JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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Mookoo
He's in for it now! Ruined their nap-on-the-job box...
Posted in: Car crashes into police station in Gifu; driver says he wanted to die
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Mookoo
Many of those "kids" are 14-going-on-24. They know they can get away with minimal repercussions should the excrement hit the senpuki.
Posted in: Dentist held for indecent behavior with junior high school girl in Fukuoka hotel
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Mookoo
In Japan, Rohypnol does not include the dye used in other countries. It is routinely prescribed to those who want a strong sedative to help fall asleep (as a sleeping pill). You can ask for it by name, and get a prescription filled very quickly and easily.
Posted in: Man arrested for spiking drink and raping woman in Osaka
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Mookoo
Vegetarianism beyond the budgets of many Japanese?!
Tofu, miso, nattou, and many other soy products are plentiful and cheap.
Posted in: Saving the planet
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Mookoo
The moral of the story is to listen to Bob Barker - have your pets spayed or neutered.
Posted in: Saving the planet
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Mookoo
PETA kills animals like any other shelter. The sad fact is that shelters take in far more animals than they are able to place in new homes, or rehabilitate and adopt themselves. Go to any animal shelter in any country, and unfortunately they get more strays and abandonments than they can possibly help. Sooner or later, severely injured or traumatized animals must be put down. It is a terrible thing for those in care of the rescued animals, but there are constantly more and more rescues coming in, and limited space and resources. Animals in extremely poor condition from a whole host of factors will have to regrettably be put down. It is a real testament to the volume of animals coming in constantly and never-endingly.
Posted in: Saving the planet
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Mookoo
I think part of the problem is that people want a lot of very cheap meat, and are now used to that being reality. Industrial agriculture needs to treat animals like units of production, rather than living beings, to make lots of cheap meat available. This means treating them very cruelly, and making their short lives nothing but suffering. Nothing wrong with a little meat in the diet, but with diets now full of meat, the methods needed to keep the mountains of meat coming are completely inhumane. And the various growth hormones and antibiotics used to maintain the unnatural volume plays havoc with our health.
Local supply of meat using more traditional methods of raising and slaughtering animals, while not as efficient in terms of factory farming production, is both healthier for the consumer, and kinder to the animals.
Posted in: Saving the planet
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Mookoo
Did the factory that makes the plastic food for all the restaurant windows make these lettuce bikinis, too?
Posted in: Saving the planet
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Mookoo
Mittsu's pun is better if you imagine someone saying it in a thick Scots accent...think groundskeeper Willie.
Posted in: Saving the planet
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Mookoo
Yeah, this kind of thing has happened before...taxi driver agrees to take people halfway across the country, without checking if they can pay. I'm kind of surprised the taxi companies don't have some sort of limit on distance they will travel. Perhaps these stupid and greedy drivers are independents?
Posted in: Man arrested for refusing to pay taxi fare from Kyoto to Tokyo police HQ
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Mookoo
Hey Sarge! With a name like that, they ought to let you on base!
I've seen it at major supermarkets and liquor store chains for anywhere between 180-198 yen per can. :)
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Mookoo
You can sometimes get 24 Bud for $12 on base. Real beer for half the price :)
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Mookoo
I doubt many here have practiced or played with knives, either. You can stick or slash someone pretty fast if they are unprepared or unskilled. Being cut dozens of times in an encounter of 10 seconds is rather common. These officers did very well under the circumstances. There are likely few among us who could have done better.
Posted in: Liquor store intruder slashes 5 cops in Okinawa
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Mookoo
The speed was due to an alarm installed with the assistance of the police, which suggests setting off the alarm would alert the police directly. If there was a koban or police station near the liquor store, response would naturally be fast. If there were partol cars in the area, response would naturally be fast. There is very little traffic at that hour. Optimum conditions for quick response by the police.
Posted in: Liquor store intruder slashes 5 cops in Okinawa
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Mookoo
Yes, Okinawa is quite crowded, too. No need to be firing guns. Yeah, good idea, shoot while the target and your buddies are in constant motion. That'll help! The cops should have perhaps had their batons at the ready, but were good enough to prevent the larger tragedy of losing one of their own or killing the suspect. Kudos.
Posted in: Liquor store intruder slashes 5 cops in Okinawa
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Mookoo
It's not like the movies where you can shoot a moving target in low light in a densely populated area in just the spot you want and have no collateral damage. Looks like those officers earned their pay Monday morning!
Posted in: Liquor store intruder slashes 5 cops in Okinawa
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Mookoo
No, it's on a belt of cloth wound around his waist.
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Mookoo
Until the parents act responsibly, the children never will. The roots of this problem is in the homes...
Posted in: 'Teen repellent' in Adachi park spurs flood of inquiries
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Mookoo
Yeah Mittsu, I saw the website. There was a list of around 60 lady politicians from developed countries. As I understand it, the web community in Japan got organized and staged a voting campaign to get their gal to be number one (maybe via 2-channel). No other group of citizens got organized like the Japanese. So, internationally, she's virtually unknown, but in Japan extremely popular (at least as some eye candy).
Posted in: 'Most beautiful' politician fed up with all the attention
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Mookoo
A lot of flights from Tokyo on JAL. Only three daily flights from Nagoya, and four from Osaka (five if you count the one daily from Itami).
Posted in: JAL to increase flights to Okinawa