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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Editors,
I think you're missing an article in this sentence from the article:
hint: between 'wearing' and 'hat'.
Moderator: That has been corrected, thank you.
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lachatamber,
If the temperature indicates that shorts and flip-flops are appropriate, I wear them, not if the government or a random date on the calendar says I must. That is what people are crying about.
For example, today it's about 23 degrees. Should I wear my ski outfit because it's November 2nd? Or because the government told me to bundle up? It's 23 degrees! If the date were August 2nd, the government would tell me to wear a short-sleeved shirt.
Schools and the government want people to dress appropriate based on a date, not the weather, which strikes some of us as weird.
Posted in: Japanese urged to wrap up as Warm Biz gets under way
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Just to satisfy SuperLib (you're welcome),
So that the US will never experience its own people-generated uprising?
That's how this sounds. Social media led to the downfall of Mubarak and others; we don't want that here, so we need to monitor it.
I remember a trailer park mom calling the Feds on three medical doctors because of something she heard. The doctors ended up losing their residency and had to deal with the Feds for several months before everything was straightened out. Of course, the docs were all dark-skinned as opposed to the trailer park mom.
Posted in: Homeland Security reviews social media guidelines
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Well, that didn't take long. I guess Noda won't even last a year. However, instead of concentrating on the real problems facing their country (and screwing it up big time) I'm glad to see the Diet is maintaining its amateur status.
Posted in: Noda apologizes for receiving donations from foreign nationals
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Garlic chives is a vegetable?
Posted in: Celery most disliked vegetable among adults: survey
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Darrin,
If she's using romaji for katakana, 'free' is misspelled. If she's using English, like the man is, 'kisu' is misspelled. As she's using Japanese grammar, I suspect it's 'free' that's in error. Well, that's my indepth analysis anyway; more after consulting with a GABA instructor.
Posted in: Nice offer
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I hope Gemba realizes nuclear weapons and nuclear power generation are two separate endevours with mostly only their names having similarities and that India already has nuclear weapons that they can eliminate if they so wish, without Japan's assistance.
Posted in: Japan, India to accelerate rare earth development, nuclear cooperation
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The758,
Not yet but when it comes to interacting with a machine, who better than Japanese innovators and engineers to build it? When robots and humans act and react the same, who will be able to tell which is which?
Posted in: Robots help Japan's graying, shrinking population
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Workers who get suspended for any amount of time tend to quit in shame in this safety island burg; I wonder if he'll quit or he stick it out. And the same question as O'Neill - paid or unpaid leave?
Posted in: Air traffic controller who leaked Air Force One flight info suspended for 3 months
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I've probably lived in Japan less than Mr. Hori but I have confidence that none of his proposals will see the political light of day in this century.
Invite competitors on an equal footing?
Lower taxes?
Improve education?
What Japan on what planet is he living in? Oh, wait, I can see relaxing the labor laws happening, especially if it means more money for companies and fewer rights for the workers.
Posted in: Making Japan a more attractive place to do business
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Even dead, half the Beatles made more than many living musicians. But how is Steve McQueen's estate hauling in the cash? Only by photos for advertising?
Posted in: Michael Jackson is world's top dead earner
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They do this when I'm walking AND we have made eye contact. Do they want to get walked into by a foreigner?
As for forcing bicyclists onto the street, in ten years time, after they have amassed the data - expect to see the NPA forcing bicycles onto the sidewalk as there were 10,000 accidents resulting in 100 deaths of bicycle-on-car collisions. Consistently high, as it were.
Too bad common sense can't be made legal and enforced.
Posted in: Police to get tough on sidewalk cyclists
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Editors,
When the story changes dramatically, instead of just replacing the old story with the new one, perhaps you should start a new story? A lot of comments make no sense given Kikukawa's announcement. I mean, look at the first comment. How does it relate to anything in the story?
Posted in: Olympus chief Kikukawa resigns amid reports of FBI probe
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He was named as Yukihiro Nomura by his parents. I think the article means to say, "he has been identified as Yukihiro Nomura."
He probably won't spend any time in jail but he will probably lose his license. If he had stopped when first asked, he probably could've kept his license. Interesting logic he used.
Posted in: Man arrested after 70-km car chase in Kochi
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Obviously. I mean, the Chairman and Pres are just keeping their own fiefdoms intact and this interloper is threatening to bring it all down.
As any one seen a quarterly report from a publicly-held Japanese company that is mostly owned by Japanese investors? They're jokes when compared to the quarterly reports publicly-held US companies distribute. Little more than pamphlets about their products and facilities.
Posted in: Do you think that the problem unfolding at Olympus is a difference in perception of how business is done in Japan? For example, could deals that ousted British CEO Michael Woodford considered dubious, be thought of as normal business practices by Japanese executives?
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Traditionally? Since the 1600s? or, er. more recently. Like, say, 1990? I know a lot of couples pick up a bucket o' greasy Fried before heading off to the traditional Christmas eve love hotel tryst, but families?
Posted in: Haruka Ayase kicks off KFC's Christmas campaign
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Because religion has nothing to do with ethics and doing right by your fellow human.
Posted in: Why Japanese values and morality confound us so
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Most puzzling, but in a town of 28,000 everyone probably goes to the same stores for shopping so no mystery there. And everyone probably lives a few dozen meters from everyone else. In any case, I hope they find the missing two-year-old and mother alive and well.
Posted in: Oita town uneasy over 3 unsolved crimes
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Oops. Where is he now?
Posted in: Commercial space travel only a matter of time
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It's a bit of a pity that education stops once you get "too old" i.e. 24 in Japan. I shocked my students when I told them I was going to graduate school at the age of 30. "We don't do that," was the main response. Good luck with this "old biddy" trying to keep up with people five years young than her. Also, I guess she speaks the English good?
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