JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Cos
Wait a minute. I don't like chikans and I always slap them... if I can reach. OK for what you say, if a guy gets a broken tooth or falls, we can say, he asked for it and the girl had to protect herself... But you've seen the video ? Nothing like that. That shows a long beating on that guy, 4 youth against him. Just like the chimpiras that killed a Nepalese in Osaka the other day. They assaulted that man. They are criminals. Drunk or sober. If alcohol transforms you into a beast, don't drink.
Posted in: Japanese star charged over Taiwan taxi driver assault
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Cos
I never got those compliments in many years. I wonder why. What do you guys call chopsticks ?
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Cos
BurakuminDes,
Not Zainichi, not of the same family. Browse the case, no need to imply anything. I didn't keep all the links http://news24jpn.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post_24.html. Reports in Japanese are more detailed, you even get the mugshots of the 4 uglies. Somewhere they said the Shiraishi guy came recently from Okinawa to Nishinari to get his "tattoo artist training" and work there. The second dude is said to be a construction worker residing in Nishinari-ku.
Posted in: Pair indicted over murder of Nepalese man in Osaka
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Cos
That would be violence between minorities, as that Shiraishi is ethnically and socially part of minorities. That's obviously usual yakuza business occurring in Yakuza Street at 3 a.m. and killing people that took the risk to go there. That's like Lucy Blackman. That's still sad they were killed.
Posted in: Pair indicted over murder of Nepalese man in Osaka
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Cos
Because there are so many roofs.
Posted in: Why are there so many deaths due to snow-related accidents (people falling off rooftops, for example) in Japan this winter?
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Cos
Sure they are amateurs. And I hope many other amateurs enter the Japanese politic scene and clear it from the "professionals" that have been in charge since the the 1940s and have all done careers of corrupt civil servants. If some amateurs could do journalism too, that would be nice for Japan.
Posted in: The reality is, Hashimoto and his party are amateurs. They'd end up like the DPJ, which came to power in 2009 with great expectations but is likely to break up after the next election.
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Cos
I'm surprised nobody choked on the ehomaki.
Less than 10 per year. I'm sure they get more than 10 kids in ER every day of the year.
In some countries, kids, even teens choke on hamburgers and soda. When I was a brat, I remember the radio running the warning message about drinking soda from a can and how many death a year (more than 65). That passed every hour, all Summer, just after "avoid sun exposure between noon and 4 p.m.", "don't go in the water just after eating", "don't let your baby in a car when it's hot", "don't get abandon your dog and your granny when you go on holidays". As if we had access to junk food in my family.
Posted in: Authorities warn parents of Setsubun choking risks
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Cos
I've seen people taking cats in the train, but they didn't eat them... well not in front of us.
Posted in: Good manners
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Cos
Not possible ? And it's possible to paid the debts of TEPCO ? Well resign if you are a useless incompetent minister.
Posted in: Gov't says no to free medical care for children under 18 in Fukushima
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Cos
Same question. And could the victim get both his bike back and his money back? A friend got his attache-case stolen in Tokyo, an expensive brand. There was a serial number, a certificate of authenticity, plus the brand was keeping the list of owners that registered, precisely to prevent reselling. He went to the police to declare the theft. 3 yrs later, he had moved, but they called him : "We researched your new address. X brand did some controls on second hand stores, and they found a shop that proposes to sell your bag number XXXXX, and it's still registered at your name and you declared it stolen. Did you sell it ? No...it was stolen ? Well you should contact them.". He did, but the shop owner told him he had to pay to get his bag. Not only postage, but the price the shop had paid it to some thief + some %. The police said they couldn't do anything as the shop had a ryoshusho to show they had paid, maybe he should try to sue the shop... If that was nearby or even in Tokyo where he goes for business, he'd probably have been to take his bag, and tell them to try to sue him, but that was in the sticks, Aomori or Hokkaido. So he never got the bag back. Crazy.
Posted in: Man uncovers bike thief by bidding on own bike in online auction
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Cos
Me too. As from March to July, tourists could not come due to automatic cancellations of flights and tours, they were down 90% on that period maybe close to 100% on March-April, which is the peak season (cherry blossom)... so 30% for the average over the year means they got very good result for the other months.
Posted in: Quake drives tourist numbers to rock bottom
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Cos
You pull the rope and you throw the firecrackers out of the windows while you shout something like "xin nian kuai le" !!!! And that's magic : the dragon year spits back 15 meter high flames. Waaaa ! The kids applaud. Then you realize your yakiniku neighbor was degassing his cans just under your window... ooops !
For a tortoise. Officially 1 kilometre from the station gates to the gate of the kitsch street.
...at 10 p.m, when you have customers in the bar, you sort your gomi, of course.
Posted in: 8 hurt in explosion at izakaya in Kobe Chinatown
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Cos
The family can still hope... as he may not be in the mountains at all. Sometimes people disappear for a while due to a mood swing. I hope that's the case and he'll be found alive.
It's in the middle of the sea or what ? If you need a compass to find your North in the woods, well don't try to go there without a guide. Anyway, I agree with Wipeout, hiking alone outside the official treks is simply silly. Even "hardened mountaineers" go in groups, and anyway they give their previsions of route and timing to someone that will search for them if they are not back in time or just if the weather changes. You can fall and broke your leg anywhere, even if the place is not dangerous.
Posted in: Family of Michigan man missing on Mount Fuji since Jan 13 still hopeful
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Cos
Next thing, they they will announce that he carved "hitori kiri" on himself as a suicide note ?
Tell me they mean assisted seppuku, at least...
Posted in: Police haven't ruled out suicide in severed penis case, media report
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Cos
I'm just glad that the Nanking film was not shortlisted. That will avoid more embarrassment.
Posted in: 9 foreign films make cut for Oscar shortlist
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Cos
Not gold digger, fame-ho'. Like any celeb or sub-celeb marrying and divorcing another celeb under the bright lights of media... Ayumi didn't need that, and you rarely saw her with her Japanese ex. But Mannie, Yu and Saeko surely love the paparazzi fuss. Maybe less from now for Yu, since he's getting solid success, but when he got the trophy wife and the trophy babies he was super happy to get media coverage, wasn't he ?
Posted in: Yu Darvish divorces TV celebrity wife Saeko
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Cos
The insane mother hiding pregnancy is a classic... but the silly idea of hiding remains relatives "found dead" in a park is starting to become a trend too.
Posted in: Woman, father held on suspicion of burning baby's body in park
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Cos
Ayumi came on this board and she read many bitter comments of posters saying "I hate everything in Japan, I'm stuck here because I'm married... " and she thought she'd better divorce before she or her hubby become like that.
Posted in: Ayumi Hamasaki to divorce husband of 1 year
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Cos
not "think", but "sink" like a boat.
Don't you mean : "not even hiring 2 of them could cover the deception efficiently. " ?
Posted in: 2 accounting firms cleared, 5 in-house auditors blamed in Olympus cover-up
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Cos
KPMG have their scandals too. Well, Olympus is not Enron, it won't think them. Too bad.
Posted in: 2 accounting firms cleared, 5 in-house auditors blamed in Olympus cover-up