JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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nutsagain
OK, let's just say carrying a lethal weapon perpetuates the cycle of violence. There are non- lethal alternatives available; bear spray or tasers. Whistles have proven pretty effective. A gun free culture is one of the only reasons I stay here. Yeah, that's changing I know... No personal offense intended.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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USARonin: Absurd comment. Read my earleir posts as I suggest alternatives such as a loud whistle. Stand your ground, huh? Just what the world needs, another macho tough guy.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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nutsagain
Whatever, but please do not buy a knife nor any other weapon.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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nutsagain
Why should you have to defend yourself? Your taxes pay the police and they clearly are incapable. That's the crux of the matter. They have to be pressured to do things and I doubt very much that they did little more than pay lip service in this case to the now deceased. A total bloody failure as a police force... My advice is live your life the way you've been used to living it. Stories like this shouldn't make you want to carry a knife. A whistle would be a far better idea. I also surmise that she felt that and decided not to ask for surveillance. I know this may well not be true but the Japanese police are incompetent, lazy and look for easy options every time.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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nutsagain
After reading the J link and the Asahi news, what nigelboy says is true. But that doesn't excuse the Keystones proclivity for the easier option of staying out of the matter. There's the rub... Basically they just didn't really want to know and that same tone was implied in the NHK news.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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nutsagain
The fact that so many posters consider the vigilante alternative is a worry. The Japanese police are in an amazing class all of there own. About as useful as tits on a bull. Everyone knows that. They hunt down misdemeanors with ruthless efficiency and shy away from the real problems of serious crime, even serious road crime, because it's 'stressful.' And they're just plain old scared.
Blaming victims is cowardly, but the issue is this; the morons in blue: And the only way to change anything is by political intervention. Otherwise they'll do as they've always done, try not to get too involved and hunt down bicycle thefts to keep the stats lookin' good.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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nutsagain
Borsht: I remember the incident and the quote.
Posted in: Woman held over abduction of 1-yr-old girl from Saitama shopping center
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nutsagain
serindipity: Now you cut that out...Hear me! She isn't slowly, sensually, raising and lowering her hand in that position either. Sheesh, some guys...
Posted in: Naomi Kawashima
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nutsagain
And for the second time this week, I'm in complete agreement with rjd
Posted in: 6-yr-old girl critical after hanging herself on overhead ladder in park
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nutsagain
What does go through another's mind while observing this sort of subhuman species? Rage, that's what. Once saw a group of school hooligans bullying a meek kid on a train once and was thoroughly frustrated because in those days couldn't make myself understood in Japanese very well. The bullies loved the attention and played it up for my benefit forcing the kid to sit down, couple of slaps upside the head and standing right in his face while he meekly handed over a ten thousand yen note and was told to show more 'respect' at the next meeting. Yeah, what goes through one's mind indeed...
Posted in: Two teenage girls arrested for beating another girl at station in Yokohama
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nutsagain
And it all could have been avoided if a realistic model had been used. Of course I'm jealous of any trader taking home a salary usually only heard of in Hollywood But when investment banks are leveraged out the wazoo and traders are not accountable it's a house of cards that's gonna fall. Sure, it works great when the interest rates are in your favor in fact they looked like geniuses but when the rates sour and leverage bites back, this is what happens.
Posted in: Bank of Japan injects Y2.5 tril into markets as Lehman Japan also files for bankruptcy
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nutsagain
The Wall street model has got to go. It's antiquated and designed to benefit employees not shareholders with outrageous salaries and bonuses and worse, no accountability. Lehamans had leverage of around 30% of its book value over 20 billion it had a 700 billion dollar balance sheet, which is like having a 97% mortgage on your own house, so if the market value drops you lose all your equity. And that's exactly what's happened to these firms... They were enormously over-leveraged and when the market turned against them as it so savagely has, they go belly up. Wall street is run by people looking out for themselves, no one else. Who pays when they screw up? We do.
Posted in: Bank of Japan injects Y2.5 tril into markets as Lehman Japan also files for bankruptcy
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nutsagain
rjd jr: This time you're absolutely 100% correct. Stan O'Neil ex CEO of Merrill Lynch was paid out $148 million, Charles Prince ex CEO from Citicorp about the same amount. These and a few more, are the guys that were the architects of the subprime mess and allowed delinquent loans etc. And they're compensated so handsomely? Obscene ain't the word....
Posted in: Bank of Japan injects Y2.5 tril into markets as Lehman Japan also files for bankruptcy
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nutsagain
You're a cheerless rooster rjd. I suppose you wear fingerless gloves and ban laughter near the house? Halloween is fun get with the spirit. Kids parades are everywhere in this Japanese city.
Posted in: Halloween
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nutsagain
Rabbit? More like Bunnys R' us... Dig the knees and say what the legs on the middle one! Humina humina yowa douza doo!
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nutsagain
This is simply a wonderful idea! "Three 100 yen stamps please and a nikkuman bun with the change thank you".
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nutsagain
" So this horse walks into a bar..." "Hey, I gotta better one!" This is probably what they're saying and if not, it'd be preferable to, and more convincing than LDP policy.
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nutsagain
Good morning, and now the latest stab results from Stab Central, aka Saitama.
Posted in: Man fatally stabs wife, son; then tries to kill himself in Saitama
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nutsagain
The kid in black looks like he's got plans to make a break real soon... Definitely outta there once they turn that corner.
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nutsagain
Imagine all the housework she could do! Man, I'd love to see her fixing eggs, ironing, washing up all at once. What a wonderful wife, sigh...
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