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  Goals0May. 22, 2013 - 04:59PM JST

  締めつけてちゃ 下は育たない shimetsuketecha, shita (shimo?) wa sodatanai

  Can someone fix up the translation and explain the pun? It means something like 'If you tie it too tight then what's down there doesn't develop properly'. But the pun is to do with an expression 'shita wa sodatanai' which means that the the kohai (juniors) don't develop successfully.'

  Posted in: Posters of fundoshi-clad man disappearing from Osaka

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  Goals0May. 13, 2013 - 09:31PM JST

  @mirai

  so that banks give warnings to the elderly who try to wire transfer large amounts of cash into another account

  The point is that this has been done. So the criminals have changed their modus operandi.

  Posted in: 'Mother, help me' fraud: NPA, public select new name for bank transfer scam

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  Goals0May. 10, 2013 - 04:56PM JST

  But Mitsu Dan has beautiful black hair. Is that not enough?

  Posted in: Women have the knives out for their celebrity sisters

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  Goals0May. 06, 2013 - 11:54AM JST

  They guys had to ram their car a number of times before they got through the metal shutters.

  You can see 'em here: http://news.tv-asahi.co.jp/news_society/articles/000004778.html

  Posted in: Thieves steal Y5 mil worth of jewelry after backing car into store

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  Goals0Apr. 18, 2013 - 05:36PM JST

  He admitted he had just ingested kakuseizai - amphetamines or methamphetamines:

  http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye5309779.html

  Posted in: Man arrested after 7-hour standoff on rooftop

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  Goals0Apr. 17, 2013 - 05:43PM JST

  @StewartJG

  Based on the first videos that were on TV:

  http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20130416/k10013957191000.html

  Posted in: Man arrested after 7-hour standoff on rooftop

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  Goals0Apr. 17, 2013 - 08:04AM JST

  Hellsvien

  He didn't commit the crimes.

  Posted in: Tokyo District Court tells Google to stop autocomplete words

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  Goals0Apr. 17, 2013 - 07:59AM JST

  It was fairly clear that the woman was his accomplice. He was probably on drugs and potentially could do something stupid though. Fortunately when his keitai battery ran out, his human battery also ran out.

  Posted in: Man arrested after 7-hour standoff on rooftop

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  Goals0Apr. 14, 2013 - 09:53PM JST

  Oops! Your comment was fine.

  Posted in: Why do some native English speakers use broken or grammatically incorrect English, when trying to communicate with someone who isn't a native English speaker, but who may understand some English? Do they think that somehow broken English is easier to understand?

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  Goals0Apr. 10, 2013 - 07:18AM JST

  Dumb. There are two versions, the Japanese will probably focus on the one without a speaking component. Neither are / is a good test to begin with. For Japanese students the negative effects are dreadful. Take a look and weep: http://www.ets.org/toefl/pbt/prepare/sample_questions/structure_written_expression_practice_section2

  Posted in: LDP panel presents proposal on TOEFL prerequisite for universities

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  Goals0Apr. 06, 2013 - 04:22PM JST

  To finish this.

  shootsu ショーツ means women's or girl's underwear.

  Shorts are hanzubon or shotopantsu in Japanese.

  Posted in: 20 words of English origin that Japanese people often mistake for real thing

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  Goals0Apr. 02, 2013 - 02:02PM JST

  'Arafo' is literally 'around 40' so can be late 30s to early 40s.

  The magazine's catchphrase is 「『LOVE40』～30代までは練習です。 40歳からが女の本番！」

  Love 40. Through your 30s is just practice. A woman becomes a real woman from 40.

  I won't argue with that.

  Posted in: Yonekura to be monthly cover girl for new magazine aimed at women in their 40s

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  Goals0Apr. 01, 2013 - 09:03AM JST

  Increase the budget by 500,000 yen Should be 'Increase the budget by 50,000 yen'.

  Posted in: Differences in business culture between Japan and West

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  Goals0Apr. 01, 2013 - 09:01AM JST

  @paulinusa

  "Company A estimates that it can complete the work in two months for 500,000 yen."

  "In the case of the French company, company A and B would be dismissed as possible contenders almost immediately, with only C and D remaining."

  So why is company A a deal breaker?

  Because the original Japanese says 550,000 yen, not 500,000.

  Posted in: Differences in business culture between Japan and West

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  Goals0Mar. 20, 2013 - 10:20AM JST

  Richard Hinds was not a dancer. but a musician. Blackston, the other guy, was the dancer.

  Posted in: American to serve 5-10 years for murder of Irish student

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  Goals0Mar. 20, 2013 - 08:44AM JST

  The reason they don't say

  the perps were part of Nicki Manaj's entourage

  is because it's not true. Read the story again.

  Posted in: American to serve 5-10 years for murder of Irish student

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  Goals0Mar. 14, 2013 - 08:42AM JST

  I've always felt that one of the elements in this never-ending type of crime is that the criminals are hoping to find older people who may be losing their marbles. But on top of this there have been cases where the criminals had extra information on the targets which helped to make their story a bit more plausible.

  Apparently the woman withdrew 24 million from a bank but the rest of the money she had at home for a real-estate purchase she was going to make. Perhaps in the phone call the 'nephew' made reference to this purchase. He also probably said that the check couldn't be used and she'd get the money back.

  Posted in: Identity fraudster steals 45 million yen from elderly woman

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  Goals0Mar. 12, 2013 - 10:04AM JST

  The Japanese term is shitai-iki - 死体遺棄 - which is usually translated as 'abandoning a corpse' but should really be translated as 'failing to deal appropriately with a dead body'. There is money to help pay for a funeral for the poor, but people may want to have a 'proper' funeral, with expensive kaimyo, which they can't afford. But that's not the case here I suspect.

  Kent mcgraw

  pension money can not be that much money Pension may be a nice bit of money.

  Posted in: Tokyo man arrested after living with father's corpse

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  Goals0Mar. 08, 2013 - 01:56PM JST

  Here's a Japanese TV news item on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUR_KK-bXg

  From elsewhere it seems the city authorities tried to check up two years ago but never got to meet the mother, who was said to be 'genki'.

  Posted in: 3 adult siblings arrested for living with mother's skeletal remains

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  Goals0Mar. 05, 2013 - 08:11AM JST

  I saw a review on the net. There's good quality booze. For 1,000 yen extra you can get a second hour of all-you-can-drink. Sssh! Don't tell anyone.

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