JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

Nessie's past comments

• 

  1

  NessieOct. 30, 2011 - 10:45AM JST

  Still waiting for Best Abstract Impressionists.

  Posted in: Rei Dan, Ryuta Sato chosen as Best Formalists

• 

  1

  NessieOct. 28, 2011 - 03:07PM JST

  Twice more than!?!?

  Posted in: Nuclear radiation from Fukushima twice more than estimated: report

• 

  -1

  NessieOct. 27, 2011 - 12:27PM JST

  A father (from Afghanistan) is accused of murdering his three teenage daughters because they dishonored the family. He also murdered their "aunt", who was actually his first wife. She was infertile, so he married a second wife and the whole lot came to Canada. He was quoted as saying, "I hope the devil sh##s on their graves" about his daughters.

  How is this a case of Sharia? He's on trial under Canadian criminal codes, not Sharia. Also, as far as I know, Sharia does not permit you to murder an infertile wife.

  I happen to think Sharia is a bad idea and any nod to theocracy is dangerous, but let's not exaggerate.

  Posted in: New Libyan gov't to embrace Sharia law

• 

  0

  NessieOct. 27, 2011 - 12:17PM JST

  @tokyokawasaki - I am convinced that whenever I ride my bicycle (or walk) that I have some kind of natural tractor beam

  Have you tried reversing the polarity?

  Posted in: Police to get tough on sidewalk cyclists

• 

  -1

  NessieOct. 27, 2011 - 12:16PM JST

  As for forcing bicyclists onto the street, in ten years time, after they have amassed the data - expect to see the NPA forcing bicycles onto the sidewalk as there were 10,000 accidents resulting in 100 deaths of bicycle-on-car collisions. Consistently high, as it were.

  Sidewalk riding is illegal in much of the US. Fatal bicycle-on-pedestrian accidents there are about 2 or 3 per year, comparable to the current figure for Japan.

  Posted in: Police to get tough on sidewalk cyclists

• 

  0

  NessieOct. 27, 2011 - 12:12PM JST

  Historians say that Mongolian warships invaded Japan

  What, just the ships?

  Posted in: Remains of 13th-century Mongolian warship found off Nagasaki Pref

• 

  0

  NessieOct. 27, 2011 - 12:10PM JST

  What was the dosage?

  Also, many droppings of the s-bomb, but does alcohol also cause schizophrenia-like asynchronization of brain regions? If so, these results seem a bit hyped and agenda-filled, and you could just as easily say "marijuana causes alcohol-like diruptions to the brain."

  Posted in: Reefer madness: Marijuana throws brain regions out of sync

• 

  2

  NessieOct. 27, 2011 - 12:06PM JST

  Interesting that this is in the news when there is no proof.

  There would be eyewitnesses.

  @cleo Police officers have it drummed into them that even off-duty they are still police officers and are expected to act accordingly.

  I would settle for expecting them to act like ordinary respectable citizens.

  Posted in: Man claims he was pushed off train by six drunk cops

• 

  0

  NessieOct. 26, 2011 - 03:10PM JST

  Market was down but Olympus was up yesterday. I wonder if the FIB involvement has anything to do with this.

  Posted in: Olympus chief Kikukawa resigns amid reports of FBI probe

• 

  0

  NessieOct. 26, 2011 - 03:08PM JST

  Just because some Muslims are terrorists , it doesn't mean Islam is a religion of terrorism , a title on JT said today that a Japanese woman was captured for smuggling drugs , does that make Buddhism a religion of smuggling and drugs ,,,, well I doubt it

  I never mentioned terrorism, Motaz.

  Posted in: Tunisia's Islamist party claims election victory

• 

  4

  NessieOct. 26, 2011 - 03:06PM JST

  If she is executed Japan need to punish them somehow. I favor trade tariffs of 200% and not allowing Japanese companies from having factories there. Move them out of country like to the Phillipe Islands.

  So by this reasoning, foreigners in Japan should not be subject to laws they consider unreasonable, right Yuri?

  Posted in: Japanese woman sentenced to death in Malaysia for drug smuggling

• 

  5

  NessieOct. 26, 2011 - 02:55PM JST

  This problem could be solved by Saturday under existing rules if the cops only cracked down on illegal parking. The only reason to use a sidewalk is because drivers occupy left lanes by using public roads as their parking lots.

  A crackdown will never happen, though, since business owners encourage drivers to use the street for parking. This is even truer for delivery companies.

  As it stands, the cops tow cars on low-traffic streets in residential negiborhoods, where such cars are not much of an obstacle. But on highways and major trunk roads where illegally stopped cars are a major safety hindrance, you don't see towing. Every night when I bike home on a trunk road in my city, there are cars stopped in the same locations outside the same hotels and hospitals.

  If you wonder why a cyclist is taking more of the left lane than seems necessary, look ahead and you'll see a parked car. Rather than weaving in and out around parked cars, it's safer for the cyclist to take the lane before arriving at the obstruction. Clear these obstructions and you don't even need a cycling lane. Cyclists will naturally gravitate to the left close to the curb. And as a cyclist, I am in favor of cracking down on reckless driving by cyclists.

  Posted in: Police to get tough on sidewalk cyclists

• 

  0

  NessieOct. 25, 2011 - 04:14PM JST

  cleo wrote Compare and contrast that with America which you tell us has only one-third the porn industry that Japan has, and has all those holier-than-thou quasi-Christian fanatics - but where the problem of violence against children is more acute than in any other industrialised country; millions of children reported as abused and neglected every year and over 20,000 children believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members

  The US seems to be in good company, Cleo, with a country I think you might be familiar with.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse#Prevalence

  A UNICEF report on child wellbeing[30] stated that the United States and the United Kingdom ranked lowest among industrial nations with respect to the wellbeing of children.

  Posted in: Why Japanese values and morality confound us so

• 

  8

  NessieOct. 25, 2011 - 04:05PM JST

  3.5 kg of hard drugs is hard to explain away on appeal

  Posted in: Japanese woman sentenced to death in Malaysia for drug smuggling

• 

  0

  NessieOct. 25, 2011 - 04:00PM JST

  All the wingnuts know in their hearts that it's impossible for Islam and democracy to coexist.

  Are you saying there is no correlation between Islam and despotism?

  Posted in: Tunisia's Islamist party claims election victory

• 

  0

  NessieOct. 24, 2011 - 02:52PM JST

  You want proper milk, youll have to buy a glass.

  Heh. I asked about the milk in one place, they said it was miruku. I said "miruku milk, or gyu-nyu milk"? They looked confused.

  Posted in: Japan's coffee culture

• 

  0

  NessieOct. 24, 2011 - 02:48PM JST

  I think Doutor's name was misspelled in the article. It's "Doutor", not "Dotour".

  You're correct, and the Doutor site has some excellent stats on coffee drinking in Japan.

  http://www.doutor.co.jp/ir/en/financial/market.html

  I remember reading somewhere that the president named company after a street or district in Portugal.

  Posted in: Japan's coffee culture

• 

  -2

  NessieOct. 24, 2011 - 02:44PM JST

  Iced coffee wasn't invented until ice could be produced and stored in the beginning of the 20th century.

  I thought the Inuit were drinking it well before then. I could be wrong.

  Posted in: Japan's coffee culture

• 

  2

  NessieOct. 24, 2011 - 02:41PM JST

  That dress makes her look fat. Where are the curves?

  Would it be fair to say you're suggesting a Makover?

  Posted in: Princess Mako turns 20

• 

  -1

  NessieOct. 24, 2011 - 02:35PM JST

  Public officials? Then you should be worrying about roughly 10 to 15 percent of the entire society here who live off the taxes of the people.

  Who says Elbunda does not care about this?

  Posted in: Fire chief arrested for alleged assault

Follow us