JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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I don't read Japanese so I only know about it from on here really, but I'd say that it's just a bit worse than JT because JT is responsible enough to delete death threats! (And anything it gets slightly miffed by it would seem.) You certainly get plenty of explosive opinions on here, and not all of them seem to be trolls.
I'm not sure I like the term netizen though, but I guess I'll have to get used to it.
Was 2Channel really responsible for the exposure of the muck on Mainichi's site motytrah? Good for them if so. It was ridiculous and pathetic.
Posted in: What do you think of 2channel, Japan's biggest Internet forum, where anonymous netizens post anything, including death threats?
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My god, she's almost as guilty as he is! Why the hell didn't she run to the cops or at least the samaritans or something if she was scared to confront him? Useless mother. Poor kids, lumbered with those two as parents.
Posted in: New Jersey man accused of raping, beating 5 daughters
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Hmmm, the Israelis have been sticking two fingers up at America since before Bush got dumped. It would seem they know they've got enough nukes and other weaponry to be untouchable now, so they no longer need to kowtow to the US in exchange for technology and weapons.
America, please learn from this and all the other US-sponsored disasters, it's a really bad idea to arm a nation in the belief that they'll help you keep another nation or nations under control. The pet dog sometimes bites you.
Posted in: Biden condemns new Israeli settlement plan
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Timorborder;
Japanese? I see reports of people from all over the world trying to smuggle animals into their home country. Why point the finger at Japanese? Yes, I know this article is about Japan, but it doesn't even involve smuggling at all so why point fingers like this?
Poor Capybara. I had to look it up as well, although I recognised it when I saw the pictures. What an incompetent to not be able to keep it alive. Perhaps he was an opportunist thief and just took what looked easier to steal? But surely he could have found out enough online to keep it healthy? Irresponsible idiot, I hope he gets a good long sentence for this! (It's a shame he didn't try stealing a lion or tiger, they could have given him an instant death penalty before he got them in the suitcase and it would have saved the zoo some feed fees.)
Posted in: Pet shop manager caught stealing zoo animals, including a penguin
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And don't forget, India accounted for about 43 million of those “missing” women in 2007, so why is it a good thing that India’s parliament was debating a law Monday that would reserve one-third of its parliamentary seats for women? Perhaps just because there are still some women left?
Posted in: U.N.: Asia-Pacific lags on women's rights
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If, as they say,
why do they also say that their results include
Eh? No sense in it, especially as India, China, Pakistan and South Korea make up a total of 92.3 million of the 96 million total, meaning that Iran, Bangladesh and Nepal make up the other 3.7 million. That leaves no room for Japan at all, and I really don't know why they've lumped Japan in with them in the first part of the article. Japan doesn't bother with gender-selective abortions because girls seem to be appreciated as much as boys. More in some cases. Girls are unlikely to suffer malnutrition in greater numbers than boys. And health care is available equally to both genders. And certainly education is available to all females and they're just as likely to be able to read and write as males.
So again, apart from making this viable for the JT site, what was the point of including Japan? Politics aren't the be-all and end-all, and many women don't want to be in politics as it's not exactly a desirable career. (Not sexy, can't dress the way you want. If you get high up the money's good, but you could spend your life rushing about being insulted by everyone. That happens to a lot of men in politics and it would be silly to assume it would be different for women.)
The only possibly relevant point would be the domestic violence paragraph I suppose. But given that there are no exact figures, and that non-Asia-Pacific parts of the world also have shocking rates and police indifference, I still don't know whether it makes it worth including Japan in the article.
Posted in: U.N.: Asia-Pacific lags on women's rights
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LOL, I think they could rephrase this as; Women are outstandingly tense and critical of each other. There is a pervasive habit among women to monitor each other with a serious sharp eye to see what kind of slimness they have.
Posted in: Japanese women are outstandingly tense and critical of each other. There is a pervasive habit among women to monitor each other with a serious sharp eye to see what kind of slimness they have.
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No, the US has not proved that it's beef is safe. Far from it, they've vigorously refused to test any but the most choice young and tender cuts to save them the risk of being caught out for having large numbers of infected cattle. If they'd agreed to the testing of beef due to be exported to Japan as requested the ban on US beef imports would have lasted just a few months. Instead they refused outright, insisting that Japan was obliged to buy US beef regardless of whether it was infected.
I will never knowingly eat US beef. I'm not Japanese though, I'm British. The miserable disease started in MY country, but with the increased risk from US beef combined with the rudeness and arrogance shown (back when US beef was banned from Japan) there's no way I'd ever buy the stuff knowingly.
Tokyo has nothing to do with it. The company is called Toyota, and they're the ones responsible. But yes, they are US cars as they're made in the US by Americans, and the designs may have started out as Japanese but they're obliged to alter them to suit US standards, and they're also obliged to source the parts from outside Japan.
But still, this whole problem is Toyota's fault, they were just as arrogant as GWBush and refused to act when they should have done. If the whole company goes bust over this I'll have no sympathy for the company or the top dogs whatsoever, but I will have sympathy for all the workers who lose their jobs. Yes, including the Americans in the US plants.
We don't have a car, but I'm glad my parents bought a Hyundai as their new car. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that they don't join the disaster area that used to be called the car industry too.
Posted in: Tokyo has one safety standard for U.S. beef and another for Toyota's cars and I am extremely tired of the imbalance.
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What a disgusting way to dress! And I would most definitely have the same opinion if she'd been born female.
Simply being a man who has a sex change doesn't give you the right to dress like that, it's totally trashy. And what the heck is she wearing on her feet?
Anyway, what programmes is she on? I don't recognise her face so I assume I've never come across her onscreen.
Posted in: Tokyo Girls Collection
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Fleetwood77, I'm truly sorry to hear that your wife died before her time. These things can happen at any time to any of us, age gap or not.
But your example of a 6 year gap is well within the normal limits as far as I'm concerned. She was old enough to get married, wasn't under the legal age limit for sex, you weren't much older than her, plus males often mature mentally at a later age than females. (I know I'll get stick for that one!) so I'd say you were probably pretty well suited to each other.
I'll say once again, I wish them well. But it ain't over 'til it's over, so don't anyone claim that they've proven it's a match that'll last forever. It hasn't yet, and unless they both live to a ripe old age maybe it won't.
Posted in: Takahashi's bond with wife 24 years younger is stronger than ever
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Not the first time I've heard such opinions expressed. Nothing outrageous here. I happen to believe it myself, that they could have done more to prevent it, and that they deliberately used it as an excuse for war. I also believe that they provoked it with their unbelievable support for Israel's behavior against it's neighbouring countries. I also believe that they'll never learn from their own mistakes, and that the whole world will suffer for it in one way or another.
He's also not the only person suspicious about who died and how many. There are all sorts of conspiracy theories on the subject out there. It's not really surprising that Iranians might feel doubt about the official story when a large portion of free-speaking people express there own doubt loudly in places where absolutely anyone can access it.
At least it appears he didn't suggest Bush organised the whole attack, unlike some non-Iranians I've heard about.
Posted in: Iran's Ahmadinejad calls official version of Sept 11 attacks a 'big lie'
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Gross. A 40 year old man and a 16 year old girl. And if Ebisen doesn't understand the logistics and potential pitfalls, legal and otherwise, of a 13 year old girl in a relationship with a 37 year old man, then maybe Ebisen needs more sleep.
Still, after 11 years of marriage I'd say they've proved themselves to the world. But one still can't help wondering. When a grown man 'falls in love' with a child it's simply not normal. But I have no way of knowing what they got up to before they married, and certainly the marriage was legal or it would never have happened, so all I'll say is good luck to them all.
Posted in: Takahashi's bond with wife 24 years younger is stronger than ever
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Well, we all know where he's coming from.
He wants, or expects, the world to do whatever America tells it to.
America tells Japan to buy US beef regardless of safety issues? Japan has to buy it! If not, it's racism, anti-American-superiorism (if there is such a word,) and definitely not civilised.
Japan tells America to buy Japanese cars regardless of - wait a minute. They're not actually Japanese cars, are they, as they're made in America. And wait another cotton-picking minute, Japan doesn't order America about like that, so it's not telling the Americans to do anything. Mmm, did someone try comparing the two situations? Oh yeah, that's right, it was an American.
So, he's actually complaining that American-made cars which just happen to have a Japanese name on the label are being sold in America under American safety standards. Well, they're his own safety standards, so why doesn't he change them if he doesn't like them? He has no jurisdiction over Japanese laws, although you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise after the way Japan capitulated about the beef, but he has no right moaning about his own country's laws and it's car manufacturing plants and pointing the finger anywhere but his own face.
Posted in: Tokyo has one safety standard for U.S. beef and another for Toyota's cars and I am extremely tired of the imbalance.
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Looks like they were emulating the success of Mattell. That great, wonderful, American company. Importing Chinese toxic toys could be considered one of their greatest non-achievements I'd say. Daiso just wanna play with the big boys.
Posted in: Daiso hit with big U.S. fine for lead-laden toys
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What the heck is that pointy thing sticking out of her side? It doesn't appear to be part of the backdrop. What the hell does she keep in her pockets? Mind you, not properly awake yet, maybe it's something blatantly obvious that I just can't think of yet.
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Not so bad, but so what? It's not really very high up in the scale of important things in this world so far as realistic people are concerned. It's more of a distraction from reality and an opportunity to meet up and play sports with people you'd otherwise never even see.
But then, I suspect that most of the critics of Japan's prowess will be Americans or possibly even Canadians, seeing as the US got more medals overall than anyone else and Canada got more golds. I don't normally consider Canadians to be that boastful though, but I could be proved wrong.
Incidentally, my own country only got one medal, but it was a gold. That's not wonderful either, but I couldn't care less and I wouldn't be impressed even if they got 50. And it's normal for the US to get most medals as it put so many athletes in for the games. It would have been bewildering if they hadn't got loads of medals.
Still, the next thing is waiting to see if anyone gets accused of doping. If they do, and they had a medal, we'll have to wait and see what the end result is. That doesn't mean that the current statistics for Japan, US, Canada or Britain will change though, don't get me wrong. But sometimes athletes really do gamble with their country's honour and lose. I really hate that, and hope it doesn't happen this time, but traditionally it does happen every time there's any big competition so we'll see.
Posted in: Japan won 5 medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. How would you assess the results?
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This isn't news.
It's normal for events like the Olympics to take the attention of viewers and schedulers alike away from more important things.
Such times are excellent for passing unwelcome laws, or announcing that you have been swindling the taxpayer, etc. simply because it's likely you'll get little coverage and most people won't even realise until it's too late. I'll be surprised if there hasn't been a rash of executions of people languishing on death rows around the world too. It's a great time to do unpopular things, with all those zombified members of the public focused on athletes and their skill (or lack thereof.)
Posted in: Figure skating gets more attention than Toyota's problems in Japan
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What the heck does that make the Christians then? The psychotic paedophiles preying on all the kiddies, meek and violent alike? Of course, you'd probably claim that as Christianity gets older it gets milder, but just because it's going through a comparatively quiet phase now (with just the pervy priest problems and the allegations of Nazism directed at the Pope) doesn't mean they've bucked their ideas up.
But on to the subject matter in hand, I don't remember much news about those statues at the time, although I'll admit Buddhism would have had little chance of catching my attention, but I suspect there was little news coverage of it in Blighty. I remember the news coverage of the US deliberately destroying Babylon though. They also were asked to please spare the world's historical heritage. They decided they were above all others too, and did whatever the hell they pleased.
Seems to me that the Taliban (former legitimate government of Afghanistan) are about equal to the Americans, at least in this respect.
Posted in: Japan offered to hide Bamiyan statues, but Taliban asked Japan to convert to Islam instead
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So what? Last time I heard, the USA was so anti-Japanese manufactured cars they forced the likes of Toyota and Honda to open car manufacturing plants on US soil so they could produce Japanese style cars that were made in America. So what gives them the right to complain about cars not made in Japan being excluded from the cash-for-clunkers Jp style? Most (or all) of the so-called Japanese cars being included in the cash-for-clunkers US style are surely made in America anyway aren't they?
Besides, are they trying to suggest that American cars are just as suited to the description CLUNKER as Japanese cars? Cool. I like all this equality thing. Just like a marriage. What's yours is mine, what's mine is mine. Very nice.
Posted in: The Japanese continue to break their promise. They said they would allow American cars to participate in their cash-for-clunkers program but have rigged the rules so that few can.
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So why doesn't he buy it then? He can't sit on all his cash forever, if he genuinely cares about Abbey Road he should pay for it. He could easily make dosh from it, paid tours etc. Who needs to use it as a recording studio when a bunch of tourists are willing to pay to see it? Get some wax Beatles in there and you're away. He could even fund his favourite animal protection group with it. (Although, if that's the Sea Shepherds, then maybe he could use the cash to pay for part of their court costs.)
Posted in: UK makes Abbey Road Studios a historic building