ThonTaddeo said...

ThonTaddeo at 03:53 PM JST - 14th November

Gerspacher Bernice, 53

Her given name is Bernice and her surname is Gerspacher. Please, JT, please have some respect for the subjects of your stories, and get their names correct. Given names come before surnames in both English (the language of the article) and in German (the language of…

Posted in German woman who pleaded not guilty at lay jury trial convicted at 03:53 PM JST - 14th November
ThonTaddeo at 12:59 AM JST - 14th November

I realize that Tokyo Girls Fudosan is filling a niche market, and their innovation regarding shared residences is innovative, but the women-only policy isn't far removed from the disgraceful "Whites Only" and "No Coloreds" signs seen in the West within living memory. If many more real estate agents also refused…

Posted in Meet the brains of Tokyo's women-only housing boom at 12:59 AM JST - 14th November
ThonTaddeo at 09:57 PM JST - 13th November

After all this is Japan, and we basically have no right to lecture to the Japanese, for it is a sovereign nation.

Nonsense.

Posted in ICHIHASHI ARRESTED BY POLICE IN OSAKA at 09:57 PM JST - 13th November
ThonTaddeo at 09:35 PM JST - 13th November

Lots of very sexist comments here by people who couldn't read the article.

Not half as sexist as running a business that excludes half the population because they weren't born female. An estate agency that excluded foreigners in this way would be pilloried, andrightly so.

Posted in Meet the brains of Tokyo's women-only housing boom at 09:35 PM JST - 13th November
ThonTaddeo at 04:33 AM JST - 13th November

No complaints about the pink stockings, but Yumiko's dress is too long!

Posted in Nagasawa, Shaku among winners for their beautiful legs at 04:33 AM JST - 13th November
ThonTaddeo at 09:37 PM JST - 11th November

Keep in mind that while women are underrepresented at the very top, so are they all the way at the bottom -- the gender ratio of employees worked to death or driven to suicide from overwork is similar to the 1.4% women seen here. The kings are all men, but…

Posted in Japan still far behind in appointing women to corporate boards at 09:37 PM JST - 11th November
ThonTaddeo at 09:34 PM JST - 11th November

Well, the tiring tactics by the J-Police have begun, keep you up till the wee hours and then wake you up early in the morning.

JA Cruise, I noticed the same thing. Shame on the police for using sleep deprivation already -- it shouldn't be that difficult to prove…

Posted in Ichihashi stays silent as police begin questioning him on Hawker murder at 09:34 PM JST - 11th November
ThonTaddeo at 03:38 PM JST - 9th November

Hatoyama said in Tokyo, “We need to think a great deal of their feelings.”

Yes, you do. Unfortunately for the central government, even the Americans' behavior in Okinawa from 1945 to 1972, and again since then, is so vastly superior to how your Tokyo cronies treated Okinawa in the…

Posted in Mass rally 'symbolizes mixed feelings of Okinawa residents': Hatoyama at 03:38 PM JST - 9th November
ThonTaddeo at 03:34 PM JST - 9th November

Give it up already. Rio deserved it for 2016, and there are more deserving candidates for future years as well. Until Tokyo makes a few changes -- 24-hour transportation, less racial profilng by the police, and, yes, the retirement of its foot-in-mouth mayor -- it won't deserve a chance.

Posted in Tokyo to bid for 2020 Summer Games, Hiroshima might join: Ishihara at 03:34 PM JST - 9th November
ThonTaddeo at 01:51 PM JST - 9th November

I have sneaking supicion that they can't stop you from leaving Japan with the non-Japanese passport. That would seem to be a violation of international law.

Junnama, maybe they can't stop you, but they can certainly detain you and put you in a holding cell. They do this with…

Posted in Czech man takes son out of Japan in suspected child abduction at 01:51 PM JST - 9th November