JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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mcheeky
Yeah, Japan is such a violent society. Can't tell you how much I fear for my safety here. LMAO!
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mcheeky
sailwind, your post was addressed to me, but the content was not. I have not justified these terrorist attacks. I deem them unjustified even if a part of their rage is justified. Intentionally and knowingly killing random people cannot be justified in any circumstance.
My gripe is about robots killing innocents, and how that comes back to us.
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mcheeky
Well, I am available before Christmas. But I will taken for Eve and Christmas day. Sorry ladies.
How about some make-believe on the 23rd? Hate to see single women lonely!
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mcheeky
Do you have any idea how key that is? We had permission to be there. That is not the case in Pakistan.
You give me a single case. Yet nothing in there about orders being given for an attack. Come on, if they are ALL that way, surely you can do better than this!
That little word "suspected" is pretty important. This is why you try to capture these people and only kill them if they offer lethal resistance. I am not against collecting intel in this manner, but killing people like this is still cowardly.
Certain situations I would like to over-look it. This is a good example. Trouble is that once you do that you go right down the slippery slope. You go from this to being a whole lot less sure and violating the sovereignty of an ally. That is what happened in Pakistan. Insurgents are not the same as members of al-Quaida.
What happened there might be a direct cause of the attacks in India. That is why the drone attacks should be seen for the cowardice they are and ended immediately.
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mcheeky
Its NOT. I clearly said the targets were NOT legitimate, so give me break.
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mcheeky
Okay, maybe I am wrong about the surgery.
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=57939
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mcheeky
Let me explain: what I found and read today said that his/her parts were small and created by surgery. They were weak and could not take the stress.
Without knowing that, I thought Hopstock had brutalized him/her. That made rape seem a lot more likely. It now seems that may not be the case. It now seems like the sex was consensual, thought I may have forgotten some details.
I can't remember what his/her excuses were for going into a hotel room with Hopstock, but that question is huge.
Anyway, it seems that he/she was unaware that she had been rented out by the club owner. That plus the brutalization made me think Hopstock took what he paid for by force (he still may have). But if the bleeding was caused by sex with an artificial orifice, then maybe Hopstock did not brutalize him/her after all.
What I got is coming up inconclusive.
But I have to say this: If you are not handing the money straight to the prostitute, then you deserve to get smacked. However, Hopstock might be getting smacked a little too hard.
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mcheeky
What is up with the attacks on teen girls? What the heck did they do to anybody?
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mcheeky
So would you say this particular attack has no specific causes, or is just another in a string of attacks in the history of terrorism that would have happened no matter what?
Terrorism has been with us for a long time, but most every attack has some specific impetus or impetuses and those impetuses might be quite real or extremely exaggerated. In this case I am thinking they are real, maybe even just, although the targets obviously are NOT legitimate.
Terrorism is so often only completely black by use of willful ignorance. It is never white, granted, but there is a lot of grey.
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mcheeky
Nice set up. Trouble is you cannot tell me that ANY drone attack EVER happened that way, save inside of a Hollywood movie.
At any rate I recommend leaving it to the authorities of that sovereign nation. Because the mistake of violating that nation's sovereignty combined with the potential of massacring innocent people in this way is bound to make a lot of people angry, no matter how many times you cry collateral damage.
Such a cowardly act may save lives on one side today, but it seems like more will be taken on the other side tomorrow.
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mcheeky
What the bloody heck is going on today?
I checked, and yes, it turns out that she is biologically a he. And the fact that his surgically granted female sex parts were apparently not up to the task can explain what caused the bleeding. And it also seems that he/she did not go to a hospital for many reasons which explains the sorry state he/she was found in in the morning.
I was very against Hopstock until this information was posted here. All I read about the case and I never heard that. Now its gone.
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mcheeky
These are attacks in India and a Muslim group is taking responsibility. That means there is a strong chance that these attacks are related to events in Afghanistan and the related ones that occurred in Pakistan, Pakistan formerly being a part of India, and Indian Muslims having strong relations to Pakistan.
That means the recent drone attacks on Pakistan are most likely very relevant to this.
And such attacks are extremely cowardly. Even more so than shooting unarmed people whose faces you can see, which is close behind. It seems to me that one set of cowardly attacks has led to another. If you don't like it, then explain to me why am wrong.
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mcheeky
Funny how cowards are so often attacking the wrong people, isn't it? So is this what this is about? Some cowardly attacks deserve some more cowardly attacks?
I miss the attitude of people like Baron Manfred von Richthofen who refused orders to strafe ground troops because it was a totally unfair advantage. That was honor. That was courage. Both seem to be in short supply these days.
I bet Tony could point out some people who earned this fate rather the innocent in Mumbai. I doubt there were any bomb droppers or target designators among those westerners. Every time we take the advise of cowards it sparks a vicious cycle of cowardly violence against people who didn't even do anything.
The chickens come home to roost. "Chickens" is right, but they are not quite "home", are they?
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mcheeky
In general it most certainly does not. Some anime and manga do, and they have as many mosaics as anything else. Maybe also some random bathing suit pictures. About on the level of child beauty pageants really.
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mcheeky
Such as to "toast this fool", as FreeInJapan suggests? I said he should get a sentence, and I meant jail. I do not think that will knock the pedophilia out of him, (which he might not actually be as the crime seems more fixated on the toilet acts than the fact they children) but it might teach him to respect privacy.
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mcheeky
Hallelujah and look out Senator Byrd and West Virginia!
While I salute budget cuts, and I mean BIG ones, I disagree with throwing more non-existent money at the problem. The U.S. could use a recession and the common sense and humility that comes with one.
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mcheeky
I once caught my little sister peeping into the bathroom as I was taking a pee. I flipped out. I made her feel really bad. Why? It didn't do anyone any good at all. It was a stupid reaction planted their by my society. We would all hope an adult would outgrow such a fascination, but I don't think pulling out our hair is going to make it happen.
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mcheeky
Will pounding your fist on the table and screaming your head off solve anything? Westerners often insist on such childish responses I find, and then turn around and call Japan a nation of children!
I don't want anyone filming my time on the throne either, but it really only gets to be a big issue by forcing it to be so. If we freak then the girls freak even more. Is that a good thing? I do not think so. Give him his sentence and downplay this. None of it goes away because everyone went red with rage. In fact, it seems to get worse.
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mcheeky
Easy to call it stupidity. Its just another way of doing things. As with so many matters of law, the whole thing is based on something else that is outdated and unrelated. Everyone is working around it. The history of western porn and legality is pretty stupid too. Go back to the days where if you were filming a movie with a man and woman in bed, they both had to have one foot of the floor. Look at how pathetically simple Playboy was and is and how Hustler came along and changed everything and how the moral crazies tried to turn the clock back. And look at how random some of the rulings are, stretching everything to try and define what is obscene and what is not.
Case in point. Why is this illegal if no actual little girls or underage teens are involved? Does not change what they are trying to portray though.
Anyway, making those would drive them out of business, being illegal. That was my point.
If only we could talk in more detail. Peace.
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mcheeky
You didn't. I was merely pointing it out to offset the singling out of Japan.
I find it to be a false premise for defining "raunchy". Those videos are illegal only because the genitals are not blotted out. (Granted that you admitted that.)
Do a web search. You will be surprised. Also, several mainstream Hollywood films have some good rape scenes. Somewhat limited in time and scope, but pretty stimulating if that is what you are into. If not, they are disturbing. Watch the French film "Irreversible" with Monica Bellucci.
But that is what they are shooting for. If they are falling short I think it is only because they must or they will be out of business. Plenty of other examples of skirting around the issue so as not to arouse those who are in denial.
All that says to me is that other Asians are really tightly wound up.
Using popular definitions for "raunchy", I have to agree.
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