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  • cleo at 12:02 PM JST - 28th October

    nuts-

    Absolutely serious. Show me a 'nasty' dog and I'll show you a nasty/incompetent/clueless/ineffectual owner.

    Just because the reason a dog can 'just go off like a time bomb' isn't clear, don't mean there isn't a reason. And 99.9% of the time the reason is in the way the dog…

    Posted in Tosa dog bites boy, postman in Osaka; owner arrested at 12:02 PM JST - 28th October

  • cleo at 11:54 AM JST - 28th October

    From 'dogbreedinfo' -

    *The Tosa is a brave, fearless and bold dog. Very attuned to his master's wishes and greatly sensitive to the tone of ones voice. Protective and loyal......They are highly intelligent and do not need repetitious training, but do require an equable, firm, consistent, friendly approach. The dog…

    Posted in Tosa dog bites boy, postman in Osaka; owner arrested at 11:54 AM JST - 28th October

  • cleo at 11:12 AM JST - 28th October

    Agree 100% with timorborder. There is no such thing as an innately 'nasty' dog, only nasty owners. The stench of dog-fighting is pretty overwhelming here. Why else would a 23-year-old have 5 Tosas in a cage?

    No dog deserves to spend its life in a cage. Curled up in a…

    Posted in Tosa dog bites boy, postman in Osaka; owner arrested at 11:12 AM JST - 28th October

  • cleo at 09:27 AM JST - 28th October

    most Japanese women dye their hair to look Caucasian

    Balderdash. Most Japanese women who dye their hair do so because it's boring boring boring to look at a mass of black in the mirror every day. Nowadays changing your hair colour is no more of a statement than changing your…

    Posted in Miss Universe Japan at 09:27 AM JST - 28th October

  • cleo at 11:41 PM JST - 27th October

    Nessie - If we call it global warming the people who want to go on burning fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow jump on every little cold spell and shout triumphantly, 'See! No global warming!' 'Global warming' is misleading; it isn't all about everywhere getting uniformly warmer.

    And if stronger…

    Posted in No. of typhoon landfalls on Japan mainland may be zero this year at 11:41 PM JST - 27th October

  • cleo at 11:12 PM JST - 27th October

    We all know that bullying does go on in schools, but I've heard no suggestion that this was a case of bullying except speculation here on JT.

    From the Mainichi - 学校によると、友達が「おれはこのパンを前に３秒で食べたことがあるんだよ」と話したのを児童が聞き、「おれはもっと早く食べられる」と、パンを二つに割って口の中に入れたという。

    　父親は「学校側はできることはすべてやってくれたと思うし、これ以上追及するつもりはない。真実を知ることができ、心の区切りがついた。誰かに責任があるわけではない」と話した。

    *(According to the school, the boy, hearing a classmate say, 'I ate this bread in 3 seconds,'…

    Posted in Boy chokes to death on bread during school lunch at 11:12 PM JST - 27th October

  • cleo at 06:51 PM JST - 27th October

    Global warming (aka climate change, which is more accurate) means more erratic, difficult-to-predict typhoons, not necessarily more typhoons.

    I think I'd rather have more, smaller, typhoons than fewer typhoons but the ones we do get are doozies.

    Posted in No. of typhoon landfalls on Japan mainland may be zero this year at 06:51 PM JST - 27th October

  • cleo at 06:45 PM JST - 27th October

    The kid's Mom is a .... FILIPINA mother and the news never mentioned it.

    No reason why they should. His mother's nationality has nothing to do with the poor boy choking. If the news had mentioned it, you can be sure the regular suspects on JT would have been falling…

    Posted in Boy chokes to death on bread during school lunch at 06:45 PM JST - 27th October

  • cleo at 04:53 PM JST - 27th October

    Here's the bread. Where are the circuses?

    On hold until they've sorted out the elephants, I imagine.

    Posted in Planned tax cuts could take form of cash payments or coupons at 04:53 PM JST - 27th October

  • cleo at 04:52 PM JST - 27th October

    So some poor soul had the job of doing 683 jigsaw puzzles yesterday?

    On a Sunday, too. I hope whoever it was got a few to take home as a souvenir.

    Posted in Millions of yen in shredded money found at Gifu garbage recycling center at 04:52 PM JST - 27th October

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