JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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madmel
A box of "them" could go straight in the garbage...that is why it is a requirement in any residence here to have one per so many square feet, mounted permanently on the ceiling usually at the top of a stair case. I personally know of three families that got out of their homes safely before the fire destroyed most of the home. I am going to bring one for my in-laws to put in their house when I come to Japan again....this stuff always scares the crap out of me when I hear about it.
Posted in: 3 perish in house fire in Tokyo's Setagaya ward
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madmel
So many homes in Japan are wood frame and there is no legal requirement to have a smoke detector (alarm) like we have in Canada. I think this has been law here for 20 years now. Come on Japan catch up with some simple tech. Such a needless waste of life for a unit that costs less than $100.00!
Posted in: 3 perish in house fire in Tokyo's Setagaya ward
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madmel
Saru-au san we do pay for the police as it is a predictable expense for a municipality. I used to rally race and in most countries rally's are in you are responsible to provide emergency evacuation and extraction of the wreck (what is left of your race car/bike). It's all on you as you are taking the chance. In our country we have to pay for ambulance rides emergency or hospital transfers. If someone from the climbing industry wishes to sponsor the emergency costs that would be great and a good idea....just never have seen it. Banff national park and the other adjoining parks in this area are almost as big as Hokido...lots of expensive places for people to get rescued from.
Posted in: 8 elderly climbers perish on 3 mountains in Northern Alps
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madmel
The town I live in is at almost 2000 meters here Canada (near Banff). We never take anything for granted when we go for a stroll. The part I find mind boggling is that between the group of them they couldn't figure out a way to survive with the hiking experience they had. Or come to consensus and head back to the hut they stayed at the previous night when time allowed. It was only -2 or something...that is survivable for one night if they put their heads together. Those comments about suicide seem more likely.
Posted in: 8 elderly climbers perish on 3 mountains in Northern Alps
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madmel
I could give a damn how anyone eats anything...especially when it's being depicted from her ficticous home....and she isn;t Japanese so why should she remotely be obiligated to these twits to eat with Japanese manners.....hell I love the slurp because it drives my parents generation nuts as it's NOT acceptable to slurp your noodles in public (or at our family dinner table) in our country.
Posted in: Korean idol enrages Japanese netizens by eating instant noodles from the pot
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madmel
People get excited about this stuff but it's ok to read "Rape Man" manga in front of me on the train?? Or the real reasons there are women only train cars....and they are worried about a gay couple that happen to be popular in their scene??? Give me a break. As many before me in this thread said Japan has FAR more important issues to deal with...this is not an issue at all.
Posted in: AKB48 candy ad criticized for encouraging homosexuality
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madmel
Well my Japanese wife of 8 years and I have had our challenges...one of the funny ones is that a heater heats the room and air conditioner cools the room ; ) Then she knew what I was talking about. Every other day it's a question about our English slang and idioms... some stuff might be stereotypical but some of that is true and funny.
Posted in: Int'l marriages test ability to balance love with tolerance
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madmel
Hey I have another theory...NK blew up the rocket themselves to avoid a confrontation with Japan or US....better to have an "accident" than lose face by doing what the UN wants....
Posted in: Japan's rocket alert system failed due to lack of info from defense ministry
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madmel
They didn't care to pass it on to the civilians as someone in the know had their hand in the "accidental" explosion ; ) It almost seems like they knew it was going to bugger up so no need to inform the public until they confirmed their job was done....
Posted in: Japan's rocket alert system failed due to lack of info from defense ministry
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madmel
The days of government etc. saving face over news items needs to stop....when the genetic damage occurs over the next few decades becomes obvious Japan will go..oh so sorry I guess we should have done more...after our babies babies have an extra arm for example....The incompetance of Tepco is only exaserbated by the same in the goverment
Posted in: Smelt in Gunma lake four times over new legal radiation limit
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madmel
I didn't think NHK had it in them! Cool....sad they tucked tail and appologized.
Posted in: NHK apologizes for April Fool's Day Twitter joke
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madmel
Legal gun ownership is not an issue here as a nutter/criminal will get an illeagal gun anywhere if they try hard enough...however it's interesting how cowardly nut cases always pick on schools. Where the average teacher nor the students would be legally carrying a defence weapon. You never hear in the international news where crazed gunman enters school, vice principal of school pulls his 9mm pistol and puts three rounds in the ideots chest. Crisis no longer a crisis and this sort of incident happens way more often than this internationally publisized one. I don't nesesarily condone such proliferation of gun ownership as in the States but these sorts of cases could have used a legally owned and used self defence weapon and more people would have survived the incident.... I have not seen any pics of Zimmermans pulverised/lacerated head in the media so I doubt that claim...
Posted in: 7 dead, 3 hurt in California Christian college shooting
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madmel
The car driver doesn't need the self rightious law punishing him...the "accident" outcome is punnishmnet enough. I am from Canada and many of our sidewalks are as wide as streets here....I am a freakazoid about my 2 year old getting anywhere near a road here. I find it mind boggling there are no sidewalks in most places here? Just so many blind spots and overall visual business to catch everything when driving. THat is why I don't bother driving over here, it's just to risky and I drive bus profecionally back home. The mom doesn't need us bashing her neither...she will regret this for the rest of her life.
Posted in: 1-year-old girl dies after being hit by car in Saitama
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madmel
China isn't only doing this in their own country though. There is (or was) talks of Chinese energy giants buying huge chunks of Canada's oil industry. I don't feel that is appropriate for our government to allow this from a developing nation that has so little regard for there own citizens human rights and workers rights. If they spent that money developing their own resources and taking care of their own people there wouldn't be so much cash to throw around out on the world market but they would be better for it.
Posted in: Japan, U.S., and EU to meet on rare earths
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madmel
Most of the complaints about Japan are moot as it is that countries style or way. None of that bothered me at all...the only thing that really grossed me out was the backwoods attitude towards second hand smoke. The best food I have ever tasted has to be swallowed with a puff of someones stink stick hanging out of their mouth. Just outrageous for a first world nation.
Posted in: Things that foreigners find annoying about life in Japan
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madmel
Refreshing to get some information reported as to what is going on in regards to the on going contamination. I am not in Japan and I find it very hard to get information as to the safety of my family over there. Does any one have any links to sources for more info?
Posted in: Fukushima contamination 'chronic and lasting': French agency
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madmel
Anyone from Manhattan should be ashamed to put whaler inconvenience on the same level as thousands of people killed with grave intent. Terrorists main purpose it to impose terror and hurting/killing people is the goal. Aggressive environmentalists are trying to wake up the world to our ignorance. There purpose to to educate the world of the ecological tragedies we ignore and some have the balls to get in harms way to save said bear/whale. I don't always agree with their methods but they are in no way insiting terror....they are hoping to save the world we don't give a damn about. Misguided at times but noble intent all the same.
Posted in: Do you consider the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd to be eco-terrorists?
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madmel
All the banter still does not define them as terrorists. I might be convinced they are vigilantes worst case but again that is not terrorism. All the nature haters here ever had a family member vaporized by IUD??? Ever have your child's school flattened by a suicide bomber??? Get a grip and put the word in right context. Just because you don't agree with their actions (and I don't really condone these actions neither) does not escalate them to the level of El Qaeda or the IRA. Rightly so the term should and does refer terrorism against ecology and the earth not the other way around.
Posted in: Do you consider the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd to be eco-terrorists?
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madmel
NO! They are not terrorists...law breakers and trespassers yes. Anyone who says so has NEVER been a victim of terrorism and minimizes people and who have been making the parallel comparison.
Posted in: Do you consider the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd to be eco-terrorists?
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madmel
No the stupid ones are the HUMANS!!! The rest of the species on this planet just carries on as they should and live within their boundaries....we are the virus that eats the planet up and leaves nothing for our descendants.
I think these three guys have accomplished exactly what they wanted to do. There probably wasn't any ulterior motive at all. They have brought this discussting slaughter of watched or endangered wildlife back into the spot light. Good for them.
Posted in: 3 Sea Shepherd activists detained aboard Japanese whaling vessel