nipponreddog said...

nipponreddog at 08:09 PM JST - 26th October

I have been asking this question since my student days in Tokyo back in 1967. Why don't they run some limited, spaced transportation all night long? And my Japanese friends and families said the same thing then: people need a "last train" in order to enforce some discipline in their…

Posted in Last train blues at 08:09 PM JST - 26th October
nipponreddog at 07:46 PM JST - 26th October

Japan IS ridiculous...

Posted in Cop's handcuffs stolen while he's investigating adult entertainment business at 07:46 PM JST - 26th October
nipponreddog at 10:47 AM JST - 22nd October

Another point not mentioned in this story that the film director, Loie Psihoyos, noted was that DNA testing done by the team's expert on dolphinmeat sold in Taiji showed traces of the endangered Grey Whale. He said that scientists count only about 40 left, and that when a new one…

Posted in 'The Cove' gets mixed reaction from Japanese audience at 10:47 AM JST - 22nd October
nipponreddog at 10:39 AM JST - 22nd October

One point made by the film director, Louie Psihoyos, that is not included in this article is that the **National Park **in which the killing cove is located and to which the taxpaying and general public have been barred from entering by fences and barred wire, *is designated in the…

Posted in 'The Cove' gets mixed reaction from Japanese audience at 10:39 AM JST - 22nd October
nipponreddog at 10:48 PM JST - 17th October

The Japanese system in granting exclusive custody to one parent, almost always the mother, is not in place to protect Japanese women married to NJ men. My Japanese ex-brother-in law was distraught when the Japanese family court granted custody of his daughters to his Japanese wife, and he was literally…

Posted in Britain to press Japan on foreign fathers' rights to access children at 10:48 PM JST - 17th October
nipponreddog at 06:58 PM JST - 4th October

This rightist, racist, clown of a governor was the major reason for Japan's failure on the 2016 Olympics. Also the fact that independent polls commissioned the by the IOC showed that the vast majority of Japanese citizens, including Tokyoites, opposed the Olympics bid. Only Ishihara and his real estate developer…

Posted in Ishihara blames Tokyo 2016 failure on behind-the-scenes deals at 06:58 PM JST - 4th October
nipponreddog at 04:19 PM JST - 4th October

interview Polanski gave to the novelist Martin Amis in 1979, the year after Polanski went on the run. The interview originally appeared in Tatler and is collected in Amis’s excellent book Visiting Mrs Nabokov.

Here’s a section of the first quote it contains from Polanski at a filming at the…

Posted in Director Roman Polanski in Swiss custody on 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant at 04:19 PM JST - 4th October
nipponreddog at 04:02 PM JST - 4th October

But not all filmmakers are supporting Polanski.

Luc Besson, a prominent French film director and producer, was not on the list, though he describes himself as a Polanski friend.

“Our daughters are good friends,” Mr. Besson said in a radio interview with RTL Soir. “But there is one justice, and…

Posted in Director Roman Polanski in Swiss custody on 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant at 04:02 PM JST - 4th October
nipponreddog at 03:56 PM JST - 4th October

Reid Weingarten "Mr. Weingarten is expected to mount a legal effort to block Mr. Polanski’s extradition before the issue works its way through the Swiss legal system, according to people who were briefed on Mr. Weingarten’s involvement, but spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak…

Posted in Director Roman Polanski in Swiss custody on 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant at 03:56 PM JST - 4th October
nipponreddog at 03:28 PM JST - 4th October

M>>Maybe when the Obama justice department or a liberal judge lets the gguy off scot free, Obama should invite him over to stay at the White HHouse.< A AActually, it was reported in the Washington Post that Polanski has hired iinfluence-peddling mogul and power attorney Weingarten to represent him in…

Posted in Director Roman Polanski in Swiss custody on 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant at 03:28 PM JST - 4th October