JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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Schoolboyerror
I do wish people would stop talking about salarimen having to spend every minute of their lives at work as a positive thing.
It's wonderful that the proles are at last protesting against this abuse by not breeding. For decades the Japanese government put family happiness at the bottom of the list of priorities. Now they have to pay the price for their short-sighted selfish policies.
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Schoolboyerror
I think having a range of opinions like the ones you described would be a good thing, Braniac. Of course, some people will be more persuasive than others, but it certainly can't hurt to have a variety of points of view. And when the judges do little more than rubber stamp a guilty verdict, something has to change.
Unfortunately, I can't imagine Japanese jurors having a constructive discussion about a case. The oyajis will give their opinion, and the younger office ladies will not contradict them. Instead they'll just mutter "shouganai" and scurry off to their shopping trips, glad not to have been groped.
I wouldn't like to be the first foreigner up in court in front of a bunch of Japanese jurors furious at being dragged from their everyday lives.
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Schoolboyerror
Personally I would be quite happy, but I doubt most Japanese would feel that way. I bet justice comes way down the list, behind collecting Gundam figures, reading manga and wasting your life pretending to be busy for most Japanese men. Similarly most women will just want to get it over with so they can get back to their shopping and gossipping.
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Schoolboyerror
This means the Spanish Royala, I presume.
A comet is more down to earth than the emperor of Japan.
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Schoolboyerror
Probably. Some long government studies of the issue, which will spend pot loads of money and conclude that the Japanese government should take steps to try to reduce domestic violence.
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Schoolboyerror
Cleo, A dog can be a pet.
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Schoolboyerror
That's true, Cleo, but the question is "What do you think of the way SOME PEOPLE pamper their pets?" I assumed it meant the pampering to death that a lot of Japanese seem to do, like the examples you've given.
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Schoolboyerror
It's like spoiling a child.
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Schoolboyerror
He's another person who has discovered that for those who know the saying about a fool and his money, Japan is an absolute gold mine.
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Schoolboyerror
Yes, it should be. But when it happens in Japan, it will be probably be ttaught in the same way everything else is in schools. A pompous oyaji / old spinster lecturing from a worksheet that hasn't been updated since the 70s "facts" like "AIDS comes from foreigners" and the students understanding nothing but revising this rubbish for their tests.
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Schoolboyerror
It's also natural for parents to wipe their children's backsides for a while, but one expects the children to grow out it. Fat chance in this country, with social skills a thing of the past and noses buried in keitais, manga and Gundam / Disney catalogues.
I guess she has to say what she said - her business depends on the lack of maturity of modern Japanese "adults".
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Schoolboyerror
Why? Because food companies selfishly put their profits ahead of public safety. This applies to companies everywhere
What can be done about it? For a start, punishments that go beyond a fake apology and some crocodile tears, like lengthy prison sentences.
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Schoolboyerror
Nope - I didn't say they all keep them in cages. Try reading again - I clearly referred to both sides of the spectrum of poor care of pets. I see the overpampering as failing to care for pets as well. In the UK you can prosecuted for over-feeding your pet and rightly so. In Japan I've seen TV shows where the owner has brought their obese cat (usually) to the studio for a panel of tarento to laugh at, and put on high platforms, laughing at its obvious distress as it can't get down.
Care of animals here is centuries behing the west.
Posted in: Tosa dog bites boy, postman in Osaka; owner arrested
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Schoolboyerror
I would love to see the size of the cage this dog was confined in. Except I'd be saddened, rather than "love" to see it, I suppose. People here have no idea how to care for pets. Dogs are either chained up outside as guard dogs, or pampered like dolls, dressed up with inappropriate accessorie and carried around in shopping bags.
I'm glad the owner has been arrested. I would like him to be done for mistreating animals too, but why single him out when nearly every dog owner in Japan does it?
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Schoolboyerror
I don't know about the US. In the UK last year 174 770 was the Big Issue's average weekly circulation, according to the Guardian.
In January this year, Japan Today reported that the circulation was about 29 000 copies.
I don't recall reading any news reports about gangs of youths beating up the homeless, or setting them on fire - both stories I have read on Japan Today about Japan. Neither have I ever heard a Brit saying that the homeless want to be that way, or have only themselves to blame, unless some of the less sympathetic posts on JT have been written by Brits.
There are plenty of ways in which Japan beats the UK, but treatment of the homeless is certainly not one of them. In that respect, Japan is totally uncivilized.
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Schoolboyerror
A good reminder that the way (most of) the Japanese view the homeless is an absolute disgrace. Views I've heard range from "They should help themselves" to the bafflingly ignorant "They want it that way", as if people actually choose to freeze their brass monkeys off in winter.
If she did turn round and help him she is to be applauded, but that doesn't change fact that doing so would make her very much the exception in Japan.
If a measure of society's worth is how they treat those weaker than themselves, Japan is truely worthless. Everybody kicks downwards here.
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Schoolboyerror
Perhaps she was making unrealistic and unreasonable demands. Like he should move out and find his own place, get a job perhaps, stop collecting toy robots. What a sick man - to end the life of an old lady in her 80s, who no doubt gave him a ton of otoshidama when he was a spoilt rotten brat.
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Schoolboyerror
Making it more expensive to throw rubbish away will not solve the problem - it will lead to more fly-tipping, as it did when the town hall where I used to live informed me that it would cost me 18 000 yen for them to come and collect my broken rice cooker.
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Schoolboyerror
Another thrilling, fun-packed day in the Palace. I wonder if Masako will be allowed out of her cell on parole for a few minutes to wish her happy birthday.
No doubt it was that. In the unlikely event they were allowed to have dinner together privately, the IHA probably had to approve the shamisen and enka music they were able to play.
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Schoolboyerror
Professor, it means trying the victim was trying to chat up / date / sleep with the perp's girlfriend. It's American English.
Perhaps I'll show a bit more restraint myself in future - up till now I've had no qualms about walking up to a girl in a bar or izakaya and chatting her up or trying to get her email, whether her fella is there or not.
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