OrangeXenon54's past comments

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    @Chin4Sailor In the US that I know, there's a thing called "sticking up for what's right". In the cities I've lived in, the vast majority of people would've done the same thing and not let any unarmed punks like these get away with something like that, no matter how "trivial". I'd even go out on a limb and say most people would call someone "un-American" if they let any slight injustice slide by. To me, anyways, being an American means confronting any injustice you see, hence the mass protests over unjust acts by the government.

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    I think people who are defending Ueda/Japan are missing the point of why we are criticizing this situation. It's not the fact that he said "Shut up!" but the fact that he boldly defends the Japanese justice system as "the most advanced" in the world when it's anything but. I think anyone who knew the score would've laughed at that statement. And as is shown in the video, the laughing is barely audible. Just because you live in Japan/are a weeaboo doesn't mean you have to defend every blatantly backwards, egotistical action it performs.

    Posted in: Japan's U.N. envoy under fire for telling other diplomats to shut up

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    I swear, all Japanese people are taught in junior high or something how to make a noose from anything. You see this so much in the news here about a suspect in custody hanging themselves from almost nothing, like the Amagasaki lady.

    As for people saying "it's fishy", it's not at all. Japanese society sees suicide as a semi-noble "way out" of a bad or seemingly hopeless situation. He obviously had a lot against him: wielding a knife against police and a suspicious passport. I think many people would at least contemplate committing suicide if the other option is being locked up in a foreign prison. Watch a couple of episodes of "Locked Up Abroad" to see some horror stories.

    Posted in: Malaysian police say Japanese man hanged himself in cell

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    To clarify, I meant a million yen. Probably should've just written it out. He worked for a pharmaceutical company and definitely made a lot of money, but I think 1,000,000 was probably a big chunk of his savings.

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    As a teacher, if you don't see ANY of the signs of bullying in a chronic case like this, you're an idiot. It doesn't matter how "not stupid" the bullies are, @Shumatsu_Samurai.

    And to everyone saying this kid or other kids getting bullied should have "stood up for themselves", they shoudn't have to. These are children and we live in a civilized society where we know from experience that violence only begets more violence. The 3 bullies need to be taught first and foremost that their actions have consequences that they and they alone are responsible and must take the punishment due to them.

    Posted in: 3 school bullies sent to child consultation center following suicide of victim

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    And pachinko gambling cannot be equated with casino gambling. You can probably play pachinko all day and not lose more than 50,000 yen. The same amount can be lost in the spin of a wheel or the turn of a card in a casino.

    I had a student who told me they were having a "bad day". I asked him why and he said that he had lost 1,000,00 yen before coming to my lesson. I wrote the number out to make sure he wasn't mistaking numbers, and he confirmed that. This was one morning on a Saturday. When I asked him what he was going to do after the lesson, he said he was going to go back to the pachinko parlor and try to win it back.

    Pachinko is a blight on Japan. I find it laughable that most of the Japanese people I talk to say that there "is no gambling in Japan". I go to some train stations in Saitama for work and there are more pachniko parlors around the station than convenience stores. It's a fruitless waste of time and money.

    Having legalized gambling on a larger scale will only make things worse, in my opinion. It'll only redistribute money, not create wealth. I doubt any people in Asia will come to Japan for gambling when there are much cheaper options closer to them. Las Vegas and Macau only work because they are destination cities designed for overall entertainment. Nowadays, gambling is one of the least popular things for people visiting Las Vegas to do. Native American casinos in the States only work because it's a way for a oppressed group to get some wealth back. But outside of that, it hurts more people than helps. In my hometown, there's a fairly prominent Native American casino. It was recently renovated from a less harmful BINGO hall that attracted mainly elderly people to a more Vegas-style gaming casino. Many people that I know around my age (in their 20's) go there and lose hundreds of dollars. It's a money pit.

    Posted in: Implications huge for Japan if casino legislation passes

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    To be honest, the middle schoolers chanting would piss me off, too, but the noise of other kids naturally playing is much much better to hear than the sound of drunk a-holes coming home from a night of drinking or any form of transportation with a loudspeaker attached. As another poster pointed out, this playing is DURING THE DAY. What's the problem???

    Posted in: Aging Japan complains over the noise of children

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    @Mikune Hara Yeah, cause Japan is SOOO open minded. I bet it won't be less than 20 years till gay issues are even discussed in the Diet, let alone gay marriage.

    @Sodesuka These kids that would be adopted by gay families would not be adopted at all if gay couples couldn't adopt, so they'd have no parents at all. By your standard, should all single mothers give up their children?

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    I agree with gogogo on this one. I wasn't surprised to find a bunch of assisted suicide supporters on here. Life doesn't seem all that valuable when you throw it away when things get tough. She was only 70 years-old! Lots of people live way longer than that in Japan. I agree, too, that they should have established beyond a shadow of a doubt that the mother wasn't coerced into this. Pride or no pride, life is life and should be respected as such.

    Posted in: Woman found guilty of assisted suicide of mother after refusing to accept welfare

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    Has the world turned into a 1990's cyber-punk movie?

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    For those asking these kids ages, they'd be around 17 or 18 if they're in the last year of high school, well within the age to know the difference between right and wrong.

    For those saying "this is just normal hazing" or "it's not that big of a deal", you obviously can't read as the article states junior club members have received injuries from these assaults (which, BTW, is counterproductive to a sports team) or you just don't have any form of compassion or sense of justice. This is wrong through and through.

    From DudeDuce:

    Do tell about the country you come from and how athletics are completely safe.

    As always, I agree with @smithinjapan. If this had happened in America, these young men would have been arrested at the least, definitely expelled from their high profile school, and the school would have most likely suffered a whole host of punishments, the least of which is preventing their "well-known" soccer team from competing, maybe for multiple years.

    Lastly, I agree with everyone else's pessimistic statements about the last sentence in the article. Nothing with be done other than covering it up and saving face for the school. My heart and prayers to those that were bullied in this situation. Here's hoping that more brave young men like these can step forward and break the cycle that is rampant in Japan.

    Posted in: Yamanashi high school soccer club members assault younger students in shower

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    @SChopenhauer Yeah, they do when their government's officials keep backtracking and revising apologies. Also when their government chooses to whitewash what happened (or flat out lie) in the text books that they use to teach their children. Germany made it illegal to deny the holocaust. In Japan today, you still have hordes of people saying that the Rape of Nanjing wasn't as bad as widely accepted and that all the comfort women volunteered. Until the national attitude is that of remorse for what happened then and not trying to weasel out of responsibility for their actions, then everyone can "move on".

    Posted in: Japan says it will honor apologies for World War II atrocities

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    People can't site religious freedom on this one. There are other, better, less controversial shrines 160 politicians can go to. By going to this shrine, they are provocatively declaring their ultra-nationalism.

    Posted in: S Korea summons Japan envoy over Yasukuni visits, Abe remarks

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    Yikes. That sounds painful. Three losing their thumbnail.... I had my big toe's nail fall off due to an injury and it took MONTHS to fully grow back and even then it wasn't the same. I wholly agree that compensation is due. @Balefire that's really interesting. Kind of puts more of a bad light on JR. A lot can happen to an elevator in 5 and a half hours, especially during rush hour in Akihabara. @hr2 That is a really gruesome story. I really hope he's alright....

    Elevator Rant. **READ AT YOUR OWN RISK*** From the fact that their left hands got injured we can infer that they were on the left "standing" side of the escalator. This would have been avoided if everyone just walked. Traffic into and out of the train stations would be much faster if everyone just walked. I'm not talking about a full on hustle, just a little more pace than the zombies that block my way when I'm commuting to work. Some people actually have places to be! I find more and more "normal" people (i.e. people in their 30's or 40's, men and women, who probably have steady jobs) who stand on the center left and clearly block the path of the walking right side. This needs to stop, especially during commuting times!!!!

    Posted in: 6 injured in escalator accident at Akihabara Station in Tokyo

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    @OssanAmerica Going to a place and participating in rituals that occur there is supporting it. When you support something, you acknowledge all of that institution's beliefs. If someone supported the belief that war criminals (let's not get into the whole, fake "sham trial" excuse that holds to water and exonerate these men of the terrible things they did) were "Martyrs of Showa" and that their actions somehow made Japan a better place, then I would definitely be angry. How can you deny that fact? So the pot (Korea) calling the kettle (Japan) black is bad, but it's also the kettle calling the pot black, too.

    @conchobar EXACTLY!!! This is exactly the point. The museum is atrocious. And yeah, the netouyo definitely have their hands in a lot of those wiki pages.

    Posted in: S Korea, China blast Japan over Yasukuni visits

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    Is it compulsory education in Japan to know how to tie a noose and hang yourself in any given situation? I find it astounding that these cases where people hang themselves are so common in such weird circumstances. Japanese people are like suicide MacGyvers.

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    @OssanAmerica What world do you live in where South Korea is not an advanced developed nation?

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    I thought the whole deal with MOS was that it was all "locally produced" and fresher? All I ever see these days all over Japan is pronouncements of how this or that ingredient is 国産. While they probably weren't using all Japanese meat for their burgers before, they better not promote their burgers as having 100% Australian beef or I'm gonna flip a shit as far as what Japan wants in terms of meat/food quality because all I ever hear is how only food grown/made in Japan is worth eating.

    While I like MOS's end product, it is overpriced, takes a long time, and for some reason, every time I go to a MOS, I feel like I'm being treated differently for being a foreigner (like on several occasions, they've singled me out to take my tray because they thought I couldn't sort the trash, even though they could've taken the old lady in front of me's tray). I never feel that at the other burger chains (Lotteria, Freshness Burger, McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's).

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    From the link Yubaru posted which is a translation from the Yasukuni Shrine Website:

    Moreover, there were those who gave up their lives after the end of the Great East Asian War, taking upon themselves the responsibility for the war. There were also 1,068 "Martyrs of Showa" who were cruelly and unjustly tried as war criminals by a sham-like tribunal of the Allied forces (United States, England, the Netherlands, China and others). These martyrs are also the Kami of Yasukuni Jinja.... The peace and prosperity of Japan today is the fruit of the noble work of the Kami of Yasukuni Jinja.

    If that doesn't show how insensitive visiting Yasukuni Shrine, I don't know what is.

    Posted in: S Korea, China blast Japan over Yasukuni visits

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    When you live in the past you do not have a future

    Like @smithinjapan said, denying the past gives an equal result and Japanese politicians have done just that. People are blasting these guys because they like Japan and don't like South Korea. These guys have a somewhat legitimate complaint. Notice how a politicians picture is on there. It's more a protest of the government than the Japanese people as a whole. Compare this to the protests last month in Tsuruhashi and Shin-Okubo where hundreds of ultra-nationalists called for all Koreans (even those who were born here and whose ancestors were forced to come to Japan because of the Korean occupation) to leave Japan and many even saying that all Koreans should die.

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