mindovermatter said...

mindovermatter at 11:33 AM JST - 22nd August

Some Americans might tend to lump regular Japanese businessmen with yakuza

Huh.... Newbe's, nobody makes that mistake, anyone who's been here more than a few years...

foreign journalists are convinced that the yakuza are the same type of criminal organization as the mafia

The only thing they have in common…

Posted in Yakuza 'misunderstood' by foreign media at 11:33 AM JST - 22nd August
mindovermatter at 01:59 PM JST - 19th August

You know Japan would be ok, if... We all know that men & women all over the world cheat... it's no surprise...

But don't go around with your "higher-than-though" attitude... We don't care what you do...Have at it...

But leave your attitude, self-righteousness / victim-hood and racial superior attitude at…

Posted in The do's and don'ts of having an affair at 01:59 PM JST - 19th August
mindovermatter at 12:31 AM JST - 19th August

This guy's just a kid....He's a whopping 25 years old and add 4 more years until 2012 and he'll still be only 30...

Notwithstanding sports, Japanese don't really grow up until there pushing 50 years old...

About the time they move out of the house...

Swimming isn't exactly Ice Hockey…

Posted in Japan's Kitajima considers retiring at 12:31 AM JST - 19th August
mindovermatter at 11:25 AM JST - 18th August

Yeah whatever. Anyway how about The Phelps Diet? the man would be a morbidly obese slob if he wasn't the phenomenal athlete that he is, burning away mad calories.

This was in the news about 2 weeks ago...

Most people can't handle these kinds of calories... It depends on your…

Posted in It's 8: Phelps passes Spitz with another gold at 11:25 AM JST - 18th August
mindovermatter at 06:57 AM JST - 18th August

Really, Really, Really surprised to even see this kind of story on JT, let alone at the very top of the page.

Posted in It's 8: Phelps passes Spitz with another gold at 06:57 AM JST - 18th August
mindovermatter at 08:20 AM JST - 14th August

"and that the crime was cunning and vicious."

Come on now... He sent some emails...Yes, nail him for harassment... This kind of analysis, opinion keeps getting applied to progressively and progressively lesser offenses...Pretty soon, police are stereotyping people for illegal bicycle parking and using this kind language to support their…

Posted in Judge gets suspended 6-month prison term for harassing woman at 08:20 AM JST - 14th August
mindovermatter at 08:04 AM JST - 14th August

“I’m prepared to die. I will shoot all of your family to death.” "I called him because I was angry.”

Just something lost in the literal translation, what he really said was actually closer to:

**"Thank you so much for your help my friend! I am so happy to know…

Posted in Psychiatrist arrested for threatening colleague in Yokohama at 08:04 AM JST - 14th August
mindovermatter at 07:57 AM JST - 13th August

"an awesome body"

mmm....Depends on your definition of awesome... If you like em big, then she's your girl...

Doesn't have a thing, with the exception of a few kilo's on Tanaka Minako....

Posted in Celebrity Waka Inoue says 'I want lots of people to attend my wedding” at 07:57 AM JST - 13th August
mindovermatter at 01:41 PM JST - 12th August

pathat

John Dower`s Pulitzer Prize-winning history, "Embracing Defeat"

Yes, very good read....and written from a very left-leaning, japan biased perspective (or at least a serious attempt was made), having read this thing cover to cover a dozen times, one cannot walk away saying anything bad about the way Japan was…

Posted in Nat'l Diet Library shelves file on crimes by U.S. service personnel at 01:41 PM JST - 12th August
mindovermatter at 12:48 PM JST - 12th August

Notginger

women procured for the Japanese government as forced sex workers

For the Japanese Gov't? or by the Japanese Gov't?

First of all unless you are talking about underground sex industry here in Japan as today, where "Entertainers" are brought into the country from Thailand, Philippines, Taiwan, China, etc... and…

Posted in Nat'l Diet Library shelves file on crimes by U.S. service personnel at 12:48 PM JST - 12th August