JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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combinibento wrote: It's irrelevant whether the child is harmed.
Ok. But your post is directed at the wrong person or people. I am not the one making the claim the child was harmed. I just said I missed part where it said the child was harmed. So little detail...everyone forgive me for not imagining the worst and demanding my ugliest of imaginations must be the truth. The first thing I always ask for is the facts and I don't see much here but conjecture and as yet unproven allegations.
You people would hang a guy for having pictures of his own kids in the bath based on an unproven allegation. That is the level of most of the posts here and I am not impressed.
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tkoind2: It was inevitable that the Taliban and their political system would become an issue in Pakistan.
Not necessarily. Some groups thrive on violence and instability. As soon as peace breaks out they fall into decline. The Taliban seems like just such a group. Had they been allowed to stay focused on Afghanistan and busy and bottled up there I don't believe they would be in control of the Swat valley today for example.
As with others I believe we should have stayed out of the nation building business and focused on getting bin Laden. Taking on the Taliban directly in Afghanistan was and is stupid. A policy of containment would have been far better although not perfect either. Oh well. You cannot build a man's house for him, or rather, should not.
And a golden moment for stability in Afghanistan? A nuthouse is a nuthouse my friend. Hiring the world's finest administrator is not going to make the people any less nuts, even if the world's worst administrator is on his way out. All the Afghans have ever known is fighting. The Taliban way is the only way they will even know peace, as brutal a peace as the Taliban promised. Now we have just stirred up the hornets nest, much like oppression of the first Muslims turned Mohammad from peacenik to general. And look what happened.
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burro wrote: sell the TV, sell the P2, sell yourself if you have to, why would you harm a child?
I missed the part where a child was harmed in the taking of the pictures. Could you direct me to it?
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Nothing wrong with a Halloween party on a Wednesday. Nothing stopping you from going to two parties, or even ten. Nothing wrong with making Halloween a week long event. Since Christmas decorations are already coming out, I will be sick of Christmas before December hits. I never seem to get sick of Halloween.
And a quartet of Power Rangers? I wish I had some friends I could coordinate like that with. My friends might have more original costumes, but darned if you can plan anything with them.
To sum up, quit your belly-aching and enjoy.
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Indecent huh? Well, that is about as clear as mud.
How about paintings of cherubs? Indecent and anyone who would buy one, sick. Obviously such things are all about sex. Obviously.
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I wrote: some people's stock shares go up in value when regions are stablized.
Sorry. Meant to say "destabilized".
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SuperLib: More Muslims killed...I'm sorry but I really don't understand these people. They're killing their own kind.
Its a way of securing power. Its the gist of any civil war. But I am sure both Canadians and Mexicans were saying the same thing about 1861.
And speaking of America, would the Taliban and AQ be so strong in Pakistan if they had not been riled up by the U.S.? I am going to have to answer no. But thankfully, some people's stock shares go up in value when regions are stablized. All hail the prophets, and may peace be upon them? No, all hail the profits, and may I get a piece of them?
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Well, at least she was not walking around with a cowbell on. That would have been uncool.
RIP young lady.
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kirakira wrote: Oh, sorry! Did I make a grave sexually provocative mistake with my maternity clothes??!!!
Two things. First, did you miss the word "may" in my post? It was an indication that I would judge the situation as I cannot from here. It means I will name the problem if I see one, and there may not be one. You may have done nothing wrong in that situation. I was not there. Second, I did indicate that other women may pay the price for how another woman dresses. When men are aroused by a woman, their feelings don't evaporate when she does. The feeling lingers and may be placed on another woman.
Kirakira wrote: The problem here is NOT the way women dress!
Its not the only problem. Its not even the largest one. But it is a problem and one that women can do something about today without Diet deliberations. Besides, even if a man wants to upskirt or grope a woman, her choice of apparel can make it difficult or impossible to do it significantly or at all. Why women should think they should get a free pass when it comes to personal responsibility and protection is beyond me. Because that skirt goes with these shoes? Please!
kirakira wrote: You mean the one I already mentioned is only open a couple of hours a day? You clearly have no idea!
I have every idea. Every situation is case by case. I presented some possible solutions, not the only solutions and not tailored to anything we discussed.
Yes I know the woman only cars are not 24/7. But if you got groped on the train when it was available well dang, you had a chance to avoid your fate. But I am not saying the groper is off the hook. I don't even suggest a lighter sentence for him. I am just saying that if women don't want to be groped or upskirted, then they should do something to help themselves. There is not always going to be chivalrous knight there to pick up your hanky. And there are fewer out there for women not appreciating them.
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auntplum you have a great gift at making a very rare case seem like everyday. You ought to write screenplays for movies.
auntplum wrote: identify where the 13 year old victim of this gross sexual assault is at fault.
And I will also blame the parents too for apparently not spelling out the above to their daughter. I may also blame the train passengers pretending to sleep for not at least investigating.
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kirakira25: Well, this line says it all really. What hope do women have?
A whole bunch. Effectively communicate to Stephen Barnes that you are being sexually assaulted and watch how fast it ends and how any brutality on behalf of the assaulter will be returned in kind. Afterward I may suggest you consider your attire before leaving the house, use the woman only car, or be more aware of your surroundings or something, but I promise you won't feel half as berated as the guy who groped or upskirted you. But that's me. Fact remains that if you have a problem the ball is in your court sister. You clearly pass the ball and most likely someone will catch it. You have to shame people into action sometimes and women are not alone in that. But people feel shame very keenly unless you allow them the chance to avoid it.
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WilliB wrote: the premise is bizarre. It is impossible to compare "the great monotheism" by lumping them all together.
What is bizarre sir is your insistence on comparing them. I was not comparing them. I was comparing the world before the great monotheisms and after. Before the great monotheisms is anyone going to say there was rampant peace?
And something you seem to forget is that the war in Iraq was touched off by non-Muslims, mostly from "the other" religion of peace but not "officially" for religious reasons. And the official story is it was a mistake. Either way, Islam is not to blame. But I expect you will contort and twist some more to shift blame anyway.
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kirakira wrote: Yes I have, but that doesn`t justify not stepping in and offering help if needed.-- I still offer help when I know its needed. The point is, I often can't tell if its needed or not and women are often not much help in making the call. I am not a mind reader.
Kirakira wrote: Oh come on, you can`t tell when someone is in trouble and looking around for help?-- I often can't. On the train or on the street, I often don't know if that guy and girl are together or what. If he punched her, I would punch him. But I never saw that.
kirakira wrote: Does that apply to every woman who is attacked and can`t raise her voice?--Sadly, yes it does. Believe me, I want to help. But I also don't want to get involved on an hunch and find out I was wrong, or worse, find out the woman is not going to back me up when the cops come, like if its her husband. Often when I help strange women, they do not even say thanks here. And its not like I have crooked eyes or something. I am just foreign, white and male. Its no fun being a hero when no one recognizes your heroism, particularly when its the cops.
kirakira wrote: The guy was obviously nuts.-- To you he was. But how can I know the nut is not your husband?
Kirakira wrote: Surely a more appropriate measure would be to make it socially unacceptable to start with. -- I did not know it was acceptable! I am gonna have some fun tonight!
Kirakira: I`ll just bend over, pick up my bag, dig around for it, find it and finally let it off all the while shaking like a leaf while some degenerate thinks its OK to touch whatever he wants. -- Look. You find your own way to alert those around you then. We are not your automatic body guards until you hire us. Like I said, most women won't stick around to sort things, and even then, its no guarantee it will get sorted by the cops. You want help, communicate it dag nab it. Its you wanting help. I don't want to get stuck in a web, so communicate.
kirakira wrote: that it is the victims fault?-- victims often bear some fault, not even half usually, but some. And your case may well have been the fault of a different woman baring her bottom on the escalator.
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dbung10 wrote: Why are you trying to depress us JT?
They in the news business. Bad news sells. Its not their fault they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel of bad news today. Look on the bright side; at least its not a shooting or a car bomb.
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Have you ever seen something happen between a man and a woman and when you try to put a stop to it they both tell you to buzz off? It can be very hard to tell what is going on between people you don't know, and it does not take many cases to make everyone give up.
It sounds like you need a body guard if you are so afraid to raise your voice. Or you should ride the women only carriage. Or carry one of those anti-crime buzzers; that would certainly make it clearer to people what was happening and the offender would surely be too shocked to get violent, especially if you did it on the sly and he was totally taken by surprise.
But, in short, you are expecting a degree of knowledge impossible for strangers to have while refusing to give them sufficient clues. You are you own second worst enemy, the offender being the first. Get a buzzer or two. Keep them in handy places.
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skipthesong wrote: Well, you can start that by banning religion, and most notably Islam.
Nostalgic for the "peaceful" days before religion are you? I think you should think a bit harder about what you are asking for. Religion is not the perfect solution, but the great monotheisms have fostered more peace than war I think.
Preventing deaths in Iraq is going to be tough because its like putting a genie back in the bottle. I would rather prevent future wars such as this by jailing the leaders that started it as a warning to future idiots...I mean "leaders".
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Mittsu wrote: frankly the whole J thing of riding on the wrong side of the road is an accident waiting to happen.
I have to completely agree with that. All riding on the wrong side does is give you the luxury of not having to look over your shoulder at things bearing down on you. I prefer to be able to use areas of escape that are ahead of both me and the car. With the car behind, both speeding up and slowing down may allow me to get out of the way. While traveling head on toward the vehicle, your time to react is far less. The solution is too look over your shoulder a lot or even attach a rear view mirror, not put bicycles against the car traffic.
But 6 year olds should not be commuting via bicycle anyway.
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On the other hand, it would be equally crazy to think the CIA would never be involved with something like this. Such events benefit a number of people. Al-Quaida takes the blame and claims success and gains more members and power. The Iraqi people live in fear and their government rethinks its desire to see U.S. troops leave. Everyday U.S. troops are in Iraq is a day several U.S. corporations make a lot of money and probably the CIA too.
Its very plausible, but also very hard to prove.
So would anyone like to tell me where the misinformation Bush used to start this war came from?
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kirakira25 wrote: Um - to everyone that is commenting on women who wear short skirts, I would just like to point out that I was chikan`ed on Saturday night and I was wearing knee length boots, a knee length skirt....and I am 10 months pregnant!!!
Maybe you should have another look at the article. This is not about chikan. This is about sneaky up-skirt photographers. We are blaming short skirts for the desire to photograph here. Although I would still say there is a correlation between women showing skin and groping, its not quite as solid as with cell phone photography. Sometimes the skimpy clothing of one woman is paid for by another.
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nikoniko78 wrote: This is very sad, but unfortunately I fear this poor girl won't be the last. The proliferation of snack bars/hostess clubs in this country means...
means nothing. We don't what the motive for her slaying was. Even if it was a simple case of a loser male going after a young attractive female target, neither the young attractive female targets nor the male losers will vanish for the clubs disappearing.
And what make you think they are such a problem anyway? You don't have any statistics showing this is more common in the club industry and Japan is one of safest first world nations going.
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