Freespeech said...

Freespeech at 10:23 PM JST - 14th September

Seems like the kitchen-knife fad is going away... Creative Japan at work.

Posted in Vendor arrested for killing 1, injuring 6 at Ishikawa festival site at 10:23 PM JST - 14th September
Freespeech at 12:23 AM JST - 14th September

The Foreign Ministry says visiting the long-disputed islands known in Russia as the Southern Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories—Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan and the Habomai islet group—via Russian immigration is inconsistent with Japan’s position.

Does it **have **to be "consistent" ? Japan lost the war to the former…

Posted in Japan complains over tourists visiting disputed isles via Russian immigration at 12:23 AM JST - 14th September
Freespeech at 05:29 AM JST - 13th September

Thenewfront : I agree with you, and I think that the finesse to which jeffrey alludes with his "tatemai" is a thing of the past, a ghost, a dream that he entertains for not seeing how desperately crude the japanese culture has become.

Posted in Marie spreads a bit of cheer at 05:29 AM JST - 13th September
Freespeech at 04:20 AM JST - 12th September

Glad to discover that there are anti emperor-system militants. Japan has to rise out of the shame of conformism and abdication of freedom of speech.

Posted in Director arrested for putting up poster of anti-emperor film at 04:20 AM JST - 12th September
Freespeech at 05:20 PM JST - 11th September

How much public money was spent on this tremendously important research program ?

Cannot be too expensive, in view of the completely unexpected results...

Maybe it is subsidized by the Brit government, so that this discovery could be contributed to national security ?

Posted in East Asians look at faces differently to Westerners: study at 05:20 PM JST - 11th September
Freespeech at 05:11 PM JST - 11th September

Serindipity : I am in total agreement with you, there is little to be added.

Let me contribute just one idea : death penalty is an "attractant" for the perpetrators, probably ; but what seems more certain to me is that the perpetrator of any type of violence, knowing full…

Posted in Japan executes 3 death row inmates, totaling 13 this year at 05:11 PM JST - 11th September
Freespeech at 03:01 PM JST - 1st September

Thank you Altria ! Since you seem to know about the origin and the meaning of the figures : is this a gross income figure, or the "net pay" i.e. after the contributions for shakai hoken and the provision for income tax have been deducted ?

Posted in Average wages post year-on-year gain in July at 03:01 PM JST - 1st September
Freespeech at 04:38 AM JST - 1st September

I saw the film and was amazed by about everything in it : the juvenile actors, the difficulty of the exercise, the trueness of the plot and its straightforward approach of social evils in Japan, and much more...

But I suspect that acting at that young age, and particularly to…

Posted in Cannes winner Yuya Yagira, 18, hospitalized after reported drug overdose at 04:38 AM JST - 1st September
Freespeech at 05:31 PM JST - 29th August

Just another perversion, rather common in Japan, maybe less so elsewhere ?

The preoccupying thing is : what could this mania evolve into once the shitagi sniffer has had enough of it ?

Posted in 4 charged in underwear theft cases in Aichi, Chiba, Kanagawa and Niigata at 05:31 PM JST - 29th August
Freespeech at 05:18 PM JST - 29th August

9.9 millimeter thick at its slimmest section ? And what about the thickest section ? All this sounds like a clever design trick played by the engineering office, a bit like what was done with CRT TVs' : make it look slim at the edge, hide the big fat portion…

Posted in Sony unveils world's slimmest LCD TV at 05:18 PM JST - 29th August