JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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bdiego
Darwin would like to say hi. If someone refuses to wear a seatbelt when they drive and die as a result, that's their own fault. This is no different except taken to a further extreme.
Posted in: 'Hikikomori' disorder could complicate Japan quake recovery
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bdiego
Um, the only remorse he has ever shown is that he had no choice but to kill her. That's basically what he's said over and over. He doesn't think it's murder - he was just choking her until she stopped making any noise. Gee whiz.
Posted in: Trial of Lindsay Ann Hawker murder suspect Ichihashi to start July 4
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bdiego
Yeah, it's almost like those animals were killed en masse, by some kind of disasterous event. Anything come to mind?
There are also a ton of fake stories going around. There's no such thing as finding 600,000 dead birds. Gimme a break and use some common sense.
Posted in: Gov't expected to announce no-entry zone around nuclear plant
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bdiego
I won't be seeing this movie or reading the book from which it was spawned.
So? Do you have something to contribute?
Posted in: 'Freakonomics' documentary looks at sumo match-fixing scandal
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bdiego
Captain Obvious approves of this book.
Posted in: 'Freakonomics' documentary looks at sumo match-fixing scandal
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bdiego
It was gonna happen anyways sooner or later, now they have a great excuse! So we really can't complain since it was inevitable, nor can we say it's a good thing because it just means they will spend more until they need to raise it again.
As usual, the problem isn't the tax level but that we are addicted to spending every penny we tax plus more.
Posted in: The government is considering the introduction of a new tax to finance the huge costs of reconstruction in the Tohoku region following last month's earthquake and tsunami. What are your thoughts on such a tax?
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bdiego
Good luck throwing grandma out of her house and letting her rot.
Posted in: Gov't expected to announce no-entry zone around nuclear plant
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bdiego
He was quoted as saying that he crushed her windpipe while trying to prevent her from crying out.
Well, even if everything he claims is true, that's actually still murder. It just wouldn't be first degree in some countries, but I doubt it matters in Japan.
This is typical murderer thinking - I wouldn't have killed her if she didn't resist, so it wasn't murder by definition.
Posted in: Trial of Lindsay Ann Hawker murder suspect Ichihashi to start July 4
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bdiego
They're reporting the facts. You're confusing the justice system and the prosecution of an individual with facts. He's dead, so there is no trial.
By your logic, we need a trial to determine what year the Constitution was written and when the summer carnival is being held.
Posted in: Chiba man shoots and kills company president, turns gun on himself
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bdiego
'There’s no broad agreement within Christianity about what happens to people after they die.' Exactly, so I'm frankly surprised anyone would criticize this author while having remained silent so long about everyone else's ideas.
The modern concept of hell simply did not exist in Christ's time. It's a human invention, and a fairly vain one for which some people ironically will go to hell for believing in.
Posted in: What is hell? Book stirs debate about afterlife
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bdiego
'George W Bush’s entry, for example, makes no reference to Hurricane Katrina, a disaster many thought his administration handled poorly, or the economic collapse of 2008, but it does find room for the names of his dogs.'
This is biographical information. Please author, before you write any more words, learn the meaning of them. I mean as much as I hate Bush, I see nothing wrong with the biographical entry on him. Please, put down the pen.
Posted in: Historians question White House presidential bios
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bdiego
People murder dozens for decades and aren't apprehended either. What's the surprise. The police can't catch everyone anywhere, especially in developing countries like China.
Logic fail to the people who think police would actually want to inflate the number of crimes he got away with for so long. lol
Posted in: Chinese man appeals death sentence for 116 rapes
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bdiego
Bitter jealously. People don't like to suffer alone, after all.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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bdiego
“You should be bowing your head in apology. You clearly have no leadership at all,” Masashi Waki, a lawmaker from the opposition Liberal Democratic Party..
Shouldn't they be telling that to everyone in the Diet? I mean really, the pot calling the kettle black here
Posted in: Gov't under fire for disaster response; TEPCO chief heckled in Diet
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bdiego
To be fair, this was some of the earlier episodes Jenny's been on. She's toned it down since then.
Posted in: Jenny Periman sparkles in NHK's 'Eigo de Asobo'
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bdiego
I feel some of the episodes are badly designed and scary or stressful to children. It is seriously one of only two Japanese kids shows I don't allow my child to watch, the other one being a program where they use nothing but slangs.
Posted in: Jenny Periman sparkles in NHK's 'Eigo de Asobo'
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bdiego
Maybe I was just unlucky, but this was the episode I first saw her in:
Jenny: What's in the box? What do you have? What is that?..
..in rapid succession. So stressful and high tension.
Please, slow down.
Posted in: Jenny Periman sparkles in NHK's 'Eigo de Asobo'
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bdiego
People don't understand the Japanese judicial process here. There's no decision to be made. They didn't have the manpower to investigate, meaning they legally could not hold them anyways. You get 30 days to build your case (you have to go to a judge twice to get 10 day extensions), and then you either must indict or you let them go. I doubt they had the manpower to even obtain the extension, let alone continue interrogating 30 people for 30 days. Do the math.
Posted in: Woman, among 31 detainees released from police custody following tsunami, rearrested
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bdiego
Yeah, people can get hysterical when attacking or defending pot and there's plenty of irony to go around. In any case the current laws are just impractical. If they really want to stop pot, they need to develop electronic sniffing chips asap or have pot dogs patrolling the street. Those dogs would just need lots of rest and an occasional big mac between jobs.
Posted in: 2 men arrested for growing hemp in Tokyo park
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bdiego
I'm all for dumping it in an emergency, but what they're actually saying here is everybody can start doing it all the time just fine. Seriously.
Posted in: Japan says dumping radioactive water in ocean doesn't violate law