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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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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bebert
Of course he did the right thing. Tolerance means tolerance for everyone, including drunken racists, so long as they don't get violent.
Posted in: Different strokes for different folks
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bebert
Yes, when you have spent 7 years running a state into the ground, Federal welfare is the only way out. I feel bad for citizens of responsible states like Texas that have to bail out your silly ass and the ass of other losers like New York and California.
Posted in: Democrats, Republicans spar over stimulus money
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bebert
We got oceans. Sink the boats.
Posted in: Mass migrations and war: Dire climate scenario
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bebert
When the law breaks down, you get the best of both worlds:
Street Justice.
Posted in: Accused thief stoned to death in southern Mexico
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bebert
More money for the losers of life's lottery. In other words, the people who refuse to better themselves or work.
Posted in: Obama turns next to budget, health care, entitlements
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bebert
Awsome!
Posted in: Hamarikyu garden
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bebert
On what planet do these bed wetters live? 1930-land? All China has to do is stop showing up at U.S. debt sales for 6 months and the U.S. would hand over the Dali Lhama himself. China may not match the United States' military might, but they could easily kick out the last leg of the rotting porch that is the U.S. economy. America's days of hectoring China and Russia are over. I don't even know if they could wrest more holocaust reparations out of Europe.
Posted in: Activists shocked at Clinton's stance on human rights in China
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bebert
Sarkozy spends billions to prevent unrest in France
Is he kidding? Rioting is France's national pastime. The native French do it, the immigrants do it. Students, farmers, public transit workers, the unemployed, the intellectuals, rioting seems to be how they celebrate life.
The only way Sarkozy can prevent the inevitable unrest that is coming due to the world economic crisis is to dress every citizen in his country with one of those shock collars people use to control their dogs. Although drafting some of the worst cases and banishing them to Afghanistan would be a nice half-effort.
Posted in: Sarkozy spends billions to prevent unrest in France
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bebert
In other words, issues that are important to blacks - to be discussed within a politically correct framework, with no criticism of minorities allowed.
This is why Japan needs to keep immigration to a bare minimum.
Posted in: Attorney general says U.S. cowardly on race matters
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bebert
There is a great book co-written by Jane Goodall titled Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People. Many chapters cover incidents just like this where people keep chimps as pets or as performers. In one, a pair of married psychiatrists tried to raise a female chimp as a human, including giving her free access to the bar and gay pornography. The experiment ended when the chimp tried to rape their 10-year-old son. Also, the reason Michael Jackson got rid of his pet chimp, Bubbles? Bubbles body slammed Michael to the ground one day. It was probably the only decent discipline anyone has given Jacko since he became an adult.
The lesson of the book is that while it might seem fun to have a chimp around and let him smoke and drink as much as he wants, it really isn't. And this lady is going to learn the consequences when she gets sued for everything she has.
Posted in: Slain chimp's owner now says it wasn't on Xanax
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bebert
Sure, then the union workers could retire after 20 years instead of 30 years -with better benefits- and return to their productivity levels of the 1970's and early 80's when when one worker would do two jobs for 4 hours while his co-worker would either go to the bar or off to sleep somewhere.
Humane to everyone but the taxpayer and the victims who would end up buying the products.
Posted in: GM, Chrysler seek billions more, to cut more jobs
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bebert
The show wasn't canceled. The producers decided to end the series after 4 seasons rather than dragging it out and letting the plot-line get stale. It isn't a bad decision to go out on a high note with strong writing (unlike the original).
Posted in: Grace Park hones her skills on 'Battlestar Galactica'
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bebert
One reason the U.S. Navy wants to use more powerful sonar that also causes damage to whales. Modern nuclear subs are just too quiet.
Posted in: Nuclear subs didn't know they hit each other, France says
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bebert
“We had a photo and him saying he was sorry for inappropriate behavior,” Lott said. “He never said, ‘I smoked marijuana.’ We didn’t have physical evidence.”
People questioned why Phelps didn't specifically admit to smoking pot instead of being elusive and saying he had made a mistake. This is the reason and Phelps was aware of this from day 1. Like it or not, smoking pot is a crime. Never admit to illegal activity unless questioned under oath. During which case, you must testify truthfully or evasively or face perjury charges, like Martha Stewart. Phelps was never arrested, so he was never read his rights. He played it the right way and thus has come away with the best possible outcome for himself, considering he committed a criminal offense. Good for him.
Posted in: No charges will be filed against Michael Phelps
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bebert
These things happen. Chalk it up as a case of young love. The girl was obviously confused and couldn't make a decision -such as abortion or adoption. She ended up dumping the kid on the mountain. If the old bat had come around a little sooner, the kid might still be alive and she could have raised it as her own. Maybe she was selfish.
Posted in: Newborn baby found dead in mountains of Hiroshima
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bebert
I agree, all of these people who bought homes they couldn't afford should get thrown out onto the street. If you signed up for a mortgage that increases from 4 to 12% after three years, you have to be a moron. I've watched interviews with some of these people and they are so brain-dead that I really have to question if they have any sort of income, short of selling drugs. Once again, the successful people, the hard working people, those who save rather than spend, the ants of our society, are being bled dry to bail out the lazy grasshoppers who don't save, don't work, don't think - but just consume. It is no wonder that the producers don't just pull a "John Galt" and say "The hell with it!" and refuse to pull the cart any longer.
Posted in: Obama's next target: home mortgage foreclosure crisis
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bebert
Reconstruction was just a wild-ass looting of the South. Anyone who reads about the lack of fiscal discipline and corruption of the black/Yankee postwar legislatures understands why reconstruction failed. But in this era of Obama, everyone is expected to recite the party line and look at political experiments like Zimbabwe as if they are great successes and wonders of diversity and racial progress. When they are really abject failures.
Polk is responsible for expanding the United States to the West Coast by winning the Southwest from Mexico and advancing to the Northwest. He pretty much doubled the land mass of the USA. He is usually ranked in the top 10. And he did it all in one term. He also skipped his inauguration party, saying it was a frivolous waste of time.
Ronald Reagan did more than defeat the Russians. He rebuilt the economy, slashed taxes, crushed communism in the Western hemisphere, appointed some great justices to the supreme court, etc. It's a long list.
Carter is a so-so president. He lost Nicaragua to the communists, he let the country go into hyper-inflation, he negotiated peace between the Israelis and the Egyptians (for which American Jews turned on him during his reelection campaign - especially NY mayor Koch), but he was certainly a decent man. A rare Christian that walks the talk.
I thought Jefferson formed the US navy and sent them to Africa to fight the Barbary pirates. So his wasn't an entirely violence free reign. He was definitely a great president. In my top 5.
Posted in: Lincoln ranked best president by historians
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bebert
It's a great novel and Endo is a great novelist. I don't think it bashes the Japanese, since most of the martyrs were Japanese. It blasts the government. It should be a great film, I hope. An Endo novel that probably couldn't be made into a Japanese film, is The Sea and Poison, which is about Japanese medical experiments committed on American POWs.
The early Japanese Christians were largely desperately poor peasants. They would have clung to anything that would have offered them hope. In this case, it happened to be Christianity. The Japanese government was right to crush this mental infection, even if they did so in a barbarically cruel way. It was a form of invasion meant to conquer Japan. It would have been followed by soldiers and merchants who would have taken more and more and more, just like they did in China. Japan would have become another debased nation sucking down opium with a cannon to its head. In fact, that is eventually how Japan was opened up - with American warships cruising into Tokyo Bay, demanding the Japanese start buying American goods.
Anyway, it should be a rather poignant film. I'm surprised Mel Gibson didn't take a crack at it before now. In America, all of the Jesus Freaks are going to flock to it like they did with The Passion of the Christ. Big money.
Posted in: Scorsese plans film on early Japanese Christians
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bebert
No, she looks awesome. The pigtails are just for the "kawaii" effect. She could mature her look in a few seconds by removing two bands.
No kidding. Nothing makes life more unbearable than being around some shrieking virago.
Posted in: Chinatsu Wakatsuki investigates DVD release of 'Dexter'
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bebert
No, I rather doubt it, but their handlers would never have let him get before a TV camera. He'd have been declared "sick."
Cut the guy a break. He drank too much and woke up still loaded or at best hung-over. If he was a pilot and he showed up to work, yes - fire his ass, but he's a finance minister. Who the hell cares?
Posted in: Finance minister under fire for sloppy behavior at G-7 meeting