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  • borscht at 07:46 AM JST - 17th September

    Great, now the price of glue is going to go up.

    Rather than deport tainted rice why doesn't the Ag-Fish-Forest Ministry heavily fine companies and imprison company executives who knowingly re-sell inedible tainted rice as edible? By heavy I mean close down their companies for a few months, fines in…

    Posted in Gov't to stop selling tainted rice as preventive step at 07:46 AM JST - 17th September

  • borscht at 04:00 PM JST - 16th September

    Pushed into a dam must hurt but not as much as being pushed off a dam - that could be a long fall for sure.

    He was arrested for attempted murder. Will he also be charged with kidnapping or is that not a crime anymore?

    Posted in Man arrested for pushing woman into dam in Sendai at 04:00 PM JST - 16th September

  • borscht at 03:53 PM JST - 16th September

    An annual Climb Tokyo Tower race started in Fukuoka? That's a long climb.

    Posted in 127 firefighters join in Tokyo Tower climbing race at 03:53 PM JST - 16th September

  • borscht at 10:59 AM JST - 16th September

    Why doesn't United say fuel prices remain 1000% higher than 20 years ago and tack on a $500 second-bag fee?

    Posted in United Airlines boosts 2nd-bag fee to $50 at 10:59 AM JST - 16th September

  • borscht at 10:57 AM JST - 16th September

    smartacus,

    Depends on your definition of drugs. Having spoken with a number of doctors, none have copped to operating on drugs but all 'knew someone who' was either drunk, had been drinking before, or had taken some speed because it had been a long day.

    rjdjr,

    As for "putting…

    Posted in 2 Japanese doctors arrested for smoking marijuana in Indonesia at 10:57 AM JST - 16th September

  • borscht at 09:22 PM JST - 15th September

    jimmystone,

    A maximum prison maybe but Alcatraz isn't one anymore. Maybe San Quentin or CSP-LA. Plus, he has been convicted in the US of any crime yet so we must presume his innocence.

    Posted in Saipan Superior Court orders Miura not be transferred to Los Angeles at 09:22 PM JST - 15th September

  • borscht at 06:44 PM JST - 15th September

    I say keep Miura in suspense for as long as possible. I was in Japan when he did/didn't murder his wife and his total act (weeping, crying, anguish face) convinced everyone how dangerous Los Angeles and how pitiful he was. Well, everyone except the LA police who thought his story…

    Posted in Saipan Superior Court orders Miura not be transferred to Los Angeles at 06:44 PM JST - 15th September

  • borscht at 06:41 PM JST - 15th September

    Generally speaking, typhoons are smaller than hurricanes and hurricanes are smaller than cyclones (in the Bengla Desh area, for example.). It seems to me that most of the damage of a typhoon is the flooding it causes whereas a hurricane's damage is in the wind it creates. Just my imagination?…

    Posted in Typhoon approaches Okinawa, Amami, Kyushu at 06:41 PM JST - 15th September

  • borscht at 06:33 PM JST - 15th September

    I'm shocked. Well, not really. However, when the unnamed (because of his age?) ex-official says he didn't do Mikasa any favors, I believe him. The official probably just did his job - pushing paper around on his desk - and any actual investigation as to improprieties in the rice re-selling…

    Posted in Ex-farm ministry official wined and dined by seller of tainted rice at 06:33 PM JST - 15th September

  • borscht at 11:28 AM JST - 15th September

    If the Japanese staff at the onsen couldn't explain the 'complicated' check-in procedures to a group of Chinese (who can read Japanese kanji quite easily), then they didn't need a Chinese interpreter. They needed people-skills instruction.

    pathat, They probably do translation work (manuals and what not) at their desks when…

    Posted in Ex-Nova teachers finding work at onsens at 11:28 AM JST - 15th September

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