JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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bamboohat
now there's a great idea for a reality show. Stick a camera in one of these places and show it to all the asiaphiles back west. They'll at it up.
Posted in: Meet the brains of Tokyo's women-only housing boom
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bamboohat
"I planned on killing myself too."
I don't believe that for a frikking second.
those that plan on a double suicide usually follow through. Those that murder for other reasons usually make up stories after the fact.
Questions:
Where exactly was the husband during all of this? How did he find out? why didn't he stop it?
Posted in: Woman arrested for killing 9-year-old son in Nagoya hotel
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bamboohat
why all the hate? This is the kind of thing you need to be successful. Take an existing set of products (apartments), re-package it without needing to actually produce anything (re model) and sell it to a hot niche (women who want to escape from reality).
Of course, a couple of cute girls selling cheap shared apartments with gaudy interior design to females only will ALWAYS get much more press than the hundreds, if not thousands of landlords who have already jumped on this bandwagon and converted closet space and rented them out to part timers one or two meals way from poverty.
When its done for guys, its necessary, economy, etc.
When a couple of cuties do it its kawaii, cutting edge, brilliant, photogenic, media savvy, etc.
Posted in: Meet the brains of Tokyo's women-only housing boom
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bamboohat
This is like some of those gag gifts you buy in some of those off the wall bookstores.
Posted in: Nice putt
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bamboohat
A guy gets beat in your restaurant, and you "look after" the guy?
Why didn't he just call an ambulance or the cops straight away? usually a bar brawl that ends with somebody injured, you call the cops.
WTF is wrong with these people?
Posted in: Ex-gangster held after beating customer to death in Thai restaurant in Tokyo
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bamboohat
All this awards are starting to sound like back in elementary school when EVERYBODY won something so nobody would feel left out.
Posted in: Becky and Ryuta Sato win Best Smile of the Year awards
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bamboohat
Sorry Japan, but until the U.S. crumbles, it is the proverbial 600 gorilla.
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bamboohat
And after you spent an hour explaining yourself, and filling out the proper forms, while the police organized an official, by the book and up the level of command approved search of where you saw him, the dude would have had another plastic surgery.
Posted in: If you saw someone you thought was murder suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi on the street, in a restaurant or on a train, for example, realistically speaking, what would you do?
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bamboohat
I need me a couple of thermal tops, and uniqlo is the perfect place to get 'em. warm and sensibly priced. I bought a bunch last year but I can only find two of them. Oh well. Maybe I'll bump into one of these models there....
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bamboohat
wow, those j-stones are really on top of things. Almost six months to catch the guy.
And why in the world was a plainclothes officer doing in patrol car?
And why in the world did a guy flash a lady in a cop car?
Posted in: Fukushima flasher caught red-handed by female police officer
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bamboohat
I think "jihadists ideas" is a more appropriate term. I don't think they are sending in sleeper agents ala Tom Clancy just yet. If they were, that would be an awful lot of planning and work just to kill some unfortunate soldiers with a couple handguns. You'd think they would be able to plan something bigger.
I suspect this was a combination of "jihadist ideas" and just the normal "snapping nutter" syndrome.
Posted in: Army psychiatrist kills 12, wounds 31 in shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas
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bamboohat
I like movies. I see lots of movies. If it's made by QT, I'll see it. Some I'll even watch several times over the course of several years (pulp fiction, kill Bill I).
As far as two hours of entertainment, QT's movies are worth the price of a movie ticket.
That being said, Jackie Brown sucked. If I was channels surfing and came across that, I wouldn't stop for very long.
Posted in: What do you think of Quentin Tarantino as a filmmaker?
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bamboohat
The only gals I see in my neck of the woods wearing kimonos are at least sixty years old.
Where do these kimono wearing model types hang out?
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bamboohat
True Fact: There is a huge online market of erotic fiction for women. And by far, the best selling genre is where the vampire comes in, swoops the woman off her feet, and makes mad vampire love to her.
The whole twilight series is mind pornography for teenage girls. Strong dominant man giving up his power to be with the average jane that he loves.
Even the final scene in the first twilight was a metaphor for a man making love to a woman and holding himself off from orgasm because she couldn't take it. (the scene where he has to bite her to save her but not enough to turn her into a vampire)
The vampire boom will never end.
Posted in: Hollywood gushes bloodsuckers in vampire boom
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bamboohat
She should be sentenced to house arrest.
At my house.
Posted in: Should Noriko Sakai do jail time for possession and use of stimulants?
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bamboohat
Headline: "dude spends one million yen, blah blah blah"
Actual Story: "I heard that they did this and that so they must've spent at least a million yen"
So the assertion of fact in the headline, the core of this story, is based on a guess based on second hand information of an unnamed "spectator."
Brilliant reporting JT.
Moderator: It's not JT reporting, but Shukan Post reporting.
Posted in: Yokozuna Hakuho spends Y1 million for night in Ginza
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bamboohat
Hope she and the kid pull through ok. And sick as it sounds, I'm glad the dude successfully killed himself, unlike many other cases, where the victims are the only ones that die. Dude must be messed to stab a six month old.
Posted in: Man dies after stabbing himself, wife and 6-month-old baby in Aichi
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bamboohat
this is about the same as a closet racist saying "some of my friends are black..."
maybe, but you wouldn't want one marrying your daughter, just like despite not liking whale meat, Hatoyama ultimately supports the whaling industry.
Just another empty political statement meant to appease without conceding anything.
Posted in: 'I hate whale meat,' Hatoyama reportedly tells Dutch PM
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bamboohat
Social darwinism will sort 'em all out eventually...
Posted in: New breed of employees can’t communicate and wilt under pressure
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bamboohat
First of all, when you have a list, you need ten items, not nine. And you are supposed to end with number one.
How do these half baked blog posts end up on JT?
And whenever you are talking about breast enlargement products, international Internet law specifically states you MUST show before and after pics.
Posted in: The wackiest Japanese beauty products ever