JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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kamonochoumei
What a tragedy. All the cousins left the room at once, except the one year old boy? And then they all came back. I wonder if something didn't happen while some cousins were in the room, let's all hold our breath and see how long we can stay under water... and baby can play, too...?
Posted in: 1-year-old boy drowns in bathtub in Hyogo
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kamonochoumei
If this guy's a professional comedian, 100% of the 5 year old males in this country could do better. I always cringe when I see foreign actors appear on some of these inane variety programs that are filled with squawking, screeching, vulgar "comedians" and "talents." The foreigners always have a WTF?! look within seconds because somebody will lay on the floor and fart or bare his as* or something and bring the whole house down. Children watch TV and learn that those idiots are supposedly funny. The government, bureaucracy, and Dentsu are only concerned with hiding any hint of dissent and anything else goes.
Posted in: TV comedian Tanoshingo promotes '3D bra'
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kamonochoumei
A toilet stall? What a class act. He sure knows how to treat a girl, doesn't he.
Posted in: Politician husband of actress Maki Mizuno spotted cavorting with hostess
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kamonochoumei
Ozawa has never done anything in the least productive in his entire career. Talk about rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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kamonochoumei
I agree with EUcitizen and IvanCoughalot. Imada and Sanma don't have the cerebral chops to pull off anything resembling satire. Bakushō Mondai (爆笑問題)(Yūji Tanaka and Hikari Ōta) might have a shot. Sanma's just a vulgar a#sh#le. Japanese "comedy" seldom rises above 3rd grade fart jokes.
Posted in: Japanese version of 'Saturday Night Live' to debut in June
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kamonochoumei
"called it unfortunate that more Chinese people visit France than the United States" This has nothing to do with visas. France is a much more attractive destination. You can get where you want to go by public transportation, the food's better. Can't say France has low crime, but you won't be shot dead in a restaurant. America's filled with identical chain stores. There are some interesting geographic features to see, but good luck getting there without renting a car and driving hundreds of miles with jet lag. You have to fly to get anywhere and the airline service can't even be called service.
Posted in: Travel industry rep wants U.S. to speed up visas
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kamonochoumei
Those poor kids have been through enough already. From the first grade they had to write "Schwarzenegger" how many times a day? All the while wishing mom married a bloke named Smith or Nye.
Posted in: Shriver: It's a 'painful and heartbreaking time'
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kamonochoumei
How about some Fukushima wagyuu for him? And don't forget the spinach. But ringostar, we don't want to kill the poor blokes dealing with the nukes. They're risking their lives as it is.
Posted in: Justin Bieber looking forward to coming to Japan
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kamonochoumei
This is exactly what I tried to explain on another global warming article a few weeks ago. Global warming can cause some places to experience unusually severe winter weather. Some people say, "it snowed today, so global warming is a lie." But global warming can cause snow.
Posted in: Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain
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kamonochoumei
They sound like innocents abroad with a copy of the Lonely Planet they picked up at a hostel somewhere. The CIA is far more discriminating in its hiring practices than that. Unfortunately, they are like that poor young American guy who answered George W. Bush's call to go start businesses in Iraq and lost his head in the bargain. Or those three naïve Japanese who went to make peace there (and then got vilified in the Japanese press for interfering with Koizumi's program of sending Japanese soldiers to the safest district in the country to provide water and paint school buildings.) Don't hike in Iraq, whether on the Iranian border or not. If you do, you're painting a please kidnap me sign on your back.
Posted in: Iran opens trial of 3 Americans on spy charges
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kamonochoumei
Good man. Nominate this company for the Nobel Peace Prize. Or the medicine prize. They aren't doing cutting edge research but they are doing a service to patients.
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kamonochoumei
Royalty is handled with kid gloves in Japan. If you write something about Japan's royal family that right wing fanatics object to, your house and work place will be visited by big black trucks blaring idiotic slogans all day. The police may or may not come and watch, but they will do nothing to protect you, your spouse, your children, your neighbors or colleagues. You will instantly become persona non grata.
Posted in: Japanese tabloids make hay of royal family foibles
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kamonochoumei
Was he cut from the squad in Korea? The news in Japan says he was ostracized by the Korean players and he can't speak Korean so he gave up and came back to Japan. He's not a zainichi anymore. Zainichi properly refers to people with Korean nationality who live in Japan. They are zainichi (in Japan) Kankokujin (Korean nationals). He is ethnically Korean but a Japanese citizen.
Posted in: Hero of Asia Cup final at ease with his Japanese-Korean identity
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kamonochoumei
The black military "gakuran" uniforms are inappropriate for postwar Japan. But I have no objections to a jacket and tie for boys and skirt below the knee for girls. Slacks and blazers would be fine for girls, too, and would thwart perverts. Rules that don't allow girls to wear tights under their skirts in winter are ridiculous.
Posted in: What do you think of school uniforms in Japan?
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kamonochoumei
Another one? We have PTA patrols in my neighborhood but they go out once a month, 15 women and the vice principal or somebody, all with armbands on. Completely useless. There are several hundred parents, so I suggested passing around a calendar and getting one or two people at a time to sign up one morning or afternoon a month when kids are going or coming from school. That suggestion went nowhere. People always say that crime is so low in Japan because the yakuza keep it down. Well, get cracking guys. These crimes need to be treated more seriously. I remember watching the scene on TV of the cop apprehending that little twit who stabbed everybody in Akihabara because he couldn't find a girlfriend. The cop went after him with a baton. Pull out your gun and shoot him. Show that on TV. Then these incidents will decrease.
Posted in: 9-year-old girl slashed in face and neck in Osaka
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kamonochoumei
Medvedev "appeared eager to assert his power"? He has no power. Putin's in charge.
Posted in: Russian president fires police chief after bombing
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kamonochoumei
From Bob Herbert of the New York Times: "An important study published in 2009 by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine estimated that people in possession of a gun at the time of an assault were 4.5 times more likely to be shot during the assault than someone in a comparable situation without a gun."
Posted in: The gun control debate: Do you support the right of citizens to own and bear firearms?
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kamonochoumei
There are many permutations to this kind of scheme. My wife answered a call a few weeks ago from a guy who claimed that he was from the Shibuya police station and they had a report of me (a foreigner) molesting somebody. Caller ID showed that the call was from a pay phone. My wife just said well he's here, I'll give him the phone and the guy hung up. We reported it to the police.
Posted in: 81-year-old man foils telephone fraud attempt
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kamonochoumei
European transportation networks need to prepare for greater weather fluctuations due to global warming. Heat acts like a fuel in the atmosphere. Heat is why weather changes. If you add more heat, in the closed atmospheric system, yes, eventually you will get more heat everywhere, but in the meantime, the heat causes more drastic fluctuations in weather patterns. That's why it is possible to get colder temperatures in some areas due to global warming. It has nothing to do with politics, just junior high school physics. Europeans need to adapt.
Posted in: European weather chaos spawns outrage, questions
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kamonochoumei
A good week for Obama.
Posted in: Obama gets Republican votes for arms control treaty with Russia