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as_the_crow_flies
Say it in English - prostituting. Or pimping.
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as_the_crow_flies
I think the requirement to speak in English unless an interpreter is present is reasonable in a high-security case like this. I think the guy is bilingual, he could adapt.
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as_the_crow_flies
They'll just persecute all the users, while leaving the Yakuza supply chain intact. The right palms suitably greased, and the right words in the right ears will ensure that only the small fry will get netted, while the big money swims free.
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as_the_crow_flies
What a provincial, Puritannical moralising country the US is showing itself to be. It's amazing to me that any of this is even more than a minor inside pages issue. Unbelievable that in 2009 that this is even news. What is it that he's supposed to have done? And this is probably from the same mindset that would criticise conservative morality under Islam, and spout off about "freedom". All those people taking such an interest in what Tiger Woods does off the golf course, get a life, and join the twenty-first century!
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as_the_crow_flies
To be fair, many of the advocates of donation in Japan, as elsewhere, are people who have either lost a loved one, or seen a loved one suffer and be helped by transplant. Many of these have campaigned for years to try and bring change here. There are also taboos against live donation, people seem to have a much more deeply ingrained selfishness here. When my Peruvian brother in law had his interview here with the Japanese social worker about his motive for donating his kidney to my husband, she asked him "Why do you want to donate?" and Ricardo laughed at the absurdity of the question, and said "because I love my brother!" and the social worker kind of got lost for words, like she'd never had to contend with such an answer before.
But I totally agree as far as cadaveric donation goes, people really don't care where the kidney comes from, thinking that money buys the right to it, and they don't want to consider any ethical questions (like the donor is poverty stricken and has sold it, as in many poor countries, or has been forced to sign a "donation" form prior execution, as in China, or simply that they are feeding into a system where there is more reciprocity and there are waiting lists, and more consciousness that it's a two way thing, as in the UK, or US or Spain). I think the it's our culture thing is just a convenient way to avoid thinking issues through. Most don't seem to have issues accepting a "foreign" kidney into their Japanese are different body.
Anyway, credit to these two for coming here and trying to help change things.
I also hope there will be more comments posted on here, or is it that JT readers are more interested in gory stories?
Posted in: Twin organ recipients breathe life into Japanese transplant advocacy
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as_the_crow_flies
Gitmo? Was this article written by some hick from Nowheresville Texas? Don't they realise this is supposed to be the international section of a News page, not page 11 of the Hicksville News?.
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as_the_crow_flies
Good point, noborito. I wonder if the speakers play the gentle sound of hubby snoring to soothe fractious wives to sleep in their solitary glory...
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as_the_crow_flies
“Occasionally foreign managers or coaches become uncontrollable from the Japanese perspective.
This is a very interesting and telling sentence. What is it about this deep-seated need to control other people's emotions?
I thought it was about the only interesting thing in the article, too. I think the new Foreign Minister (Chiba) summed it up in an interview last month when she said that Japan has to move away from a policy of controlling foreigners (in Japan).
Who knows (or cares) about Morozov's personal attitudes, but I think that the place of foreign players, managers or whatever in sport in Japan is definitely to be controlled. Can't have anyone outshining the locals in fair competition, after all. The fact that sports are chock full of non-Japanese trainers is proof that it's impossible for any country to really go it alone any more and continue to dominate a sport. The whole thing's globalised. Control is definitely a pipedream that even the Japanese sports like sumo will have to realise can't be sustained.
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as_the_crow_flies
so let's see if I've got this straight here... light with dimmer switch? Built in speakers? Volume control? Alarm clock? Like Wow! Cutting edge indeed! I'd better reach for my wallet.
What year are we here... 1958? Oh yes, and how many eco-points does this baby win me?
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as_the_crow_flies
That was certainly illustrious company the US government kept in terms of policy over all those years! Good on the country for raising itself out of ignorance, and credit (apparently, according to this article) to the previous administration for starting the process.
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as_the_crow_flies
they persistently decline invitations that previous generations of recruits regarded as an honor.
Sounds like they can communicate their lack of interest in keeping up appearances, and unlike the older generations of sheep,tell their superiors what they really think. Standing up to your boss doesn't sound like wilting under pressure to me. Everyone has already said it - the old fossils, and the writer of this ridiculous drivel - are just wide of the mark. I don't think it's anything to do with Yutori education either, but the problem is with the education system. Yutori education has shown up the system's inadequacies, because students no longer have to shut up and put up with it, and are used to saying whatever they think. Communication skills need to be taught well, and in a structured way, through doing. Most teachers here have no training in how to get students to learn to work effectively in groups. It's a process that takes years for the students to develop. I see the difference in returnee students, when I compare them with their regular, never-left-Japan counterparts. No wonder most students don't know how to be both creative and take the initiative while working in a team. Yutori education didn't really take away all the blind heirarchical obedience b#ll#cks - you can just see them all out, doing their military drills for weeks before sports day to realise that. They've just, with a Japanese talent, managed to preserve the worst of the old while only importing the most superficial of the new, without thinking of what they really want to achieve with it.
Will the last one out please turn off the lights?
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as_the_crow_flies
I think the English for
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as_the_crow_flies
I stayed there last week, and there are still plenty of poor day labourers, sat on the kerbside at 7am, or shuffling around in the wee hours in one of the hostels. I think it's good if local groups try to revitalize the areas, but if that means that the current residents are being pushed out onto riverbanks, it's being done wrong. The area often doesn't figure clearly on maps because it's a traditional burakumin (outcast lower caste) area, and, supposedly for the protection of people who live there, it's not directly referred to on maps. Still, to someone who doesn't know the area, none of this is obvious as you go around. A pity, but it goes to show that discrimination against buraku is still alive and well and it's still pretty much a taboo subject. Just try saying buraku to Japanese friends or colleagues and watch the air freeze before your eyes. To my uneducated eyes (skid row is an unknown to me as well, not coming from the States) it looked like a run-down throwback to the 70s, maybe, old fashioned in a seedy, depressing way, just without the day labour to make the local economy tick. I don't know about chic bars, but I think the area could do with new sources of income. Community groups in Kotobukicho in Yokohama are actively pushing the backpacker hostel thing as the local day labourers get older and sicker and ever more unemployable. Comparing how Kotobukicho looked in 95, when I first saw it, and there was life on the streets, and how it looked 10 years later, with ever more homeless people huddled around bonfires of burning old furniture on the kerbside, and only a sprinkling of shops and restaurants left to service the area was really depressing.
It would be interesting to hear the rest of this story, as other posters have said.
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as_the_crow_flies
From outside it just seems that too many Americans are addicted to the current system to allow any change. Just like other addictions, their despite the fact that they know that the current system is bad for them and doing them terrible harm, it's the reality they know, and they're too scared of coming off it, even if they would actually be better with something else.
Just watch when someone throws out a word like socialised, and many start screaming and tearing their hair. Socialised is not a word that's ever used to describe the health service in Britain (except maybe Americans!) The vast majority of people in Britain, though they whinge and moan and bash the NHS, would never in their worst nightmares opt for a system like the US one.
I think Obama has sensibly realised it's impossible to have rational commonsense debate with the aforesaid US system junkies, and is trying to give people what they think they want.
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as_the_crow_flies
burkini pic http://www.coscablog.it/articoli/2008/05/burquini.jpg
wetsuit pic http://canyoneeringusa.com/shop/images/T/hypercyclone32w.jpg
don't really see that much difference really.
Also, I wonder if all the posters who are protesting about the rules being changed would have been shouting so loud about changes to the rules to accomodate bikini wearers 40 or so years ago. They offended some people's religion back then. Or going back a bit further: in the 1920's, this was the gear: http://dallasvintageshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/im000590.JPG
Those who wanted to wear this: http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/ocean-view/essays/lothrop/swimsuit3.jpg
would also have had to fight to change the rules
The point being, ideas about modesty change, and not always in a single direction. Wanting to expose less is just as valid as wanting to expose more. What's the problem? Does it offend if you look at someone who dresses to different values?
The hygeine argument is just a red herring. I can't see why a rancid pair of unwashed trunks is any more hygeinic than a burkini. Anyway, it's easy enough to address the hygeine aspect by designing the shower entrance so people get properly washed. If pools don't want baggy clothes, they can specify stretch fabric.
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as_the_crow_flies
It would be good to have a photo of the type of burquini in question, because many readers probably aren't familiar with them. Might avoid some needless controversy.
Personally, I think maybe the regulations need looking at to see if this can be accomodated. I remember we used to be told to wear caps to stop hair clogging up pool filters. Doesn't seem to be an issue now. In Japan you're not allowed to use sun cream at outdoor pools, for the same reason, but there would be a public outcry if that was enforced in many countries. I see lots of women with two layers on in Japan (shorts over swimsuit) and it's considered normal. Likewise, not sure how much bacteria are likely to be in a burquini that aren't in a swimsuit. Maybe they just need to install power showers to ensure that the costume is properly rinsed before bathers go into the water. Comes down to flexibility, surely.
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as_the_crow_flies
The problem is not that is has produced results. The problem is the results it has produced.
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as_the_crow_flies
or maybe "I wanted to discipline her because maybe she would start crying."
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as_the_crow_flies
By the same logic then, it's also wrong to let teachers think it's okay to misbehave. In this case, the misbehaviour being that the teacher, knowing that corporal punishment is against the law, still clouts 41 kids. So therefore he should be punished so that we teach teachers that rules are there to be respected. Period.
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as_the_crow_flies
Why, the Japanese half, of course.
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