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mojibake
Relax, it's just a back rub with scented oils.
Posted in: Sign of the times
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mojibake
Just another story about those keystone J-cops...
Posted in: Cop arrested for breaking into female cop’s apartment in Chiba
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mojibake
hollywood1: huh? There is no shortage of rice in Japan. The self-sufficiency rate is over 90%, and demand continues to drop. Instead of being recklessly paved over as you say, Japan's mini-mini mom and pop rice paddies enjoy subsidies and protection unheard of in the rest of the world. Nevermind that they are an incredibly inefficient way to use farmland and human resources, and produce enough greenhouse gas (methane) to easily offset any gains from Japan's obsessive-compulsive carbon dioxide reduction culture.
The article attributes Japan's "70% higher" rice yield (probably per unit area) to R&D and public investment. But the elephant in the room is that better things might have been achieved with that land, money, and human resource.
Posted in: Japan commits $25 million to international rice research
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mojibake
Why are you all hating on this article? I found it pretty interesting and a refreshing change from the regurgitated press releases that usually haunt this section.
It's original, interesting, and reasonably balanced for what it's worth.
Posted in: Sanya: A travel guide to Tokyo’s coolest ghetto
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mojibake
This is great if you live near Ueno, but the rest of us can look forward to doubling that travel time schlepping through the depths of Tokyo.
Narita sucks, it always has and it always will. Looking forward to the expansion of Haneda.
Posted in: Skyliner train to make Tokyo-Narita run in 36 minutes
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mojibake
The risk of losing custody of a child to the other parent: think of it as punishment to the crime of producing a child in a relationship that couldn't support one. Return or no return, by the time the situation has deteriorated thusly, it's a zero-sum game.
Posted in: Japan urged to sign accord against parental abductions
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mojibake
"After alerting the pilots and aircrew, the ranking pilot made the decision to divert the flight to San Francisco." <-- my 6th grade grammar teacher is shaking her finger, I just know it.
Posted in: U.S. airman spots aircraft fuel leak at 35,000 feet on Narita-bound flight
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mojibake
Chivalry and chauvinism are words that sound similar, and this country has a helluva lot of both. That means if you're a decent guy, you pay on the first date. If your date is a decent lady and your financial circumstances are similar, she will offer to split the bill or pay alternately subsequently.
No wonder my Japanese female friends grumble about gaijin guys being cheapskates...
Posted in: What are some first-date mistakes to avoid?
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mojibake
Way to make yourself out to be a gaijin loser. Pilfering food samples with no intent to buy? Turning a geisha's work into some kind of cheap carnival photo-op? Have some class, people.
Posted in: How to enjoy Kyoto for free
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mojibake
Yes, because the Italians build reliable cars, the British make excellent food, the French sure work hard, and the Japanese ... well, just look at the other comments on JT to learn what the Japanese are good at.
Remember the Yugo? That was the brilliant combination of Fiat engineering and Soviet-era manufacturing. With that history in mind, a Fiat/GM/Chrysler marriage sounds oddly brilliant.
Posted in: Fiat is out to create automotive powerhouse
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mojibake
Isn't there a curse on Narita airport from the Chiba farmers who vigorously defended the merits of a few households growing rice over that of a couple million air travellers?
I wonder how close the new JR alignment comes to the dynamited Narita Shikansen's original route...
Posted in: How would you rate Narita airport when compared to other major airports around the world?
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mojibake
You people are discussing this article as if it was some scholarly comment on Japanese society. It's not, it's the kuchikomi section. You know, those same weekly rags that publish those "101 ways OLs secretly wish they were sexually harassed by the boss" lists.
Posted in: Single mothers, squeezed by recession, turning to prostitution as last resort
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mojibake
Show me one alleged crusty reactionary Japanese who "learned" something that he didn't already know from these "secret" maps, and I'll show you a shill for the burakumin liberation league.
The fact is that this information is already known to everyone, but republishing the maps with their original non-politically correct labels opens old wounds (think nazi memorabilia). That hasn't stopped the Western media from spinning this as yet another "dirty dark secrets of Japan" story though.
Posted in: Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil 'burakumin' secrets
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mojibake
When overseas (especially Chinese) buyers purchase tuna in Tsukiji, does the fish get counted as having been consumed in Japan?
Posted in: Holy mackerel: A breakthrough in tuna science?
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mojibake
Gotta love how the AP blurs the line between "news" and "history". Allergy season and masks may have been news in February, but cedar pollen season is already over!
Oh, and spudman, thanks for the helpful wikipedia cut-and-paste, but I thought pseudoephedrine was illegal in Japan?
Posted in: For allergy season, Japan turns to surgical masks
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mojibake
Re food miles, look around you -- Japan is a bit of a jungle, with insects and fungi lurking everywhere. So it's harder to grow stuff, especially non-native varieties, without chemicals or aseptic (and tasteless) hydroponics. In that context, imported vs. locally-grown is a bit more of a complex decision.
Of course, if you really wanted to be conscientious, you should eat only stuff that grows easily here: Chinese cabbage, daikon, mitsuba, and seaweed. And of course three sho of rice.
Posted in: Organic adventures
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mojibake
applauds for syndenham
Posted in: You can learn a lot about Japanese culture from kindergarten classes
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mojibake
Cue comments about "bushi quality" in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Posted in: Nana Natsume adds spice to 'Zombie Strippers'
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mojibake
No, flight attendants are special because unions and seniority mean EVERYTHING in their world. Try going into work every day with the mindset that "it's just another few more years" until you get sempai privileges -- and making a traveller's life pleasant is probably the last thing on your mind.
Posted in: Passengers see improvements in U.S. airline services
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mojibake
Whew, in contrast to 2chan, I'm glad we have respectable and well-moderated forums, like Japan Today Discussion!
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