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MASSWIPE at 12:50 AM JST - 17th March

Thank you for this article. The information it contains is true: the number of murders committed in Japan reached its annual postwar peak in the middle of the 1950s, when the country had 40 million fewer people than it does today. Thus, Japan was actually a much more dangerous country…

Posted in Murder in Japan at 12:50 AM JST - 17th March
MASSWIPE at 11:44 AM JST - 12th March

nisegaijin, you obviously have some issues with "government" that won't be solved by ranting on an anonymous internet forum. I have to take issue with your characterization of health care as a "product" like anything else on a store shelf. In the past, I've seen you rhetorically ask why the…

Posted in Lack of health insurance blamed for 33 deaths in 2009 at 11:44 AM JST - 12th March
MASSWIPE at 10:50 AM JST - 28th February

What’s the difference between the Korean property purchase and the Japanese acquisition of Rockefeller Center?

Not much, I suppose. A refreshing dose of common sense from Mr. Motoishi.

Posted in S Korean land purchase in Tsushima stirs security concerns at 10:50 AM JST - 28th February
MASSWIPE at 11:07 PM JST - 14th February

Threads like these--with mainly Westerners commenting on a certain trend or tendency in Japanese society--are fascinating to read. Suffice it to say that in our lifetimes, parents in Japan will NEVER adopt the typical North American's belief that children must be cut off financially at a certain age and, if…

Posted in Record 10% of university students get no allowances from parents at 11:07 PM JST - 14th February
MASSWIPE at 12:50 PM JST - 8th February

Peeping Tom, talk about putting words in a person's mouth. At no point in my previous comment did I express my opinion on this tiresome issue of voting rights for PRs in local Japanese elections, because unlike you, I don't really feel all that strongly about it one way or…

Posted in Local suffrage for foreigners could spur nationalist sentiments: Kamei at 12:50 PM JST - 8th February
MASSWIPE at 11:39 AM JST - 8th February

Peeping Tom, you've posted nearly 20 rabid comments on this thread alone. Would you care to explain why? Do you have some deep-seated fear of seeing Japan (a country you've never even visited, right?) become something that you don't want it to become? If so, what exactly it is that…

Posted in Local suffrage for foreigners could spur nationalist sentiments: Kamei at 11:39 AM JST - 8th February
MASSWIPE at 04:48 AM JST - 7th February

Financial services minister Shizuka Kamei

Some people will say that criticizing another country's culture/system is an idiot's game, but does anybody else find it odd that Japanese cabinet ministers have no qualms about publicly voicing their opinions on topics that are not even remotely related to their job responsibilities?

This…

Posted in Local suffrage for foreigners could spur nationalist sentiments: Kamei at 04:48 AM JST - 7th February
MASSWIPE at 03:52 PM JST - 19th January

"Name a pro-Japan naturalised Japanese"

Why? Are you suggesting that naturalized Japanese can't be trusted and need to be subjected to some kind of McCarthyist loyalty oath? This is all a bit ironic, considering that Japanese nationalists as far to the political right as Hiranuma won't hesitate to tell you…

Posted in Ex-minister Hiranuma says lawmaker Renho 'not originally Japanese' at 03:52 PM JST - 19th January
MASSWIPE at 01:18 PM JST - 15th January

Cleo, I wasn't referring to the propensity of young Japanese to throw away their food in greater quantities than their elders. I was responding to the ridiculous assertion by "bdiego" that malnourished people in developing countries "aren't half as hard working as the average Japanese" The younger people of Japan,…

Posted in NPO seeks to teach Japan virtues of 'waste not, want not' at 01:18 PM JST - 15th January
MASSWIPE at 10:55 AM JST - 15th January

"At least Japan produces this food in the first place"

I seriously doubt Japan produces all of it, given the country's low rate of food self-sufficiency. And if you think the many mollycoddled Japanese born in the last forty years work harder than malnourished people who do back-breaking manual labor…

Posted in NPO seeks to teach Japan virtues of 'waste not, want not' at 10:55 AM JST - 15th January