JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Icewind007
I also find it strange that he heard a scream. Was this the girl or a bystander? It's exceedingly rare for a child so young to commit suicide as they usually don't have the mental ability to consider that an option. However, accidents with children falling are far more common. And the screaming by the girl would be explained as well.
Posted in: 12-year-old girl dies after fall from building in Akita
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Icewind007
I think the issue was more about the women being bothered than there being danger for the train. I mean, a conductor can only do so much if there is a problem, it takes a good while to stop the train and if someone gets in the way, the only thing he can do is report how much splat the person made on the train... it's not like he was driving a truck.
That flashed through my mind too...
Your awesome sarcasm reflects my point 8)
Posted in: JR West driver took photos of 2 women passengers while operating train at 120 kph
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Icewind007
Yeah, this is a norm of the world though. Nothing new, nothing special, and there is nothing we can do to stop them. We only only be careful.
This is an absolutely normal activity. I mean, they might have switched later on and let the wife go shopping when it was the dad's turn to play. Those who blindly place blame are fools.
Posted in: Woman drowns trying to save son in Miyazaki
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Icewind007
I often find Japanese blogs rather mundane. They are like a journal of events. The only ones that interest me are the ones that overlap with my interests and even those are much like someone just talking about what they did, not about the subject matter.
In blogs in English, I find people often tend to branch out into being purely entertaining. They will exaggerate and ad lib to really make it funny or interesting. This can be life events or reviews or whatever. Of course, on the other end of the spectrum are the emos with strange empty poetry and sob stories... I don't even want to go there.
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Icewind007
I wonder who was paying for her phone at the time. It doesn't say. It may have been excess usage driving up the parent's bill. Or it may have been her bill and the argument was over her simply wasting too much time on the phone as opposed to other duties.
Your generalization is pretty extreme. If Japan is full of lunatics, the world is overflowing. You have to open your eyes and look at the other 99% of the people around you.
It's hard to even think of something to say about this... are you siding with the crazy woman who can't have enough of her phone? A woman who is still living with her parents? This doesn't even call for a yelling, much less a stabbing, unless there is far more to this than we know (and there may have been).
Posted in: Woman arrested for fatally stabbing father in Kagoshima
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Icewind007
"Con: smacks of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley where the government anesthetizes the masses to the point where everyone works, takes their drug, spends their money and keeps smiling"
Minority Report anyone? If certain drugs are allowed on the market, I doubt they will introduce something worse. They may even be improved health-wise by allowing production studies that would make for healthier usage.
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Icewind007
Agreed. I've even come to expect the thoughtless comment every time an event like this happens. There are so many things that could have happened.
I am not sure how many cars can take a head on collision safely. Even the safest common vehicles have fatalities in head on collisions.
The greatest victims are perhaps the surviving children of the couple (17 year old was just the oldest). I hope the have family or friends willing to take them in as their own. I've heard of way too many unfortunate circumstances of neglect from a fostering family.
Posted in: Two die, three injured in head-on collision in Tochigi
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Icewind007
"He was quoted by police as saying he did it because he felt frustrated after things started going badly at work."
But why is the "random" target always women and children?
"Using the child porn excuser logic, we now need to produce mangas about throwing keek, to stop men like this doing ti in real life."
I don't think we should even joke about this. It is Japan after all, probably already been done...
Posted in: Osaka construction worker arrested for throwing feces at female passersby
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Icewind007
While this may help bring down the prices, this will also take it's toll on the production of good video games. I am in no way affected by the economy so I still buy games regularly. I feel for those less fortunate.
"More people out of the video games addiction,the better."
I don't see how this is related. I play video games all the time and buy them every now and then. I am more concerned about the truly lifeless activities like watching TV and movies. Those are the laziest things people can do; your hands are free enough for a bucket of popcorn or a bag of chips. However, the spot-light was taken away by video games because old people disliking the new stuff wanted their old time favorite past-time to look better.
"Kids should be out playing sports, keeping fit and strong. Ban video games for the under 18,s unless educational. Hope the game co0mpanies go broke."
I am guessing you are way over the hill... We are in an age of electronics and late nights. Try pitching some balls after 8pm. Also, the great majority of gamers are NOT fat. A recent study shows that the average video gamer in America has 25.2 BMI, lower than the national average in America. I, even as an avid gamer, jog 8 miles every other day. Days in between are spent at the gym weight lifting. My BMI is 18. Think about that...
Also, what if I said the same thing about books, TV, radio, and movies? BAN them all for those under 18. Unless they are educational...
BTW, what's so "educational" about football? I think video games have that beat in terms of education.
Posted in: Videogame sales in U.S. sink for fifth consecutive month
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Icewind007
This is NOT going to help the hilarious stereotype I hear in Japan that all Americans have guns all the time like we are living in the Old West. In fact, in my 25 years in the US, I've NEVER seen a real gun in person aside from behind the counter of a sports store. And I live in "Sportsman's Paradise"!
Posted in: Gun-toters, including one with assault weapon, attend Obama protest
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Icewind007
I can't believe JT (prob just a translation of Japanese news) distinguishes the 16 "younger sister" as a younger sister. Unless there is some step-sister thing going on, they are the same age! And who would do this to their own daughter and to their twin? This is crazy.
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Icewind007
Perhaps just another person in Japan not knowing how to vent properly. People have to learn to get some friends, lay back and chill every once in a while.
Posted in: 2 sought after throwing bicycle onto tracks in front of oncoming train
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Icewind007
I am somewhat for it. It has to be well regulated/taxed/kept in order. Some blindly call for the complete eradication of all drugs... I find those people as bad as those for the Prohibition. Some drugs are safer and have less effects than alcohol, but retain the good feeling (this is from psychology study, not personal experience).
There will be good and bad from this. One of the main drugs in question is usually cannabis. This is currently circulated underground. It is the driving force of some crime syndicates. It makes very little money for the economy.
If it were legal, the crime involving that drug would lower. However, people may misinterpret this and think other drugs are also legal. Or they may just push on toward another illegal drug. Legalizing would bring a lot of official revenue to the government (high tax). And once it get legalized, there may be a large influx of people suddenly wanting to try it out, which may lead to people getting bored of it or giving it the same reputation as cigarettes. However, it may also push people to try out other drugs.
The outcome will only be known when/if it happens.
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Icewind007
While I don't agree with the man, I do not believe it is a crime to say stuff, even if it did or did not happen! This is a violation of our modern idea of free speech in developed countries. This reminds me of when people were punished for saying the world was not flat or that the earth was not the center of the universe. If he believes it is true, then so be it. If someone decided to go all conspiracy theorist and said that is was the US government that took down the twin towers or that the two bombs in Japan were just some bad accident, they should be free to do so.
Only a fool would think the courts are always right. Yeah, not following the law will get you in trouble, but think of how often a person has been thrown in jail or worse for something we take for granted now.
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Icewind007
Bill may not have been the greatest president or anything, but he was sure as heck a much better speaker than Hilary. She was a fool to get spun up. Especially since her husband is a former president!
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Icewind007
I think it's better than juvi. Reform schools (should) focus more on learning rather than punishment.
Posted in: Youth escapes from reform school, then turns himself in
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Icewind007
The fact that the minors can't get in trouble for this is troubling. I believe they should be just as responsible for a crime they are willingly doing. I certainly believe the doctor did wrong, but the girl isn't exactly white as snow...
This is one of those unfortunate easy "truths" that people like to spout. Kids are retarded until magically the whole world is revealed to them at age 18 (20?) and become capable of doing wrong.
However, it is understandable. People have no way to prove things one way or another so we set rules, rules where individual circumstances are too troublesome to go through each time. "Minors" have the ability to scheme and do wrong, but we have been shaped by the government to think otherwise. Many 22 year olds have the same mindset as any teen, yet they are not given that same benefit of the doubt.
Still it continues to irk me that people believe the convenient justice system and the magic of "turning of age." 18 (20?) is way too late for some kids, way too early for others; I don't even believe that's a good average. It's just the law and has little to do with what they knew better or not.
Posted in: Dentist held for indecent behavior with junior high school girl in Fukuoka hotel
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Icewind007
This goes beyond my comprehension. Weird and random. Strangely, the weird stories we get from Japan news is sorta what draws me to reading these. Other countries... same ol' murders or violence. This place... random!
I could not agree more! I don't know if I'd bother caring about the stupid laws if I witnessed that. I'd take him down and confess Japanese style, "It was a good idea at the time. / It happened before I knew it"
As opposed to those armed 6 and 7 year old girls... watch out for them!
Posted in: Two young girls punched by stranger on street in Hyogo
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Icewind007
If I ran some idiot sleeping in the middle of the road at night where it was probably not well lit since it was in a park... I'd feel little remorse for a guy practically committing suicide. Right out of the gene pool.
If you are simply talking about killing a person, the speed doesn't matter much when it is a car vs a sleeping man on the ground. She could have even been traveling a sound 15 mph (24 kph) and it would still have been fatal.
If this man was in a full suit or business attire, he'd have been all the harder to see since there would be little contrast.
If only she had stopped... probably would have turned out in her favor.
Posted in: Woman arrested for fatal hit-and-run of 'sleeping man' in Nagano car park
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Icewind007
It doesn't matter what the outcome is, a mistake is a mistake. It everything turns out ok, it is a mistake... if it turns into a disaster, it's still a mistake.
Kids do stupid things and learn from mistakes... it's part of growing up. MOST boys have endangered someone's life with their antics at some point in their teenage life, either with driving, making dangerous dares, doing something that they thought would be good at the time, etc. If you don't realize this either you are too old to remember, you are not a guy, or you are just dense. I sure as hell had my moments when I was a teenager...
This kid should be dealt with strictly, but nothing more than that. Remove privileges or put him on some kind of community service (do they have that in Japan?). Nothing more.
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