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Come on, Japan! Let's follow the Parisian way! So cool! So healthy! So cosmopolitan! And...so right!…
Posted in: Smoke-free laws lead to less smoking at home
I agree it is fascinating to live in this era and witness what is happening here.…
Posted in: NMB48 song tops Oricon chart
This will ruffle some ultra-right feathers in Japan, but I guess China is the world's second…
Posted in: Obama: Strong U.S.-China ties help rest of the world
I would like to see that they find definite evidence of the terrorists being on the…
Posted in: Israel blames Iran for series of blasts
Sushi: "It seems pretty clear to me that Japan has little choice but to continue creating…
Posted in: Fukushima faces increased quake risk, scientists say
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caribjustice
Eye of the beholder...She is very pretty but not because she has thin lips. Wish they were fuller.
What is she holding? A platinum giraffe?
Posted in: Platinum lady
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caribjustice
I agree with you that fridges are supposed to give food longer life.
Maybe the article is meant to be, "Fridge gives food longer life compared to other fridges".
Looks like its just an advertisement for Sharp's new refrigerator. The article's title really makes one ask. "So what?"
"Sun is hot" more on the 11:00 news.
Posted in: Fridge gives food longer life
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caribjustice
Fadamor - you think that's a Vader cosplayer and not the real deal?
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
ROFL!!!
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caribjustice
Well said, Nessie. You have the correct answer.
Posted in: Are airport body scanners an invasion of privacy?
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caribjustice
I'm surprised the votes are so close on this question. Would the folks who voted "no" really like to live under a non-democratic government?
Democracies are slow to change because the will (interest) of the people need to be accounted for but I'd rather that than a dictator. Even a benign one, sorry smartacus, lol.
PleasureGelf, I was about to write the difference between a republic and democracy but you beat me to it. Thx for posting that. I think some folks were not clear on the difference.
Posted in: Do you think democracy is the best form of government?
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caribjustice
Well said!
Posted in: Racist messages pose quandary for mainstream sites
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caribjustice
Ossan is right on the money.
And for China!
Posted in: China holding 4 Japanese for illegally filming military targets
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caribjustice
Gurukun, trust but verify what the other side is saying, that's why
Posted in: Meeting of minds
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caribjustice
There should be periodic tests to evaluate competency to drive not a blind age limit. BTW this should be administered to everybody but with increasing frequency the older you are.
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caribjustice
Is it racism or nationalism? Is a Chinese/Japanese baby hafu? Or is it just for ethnicities that are apparently not east-asian in feature?
Posted in: The Hafu Project: Exploring the question of what it means to be Japanese
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caribjustice
Good grief! People really hate for no reason. Cute movie, cute story. Not academy award acting but that is no reason to have this level of negativity. Completely bewildering.
Posted in: Karate kid
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caribjustice
There is age of majority (adulthood) and age of sexual consent. In Japan I think its 20 for age of majority and 18 for sexual consent. Which makes this very confusing. She is technically a child so this is child porn. However, if she met them in a Love Hotel it would have been ok for them to have sex.
Posted in: 18-yr-old girl arrested for online sale of photos of herself naked
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caribjustice
"...treating their divorce so *cordially".
I meant "casually".
Posted in: Happily divorced
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caribjustice
I don't know whether to praise them for being amicable or to attack them for treating their divorce so cordially. I'm leaning toward praise because if they have kids this could mean having a mutual understanding about visitation.
Posted in: Happily divorced
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caribjustice
Nuff and well said, Triumvere
Posted in: Japan weighs up whether to give foreign residents the vote
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caribjustice
I tuned into a match and heard the noise. I thought it was a problem with the microphones at the source. I didn't realize it was the vuvuzelas. It was pretty annoying but if that's what they want to use during the game, let them do it.
Posted in: Constant drone of vuvuzelas killing World Cup atmosphere
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caribjustice
Should have added that I'm talking about powering homes/businesses.
Posted in: Solar power
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caribjustice
Geothermal is the best alternative to nuclear & oil fior Japan. Solar can only be a supplemental form of energy.
Posted in: Solar power
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caribjustice
I'd like to see them make a live action "Conan" the boy detective with Kato as the lead. He looks like Conan to me.
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caribjustice
With a falling birth rate in this country, I'm not sure it's a good idea for Japan to reward same-sex couples who can't procreate by giving them SS benefits.
So, I'm going to make some assumptions here:
1) Individuals who work (legally receive income) pay into SS and at some point in the future receive some percentage of what they paid back after some set of conditions are met (e.g. retirement, inability to work when a certain age is reached, etc.)
2) Spouses/children of deceased individuals who have once paid into SS receive some percentage of what was paid after some set of conditions are met (e.g. death of spouse parent)
3) If a single individual who has paid into SS during any part of their life dies without a spouse or children that the government keeps that money.
This is about a person determining who would receive benefits from the money they contributed into the SS system. This is not currently afforded to non-married couples under current law. What in the world is wrong with allowing someone to choose who would benefit?
Posted in: Should same-sex couples be entitled to equal social security benefits?