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People are human, and come built with faults, including addiction or obsession genes.
Posted in: Why do some celebrities self-destruct due to substance abuse?
sfjp330 at Feb. 14, 2012 - 09:45AM JST RecklessFeb. 14, 2012 - 09:41AM JST Truth is…
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
Substance abuse was more of a symptom. Performing for audiences on demand is an extremely stressful…
Posted in: Why do some celebrities self-destruct due to substance abuse?
Interesting. You can almost tell from the comments who's been here for more than five years…
Posted in: Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
An act of children. The rightists of Japan, another group of children, are green with envy…
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larguero
She wouldn't have had any trouble if she hadn´t married him. Women in their 30s are so desperate to get married that they do it with the first rich guy that they find.
Posted in: Veteran tour escort relates travelers' lack of decorum
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larguero
There are many here who could answer this: His trial will be held by a military court? Is death penalty OK for the military justice?
Posted in: Lawyer asks investigators not to question Hasan
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larguero
Now, if the truth is that the policemen went there and without saying any word one made a "warning shot", is anyone going to believe 20 foreigners? Three people surrounding a policeman, and they cannot prevent him from reaching his gun?
Posted in: Policeman fires two shots during brawl with foreigners in Mie
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larguero
this is amazing. So many people have so much free time to spend is useless things... I think I compensate with them. If I had time, I would never spent it that way.
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larguero
great photo. They definitely are a symbol of many of the good things of Japan. In this case, the dignity of old people.
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larguero
They just rate excellence, not price. There are many people who dont care paying ridiculous money to get a bed, so for them, this might be a useful information.
Posted in: Ritz-Carlton Tokyo named best hotel in Japan by Conde Nast Traveler readers
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larguero
I hope they detain him for 20 days, dont let him see his family, ask him 100 times the same questions and force him to sign a confession. If that is what they do with normal people for petty crimes, it should also be the behavior for a police officer.
Posted in: Cop arrested for stealing girl's underwear during investigation
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larguero
I would never marry a woman that puts his father's opinion before mine. If she doesn't love him enough yet, she should just say it. Don't put the father in the middle of the couple.
Posted in: Junichi Ishida’s golf green proposal finishes with bogey
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larguero
It is interesting how this case, involving drugs, maffia, murders and dismembering ocuppies much less space in newspapers and tv than pickpocketers, bullies and people caught with 0.08 gram of drugs.
Posted in: Three men arrested for dumping dismembered bodies in Tokyo Bay
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larguero
I think it is a great initiative. I really wish her the best. A young woman with initiative is not something very common around here...
Posted in: Shibuya rice
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Wow 40 cars and 100 officers were just sitting around doing nothing before this? There seems to be a serious over population of police
100% right. Remember it was on a Sunday night, in an area full of rice fields. What do 100 officers do when nothing happens (99.9% of the times)?
Posted in: 40 police cars, 100 officers, one copter mobilized to chase 2 thieves
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larguero
You dont like it, go to another "state", as ThonTaddeo says above. In this case, it means another country. But for a system to provide affordable health care to the elderly and the poor, it has to take money from the young and rich. You could say that the system is expensive, but if you choose to stay here, you will live longer and in better health, and this will not depend 100% on your income.
About taxes: My wife gets a 255,000 yen salary as teacher, and in hand receives 220,000. That is less than a 15% discount, including taxes, pension and health insurance (My income is not subject of taxes, so hers act like the only income for a family of 3).
Two years ago I had an ACL reconstruction operation, spent five days at the hospital and it costed me 25,000 yen (I payed ten times that and then I received a part back). When my wife had a baby, we received more money than what we paid.
Someone must be paying for it, but for a low income family that has babies (and a father that get his ACL fixed), it is an excellent deal.
Posted in: Health insurance gets more complicated with new visa law
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larguero
99.9% of foreigners? Most foreigners are from China, Korea, Brazil, Phillippines and Peru. Are you sure you speak for the 99.9% of foreigners? There is a clear bias on this discussion towards thinking this will be applied only to English teachers: they could be majority here, but by all means are a minimal part of total number of foreigners living in Japan.
Free rider issue is at the base of this discussion: young, healthy people do not want to pay for a service they don't use. Japan has a system that does not allow that. The US does not have it: if you are young and healthy you don't pay much, but as soon as you get older and your health deteriorates, you go bankrupt.
Just obey the Japanese law and pay. If you don't do it, then do not complain later when you get punished.
Posted in: Health insurance gets more complicated with new visa law
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larguero
Most foreigners are aware that they should be inscribed into the National medical system. Nevertheless, some do not apply based on the "freedom to choose" concept. Disagree with the law is not a valid excuse not to respect it. The "freechoice" policy lacks completely of a solid point to defend its concepts. It says that "Many non-Japanese get the treatment they need when visiting international clinics where non-Japanese doctors practice, despite the fact that they are outside of the Japan's social medical system". Do these doctors have a license in Japan? Why they are not inscribed into the Social medical system? How many exactly have access to these doctors? Rules are very clear and very fair: they are the same for everybody. If we want to have the same rights as Japanese people, we should also be under the same law.
Posted in: Health insurance gets more complicated with new visa law
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larguero
Did they have to wait to the 157th call? She made more than a call per day for 4 months. Nobody noticed the fifth time she called that she was a wacko?
Posted in: Woman arrested for dialing 119 on 157 occasions
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larguero
It was interesting that all the speeches were done in English, except for Brazil's president Lula. Maybe some concepts could have been better expressed in Japanese. On the choice, we should consider that venues are not only given to countries, but also regions. Last olympic games were held 3 hours by plane from Tokyo. It is good that Latin America can organize the Olympics for the first time, and I see very unlikely that the games will return to East Asia before 2028 (Guessing 100%, I think 2020 may be for an Arabic country or Russia, 2024 for the US)
Posted in: Ishihara blames Tokyo 2016 failure on behind-the-scenes deals
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larguero
Does she need to flush the drugs out of her body? This all started 45 days ago. How long do drugs remain in the body? I agree with most comments that this is an unnecesary show.
Posted in: Noriko Sakai hiding out in high-security ward of university hospital
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larguero
If they said waves up to 50 centimeters and finally the waves were "very weak" I guess they should have been of some few centimeters. Seriously, can this be considered a "small tsunami"?
Posted in: Small tsunami hit Japan after Samoa quake
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larguero
I read the news a few hours ago and I havent been able to recover from the shock yet. Definitely, the world is about to end...
Posted in: Mona Yamamoto sighted at Midtown park with new man
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larguero
Maybe his logic is: "I marry them while they are at the top of their careers, I get a coach fee. I get divorce when they begin to fail and I get part of the money she earned". Obviously, he always marries young skaters. 33 years old and 3 times divorcee is a sign that whether he is awful choosing wives or that he just wants something else ($$)
Posted in: Figure skater Miki Ando rumored to be in love with 3-time divorcee coach