laconic said...

laconic at 08:19 PM JST - 13th November

Police have not yet released any further information as to why she was on the road in her wheelchair at that time of night

Sorry, is there a curfew for those with physical disabilities in Japan? Why on earth shouldn't she have been out at 10:40pm? She may have been…

Posted in Woman in wheelchair dies after being hit by drunk driver in Gifu at 08:19 PM JST - 13th November
laconic at 11:27 PM JST - 17th June

I just watched a 2 hour special on some family with 15 kids where the highlight of the whole show (the bit they play before the CM to make you stay on the channel)was a shot of the father punching his son really violently in the face. The comment from…

Posted in Reported number of child abuse cases top 40,000 in FY 2007 at 11:27 PM JST - 17th June
laconic at 09:50 PM JST - 16th June

Saw on the news that the media are placing the blame for the whole situation firmly in the student`s court. They made it quite clear that the Japanese govt, on its travel advisory site, advises against travelling to Iran. Poor guy is really gonna get it when he gets back.…

Posted in Japanese student freed in Pakistan taken to Tehran at 09:50 PM JST - 16th June
laconic at 01:07 PM JST - 3rd June

This case is pretty cut & dry imo, the ONLY aceptable excuse for this family to be in a manga cafe is if they went in to read TO their kid, clearly they were there for their own reading pleasure, therefore this is very clearly a case of parental neglect,…

Posted in 2-yr-old boy drowns in drain while parents are in comic cafe at 01:07 PM JST - 3rd June
laconic at 09:49 PM JST - 2nd June

romulus3 Have you never heard the expression "pride comes before a fall"? You seem to me to be a very dangerous parent, so arrogant and full of your own perfect abilities. You have no idea exactly what happened, as USAkuma said it may well be a case that each parent…

Posted in 2-yr-old boy drowns in drain while parents are in comic cafe at 09:49 PM JST - 2nd June
laconic at 10:55 PM JST - 1st June

I know the other mothers in my kids kindergarden fairly well and I TOTALLY AGREE with the writer of this article. On a daily basis I listen to them complain that their sons (at 5 years old) are starting to want to sleep alone but the mothers think they are…

Posted in For Japanese men, dysfunction starts in the cradle at 10:55 PM JST - 1st June
laconic at 08:57 PM JST - 30th May

roughneck

The point of sueing someone who wronged you is not to GET the money, it is to make the person LOSE the money and spend their life paying it off so that they never forget what they have done.

Posted in Driver, car owner ordered to pay Y170 mil for accident in which 4 children died at 08:57 PM JST - 30th May
laconic at 06:15 PM JST - 27th May

i have no words strong enough to describe the police who checked his room and didnt find anything !!! and who now that he confess find the victims's blood in his room.

Well, surely it is fairly simple to clean up the blood enough to fool the naked eye. As…

Posted in Man says he stabbed neighbor, dumped parts of body as garbage at 06:15 PM JST - 27th May
laconic at 08:19 PM JST - 22nd May

I dont know, do you really think that this farmer could have predicted that others might be hurt by toxic fumes in his vomit?

Posted in 54 sickened at Kumamoto hospital after suicidal man vomits toxic gas at 08:19 PM JST - 22nd May
laconic at 11:13 PM JST - 15th May

As a parent myself I am all for not having to take the blame for what my kids may or may not do, but surely no decent parent would allow a 13 year old to be out alone at 1 a.m.

Posted in Two teenagers accused of killing 8 swans in Ibaraki lake at 11:13 PM JST - 15th May