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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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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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jason6
Hilarious. The gun nuts are still nuts. Probably give some lame ass excuse about how the politician woulda been OK if she packed a bigger cannon than the guy who shot her (btw she's pro-gun herself.. maybe not any longer?)
Lemme make it real simple for you: easy access to guns (as in you can pop into a store and grab one despite having a firearms related violent criminal record related) + random lunatic = somebody getting hurt. Doesn't matter whether you have a gun to protect yourself or not, it's not about YOU, it's about the maniac pumping bullets into the crowd. Americans always think they're living in a movie and somebody will be The Hero, shooting the gun outta his hand or the bullets outta the air.
Did somebody, with all the security and pro-gun lobbyists hanging round this political rally, actually shoot the guy? No! They wrestled him to the ground using their bare hands. In fact, if somebody did try to shoot the guy it might have caused even more mayhem and casualties in that crowded and chaotic scene. You can't stop'em all, so why not make it harder for them to embark on these killing sprees using guns? It's not surprising that there's a school/work/blahblahblah shooting with multiple deaths every week or month anymore in America. Wake up and smell the cordite (and the copious amounts of blood), your gun control systems are not working.
Posted in: Arizona shooting once again ignites gun control debate
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jason6
Supposedly a backlash against the new logo happening according to news reports.. I do prefer the old logo too, but some customers are going hysterical about the change. Couldn't they keep the "Starbucks" on it? I mean the Nike Swoosh and Apple Apple are recognizable, but a mermaid is kinda hard to associate with Starbucks (I associated more with the brand name running around the border and the color). My opinion, they haven't built up enough brand recognition yet, haven't displayed it too prominently in their traditional media advertising to properly implant it into the public consciousness.
Posted in: Starbucks gives logo a new look
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jason6
A toilet is a fixture just like the sink and doesn't have any specific meaning attached to it. If you think that the word toilet sounds dirty, I suggest you clean your own a little more often.
Anyways.. guys shouldn't complain about this song: if J-girls hear the repetitive and sappy lyrics enough times, they might really clean our toilets everyday in hopes of staying beautiful.
Posted in: 'Toilet God' song makes a star of songstress
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jason6
What's with all these people claiming alternative realities and conspiracy theories? I can understand that JT probably has left things out of the story, but I think it's pretty straightforward that a drunk and his friend crashed the car (which is illegal) and the cop(s) responding let them go (which is wrong). Compounding both parties' errors, the drunks proceeded to drive the crashed car again and were luckily caught.
Posted in: Drunken driver crashes car; back behind wheel 4 hours later
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jason6
Rare earth
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jason6
The kimono is ripe for a fashion redesign and this trend could be just the tipping point for some boutique in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto to modernize it. I couldn't think of how to do it myself, but I'm sure there's somebody on some drawing board somewhere working furiously to get it into production.
Posted in: The New Kimono
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jason6
My foreign friend used a key chain version of this product to pick up J-girls with great success. A picture is worth a thousand words indeed.
Posted in: Egg-shaped digital photo frames
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jason6
Since the cartoonist is a marked man anyways, he should just keep on turning out those cartoons of Mohammed.
Posted in: 5 arrested in plot to attack prophet cartoon paper in Denmark
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jason6
Nobuyuki Sato should have spent way more than 250 days of the past 10 years in solitary confinement to repay the suffering he has inflicted.
Posted in: Forgotten celebrities, villains, victims - 20 years later
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jason6
-they've known each other for 6 months only -both are well-off (is he really though?) and have no trouble finding new mates, therefore no penalties for divorcing -the woman makes more money than the man and is more successful/famous, a traditional trouble spot for couples -communication difficulties due to language and cultural barriers, exposing the probability that they married for looks or status -on Ayu's part, she might have rushed into marriage because of Japanese standards -on the nameless foreigner's part, he could have been attracted to her money or the prospect of boosting his own fame
You decide for yourself.
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jason6
"Peaceful rise" sounds better than "Give me your wallet and nobody gets hurt."
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jason6
USAkuma's right, if the Sea Shepherd ever attacked an American, Norwegian or Chinese ship, I doubt they would last a week before they were in jail or worse. Countries make their own law and, despite the hysteric clamoring of the Japanese government, they have been relatively benign towards the whole thing. The political environment of the world is such that American politicians can openly advocate the assassination of Julian Assange, somebody who has been merely operating a website that leaks information. What would they do if a hostile force periodically hindered, then attacked their vessels?
Posted in: U.S., Japan discussed action against anti-whalers: WikiLeaks
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jason6
His speech sounds like a sales pitch for a pyramid marketing scheme or a cult.
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jason6
Sexbots
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jason6
I seriously question the competence of a police force that:
a) Trained the police who let the two drunks go. It is common knowledge (at least it should be to enforcement officers) that both the driver and passengers of a vehicle are subject to punishment if the driver is found to be inebriated and the passengers knowingly ride in the vehicle despite this.
b) Have not decided to punish the police officers involved in this fiasco. They have failed in their duty to enforce the law and by doing so have placed the public at considerable risk. The pair DID drunkenly drive again and could have injured or killed while doing so.
People should be clamoring for the officers' and chief's head!
Posted in: Drunken driver crashes car; back behind wheel 4 hours later
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jason6
It had to happen sooner or later: the other staff of Wikileaks decided that Assange is an insufferable publicity whore and have left him to form Openleaks. You can support what Wikileaks used to stand for, without the dramatics from the circus known as Julian, by visiting the Openleaks website instead. Go Openleaks Go!
Posted in: Publisher confirms Julian Assange book deal
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jason6
They're just on another drug binge. She'll make another 'comeback' when the stash runs out. Repeat until her body sags.
Posted in: Erika Sawajiri, husband Tsuyoshi Takashiro spotted together in Barcelona
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jason6
This is just my theory, but.. Young + Homeless => Crime
And a generation of young homeless would translate into a future crime wave. If you've read Freakonomics, I'm drawing from one of the examples cited in America, where a generation of poor single parent families were postulated as the cause of the crime wave 10-20 years later.
If what I put forth comes true, might we see Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya turning into something like 90's New York, Chicago and Detroit? Hope I'm wrong!
Posted in: Homeless getting younger and younger
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jason6
Let the gangsters fund them. It's the least that those parasites of society could do to repay us.
Posted in: Lack of 'trickle down' funds leaves sumo apprentices out in the cold
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jason6
IAMTHE1, where did you actually go? There are tons of homeless in Umeda and Namba, but the real homeless areas are further south near Kishiwada. And like you said, Japanese homeless are usually harder to spot than the ones in foreign countries. Just because you visited Japan doesn't mean that you have a firm understanding of the homeless problem or anything about the country.
Posted in: Homeless getting younger and younger