JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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Finally today the police issued a photo of 'kaishain' Yokotani.
Not someone I would like to encounter on a dark night.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/west/west_affairs/photos/120130/waf12013020020017-p1.htm
Posted in: Fatal hit-and-run suspect escapes from hospital in Wakayama
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Oh, they've got the car. It's the black Mercedes here. http://mytown.asahi.com/wakayama/news.php?k_id=31000001201280004
Posted in: Fatal hit-and-run suspect escapes from hospital in Wakayama
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This story is a few days old. Watching it on Japanese TV news the strange thing was that they never showed a photo of Yokotani. He (and his brother) are almost certainly yakuza. Previously he was caught with speed. The police reported that someone saw the car yesterday in Kishiwada, Oska.
Posted in: Fatal hit-and-run suspect escapes from hospital in Wakayama
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Translation mistake here. In fact he doesn't smoke while walking.
Posted in: How foreigners’ daily lives change when they live in Japan
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Uh, no. North Korea was not testing the winds. No, they are not on their way to the North Korean death camps (not that I'm denying they exist). For those who are actually folowing the story and saw the pictures of the boat they arrived in it's clear they had no intention of coming near Japan.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_752895.html
Interestingly they said they had no idea that Kim Jong-il had died.
Posted in: 3 N Koreans sent home after 'drifting' to Japan
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Woodford is a hero.
Even after all those years Olympus never made enough profit
to get themselves out of the hole they'd got themselves into
with their bad investments over a decade ago.
Posted in: Woodford to sue Olympus, citing lack of investor support to get his job back
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The Japanese is
which probably means he touched her butt - 'futomomo'. However futomomo can also mean thigh.
Posted in: Chunichi reporter arrested for allegedly molesting woman on train
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Asahi says they left them in 14 different locations in 5 different prefectures to a total of 41 cans.
The couple said they just wanted to get rid of them. They do look suspicious.
You can see a picture of one here:
http://www.asahi.com/national/update/1209/OSK201112090099.html
Posted in: Elderly couple fined Y300,000 for disposing of cans in freeway service area restrooms
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Most people commenting here are fairly ignorant of what A Class criminals means.
"Class A" crimes were reserved for those who 'participated in a joint conspiracy to start and wage war' not for those guilty of personally carrying out atrocities - who were the Class B and C criminals.
Here's a newspaper article from 1947 which shows what Joseph Grew (US Ambassador to Japan from 1932-42) thought of three of the above fourteen.
Posted in: Yasukuni shrine hit by arson attack
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The album title is correctly Japonesque, not that I'll be buying it.
Posted in: Kumi Koda wears sexy oiran costume for new album
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some14some - You may not like it but there are no problems with the audience ratings: http://www.tokyograph.com/news/61st-kouhaku-uta-gassen-ratings-announced/
Posted in: NHK announces lineup for 'Kohaku Uta Gassen' on New Year's Eve
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About the figure of 61% of men without partners as opposed to 49% of women: The age group surveyed is 18-34. On the average women go for older men, more women aged 30 to 34 would be going out with guys aged 35 to 40 than the other way round. This will skew the figures. (From a man who has always had time for women a little older than himself).
Posted in: 61% of single men aged 18-34 have no girlfriend; 49% of women unattached: survey
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The granddad didn't have a cell phone. The snow came down very quickly.
They went off the road and turned over, breaking windows in the car.
Posted in: Lost 81-yr-old man, granddaughter, 3, kept warm by their dog until rescued
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hakuman, the Meiji milk scandal?
Do you mean Yukijirishi - Snow Brand?
Posted in: Olympus urged to rehire ousted British CEO
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The Shimada Shinsuke connection is bad for Hashimoto.
He made his name as a lawyer on Shinsuke's Sunday night TV show.
The weeklies said that Shimada always boasted of getting Hashimoto his governorship.
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Through most of history the tenno (Emperor) was a kind of sacred youth.
He would usually retire while still young, often only becoming powerful later in life.
It was only from Meiji (1868) that the tenno has had to stick it out to the end.
Posted in: Emperor kept in hospital due to persistent fever
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Isn't it about time they were made 'ningen kokuho' - Living National Treasures?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LivingNationalTreasuresofJapan
Posted in: AKB48 members to appear on stamps
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The car was found abandoned.
The 51 year old owner of the car is missing.
The case likely involves drunk driving, the purpose of the police inspection.
Go one minute into this video and you can see the abandoned car.
http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00210961.html
Posted in: Three policemen injured in hit-and-run
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With great expense of effort I have discovered that Jun's tasuki reads “胃袋隊長”. Meaning 'commanding officer of the stomach'.
She called her marriage 'ibukurokon' - she caught her husband with her cooking skills.
Posted in: Jun Komori says she'd like to have a baby next year
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The Sankei shimbun is reporting that they were of South Korean nationality from Chiba prefecture.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/111031/crm11103121030015-n1.htm
Posted in: Noda apologizes for receiving donations from foreign nationals