Youdontknow said...

Youdontknow at 02:56 AM JST - 2nd January

Anyone who is still stranded at the airport, and lives in Japan, needs a good slap! GET THE TRAIN IDIOTS!

Posted in Heavy snow in Hokkaido forces airlines to cancel 100 flights at 02:56 AM JST - 2nd January
Youdontknow at 12:01 AM JST - 19th December

Sorry, but this is complete tripe!! Every year they bring this or a similar story about flu epidemics in Japan out, and put the fear of God into the public. The public then goes out and spends millions of dollars (or yen) on flu vaccines, medicines and anything else related…

Posted in Flu epidemic starts across Japan at 12:01 AM JST - 19th December
Youdontknow at 11:57 PM JST - 18th December

jeancolmar -

If you are forced to sing this ditty, sing off key.

Couldn't agree more, but would add, sing off key very LOUDLY!!

Posted in Teachers lose appeal against ruling ordering them to sing Kimigayo at 11:57 PM JST - 18th December
Youdontknow at 11:55 PM JST - 18th December

GJDailleult - the Kimigayo is the oldest national anthem in the world, unchanged for more than 1000 years!! It has absolutely nothing to do with 'the historical interpretation of WW2'. Do you mean that the thinking behind forcing citizens to sing the anthem is a result of right-wing thinking from…

Posted in Teachers lose appeal against ruling ordering them to sing Kimigayo at 11:55 PM JST - 18th December
Youdontknow at 11:51 PM JST - 18th December

Last time I looked, Japan was a free-thinking society, meaning the Constitution gives its denizens the right to choose to sing the Kimigayo or not.

Docking their salary for not singing it, sounds just like another one of the many scams by Japanese bosses not to pay their staff the…

Posted in Teachers lose appeal against ruling ordering them to sing Kimigayo at 11:51 PM JST - 18th December
Youdontknow at 11:48 PM JST - 18th December

Teaching kids the classics, in any language and from any culture, is a very very bad idea! Classic texts were written by people of a different era, ergo, a different mindset!

As for doubling the text of English - as others have rightly pointed out, Japanese students can't even handle…

Posted in Panel proposes doubling textbook pages for Japanese, English, science at 11:48 PM JST - 18th December
Youdontknow at 06:21 PM JST - 8th December

Says a lot when crime is even happening in the courts over in Saitama.

Posted in Court clerk arrested for allegedly forging document at 06:21 PM JST - 8th December
Youdontknow at 06:19 PM JST - 8th December

Japan has no right to arrest anyone and try them in Japan if done in international waters. The Australian and New Zealand authorities have already made it clear to Japan, that whaling in Whale Sanctuaries, is illegal.

Let's arrest the whalers and try them outside of Japan for blatant disregard…

Posted in Japan to arrest anti-whaling activists, newspaper reports at 06:19 PM JST - 8th December
Youdontknow at 06:16 PM JST - 8th December

Romulus - why should he be arrested for rape? Japanese law is varied on sexual consent and it's not illegal at 16 years old if the girl has permission from her parents. I think this would be highly unlikely they would give that permission though, and personally, I think he…

Posted in Man stabs girlfriend over break-up; survives jump off hotel roof at 06:16 PM JST - 8th December
Youdontknow at 05:10 AM JST - 5th December

sounds like an insurance job to me...

Posted in Ramen restaurant owner stabbed in Chiba at 05:10 AM JST - 5th December