Wednesday February 15, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

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imacatAug. 25, 2010 - 12:05AM JST

Ethanol is a drug, a dangerous drug.

Yeah, well I don't want to live in your "safe" world...

Posted in: Drunken man arrested after man falls to death off train platform
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imacatAug. 24, 2010 - 10:51PM JST

I can't believe the holier-than-thou attitude of some of the people posting here. I feel as if I have walked into a temperance movement's meeting.

Who hasn't been staggering drunk themselves?

Most of us have. My feeling for the drunk guy is "there but for the grace of God go I."

This was an accident and a tragic one. The man will have to pay a price, that is inevitable but comments such as:

He should live in a tiny 4.3mat room, give all but subsistence wages to the victim's family, abstain forever from alcohol and have is walls plastered with the photos of the man he killed. And to wrap things up, have the man's name tattoed on his hands so that he sees it every single day of the rest of his pathetic life.

are just plain ridiculous.

Posted in: Drunken man arrested after man falls to death off train platform
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imacatJul. 25, 2010 - 11:17AM JST

This bear is psychologically damaged. It has "zoochosis". Look it up on google... ...most visitors to zoos don't care about it

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imacatApr. 05, 2010 - 01:29AM JST

The chronic shortage of toilet tissue is a terrible state of affairs.

It's quite obvious the Japanese military is just papering over the cracks here.

Posted in: Ragtag military left to defend Japan on shoestring budget
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imacatMar. 14, 2010 - 01:37AM JST

Japan has decimated the fisheries surrounding Japan.

If it couldn't manage those fisheries nearest to Japan, why on earth should we have any confidence in what Japan is doing on the high seas?

Based on its record in managing its own fisheries, Japan is a very dangerous fishing nation.

Posted in: Tuna sale
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imacatMar. 09, 2010 - 01:26PM JST

My son's already got more friends than me and he's only 2...

Posted in: Growing number of men have no close friends
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imacatMar. 08, 2010 - 10:58PM JST

We, who are not Japanese do not need to criticize the Japanese for their traditions.

I think you misunderstood my post.

I'm not talking about criticizing the Japanese for their traditions.

I'm saying there was no need for Japan to try to cover up the slaughter with silly blue tarpaulins. By doing so they created an even juicier topic... ripe for a documentary producer to make a film about.

I'm also saying that the documentary film maker could (should) have been Japanese, but the media is so timid in Japan we hardly ever get hard-hitting documentaries.

These 2 things IMHO created the circumstances for a foreign film maker to step and make a documentary which has become world famous.

Posted in: 'The Cove' wins Oscar for Best Documentary
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imacatMar. 08, 2010 - 09:27PM JST

This is another PR disaster for Japan. They are so useless at PR it is unbelievable.

Their big error was to try and cover up the dolphin slaughter. They used blue tarpaulins, banned filming, harassed people trying to film it... that is just an absolutely silly approach. For any (normal) documentary film maker that is like a red rag to a bull. They'll be smacking their lips at the juicy opportunity... a film of the dolphin slaughter taken against all odds... the documentary they tried to ban... etc

This raises the other point. Notice I put a "normal" before documentary film maker above. Japanese documentary makers are far from normal. Why on earth haven't the Japanese media made a documentary about this? Are they too busy filming programs about ramen?

We rarely get any hard hitting documentaries about the more unpalatable sides of life here in Japan. The media is not fulfilling its role, presumably from fear of upsetting people watching, upsetting the subjects of the documentary, upsetting the government, etc. This timid media is useless and this fear of upsetting people makes TV here bland and childish too the extreme.

We criticize (for example) the BBC in the UK but at least they make some great hard-hitting documentaries... how about "Slaughterhouse: The Task of Blood" showing the inside workings of a family slaughterhouse in the UK. Or how about any of Michael Moore's documentaries? The Japanese media certainly is too timid and that's left this open for a foreign documentary team to make a great documentary... and look how successful they have been with it.

If the Japanese had from the start been open about the slaughter (we are very sorry but this is our culture and this is how we do it) and if the Japanese media operated as a normal media should then The Cove would never have been made.

Posted in: 'The Cove' wins Oscar for Best Documentary
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imacatMar. 04, 2010 - 09:40AM JST

It must be there to renew its visa.

Posted in: Watch the birdie
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imacatMar. 03, 2010 - 10:17AM JST

This is about the right level for a young Japanese woman... pretend to kick a football. Let's just hope she doesn't try to do anything more difficult.

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imacatMar. 02, 2010 - 10:13AM JST

This is about the right level for young Japanese women... holding a donut. Let's hope they don't attempt anything more difficult...

Posted in: Miss Mister Donut
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imacatFeb. 23, 2010 - 08:44PM JST

These aren't pro-whaling protestors, they are rightists.

If you've ever seen a rightist demo you will realise it's a rag tag group of unemployed people, unemployable people, borderline criminals and the insane.

A sad bunch indeed and if I were a pro-whaler I would feel very uncomfortable finding myself in the same bed as these idiots.

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imacatFeb. 20, 2010 - 05:43PM JST

I agree with Plushenko. We want quads... and lots of them!

And then we need to progress to quintuples for the next Olympics.

And looking forward to 2018 we need septuples

Oh, and Lysacek shouldn't be champion simply because of his oily hair... that looks horrible.

Posted in: Lysacek won the Olympic gold; Plushenko won the argument
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imacatFeb. 16, 2010 - 11:48AM JST

Let's hope they get married and live happily ever after... if only it had happened the day before...

Posted in: Man saves woman from train after she falls onto tracks
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imacatFeb. 06, 2010 - 11:42AM JST

Does you theory also work in reverse? Does a woman have the right to seek satisfaction elsewhere if her husband turns off the 'sex tap?

Of course... in this case the husband isn't fulfilling his conjugal responsibilities so the wife has every right to look elsewhere.

But I agree with darkknight, it's a rare case. It's much more common for the woman to switch off the sex tap.

And woman who do so are very mistaken, imho. They have thought nothing about the consequences and effects... just acting selfishly for themselves.

But in Japan if you're a foreign guy in this situation there is no need to suffer in silence. Get out and about and before long you'll find a nice lady who is eager for the affection and intimacy that your wife refuses to provide.

And if your wife finds out about it then tell her clearly and firmly that it is her fault... her selfish behavior has provoked this situation.

Posted in: Sexless in Japan
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imacatFeb. 06, 2010 - 11:16AM JST

Excellent... This is why I came to Japan. I'm gonna buy a pair for my gf for Valentine's. She's 43 but I'm sure she'll like them and look good in them...

Posted in: For girls who want to wear their hearts on their panties
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imacatFeb. 05, 2010 - 01:46AM JST

@guest

Which Toyota r u driving? I've always quite fancied the Mark 2 (I think it's a Mark X now) but ended up with the Alphard... damn!

Posted in: Skepticism over Toyota's fixes grows as probe widens to Prius
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imacatFeb. 05, 2010 - 01:42AM JST

@Branded Many thanks. I'll keep my eye on the news coming out in Japan.

I've quite liked the Alphard so far but if it suddenly starts propelling me down the Tomei Expressway with no brakes I think my feelings might change...

Posted in: Skepticism over Toyota's fixes grows as probe widens to Prius
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imacatFeb. 05, 2010 - 01:37AM JST

IMHO if a wife (Japanese or otherwise) turns off the sex tap then I think that gives any man the right (yes the right) to seek satisfaction elsewhere. And if the wife finds out about it then, tough cheese... she needs to be told that it was her fault.

For a foreign guy in Japan there's absolutely no need to suffer a sexless life if your wife has decided she doesn't want it any more. Put yourself around town a bit and you'll find plenty of ladies (married and single) who will be more than willing to get together for some mutually rewarding experiences.

It will give you a boost and allow you to get one over your wife who isn't fulfilling her conjugal duties.

Posted in: Sexless in Japan
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imacatFeb. 05, 2010 - 12:56AM JST

It would be helpful if you didn't decide to jump 66 years in timeframe in the middle of an exchange.

You're talking about learning from the past!! Here in the 21st Century we still have America swaggering around like a cowboy on the world stage, wading into Iraq on the basis of a lie, killing 1000s of civilians, creating massive new numbers of terrorists who want to attack the west... what has America learned?

But Indonesia did become independent of Dutch rule. That's a fact.

Unfortunately most of the romusha didn't become independent... they were dead. I suppose that is in a way a kind of "liberation"...

Proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Nanking was UNDOCUMENTED.

Google Askew and Nanjing to find a very interesting article that shows what primary and secondary documentation is available.

Posted in: Japan, China still at odds over 'Rape of Nanking'