Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    Christ I just saw this on the news, that guy seriously was crazy or something, he was throwing rocks etc, the police showed some restraint, I think if this were another country, he would have a few bullets in him by now.

    Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat

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    It is the imperial mote, what do you expect? 2 blue suited rentacops to come out and catch him?, of course they'll send in 50+ police, heck I wouldn't be surprised if SAT was on standby. Some naked guy jumps the white house fense obviously he has no weapon, do you think the secret service is going to just send 2 guys to catch him, they're be choppers and all. Some are like 50 police is overkill, well look at the situation, you have: 1. Its the Imperial Mote for pete sake 2. You probably have a lot of onlookers, news etc, you'll need additional officers for crowd countol. 3. Its a pretty big place

    Posted in: Naked Briton detained after swimming in Imperial Palace moat

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    yeah I'm a bit confused as what can the General Consul do, the guy has property on US soil, the people they should be complaining to are local government officials. Unless the guy is living elsewhere?

    Posted in: Residents gripe about billionaire neighbor in Hawaii

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    I disagree, Elderly folks do certainly get scammed out of their life savings sometimes from punks, so more education and information to pass out will help. The banks really need to do something about it too.

    Posted in: Police stationed at ATMs in campaign to root out bank transfer fraud

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    I read this headline expecting to see her in a real costume like mecha machinery.

    Posted in: Akina Minami appears in Gundam costume

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    Nothing says that the stores are being shutdown because of direct competition from the internet. And for anytime in the foreseeable future or mylife time I doubt the internet would ever replace actual fixed places stores you can step into. The internet can't replace the actual experience of going, seeing etc products, putting stuff on and off, or just general windowshopping to kill time.

    Posted in: Isetan Mitsukoshi to close 6 department stores next spring

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    Looks like he's doing a break dance.

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    I knew firefighters who used to be like that 24hour shifts, but at least they worked out of a firehouse and had beds to rest in during the off hours.

    Maybe this guy had a bazillion other problems and just losing the tickets finally went mad.

    Posted in: On-duty officer apparently shoots himself at Tokyo police station

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    LOL I'm trying to think how I would react if someone just came falling through the ceiling, just like the movies! Though usually they fall through the ceiling landing on the bed.

    Posted in: U.S. serviceman breaks into love hotel room

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    On diapers, I'm no expert but if I recall NASA Astronauts use em too.

    Posted in: Sex and the city: Tokyo's taxi drivers see it all

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    "Bullet trains slice through its heart while subways dissect its underbelly." Technically speaking, bullet trains don't slice through the heart of Tokyo, they just run from Ueno-Tokyo or Tokyo-Shinagawa before dissapearing into Kanagawa, lol but thats technical stuff.

    I liked that story about the bag.

    Rare to see women taxi drivers, I remember I saw a young lady driver once, maybe working though college beats me, but very rare.

    Posted in: Sex and the city: Tokyo's taxi drivers see it all

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    JT needs to ask better questions, like "Whats your stance on surrogate births and immigration status of the child". If I recall there was a case last year or something on that matter?

    Posted in: What is your stance on surrogate births?

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    "found at a train station" headline, article, found "near", being at and being near are two different things. I think the coin lockers found at train stations are checked more often (eg after one or two days), some that are inside the gates I think are checked everynight, not sure, but I do see the guards sometimes checking each at night. Anycase since it was not at the station itself, there might not be any cameras out there to catch whats up.

    Posted in: Body of newborn baby found in coin locker at train station in Tokyo

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    Even in the electronic age that was supposed to eliminate paper, what do we have more of in the office? Paper! Copiers, fax machines, printers etc.

    I agree until "internet" news comes in flat plastic or some futuristic thin material I can fold out and read on a train or traveling then newspapers are still good. Sorry but reading the news on a small iphone or cellphone screen is a pain, and whipping out a notebook while standing on a train isn't ideal either.

    Posted in: Do you think reading newspapers will become a thing of the past in the Internet era?

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    yuki I bet you a million more then likely everyone including the hotel staff and rescue people thought it was one of those detergent suicides that was all over the news a few months ago, so they were probably just doing a quick search to see if no one was in some bathroom dead. And is what probably prompted the evacuation, again like those cases a few months ago since it can be toxic if someone did a detergent suicide. The employee probably just ran across the suitcase while doing some room cleaning.

    Though its hard to say without all the details.

    Posted in: Woman's body found in suitcase in Tokyo hotel

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    Considering the article is most likely a translated one, it could of meant attempt to "detain" a person until police arrive. Or it could of possibly meant "citizens arrest". For example, I know train station staff sometime detain/hold someone (eg a fare evader or whatever) until the police arrive. Technically not arrest. For example, back in the states, depending on various local laws and state policies, security guards can detain someone until the police arrive to "arrest" them.

    Forgetting all the terminology above, good work for the two guys stepping in to help the lady, and I hope the punk who picks on old ladies gets the book thrown at him.

    Posted in: Man slashes two men with cutter knife after attempting to steal 91-year-old woman's bag in Tokyo

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    It is not uncommon for many police departments, not just Japan, to not accept a non citizen/national. Even the RCMP requires members to be Canadian Citizens. So yes there could be Japanese-Canadians, but they are Canadian citizens not Japanese citizens (though I doubt there are any in the RCMP, but there could be). Do departments hire minorities elsewhere, yes, but again most cases they are citizens.

    On the other topic of recruiting officers that reflect the community, in the US there's always been a problem recruiting Asian-American police officers, mainly due to historical reasons, parents coming from countries with corrupt police forces or no trust in public authority, or parents wanting them to be doctors, lawyers etc, but not police officers.

    Posted in: Japanese man to become police officer in New Zealand

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    15 meals totaling 2810 yen, so each meal cost 187.33 yen? What costs that much at Yoshinoya, or at 360 yen a pop for gyudon, 7 bowls, hmm that doesn't add up to 15. Anycase, I guess no one bothered to ask why he was sitting there for 12 hours, well I don't eat at Yoshinoya anyway, Matsuya you pay before you eat.

    Posted in: Man arrested for eating at Yoshinoya without paying for 12 hours

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    "The FIG has said repeatedly that a passport is the “accepted proof of a gymnast’s eligibility,” and that China’s gymnasts have presented ones that show they are age eligible. The IOC also checked the girls’ passports and deemed them valid."

    Of course the passports are valid, they were printed by the PRC, they could write anything inside them.

    I find it interesting that her birthrate changes from time to time on various registration documents on events prior to the Olympics.

    The Chinese are going at this in two points, saying the Passport is valid and saying its racists because asians tend to have smaller frames then westerners. Well I don't doubt that second part, the only part I'm questioning is why Birthdate changes a lot on registration documents, even if you didn't have a photograph or knew what someone looked like, or even what country they were from, but they had different listed Birthdays for competitions competed in prior to the Olympics, and right before the Olympics birthdate was changed again to an earlier one, wouldn't that raise your eyebrow, at least investigate to see what the discrepancy in why the past listed dates were either right or incorrect.

    Posted in: IOC asks for investigation of China's gymnasts

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    Ronin had an excellent car chase, and was a pretty darn good movie. Though most people don't know or remember it, it had a pretty good star cast.

    Posted in: Which movie has the best car chase?

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