JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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jonnyboy
glad to see you're coolly and objectively seeing the big picture with regards to this case
Posted in: Man arrested for assaulting guards upon release from Tochigi prison
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jonnyboy
yikes
Posted in: Gravure idol Nozomi Fujikawa takes kimono off at press event for upcoming movie
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jonnyboy
japan might make a better impression on the world stage if it could finally throw off the shackles of its past and start looking to a new future rather than trying to live off an idealised image of its past, or poor approximations of culture from abroad
manga isn't exactly a heavyweight cultural export. i was quite interested in it in my teens, but not anymore
Posted in: Japan has been too quiet and hardly made itself felt on the world stage. Anime and manga are one of the few ways in which Japan can exert influence on other countries.
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jonnyboy
girl gets her wedding day, wakes up the next and realises that she has a good 50 more years to live and has not up to this point in any way considered how she will spend it
Posted in: Downtown's Matsumoto announces shotgun marriage to ex-weathergirl
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jonnyboy
well, freedom of speech (supposedly) does not give you the freedom to yell fire in a crowded theatre. you could argue that a game that rewards the player for committing crimes is thus not defensible under freedom of speech
Posted in: As far as storylines are concerned, we cannot easily say 'no' because freedom of expression is at issue. Some novels, comics and movies also contain extreme content.
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jonnyboy
the comments related to the national health insurance raised on this tread are particularly concerning. however, i'm out of here in a few months so glad this will not be affecting me. more things to add to the "thank god i'm outta here soon" list, to balance out having to say sayonara to all my buddies
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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jonnyboy
unfortunately, a lot of the sensible suggestions on this thread would require the government to be flexible towards those that do not fit into pre-existing, tight and narrow conditions
ie. prepare to be disappointed
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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jonnyboy
saw angels and demons last night. was alright. didn't finish watching the davinci code, so can't quite gauge how it compares. i do wonder, though, why you might go and see the films if you've read the books, as i have, unless you go with someone who hasn't
i'm preying that terminator salvation is as good as i hope it'll be. bale doesn't seem to get involved with poor scripts
Posted in: Which summer blockbuster are you looking forward to seeing most of all?
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jonnyboy
because some of us like to imagine that we might be able to rise above hundreds of thousands of years of irrational tribal thinking. just because fear of the other is common doesn't mean we should be proud of it
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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jonnyboy
this picture is actually taken from a picture dictionary, look under the definition for "sausage-fest"
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jonnyboy
ZOMG! they actually SAID this?!
dear mr smith, i'm sorry we didn't publish any plans for the 8 lane highway we just built outside your house, but we wanted to finish it first... before you had any chance to object
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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jonnyboy
doing this would require a concept that foreigners permanently emigrate to japan, of course intending to stay permanently. it still seems to me that japan has the meiji-era notion that foreigners come on a short-term basis to be made use of and then swiftly returned from whence they came
i suppose that in order to do this step one would be the creation of an immigration beareau
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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jonnyboy
ha! will this be an indigenous definition of "marital activities"? in which case would talking to your spouse be considered grounds for visa nullification?
Posted in: Proposed resident registry card for foreigners creates Big Brother concerns
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jonnyboy
you don't have the freedom to say things that encourage people to break the law...
Posted in: As far as storylines are concerned, we cannot easily say 'no' because freedom of expression is at issue. Some novels, comics and movies also contain extreme content.
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jonnyboy
all the world's top chefs are men...
Posted in: The cooking trend among young men probably started with 'Bistro SMAP.' Now, being able to cook is considered a plus when it comes to finding a wife.
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jonnyboy
nice way to encourage the notion that j women have no value whatsoever outside of marriage...
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jonnyboy
and i support it. at the end of the day marriage is just a big ceremony and a piece of legal paper that just boils down to exactly the same thing
Posted in: Births to unwed moms rising; Northern Europe beats U.S.
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jonnyboy
correlation is not direct evidence of cause and effect. single parent families are more likely to be poor, and live in poor neighbourhoods. in order to prove a link between single-parent families and crime it would be necessary to compare rates of delinquency between single-parent and nuclear families living in comparable income brackets
Posted in: Births to unwed moms rising; Northern Europe beats U.S.
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jonnyboy
well the sherlock holmes amongst us already suspect this Isao fellow.
Posted in: Motive for Aichi double murder remains a mystery
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jonnyboy
i hope she can succeed in this venture, fear that she won't
Posted in: I want to go into politics in the future. I want to become Japan's first female prime minister. It could happen. But I want to do it through my own efforts and not just because I was second in Miss Universe.