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as_the_crow_flies
A "fictionalized version" of Marx's Kapital? What's next? Einstein's theory of relativity - the musical? What a load of cods!
Posted in: Marx's 'Das Kapital' comic finds new fans in Japan
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as_the_crow_flies
Four men surround a woman and start touching her and they call it "groping"? That is sexual assault. Why can't JT articles call it like it is? Someone is killed by others and it's a "training" session. A child is raped and it's "molestation." Someone dies from being repeatedly kicked and it's "bashing". Calling it groping changes the way the act is viewed - a lot of posters treat it's like something trivial, jokey. How did it look to the woman as this happened to her, on a train, in front of other passengers? Being as this is Japan, being dragged to a toilet and raped there is a possibility, this has happened before. This was possibley a seriously traumatising ordeal for her. All power to her for her bravery, it will help her to get over it. And great to know that some passengers are actually helping strangers.
Posted in: Two members of train groping gang grabbed on Saikyo line in Saitama
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as_the_crow_flies
Brave, brave girl. Respect to you, Dzhana! I hope things go great for you, and you can get on with doing all the things you want to do.
Posted in: Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital
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as_the_crow_flies
Posted in: Is Japan becoming a 'drug heaven?'
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as_the_crow_flies
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Surely they're talking about professional care workers here? My understanding of caregiver is that they do just that. I do it.
Wikipedia puts it like this:
This is another dimension to the problem. Family members are expected to do it for free, virtually unsupported by any welfare agencies, while professionals are supposed to virtually give it away, for the dedication to their patients. It's fitting that Japan has borrowed the word from English and given the meaning this local twist, and pretty much sums up the dismal state of the carer industry. Loads and loads of Japanese people sweat away to gain the qualifications, but the appalling conditions drive most of them out of it after a while. Many, many qualified carers choose not to practice. I really hope the Filipinos being courted to fill the jobs Japanese know better than to accept, examine all their options and work in places that offer them a wage that recognizes their skills. Maybe then, Japan will wake up and see that if they want to be wiped clean when they grow old, they'd better start courting the people to do the job, pronto.
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as_the_crow_flies
Most Latin workers have been working on those terms since they got to Japan, whether they have visas or not. There's no shortage of day labourers, as namabiru said, who are just told "take a yasumi". The main reason they were encouraged to come to Japan was precisely to be a flexible, mobile labour force that would work when and where there is work, and just be expected to fend for themselves when there isn't. Japanese companies turn to them even during a downturn because they can just use them when they need them. Although a growing number of Japanese are in a similar situation of casual, insecure work, many of them can't hack the kind of heavy physical work that many Latinos will do, and don't have the Latino's endless hunger for overtime. So though many are being thrown out of work right now, I will be surprised if the demand for such flexible, disposable labour doesn't stay strong, even in a depression.
Posted in: Foreign laborers hit hard by downturn in Japanese economy
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as_the_crow_flies
Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat
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as_the_crow_flies
Ordering even one bowl of Yoshinoya gyudon is already a crime. Ordering 15 calls for capital punishment.
Posted in: Man arrested for eating at Yoshinoya without paying for 12 hours
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as_the_crow_flies
Considering mobiles can and have been adapted to act as detonators, I'd have thought most people would be prepared to do without them during a flight as a trade-off for greater peace of mind. I know what my priorities are.
Posted in: U.S. public divided on in-flight cell phone use
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as_the_crow_flies
Respect for President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal who is saying it like it is. Let's hope he can pursuade his counterparts around the region to do the same. A bit of straight talking must give the people of Zimbabwe some hope.
Posted in: African leaders call for power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe
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as_the_crow_flies
What Mugabe means is, Our people ARE going to vote for Zanu-pf, because we are going to check each ballot paper back to the voter and get them if they don't ... and that vote for Zanu-pf will decide whether Zanu-pf have won or lost. JT - it's an interesting article which brings us up to date on what's unfolding in Zimbabwe. The 90% of the article about Zimbabwe is the interesting bit, the other 10% about what Obama may or may not think about Zimbabwe could be a footnote to the rest. Seems like what candidates in the US say about what's happening in Zimbabwe is more important than what's happening in Zimbabwe. As far as most of the world is concerned this is US local news, not world news. Worth knowing, but as a footnote. Also encourages most posters to focus on their own US electoral process and what anyone might or might not have said, as if the events in Zimbabwe are simply a backdrop to their own electoral process. It's much more important for most of us in the rest of the world to focus on what regional leaders are saying and doing/not doing. What any other governments or candidates are saying is just secondary to the real actors in this situation.
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Posted in: Obama says U.S. should lead drive to force fair elections in Zimbabwe or unseat Mugabe
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as_the_crow_flies
How many porn producers does it make to do a porn film in the back of a truck? I note the lass was apparently providing all the action herself, makes you wonder how exciting the end result would have been.
Posted in: Porn actress, producers arrested for filming in rear of dump truck
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as_the_crow_flies
Just a thought - I wonder if Kato and maybe his brother too, has Asperger's Syndrome. The article suggests that he was mathematically smart. At the same time, children with autism syndrome disabilities like Asperger's typically have real difficulty learning to get along with others, leading to increasing isolation. I can imagine how having a disciplinarian father and an education mama on his case, and noone recongising his relationship problems from early on, or understanding enough to help him to learn to get along with classmates, could lead to such a isolated and enraged individual.
Posted in: Blog shows insight into Akihabara murder suspect's mind
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as_the_crow_flies
How about changing round the emphasis in your headline, JT? Would-be murderer flashes woman before pushing her onto tracks, maybe. He tried to kill her! The flashing part, nasty and disturbing as that might be, is less important than the fact he tried to off her, surely?
Posted in: Flasher pushes woman onto railway tracks in Tokyo
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as_the_crow_flies
What a tw#t! I wish Zimbabweans well in their long slow wait for this dangerous idiot to go, so they can get a chance to try and restore their country to what it was shortly post-liberation. It's gone down the tubes as Mugabe tries to cover his own b#tt for 20 years of increasingly corrupt, divisive, spiteful, reminiscent of apartheid, incompetent and paranoid rule.
Posted in: Mugabe blames the West for Zimbabwe's troubles