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    BurakuminDesMay. 19, 2013 - 09:50AM JST

    Maybe his food was pretty ordinary and these thugs refused to pay - however there is no reason to then attack a 57 year old. Rest in Peace, and may these killers be locked up for a very long time.

    My thoughts exactly if the local fare of 'fried rice with vegetables and beef' is anything to go by. Probably forgot to throw in the ketchup or mayo and without those how could it possibly be classed as Japanese cuisine?

    Posted in: German resort island shaken over Japanese chef's murder

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    scoobydooMay. 19, 2013 - 09:39AM JST

    I mean I got a letter posted to me with my name and city on it only and it turned up safe.

    Now that was funny.

    So running is the best but where would you run in that case?

    North Korea!

    Posted in: Guilty and never proven innocent – every male train rider's nightmare in Japan

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    MarkGMay. 19, 2013 - 07:49AM JST

    As a man if I see a perv sneaking a pinch I feel it is my responsibility to end it there. All to often people just mind their own business.

    As a foreigner in Japan, ithat's the surest way for you to spend 7 days in police cell and the perv to get Y200,000 of your money in compensation.

    Mind your own business and leave it to the locals, that's what they want you to do, so do it.

    Posted in: Guilty and never proven innocent – every male train rider's nightmare in Japan

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    57 and in a nightclub!!!

    In Japan, he probably wouldn't have gotten through the door, guilt by nationality.

    Posted in: German resort island shaken over Japanese chef's murder

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    nigelboyMay. 19, 2013 - 07:21AM JST

    Do you even know where the right wings groups are during those two dates and what they are protesting about?

    What are you smoking at this time of the morning, that's if you actually are in Japan? Where in my post do I even mention the right wing groups, fool?

    Posted in: Abe defends right to visit Yasukuni Shrine

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    Rounding out the top 10 were:

    —No. 2, Sony, 43.2 % —No. 3, Honda, 39.5% —No. 4, Panasonic, 35.6%

    These three will be Chinese owned in the next 10 years.

    Posted in: Companies Japanese people are most proud of

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    technosphereMay. 19, 2013 - 04:19AM JST

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Yasukuni shrine, so what? Many Japanese people do it every year, including my closest friend.

    I'm guessing here, but your friend is not a national politician of Japan and therefore not a representative of the state and of the collective people of that state, who by virtue of paying his salary, have a right to command certain behaviour, which is valid for the private citizen, is not acceptable by him/her, as long as they hold that public position.

    It's not rocket science.

    Posted in: Abe defends right to visit Yasukuni Shrine

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    hidingoutMay. 19, 2013 - 01:50AM JST

    I've been in Japan a long time and I have never heard one person say anything remotely like that. This is precisely the kind of hyperbole that adds nothing to the discussion.

    Well, you're either living in a gaijin bubble or you don't speak Japanese, it's inferred all the time, especially on the annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing days. The whole ceremonial processes are about Japan living in the passive (things were done to Japan) and the active (Japan did things) is collectively forgotten.

    Because of this national amnesia we have the stupid comments from politicians, academics and institutions who should be educated to know better.

    Nobukatsu Fujioka, prof at Tokyo University. He co-authored The New History Textbook, which denies the Rape Of Nanking.

    Aso, the Deputy PM. 'The Japanese control of Korea was mandated by the League Of Nations, when the League Of Nations never existed and wouldn't for another 20 years.

    Yushukan, the museum at Yasukuni. 'Franklin D. Roosevelt had forced Japan to go to war in a calculated effort to lift the U.S. out of the Depression'.

    And what we dangerously have, if people don't tow the party line, thay are branded a traitor (for example the writer Katsuichi Honda) and they have to live their lives in danger of physical attack and constantly go around in public in disguise. The consensus of Japanese opinion on what the nation collectively did or didn't do between 1937-45, is so far off the radar, that there is not even the basis for any diaologue with anyone but themselves.

    Change should begin at Yasukuni. Either get rid off that monstrous excuse for a museum, Yashukan, or build a new national memorial for the war dead that does exactly what it should do, remember those who gave their lives for their country, and nothing else.

    Posted in: Abe defends right to visit Yasukuni Shrine

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    KappNets2May. 18, 2013 - 10:33AM JST

    **You should realize that prostitution is born from poverty. **

    That's bull, look at Japan

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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    kiyoshiMukaiMay. 18, 2013 - 10:22AM JST

    in the end Salaries were too high for exporting anything. Maybe now we can compete, now that we get 25% less money.

    40% of Japanese earn less than Y3,000,000 a year.

    14 million Japanese are employed on yearly contracts, with no benefits or bonuses.

    Salaries are too low in Japan, that's the real problem. 60% of the Japanese economy is domestic consumption and until the Japanese start to consume, exporting will resolve very little.

    Posted in: Abe outlines targets in latest growth strategy

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    proxyMay. 17, 2013 - 10:06PM JST

    I know the world loves to dwell on Japanese crimes but how many men went to jail for sex slave trafficking in Bosnia?

    More than in Japan and they haven't, as yet, ended up being policymakers in the Bosnian ministry of education after the fact.

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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    Thunderbird2May. 17, 2013 - 10:26PM JST

    American and French forces also gang-raped over 11,000 women in occupied Germany. ...............

    Personally I have always thought that there was something rather nasty about the US attitude towards the Japanese during the war, as if they saw them as sub-human. After all, US forces would call the Japanese monkeys for some reason, and the allied war effort was against Japan as a nation, unlike in Europe where the war effort was to defeat the Nazis.

    Advice, stick to Channel 2, they might understand your logic: Nobody else does.

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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    Jordan LloydMay. 17, 2013 - 09:42PM JST

    Research it if you don't believe me

    That is HORRIFYING. Even a woman who had just given birth, they killed the child by throwing it. Throwing it. They also raped children. I don't want to have an outburst but I'm so enraged after reading that! How can the Americans claim to be innocent or "not that bad"?

    Sorry, but everyone quotes Dower as the Oracle and while I have a lot of respect for the guy and his previous work, War Without Mercy (by the way he really contradicts himself in both writings, by asking in 'War Without Mercy' why that such a brutal Pacific campaign had turned into such a paternalistic occupation? He concludes that the occupiers of the 3 main Japanese islands were not the same working class troops who had stormed Iwo Jima. The 3 main islands mainly got the Donald Keenes and it was only the Okinawans and Kyushans who had to accomodate the Pacific fighters), but 'Embracing Defeat' was his 'Stockholm Syndrome' moment for his wife.

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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    OssanAmericaMay. 17, 2013 - 06:37PM JST

    True. But please tell us how which other countries have had their government come out and declare that their people's behavior are atrocious and need to be corrected.

    The British government through the whole of the 80's.

    Posted in: Some Chinese tourists 'uncivilized,' says top official

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    smithinjapanMay. 17, 2013 - 05:30PM JST

    it's not limited to nationality. When people are away from home, travelling, and having fun -- especially if they're young -- they are generally loud, can be obnoxious, get drunk, do crazy stuff. It is not just the Chinese by any means. I know plenty of Chinese who are courteous and quiet while the people of other nations are loud and what not.

    You qualified a pretty accurate comment with a very accurate variable, especially if they're young.

    Unfortunately Chinese boorishness has no age qualification. However I do agree that Chinese boorishness is more a lack of ignorance of how to behave, when a guest of others and could be quickly remedied with a few national educational campaigns, unlike Anglo-Saxon boorishness, which is definitely fueled by racial/cultural arrogance

    Posted in: Some Chinese tourists 'uncivilized,' says top official

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    gokaiwomanekuMay. 17, 2013 - 04:53PM JST

    Chinese here in Shinjuku are well behaved. Shinjuku is a no smoking district, and unlike Europeans or Americans or some Japanese, the Chinese crowd the special smoking rooms or corners and don't smoke walking around. I know a majority of Chinese smoke.

    Even the Hong Kong Chinese find the mainlanders a barbaric hoarde.

    Posted in: Some Chinese tourists 'uncivilized,' says top official

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    mikihouseMay. 15, 2013 - 07:21AM JST

    the Japanese military had asked them to surrender peacefully but the US forces with their slaves Filipinos decided to fight to the death and inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese army. When they ran out of ammo, they decided to surrender. In return, the Japanese army decided to have their revenge by having them march for 5 days without food and water.

    It's a good job the Allies didn't behave in the same way to the Japanese, after September 15th 1945.

    I can't believe someone has given this opinion a plus mark.

    Posted in: Filipino director takes new look at Bataan Death March

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    J-League soccer is so so boring.

    They've got to do away with the limits on foreign players, so the standard of the domestic players goes up.

    Only when the standard of the domestic matches improve can Japan hope to stop losing its best players to other leagues.

    Posted in: Foreign managers make their mark in J-League

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    tmarieMay. 13, 2013 - 07:43PM JST

    Frankly, I found the better my Japanese got, the more annoyed I became with the place. Ignorance is bliss and when I didn't understand the shallow conversations and yammering on about stupid things, the better I thought this place was. Nothing like being able to understand TV shows here to make the rose tinted glasses fall off and shatter.

    Often don't agree with your opinions, but this is spot on.

    Many many years ago, when I could only speak socially functional Japanese, often the discussions had to be conducted in Japlish. I attributed the horrendous negotiation/discussion skills of my Japanese co-workers as being down to their limited command of English.

    However I have since discovered that many Japanese have worse discussion/negotiating skills in Japanese!!!!!

    Posted in: Why you shouldn’t learn Japanese

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    UpgrayeddMay. 14, 2013 - 07:54AM JST

    Why are you looking at 1994 when we were talking about 1993?

    That's what happens, when you use the Heisei calander all day, my mistake, it is 2013 and not 2014.

    Well I'm a year younger than I thought!

    Posted in: G7 says Japan playing by currency rules

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