Wednesday February 15, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

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Goals0Jul. 20, 2009 - 05:57AM JST

All of them except for Mona.

And Ryoko Yonekura.

Posted in: Which celebrities are you tired of reading and hearing about?
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Goals0Jul. 01, 2009 - 08:43PM JST

Poor Ryu-kun. In fact he's the minister but according to the article he's merely a "senior official".

Posted in: Anti-drug poster featuring Yukie Nakama to go up at schools nationwide
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Goals0Jun. 25, 2009 - 09:28PM JST

The team said Kawakami was day to day with a bruise at the right base of >his neck. Is 'day to day' also a technical baseball term here? What's a 'clubhouse'?

Posted in: Braves' Kawakami leaves after getting hit by liner
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Goals0Jun. 21, 2009 - 09:32AM JST

pandat You're right of course. But mod's "It is a quote" is weak. Something like 'I was mad' would have been a better translation.

Posted in: Fire brigade arsonist alerts police to his own crimes
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Goals0Jun. 20, 2009 - 05:29PM JST

'mushakusha' vexed; irritated; fretful; in ill humor.

Posted in: Fire brigade arsonist alerts police to his own crimes
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Goals0May. 28, 2009 - 09:31PM JST

One reason for the subtitling is so that you can watch television with the sound down. In a restaurant or with a screen on a busy street you can follow the program even if you can't hear anything. Some murder mysteries, classically the Tuesday evening one, uses the bilingual channel for a soundtrack for the blind, and idiot gaijin. "He walks to the window. He sees a car pull up outside."

Posted in: Idiocy versus intelligence on Japanese quiz shows
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Goals0May. 22, 2009 - 07:06PM JST

If you're such a loser that a fee of 10,000 is of any importance to you you're not really the kind of customer American Express are looking for. (I too am such a loser.) (Do I get a prize for spelling 'loser' correctly?)

Posted in: Line of credit
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Goals0May. 07, 2009 - 07:36AM JST

“eta,” a now strongly derogatory word for burakumin that literally >means “filthy mass.” The translation is poor and inflammatory to say the least. "Much defilement" would be better. The derivation of the word isn't quite clear but Japanese wiki says "people whose work involved dealing with a lot of impure things" is a likely one.

Posted in: Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil 'burakumin' secrets
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Goals0Apr. 24, 2009 - 05:35PM JST

Don't wash it or it falls apart! That's crap. It's all pretty good quality. Juts once have I had a problem.

Posted in: Uniqlo
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Goals0Apr. 24, 2009 - 09:25AM JST

spa = hot spring.

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Goals0Apr. 11, 2009 - 06:26PM JST

You know what would be hilarious? If both teams were playing to lose completely openly. The forwards for one team would be at their own goal. The backs would be at the other team's goal.

Posted in: Niigata school vice principal under fire for ordering soccer team to lose game
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Goals0Apr. 07, 2009 - 12:53PM JST

Anyone who can play shamisen is okay by me. I can play shamisen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-mcO3CoDo&feature=related

Posted in: Enka singer Yoko Nagayama marries American entrepreneur
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Goals0Mar. 26, 2009 - 01:14PM JST

Historians 'agree' something between 10,000 and 300,000.

Posted in: Chinese movies on Japan's wartime atrocities clear censors
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Goals0Mar. 15, 2009 - 11:29AM JST

Only problem is when you throw people in jail who didn't do the things you said they did. And get people to lie for your 'evidence' and guarantee we get into a vicious cycle.

I hope they get the guys who did the murders.

Posted in: N Ireland riots after police arrest 3 over killings
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Goals0Mar. 11, 2009 - 11:53PM JST

North Korea is the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany. The idiotic posters here telling people to just move on ...

Posted in: Ex-N Korean agent says she believes abductees Taguchi, Yokota still alive
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Goals0Mar. 11, 2009 - 01:44PM JST

ilcub76 Of course. Who would believe a terrorist when we have the word of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

Posted in: Ex-N Korean agent says she believes abductees Taguchi, Yokota still alive
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Goals0Mar. 10, 2009 - 05:29PM JST

While there has always been the Keith Richard-Richards conundrum, up to today old Ronnie Wood has always been, well, Ronnie Wood. My Lords and Ladies, I give you Ronnie Woods.

Posted in: Rod Stewart kicks off Japan tour after 13-year absence
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Goals0Mar. 09, 2009 - 10:26PM JST

Q. What was the Nikkei 225's peak?

A. The average peaked at 38,915.87 points on December 29, 1989.

Posted in: Gov't may seek additional steps to stem diving share prices after Nikkei closes at 26-year low
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Goals0Mar. 02, 2009 - 07:22PM JST

Move fast enough and you'll have no problem.

Posted in: Fire walk
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Goals0Feb. 23, 2009 - 04:45PM JST

lose - lost - lost loose - looser - loosest

Posted in: Man wanted for stabbing former lover, her current boyfriend in Tochigi