jeancolmar said...

jeancolmar at 07:47 PM JST - 27th June

All this proves is that most criminals are stupid.

Posted in 18-year-old arrested for killing friend's mother in Mie at 07:47 PM JST - 27th June
jeancolmar at 11:20 PM JST - 26th June

Well, Wai Wai really was trash. But it was interesting trash. What gets me is that the Mainichi is severely punishing those responsible for Wai Wai. As if those in control did not bother to read their own website.

It is a pity to see Wai Wai go because it…

Posted in What do you think of the Mainichi's decision to cease publishing its WaiWai tabloid tidbits section on its English online site following complaints that it portrays Japanese society in a negative light to the world? at 11:20 PM JST - 26th June
jeancolmar at 11:50 PM JST - 25th June

Debito is doing a public service. More than might be apparent. By targeting "foreigner-looking" people the dumb cops could well be allowing the ordinary knife-wielding maniacs to slip past them. Note that so far all the knife-wielding maniacs, and potential knife-wielding maniacs, have been Japanese. The Akiba maniac was joe…

Posted in Debito Arudo protests police questioning targeting foreigners at 11:50 PM JST - 25th June
jeancolmar at 08:42 AM JST - 25th June

Well, at least this isn't quite as bad as when the Japanese guy carved his name into a giant statue on Easter Island.

Posted in Japanese student scrawled on world heritage cathedral in Italy at 08:42 AM JST - 25th June
jeancolmar at 09:31 PM JST - 21st June

The opening line of *Dump Truck should be, "What a dump!"

Posted in Porn actress, producers arrested for filming in rear of dump truck at 09:31 PM JST - 21st June
jeancolmar at 09:39 AM JST - 21st June

Alternative to capital punishment? Canada. Germany. The UK. France. Finland. To name a few. Most Latin American countries have either ended or greatly limited capital punishment. (Brazil applies it only to high treason, if I recall correctly.)

The point is that living without capital punishment is not a utopian dream…

Posted in Justice chief protests being called 'specter of death' in newspaper column at 09:39 AM JST - 21st June
jeancolmar at 01:55 AM JST - 21st June

Good point, Patrick Smash. This leaves Japan as the only industrialized democracy with capital punishment as national policy. One argument against capital punishment is that it is fickle. It is particularly so in Japan.

I've noticed several typos above. If bad proofreading was a capital offense I would have swung…

Posted in Justice chief protests being called 'specter of death' in newspaper column at 01:55 AM JST - 21st June
jeancolmar at 11:30 PM JST - 20th June

Being called Specter of Death got Hatoyama riled up. He said: "After agonizing over the decision, I have authorized executions in line with the judiciary and provisions of the law." If you check the law you'll see that the Justice Minister has virtual carte blanche in hangs and who does…

Posted in Justice chief protests being called 'specter of death' in newspaper column at 11:30 PM JST - 20th June
jeancolmar at 07:31 PM JST - 14th June

I am with you romulus. This was not an economic problem but a a human rights problem. When Japanese cops are thugs they need to be put in their place.

Posted in 10 arrested, 9 injured after 200 surround Osaka police station at 07:31 PM JST - 14th June
jeancolmar at 11:31 PM JST - 13th June

Not a bad article, except "verisimilitude" is misused.

Posted in Akihabara becoming increasingly weird at 11:31 PM JST - 13th June