JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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jamurai
If this happened to my kid at school, I'd be outraged. Kids do stupid, idiotic stuff ALL the time. As parents out there know, we can teach our kids about safety until we are blue in the face and they will still do stupid stuff! I find it sad that (again) so many people are jumping on the back of the parents (not being parents themselves in the most part, I'd wager). The kid may be an idiot, the parents may be bad parents (or great parents) for all we know but none of this matters in the eyes of the law where the school has a duty of care. I'm really not into all this American-style suing, but if we agree that the school is responsible for the well-being of the child in its care and has been legally negligent, and I think we can all assume that they arenot just going to voluntarily hand over such sums of compensation for the injuries, then I suspect the parents would feel they have little alternative than to sue. And when they went to their lawyers, I'd bet he would say, "Right, lets sue their A***!) What good comes out of this, well perhaps, hopefully, lessons will be learned. And other kids will be safer at school as a result.
Posted in: Parents awarded Y12 mil after child injured smashing milk bottles together at school
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jamurai
Anthony B, you'd wanna be careful those candles don't burn your house down if there's an earthquake.
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jamurai
Poor woman. Poor kid. Poor train driver.
Posted in: 2-year-old boy dies after being hit by train at crossing
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jamurai
Ps Smith in Japan, I meant to "respectfully" disagree, not respectively (?!?!?)
Posted in: TEPCO workers quitting due to threats, sense of despair
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jamurai
Elvensilvan, of course TEPCO have to accept the blame for their failings, my point is that the government should not still be allowing things to happen for which any blame needs to be apportioned. To waste energy hounding and pointing fingers at TEPCO officials will serve no ultimate purpose.Of course, people ultimately should be held responsible for their actions (or lack of action) at that level, but we need to be looking at the failures higher up the ladder.
People need to hold their governments accountable. The Japanese government is only too happy to hide in the shadows, shirk responsibility and let others take the fall. Where there is full and clear accountabilty in government, governments make things happen. It is this government's responsibility to make things happen, i.e. to make this mess go away. I'm pretty sure the Americans or the British would've sorted it out by now, ACTION would have been taken swiftly and decisively at government levels to address the situation and their TEPCO equivalents would eventaually have been properly disciplined, criminal charges filed where appropriate and brought to justice (and investigations would also have been opened to look at the failure of the regulatory system and any misdoings of individuals therewithin. Not to mention looking into the failings at local and national government levels). So that in future such disasters can be prevented if at all possible and if not so that the response to such disasters will be much better.
That is where the focus should be.
Posted in: TEPCO workers quitting due to threats, sense of despair
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jamurai
...and I still respectively disagree SmithinJapan, it is not TEPCO management that the public wrath should be aimed at (they should no longer have been players 12 months ago), the government is 100% responsible for the whole mess now...and it was from Day 1.To waste your energy "hounding" the management of TEPCO "no end" is going to achieve exactly what?
TEPCO is simply the scapegoat, a lamb left out to the slaughter by the government. It just serves to illustrate the failings of the mechanisms of government in this country and the weakness of its democracy that this farce is still allowed to continue. Do you think a private utility would still be running the show in the US or western Europe? Hell, no! The Japanese people don't need to be setting about the straw man with matches. They need to be taking a knife to the heart of government and the beaurocrcy in this country. Weak, indecisive, irresponsible, corrupt. Throw 'em out. Overhaul the system. Japan needs a second renaissance. Badly. This is the moment where the voice of the people could force change. TEPCO are puppets.
Having said all that however, its slightly dispiriting that the voice of the people tends to be an emphatic "shoganai jyan" accompanied by a disinterested shrug of the shoulders. My crystal ball tells me that young Japanese of today will in 50 years time be saying, "Ah, life used to be so good in the old days, maybe we should have worked harder to preserve that." And their kids will just mumble, "shoganai, jyan" and get back to watching crap TV while their Chinese homework lies unattended in their schoolbags.
Posted in: TEPCO workers quitting due to threats, sense of despair
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jamurai
Of course, they would never get voluntary retirement if they had mentioned anything to that effect, would they?
Posted in: TEPCO workers quitting due to threats, sense of despair
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jamurai
I bet there is still a fridge full of Asahi Super Dry on it.
Posted in: U.S. Coast Guard cannons sink tsunami ship after 4 hours
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jamurai
Telephone conversation:
US: You wannit? Japan: er, nope. US: Alrighty then.
Good job, all in all, Japanese government shirking its responsibilities though...no news there.
Posted in: U.S. Coast Guard cannons sink tsunami ship after 4 hours
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jamurai
Perhaps they are afraid the inspectors may go the same way as Hans Blix...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSXNJMP8ir4
or, seriously;
a) they don't want to be humiliated when they fire a missle over Japan anyway.... b) they don't want to be humiliated when they find out it actually er, is...a rocket like NK says it is.
Posted in: Japan rejects N Korean invitation to send observers to rocket launch
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jamurai
And it is these guys who are responsible for the mess we are in now.
And it is this government which is responsible for fixing these guys. It shouldn't take this long.It appears that wareware once more don't have a clue what wareware are supposed to be doing.
An autonomous and independent regulatory body, armed with a real mandate and powers to enforce compliance (and not merely an advisory role) might be a good start.
Posted in: New nuclear regulatory agency delayed amid political infighting
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jamurai
Blow a hole in it and let it sink to the bottom. And Bob's your uncle.
Posted in: Owner of boat swept across Pacific by tsunami doesn't want it back
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jamurai
Market forces people. If you want to spent 7million yen on a Mickey Mouse wedding, and they are willing to provide it, then why the hell not? ! It isn't really that expensive for a wedding in Japan. Not everybody's cup of tea, but hey. This is my 4 year old daughter's dream. I hope she grows out of it but if she doesn't (and I can afford it), then there I'll be, a proud father in a goofy costume.
Posted in: Tokyo Disneyland to allow Cinderella Castle to be used for weddings
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jamurai
I like the local "Woops" hairdressers and "SPAZ" clothing store too. .
Posted in: What are some of the weirdest examples of English used in ads or on T-shirts, bags, etc, that you have seen in Japan?
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jamurai
A girl of 8 or 9 skipping down the road in America mura in Osaka, hand in hand with both her (presumably) parents wearing a T-shirt that read, "I'm a c**t." (uncensored). No sh*t.
Posted in: What are some of the weirdest examples of English used in ads or on T-shirts, bags, etc, that you have seen in Japan?
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jamurai
Wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of those.
Posted in: Bold and beautiful
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jamurai
I think most parents understand the frustration and anger that can build up with new babies, especially if they feel they are inadequately equipped to cope, and many will also realise how close they have come to snapping or lashing out in some way. Yes, this is a terrible crime which should be properly punished, yes she should have punched a pillow or taken a walk and that's easy enough to say in hindsight. (Avoid slamming tables by the way...dang!) Luckily these babies (unlike so many others) survived and one day, somewhere down the line I hope they will enjoy a happy and loving relationship with their mother. We obviously don't know the full circumstances, but I doubt she is a monster and she is probably living in a seriously dark place right now.
Posted in: Woman arrested for abusing 2-week-old twins
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jamurai
One is "quite high," the other is going on a "cruise". Sounds like the start of a Godzilla movie to me.
Posted in: Scientists begin mission to probe seabed fractured by March 11 quake
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jamurai
”Some of those who fled the clouds of radiation that spewed from the plant after it was swamped by last March’s tsunami...”
I must have missed the news at the time when they told us that the plant was "spewing clouds of radiation."
Posted in: Fukushima evacuees still in limbo as TEPCO drags its feet
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jamurai
That whole one leg rolled up thing.gets me going every time.
Posted in: Things that foreigners find annoying about life in Japan