JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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bamboohat
Three rules of life passed on from Homer to Bart (when homer thought he was going to die from an improperly prepared blowfish):
1) It was like this when I found it
2) It's the other guys fault
3) Great idea, boss!
Posted in: The truth about lying
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bamboohat
One child a newborn boy, one child a young girl. If they came from the same mom, then the girl was at least nine months old.
They'd been frozen for two days, and they aren't sure how they died. I hope mom didn't just have a change of heart, and shove two kids into the freezer, where they sat for two days before anybody noticed them.
Posted in: Bodies of two infants found in supermarket freezer
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bamboohat
This guy didn't have a phone of his own? Didn't know how use one? Forgot the number? Strange.
Were they married? the story mentions the guy only lived there a few months.
Sad, sad case.
Posted in: Child abuse suspected after bruised 3-year-old girl dies
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bamboohat
ganbarre
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bamboohat
The stuff presented in this article is by no means cutting edge, and even incorrect. Although their are several "general" body language gestures that relate to "general" meanings, there is no universal cheat sheet. The only way is to calibrate, that is notice how somebody is behaving when you KNOW they are lying and remember it. Poker players call this looking for "tells."
For example, somebody may cover their nose or their mouth not because they are lying, but because they are fearful of how you will take whatever they are saying.
The truth is that all humans are natural born lie detectors, as well as liars. Evolutionary psychologists believe this is the "arm's race" that skyrocketed the size of the human brain. A inter-species competition between liars, and lie detectors. The ability for the unconscious to assimilate all those micro movements into an intuition, or gut feeling that somebody is being truthful or not.
You don't really need to know all the stuff in this article, just being able to trust your gut instinct is oftentimes all you need.
This can be tough when you're desperate to make a sale.
Posted in: The truth about lying
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bamboohat
This poor guy is gonna get a grilling never experienced in Japan. You won't be able bow your way out of this one, Toyoda-san. I'd sure hate to be in his shoes. I have no idea who is right or wrong in this heavily politically motivated issues, but it can't be fun answering to a bunch of idiot blowhard congressmen who wouldn't be able to build a profitable lemonade stand, let alone run a business.
Posted in: Japan hopes Toyoda can clear image, cool friction in Washington
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bamboohat
Jesus, that sounds painful. Has the guy been arrested for attempted murder? This was obviously premeditated.
Posted in: Head of ward office in Okinawa town sets man on fire in parking lot
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bamboohat
Hopefully when she gets well, her parents won't stick her back into the system with a "ganbarre!"
Glad she's allright. Hope her friends help her pull through. Adults have obviously failed her.
In an ideal world, school staff would keep an eye out for kids that seem depressed, and take a proactive approach instead of waiting for the kid to come to them with their problems.
Obviously, in the real world, school staff assume that unless a kid comes to them with specific plans to kill themselves, everything is hunky dory.
Posted in: 14-year-old girl survives suicide attempt at Mie school
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bamboohat
^^^
Plus 10 Internets for you Mr. Oberst
Posted in: From 'Kill Bill' to Uniqlo, Chiaki Kuriyama shows her killer style
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bamboohat
call me old school, but snowboarding doesn't belong in the olympics. It's a great sport, fascinating to watch, but an olympic competition it ain't.
anyways, we'll see how good an athlete this cat is by how he does in four years, or if he even shows up.
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bamboohat
You'd think these guys' "type of woman" would be the type that wouldn't call the cops after they touched them.
Posted in: Man arrested after embracing female employee in hotel
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bamboohat
Sorry, but anytime the cops' standard procedure is to allow the crime to happen again, especially when the could have easily identified the guy, I'm going to criticize.
Posted in: NEC research chief arrested for molesting girl on train
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bamboohat
Heads up to the author:
Don't write "in closing" if you are going to blather on for another three or four paragraphs.
Businesses succeed or fail based on the marketplace, nothing else. Eikaiwa is like fast food, and the workers are like minimum wages workers at Mcdonalds. If you managed a Mcdonalds and spent all kinds of effort worrying about the experience of your employees, you wouldn't sell too many burgers. When people buy a big mac they don't give a rip about the order takers experience.
If you wanted to attract better workers with higher pay, you'd have to raise the price of the big mac, and you wouldn't sell as much.
Eikaiwa is fast food. Don't try and pretend that it's actually high level language learning, and you'll be OK.
Certain industries simply mean crappy conditions for the workers, based on the marketplace. Eikaiwa is on of them.
Posted in: Managing gaijin teachers
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bamboohat
You're assuming that government drones can think like businesspeople. They usually can't, that's why they are government drones.
I don't think it has anything to do with GM or Chrysler. I just think the U.S. govt is capitalizing on this problem and using it to gain public trust (we care about your safety) which has been eroding pretty quickly lately.
I honestly think the recent takeover of GM et. al is purely coincidental.
The billions owed to the government is like all other taxpayers dollars, they think of it like monopoly money. When you can deficit spend your way into trillions of debt, you don't really care about things like the bottom line.
Posted in: U.S. gov't demands Toyota hand over documents on recalls
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bamboohat
WTF? Why would they notify the railway company? Too busy to leave the koban? This is disgusting. The cops don't know how to do police work so they leave it to private railway security?
All they had to do was ask the girl what time the guy was on the train, send a plainclothes officer with her and bag the guy, but instead they chose to notify the railway company security.
Obviously, the cops don't care too much about high school girls getting molested on trains.
I can understand why some women don't want to report things like this to the cops. It's not that their afraid, it's that they know the cops are utterly useless.
Posted in: NEC research chief arrested for molesting girl on train
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bamboohat
What a horrible story. If her parents aren't guilty of something, they sure as hell are going to feel guilt the rest of their lives. Why weren't they named and quoted?
Posted in: 4-year-old girl dies after fall from 9th-floor balcony in Osaka town
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bamboohat
you can bet this interrogation will be recorded..
Posted in: Antiwhaling protester to be brought to Japan for questioning
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bamboohat
this girl better give this guy a lot of lovin' for saving her life...
a long time lovin'...
Posted in: Man saves woman from train after she falls onto tracks
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bamboohat
They beat this kid outside his own house for an hour, and the parents didn't think anything was wrong?
This didn't happen at three in the morning, most people would have still been awake. Surely somebody saw this happening, and didn't do anything.
Horrible. If I was this kid, I'd be motivated to recover just to give a beat down to my neighbors for not watching my back.
Animals
Posted in: Four youths arrested for beating student unconscious
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bamboohat
Terrible. Wish a full recovery to the injured. RIP to the dead.
Posted in: Head-on collision results in three dead on Yonago Expressway