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    MrDog

    “We want to refresh and revitalize the ministry,” Kaieda said. The three posts are under his supervision.

    But he isn't going to step down?

    He recently broke down in tears under intense questioning in parliament and said he was willing to quit as soon as the proper time came.

    Is this something that only happens in Japan? I've never heard of any politician in another first world country blubbering like a baby because they were questioned...

    Anyone who cries when they are asked some tough questions, shouldn't be in politics. He should quit and go work as a pillow fluffing inspector at the Nancy-Boy Fluffy Pillow and Cushion Factory.

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    Well..... the Japanese government prohibited officials from flying Korean Air the other day... What do you expect??

    The government saying that the few people who go to Korea on official business shouldn't fly on Korean Air, and a ferry operator doing racial-profiling and saying that NO Japanese people can ride their deathtrap ferries is not comparable.

    I know you were probably saying that it is just tit-for-tat, but still.

    I wish Japan would retaliate by removing those weepy Hanryu dramas from commercial TV.

    I don't watch TV, so I couldn't care less, but I wouldn't be surprised if it comes to that if this childish game carries on any more.

    Makes me wonder how they can tell who's Japanese and who isn't....Hmmm

    They'll look for the tour guide waving their silly flag of failure.

    Posted in: S Korean ferry operator bans Japanese passengers: Yonhap

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    MrDog

    First the abomb survivor jopkes and now this??? The BBC should grow up and stop Japan bashing!

    They aren't "Japan bashing".

    The only people who need to grow up, on both counts you mention, is the Japanese side.

    Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'

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    MrDog

    A South Korean ferry service operator has decided to ban Japanese nationals

    Surely this is illegal and against numerous international laws?

    Posted in: S Korean ferry operator bans Japanese passengers: Yonhap

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    MrDog

    "petrol" vehicles (such a silly word. why can't you Euro's just say "gas" like the rest of the free world?)

    Because the television show was in England, you know, where the English language comes from, where "gas" is the stuff you cook food with. American English is a dumbed-down form of English.

    Aside from being your favorourite, he is relatively unknown in my end of the pool. We have "The Car Guys" from Boston and they've been sliming on people and cars since the Ford Pinto (renamed because Fireball 500 was already taken)

    "The Car Guys", who are ABSOLUTELY unknown outside of America.

    Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'

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    MrDog

    Mcafee is rubbish anyway.

    Maybe they are one of the reasons why these attacks can happen, with their sub-par products that gets outperformed by just about every freeware security software out there.

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    MrDog

    I laugh at people with really bizarre definition of what "music" is. Well, then it's pretty damn sad that Kpop is catching on like wildfire eh? Man, that must really burn you up. ha ha. Only thing you presented with your argument is your superiority complex and nothing more. So music has to address social and real life issues? pu ha ha ha ha. You gotta be kidding me such bullshit.

    I bet you laugh at a lot of things. Idiots find many unfunny things hilarious.

    Pop music is garbage made for the proles of the world to listen to. The Korean groups are just as rubbish as their Japanese counterparts.

    I avoid both like the plague.

    Posted in: How would you compare Korean all-girl groups such as KARA with their Japanese counterparts in terms of singing ability, appeal and performing styles?

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    MrDog

    This kind of shakes one's faith in the justice system, doesn't it?

    Wait wait wait! You had faith in the justice system?!?

    Posted in: Japan's autopsy rate woefully low

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    MrDog

    “I don’t see (Google+) taking significant share from Facebook in the next 18 months,” Rubel said.

    Yeah. Especially since nobody I know, including myself, has been able to sign up to it, because it's "full" or something stupid like that...

    Posted in: Google+ the fastest-growing social network ever

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    MrDog

    Nissan blasted the episode as misleading because the car was not fully charged before starting the journey, but in comments to the Times newspaper on Wednesday Clarkson refused to apologise, saying: “That’s how TV works.”

    I don't like the man, but Jezzer just went up a few places in my ratings.

    Lincolnshire is home to twelve-fingered, sibling-marrying potato farmers whose experience with machinery extends all the way from sickles to hoes. Only a fool (and Clarkson certainly is that) would expect to be able to charge an electric car there.. I'm surprised (and disappointed) he didn't get lynched for being a wizard in his horseless carriage....

    Best comment on here! ^^

    He pointed out that a device sending Nissan updates showed Clarkson had started the day with the battery only 40” charged and said the car appeared to have been driven in loops in Lincoln until the battery was flat.

    I'm not a tin-foil-hatter, but I find then being able to know this much a bit disturbing

    Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'

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    MrDog

    This is just stupid.

    Why didn't they make him black, gay cripple in a wheelchair instead?

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    MrDog

    golf claps

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    MrDog

    So, he's showing remorse for killing her by appealing now?

    Did he want the DP?

    Ichihashi’s lawyers have argued that he tried to revive Hawker after suffocating her by accident in an attempt to keep her from crying out for help.

    Suffocating and strangling are 2 very different things that are impossible to mistake.

    Posted in: Ichihashi appeals life sentence for killing British teacher

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    “He claims the Japanese understand the idea and values of honor and that a Japanese (specialist) would understand him a lot better than any European would.”

    ABB obviously went to the Wapanese Fanboi School of Japanology.

    Posted in: Norwegian gunman wants to see Japanese psychiatrist

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    MrDog

    Let's get to the nitty gritty, some of you posters have I think more of a problem with skin color, than with the REAL problem this article is trying to shed light on. You don't want to admit it, fine, but I can see the underline here. If the Nigerians were White or if it were, let's say the Russians doing the exact same thing, many of you would not post such incendiary comments. Close your eyes and look at what these people are doing, forget skin color, has nothing to do with it. Let's not kid ourselves! Think about it for a sec. I think the article was very well written and I commend JT for posting it. I would really like to see more articles like this.

    So the article being about NIGERIANS in Japan means nothing then?

    Wait a minute. I didn't say anything racist, and you could change any part of what I said from Nigerians to Russians or Irish or Texans if you want and my points would still be valid. Anyway, how do you know that I'm not black?

    Posted in: The other side of Tokyo's Nigerian community

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    MrDog

    I'm sorry, but when did this article about making an inspection of a cult's facilities be about astronomy and weather?

    The group's Japanese name is ひかりの輪, and I doubt it has anything to do with sprinklers, full moons or Uranus FFS.

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    MrDog

    @GW

    There are tons of sellers of fake stuff on the streets always has been, BUT the coppers shud go after them all, come on anyone who has lived here a while knows that the police, tax office, customs TARGETS & harasses.

    Yeah, and "anyone who has lived here a while knows that the police, tax office, customs TARGETS & harasses" Japanese people doing illegal things too (unless they are politicians).

    The point I was trying to make was that the article says that it's a clash of cultures, but the guy it's mainly about sounds as though he has done little to fit in to society.

    Someone implying that they were targeted by police etc because they are foreign loses all it's weight as a point when you find out they were doing something illegal.

    Him opening a hostess bar just plays to the stereotype of Nigerians being involved in shady business will do nothing in improving the image of Nigerians in Japan.

    And its not just street type vendors or bars, entertainment, Japan is a very shadey country. What tho keystones did to that guys leg is so wrong & they ALLWAYS get away with it.

    And it shows how society sees Nigerians as bad and has little sympathy for them, which he will not be helping by opening a hostess club- hardly something seen as a "good" place. If he wants people to think Nigerians are actually nice people- which I'm sure they are- maybe he should open a children's library or play area/creche for working mothers?

    While I dont condone a lot of what Nigerians are up to here in japan, clearly Japan/Japanese need to be treating ALL non-japanese a whole lot better, whether its just on the street or by the authoirities, Japan needs to give us all more respect, especially now when Japan needs us more than ever.

    Again, the hostess bar doesn't help, and is not needed "now when Japan needs us more than ever".

    That said I wud never advise ANYONE from ANY country to move to Japan thinking they might stay, I had typing that last bit, but Japan has been going downhill fast the last 10yrs & its speeding up, not slowing down, are you ready to JUMP, I am getting ready!

    The world in general has been on a slump for the last 10 years. Where are you going to go? Saudi Arabia?

    Anyway, I'm sure I've made my point, repeatedly, clear.

    The reason why Nigerians are seen as a bad thing here is that they don't seem to be making any attempt to fit into Japanese society. See this part of the article:

    Japan is a comparatively closed society where conspicuous behaviour is looked on with suspicion. Most Nigerians in Japan are ethnically Igbo people who identify themselves as uniquely industrious and capable of achieving quick prosperity under challenging circumstances. They measure that prosperity financially and don’t hesitate to advertise it.

    If Japan "is a comparatively closed society where conspicuous behaviour is looked on with suspicion", then why aren't "Most Nigerians" changing their identity as people who "are uniquely industrious and capable of achieving quick prosperity under challenging circumstances. They measure that prosperity financially and don’t hesitate to advertise it."

    If they wanted to fit in and be liked, then they would, wouldn't they?

    Posted in: The other side of Tokyo's Nigerian community

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    MrDog

    I think it's more about a circle of people, as a group, so-to-speak. Rather than an actual circle of rainbow coloured light...

    Posted in: Police raid 27 Aum Shinrikyo facilities

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    MrDog

    Debito Arudou covered the case for The Japan Times.

    JT. If you're going to use his silly Japanese name, write it the Japanese way.

    It didn’t last. Customs agents started seizing apparel shipments that belonged to Nigerian clothing store owners. Some contained brand name counterfeits. The cultural backlash that resulted put most hip hop stores out of business. The Japanese public had already been displaying unease over the sudden proliferation of foreign-owned businesses perceived as peddling the American ghetto lifestyle. At the heart of the affair was a fundamental culture clash.

    The guy who wrote this must owe money to some Nigerians. It's got nothing to do with "culture clashes" or "The Japanese public had already been displaying unease over the sudden proliferation of foreign-owned businesses perceived as peddling the American ghetto lifestyle". They were selling counterfeit goods!

    Japan is a comparatively closed society where conspicuous behavior is looked on with suspicion. Most Nigerians in Japan are ethnically Igbo people who identify themselves as uniquely industrious and capable of achieving quick prosperity under challenging circumstances. They measure that prosperity financially and don’t hesitate to advertise it.

    "(U)niquely industrious and capable of achieving quick prosperity under challenging circumstances", meaning "ripping people off for a cheap buck".

    Nice to see he hasn't gone into some shady business. Oh, wait..

    He has now been working on the street there for a year and is on the verge of opening his own hostess club, Climax, in August.

    Posted in: The other side of Tokyo's Nigerian community

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