mnemosyne23 said...

mnemosyne23 at 12:02 AM JST - 16th September

Has anyone else here ever seen the British comedy "Red Dwarf?" Specifically the first episode to feature the Polymorph, a mutant that turned Rimmer into a pipe-smoking, goatee-sporting hippy-cum-yuppie type. Reading this article immediately brought to mind one of my favorite quotes from that episode:

**"The time for talking is…

Posted in Tokyo police launch weeklong anti-groping campaign on trains at 12:02 AM JST - 16th September
mnemosyne23 at 11:53 PM JST - 15th September

...WTH? The man was playing SHOGI. What could possibly be so aggravating about a man playing shogi that would lead to murder? Was he whooping and hollering every time he made a move? Was he using exploding pieces? Was this some kind of Wizard's Shogi? seriously, what the hell.

So…

Posted in 82-yr-old man fatally stabs neighbor after argument over shogi at 11:53 PM JST - 15th September
mnemosyne23 at 11:42 PM JST - 15th September

I agree the host should bear part of the blame, since he was told that she would be driving home. But the greater brunt of the blame falls on the driver herself. She KNEW she'd be driving home, she told the host that very thing, and then went ahead and…

Posted in Club host held for giving drinks to woman who caused fatal accident at 11:42 PM JST - 15th September
mnemosyne23 at 11:28 PM JST - 15th September

What on earth was he going to do with the money? Try to put back what he misappropriated from the company? Or make a runner for the border? I don't get it.

Also, if you're going to try and fox some money out of your family, don't be an idiot…

Posted in Man held after faking kidnapping and demanding ransom from his mother at 11:28 PM JST - 15th September
mnemosyne23 at 02:15 AM JST - 15th September

Like mansen said, there's nothing wrong with dating an older man or woman, but in this case the girl was only 16 and still living with her family. I would invite anyone out there who has or has ever had teenage children to imagine what YOUR reaction would be if…

Posted in Kumamoto man arrested after fatally stabbing his daughter’s 38-year-old boyfriend at 02:15 AM JST - 15th September
mnemosyne23 at 03:15 AM JST - 10th September

Being able to memorize facts and figures and then spit them out again on standardized tests is not all there is to education, no matter how the scores rank against international figures. An equally important part of education is the development of critical thinking skills and objective reasoning, which I…

Posted in Japan 2nd lowest among 28 OECD nations in education spending at 03:15 AM JST - 10th September
mnemosyne23 at 02:39 AM JST - 10th September

rommelderfohlen: It's true that violent, spur of the moment actions (crimes of passion) take place all over the world, but you have to take into account that this is a brother killing his sister, an act that was triggered by something as inconsequential as a loud stereo. Taken as a…

Posted in 22-year-old man arrested after fatally stabbing sister over 'noise' at 02:39 AM JST - 10th September
mnemosyne23 at 02:22 AM JST - 10th September

Disillusioned: I hear ya.

I've been wondering how long it's going to take before the government decides to add motor vehicles to its list of deadly weapons that are illegal to possess, but maybe I'm just being overly cynical.

Posted in Man dies after being dragged by car for 70 meters in Ibaraki at 02:22 AM JST - 10th September
mnemosyne23 at 02:08 AM JST - 10th September

I want to reiterate a point I believe I made previously, which is that I find it highly inappropriate that jurors are able to ask questions of the defendant, witnesses, or anyone involved with the case. "Do you love your son?" What kind of question is that? And honestly, what…

Posted in Victim, defendant's mom questioned on 2nd day of jury trial with interpreters at 02:08 AM JST - 10th September
mnemosyne23 at 01:33 AM JST - 10th September

I agree with what other commenters have said: good on the Jcops for getting a stalker out of commission, but bad on Jcops for only taking action when the person being stalked was a celebrity. How many women have been assaulted or killed in recent months by ex-boyfriends or boyfriend-wannabes,…

Posted in Iwate man arrested for stalking voice actress Haruna Ikezawa at 01:33 AM JST - 10th September