Some of my Japanese clients are so wildly enthusiastic about going to "kyabakura", it's quite pathetic really. I've been to quite a few and chatted to some pretty girls, but it's all so artificial and superficial. Nothing like getting drunk and picking up a girl in a nightclub or pub…
WilliB - I never mentioned revenge, even if someone else did. State-sanctioned revenge would result in anarchy.
Ultimately he was executed for murder. Deliberately putting someone to death is, to my mind, murder. Therefore what the state has done to him is effectively what he did to these poor children,…
Rising prices for rice are great justification for continuing to subsidise the extreme inefficiency of the Japanese rice growing sector - or possibly an excuse for reducing subsidies while allowing producers to take a bigger cut. Anything that perpetuates the deluded fiction that Japan could be self-sufficient in food...
Hopefully he will be put away for a very, very long time. Killing him won't make anything better - and the families of the victims are never the people to ask, because they can't look at the case objectively. I think he must be mentally ill, and thus requires treatment
I think the choice of title is a bit misleading - after all, his bag wasn't "lost" in London, he was careless and had it stolen. While I don't think he deserved that, I lived in London for years in some good and not-so-good parts of town and I never…
bushlover - how is helping kids to get safely across the road 'childish'? Sounds pretty public spirited to me. Let's hope your children never need such 'childish' assistance.
frontandcentre at 04:50 PM JST - 17th June
I'm sure she's a lovely character, but she's not exactly the best looking woman on TV....not by a very long way
Posted in Comedian Nahomi Matsushima to marry at 04:50 PM JST - 17th June
frontandcentre at 04:27 PM JST - 17th June
Ultimately, ALL men pay money to talk to girls. It's only a matter of WHEN you pay...
Posted in Hostesses at 04:27 PM JST - 17th June
frontandcentre at 04:23 PM JST - 17th June
Some of my Japanese clients are so wildly enthusiastic about going to "kyabakura", it's quite pathetic really. I've been to quite a few and chatted to some pretty girls, but it's all so artificial and superficial. Nothing like getting drunk and picking up a girl in a nightclub or pub…
Posted in Hostesses at 04:23 PM JST - 17th June
frontandcentre at 03:59 PM JST - 17th June
WilliB - I never mentioned revenge, even if someone else did. State-sanctioned revenge would result in anarchy.
Ultimately he was executed for murder. Deliberately putting someone to death is, to my mind, murder. Therefore what the state has done to him is effectively what he did to these poor children,…
Posted in Serial child killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, 2 others executed at 03:59 PM JST - 17th June
frontandcentre at 02:49 PM JST - 17th June
I don't see why this is not an appropriate place to discuss the death penalty - since its use is precisely what the story is about.
Assuming this man was guilty of these horrific crimes, then I have no sympathy for him personally and every sympathy for the families of…
Posted in Serial child killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, 2 others executed at 02:49 PM JST - 17th June
frontandcentre at 09:57 AM JST - 13th June
Rising prices for rice are great justification for continuing to subsidise the extreme inefficiency of the Japanese rice growing sector - or possibly an excuse for reducing subsidies while allowing producers to take a bigger cut. Anything that perpetuates the deluded fiction that Japan could be self-sufficient in food...
Posted in Higher food prices shine ray of hope on rice industry at 09:57 AM JST - 13th June
frontandcentre at 11:16 AM JST - 10th June
Hopefully he will be put away for a very, very long time. Killing him won't make anything better - and the families of the victims are never the people to ask, because they can't look at the case objectively. I think he must be mentally ill, and thus requires treatment
Posted in Akihabara at 11:16 AM JST - 10th June
frontandcentre at 11:07 AM JST - 10th June
"What's your name? Ichihashi? Going to Ni-chome? Off you go then, sorry to bother you!"
to lady kohai policewoman: "Hmmm.... he looks somehow familiar... no knife, though"
Posted in Police search at 11:07 AM JST - 10th June
frontandcentre at 06:49 PM JST - 9th June
I think the choice of title is a bit misleading - after all, his bag wasn't "lost" in London, he was careless and had it stolen. While I don't think he deserved that, I lived in London for years in some good and not-so-good parts of town and I never…
Posted in Lost and found in Tokyo and London at 06:49 PM JST - 9th June
frontandcentre at 03:29 PM JST - 9th June
bushlover - how is helping kids to get safely across the road 'childish'? Sounds pretty public spirited to me. Let's hope your children never need such 'childish' assistance.
Posted in Man held for attempted murder after driving car into schoolchildren in Chiba at 03:29 PM JST - 9th June