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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Tahoochi
Ignoring red lights for 1km while being filmed by police????? No wonder the police aren't respected in Japan. What a joke.... and if "normal" otherwise law-abiding people run a red light in front of a cop we get ticketed.
Posted in: 6 teenage bikers arrested after baiting police with fake call
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Yubaru at 05:49 AM JST - 7th June
I'll be honest, I don't know what number makes it a crisis... but consider these points:
1) Where are the massive crowds of uncontrollable people, where are the riot police, national guard, etc. to try to subdue this massive number of people who are out of control? Where are these people who are desperate enough that they steal whatever they want from wherever they want, in broad daylight, and even in front of tv and news cameras. (I know that in this particular case, the "looting" occurred in an evacuated area, so we don't know what the circumstances were, but my point is that we just don't see or hear anything close to that scale of mayhem)
2) Where are the injuries from all the looting? Is the media hiding that as well?
3) There are several more stories that appear to be bigger than "looting" such as nuclear reactors, the recovery of the disaster-stricken areas, and many others. (this one's kind of subjective I guess, because yes, it is possible as some have mentioned that the media is holding back on burglary reports... but I still believe that if "looting" were that bad, then it would be an issue that not even the media could hide)
I was in Miyagi 2 weeks after the tsunami. I saw a man walking from car to car (all cars were completely trashed) with a couple of gas cans, and I also saw a guy walking away from a trashed car with a golf bag on his shoulder. The latter, could have been legitimately recovering his own golf bag, but the guy with gas cans was definitely "looting" (is that defined as looting?). But no one else "joined in" on the looting, nor did anyone try to stop him (this was still only 2 weeks after the tsunami and the guy looked homeless due to his appearance). Other than that, there were barely any people in the streets, stores were closed (not "looted") some of the people were either still assessing the damage, or trying to do some cleaning, but that was about it.
From what I saw with my own 2 eyes, there is no looting crisis.
Posted in: Evacuee finds shop robbed during brief return home
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Tahoochi
some14some: Maybe they are telling the truth... after all, hackers can copy data can they not? It would still mean that they stole data, but Nintendo can also say that "no data has been lost".... just copied (but still stolen).
Posted in: Nintendo says server breached, but no data lost
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alladin at 09:07 AM JST - 6th June
alladin at 09:59 AM JST - 6th June
alladin: You know, you're absolutely right. And all this time, I thought that all Japanese people were perfect angels... not one of them could do any wrong! What a break-through discovery you've made here! You'd better tell everyone you know about this!
Posted in: Evacuee finds shop robbed during brief return home
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Tahoochi
Agree with lovejapan21. If there was a looting crisis going on in disaster-stricken areas, then the headlines (around the world) would read so. Instead, we have a few stories of a few cases of looting which hardly makes it a story... not to say it isn't an obvious problem.
Posted in: Evacuee finds shop robbed during brief return home
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Tahoochi
Agree with Serrano. 4 bucks for cup of coffee??? No thanks. Don't see the value. They need Tim Horton's in Japan!
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Tahoochi
This is barely news. Must be a slow day in the crime section.
Posted in: Man held for assaulting neighbor over bouncing soccer ball dispute
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Tahoochi
horsefella: Again, it doesn't matter "how long you have been here", my dad who is Japanese has lived in Canada for 37 years and he still doesn't understand SNL or Bill Maher.
Have you ever watched "Hitoshi Matsumoto no suberanai hanashi"? or "Ame-talk"? or any other J-comedy where they actually have conversations? If you have, do you understand the comedy in those shows? If you answer "yes", than you're admitting that there is more to j-comedy than fat guys and hitting heads which is the point I'm trying to make. If you answer "no", then you are admitting that the "you're a foreigner so you don't get it" defense is actually legitimate, which is also another point I was trying to make.
Posted in: Japanese version of 'Saturday Night Live' to debut in June
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Tahoochi
dolphingirl at 06:28 AM JST - 1st June
dolphingirl: The article says she "registered with a marriage agency" 4 days after the quake. Not "She married" 4 days after the quake.
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Tahoochi
I don't see anything wrong with this. That's what marriage agencies do anyway; find a compatible match that suits both sides based on romance, personality, values, future and financial priorities. Who said these people are looking to marry only for money?
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IvanCoughalot at 01:49 PM JST - 30th May
Sorry, but I never said J-comedy wasn't childish... what I'm saying is this:
Depending how you look at it, MOST of western comedy is equally as childish... just look at some of the most popular comedians that others have already mentioned: Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, not to mention Benny Hill, Rodney Dangerfield, Robin Williams, Mike Meyers, Jim Carrey... the list goes on, and these comedians do their share of weird voices, stupid characters and silly actions. How is Chris Farley eating a polish sausage and having a heart attack or falling on and crushing a coffee table different from your version of childish, "then a fat man ate something"?
There's a lot more to J-comedy than what the average foreigner can understand (just like there is a lot more to western comedy than what the average Japanese can understand). It's a lot more than some guy counting with a funny voice or Chris Farley falling on a table.
Posted in: Japanese version of 'Saturday Night Live' to debut in June
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Tahoochi
Take a Japanese show (one without slap-stick humor to satisfy all of you "Japanese comedy is childish, and comedy where I come from is much more sophisticated" folks out there) like "Hitoshi Matsumoto's Suberanai Hanashi", and try to make it into an American show, and it will not work. So of course a satiric show like SNL will not work in Japan unless they "Japanize" it. This is Japan folks, different country, different culture, there will always be some things Westerners will never understand about Japan, and vice versa.
Posted in: Japanese version of 'Saturday Night Live' to debut in June
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Tahoochi
Doesn't sound like a random stabbing spree to me. The guy was dressed in all black and only stabbed one person near a quiet neighborhood.
Posted in: Woman stabbed on Osaka street
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Tahoochi
jforce at 11:55 AM JST - 27th May
Domestic abuse happens all the time in the US. It's just not newsworthy anymore so you don't hear about.
Anyways, since this happened at 5AM, I'm guessing that the guy was blind drunk? Not that it makes it ok or anything, just saying.
Posted in: Chiba man held for allegedly beating girlfriend to death
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Tahoochi
Will somebody please fix this woman so that she can't have anymore kids. Fix the guy too while your at it.
Posted in: 19-year-old man arrested for beating up woman's 5-year-old daughter
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Tahoochi
Dentshop: If you want to get technical, then yes, you're right. I was simply using a term for expression.
Posted in: Man arrested over murder of woman near Yokohama Station
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Tahoochi
Power corrupts!
Posted in: Why do famous men with power and influence (Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton, for example) risk everything with their sexual behavior?
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Tahoochi
Some very typical comments so far regarding how bad the J-cops are... even going so far as to saying that they're arresting an innocent man!
Well the part about the 2 meeting on-line pretty much concluded it for me personally. I mean, they've got the girl's cell phone (including who she's called, emails, etc.), all her belongings, and if that's not enough, they've probably already searched her room for evidence linking her to the man including evidence of an appointment to meet that day... then she's left strangled in front of a hotel where the man happened to be? So what, the 2 met on-line, went for a date, then when the date ended, they both went their separate ways and the girl went to a hotel where she was strangled by a totally different person, then the man she met on-line came back to rescue her but it was too late so he called an ambulance and went to the hospital with her but left without a word??? I don't think so. The guy is 95% guilty in my eyes. Why else would the cops say that they believe they met on-line?
Posted in: Man arrested over murder of woman near Yokohama Station
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bdiego at 08:35 AM JST - 25th May
bdiego: Does sleep-deprived = impaired?
7 hours of sleep the night before doesn't seem like sleep deprivation to me, I know everybody is different but I wonder what the standard for "sufficient sleep" is?
Posted in: Driver pleads guilty in Utah bus crash that killed 3 Japanese
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Tahoochi
You know what? I really could care less anymore about what someone said or didn't say, or concealing this and that... as long as these people are doing whatever is in their power to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done. But even on that very small level of expectations, TEPCO and the government have failed from the day they did not let foreign support into the meeting rooms from day one. TEPCO clearly did not have the technical knowledge and experience to be running the show during such a horrendous disaster.
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