Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    Zybster

    MrMukatsuku, you sure flashed your intelligence here. Does the word "crime rate" mean anything to you? But I guess I'm wasting my breath trying to explain such a complicated expression.

    Posted in: The serious crime rate for U.S. service members off their bases is approximately half that of the Japanese population.

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    Zybster

    The link doesn't seem to be displayed right because of the formatting style of JP, so please make sure that there is an underline sign between the words after the slash: foreign/underline/crime/underline/in/underline/japan.shtml

    http://www.jref.com/society/foreign_crime_in_japan.shtml

    Posted in: The serious crime rate for U.S. service members off their bases is approximately half that of the Japanese population.

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    Zybster

    Naruki Oni, it again seems to me you are quite detached from the reality. Have you been to Dachau? Do you really know what it was or was it just a name for you? My grandfather was there, as a prisoner, and I remember him telling me about it. Lots of details, which you cannot imagine. Please stop using this expression because you simply don't understand it.

    Now, you talked about the "no-crime on base, explosion of crime off-base" world that you seem to know. I take it you would know it because you are a service person, right? Otherwise, could you give us some numbers why you say there is such a contrast?

    Other posters also criticized your comment, mainly because it's simply your speculation and completely baseless. I was saying that any large social group will have crime committed by its members, and that naturally includes the US military. I was just reading about the foreign crime in Japan, please take a look here: http://www.jref.com/society/foreigncrimein_japan.shtml

    This page gives lots of statistics, and among them they compare the crime among different nationalities. The numbers are: Japan - 0.291% Korea - 0.024% China - 0.428% USA - 0.016%

    These are statistics from Japan's National Police Agency (NPA), so you wouldn't accuse them of lowering the statistics for the Americans. Now, if for the US citizens the crime rate is 0.016%, and there is such an "explosion" of crime off base among military, then the crime rate among the civilian Americans would have to be below 0.

    So, unless you give us some real numbers on which you are basing your expression, please allow us to think about your opinion as completely biased and worthless.

    Posted in: The serious crime rate for U.S. service members off their bases is approximately half that of the Japanese population.

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    Zybster

    Naruki Oni, I'm not sure how long you have lived on this particular planet, but as long as we are dealing with humans the ideal you are describing is so far eluding us. There may be some, actually many individuals leading perfect lives, but when we start talking about any social group, any group in any country, there are then people who commit things they should not be. Now, looking at the present problem that there are thousands and thousands of people in this group, all trained to be tough, made tough, I'm amazed that the crime rate is, as the general says, only half of the rate that the very peaceful, crime-free country of Japan has. Half is not "somewhat" lower as you describe is, it's astonishing. If you can find another group with similar statistics, please feel free to share with us. Now, this group is being demonized by certain sections of the Japanese society. I would be interested to see the crime statistics for that same section. It would be very interesting to see who is accusing the soldiers of being "criminals" and "dangerous."

    Posted in: The serious crime rate for U.S. service members off their bases is approximately half that of the Japanese population.

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    Zybster

    thepro, this program is aimed at young people. This segment wants to look cool (=drive a new car) without the full cost of it (=get as many discounts/benefits as you can). Yes, I suspect many people in this segment may opt for it.

    Posted in: Toyota offers cash incentive to buyers for carrying ads on cars

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    Zybster

    "iPhone loving morons cheer a phone!!" Aren't we biter today? If it's a flop, too expensive, too few functions - it will be a flop. It may not be for everybody, but that is actually to be seen. I remember the same crow complaining a few years back about how bad/incompatible/expensive/... the iPod was. Now everybody has it. Let the customers vote for or against it - with their wallets, not just a few self-righteous prophets who have too much money and too much time.

    Posted in: Apple's iPhone goes on sale in Japan to cheering crowd

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    Zybster

    "Down with the iPhone" Aren't we biter today? If it's a flop, too expensive, too few functions - it will be a flop. It may not be for everybody, but that is actually to be seen. I remember the same crow complaining a few years back about how bad/incompatible/expensive/... the iPod was. Now everybody has it. Let the customers vote for or against it - with their wallets, not just a few self-righteous prophets who have too much money and too much time.

    Posted in: Apple fans camp out in Tokyo for iPhone 3G launch on Friday

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    Zybster

    X Japan was a top band in the symphonic rock genre here, actually going over genres, just a major band. As you can imagine, it was popular before hide's suicide in 1998, which in turn occurred after they broke up, so if you've been here shorter than 10 years you may have missed it. And hide - he chose to have his name written with a small letter, so everybody lets him be.

    Yeah, I wish I could go to, their "Crucify my Love" is still one of my favorite Japanese pieces.

    Posted in: Memorial concerts for X Japan guitarist hide to be held

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    Zybster

    Triple888, in case you haven't noticed it, this article is about the lawlessness of the Chinese police in another country. Is the expression "ancestral land" an excuse for that?

    Posted in: Australian police tussle with Chinese Olympic torch escorts

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    Zybster

    Could somebody please explain me why the Chinese blue men thought they would have any kind of rights over the police of a sovereign country? What would make them think that they above the law of another country?

    Posted in: Australian police tussle with Chinese Olympic torch escorts

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    Zybster

    I don't know if it's the "best", but at least it may give a chance to escape from the situation where one person, pressured by the system, basically HAS TO give the "guilty" verdict, even at times against the common sense.

    Posted in: Do you think the jury system, which will be introduced in Japan next year, is the best method of determining guilt or innocence in the courtroom?

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    Zybster

    Now, whether the school etc is paid for depends on the condition of the transfer. Sometimes it's all covered, often is not. For a company executive it's often covered, for a researcher/assistant teacher nothing is covered. DeepAir65, if you got full treatment, lucky you, but I'm here on my own and my son goes to the local school, because he international one is out of my reach.

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