JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Darren Brannan
I just came back to Australia and the supermarkets here are an example of this gluttony.Who needs sixty kinds of everything? They must not only waste so much food but then the Aussies whinge about high prices too.It is overwhelming.My local town has a shopping centre with FOUR supermarkets selling the same goods at pretty much the same prices.First thing I did when I came back was dig a vegetable garden.
Posted in: WWF says over-consumption threatens planet
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Darren Brannan
bears are considered extinct in Kyushu even though most of the island seems to be mountains.Very sad.
Posted in: Elderly man attacked by bear in Yamanashi
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Darren Brannan
Wonder how many of his pet right wing uyoku boys with their ghetto blasters fronted up cash, and how many business fronts for crime syndicates? Many, is my guess.
Posted in: Tokyo raises Y76 mil in donations to buy disputed islands
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Darren Brannan
I would not be surprised if those owner was keeping the Tosa dogs for dogfights. Very popular in Japan and usually the Tosa breed.
Posted in: 90-year-old woman dies after being attacked by dog in Yamanashi
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Darren Brannan
please show how China are being 'irrational and aggressive'. It seems to me that the US is making a big effort to antagonise China by stationing marines in Australia, encouraging Australia to sell Uranium to India for 'peaceful means' and encouraging the likes of Ishihara to whip up nationalist sentiment here in Japan and in China.How much money has the US borrowed from China again? Always a new enemy, isn't there? Bases in Afghanistan and Iraq and increasingly in the horn of Africa because the Chinese were the only country bothered to invest in (and some would say exploiting) Africa...yet they were certainly not the first. India is being made the new front against Pakistan and China.The second cold war has begun and look who is behind it again.China in my eyes are certainly no worse than the USA..so they torture dissidents...and the USA waterboards 'non-combatants'... China was invaded and dissected by Japanese and European colonialists and continues to have border disputes with it's neighbours.Tell me one country that doesn't. India and China are both on the rise after having being subdued and manipulated for 200 years. It is great that neither country has shown the aggression globally that the USA has in the last century, because that would be a mess.Thumbs down as much as you want.If people hate China so much they should stop buying Ipads and pretty much everything else.Like that would happen.
Posted in: U.S. shores up ties with Japan, India with eye on containing China
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Darren Brannan
Japanese have a weird monkey complex/infatuation.I don't understand it.Zichi, you have probably seen the same show monkey as I have doing the Arima/Shinkaichi circuit. I don't really enjoy watching it to be honest.I prefer watching them at Minoo.Coming down from the mountains.The old rumour in Osaka is that they used to be able to buy themselves drinks at vending machines when all drinks were 100 yen. Macaques are certainly not stupid.Whether they enjoy being dressed as humans and doing party tricks is not for me to imagine.
Posted in: Monkey business
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Darren Brannan
got some of what was coming to him.
Posted in: Japanese man sentenced in LA in turtle smuggling case
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Darren Brannan
Read in the jnews that the company was really close to being in debt. I have gone all over Japan on night buses and have never been on a bus that had no relief driver. This paricular company was selling 3,000 yen tickets. Cost cutting has taken lives again.
Posted in: 7 killed as bus on way to Tokyo Disneyland crashes in Gunma
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Darren Brannan
there have been quite a few cases.Like JA (yes Japan Agriculture) Hyogo intentionally mislabelling Iwate rice and selling it as Kobe brand.No punishment.Or the butcher/meat wholesaler in Osaka who recently sold 750 KG of Fukushima and Miyagi beef that was mislabelled...and consumed.No punishment.
Posted in: Fukushima cucumbers relabeled and sold in Tokyo
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Darren Brannan
hmmm.. wasn't it Suzuki Ichiro in that ramen or miso ad where he is all sweaty and slurps, gulps his way through a bowl in like 10 seconds and then wipes his mouth with the back of his hand? or is my memory failing me? I thought that 'macho' ad was hardly epic in terms of table manners.
Posted in: Korean idol enrages Japanese netizens by eating instant noodles from the pot
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Darren Brannan
Get with it Japan. School zone 40 km limits have existed in Aus for years. So have seatbelts. So have child seats. So have police blitzes AFTER midnight. It is common knowledge that Japanese police cease all traffic activity ( effectively) after midnight. Set up RBT units WITHOUT advertising it on TV. That works. Make bicycle helmets necessary. Fine everyone that doesn't slow down near a crossing. Crack down on phone texters/talkers. Make bike lanes where you can. Especially do this in Osaka. Lawless west.
In other words, stop checking for stolen bicycles and embrace the bloody 19th century. Work at the 21st century. I am a terrible driver. Maybe so many others have created the fantastic train system here.
I know of only one zebra crossing where cars mostly slow and stop. Kurakuen guchi. Right out front of the station. And I have been all over Japan. Compared to my local station in Okamachi where the zebra crossing is directly in front of the station AND the police box. You risk getting mown over every time and the cops do nothing.
My brother was a highway patrol officer and he would have relished the bozos here.
Best example was a guy turning a corner while talking on the phone and his unrestrained 2 year old playing with the steering wheel.
My brother isn't a cop anymore. He has to take 7 pills a day for his PTSD because of the accidents he had to attend. Seeing little girls dead and mangled the same age as your own 4 year old will do that. Wrecked his life.
In many cases such drivers in Australia are forced to watch the highway patrol incident response footage.Photos.
Grow some balls and spare some other poor person the agony of having to deal with it and mop up the mess. My brother still can't talk about ten years of horror on Australian roads.
Posted in: Gov't, NPA look at ways to improve road safety for children
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Darren Brannan
productivity..yeah. Then if a quake at one of these faults brings down the reactor at Tsuruga, bye bye Lake Biwa and the source of all Kansai's water.Bye bye Kyoto the tourist mecca of Japan.Let's see how productive Japan would be with Kansai taken out of the equation.
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Darren Brannan
It is feral today. Can't see the mountains in osaka from any direction. Two weeks ago I took my 2 yr old out on a day like this and we both had strep throats the next day. I can see NZ having problems like this in future from Australian mining and forestry too.
Posted in: Yellow sand observed in Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka
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Darren Brannan
Ah, rampant capitalists and their world view.
Posted in: OECD chief says Japan needs nuclear power
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Darren Brannan
Obviously wants to actually make the govt. pay or put pressure on them politically. Ah well, he has his little slush fund from the money Tokyo is earning from burning debris from Tokyo.One hand washes the other.
Posted in: Ishihara wants to meet Noda to discuss Tokyo's purchase of Senkakus
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Darren Brannan
It has been here for at least 2 weeks.
Posted in: Yellow sand observed in Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka
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Darren Brannan
Personally I think Niigata has had and continues to have too many big quakes for reactors to be as safe as they can be up there.I would be worried living anywhere near them.
Posted in: Group files injunction to stop restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors
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Darren Brannan
Tennoji zoo is a sad place.
Posted in: How do you feel about wildlife being kept in captivity in facilities such as zoos and aquariums?
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Darren Brannan
Yeah I wonder how many hrs these girls have spent under the knife. Plastic surgery is a Korean pastime. Pretty tasteless ad considering how many korean women spend their lunchtimes getting shaped into the kind of look they promote.
Posted in: TV commercial of the week: KARA for SoyCat
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Darren Brannan
Kid should be flogged. If he had hit a major artery or the guy was anti platelet drugs like I am it coulda been a funeral. Even with a small knife. Whipping needs to come back across the world.
Posted in: 14-year-old student arrested for stabbing bus driver at Hachioji