laconic said...

laconic at 06:24 PM JST - 5th May

That would be the other left!

Posted in 7 hydrogen sulfide gas-induced suicides reported over weekend at 06:24 PM JST - 5th May
laconic at 06:23 PM JST - 5th May

Notice the ad just to the left? You add the gas, we'll do the rest!

Posted in 7 hydrogen sulfide gas-induced suicides reported over weekend at 06:23 PM JST - 5th May
laconic at 07:12 AM JST - 29th April

Firemen. Risk their lives for £30,000 a year.

Posted in Which professions do you respect the most? at 07:12 AM JST - 29th April
laconic at 08:30 PM JST - 24th April

Oh yeah JR, that is real safe. ...expecting a woman to get on and off a train within the few seconds that the door is open while carrying an infant, 3 shopping bags and a folded up pram while at the same time making sure that 3-year old big brother…

Posted in Pram safety aboard trains a growing problem at 08:30 PM JST - 24th April
laconic at 03:26 PM JST - 18th April

greenteaonsens

Coming from the UK I absolutely agree with you about overgenerous welfare states, HOWEVER, the families in the story above dont really come under the banner of single mothers with 7 kids all to different fathers who have never and will never work. These women struggle to find a…

Posted in Families headed by widowed mothers badly in debt amid rising prices at 03:26 PM JST - 18th April
laconic at 11:11 PM JST - 5th April

Memorandum:

To whom it may concern.

I Katsuyuki Daigo did this. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

But it still took them 6 days to arrest him.

Posted in Man arrested in Kobe for killing woman in Chiba at 11:11 PM JST - 5th April
laconic at 06:23 PM JST - 4th April

Isn't this headline a little dramatic. I had images of millions of people being crushed to death by falling masonary....as opposed to slighty squashed by fellow pedestrians

Posted in Millions risk being crushed on streets in big Tokyo quake, simulation shows at 06:23 PM JST - 4th April
laconic at 06:16 PM JST - 4th April

Loki520 Yeah right! Maybe you need to take off your rose coloured glasses when looking back on the good old days. Violence breeds violence.

Posted in 2 sons of U.S. soldiers arrested for taxi holdup at 06:16 PM JST - 4th April
laconic at 08:38 PM JST - 29th March

I haven`t been following this story on the Japanese news so I only have the above article as reference, was this definitely a case of domestic violence? Or was it stress from being the only breadwinner, financially responsible for 7 people?

Posted in 3 killed, 3 injured in family dispute in Tokyo at 08:38 PM JST - 29th March
laconic at 08:27 PM JST - 29th March

Oooh got a bit excited there by the title, then I realized how old they actually are. I suppose the judge thought it would do no harm seeing as how they are only going to have it for a few more years. Hope he added a proviso that they can…

Posted in Japan nationality granted to 2 sisters, brother in Philippines at 08:27 PM JST - 29th March