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    Lowly

    Scary thought. J criminal justice system is a meat grinder.

    Run--

    I wonder if that is the best option for an "identifiable" gaijin (i.e., other than Korean/ Chinese gaijin), as there are cameras everywhere, and with your face on video it wouldn't be that hard to hunt you down, except maybe Tokyo...

    Posted in: Guilty and never proven innocent – every male train rider's nightmare in Japan

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    Lowly

    Thunderbird et al,

    Not convincing. The issue here is a systemic kidnapping of 1000s of women, taking them to other countries often near the front, (remember shell-shock?), and ddaily raping them over and over by 10s and 100s of men for months and years on end. Furthermore, the issue is a prominent leader is denying it happened, denying it was forced, denying it was a government plan, etc. US soldiers committing crimes on citizens is not something to be proud of, and when it was gang rapes, or resulted in death it is especially reprehensible. But that is just not the same as this comfort women system, not by a long shot.

    (And furthermore, no one denies US soldiers have raped/ committed crimes. It is reported regularly. But to infer the Emperor's j soldiers could have possibly done something wrong or cruel, how dare they!!)

    Posted in: Defiant Hashimoto says U.S. troops abused women during occupation

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    Lowly

    guys, i mean it could be dementia, it could be a lot of things

    it is useless to speculate

    Posted in: 83-year-old man arrested for beating his wife to death

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    Lowly

    Steven,

    hmm, But the differences in tea are from production- drying process, steaming or not, roasting or not, fermentation, etc.

    my understanding was that the plant itself isn't very different.

    but I'm not an expert. maybe I'll check out the book sometime.

    Posted in: Tea buffs gather in Japan for global festival

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    Lowly

    ann and neon,

    being a little too serious? i read most of those posts as sarcastic.

    airrunwesker-

    We all die alone. Start getting used to it. You have from now until then to get ready...

    Posted in: 83-year-old man arrested for beating his wife to death

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    Lowly

    Modern black tea production for the West, maybe. Modern Tea production in the rest of Asia is just chugging along as it always has. But tea was widespread in China, SE Asia, Burma, Tibet etc, so wasn't it in India already?

    Posted in: Tea buffs gather in Japan for global festival

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    Lowly

    "The Japan Lolita Association"

    -- I can see that being a really really big hit, with everyone just lining up to join at the mere mention of the name! As if!

    Moonraker-

    Check out Ian Buruma's "Wages of Guilt", it will answer your question (kawaii has been "in" since post wwii era) and more- compares Japan's and Germany's coming about after the things that happened in wwii.

    Posted in: Japanese Lolitas plan world domination

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    Lowly

    I think Japanese people… should offer objections if there is a misunderstanding of facts overseas.”

    About what? It sounds like the misunderstandings of facts is taking place right here in Japan. And it is here in Japan that I hope Japanese ppl have the courage to raise their voices and make objections. And vote this guy out of office.

    Posted in: Hashimoto offers to meet 'comfort women' to apologize

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    Lowly

    Oh I am sure the comfort women would love to hear this from him:

    “I will tell the comfort women that I’m sorry for Japan having had such a system no matter whether it was forcible or not,” Hashimoto said

    Evade responsibility much? Make half-assed cowardly non-apologies much? It was forcible, you owe it to give them that much.

    And this:

    nor the British militaries had comfort stations or comfort women, but it is an obvious fact that they made use of local women. “Japan was not the only one doing this,” he said. “Everybody was doing bad things.

    Seeing prostitutes, and forcibly conscripting 1000s of women and kidnapping them to foreign countries and making them be your rape toy all day long, are two different things, aren't they??? And as for rape, a few, or even many, rapes by soldiers is, however terrible, still very different from a planned system of conscription of women to rape them all day long for months/ years on end, set in motion by the gov and carried out by military higher ups.

    Posted in: Hashimoto offers to meet 'comfort women' to apologize

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    Lowly

    all these ppl talking w/ no idea of the facts... who knows what was going on with him?

    my first thought was debt. a lot of suicides are a result of debt, when there is no way to get out of it, and things seem bleak, and you can't even care for your children anymore, then you are no longer a man...

    Posted in: Man arrested for killing his 2 teenage children

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    Lowly

    I wish I'd known about this, in fact, I wish the article stated more about what/ where/ when the festival was, instead of all the background on tea... It says Higashiyama, but is it Kyoto Higashiyama? Sounds like it was in Shizuoka... It says this month-- Ongoing?? Get with it JT!

    Shizuoka tea is the best to my taste. I live in Kansai, and it is much better than Uji tea (near Kyoto= Kansai tea), so I buy it when I can find it in the stores, which is not always. Kyushu/ Kagoshima tea is also good.

    dcog,

    Jpns green tea is much different than Chinese green tea. Totally different taste. Personally I prefer Japanese messewf.

    Posted in: Tea buffs gather in Japan for global festival

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    Lowly

    Star-Viking and the other "apologists"-

    It's not about whether it is a "conspiracy theory" or not; sure, it is likely that it is coincidental. It is the very fact that these things don't get checked that is so insulting. They are not aware of, and don't seem to be willing to be aware of, or want to try to be aware of, or think it is at all in the least necessary to be aware of, the fact that something they might do might reverbrate beyond their borders. That the ppl around might have feelings about something.

    This aloofness just makes it worse.

    Posted in: S Korean media slam Abe's 731 jet photo

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    Lowly

    Jeffrey, There's strict laws, but that doesn't mean no guns. Anyone who wants to can apply. There is a vetting thing you go through and once you have your gun there's all these little rules about what to do with it and how to store it. There's inspections by the cops.　So these guys having guns and hunting is not surprising.

    sakurala, wild meat from the woods is probably way cleaner than any farm animal which is hormone-injected and otherwise poorly cared for. Especially in Japan where bacteria in water from hikers and animals still hasn't spread much. It's more like, since nobody does it, nobody does it.

    Posted in: 64-year-old deer hunter shot dead by fellow hunter in Miyagi

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    Lowly

    Nice shot.

    I wouldn't mind seeing an air show one day.

    Posted in: High flyers

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    Lowly

    jeff and sakula-

    that's what I was saying- they can't dispose of the meat and so most of these 1000s, 10s of 1000s?, of deer just die. yes, sakula, you can find deer meat in some specialty shops and onsen ryokans in the sticks, but that is different from all of the deer being killed in your area used for meat. most ppl don't ever eat it. a few try it. I really know no one who eats it regularly.

    It's just one of those things you have to chalk up to tradition here; if it's not done, no one is gonna do it, even if it is a good idea on many levels.

    Posted in: 64-year-old deer hunter shot dead by fellow hunter in Miyagi

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    Lowly

    But, of course that will never happen. What they really mean is, "We raped them and are proud of it and would do it again, we think those women are tools, we spit on their graves."

    That, and the fact that you just can't win with these ppl and change them very easily,

    is what makes me so infuriated and mad when I hear this crap!!

    Posted in: Gov't - but not Ishihara - backs away from Hashimoto's comfort women comments

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    Lowly

    I want to hear these ppl who say this crap start to add something like the following, then maybe I could believe their logic makes sense, at least to them:

    1 And I am the son/ daughter of a sex slave who was raped to death and I am proud that that happened to my mother.

    2 And I volunteer my mother/ daughter/ wife/ sister to be the first sex slaves in the next combat we have the chance to partake in.

    3 And I have met my half-brothers and half-sisters in China/ Korea/ Burma left behind by my rapist father/ grandfather, have made my peace with them, and fully accepted them into my family. I am working to give them Japanese citizenship if they want it, get them officially recognized (in koseki) in our family register, and through them would like to work for peaceful productive relations between our countries.

    or something along those lines.

    Posted in: Gov't - but not Ishihara - backs away from Hashimoto's comfort women comments

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    Lowly

    I did see a Law and Order episode exactly like this a couple mos ago.

    Nothing wrong with this fantasy fulfillment. But you need safe words/ passwords to confirm before you begin and to get out without muss if not working. Otherwise it would be too easy to just bully somebody you see on the train by setting them up like this.

    But, seriously, her taking it for 30 minutes- and some of that time from 2 guys at once, and not getting up/ changing seats? That's just weird/ stupid.

    Posted in: Man arrested for molesting woman after being invited to do so online

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    Lowly

    Yeah, it is too bad deer isn't eaten more.

    They go out and do these culls, and there's never enough hunters to do them usually, so they don't solve the problme of the crops getting destroyed. And then they let the carcasses rot half the time.

    They could be doing a planned, more effective cull, solve the over grazing problem, and also providing a healthy cheap and local source of meat for the population. The meat also has no aftertaste, even less so than beef, and should be acceptable to the J palate.

    But for some reason it doesn't happen, and it left for the few geriatric hunters who still exist to do the half-assed cull and let the meat go to waste. (Ya, I know it is eaten sometimes, but left to rot too often.)

    Posted in: 64-year-old deer hunter shot dead by fellow hunter in Miyagi

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    Lowly

    It's not worth doing anything you don't want to do. Musical instruments take a notoriously long time to master, and if you really don't enjoy making sounds on the piano, why spend all that time practicing?? If you want to totally give up, get cable tv, and lie on the couch when not at work, and there will always be something to entertain your brain thingy.

    Of course it's worth learning Japanese. It is important to communicate with your fellows and really understand why ppl around you say/ and do the things they do. If you don't need it and don't want it, well, no one is going to care whether you study or not.

    As far as taking a long time to learn, that is debatable. A lot depends on your method and your study habits. (you can sit all day at the piano poking the ivories w/o learning a thing if you want to...)

    Posted in: Why you shouldn’t learn Japanese

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