cleo said...

cleo at 11:17 AM JST - 4th August

30,000 birds in two coops. Factory farming at its best. Devastating blow to the farmer, or should we say factory manager, my eye.

Poor birds. They had a lousy life, and a lousy death.

Posted in 30,000 chickens die in Kagoshima fire at 11:17 AM JST - 4th August
cleo at 11:12 AM JST - 4th August

USAPatriot -

And I have personal experience of two children not being bullied at school, so what. Plus personal experience of two children being very popular at school with lots of friends. 'Most Japanese don't care' is my experience. The high school boy next door whose mother is a Filipina…

Posted in 1 out of 30 babies born in Japan had non-Japanese parent in 2006 at 11:12 AM JST - 4th August
cleo at 09:52 AM JST - 4th August

The way the gaijin here go on and on about how upset the Japanese are by 'tainted blood' is quite pathetic. And sad.

Most Japanese don't care, so long as they aren't called upon to speak English.

Posted in 1 out of 30 babies born in Japan had non-Japanese parent in 2006 at 09:52 AM JST - 4th August
cleo at 09:48 AM JST - 4th August

Yes, the US needs to have military bases in Japan to watch out for its own interests. Same reason it needs to have military bases in Europe.

Whether Japan needs to have US military bases is a different question, of course.

Posted in Does the U.S. need to have military bases anywhere in Japan? at 09:48 AM JST - 4th August
cleo at 01:12 AM JST - 4th August

westurn -

Pray tell, what 'anti-American sentiment' do you find in the scant six lines of this article that causes you to jump into 'Merkka rah rah rah' mode? America isn't even mentioned. Centenarians aren't mentioned. All it says is that Japanese people are living longer. Why does that upset…

Posted in Japanese life expectancy increases further at 01:12 AM JST - 4th August
cleo at 05:36 PM JST - 3rd August

why were normal Japanese citizens, including women and children, training regularly with weapons towards the end of WWII?

For the same reason Britain had the Home Guard (aka Dad's Army)?

Towards the end of the war ordinary citizens in Japan were destitute, but not ready to surrender because their leaders…

Posted in Fading memory, glimmer of hope on 63rd anniversary of atomic bombings at 05:36 PM JST - 3rd August
cleo at 05:20 PM JST - 3rd August

westurn -

A search of the CIA fact book for 'centenarian' turns up - nothing.

According to wiki, as of 2007 Japan had 32,295 centenarians. With a total population of 127 million, that works out at a little over 25 per 100,000.

According to wiki, the USA had over 55,000…

Posted in Japanese life expectancy increases further at 05:20 PM JST - 3rd August
cleo at 12:22 PM JST - 3rd August

westurn -

It would be good if you could provide some backup to those claims. According to the prestigious Fox News, Japan has a nationwide average of 22 centenarians per 100,000, while the ratio for the US is about 10 in 100,000.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214060,00.html

Posted in Japanese life expectancy increases further at 12:22 PM JST - 3rd August
cleo at 11:54 AM JST - 3rd August

the majority of people support the idea of dying gracefully to pay for a crime

Methinks there's a glitch in the translation here. Or maybe the glitch is in the Minister.

Since when was swinging at the end of a rope - after, as other posters have mentioned, never knowing…

Posted in New justice minister opposes life sentence without parole at 11:54 AM JST - 3rd August
cleo at 11:56 AM JST - 2nd August

USAPatriot - where on earth did you get the impression I was calling anybody 'bad people'??

Simply linguistic truth, people pick up on the language they hear around them every day.

Posted in I didn't know he knew some of the words he knows. at 11:56 AM JST - 2nd August