JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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nandakandamanda
Er... what became of the woman? Did she stand up and leave at the next stop?
Posted in: Lawyer arrested for flashing woman on train in Kanagawa
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nandakandamanda
For thousands of years both Japanese and Korean fishing vessels have caught fish around these islands.
Not possible now, because K nets cover the sea floor in all the best spots around the islands, and J boats are not allowed to approach anyway.
Posted in: S Korea reportedly plans to build hotel on disputed islets
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nandakandamanda
The South Koreans obviously don't want these islands. They are going about it totally the wrong way if they do.
Many Japanese tell me they would be just as happy giving up their claim to the islands if it would really help relations. All Korea has to do is ask nicely. As it is, however, that is definitely not happening. The Koreans must know how stubborn the Japanese can be if you keep pushing them and pushing them. This recent decision over the hotel seems reckless and designed to annoy. In for a penny, in for a pound. We know subconsciously that what we are doing is illegal under international law, but we've come this far, so let's push it some more...
My impression is that South Korea wants to wake up their old enemy and have a good fight on modern terms. Who are they really trying to impress, though? North Korea?
Posted in: S Korea reportedly plans to build hotel on disputed islets
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nandakandamanda
Many of my Korean students come over to Japan with a fixed image of how the Japanese are. They are quite disappointed to discover that most young Japanese don't fit their concepts, don't really care too much about Takeshima/Dokdo. In fact, many have never even heard of these islands which lie on the split in the continental shelf between Korea and Japan.
Posted in: S Korea reportedly plans to build hotel on disputed islets
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nandakandamanda
"There is no question about our sovereign rights to Dokdo because we effectively control it.” South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-Soo
"Might makes right." Genghis Khan
Posted in: S Korea reportedly plans to build hotel on disputed islets
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nandakandamanda
Nope, bamboohat, nothing's changed. You're still right on the money. And for Grace, "Eat a sticky mess" is still what you say before popping that rice ball in your mouth.
Posted in: No substitute for human touch in translating
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nandakandamanda
cleo, some translations take a little more than a fraction of time and can be hair-tearingly frustrating. You must have a super placid disposition...
Posted in: No substitute for human touch in translating
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nandakandamanda
Back to square one, rjd jr, I hardly think so.
One of the good points shown by this is that Al Q have pretty much given up on Iraq to focus more on Afghanistan. I am so, so sorry for the good populace of Afghanistan who will be forced to suffer these inroads by cynical and calculating political brutes from other countries pushing their own bloody agenda.
Posted in: Al-Qaida draws more foreign recruits to Afghan war
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nandakandamanda
SSNinJapan, so you can use the word and no-one else can? Nuts...
Posted in: Jackson used N-word in off-air remarks: Fox News
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nandakandamanda
Was just wanting to correct the innocent image some of the earlier posters had of college newspaper delivery guys! ;8) The reality, as Cleo has pointed out, is often quite different. These guys are rough, bullying, and in many cases actual Y members.
Moderator: Stay on topic please.
Posted in: 2 Yomiuri newspaper delivery agents arrested for allegedly raping woman
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nandakandamanda
If your name comes up on the screen and you are blocked, you should have the right to know instantly what is against your name.
The problem for the individual is that the system is generally inscrutable, and therefore discriminatory. High blood pressure time for some.
Posted in: One million names on U.S. terrorist watch list: rights group
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nandakandamanda
When we lived in an apartment the very first thing I did was to stretch netting along the bottom half of the balcony railings and tie it so tight that no way could such an accident occur. We had a baby at the time. I remember being angry that the standard gaps were designed large enough for a small child to slip through.
Surely any 'responsible' parent would want to do the same??? And surely there must be some way to put pressure on the designers of such balcony railings and bars. Could not the designer also be called 'irresponsible'?
Posted in: 2-year-old boy falls to death from 7th floor apartment in Osaka
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nandakandamanda
That's what they all said in the movie... and then...
Posted in: Fake shark scare closes 'Jaws' beach
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nandakandamanda
More news from here and there. Some say she was 53, other 58. According to this latest article: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080711-00000971-san-int
she was walking by the beach. The TV was saying earlier that NK said she climbed over a 2 m high wire fence. The NK soldier tried to stop her by shouting and firing live warning shots, but she kept running about 1 km towards a small village, at which point he shot her. South Korea has announced that having seen the body, she was shot from behind and has at least two bullet wounds in her back.
Posted in: S Korean female tourist shot dead by N Korean soldier
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nandakandamanda
Badge123, yes, it was NK's version of events.
Women, however, can be very tough when it suits them. Perhaps she was after some special traditional greenery that is reputed to grow now only in the DMZ. If she was walking along the beach as one source suggests, perhaps the barbed wire fencing was in a bad state of repair. She may even have followed an animal track, who knows?
The old adage of 'Move towards a gun, and away from a knife' seems to hold true here.
Posted in: S Korean female tourist shot dead by N Korean soldier
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nandakandamanda
Well, the lack of information sent me off sifting through other news sources; the following site gives a little more detail:
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080711-00000028-yonh-kr
She climbed over the wire fencing of the DMZ and entered it, and a NK soldier shouted at her to stop. He then fired several warning shots, but she continued to run away, so he shot and killed her.
Still can't find whether she was shot in the front of the chest and legs, or from the rear... but wrong place at at the wrong time, and the wrong reactions, it seems.
Posted in: S Korean female tourist shot dead by N Korean soldier
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nandakandamanda
Well, large crocodilian fossils have been found here, so there was a time when they lived here, and maybe that time is coming again. All someone has to do is introduce a mate, and we're off again.
Funnily enough, the Japanese word Wani (which we associate with crocodile/alligator) has been used by fishing communities around Japan down the centuries to mean water creatures with many sharp teeth, ie sharks. (Besides the familiar words Same and Fuka). Maybe they even had salt-water crocs here many moons ago!
Posted in: 1.5-meter-long crocodile spotted in Saitama river
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nandakandamanda
"Police have searched the river..."
What? Like, they've swum underwater looking for it?
Posted in: 1.5-meter-long crocodile spotted in Saitama river
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nandakandamanda
PepinGalarga: "if guys wore skirts then would women get busted too? i wonder if this happens in scotland?"
Never heard of women looking up men's kilts in Scotland, and I used to wear a kilt regularly.
In this case the guy was regularly peeping up through a crack and goodness knows what else he was doing as he watched.
Posted in: School teacher arrested for peeping up student's skirt in Oita
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nandakandamanda
Garlic breath.
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