cleo said...

cleo at 10:20 PM JST - 24th September

It's quite common for people to take a different surname - usually the name of a close relative - for a number of reasons, mainly to do with preserving the family name.

For example a friend of mine has her mother's surname - her mother and father are married proper…

Posted in Twin brothers arrested for raping woman in Kanagawa at 10:20 PM JST - 24th September
cleo at 05:11 PM JST - 24th September

Japan has to eat some major crow by admitting that US beef is completely safe

They're admitting nothing of the sort. They're stating that they're satisfied the safety measures put in place to ensure the nasty bits don't get through are adequate at last.

If anyone needs to eat…

Posted in Japan lifts ban on imports from 2 U.S. beef packers at 05:11 PM JST - 24th September
cleo at 04:18 PM JST - 24th September

A mish-mash coalition of opposition parties that are not even united inside themselves, let alone between each other. There will be deadlock and/or self-contradictory and crazy policies. Japan will either crash or politics will be deadlocked.

You mean after the LDP wlil be business as usual?

Posted in Chinese media focus on Aso's upcoming political hurdles at 04:18 PM JST - 24th September
cleo at 04:00 PM JST - 24th September

fatloser -

Twelve noon, not twelve midnight.

Posted in Investigators try to track last 30 minutes of murdered girl in Chiba at 04:00 PM JST - 24th September
cleo at 01:44 PM JST - 24th September

The guy owned his own business for 12 years, was a manager of a factory for 10 years and has totally been a blue collar worker his whole life until he entered politics

According to Wiki he spent two years in a diamond mining operation in Sierra Leone before coming…

Posted in New PM Aso forms cabinet with close allies and rivals at 01:44 PM JST - 24th September
cleo at 12:09 PM JST - 24th September

A whole 10 seconds of polite applause? wow. The UN is ultra-polite.

Sez & Sushi - very good points.

Posted in Iran's leader gives thumbs down during Bush speech at U.N. at 12:09 PM JST - 24th September
cleo at 12:01 PM JST - 24th September

He'll be out at the general election that will be held before the year's out. Pensions, health care, taxes, the economy, free fuel for the US military, overseas deployment of the SDF, education - the LDP has not a single policy they can sell.

Get 'em out.

Posted in How do you think Taro Aso will do as prime minister? at 12:01 PM JST - 24th September
cleo at 03:21 PM JST - 23rd September

I am sure that there is plenty of room to take a nap in shifts in the back of a koban.

There is a 'kaminshitsu' where officers can catch a few minutes shut-eye if things are quiet. Problem is, things are rarely quiet ; it's when the rest of us…

Posted in On-duty officer apparently shoots himself at Tokyo police station at 03:21 PM JST - 23rd September
cleo at 01:28 PM JST - 23rd September

I would never go to war like these guyd did, on the principle that i might get sho at

Those were days when if you didn't go, you were likely to get shot at by a firing squad at home.

Posted in At 81, Japanese vet makes rare return to Iwo Jima at 01:28 PM JST - 23rd September
cleo at 11:22 AM JST - 23rd September

Bill Clinton says he understands Palin's appeal

Well then Bill Clinton understands more than me.

She kills big ungulate mammals for fun.

Posted in Bill Clinton says he understands Palin's appeal at 11:22 AM JST - 23rd September