Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    Hawkeye

    The guy without his shoes is probably not going to make the news, tomorrow except in the Bagdad obits

    Posted in: Across Mideast, Arabs hail shoe-hurling journalist

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    Hawkeye

    This is a sad story for everyone involved. When the shock is gone they will have to live with the guilt.

    Posted in: Man arrested for killing father with golf club in Toyama

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    Hawkeye

    1. Change the maritime law and permit non military ships/vessels to arm themselves and use whatever force necessary to defend themselves.
    2. Use satellite reconnaissance to pinpoint unusual vessel traffic (i.e. small boats heading towards large vessels) and send them to davy jones locker via aircraft launched missiles cause they are going out 300 miles to deliver groceries now are they.

    Posted in: Somali pirates hijack Saudi oil tanker

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    Hawkeye

    Is this a new form of Cosplay, I hope so because there is nothing like a woman in uniform to get the major to stand at attention. In any case what does this silly photograph have to do with joining the SDF? It's not a fun cosplay organization, it is the equivelent of the US Military but with wimps.

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    Hawkeye

    What taxi driver would take a passenger for that kind of distance without the passenger showing him that he can pay the fare. Does the fare have to pay round trip too?

    Posted in: Jilted man arrested after refusing to pay for 500-km taxi ride

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    Hawkeye

    What do you make of all the publicity over the recent arrests of Japanese university students for smoking pot? Not much!, The whole issue is lame and was lame 30 years ago in the United States. Marijuana has been around since time immorial and will always be out there. If more folks in Japan smoked pot after work, they would be a lot happier and less stressed out.

    Posted in: What do you make of all the publicity over the recent arrests of Japanese university students for smoking pot?

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    Hawkeye

    Holy cow! 383 bowls of WANKO in 10 minutes, she must have blown her cookies all over Morioka after she finished.

    Posted in: Woman downs 383 bowls of soba in 10 minutes

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    Hawkeye

    A lot of the posters are talking more about japanese zenophobia rather than what Japan can do to attract more foreign tourists. Zenophobia is not going to go away in Japan in the next millenia so everyone needs to get used to that issue and you will be a lot happier. If we are going to talk about zenophobia, I can say that I experienced more of it at work in a mid-sized Japanese company of 400+ employees being the only "round eye" (white, US citizen) than outside in the real world as I came to call it. My neighbors were (we don't live in Japan now) all great, my J-wife + kids and I have lots of friends whom we spent a lot of quality time with at the beach or BBQ's on the riverbeds with our kids. I can only recall two incidents since 1981 (the first year I came to Japan) which stand out in my mind. I was with a group of foreign guys in 1984 in a town with less than 1,000 foreigners (that includes the Filipino club girls too), all single and enjoying ourselves at way too many restaurants and bars so we decided to go to a high end club which told us at the door that it was a club only for Japanese and no foreigners allowed. From the look of the place it was full of a lot of old farts (I am now a old fart) and I told my companions that it was not worth the arguement and lets go somewhere we will be welcomed and that was it. The only other time I can remember a zenophobic reaction is when my J-wife and kids were in downtown (I won't say what town) shopping and a Japanese Oji-san gave us a very rude look and comment like my wife had commited some atrocity by marrying a Gaijin and produced halfbreed children. Other than those two experiences outside of my workplace, my experience in Japan was one of the best in my life. In regards to my experience inside the workplace, I would say that I felt like a black person (I am from a generation that still calls afro-americans, blacks so please excuse my politically incorrect terminology) at a KKK rally and I can write volumes about that experience.

    Moderator: All readers back on topic please.

    Posted in: What does Japan need to do in order to attract more tourists?

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    Hawkeye

    The question here is "what does Japan need to do to attract more tourists", the answers are

    If Japanese could speak enough English to communicate on a basic level like the rest of the world but that will take several generations, more English language friendly services besides the automated train station announcements, stop spreading stories about how costly Japan is which is not true compared to western European cities, street signs so you can use a map, shorter skirts, etceteras

    Posted in: What does Japan need to do in order to attract more tourists?

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    Hawkeye

    I don't know what he was thinking as that moat water is green with slime and full of used condoms. Yuk!

    Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat

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    Hawkeye

    I have eaten lots of unusual food all over the world but I can't get excited about eating dog meat because I have had so many dogs as pets during my life. I think most Chinese and other Asian cultures (not Japan) don't have dogs as pets or have close personal relationships with them as people do in other cultures. Dogs are great animals, always there when you come home, defend you and are true family members compared to other types of pets.

    Posted in: Dog meat off menu during Beijing Olympics

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    Hawkeye

    Tick tock Tick Tock, sounds like captain hook is in trouble again. It looks like someone's pet got too big and they released it which is stupid because it now poses a serious danger to the general public or maybe to itself as crocodile tail meat is really good grilled.

    Posted in: 1.5-meter-long crocodile spotted in Saitama river

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    Hawkeye

    Looks like that guy had bad DNA and is in need of a mental realignment. When will this all stop? Pretty soon people are going to have their eggs implanted into dogs as a surrogate. I don't care if someone is gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual but can you imagine what being raised as a child in such a relationship would be like and how it would affect your own sexual orientation and personal realtionships.

    Posted in: 'Pregnant man' gives birth to girl

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    Hawkeye

    Japanese don't care how their English sounds or how well they can speak any foreign language, end of story.

    Posted in: Why don't Japanese speak English better than they do?

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    Hawkeye

    Caregivers is an interesting concept for registered aliens from the Philippines. When they were hostesses they were caregivers in another way and now the Japanese are finding better use for them.

    Posted in: Ex-Filipino hostesses become caregivers

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    Hawkeye

    I am totally distraught at this decision by Mainichi to discontinue their Wai Wai section. That section gives me and millions of other hard core Japanophiles juicy tidbits of the other side of Japan to relish and wait for with baited breath each day. The perverted side of Japan has long been a fantastic source of interest to the outside world and now we will have to dredge through lots of boring stories in Japan's newspapers and media sources to get what the Wai Wai journalists provided us with their a la carte selection of the creme de la creme of Japan's finest news worthy articles. I urge each and every one of the Japanophiles that feel as I do to write the editors of Mainichi and protest this action and ask no beg them to reinstate the Wai Wai section or perhaps Japan Today can take up the cause to bring more readership since they changed the style of this publication and have made it almost unreadable which I can forgive if they had something like Wai Wai to read.

    Posted in: What do you think of the Mainichi's decision to cease publishing its WaiWai tabloid tidbits section on its English online site following complaints that it portrays Japanese society in a negative light to the world?

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    Hawkeye

    Yes, I think that to be called a Gaijin is wrong and racist. The correct term is Gai kokujin. Japanese do not understand how rude they can be when addressing foreigners as gaijin and if they do so knowing well what they are saying, they do it with no respect as the Japanese are inherently a racist culture.

    Posted in: Do you consider the word "gaijin" racist?

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    Hawkeye

    Just saw the interior shots and the captains chairs have full leg supports so you can lay down like in a bed, great for long trips.

    Posted in: Toyota unveils new Alphard, Vellfire minivans

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    Hawkeye

    Looks like the Scion logo on the grill

    Posted in: Toyota unveils new Alphard, Vellfire minivans

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    Hawkeye

    Conqueror, the word in english is trade-in and the japanese if I can read the Kanji correctly is shi ta tori or similar.

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