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  DualtaAug. 27, 2010 - 10:44PM JST

  What's most important about this issue is the fact that many innocent people are jailed for crimes in every country. Japan has a serious issue with miscarriages of justice, as recent cases have shown, and it's fair to assume that many innocent people have been murdered in custody by the Japanese state in this way. The death penalty is abhorrent and should be abolished everywhere immediately.

  Posted in: Execution chamber at Tokyo Detention House opened to media

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  DualtaApr. 26, 2010 - 06:53PM JST

  As Frungy said, Katoba! is a free dictionary app for the iPhone and you can find out more about it here:

  http://kotoba.pierrephi.net/

  It's a fantastic dictionary based on JMdict with example sentences for many words, animated stroke order diagrams, the ability to save words on to lists for future reference, and loads more funtionality. Also as Fungy said, you can enable the Chinese keyboard option and you get an excellent kanji recognition facility for inputing words to find, or just for finding kanji themselves. It doesn't have a flashcard facilty yet, but you'd expect it's developer to add one some time in the future as it's the most rational choice for an added function.

  Posted in: New language learning tool, Japanese Flash, launches on App Store

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  DualtaJan. 11, 2010 - 07:25PM JST

  I've had five experiences with policemen here in Japan, each time related to traffic infractions I committed. Three times I was fined, twice for speeding and once for driving down the wrong way in a one-way system (the third time was a genuine mistake, but the speeding wasn't). The two other times the policemen gave me the benefit of the doubt and explained how I'd broken the rules, but didn't fine me. On each occasion the police officers were very polite and respectful.

  Posted in: Tell us about any encounters, either good or bad, you have had with Japanese police.

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  DualtaDec. 02, 2009 - 02:06PM JST

  Marriage has been extremely kind to me. Best thing I've ever done. I've had two kids with my best friend and we have a home full of warmth and security. Don't let the haters put you off. Divorce is the escape hatch, if you ever need it, but go into marriage fully commmitted and determined to make it work. Expect hard times, they will come, but maybe they'll not be so bad as to make you want to divorce your partner.

  Posted in: Sakura Uehara divorces husband after his punchup with cameraman

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  DualtaJan. 10, 2009 - 12:14PM JST

  If there was enough meaningful and decently paid work to go around in rural areas fewer young people would leave in the first place. I teach a private class in a rural area and the people there have told me that within living memory most of the people in the village worked in agriculture, but now, no-one is even full-time in agriculture, with farmers taking on part-time jobs in conbinis and gas-stations to suppliment their incomes. Neither argriculture nor the fishing industry is crying out for more workers.

  Posted in: Gov't to encourage jobless to work the land

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  DualtaNov. 30, 2008 - 06:49PM JST

  mcheeky, The Japanese government needs to make amends, that is without question, but to be told that by a bunch of hypocrits will just get their backs up and, therefore, make them less likely to move on the issue.

  Posted in: Japan should acknowledge sex slaves' pain: British MPs

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  DualtaJul. 10, 2008 - 11:07AM JST

  As it has been said, an hour of extra darkness in the morning and an hour of extra sunlight in the evening makes for more comfortable living for sure. On a very specific note, I jog in the evenings and I'm fed up doing it in darkness at 8pm. At home in Europe that extra hour's sunlight at night made summer that little bit more special.

  Posted in: What are your views on daylight saving time?

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