JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Fadamor
It DOES raise the question as to why a window on the 6th floor could be opened far enough to let a child fall out.
Posted in: 4-yr-old girl falls to death from 6th-floor hotel window
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Fadamor
It will be interesting to hear how the prosecutor plans to prove blowing air at someone meets the definition of "vulgar". Oh, to be a fly on the wall during THAT discussion!
Posted in: JR employee arrested for blowing in woman's ear on train
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Fadamor
Well... if a 25-year-old looks cute in a sailor top, miniskirt and kneesocks, then I'm still interested so it's not so much the age as it is the look that matters, IMHO.
Posted in: Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How teenage girls made a nation cool
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Fadamor
But Kabuki actors are much more respected than your average "tarento", ne?
Posted in: Kabuki actor Shido Nakamura most popular 'Iron Man'
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Fadamor
Dang, hit "Submit" too soon.
... After all, what the guy was doing was obvious enough for the husband to notice.
Posted in: JR employee arrested for blowing in woman's ear on train
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Fadamor
Of course with all here sarcastically complaining about not being able to even breathe on a train now, there IS still the possibility that he actually DID blow into her ear.
Posted in: JR employee arrested for blowing in woman's ear on train
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Fadamor
No matter how much you or someone you know swears it to be true, humans to not turly "multi-task". You cannot drive and smoke/eat/drink/chat/text/use the phone, or anything else at the same time. What humans do is "multiplex" - rapidly switch our attention through the above mentioned activities then back to driving. If something happens to halt the multiplexing and lock your attention away from driving (like a pack of cigarettes not being where you reached for them), that's when the accidents happen.
Posted in: Trucker, trying to smoke, causes 5-vehicle pileup in Tokyo
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Fadamor
The way to solve ethical questions like that is to prohibit the owning of cloning processes by any organization/business. Take away any potential windfall profits that might be realized through cloning fees, and the interest in cloning as a business will wane.
Posted in: Scientists bring mammoth blood back to life
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Fadamor
It was a "different" kind of "chick show". My ex-wife liked the show when they watched it in Russia. Maybe the show has more appeal to foreign women than American women. The ladies ARE getting kind of long in the tooth and the base premise of the TV show - "Always Searching for Mr. Right" - would seem even more of an act of futility at their current ages than it was when the TV show was on. Potential "Mr. Rights" are dying of age-related complications at their age.
Posted in: Four stars of 'Sex and the City 2' to visit Japan
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Fadamor
If they've lost mass transit to the region, then they will have a difficult time luring corporations - even if they ABOLISHED the corporate tax. It does a company no good to set up shop where the delivery of their raw materials and transport of their finished goods has to contend with secondary roads.
Posted in: Tottori struggles to keep population from shrinking further
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Fadamor
The basic process of freeze-drying food was known to the ancient Peruvian Incas of the Andes. The Incas stored their potatoes and other food crops on the mountain heights above Machu Picchu. The cold mountain temperatures froze the food and the water inside slowly vaporized under the low air pressure of the high altitudes.
Freeze-dried coffee was first produced in 1938, and lead to the development of powdered food products. Nestle company invented freeze-dried coffee, after being asked by Brazil to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses. Nestle's own freeze-dried coffee product was called Nescafe, and was first introduced in Switzerland.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfrdrfood.htm
I've cited a reference and Japan is notably absent from either the invention of the process or the invention of freeze-dried coffee.
Posted in: Ramen inventor's son soups up healthier legacy
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Fadamor
Yeah, my first choice for a location to have an argument is a "love hotel". And then the argument turns into murder. The irony is just too much.
Posted in: Woman found strangled in Tokyo hotel after suspect turns himself in
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Fadamor
Umm. He WAS freed by the U.S. after he served his time. Then he was extradited by France. Now France has to decide whether to prosecute or release.
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Fadamor
I like all the yukatas, but I was intrigued by all the hate for the "tarento". I started examining the picture to figure out WHY...
Hands: Models' visible hands are palm-down. Yukina-san has one palm up and the other waving in the air.
Stance: The models have their weight shifted to one leg with the other raised a bit as if they were strolling, dynamic. Yukina-san is... flat-footed, static.
Hair: OMFG Yukina needs to fire whoever decided on that hairstyle for her. If she decided on it herself, then she needs to fire herself. I've seen "kewpie dolls" with better hair than that.
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Fadamor
The "talent" scouts... If by "talent" you mean a narrow waist, noticable clevage, and a willingness to perform various sex acts with a relative stranger in front of a production crew.
Posted in: Riddles of the changing city
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Fadamor
Ever have a snowball or other kind of ball hit your car while you were driving? Even glancing blows make a very audible "thunk".
Actually, the video I'm thinking of doesn't involve pedestrians at all. It DOES involve the speeding car that initiated the accident and the truck and other passenger car that were involved. The driver of the speeding car lost control while trying to whip around the truck. Eight dead from one speeder (including the perp).
Posted in: Woman killed in hit-and-run in Gunma
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Fadamor
Not familiar with that particular store, but if it's a busy store then they usually will have 4 registers active. Y98,000/4 = Y24,500 per drawer. I imagine the perp grabbed the clerk so they couldn't step back, or simply leapt the counter (it's not that hard to do). In any case, employees are NOT to be playing hero - especially over corporate money. (They have insurance for that kind of thing)
Posted in: Man robs Kawasaki McDonald's of Y98,000
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Fadamor
MistWizard - nice attempt to absolve the driver, but you FAIL. A car or truck striking a 100 lb object is going to create a noticable "bump" to the driver. Regardless of whether the driver was driving drunk and recklessly or obeying every rule of the road up to that point, THEY DID NOT STOP. They are now a criminal.
No. Seriously, it IS that speeders kill people EVERY FREAKING DAY. It happens so often that there are YouTube videos of it online.
Posted in: Woman killed in hit-and-run in Gunma
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Fadamor
For all of you criticising the article, I direct you to the category it was filed under. "COMMENTARY" means it is not news, but the opinion(s)/musings of a single person.
KaptainKichigai, a foreigner "taking up" martial arts is what's cliche (as opposed to a foreigner learning martial arts). The author explains the difference in the article.
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Fadamor
Actually, prostitution is "the world's oldest profession". Porn has only been around since illustrations came into being.
I'm not sure it's the dress. She looks pregnant to me.
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