nandakandamanda said...

nandakandamanda at 02:35 PM JST - 10th November

A fair trial should decide clearly whether he is guilty or innocent.

If innocent, they should let him go.

If guilty the judge will decide on an appropriate punishment and appropriate period for reflection. How many years for each life taken?

I feel sorry for the lady who shot him.…

Posted in Lawyer asks investigators not to question Hasan at 02:35 PM JST - 10th November
nandakandamanda at 02:20 PM JST - 10th November

It sounds like the whole noisy group in the above restaurant was Yak, so any foregn intervention would have been extremely unwise, IMHO.

Posted in Ex-gangster held after beating customer to death in Thai restaurant in Tokyo at 02:20 PM JST - 10th November
nandakandamanda at 02:16 PM JST - 10th November

We don't really have enough information to make an educated comment. Are some of these Uighurs like the Taliban in Afghanistan? Do they have a stronger or weaker case? Where do Western sympathies naturally lie? Perhaps this accounts for the silence mentioned in the article.

Quote “The United States and…

Posted in 9 executed over China's deadly ethnic riots at 02:16 PM JST - 10th November
nandakandamanda at 02:08 PM JST - 10th November

This ex-yak can deny it because he knows there will be no witnesses. The witnesses all know they will have no future if they are not super careful to say they saw nothing.

Another reason they say "ex-gang member" is that Yakuza gangs are illegal now, so they are all…

Posted in Ex-gangster held after beating customer to death in Thai restaurant in Tokyo at 02:08 PM JST - 10th November
nandakandamanda at 10:30 AM JST - 10th November

The idiots who open the window shutters when the staff have asked for complete darkness during the artificial night periods so people can watch movies or fall asleep. In comes a blinding ray of light and they sit there staring out, unaware of the annoyance they have caused by the…

Posted in What behavior or habits by passengers on planes bother you the most? at 10:30 AM JST - 10th November
nandakandamanda at 10:18 AM JST - 10th November

Who paid for the fuel?

Posted in 2 MSDF vessels set sail for last refueling mission at 10:18 AM JST - 10th November
nandakandamanda at 10:16 AM JST - 10th November

After all we've read on how the Japanese authorities told him to pass on the left, we now read that the Korean captain will have to carry the sole can?

Suddenly steered to the left? Evasive action? Was he about to run into the back of the vessel in front,…

Posted in Papers on S Korean skipper to be sent to prosecutors over collision at 10:16 AM JST - 10th November
nandakandamanda at 09:31 PM JST - 9th November

Japanese archery arrows can of course be made of carbon; they have no standard 'length' per se, ie they are tailor-made for the individual archer to be long enough not to get caught behind the bow with the left arm outstretched, according to a Japanese archer I was talking to…

Posted in 16-year-old boy struck by arrow dies at 09:31 PM JST - 9th November
nandakandamanda at 03:50 PM JST - 9th November

moonknightskye,*iv been in aichi yesterday and did saw hang gliders moving in a circular pattern.. we were amazed... but we never thought that that was his last day... though we didnt saw the crash I guess what we saw was him. poor guy *

He wasn't in Aichi.

Posted in Veteran hang glider dies in crash in Mie at 03:50 PM JST - 9th November
nandakandamanda at 03:46 PM JST - 9th November

I was crossing the road on green on my bike and got hit and knocked over by a car full of young people who came zooming round the corner and didn't see me. The bike was wrecked. I repeatedly told them to leave before the Police arrived as I knew…

Posted in Okinawa police seize U.S. military vehicle over hit-and-run at 03:46 PM JST - 9th November