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  blvtzpk at 08:47 AM JST - 3rd June

  ‘‘We want to provide opportunities for grandfathers and grandmothers to help promote popular Japanese culture to the world and for their grandchildren to experience different cultures,’’ said a company official.

  I hear this regularly - why is there this need to 'promote Japanese culture to the world'?

  Posted in More retirees accommodating foreign students on homestay programs at 08:47 AM JST - 3rd June

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  blvtzpk at 08:57 PM JST - 2nd June

  bollocks

  Zippppp!!!

  Posted in Richard Gere at 08:57 PM JST - 2nd June

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  blvtzpk at 08:48 PM JST - 2nd June

  On the NHK news this evening it said that, after the finger-pointing, he stopped his car, reversed 30 meters and then drove into the kids. Spur of the moment? I don't think so.

  Again, what was this about? Random, unknown kids annoying him with their pointing, or does this story…

  Posted in Man held for attempted murder after driving car into schoolchildren in Chiba at 08:48 PM JST - 2nd June

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  blvtzpk at 05:33 PM JST - 2nd June

  "Someday my bill will come..."

  Posted in 'Cinderella' mobile handset at 05:33 PM JST - 2nd June

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  blvtzpk at 03:55 PM JST - 2nd June

  "Di-VA, Di-VA, Di-VA!!!"

  Posted in 5,000 fans greet Mariah Carey, who arrives 1 hour late for 10-minute event at Venus Fort in Tokyo at 03:55 PM JST - 2nd June

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  blvtzpk at 03:50 PM JST - 2nd June

  A wound-up nation unwinding in spectacular fashion it seems.

  Posted in Man held for attempted murder after driving car into schoolchildren in Chiba at 03:50 PM JST - 2nd June

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  blvtzpk at 01:09 PM JST - 2nd June

  The Japanese cop is a lot like the old British bobby,

  How about "The Japanese cop is a lot like the MYTH OF THE old British bobby",

  A la Dixon of Dock Green, right?

  "'Ello, 'ello, 'ello - What's going on 'ere then?"

  Posted in Are Japanese police really as incompetent as readers on Japan Today make them out to be? at 01:09 PM JST - 2nd June

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  blvtzpk at 11:26 AM JST - 2nd June

  Thanks for everyone's replies. However, what's the point of having the elderly (75+) display these signs?

  For example, in different states in Australia, probationary licences are technically based on the time since you've obtained your driver's licence, rather than purely based on age. Holding a probationary licence means that you're…

  Posted in 2,800 warned on 1st day of law on seatbelts, elderly driving signs at 11:26 AM JST - 2nd June

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  blvtzpk at 10:28 AM JST - 2nd June

  I'd like to know when they're going to construct a giant rotating station with artificial gravity like the one depicted in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

  Yeah. And where's my personal rocket jetpack the futurists promised? I've been waiting since 1966!!

  Posted in Shuttle blasts off carrying Japanese lab at 10:28 AM JST - 2nd June

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  blvtzpk at 10:01 AM JST - 2nd June

  What is the point of the "elderly signs" that these 70+ drivers need to display?

  And what is the sign? A silhouette of a bent-over figure wearing a hat, just about peering over their steering wheel?

  Posted in 2,800 warned on 1st day of law on seatbelts, elderly driving signs at 10:01 AM JST - 2nd June