JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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Girls wet, laughing and bouncing up and down. This goes well with my morning coffee. Good country this is. Good country.
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Short skirts are good.
Posted in: School teacher arrested for peeping up student's skirt in Oita
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None of you commenting have any idea how this happened, but yet seem to "know" it was the 82 year olds fault because "they" don't ride in straight lines, ride against traffic, etc. You're all talking out of your butts. An old man got hit and was left to die on the road. That's all you know.
Posted in: Man arrested over hit-and-run death of 82-year-old cyclist in Funabashi
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How about the 'Tower of Babel'? Lot's of inane TV broadcasting will air from that 'tree'. Ha ha ha!.....oops, I'm laughing at my own joke.
Posted in: Tokyo Sky Tree unlikely to take root
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Here we go again. The Kobe kid murderer started out killing and decapitating cats, too.
When that same 14 year old kid stuck the other little boy's head to the gate of the school, everyone was shocked that some adult in Japanese society could actually do such a thing.
Imagine, in Japan! Some Japanese co-workers of mine at the time hinted that they thought a foreigner must have done it. One even went so far as to say, "Japan's slowly becoming like America." I had to educate him a little.
Of course, it later turned out to be a young teenager. To me, this was the beginning of the proliferation of Japan's grotesque murders.
Posted in: Body of headless cat found at high school in Yamaguchi
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Any eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who kill others (aside from involuntary manslaughter or a revenge killing for a family murder) should also be put to death.
If murder suspects are found to be guilty without any shred of doubt or extenuating circumstances - I'd like to see these murderers put to death the same way they killed their victims.
I'm sure those who've had their lives cut short by these sub-humans would agree to have them go through the horrors that they had to. Good on Japan to buck the international trend.
Posted in: Serial child killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, 2 others executed
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Kids have really fragile self-esteem. Parents need to spend more time instilling self-worth and a positive self-image into their kids. Love goes a long way, when it's genuinely felt.
Of course this girl didn't do this only because it said to on her blog. Probably got a lot garbage from other kids, which will probably come to light shortly.
Posted in: 16-year-old girl hangs herself after message on blog tells her to die
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I really liked the previous crane emblem - it was cool and had flair. The green paper plane emblem and the partial green hinomaru on the tail seems rather bland. Nothing about it says, "Japan".
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I can't speak for Australian rice, but in California, I've rarely ever heard any of the Japanese there say that California rice tastes inferior to Japan's. They say it tastes just the same - and hell of a lot cheaper!
The whole 'taste' excuse is bull.
It really comes down to wanting to protect an industry that will disappear if the imported product is not blocked or marked up in price significantly. Japan wants to retain it's self-substance level in rice production - therefore must protect its rice farmers. That's it.
Posted in: To protect Japanese farmers, the government promised that imported rice will not go into Japanese direct consumption. Foreign rice, including California rice, will be used for secondary purposes like prepared food.
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I like the idea of posting pix of the family and the two idiots. Japan used to have a very low crime rate because the "shame" that was brought upon the family was intense from the surrounding neighbors/community. (Of course a good economy and an equitable society helped, too).
These days, no one seems to know each other and there's no sense of community or collective guilt. This is why news like this will continue to grow.
Replacement controls for the loss of feeling "shame" by families/individuals must be implemented by the government/society if a low crime rate is to be maintained.
Posted in: Two teenagers accused of killing 8 swans in Ibaraki lake
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With Japan's impending labor shortage in the coming decades, it'll be in Japan Inc.'s best interest to fund maternity leave. Not only will this encourage career women to have kids, but also retain experienced employees. This is so common sense that it's amazing that the government hasn't mobilized policy in this direction, yet.
Posted in: It's so strange that many Japanese companies don't allow career-minded women to take leave from work, even if only for a few years.
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> U.S. President George W Bush said Monday that an angry world should condemn the way Myanmar’s military rulers are handling the aftermath of a devastating cyclone. >
Well, isn't this the pot calling the kettle black.
Posted in: Bush says world should condemn Myanmar's handling of cyclone
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Good or bad defense lawyers -> good riddance to bad rubbish. Name him, shame him, and execute him.
This poor woman Yayoi, who was raped and murdered along with her absolutely helpless 11 month old Yuka, will never get their lives back. The last remaining hour/minutes of Yayoi's life was filled with pure terror at the hands of this "minor".
Posted in: Defense makes a mess of killer's appeal
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ASEAN has welcomed Myanmar into its organization. Shame on them for collaborating with this tyrannical junta. The whole purpose was to gain leverage to enact change in Myanmar
s treatment of its people, but ASEAN has hardly done anything about it for the last 10 years.Shame on them and for all the countries who have quickly forgotten and let slide the violent crackdown this last winter on its people. (This also goes for the last 16 years when Suu Kyi had the elections stolen from her and the people of Burma.)
When will countries of strength use their powers to enact change for "the good" of the people?! This can be such a "better" world. Where are the great leaders?!
Posted in: U.N. halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies
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With the move to small nuclear families in Japan, there are no longer grandmas & grandpas IN the house to help take care of the kid(s). Also, Japan doesn't have the tradition of having neighborhood kids or acquaintances babysit kid(s). This is HUGE.
If my wife and I were to have another kid, it'll be another five years of one of us always having to be around to take care of him/her.
This means my wife having to quit her job (NO maternity leave/pay), thus becoming one income family again. It's very difficult to get by (no Prada/LV bags in our house), just basic necessities.
If we both want to work, then that means nursery school, but once again, that's more money spent. Just to add, men in Japan help very little in raising kids, so women know the hardships they'll face if they have another kid.
There isn't a lot of financial help/paternity leave/daycare center availability being set up by the government either.
This ALL adds up to less kids.
Posted in: What changes are needed in Japanese society to stop the falling birthrate?
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It's time to clamp down with a curfew!!
Posted in: SDF member among 5 youths arrested for attacking residential police box in Ibaraki
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Leave them alone. Don
t need to separate the kids from their mothers. Let them choose their own lifestyle (other than any domestic violence). Jesus, Id never let them separate me from my kid - no matter what anti-polygamous laws they may have. Family is still family.Posted in: Mothers, young children to be parted after DNA testing of polygamous sect members
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This guy has no head!
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It looks like a nuclear mushroom cloud.
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