "Japanese" than adjusting your life around the rising and setting of the sun.
Posted in: What are your views on daylight saving time?
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Ah_so
If Japan wanted to reduce the damage it does to the environment, it should introduce a summer-time/daylight saving system. One hour a day less of electric lighting all over the country for four months would make a significant difference.
This may be the only way Japan has to meet its Kyoto targets.
Restricting convenience store openings really would be negligible.
Posted in: Do you think curtailing convenience store hours would be good for the environment?