JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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kirakira25
I dabbled in the modelling industry a lo time ago when I was abut 20/21. I got out pretty damned quick. My hide wasn`t nearly thick enough to deal with it. I was not so desperate to call myself a "model" that I would let people speak to me like that, treat me like that, and make me feel like that. No pay check is worth that much.
There are many girls that come into the industry starry-eyed at being "discovered", and before you know it they are being manipulated, pressured, morphed into whatever the current trend says they should be. You have to have balls of steel to get through it unscathed, and most of them don
t. Theyre not even old enough to know how to deal with it, and suddenly being whisked away from their families to strange exotic destinations with alcohol, drugs and sex readily available. They are the unknowns, the "fresh meat" desperately wanting to make it and become a "name" in the most competitive industry in the world.No thank you.
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kirakira25
If we are looking at the Med in Summer then club 18-30 Brits without a doubt. I am ashamed to be British when I see drunk girls doing it on car bonnets, puking guts up in the street, peeing where they stand (male and female).
I saw Americans whining in Narita airport McD`s because they only had one flavour of ice-cream! WTF??!
Posted in: In your experience, which country's tourists are the least well-behaved whenever you have seen them out and about?
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kirakira25
Ooooh! Lubly jubly! Nothing like a little eye-candy to get a girl up and about in the mornings.....
Posted in: Orlando Bloom to appear in new Uniqlo ads
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kirakira25
Excellent!
Posted in: Japan hikes taxes on cigarettes by 40% to curb smoking
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kirakira25
Congratulations on the birth of your daughter? But did she not receive any clinic checks? Blood tests? My appointments were anywhere between 5k and 10k a time, plus tests, plus the costs of delivery.
Posted in: Japan's health care system delivers the goods
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kirakira25
I think the only people that ever cause a problem in divorce cases are the husband and the wife. Why is it so hard to be mature, sit down and work out a solution that may or may not include divorce in the interests of the children?
My friend had the lowest of the low done to her - her husband was cheating on her while she was pregnant and alone in a foreign country (and no, she was not denying him any conjugal rights) - she had every right and every reason to leave. But 7 years on they are still together because they SAT DOWN AND WORKED THINGS OUT. Equally, if it had ended in divorce, they would have sat down and worked things out because there is a bigger issue at stake here - a child. They were mature enough to put their own feelings of hurt and anger way below the needs of their new daughter.
When divorces here go bad it is invariably because of the selfishness of one parent, and my heart goes out to anyone having to deal with that.
Posted in: U.S. lawmakers pressure Japan on child custody rights
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kirakira25
I agree the mother is despicable, but I would also like to know what the scumbag who bought these images is going to get.
Posted in: Mother arrested for selling porn images of 4-year-old daughter
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kirakira25
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ve lived in the US and the UK, and I find the Japanese system is an excellent "happy medium" between the two. HOWEVER - I think it would be MUCH cheaper for the government and ultimately the tax payers themselves if the doctors didnt have the power they currenly have to screw the system so obviously and so badly without anyone monitoring them.I and everyone I know have had a shocking number of completely unnecessary tests (an MRI for suspected appendicitis???! A Gastroscopy for mild indigestion??! A CT scan on a 3 year old for an enlarged lymph node??!) and I am pretty sure everyone will agree the amount of drugs that get pushed on you every time you visit the doctor is insane.
I love that I can pretty much request and get any test I want, but I don`t see how this system is going to be able to continue in its current form that much longer.
Posted in: Japan's health care system delivers the goods
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kirakira25
I have a similar story with a Japanese female friend who lived in Indonesia and worked in banking. She rose up into management, did really well and had first class management and customer service skills. Summoned home by her family, she doesn
t work at all here now - the banks wont employ her because she is a woman and can`t therefore break into management. Their loss.Unless they are being paid in yen in the first place. Then however they don`t want to return home because they are having a consumer blast in their overseas posting!
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kirakira25
If indeed there actually is ginger honey and lemon IN it, not just artifical flavours. I think it says fruit juice 1% on the tin - not enough to make any difference to your cold! And the Vitamin C advertised on so many drinks here makes me laugh - when you look at the ingredients it is only 30mg or so.
Sorry to be so cynical!
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kirakira25
In my hometown in the UK there is a major Japanese company presence, and many Japanese live there through this company. One of my favourite hobbies is to go to the local park and yell at my kids in Japanese just to see the look of onfusion come over them when they can`t figure out where the accented Japanese is coming from (and yes, believe me, I KNOW I need to get out more!)
But when we start talking they all say the same thing - they don`t want to return to Japan. Unless they have JHS or HS age kids - then they do because they are so worried about the kidw being disadvantaged by not going through the J education system.
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kirakira25
I think to say his mother should have strangled him with her bare hands is a little OTT (!), but as a mother of an elementary school girl, this makes my blood run cold.
Posted in: Teacher arrested over videos of elementary school girls in toilet
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kirakira25
I think for now the property bubble overseas has well and truly burst, and this kind of investment is likely to be a 20 year thing with much more steady growth than we have seen over the last 20 years or so, rather than a get rich quick thing.
And with the economic uncertainty still continuing, I think I would rather invest my money in something safer that will still give me that steady growth.
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kirakira25
Um - so what are you saying? Only people who have "years of expert analysis" can determine when a child is being abused or not? People like, doctors for example??! Borscht is absolutely right, in most cases it IS pretty easy for a doctor to tell when a child is being abused.
My 4 year old is a nightmare right now, constantly testing my boundaries and crying when he doesn
t get his own way. He is also covered in bruises like most adventurous 4 year old boys that jump off walls and ride their bikes too fast. I took him to the paediatrician recently for a shot, and showed him all the bruises and swore blind I am not abusing him! The doctor laughed and said "Its OK, we can tell the difference between normal activity and sinister injuries. I would think there was a problem if you brought me a 4 year old boy who DIDN`T have cuts and bruises on his legs!".And @Mistwizard - just because your grandparents generation swept it under the carpet YEARS ago just like Japan is NOW doesn`t make it right. I am totally against gestapo-like tactics and removing children from parents unnecessarily. I am however TOTALLY for breaking a door down to get to a crying child when no-one answers.
I am surprised there is even a law allowing social workers to do this, because I was under the impression in the Osaka case that they DID go to the apartment, heard the children crying, but went away because no-one answered the door. If only they had broken the door down.
I think bringing all this out into the open is a good thing, because I feel that the one thing fuelling the problem here in Japan all these years is the attitude that children are somehow parents "property", combined with the tendency to sweep everything under the rug, and distinct lack of punishment in proven cases.
Posted in: Dragging child abuse out into the open
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kirakira25
What happened to her spiel about turning her life around and working for the good of others that she came out with on her release from jail last year?
I agree with Yuri - spoilt, vapid and uses her money and influence to get herself out of trouble. This time it didn`t work. I had to laugh a the insinuation that in America if you are a star you get out of jail free, but not in Japan - here you are treated as just another person. Uh-huh, OK!
The woman has all the money and influence in the world, and yet no class at all.
Posted in: Paris Hilton leaves for U.S. after being denied entry into Japan
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kirakira25
I
m with Dolphingirl (although not literally! easy boys!) and if a guy whipped out a sex toy I wouldnt think so much "poor performer" as "great imagination, thoughtful and considerate towards me, confident and in touch with himself (no pun intended)" - all good!Posted in: Akihabara morphing into a Sextoys 'R' Us
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kirakira25
@farmboy - they didn`t. It was in one of the mens apartments. He said he needed to talk to her (they were acquainted) and asked her to come to his apartment.
Posted in: 3 firemen arrested for alleged gang rape of woman
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kirakira25
He had something to discuss? Ever thought to pick up the phone? Or couldn`t it wait till morning?
Yes, it is very easy for women to cry rape, and those that do are as disgusting in my opinion as the perpetrators themselves, because they make it hard for genuine victims to come forward, and therefore perpetuate the problem.
But make no mistake - it is incredibly difficult for genuine victims to come forwards too, especially in this culture and society, but in fact in any society. Whether this woman is genuine or not is hard to say, but nobody "asks" for this to happen to them. The psychological damage it causes is as debilitating, often more so, than the physical damage.
If she is genuine, then I applaud her bravery at standing up to this.
Posted in: 3 firemen arrested for alleged gang rape of woman
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kirakira25
Given they were 3 cuts at 10cms each I am assuming they were trousers because a) surely, surely someone would wake up if those cuts were being made in their knickers and b) would the knickers even be big enough? Actually, scratch that last bit - I have been shopping in Japanese underwear departments and yes, of course they would be big enough!
Posted in: Man held for cutting woman's pants with scissors on train
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kirakira25
METinTokyo - were you the guy that crashed my wedding day??!
Actually - I have to admit you have a point on the furry slippers and kitty chan aprons. I saw a whole display of them in Ito Yokado last year for white day and was laughing so hard. I told my astonished J friend that where I come from a man could get himself killed, giving a present like that for our Valentines Day!
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