Wednesday February 15, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

nisegaijin's past comments

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nisegaijinJan. 24, 2012 - 11:05AM JST

Women, older men, who cares?!

Her policies are clearly socialistic, so I would never vote for her.

Title shouldn't concentrate on age and sex.

It should say something like:

Socialist major elected in debt ridden Shiga.

Posted in: 36-year-old Harvard law graduate elected Japan's youngest female mayor
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nisegaijinJan. 23, 2012 - 12:20PM JST

I think we should all join him! this should be the occupy Tokyo movement! All the stressed salary men and OL's strip butt naked and swim the palace moat!

Posted in: Man in underwear swims palace moat 'to meet emperor'
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nisegaijinJan. 20, 2012 - 09:43AM JST

Ron Paul is America's only hope. Unsurprisingly this article doesn't talk about him, neither do any of the posters. Sad...

Posted in: Surging Gingrich blasts U.S. media, Republican rivals
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nisegaijinJan. 19, 2012 - 05:00PM JST

Why is my post deleted??

Posted in: TV commercial of the week: Sukiya with TOKIO
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nisegaijinJan. 19, 2012 - 09:48AM JST

Well, whatever rocks her boat. Choosing life in nuclear contaminated country over happy marriage... strange, but oh well..

Posted in: Ayumi Hamasaki to divorce husband of 1 year
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nisegaijinJan. 17, 2012 - 10:34AM JST
1. Fruits - absolutely, even though they are imported they are far more expensive then let's say Hong Kong, which imports everything as well
2. Alcoholic Drinks - 12 dollars for a pint of beer? really?
3. Non-Alcoholic drinks - how many times did you go to average family restaurant, asked for a coke, which got you a tiny glass filled with ice with some coke in it and no refills! for 400 yen!?! that's 5 bux!
4. Video games. Way more expensive than in the US
5. Movies, DVD and Bluray. A season of 24 on bluray costs about 150 dollars!
6. Electronics. Most of the digital goodness can be bought in the US for a lot less. Digital cameras, tablets, cell phones, etc.
7. Laptop computers. I gave this a separate line item because after seeing a selection at Best Buy in Hawaii I can confirm that only a fool would consider buying a Laptop in Japan.
8. Pizza. about twice the cost in the US... 3 times if you consider size as well
9. Cars and car ownership. Especially imported cars are ridiculously overpriced. BMW tried to sell me a 3 series for 8 million yen! It would cost me half that in the US. Add to this high gasoline prices, insane parking fees, ridiculous taxes and insane tolls. They only thing cheaper than US is insurance.
10. Real estate and home ownership. Everything in that industry is rigged and price fixing is most common, If you are a home owner prepare to pay a very high price for almost anything, and a small crack in sink means that you have to remodel your entire bathroom.
11. Taxi... enough said
12. Taxes... give me a frigging break!
Posted in: Six things that foreigners feel are overpriced in Japan
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nisegaijinJan. 17, 2012 - 09:42AM JST

They do tell you about it, but it's a scam all right. Ideally if you consider canceling you should change your payment from credit card to cash, then cancel the contract, then refuse to pay cancellation fee.

Not much they can do about it.

Posted in: KDDI to begin discount campaign for some smartphone users
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nisegaijinJan. 17, 2012 - 09:35AM JST

Oh, he got whacked! Somebody doesn't like taxes...

Posted in: Noda appears in eye patch for tax fight
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nisegaijinJan. 16, 2012 - 05:28PM JST

These morons will go home and switch over their heaters and flat screen TV's to watch some stupid geinojin eat ramen all night, then have their children, which is our future, play with their PS3's! There is no alternative to nuclear energy unless we all go to stone age and/or stop reproducing. Would any of these morons agree to any of this? No. They can lead by example and go live in a forest, then we'll listen!

Posted in: 2,000 protest against nuclear power in Yokohama
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nisegaijinJan. 16, 2012 - 05:20PM JST

I have ridden with my friend in his Subaru B4 also on back roads @ over 160kph.

I have taken mine all the way to 180

Posted in: Japanese woman speedway racer killed in crash
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nisegaijinJan. 16, 2012 - 03:39PM JST

A spokeswoman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police confirmed to AFP that officers were investigating an unnatural death.

Really?

Posted in: Body of naked man with genitals sliced off found in apartment
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nisegaijinJan. 16, 2012 - 03:02PM JST

Skates can be rented, but figure skates only, so my fellow puck-heads have been shafted again.

Posted in: Have an ice day
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nisegaijinJan. 12, 2012 - 06:09PM JST

As a driver of a vehicle that runs on a product refined from Iranian Oil all I can say ... from the bottom of my heart: Thank you very much you stupid moronic excuse for a public officials who know nothing more than how to kiss American posterior. You only tell what US of A is telling you while we have to suffer from rising prices at the pump! How are you going to compensate us for your idiotic decision?

Historically Japanese government has done nothing but harm to Japanese people! There was never a single decision made by Japanese government that benefited the population! Time for people to rise! Occupy...Kasumigaseki!!!

Posted in: Success for U.S. as Japan decides to cut Iranian oil imports
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nisegaijinJan. 12, 2012 - 12:10PM JST

8 In Tokyo is just frigging scary.

What is even worse is the aftermath. Tokyo pretty much shut down after the Tohoku quake even though sustaining virtually no damage.

Posted in: Raising your chances of surviving the next big one
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nisegaijinJan. 12, 2012 - 09:33AM JST

There you go! Datsugoku 1! lol He is a scum, but I always root for the underdog! Go Datsugoku! ?Give J-cops something to work on!

Posted in: Inmate escapes from Hiroshima prison
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nisegaijinJan. 06, 2012 - 11:35AM JST

Operator probably told you about LTE phones from docomo. On docomo you cannot turn off LTE, so it is constatly sniffing for network causing your battery to drain. We ditched new generation of LTE phones in favor of old Galaxy S2.

AU is slightly different because you can turn off Wimax, but still eats battery very quickly. I think best 4G phone now is au's Motorolla ISW11M.

This particular phone has nothing to offer. There is no advantage over the highly rated Xperia Acro, which has same CPU and memory, but has exceptionally good battery life. AU just wasted everybody's time with this one.

Posted in: Fujitsu introduces ARROWS ES IS12F smartphone for au
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nisegaijinJan. 01, 2012 - 11:29AM JST

no government has ever spent or taxed to prosperity. last thing i will buy with 5% tax rate is my one way ticket out of here.

Posted in: Tax hike plan gets provisional OK
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nisegaijinDec. 29, 2011 - 09:49AM JST

What? lazy arses! i am tired of feeding them from my taxes!

Posted in: Japan has year without executions
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nisegaijinDec. 27, 2011 - 01:42PM JST

We need this TPP thing now... Buy American!

Posted in: Radiation fears affect New Year meals
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nisegaijinDec. 26, 2011 - 02:28PM JST

This old man should have tried yelling at j-walkers in New York! lol And hey, it's not the punch to the face that killed him it was the knock on the ground. It's the pavement manufacturer that needs to be sued, not the guy who punched him. It was self-defense.

Posted in: Man arrested over death of elderly man who rebuked him for ignoring red light