JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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After they dig, they will find exactly this:
And Kawauchi will say, "We did our best but nothing was found."
Or am I being too cynical again?
Posted in: Japan excavating site linked to WWII human experiments by Unit 731
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USAkuma,
According to more reliable news (not NHK), she and her parents loaned the cameraman several million yen. That's the money she was going to collect, not some fantasy blackmail money.
Posted in: NHK cameraman in missing housewife case deleted email records
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Too much stimulus - constant announcements, people talking, adverts, noise - can also give people input overload and induce a sleep-like response. This doesn't explain nodding off during deathly dull meetings, however.
Posted in: Tokyo's catnap culture
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Slowly the area becomes gentrified, hostel owners realize backpackers have more money than day laborers, increase the prices, and the next thing the day laborers know, they've been priced out of a room.
Posted in: Japan's largest slum attracting new breed of visitor: backpackers
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Only if the parents choose a Japanese surname for it. If they choose a non-Japanese name, it gets a non-Japanese name.
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• From the article: “For those who seek to keep separate surnames, the forcible use of one surname between couples is a serious human rights violation,”
Tsukamoto is one patient lady. I hope the fossils that are the Japanese government can get their piddly little heads around this terrifying concept of two people with different surnames actually being related.
Posted in: Women file suit to keep their surnames after they marry
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She knows she's not supposed to be in the shot so she keeps a distance from him - like she keeps a distance from everyone who has a whiteboard sign attached to them.
Posted in: Grammy man
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The 'behavior' the school was going to call the parents about, and told the kid to reflect on, and which shogun63 assumes proves the dead kid is a punk, could have been the kid telling a teacher to stop bullying another kid. Since this article is lacking so many details, assumptions are being made based on our own experiences.
Posted in: Boy, 14, killed by train in Nikko following school disciplinary warning
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We should thank the Merry Chocolate company of Japan that introduced this fine Japanese tradition in about 1950. Also, I've friends at different companies that have banned obligation chocolate from the offices. (Instigated by the older OLs, by the way, and agreed to by the rest.)
Posted in: What do you think about the custom in Japan of women giving chocolates to their male co-workers on Valentine’s Day as a form of “obligation,” and then receiving chocolates back from the men on White Day (March 14)?
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Let me get this straight. You start a fight and then get the snot kicked out of you but expect the other side to give back the spoils of war? Then give Okinawa back to the Okinawans!
Posted in: Kan calls Medvedev's isle visit 'unforgivable outrage'
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At night, when the boys are walking down dark roads (obviously not in Tokyo), those white shoes are the only clue to drivers that there is a human on the roadway. Is the Ministry of Education out to cull male high school students? Black at night?
Posted in: What do you think of school uniforms in Japan?
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Except for Nagasaki and Hiroshima, of course, which were populated immediately. Chernobyl, on the other hand, has rendered the area unusable. No bomb involved.
Because if nobody had any nuclear weapons, we'd have a nuclear holocaust?
Posted in: Director Lucy Walker says we should all fear nuclear Armageddon
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Interesting that Republicans are celebrating these judicial decisions when in the past they lamented - and loudly - judicial activism and sought to get activist judges off the bench. Not something Goldwater would be proud of.
Republicans can't think of anything worse than the average American having affordable health care - that's Socialism! One step away from Godlessness!
Posted in: Florida judge strikes down Obama health care overhaul
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He should be able to write and have the book published but he shouldn't be allowed to make a profit off of it; however, if the book emotionally influences people, the members of the jury shouldn't be allowed to read it.
And as for guilt: he hasn't even been in a court how can he be guilty? After the trial, then we can decide if he's guilty of the crime he's charged with. (Prosecutors might charge him with manslaughter or abandonment of a body, not first-degree murder.)
Posted in: Do you think Tatsuya Ichihashi, the suspect in the killing of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, should have been allowed to write a book for publication before his trial?
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It's nice to know that if I'm ever jailed I will still have access to a computer to write my great Japanese novel.
But I tend to agree with others who have said that if a foreigner were to rape and kill a Japanese woman and avoid the police for two years that the possibility of having a book published about the crime would be close to zero.
Posted in: Ichihashi's book goes on sale; says he hopes to give royalties to Hawker family
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Is the beauty clinic Takano Yuri happy to have a tearful special guest whining about her failed marriage at their PR event?
Ten movies in four years. Pretty good start.
Posted in: Tearful Sawajiri confirms plan to divorce, promises to change attitude
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RR Under the current health care system she'd be dead. But she gets government health care available only to Congressional members (which the Republidopes will NOT repeal), so she might be okay.
Posted in: Giffords leaves hospital in Arizona
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I for one am glad Bush, President Cheney, and Blair finally got all those weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq.
Posted in: Families reject Blair apology over Iraq dead
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Cool looking car. I see it is built for wide-stance males.
Posted in: Plug me in
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Actually, if he tried to kick the ringleader's butt, the other seven would have ganged up on him with sticks and feet. A fair fight among some people means my group of 8 against you alone.
Posted in: 8 youths arrested for 'hunting old men' in Yokohama
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Editors, I believe it should either be:
• six junior high schools or
• six junior high school students.
Moderator: It has been corrected, thank you.
Posted in: 8 youths arrested for 'hunting old men' in Yokohama