ambrosia said...

ambrosia at 11:13 AM JST - 8th August

Apsara: What are you talking about? Read the first paragraph more carefully and you'll see "since her husband's arrest for drug possession"

Posted in Noriko Sakai's disappearance big news in Asia at 11:13 AM JST - 8th August
ambrosia at 02:42 PM JST - 5th August

Who cares? Sure some alcohol is nice for you but if you can't get through a flight without it then don't fly. I do enjoy a tipple now and then but would be just as happy if they did without all booze on flights due to the number of drunken…

Posted in JAL to serve wine in plastic bottles to cut flight loads, CO2 at 02:42 PM JST - 5th August
ambrosia at 02:35 PM JST - 5th August

What's the difference? Your typical 18 year-old Japanese isn't going to vote anyway and your typical 18 year-old Japanese can already drink because they never get carded. The only positive change I can see with this is that 18-year olds can be charged as adults for crimes.

Posted in A Japanese government advisory panel has proposed lowering the adult age to 18 from 20. What do you think about it? at 02:35 PM JST - 5th August
ambrosia at 02:33 PM JST - 5th August

It's sad that they don't have any politicians or public figures of their own to have done this for them years ago.

Posted in Relatives want Japanese abductees freed too after Clinton's N Korea trip at 02:33 PM JST - 5th August
ambrosia at 08:35 PM JST - 3rd August

There's nothing wrong with the way any of these women look! Healthy people should have "a little meat on their bones". Stay here long enough and you'll start to think that the self-imposed, malnourished look is normal. It's not! Japan has some of the highest rates of anorexia and bulimia…

Posted in Saving the planet at 08:35 PM JST - 3rd August
ambrosia at 08:32 PM JST - 3rd August

ambromofo: Not only is that a ridiculous comment but it shows how sadly narrow your world is. The first real vegetarian I ever met was a beautiful black woman from Brooklyn who grew up pretty darn far from middle class.

Posted in Saving the planet at 08:32 PM JST - 3rd August
ambrosia at 12:17 PM JST - 17th May

How is it a "reunion" if they've never met?

Smithinjapan: And why shouldn't he want to live a little better? Dad lived a little better for that moment he was creating him and no doubt has lived better all this time with no one knowing he's got a kid overseas…

Posted in Boy in central Thailand waiting for reunion with Japanese father at 12:17 PM JST - 17th May
ambrosia at 12:15 PM JST - 14th March

"Ordinary" as in he'll work until 8 or 9 p.m., then go out for drinks with the mates and drag himself home, drunk and exhausted at midnight. "Ordinary" as he makes about $50,000 / year, gets two bonuses and at least 10 personal days of which he'll take maybe five?…

Posted in Pregnant actress Megumi Okina to marry 'ordinary' businessman at 12:15 PM JST - 14th March
ambrosia at 08:03 PM JST - 10th March

He's a famous artist with works in MOMA. If he really wanted I'm sure he could have found an empty wall near a school or some such place and done a mural for people to enjoy. This graffiti stunt sounds like the work of a narcisstic man who hasn't grown…

Posted in Pop artist Yoshitomo Nara arrested for graffiti in New York at 08:03 PM JST - 10th March
ambrosia at 08:29 AM JST - 16th January

Japan's got one of the lowest rates of autopsy, forensic and medical, in the industrialized world. I've no doubt a change in that would bump the murder rate up a bit.

Posted in Murder rate rises in Japan but total number of crimes falls at 08:29 AM JST - 16th January