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KaptainKichigai
The commercial world is pretty much the same everywhere. Carbon copies produced every year exploited for sales. Entertainers slaves to their contracts. Its not much different in the West. Maybe just more diverse in expression but the situation and exploitation is the same. Being in the right place at the right time, having the right look, a splash of nepotism, money...its all formulaic.
Posted in: Erika Sawajiri: Inside the head of Japan's outspoken star
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KaptainKichigai
Its good she shook things up but it sounds like nothing really changed in the system. She sounds like a typical 24 year old that got lucky and rich. She made some good choices and some bad ones. Just a kid. Good luck. Future s definately brighter with her English skills. Its too bad more people cant afford to run off to England and then Barcelona for a "break" of studying and hanging out in pubs and cafes.
Posted in: Erika Sawajiri: Inside the head of Japan's outspoken star
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KaptainKichigai
Hostess club connection anyone?
Posted in: Man's throat slashed at front door in possible case of mistaken identity
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KaptainKichigai
Being in the middle (my 30s) I agree with both sides. The younger generation needs to grow a pair and start distinguishing their identities as either Male or Female instead of androgynous children on a 10 year maturity curve behind the rest of the world. And the old people need to migrate out of soceity like elephants to a warmer climate..say, Okinawa and play Mah Jong with fellow geezers and stay OUT of the way of progress.
Posted in: We youngsters lack passion and ambition? Hardly
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KaptainKichigai
@limboinjapan-nice posts. Inspiring. Sorry about the divorce but it sounds like you made it through fine.
Posted in: What is the best way for parents of children of mixed heritage to make sure their kids grow up bilingual?
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KaptainKichigai
2 years is my bet
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KaptainKichigai
you can write your name on your seat in yellow.
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KaptainKichigai
I recently attended a pop culture event were one of my sleazeball colleagues joined a hip hop class because he thought it would help meet girls. Anyways, he found himself in classes where 95 percent of the dancers were aged 6 to 16, but wanting to look like he really was interested in dancing, he didnt quit. So I went to his performance in a local concert hall. And I had to sit through some good, some bad and some disturbing dances to American hip hop music. The most disturbing was a class of 8 year olds dancing to some of the most violent music and explecatives that made me avert my eyes because it was just so wrong by Western culture to see 8 year olds dancing to X rated Gangsta rap. Nobody in the audience but the foreigners even batted an eye.
Posted in: What are some of your favorite examples of the way English is misused in products, advertising and pop culture in Japan?
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KaptainKichigai
Its a serious discussion "mate". If youre not interested in contributing to it, dont. Some people enjoy intelligent conversation with authentic facts and references to allow food for thought.
Posted in: Two arrested for running members-only prostitution website
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KaptainKichigai
I thought prostitution was legal in Japan
Posted in: Two arrested for running members-only prostitution website
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KaptainKichigai
"Your opinion is that it was an atrocity. Many feel that it was not.." -I think the surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us- Calvin and Hobbes. Truer words could not be more applicable to that statement.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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KaptainKichigai
tkoind2-I am apologetic TO Japan. I am anti American dropping an atomic bomb on civilians. I am not focusing anger at all. The "greater loss of life in total" should have been military, not civilian. You have written thousands upon thousands of words on this particular message board over and over. We have all read your opinion. How about stepping down and letting History speak for itself as well as others and their opinions? No disrespect, but History is somewhat subjective as your and anyone elses "strong" bakground in it. OUR country committed a horrible wartime atrocity and nothing you can rationalize changes it or the fact that many of America's leaders at that time agree that it was unnecessary.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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KaptainKichigai
Monkeyz, if you make a quote, you should add its source. There are many many contrary accounts to that random statement.It is HUGELY argueable that Hiroshima was a "communicatons center and storage depot". There are many Japanese texts and opinions that counter that information. One thing that is certain...it was NOT a military base. It was a civillian city. Pearl Harbor was not. Also, why do you consider peoples opinions of the slaughter of innocent women and children as "whining"? Do you think insulting human decency and conscience gives credibility to your opinion? Insulting others opinions doesnt invalidate them and it makes others less likely to lend credit to your own.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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KaptainKichigai
Debucho, some Historians believe that, because we had already broken the Japanese codes, we knew Peral Harbor was going to be bombed. We needed a huge reason to test atomic power and the Japanese gave it to us. It rallied the fury and support of Americans. Quite similar to the fervor of 9 11 that allowed us to get swindled into invading Iraq. Pearl Harbor was a military base, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not. (many opinions differ on the last statement.)
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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KaptainKichigai
"During his recitation of the relevant facts,I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on my basis of belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking World opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that vry moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'.." -Dwight Eisenhower
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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KaptainKichigai
"I am convinced that if you, as President,will make a shortwave broadcast to the people of Japan-trll them they can have their Emperor if they surrender, that it will not mean unconditional surrender except for the militarists- youll get peace in Japan-youll have both wars over.." "The Japanese were prepared to negotiate all the way from February 1945..up to and before the times the atomic bombs were dropped...if such leads had been followed up, there would have been no occasion to drop the bombs.." "The use of the atomic bomb, with its INDISCRIMINATE KILLING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, revolts my soul." -Herbert Hoover
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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KaptainKichigai
tkoind2- I understand your opinion. But History tells many tales and has many sides/opinions. A Peoples History of the United States- Zinn tells a slightly different account than say a Short History of the World-Roberts. Opinions vary on history as well as the "need" to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. It was racially motivated. You can blame Japan for its atrocities as well, but no other country did so much damage in such a short period of time and without mercy. It was on SUCH a larger scale than anything the World had ever seen before. It was without conscience. Rationalize the deed all that you like, even the devil can quote from scripture to serve his own needs.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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KaptainKichigai
Is this really a question? Are there really people alive today who think an atomic bomb was and is necessary? In all honesty, It was Histories most atricious hate crime. the USA could have used atomic warfare in Europe but it was pretty much unthinkable....Japan wasnt for the simple despicable reason that the USA saw it as a "Mongrel" race. Think about it. Segregation was in full swing during the forties in the US. Racial superiority was a huge part of the US mentality. We had already broken their codes. We already had a surrender offer on the table if the Emperor could keep his throne. We needed to test atomic power. We were racial bigots. Its not even a question. There is a special circle in Dantes Infernon for the men responsible for Nagasaki and Hiroshma.
Posted in: Was the dropping of the atomic bombs necessary?
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KaptainKichigai
remember the women have to "kickbutt". Just dropping terrible action movies with terrible actresses doesnt do much good.
Posted in: 5 most impressive movie women who kick butt
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KaptainKichigai
Rene Russo was good in Lethal Weapon 3 and I the Line of Fire with Clint.
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