JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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knowitall
Come back when China gives up all claims to the Spratly Islands, 100 miles off the coast of the Philippines, not...
Posted in: Japan may form new unit to watch Chinese navy
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knowitall
Foxie,
Burial at sea is available in Japan (not close to shore, though). And, you can become an organ donor in Japan. You'll have to do the research yourself. But all the info you need is on the Internet.
Posted in: Death and the expat
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The sources stevecpfc refuses to reveal are most likely just mentioning that acts that the photos show. He is reading between the lines to get the "opposed to the Nazis" part. I have found no source in Japanese or English that say the Japanese as a nation opposed Nazi Germany. Not even a revisionist could change the fact that the Japanese and German governments formed an alliance. The foreign minister at the time stated that Japan would not adopt anti-Semitic policies (not that there were many Jews in Japan), but that is no way "opposition" to its ally.
Posted in: Old photos reveal tale of Japan and Jews of WWII
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The idiot who illegally dumps his trash on the street because he can't be inconvenienced to properly dispose of it is to blame. Pure and simple. For someone who calls himself a lawyer (bengoshi), you have a poor sense of what is legal and not.
Posted in: Why are there so few benches and garbage bins in public places in Japanese cities?
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Canada doesn't have anywhere near the population density of Japan. It doesn't make for a valid comparison. Until the selfish minority can see fit to follow the rules of society (i.e., separate their home trash and put it out on the specified day), there will be no increase in public trash bins. Fuchu City in Tokyo recently eliminated their communal trash bins as there was so much wrong trash and trash brought in by people in neighboring communities who wanted to put out the trash any way they wanted. The current trend is for fewer bins. Encourage your neighbors to follow the rules and maybe someday we will have public trash bins again.
Posted in: Why are there so few benches and garbage bins in public places in Japanese cities?
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They sure are! Its Hokkaido where there are plenty of hunters who can hit a bear from a couple dozen meters away. Not many naturalists (or whatever) can hit a bear with the short range of a tranquilizer. Bear huggers don't have the urge to be licensed to use a tranquilizer gun, I assume. Bears are often trapped and retuned to the wild, but once it is in town its chances of survival are slim.
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For the tranquilizer crowd. Nagai is nowhere near a zoo, so I assume there is not an abundance of tranquilizer guns laying around there. Sure they could wait a day for someone from Sendai or someplace to come out with a tranquilizer gun, but the bear could do severe property damage by then. There is no shortage of bears. Shoot the thing and put the kids back in class.
Posted in: Bear shot dead after entering Yamagata junior high school
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Funny how these stories bring in all sorts of new commenters from China and Korea. They picked up the story on google and signed up to make the world think this is big news.
You know what? This demonstration was not in the news or the morning paper. I googled about it in Japanese, and the biggest story was a story about it not being covered by the media here. It means either the Japanese don't care about the demonstration or the media is taking a lesson from China and not running news that could be controversial.
Posted in: Rally for Senkakus
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Chinese by far. Was at Disneyland with the family and there was a group of Chinese quite a bit behind us. I said to my wife "bet you they they will get in before us" and lo and behold they managed to cut in front of dozens of people to get in 2 minutes faster. Would have admonished them for their poor manners, but that would have hurt the feelings of the entire Chinese nation, so I let them be selfish for the sake of world peace.
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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Movie guy, where exactly in that does it say Google Voice is coming to Japan? I'll answer my own question: Nowhere!! Read it again. That is just a Japanese language translation of an overseas article. It even gives a link to the original English article. Just because the article is in Japanese doesn't mean it has anything to do with Japan.
Posted in: Google plugs free PC-to-phone calling into e-mail
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＠thundercat If the fire department is called, they WILL check for fire even if no smoke is visible. I have experienced in false alarms where the fire department would check every apartment for possible fire before leaving. It would be very irresponsible for them to just say, "no smoke in the hallway, lets go home" without at least investigating.
Posted in: Marijuana discovered in apartment after reports of fire
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Gotta love the conspiracy theories some of you are proposing. The police and fire department receive a call about a fire and check all the apartments. Should they have just ignored the unlocked apartment where nobody answered the door? If there was a fire and the place burned down, you would probably be blaming the police and fire department for negligence for not checking. If they had evidence that he was growing, they could easily have obtained a warrant and not risk controversy over a search. Either way, he guy was doing something he knew was illegal. Is getting high on pot so great that you would risk going to prison? You may not agree on how severe a crime this is, but growing is a crime here.
Posted in: Marijuana discovered in apartment after reports of fire
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Subtitles unless they are Japanese done by that quack Natsuko Toda. I can't avoid reading the Japanese subtitles, and her translation and her Japanese writing skills suck.
Will never forget the people from "Planet Local" and the Harley Davidson helicopter...
Posted in: Would you rather see a movie that is not in your native language, with subtitles or dubbed into your own language?
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"I suppose", "I think", "I don't know"... And this is supposed to be journalism?? If you don't know, get the facts before you write!! How is someone to accept that any of this is factual when the author pretty much claims to be ignorant?
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seaforte03, Sure you could import a chinese knockoff, but you would never be able to register it to drive on public roads.
Posted in: Yamaha offers electric scooters for green errands
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Now that is either an intentional lie, or an ignorance of the facts. The ruling was that it is not unconstitutional to grant voting rights. i.e. The government can choose to give voting rights, but it is not required to.
Posted in: Japan weighs up whether to give foreign residents the vote
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Wow. The press is not telling us the facts then! There should be dozens of hunter kills hunter articles every day. By the way, they had permits. Other sources (which also don't report the dozens of deaths a day) say they were on a specially sanctioned hunt.
Posted in: Hunter commits suicide after accidentally shooting friend
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There are 300,000 registered rifles and shotguns in the hands of civilians in Japan. Without those, the boar and deer populations (already a problem) would skyrocket as those animals have no natural predators left.
Posted in: Hunter commits suicide after accidentally shooting friend
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I don't claim to be an expert, but from what I have researched, attempting to breach a blockade is grounds for boarding. As Gaza is under blockade, the boarding is legal.
According to the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, Merchant vessels flying the flag of neutral States may not be attacked unless they: (a) are believed on reasonable grounds to be carrying contraband or breaching a blockade, and after prior warning they intentionally and clearly refuse to stop, or intentionally and clearly resist visit, search or capture
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Most of the posters here obviously didn't read the article. The key was NOT in, and thus then engine wasn't running. And anyone who can sympathize with the thief is someone I would sure never trust. He wasn't even trying to play a joke on the cops by moving the bike. It was pure and simple theft. You are saying anything that is not locked down is free for you to steal. An unlocked home is an invitation to take everything in it? Anything in an unlocked car is free game? Run off with my motorcycle, and you will be needing an ambulance when I catch you!
Posted in: Man arrested for taking police motorcycle for joyride