JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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nigelboy
limboinjapan
Actually, it's both. The police use the test as well as his/her own determination to decide whether the arrest is warranted or not.
0.15 is the maximum where the police start assessing penalities (points) on your driving record.
Posted in: Drunken driver crashes car; back behind wheel 4 hours later
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nigelboy
hoserfella.
You're assuming. If indeed they were tested and were over the limit, they would be ARRESTED purusuant to procedure under Road Traffic Law.
They weren't arrested so there are two scenarios which is that the cop didn't test them or tested them but were under the limit.
Crashing into a rice paddy (where there is a ditch) in narrow rural roads in Japan is an everyday occurance. Are you going to claim that most of that is attributed to DUI?
Posted in: Drunken driver crashes car; back behind wheel 4 hours later
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nigelboy
I got the impression that "more" lethal research is needed to address those areas and not your assertion that "the lethal killings were not required to do effective management of whale populations."
Moderator: Readers, you are still going around in circles. Please focus your comments on what is in the story.
Posted in: Japanese whalers, activists clash off Antarctica
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nigelboy
There are many questions that are unanswered in the articles (other sources) one of which is whether or not the driver/friend were over the alcohol limit at the accident.
Posted in: Drunken driver crashes car; back behind wheel 4 hours later
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nigelboy
I'm wondering where you got this from?
Posted in: Japanese whalers, activists clash off Antarctica
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nigelboy
-Suspended sentences are issued for imprisonment lasting less than three years.
-The length of suspended sentence are usually longer than that of actual imprisonment term. (i.e. three year prison, four year suspended sentence)
But you go on sensei! Keep those predictions coming!!
Posted in: 74-yr-old man held for killing 71-yr-old wife
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nigelboy
Shrkb8
I'm reading "The Report of the Expert Workshop to review the ongoing JARPNII Programme" and the conclusions are mostly positive.
You can call Japan ignorant all you want but I find the actual presence of anti-whaling nations within the IWC which is for the "orderly development of whaling" to be that of a pirate.
Posted in: Japanese whalers, activists clash off Antarctica
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nigelboy
In JT: Top news Rest of the world: Daily occurence in "Fort"
Posted in: SDF member flashes staff at drive-through restaurant in Saitama
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nigelboy
Not quite.
I think it's brilliant police work based on the result that they did find the perpetrator and the girl. Much better than your country (hint: milk cartons)
Posted in: Unemployed 30-yr-old man arrested for kidnapping 5-yr-old girl in Chiba
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nigelboy
That's what's happening with the increased value of the yen. There has been an 85% increase of M&A from the previous year. The largest increase was India which was 20.3 times larger than last year. M&A for China is down 61% from last year.
Posted in: How Japan can turn the tables on its economic decline
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nigelboy
There you go with the numbers that only China claims..
But in REALITY, the population of Nanking during Japanese occupation INCREASED from the initial occupation.
Posted in: China's Zhang says Bale to star in Nanjing project
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nigelboy
Funny. Those events are rarely labeled as "massacre" and yet at the same time you ask for a definition of "masscre".
Posted in: China's Zhang says Bale to star in Nanjing project
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nigelboy
“The events as the police have described them do not correlate with what I saw with my own eyes. I want to tell everyone what I saw. If I don’t, my husband cannot rest in peace.”
What the victim's wife saw and the what the police saw are two different views. In other words, there is no reason for the police to restrain Tsuya if the police really saw and intepreted that Sugawara was the actual perpetrator.
Posted in: Lawyer's widow disputes police version of husband's murder
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nigelboy
He's talking about "シナ事変” The word 事変 was used by both sides because
Posted in: China's Zhang says Bale to star in Nanjing project
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nigelboy
So it's fiction.
“So I think that perhaps by doing it this way… could let maybe 100 or 200 million young audiences watch this film and maybe then they’ll know what happened in Nanjing in 1937.”
But it's fiction.
Posted in: China's Zhang says Bale to star in Nanjing project
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nigelboy
Spike in interest rates perhaps, China is basically forced to float the yuan, trade deficit with China decreases (China's trade surplus decreases), and China's outstanding holdings value decreases.
Posted in: How Japan can turn the tables on its economic decline
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nigelboy
China's bond purchases are necessary for them to keep their own currency low which is their only strategic advantage. In other words, China is floating their own economy through bond purchases. (i.e. Selling/printing 元 and buying foreingn currencies). 260% money supply/GDP ratio is a result of that.
Posted in: How Japan can turn the tables on its economic decline
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nigelboy
Approximately 94% of the debt is owned by Japanese (financial institutions, insurance companies, and individuals) at an average interests rate less than 1.5%. The reason for this high percentage holdings especially in the financial institutions are that the banks have excess cash holdings (deposits) due to cut in lending and coporate investments. So to get some return, their choice is to purchase JGB. It's no wonder that even at such low return, Japanese banks keep buying them.
The flip side of that is when banks start to lend more=economy picked up=more tax revenues=less purchase of JGB.
Not my country.
What's not manageable is the excess money supply which had lead to inflation. 260% of GDP which is unheard of when you consider that even during the bubble period of Japan, it did not exceed 120%. What's more frightening is the relatively miniscule % of consumption/GDP ratio (35%) and a large investment to GDP ratio (46%). For developed economies, the ratio for the former is about 60~70% range and the latter is around 15~20%. In simple terms, what China is doing is building a skyscraper in middle of nowhere. "If you build it, they will come" approach is just a pipe dream at this pace.
Posted in: How Japan can turn the tables on its economic decline
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nigelboy
Not even close, mushroom.
Hint: Money supply as a percentage of GDP.
Posted in: How Japan can turn the tables on its economic decline
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nigelboy
Agree with Klein. If Japan seriously wants to devalue their own currency, they could act irresponsibly like China and just print the money like there's no tommorrow.
The common misconception here is that the author assumes that Japan is an export depended nation when in fact, it's never been like that for decades. (roughly 14% export/GDP ratio for Japan while Germany is close to 40%) In other words, there's just too much emphasis on exports as an indicator for economic groth when the nation as a whole doesn't rely on it that much to begin with. (Like USA).
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