GJDailleult said...

GJDailleult at 09:16 AM JST - 4th June

There is a time and a place to discuss the effects of suicide on family and friends, Japanese attitudes to suicide, etc., but this is not it. What these two people went through the last four years is so unimaginable and extreme that it's not representative of anything within normal…

Posted in Japanese woman, British husband leap to death with dead child in England at 09:16 AM JST - 4th June
GJDailleult at 11:42 AM JST - 3rd June

tkoind2- I happen to agree with your views on suicide in general, but I am baffled as to why you thought this was an appropriate place to post them. Accusing these two people of selfishness in their circumstances is way,way out of line.

Posted in Japanese woman, British husband leap to death with dead child in England at 11:42 AM JST - 3rd June
GJDailleult at 11:54 AM JST - 2nd June

Republican Mitt Romney, seen as a likely contender for the White House in 2012,

Yeah right. He had his shot, now he is yesterday's news. Nice puff piece by AP though - that good old left wing, liberal American mainstream media at it again I see.

Posted in Romney raps Obama's 'tour of apology' at 11:54 AM JST - 2nd June
GJDailleult at 08:12 AM JST - 30th May

Wow that is sure a shocking comment she made!!! She "would hope" they reach a better conclusion. If this is all the US right wingers have then they should be very, very careful. Women and Hispanics have the vote too.

Posted in Sotomayor says she chose word poorly in 2001 speech at 08:12 AM JST - 30th May
GJDailleult at 11:35 AM JST - 29th May

Actually, according to the DNA research, the true percentage of multiracial Americans is much higher. One number I have seen is that 30% of "white" Americans have some recent African ancestry. Don't know how accurate that is or how scientifically accepted it is, but that is the number given. The…

Posted in Multiracial people become fastest growing U.S. demographic group at 11:35 AM JST - 29th May
GJDailleult at 09:07 AM JST - 29th May

Kusanagi’s comeback came relatively soon—after just 35 days.

Word on the street, as Huggy Bear would say, is that he was set to star in a big drama or movie starting production in the next few weeks, and the contracts were already signed before the arrest. So too much money…

Posted in Kusanagi returns to showbiz after arrest at 09:07 AM JST - 29th May
GJDailleult at 10:35 AM JST - 28th May

It was a Spanish vessel heading to Mexico that shipwrecked - not a Mexican vessel.

Posted in Mexican ship arrives at Yokohama port to mark 400 years of ties at 10:35 AM JST - 28th May
GJDailleult at 09:49 AM JST - 28th May

I see lots of posts here about Japanese TV, but that isn't actually what the article is about. Japanese TV has always been mostly stupid and mostly rubbish. What's new and what the writer is talking about is the trend where being (or pretending to be) a stupid and ignorant…

Posted in Idiocy versus intelligence on Japanese quiz shows at 09:49 AM JST - 28th May
GJDailleult at 10:02 AM JST - 27th May

Still driving around in the victim's car two days later. Getting angry enough to kill a woman he just met for the first time in person a few hours before. Pretty strange and scary behavior. As for why he may have been angry, it says she was unemployed but told…

Posted in Man arrested for murder of woman in Nagano love hotel at 10:02 AM JST - 27th May
GJDailleult at 11:20 AM JST - 26th May

Sorry there, I was referring to back payments on the health insurance. And I am not saying there should or shouldn't be a requirement to pay them. Just that if there is going to enforcement through the visa system, as said above, and back payment is required, then many will…

Posted in Foreign residents rally against bills to revise immigration law at 11:20 AM JST - 26th May