JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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griff
i'll say what i always say, perhaps if parents had children out of a deep personal desire, rather than satisfying their "obligations", we wouldn't see this kind of thing happening on a daily basis
Posted in: 22-year-old couple arrested for burning 2-year-old son with hair dryer
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griff
men feeling attracted to young girls they see walking around on the street does indeed happen, and may do no harm, but should at least be frowned upon since it is of little benefit to society and the possible risks involved are great. that said, having an interest in place to present this material is not frowning upon it, in fact, it is the opposite. making this material a commercial commodity communicates suggests some degree of tacit legitimisation of it. i believe this is what a lot of people on this thread have been trying to say.
Posted in: Innocence lost: the dark side of Akihabara
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griff
i suspect he might be taking the pish
Posted in: I consider myself very close to both ancient and modern Japan.
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griff
indeed. as i say time and time again, statistics are pretty meaningless "on the ground". i spent the first part of my life living in the uk, supposedly a hotbed of crime and violence, yet i had to come to japan to get my bicycle stolen...
Posted in: Is Japan a good place to raise children?
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griff
glad you enjoyed! i think the root point was that i thought the risk of raising a thug, and i mean a REAL THUG, not just a difficult teen, was far slimmer than the very real risk of raising a kid with a personality bypass. in all seriousness, the most important thing to me is to have a relationship with my child. i think that in japan it is considered most important to have a child who is, at least, not meiwaku.
Posted in: Is Japan a good place to raise children?
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griff
the problem is, as i have noticed, it is considered acceptable for a girl to be involved in any kind of filth, provided that (at least at the beginning...) she looked kawaii. so a lot of parents will just see that the girl gets attention, looks kawaii, and that is case closed
Posted in: Innocence lost: the dark side of Akihabara
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griff
i've never understood the hatred about women putting on make-up on trains. have a little heart. women are expected to look beautiful, but are expected to insert extra hours into the day in order to do so. i'd hate to have to lose an hour of sleep every day in order to make myself more acceptable to society. sure, you can say its their choice, but remember that beauty is one of the few things that can open doors for women in this country
Posted in: Older men up in arms over slovenly female behavior
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griff
i agree with this although it is a little off topic. hysteria about paedophilia does more damage than paedophilia itself. however, i think there is a world of difference between wanting to work in primary education, and wanting to look at prepubescent girls in bikinis
Posted in: Innocence lost: the dark side of Akihabara
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griff
great post, toecutter. especially this part;
Posted in: Innocence lost: the dark side of Akihabara
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griff
i once had a conversation with a friend in which he stated that he would be happy to raise kids in japan. his reasoning was that they would be safer in japan and would learn to be studious and obedient at school. i pointed out that there was a danger the education system would mould his child into something he would not recognise. he said that would be no problem since he could teach them to independent free-thinkers "in the evenings".....
my own response was that i would rather run the risk of raising a thug, than run the risk of raising a drone
Posted in: Is Japan a good place to raise children?
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griff
football is a team game which simultaneously requires individual flair and improvisation. japan excels at the former, fails miserably at the latter. seems in a way that football might be a great way to teach a happy balance between the two....
Posted in: Head of JFA calls J-League boring
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griff
so a 50 year old man does not need to know how to have a relationship with a woman in his age group? i really wonder how you would justify this. seems a pretty key component of building a healthy and successful relationship with a member of the opposite sex
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griff
if the yen rises through the summer it'll be great for me!
Posted in: Japan stocks edge down as yen keeps climbing
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griff
i've experienced the same thing. the explanation is that "foreigner" is the english word mostly commonly used to translate gaijin/gaikokujin. it might be better translated as outsider, or non-japanese. thus, it's perhaps not fair to criticise him for his word choice, but by using a translation of "gaijin" does go to expose the rather dichotomous way in which many japanese see the world...
Posted in: Pushy French are world's worst tourists; Japanese are top: study
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griff
i was discussing this survey with a student yesterday, and i'm not surprised to find japan at the top of the list. HOWEVER, we need to bear in mind that most japanese tourists keep quite a distance from the locals, probably don't speak enough of another language to complain or get into any quarrels. this certainly avoids conflict, but makes me think that pretty much zero cultural exchange takes place when japanese travel abroad. japanese don't learn much about the people they encounter, and people abroad learn little about the japanese.
Posted in: Pushy French are world's worst tourists; Japanese are top: study
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griff
the fact that water, one of the most abundant substances on the planet, i now a consumer item is surely an indicator of the impending downfall of the capitalist system... anyway, bottled water is certainly useful at times, but in case it escaped people's notice, both bottles and water are available separately. the industrial process used to combine the two isn't nearly as complex as some people must believe it is
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griff
another point that doesn't seem to have been discussed is the glaring point that grown men need to learn how to interact with women their own age. the existence of material like this does nothing to assist this, and (arguable) a lot to damage this. in case you didn't notice, japan has a birthrate problem and, arguably, growing social alienation problems
Posted in: Innocence lost: the dark side of Akihabara
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griff
beavercleaver, no-one is trying to argue that child exploitation/prostitution don't exist outside of japan. the only difference is that other countries have rather stricter regulation of this kind of material. you could also argue that there is a far greater stigma attached to child exploitation. you might also like to consider whether these two points might be linked. look at the regulation of drugs in japan: alcohol is legal and therefore widely condoned. other drugs are illegal and highly stigmatised. there is every reason to suspect that if child exploitation was more strictly regulated in law then any existing tolerance for it would also dry up extremely quickly.
Posted in: Innocence lost: the dark side of Akihabara
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griff
nisegaijin (and possibly beavercleaver) appear to be using this topic as a tool to campaign for individual responsibility. i, myself, am a great supporter of individual responsibility. for adults. children, on the other hand are too young to understand the full consequences of their actions. i know that 18/20 are arbitrary figures on when a person reaches "maturity", but in the absence of some kind of government applied "maturity test" i think that they are reasonable benchmark figures
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griff
i wish japan had more male role models like ken. not a "herbivore", nor a dumb oyaji. dapper and astute, as comfortable home or abroad, it seems.
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