Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    keshii

    It used to be that you had to go to the Southern Hemisphere to have Christmas in July...

    Posted in: Starry Light 2008 in Shinjuku

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    It took me a whole year to adjust my baking recipes to work with the butter here... because the companies put in more water to save money! I wonder if I'll have to go through that same process again?

    Posted in: Snow Brand to raise cheese, margarine prices again

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    Perhaps it's not Akihabara that's changing, it's the "otaku" that's changing...

    Posted in: Akihabara becoming increasingly weird

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    The 'alternative' is a pat down? And that's so much better, is it?

    Here's my question: What is the necessity of this procedure? What will be gained?

    Posted in: Scanners that see through clothing installed in U.S. airports

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    My question is how the kid got completely outside without the shopkeepers noticing, or doing anything.

    I'm an advocate of child care centers for this reason - when Americans want to go somewhere without having to look after their kids, they can drop them off in a store-provided outlet! Japan could benefit from the concept.

    Posted in: 2-yr-old boy drowns in drain while parents are in comic cafe

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    It's probably not good to say this, but 'm actually a bit amused... The positive, ethical part of me doesn't agree with porn in general. But the cynic in me is rather surprised that the salarymen in Shibuya weren't too thrilled with the free show.

    Posted in: Porn producers look for more daring locations

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    I like how the writer of this article called Clinton's 'singal towards the VP slot' as being completely unexpected. Anyone who knows about Hilary knows that she'll take power wherever she can get it. That is one ambitious woman... For better or for worse...

    Posted in: Obama seals Democratic nomination; Clinton seeks VP slot

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    Having met many amazing Japanese moms... and many sons of said mothers:

    I am simply reminded of Mr. Higgins from My Fair Lady - namely in that Higgin's mother was so perfect, that other women had no chance for ever measuring up.

    In my experience, and from hearing the experience of others, Japanese men tend - not always, but tend - to want their wives to coddle them and take care of them. This just evidences how much their mothers were amazing,not how much Kenichi hated them.

    Liddell is probably just jealous.

    Posted in: For Japanese men, dysfunction starts in the cradle

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    keshii

    one in a few- A 'noodle bowl' would be a bowl made out of noodles. Clearly this is not the case :)

    Posted in: Scientists create microscopic noodle bowl using nanotechnology

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    keshii

    No one seems to have mentioned this yet, but I think it's possible that the parents don't expect the girls home for completely justifiable reasons - club activities and school meetings very often go on late into the night. Countless times I have seen the lights on and students working in the floors of our local high school as late as 10 at night. Then, after class, a lot of students go out and get dinner - since it is rather late - and catch the late trains home, and home can be as far as 2 1/2 hours away (I have one particular friend in my college who commutes for 4 1/2 hours every day).

    Ultimately, it depends on the parents and the distance of the school from the home, of course, but I wouldn't be so quick to condemn the Japanese mothers. A lot of them are just trying their best (and may honestly be led to believe that their daughters are studying manically, as the case may be).

    Posted in: Police raid 'blind-date cafe' in Tokyo, taking 31 high school, college girls into custody

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    And I'm sure that the Junta thinks that this is a really smart move to make them look like a legitimate government in the eyes of the international community.

    adaydream - I hate to sound like a token american on this one, but personally, I think that hundreds of thousands of people dying needlessly is a lot worse than tens of thousand who would die from a war kicking the butts of a terrible regime like the Junta.

    Posted in: Myanmar forcing cyclone survivors out of refugee camps: U.N.

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    And that mother - honestly, even if you're doing laundry, a Japanese apartment is pretty small. She should have heard the sounds of a struggling child choking. Even if he couldn't scream, he was probably kicking, etc. He is a toddler, after all. But to let the toddler be in another room - not sleeping! - unsupervised is so irresponsible, and ESPECIALLY after an accident earlier in the year, you'd have thought she'd learned her lesson.

    Posted in: 2-yr-old boy who survived 9th floor fall in March dies after choking himself with backpack strap

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    keshii

    I live in a college dormitory with over 30 Japanese girls from all over the country. And let me tell you, most of them juggle studies, part time jobs, and cooking without a problem. Some of that food may be a combination of rice with various stews and curries, but by no means are they as pathetic as the two examples I've seen above. I really doubt that this is an article representative of "cooking habits of young single women", unless this article is trying to prove why these women are still single (they don't have much to offer?).

    Posted in: The appalling cooking habits of young single women

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    I expect I'd look just as cool if I were in any other brand of "garments that go under my clothes".

    Posted in: If you get caught with your pants down

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    I feel the urge to buy one for emergency situations.

    Posted in: Anti-snoring pillow

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    Another Japanese using the "I was drunk" excuse.

    Did anyone give him a an Blood Alcohol Level Content (BALC) test? Let's work with evidence and not just hearsay, and maybe Japan will have a chance at making the criminal justice system less of a ridiculous sham. Or perhaps it's just the reporting that's lacking?

    Posted in: Seibu Railway employee held for molesting woman on Seibu line

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    As soon as 2013? Oh, McCain, that's just so encouraging. With a statement like that, there's just no way I could vote for anyone else.

    Posted in: McCain says Iraq war can be won by 2013

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    'I'm loving it' always sounds like subliminal corporate propaganda to me.

    Wait, it's not overt?

    Posted in: McDonald's Japan eyes price hikes

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    keshii

    I would like the Japanese government to work on making employment, and the workplace, fair for Japanese citizens before they even attempt to make it open and fair for foreign workers.

    It goes back to what a number of you mentioned: the trouble with mass immigration. But also, there are too many loopholes in the Japanese law that make the current Japanese workplace unfair for women and minorities. I know numerous foreigners - and Japanese who simply LOOK foreign, but are in fact of Japanese blood, grew up in Japan, fluent, etc - who have been told at job fairs that Company XYZ thinks 'they might have problems fitting in/ working at that level'.

    The lack of such business ethics, I think, will discourage skilled foreign workers from coming to Japan for work, even if they're not turned off by the Japanese mentality regarding jobs as, well, life. I'd say that this attitude is very different one than that held by workers in other first-world countries, where people work to live, not live to work. So if there are less skilled foreign workers interested in the jobs, who will come to Japan?

    In my opinion, the people who will be willing to accept unfair workplace practices will most likely be less-skilled, less-educated people with less opportunities. I point to America as a main example - the illegal immigrants who go over the "swiss cheese border" are willing to accept wages below minimum wage because they have less opportunity, etc. But we see that in U.S. states near the U.S. Mexico border have a higher amount of crime, which can be traced to illegal immigration (http://dallasfedbackup.org/research/papers/2003/wp0303.pdf).

    Looking at the existing xenophobic attitude of Japanese - which has been steadily improving, but definitely still exists - I would expect that, if this policy is to be enacted, soon after the rate of foreign crime WILL increase, and Japan will become even less foreign friendly than they are currently. The government will then, I predict, overreact and make it harder for the 'law-abiding and economically contributing' foreigners to stay in Japan at all (irrelevant of when they came in the first place).

    I realize that my assessment is rather hyperbolic, but I feel there's truth in it all the same.

    Posted in: Gov't looks to immigrants as population shrinks

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    keshii

    Being a fairly outdoorsy person, I've heard the phrase "challenge the elements" plenty of times, and by derivation, "challenge the mountain". I will agree it's a bit funny in this context, but am (as always) amused by the amount of commentary that has been stimulated.

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