JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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Dogdog
Normally I would agree, but per head, there are a lot of Japanese guys walking around with pedo ideas in their heads, fed by anime, porn and manga. However their control of these impulses in the public arena is what makes Japan safe.
Still the chances of a little girl meeting one in the solitude of a dark night are pretty high in Japan.
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Dogdog
D Day was a momemt in a battle, it is not a comparison, a bit like the US marines landing on the beaches of Iwo Jima. In the Battle Of Normandy the allies suffered 220,000 casualties with 40,000 dead.
My point wasn't to belitle this man, or any other man's experience of war. My point was to say that I'm rather fed up with the Pacific War PR machine which seems, after sharing the myth of its importance in the 1939-45 war, to be giving diverging messages on each side of the Pacific.
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Dogdog
More food programs and more oportunities for Japanese to become talentless 'tarento's.
Japan's problem with terrestrial TV is not quantity but definitely quality.
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Dogdog
Whose ignorant now?
The German victory in the west was lost by the German airforce and at best Hitler could have fought a stalemate in the West until the US entered the war, which was inevitable since Japan was to attack Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and Hitler was to feel obliged, by his Axis agreement, to declare war on the USA.
Sentimentality is great, when it's put to proper use and yes everyone of the combatants fought the 'defining' engagement of WW2. However, forgive me my cynicism, but I wouldn't be surprised to say an NHK program version of this article, which yet again perpetuates the 'we Japanese were the real victims' mentality. Maybe this guy was a victim, however in the purest sense he had free will, but the real lessons of WW 2 have not been learnt by Japan (insincere war apologies whose real regret is that they lost and war criminals whose only real crime was that they led Japan to its destruction) and this piece of emotion hardly helps.
I heard the same guff from my grandad about friends left behind at EL Alemein, but at least he bought me a pint to listen to it.
Still you're right, I didn't haven't to read it.
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Dogdog
The Pacific war has always been over rated. It was, from Midway, a one sided contest with a kill ratio of combatants of 8:1 - almost the same as the US - Indian wars on the Great Plains, when the US army was fighting against a stone age army with light calvary.
Determined not to be outdone by the 'real war' in Europe and always conscious of the fact that it was the Russians who won that war, the US have played up the Pacific war to a life and death struggle between great powers. Of course the Japanese are more than willing to play up to this image and voila, along comes another piece of cannon fodder to broadcast his recollections.
Please spare me it. It's boring and really detracts the Japanese from what is historically wrong with their political values. Unquestioning obedience to the self serving Japanese elites, who will feed them on a diet of xenophobia and ethnic mystification, will always lead them to eventual disaster.
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Dogdog
She looks like a bloke in a dress.
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Dogdog
I rarely comment on this picture section, but this picture is mega nice and kudos go out to JT.
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Dogdog
Not really. Anybody else who has been involved in intervening in a fracas in public will tell you that if you do jump in, you have a very good chance of also being dragged in to the local koban by plod. You can then expect to spend about 3 to 4 hours there, while plod incompetently discover what happened.
Japanese police and law actively encourage you not to intervene.
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Dogdog
Sungari Larek Tokyo Koto Ku.
I live in the ku next to Koto ku and work in Koto ku. I assume the restaurant is the above, although I've never seen it and the only Russians I've ever met in Koto ku (very downtown Tokyo) in my 12 years there are bar girls
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Dogdog
And this 'russian' restaurant owner will be a local Japanese 'who had spent years studying in Russia under the best chefs' (reality check, he bought a book on DIY Russian cooking and hoped to make a quick buck on the latest local foreign novelty by changing his ramen shack into a Russian restaurant). The guy is a totally non credible source in this affair, might as well have asked the high school arbait in the local 7-11 combi, they probably saw more of Roho and Hakurozan.
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Dogdog
Yeah I'm going to believe the word of a man who in the following sentence says 'Then they would often go to nightclubs and discos where undesirable foreigners gather'.
There is something very fishy about this whole saga. When the JSA reported that Roho had admitted to them smoking the dope with a black man in the toilets of a nightclub, my BS antennas went up. Sure Russians can be equally as racially ignorant as the worst Japanese, but that statement is so ignorant and racially stereotypical that.........well 'll leave others to infer my own racial stereotype about Japanese ojis and ignorant racial statement
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Dogdog
And that history and culture is that a woman's role is wife/mother or ho. Hence the tramps.............
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Dogdog
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 own wives or daughters dressed half as sluttishly.
Seriously, I am all for more beautiful women in the world, but the women in that picture really look like a group of cheaply dressed ho's standing on a table (s)
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Dogdog
Good on the guys who jumped in.
The Japanese are no more or no less to jump in than any other people -spectator complex - and I really wonder whether I would jump in if the same situation was to happen around me.
Well done lads.....
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Dogdog
So many people on this thread have no understanding of Japanese politics.
Fukuda's resignation and this internal LDP election is not about who will control the LDP, Aso will do that from behind the curtain, it's about which candidate will give the LDP the best chance in the national election for the lower house, in the general election that will follow very quickly after Sept 22.
Koike has a very good chance of winning and cue the national election and out pops Koizumi, who was always a fraud because he talked a good game but nothing else, to speak up for one of his disciples and the LDP will be back in its dominant position for the next 4 years.
The only gamble in this whole process will be whether the LDP might call elections for both houses, rather than just the lower house.
Watch and see.
By the way this woman is an extreme nationalist in the Ishihara mold, Aso is just an idiot.
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Dogdog
They are sooooooooooo bad, aren't they?
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Dogdog
A 32 year old pregnant woman, who tries to look like a 16 year old....
Is there any hope for this country?
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Dogdog
My original point was that I would apply the same consideration to the Japanese dailies.........
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Dogdog
"Original, now that's a strange word in Japanese cinema these days...."
I guess that explains why Hollywood keeps remaking Japanese horror flicks.
Yeah, I remember the Japanese originals of 'There Will Be Blood', 'No Country For Old Men', 'The Good Shepherd', 'Hard Times' and 'Lambs For Lions', just to name a few of the Hollywood movies I've seen this year, don't you?
Hollywood has the best and the worst of world cinematography, Japanese cinematography has been reduced to 2 basic plots of either an unattainable competition/task being won thru gamberu or a powerful evil force being overcome by.....gamberu.
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Dogdog
The Chinese Minister of Public Safety as the primary or direct source. When I read the Chinese dailies today, they quoted the Ministry of Public Safety saying that investigations in both China and Japan were still ongoing and no conclusions had been drawn. One of the possibilities that the MPS was still considering, among many, was that it was an act of sabotage by someone working in the company,
If you believe everything quoted in the Japanese media from secondary sources, then there must be a big gap in your lives since MDN Wai Wai disappeared.
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