Tuesday February 14, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

combinibento's past comments

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combinibentoFeb. 14, 2012 - 04:13PM JST

I'm pretty sure "AmericanForeigner" is just someone trying to rile everyone up and may not even be American... I just cannot see anyone both (a) rejecting chocolates from fellow office workers and (b) expecting to continue being employed for long in said office... Anyway he has succeeded in dominating the thread, congrats!

Posted in: My frugal Valentine: Romance in a recession
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combinibentoFeb. 14, 2012 - 03:59PM JST

Interesting story... I'd always thought the the USA flag was planted in the moon, not the Aussie one.

Posted in: Australian man fined for mooning Queen Elizabeth
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combinibentoFeb. 14, 2012 - 03:21PM JST

Little did he know, he had his last Moon Over My Hammy(R) that morning...

Posted in: Former gang member shot dead in Denny's restaurant in Chiba
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combinibentoFeb. 14, 2012 - 08:31AM JST

sillygirl is right. gov running tepco = blind leading blind.

Posted in: Gov't OKs further Y690 bil for TEPCO, but wants say in running utility
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combinibentoFeb. 13, 2012 - 11:56AM JST

Hmm... That law banning listening to music is really going to get me one of these days.

Posted in: Police caution more than 10,000 in Tokyo for breaking new bicycle rules
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combinibentoFeb. 13, 2012 - 11:26AM JST

I hope the investors supporting the journeys of these well-meaning but ultimately misguided hippies look at this photo and think, "Really? A stinkbomb?" Yeah, money well spent.

Posted in: Confrontation
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combinibentoFeb. 13, 2012 - 11:23AM JST

LOLL!!!

Posted in: Confrontation
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combinibentoFeb. 10, 2012 - 11:55AM JST

I still don't understand why she transferred 4.5 million yen when the debt was only 2 million yen... Sounds like these fraudsters really lucked out and realized that they had a HUGE sucker on the other end of the phone.

Posted in: Woman conned out of nearly Y4.5 mil in bank transfer scam
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combinibentoFeb. 10, 2012 - 07:47AM JST

See, the Nigerian scammers have it all wrong. Rather than email westerners while posing as African royalty, all they had to do was pose as family and contact the Japanese...

Posted in: Woman conned out of nearly Y4.5 mil in bank transfer scam
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combinibentoFeb. 07, 2012 - 03:26PM JST

As much frustration I feel in reading about these accidents, let's face it - it's a wonder there aren't more of them. The roads here are so narrow, and lighting is so sparse... There are no real bike lanes or sidewalks most of the time. It's just the way things are here. Gotta use waaaay more caution than in other countries.

Posted in: Two boys on bike killed after being struck by car in Gunma
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combinibentoFeb. 07, 2012 - 10:39AM JST

In terms of his legal defense, he is lucky she was hit by 2 other cars. He can at least argue there is insufficient proof that he delivered the fatal hit; it could have been the subsequent cars.

Posted in: Woman killed in hit-and-run involving three cars
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combinibentoFeb. 03, 2012 - 04:05PM JST

Asian starts woo and...who else?

Posted in: Asian stars woo Western record market
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combinibentoFeb. 02, 2012 - 05:01PM JST

Japan is even more lenient than Norway. Whodda thunk.

Posted in: Woman sentenced to 4 1/2 years for breaking babies' legs
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combinibentoJan. 31, 2012 - 11:04AM JST

How many more years of a run does AKB48 have? Unfortunately I reckon another decade or so... Technically Morning Musume is still ongoing although they've been around since 1997... More to the point, I find it hard to believe that there exists a man who is both (a) an AKB48 fan and (b) old enough for responsibilities which require the wearing of a suit.

Posted in: AKB48 get a new look for men's suit commercial
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combinibentoJan. 24, 2012 - 11:00AM JST

They should rename this place SHEga-ken.

Posted in: 36-year-old Harvard law graduate elected Japan's youngest female mayor
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combinibentoDec. 20, 2011 - 11:02AM JST

If oxygen is needed in an emergency, an oxygen mask will be released from above you. Place the mask over your mouth and nose and tighten the strap. Pull down on the hose to start the oxygen flowing. Make sure you put on your mask first before assisting others such as the pilots, who will likely be too intoxicated to operate the masks on their own.

Posted in: ANA flight delayed after pilot exceeds blood-alcohol limit
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combinibentoDec. 20, 2011 - 10:53AM JST

This is exactly the kind of sentence you would expect from a society that is so resigned to the "shoganai" concept, i.e., "what's done is done." There really is no culture of holding one accountable. This is what happens when so little importance is placed on the individual.

Posted in: Epileptic crane driver gets 7 years for deaths of 6 children in Tochigi
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combinibentoDec. 16, 2011 - 11:58AM JST

If only this technology was available in Olympus's heyday, there would have been enough power generated for the entire nation for several years.

Posted in: Sony generates power from shredded paper
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combinibentoDec. 01, 2011 - 05:31PM JST

The legal limit for driving on the roads in Japan is 0.15 mg/L.

It is beyond ludicrous that the legal limit permits anything above 0.00 mg/L. We are not talking about drivers here, but pilots of commercial airliners carrying hundres of passengers.

Posted in: ANA flight canceled after pilot exceeds safe alcohol limit
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combinibentoDec. 01, 2011 - 12:26PM JST

I read this article a couple times and still can't understand what exactly the partnership will do. I mean, how will this change the respective services? Is it like Twitter and FB where a Twitter post will show up as a post on the FB profile? Is that all? Whooptie-freakin'-do.

Posted in: Twitter, mixi join forces to counter Facebook in Japan