USAkuma said...

USAkuma at 06:14 PM JST - 11th January

For Pete's sake! Talk about flogging a dead horse, now we can add charging a dead suspect to the list of sayings with a similar meaning in futility.

Of course they can charge whatever they want now that they no longer have to worry about him refuting their claims. Dead…

Posted in Miura officially named suspect in death of another woman in 1979 at 06:14 PM JST - 11th January
USAkuma at 12:25 AM JST - 16th December

My only question is: where were the secret service? Isn't it their job to take one for the President? I saw no one diving to protect GWB from Shoes of Mass destruction. Wonder if Bush will require that everyone who meets with him during the last month in office comes…

Posted in Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq at 12:25 AM JST - 16th December
USAkuma at 10:33 AM JST - 12th December

My point is that this story is yet another reason NOT to believe the the police, or the government when they claim that Japan is peaceful and safe, except where foreigners are involved.

There are plenty of Yokoso! Japan implications by the government that Japan is Safe. These repeated announcements…

Posted in Woman hit by car, then stabbed by driver in Gunma at 10:33 AM JST - 12th December
USAkuma at 01:39 AM JST - 12th December

I am suggesting that this is not the first violent crime of this year, and I am suggesting that the number of incidents involving violent crime of the depraved nature seems to be increasing not only in number but in sadism. And I am daring someone to prove that Japan…

Posted in Woman hit by car, then stabbed by driver in Gunma at 01:39 AM JST - 12th December
USAkuma at 12:32 AM JST - 12th December

My point though is that since they will indeed wait... and if/when he dies, they won't file a report, then this is not considered a "Crime." thus the police can continue living in denial, saying that reported (or filed) crime is very small, thus Japan is peaceful.

Nevermind that the…

Posted in Woman hit by car, then stabbed by driver in Gunma at 12:32 AM JST - 12th December
USAkuma at 10:52 PM JST - 11th December

Just another day in "Peaceful" Japan. The police probably won't even write this up as a crime since the man hasn't yet confessed to anything. Note that no where in the JT article does it say that the police have any intention to arrest the man.

Posted in Woman hit by car, then stabbed by driver in Gunma at 10:52 PM JST - 11th December
USAkuma at 09:16 AM JST - 10th December

Thousands of American soldiers dead. tens of thousands of Iraqi people dead (only a small portion of whom were actual combatants), economy-crippling debt, record numbers of jobless, etc. etc. Still no sight of Bin Laden, and now even more potential terrorists want to bomb the U.S.

Yeah, I can see…

Posted in Bush defends his record of using military might at 09:16 AM JST - 10th December
USAkuma at 10:56 AM JST - 5th December

Thanks for the info about the Saison card. If I get to Ikebekuro station, whereabouts underground should I hunt for this wonderous Credit Card giving machine?

But having been burned by bad credit-rate-elevating card companies in the States, I have to wonder what the rate is for the Saison card?…

Posted in Try to get a credit card in Japan at 10:56 AM JST - 5th December
USAkuma at 07:37 AM JST - 29th November

Agreed. The government wants to pass the buck and wash their hands of responsibility as fast as possible. The Double-edged knife band is a feel good measure at best. People can still go into any housing store and get long kitchen knives which are just as deadly.

Banning these knives…

Posted in Tightened weapons law enacted to ban double-edged knives at 07:37 AM JST - 29th November
USAkuma at 09:07 AM JST - 28th November

I also want to see what the wording of the questionnaire was. If it was from the far right it might have been worded with something like :

Choose 1 option.

A. I am concerned with safety if foreign tourist numbers increase B. I am a foreigner.

But the far…

Posted in 51.8% concerned with safety if foreign tourist numbers increase at 09:07 AM JST - 28th November