Dogdog said...

Dogdog at 05:14 AM JST - 13th September

It is time for the WTO to crack down on the exporters of poisoned food. How many people have to be sickened by poisoned food before the WTO will act? Is this the "gloablization" that Japan must accept?

Obviously this issue is a little too complex for some people to…

Posted in Japan to return foreign rice to exporting nations if found to be tainted at 05:14 AM JST - 13th September
Dogdog at 03:08 PM JST - 12th September

'tainted rice' is not 'rice' purchased supposedly as part of Japan's obligation to buy rice.

Sorry, you're wrong. Japan buys this rice as part of it's obligation to buy rice after the 1994 Uruguay WTO agreement. Rice is defined, according to the WTO, as the product, not by its usage.…

Posted in Japan to return foreign rice to exporting nations if found to be tainted at 03:08 PM JST - 12th September
Dogdog at 12:15 PM JST - 11th September

Most likely they were on death row for 20-40 years, look at their ages!

Not really, Mineteru Yamamoto was one of the first people tried by the fast track judicial process.

If it's any consolation all were convicted of double mureder. Yoshiyuki Mantani killed a female university, while out on…

Posted in Japan executes 3 death row inmates, totaling 13 this year at 12:15 PM JST - 11th September
Dogdog at 06:49 PM JST - 10th September

I think the US has more to worry about than Japan's economy, like it's own- an imploding housing market, the drain on the nation's finances funding two wars, a populace addicted to foreign oil...

Not really, all the US needs is some fiscal responsible government for a few years and…

Posted in Japan's economic stagnation will continue with new PM at 06:49 PM JST - 10th September
Dogdog at 10:09 AM JST - 10th September

This is a structural issue very specific to Japan, it really has very little to do with the morals, or lack of them, of the Japanese. Basicaly deflation has affected all areas of the economy and the Japanese consumer, over the years, have expected foodstuffs to follow the same path…

Posted in Mikasa Foods likely bought tainted rice for 3 yen and sold it for 70 yen at 10:09 AM JST - 10th September
Dogdog at 04:15 PM JST - 9th September

The whole thinking of creating a state pension fund in Japan after 1952 was very short term. The initial main function of the pension scheme was to fund Japan's economic rebuilding and give the pre 1945 generations something to live on in their old age. Serious thought was never given…

Posted in 18.44 million pension records still unaccounted for at 04:15 PM JST - 9th September
Dogdog at 07:11 PM JST - 7th September

Japan has a different history and culture, thank God (or more correctly, thank the plural Shinto gods).

And that history and culture is that a woman's role is wife/mother or ho. Hence the tramps.............

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Dogdog at 06:27 PM JST - 7th September

the first thing my mate said after he checked into his hotel visiting last year... "My god mate.. the girls here dress like prostitutes"

Totally agree and what's more amazing is how many gaikokujin slobber all over the women walking around like junior hookers, yet would go berserk if their…

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Dogdog at 08:51 PM JST - 6th September

He learned a new word today: Xenophobia

Another part of the world is waking up to the real Japan.

I can't make head or tails of this. I really believe the guys when they say they haven't spliffed up, but a drug test of this quality doesn't lie...

Posted in 2nd marijuana tests show positive for 2 Russian sumo wrestlers at 08:51 PM JST - 6th September
Dogdog at 09:24 AM JST - 5th September

she can quickly move onto being in cheap av flicks

Does this really happen or is this an urban myth?

It must be quite scarey for the talento to go from being on TV, to go being on your back and getting porked by some ugly (in Japanese AV flics,…

Posted in Yukina Kinoshita introduces 'Ugly Betty' DVD at 09:24 AM JST - 5th September