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gaijintraveller
If there is one thing the police fear more than organised crime, it would probably be disorganised crime.
Posted in: Yakuza pundit: New laws unlikely to eradicate gangs
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When I read this article, I wondered what the Salesian Society was. I found this: Salesian communities primarily operate shelters for homeless or at-risk youths; schools; technical, vocational, and language instruction centers for youths and adults; and boys' clubs and community centers.
Perhaps, this tells us something. Could the thief have had a bad upbringing? Is it possible that the university was trying to give him a chance to better himself? Unfortunately, in Japan journalists do not seem to dig deep enough to answer or even find such questions.
Posted in: Boy stabbed during college festival in Tokyo
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gaijintraveller
Radioactive elements tend to concentrate in places where dust and rain water accumulate such as drains and ditches.
Rain water also accumulates in rice fields during the growing season and reservoirs of drinking water.
Posted in: Radium 'likely cause' of Tokyo supermarket radiation hotspot
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gaijintraveller
You need to dress up for winter now if you use JR as they still use coolers on trains.
Why is it that in Japan the temperature always needs to be regulated? Isn't there any time between summer and winter when it is possible to manage without either heating or cooling?
Posted in: Japanese urged to wrap up as Warm Biz gets under way
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gaijintraveller
Why doesn't China rename its military? It could become a Self-Defence Force. Then everything would be all right because they would no longer have an army, navy or air force.
At least, it would be harder for Japan to complain.
Posted in: Asian countries should urge China's military to obey rules of sea: Noda
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gaijintraveller
That took a long time.
Posted in: Lawyers launch Fukushima compensation team
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gaijintraveller
Isn't it the law that they use the road?
If the police force cyclists to use the road, there will be an increase in traffic deaths because so many cyclists are morons.
If there is an increase in traffic deaths, the police will look bad.
The police do not want to look bad, so they will soon stop enforcing the law.
Cyclists should be required to take a test and get a licence. It is necessary for them to have traffic sense when they use the road.
A few weeks ago I had to swerve violently a cross the yellow line in the middle of a four lane road to avoid a suicidal cyclist and then swerve violently back to my side of the road to avoid oncoming traffic. My quick reaction saved the cyclist's life. The cyclist had decided suddenly to go straight across a major road without looking. That is the sort of thing cyclists do in this country. Then last night I was driving home and a cyclist wearing dark clothes on a black bike riding on the wrong side of the road with, as in common, no lights on road straight across the junction I was approaching quite oblivious to the headlights of an oncoming car.
Most cyclists just don't even think about what is on the road or the pavement. On the road, if a driver hits a cyclist, it is always considered to be the driver's fault in law although it is almost certainly the cyclist's fault.
Don't get me wrong. I am not against bicycles. I have seen excellent riders with protective headgear, flashing LED lights and traffic sense, too. Such cyclists are no problem on the road. It is the idiots on bicycles that I object to. They should not be on either the pavement or the road.
Posted in: Police to get tough on sidewalk cyclists
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gaijintraveller
mw775 and WilliB, I assume you are from the US. The greatest threat to world peace is your country. Yours is the country with the largest military. Yours is the country that sells the most weapons of death and destruction around the world. Your country has been guilty of many instances of terrorism. You created the Taliban when they served your purpose. Your country keeps threatening North Korea and other countries, which is why they feel they need to defend themselves when your army is on their doorstep. Anyone can become dangerous when forced into a corner.
Think of how effective your weaponry was against the Viet Cong in Vietnam. I seem to remember you lost that war against an army with much less sophisticated weaponry. Look at how efficient such weapons have been in Afghanistan.
Japan has one of the largest militaries in the world and they are already very well equipped. There is no need to enlarge it unless, of course, Japan intends to use it to attack another country, which seems unlikely at the moment.
By the way, thank you for calling me a pacifist. It is an honour to be called a pacifist by warmongering Americans.
Posted in: Japan's aging Air Self-Defense Force plans major overhaul
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What a waste of money. The main threat to is not a military one from China or North Korea, but nature. Warplanes, which are probably called defence planes by Japanese politicians, offer no protection against nature.
The purpose of by new planes is to line pockets.
Posted in: Japan's aging Air Self-Defense Force plans major overhaul
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gaijintraveller
Could this be because the Afghan people as a whole do not want an invading army on their soil? Surely, they wouldn't think that people who drop bombs from planes on their country are guilty of terrorism?
Posted in: Militants attack U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan
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gaijintraveller
Or as the bankers say, "We have money, we want more money, give us your money." Not only do the richest in America have most of the money, they have most of the political power.
America is no longer a true democracy. The majority have no real voice in government. All the power has been bought by the richest. Simply, it is a plutocracy.
The poor and disenfranchised, those without bread, are starting to get the message: "Let them eat cake."
Posted in: Protesters in New York march on billionaires' homes
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gaijintraveller
Who is to blame, the driver or the parents? I suspect it is the parents, who let the child ride his tricycle in the road. Probably, the driver could not have avoided the accident.
The driver will have to pay a lot of compensation to the parents. The parents will receive a lot of money. It may seem callous to suggest that parents want to be rewarded for the death of their child, but how else can you explain why so many behave so irresponsibly and let their children behave so stupidly on the road? I am sure many drivers have had this thought.
Or is it that the parents themselves ride bicycles and are typical Japanese cyclists completely lacking in any road sense?
Posted in: 5-year-old boy playing in street dies after being run over by car
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gaijintraveller
No one travels to the Philippines for the food.
Posted in: U.S. ambassador to Philippines apologizes for sex tourism remark
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gaijintraveller
It always seems amazing that two different drivers in two different cars achieve such similar results. .009 seconds is nothing.
Posted in: Vettel takes pole for F1 Japanese Grand Prix
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gaijintraveller
In many countries people would not be filling in compensation claims: lawyers would do it for them and they would have started six months ago.
In the meantime I remember recently reading that TEPCO was thinking of selling resorts. I was wondering if any of these were being used to rehouse people.
Posted in: TEPCO creates simpler guide for compensation claims
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gaijintraveller
You may not like Chavez or Castro, but are their countrymen threatened by death squads? That is and has been the case is many South and Central American countries supported by the States. Are they worse than the Pinochets and Fujimori's?
He is talking about taking over homes and inns that were illegally built. Is that so much worse than people in the States losing their homes to foreclosure by banks that misled them and got away with all sorts of financial shenanigans?
Posted in: Chavez: Houses on Caribbean islands will be seized
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gaijintraveller
Was he a TEPCO employee or working for a subcontractor? The are many dodgy, possibly even yakuza related, subcontractors in this country that handle dangerous jobs.
Posted in: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant worker dies
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gaijintraveller
I believe the problem is not mentioning Hitler, but mentioning Hitler and Netanyahu in the same sentence. That could imply that Netanyahu is similar to Hitler.
Who would ever compare Netanyahu to Hitler? Possibly Palestinians living in their ghettoes and other Arabs and Muslims, but certainly not good Christian Americans as there is such a strong Jewish lobby in their country, which screams at the smallest slight to the Jewish people and particularly Israelis.
Posted in: ESPN pulls NFL song after Hitler analogy
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gaijintraveller
Kurisupisu, you are, of course, correct. Why no mention of power increase or what is different apart from the paint job?
Posted in: Mazda releases special edition BLACK TUNED Roadster
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gaijintraveller
How about punishing the US for overvalueing the dollar?
China could sell the dollars it holds. What would that do to the dollar? Render it worthless?
Posted in: U.S. Senate weighs bill to punish China for undervaluing currency