Wednesday February 15, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

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bdiegoJan. 03, 2011 - 12:15PM JST

She is quite the cougar! I'm exaggerating, but I can dream can't I?

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bdiegoJan. 03, 2011 - 12:04PM JST

Let's not get carried away here about population declines. White people are in decline as well. Many European countries and especially the USA are in constantly decline in white population - it's the immigrants who are having the babies. So let's not be so quick to gloat over the Japanese thinking our own population increase means we're good.

Posted in: Japan struggles to deal with child suicides
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bdiegoJan. 03, 2011 - 12:01PM JST

The school does share at least part of the blame, but yeah the media does like to oversimplify. That said, the most important thing they can do is expel students who have a pattern of bullying. It eliminates the source of the problem and a lot of would be copycats, so everyone can focus on school. It's not just going to help the kids who commit suicides.

The other thing which is not proven but common sense is to teach children about bullying and get them to work together on it. It's counter-intuitive to human nature, but some schools have programs like this and claim they work. Why not try it out, if there's a real possibility they could work. Again, not proven but better than doing nothing.

Posted in: Japan struggles to deal with child suicides
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bdiegoJan. 03, 2011 - 11:57AM JST

Kara girls are nice, but they dance like transvestites. Watch carefully and you'll see what I mean.

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bdiegoJan. 03, 2011 - 11:55AM JST

Well to be fair, it's quite likely both of them are over-reactors. He's just the bigger one.

Posted in: 74-yr-old man held for killing 71-yr-old wife
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bdiegoDec. 18, 2010 - 06:01AM JST

Combini that's because you're searching your usual websites

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bdiegoDec. 17, 2010 - 04:27AM JST

Wow, it costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars! Hundreds!

Seriously, it's not all that much except for the fact that their relatives are often poor. You know, people who think hundreds of dollars is a lot for dying.

Posted in: Suicides can run up a posthumous bundle
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bdiegoDec. 16, 2010 - 05:29AM JST

mike is correct, the sick people are the ones smuggling them and the parents who brought them. It would be another thing if they weren't sailing across the ocean and just trying to cross the border. But they got greedy, and wanted to invade Australia. That's just dumb.

I get people trying to immigrate illegally. Just don't do something dumb like this.

Posted in: 27 asylum seekers die as boat sinks off Australia
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bdiegoDec. 15, 2010 - 04:32AM JST

If they know the businesses, they should simply pass a law saying every Yakuza owned or run business has to have a sticker on their front window labeling them as such. And taking down that sticker is life in prison. Problem solved.

Posted in: The dismay of discovering you're working for organized crime
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bdiegoDec. 14, 2010 - 10:05AM JST

“Elderly shoplifting cases have become a major social problem..We must seek how to rebuild our social ties.”

Okay..really?

“Some of the seniors here were convicted of shoplifting after having trouble making ends meet..In a way, they are victims of the bad economy, but that shouldn’t be an excuse.”

Yeah, they should just die.

No wonder it just gets worse so quickly, with logic like this.

The Bible had it figured out. Normally you punish someone sevenfold for stealing, but if they only stole food they just have to repay the cost. No mention of prison, because it doesn't work and costs you way more than what gets stolen. It's a vicious cycle and the cure is worse than the disease.

Posted in: Japanese prisons face swelling elderly population
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bdiegoDec. 09, 2010 - 01:27AM JST

Wow, all the parties involved are major dicks, and it's quite a coincidence that they met each other on the train.

Posted in: 70,000 commuters delayed by quarrel over cell phone on train in Chiba
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bdiegoDec. 07, 2010 - 01:10PM JST

Don't know about you, but my wedding was officiated by a practicing preacher. But yeah, some places save money by hiring a fake. Out of a $20K typical wedding, that's where you save money rite?

Posted in: 'Single' Akina Minami wins Wedding Best Dresser Award
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bdiegoDec. 03, 2010 - 05:16AM JST

They need to crackdown on cell phones too, and mass transit. These are key tools in prostitution as well, and no law abiding citizen would ever dream of using them.

Keystones to the fail once again

Posted in: 'Shallow-brained bureaucrats' crackdown on love hotels unlikely to thwart teen prostitution
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bdiegoDec. 03, 2010 - 05:12AM JST

Plenty of other cults like Aum also don't like the Kan government, doesn't make them right lol.

Posted in: Time for change
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bdiegoDec. 02, 2010 - 09:44AM JST

Well, the funder is either a proxy for the US (so it doesn't create an outrage among Muslims), or it's by a terrorist organization fronting as an anti-piracy group. Either way, will be interesting to watch if they do end up kicking doors down. Because they know where all the pirates are at port.

Posted in: 1,000-man militia being trained in north Somalia
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bdiegoDec. 02, 2010 - 09:41AM JST

tkoind2, do your friends play pop music? Because if they do, they suck by definition. I'm guessing not.

Posted in: Does J-pop really suck?
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bdiegoDec. 02, 2010 - 09:37AM JST

Not any more than the rest of the world's music and the drones that listen to it.

Posted in: Does J-pop really suck?
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bdiegoDec. 02, 2010 - 09:35AM JST

Dictionary definition of benign: showing or expressive of gentleness or kindness

I think you're confusing it with another word. MT might not have been a saint, but suggesting she was a cruel or vicious person is a flippant attempt to make a point.

Posted in: Is religion more of a destructive or benign force in the world today?
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bdiegoDec. 02, 2010 - 09:33AM JST

Computers are fallable. Of course, this would usually be in their design but may also happen due to outside sources, such as cosmic rays. Extremely rare but real in causing computer malfunctions.

Posted in: Is religion more of a destructive or benign force in the world today?
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bdiegoNov. 30, 2010 - 09:12AM JST

While it might be a decent time to buy today, it's certainly not true that a recession is automatically a good time to buy. Japan had a two decade recession, the entire time of which was an incredibly terrible time to buy with house values declining the whole time.

The key is to buy just before the recession ends. That's why people confuse it with "buying in a recession". No, don't do that unless you want to screw yourself over.

Posted in: Real estate in Japan: A good time to buy or not?