Wednesday February 15, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

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proxyNov. 27, 2011 - 10:17AM JST

Sexual appetite is controlled by the frontal lobe of the brain which goes through a neuron "pruning" process during adolescence. Lack of sleep impairs the pruning process, besides messing up hormone levels. All high school age children and young adults need between 8 1/2 and 9 1/2 hours of sleep for proper brain development.

Young Japanese people just do not get enough sleep which may be the cause behind retarded sexual development.

The happiest 17 year old boys I ever met in Japan were the three local boys who dropped out of school after junior high. They also seemed to always have girlfriends as well.

Japan is a nation of brain damaged youth.

Posted in: 61% of single men aged 18-34 have no girlfriend; 49% of women unattached: survey
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proxyNov. 16, 2011 - 04:36AM JST

The families of everyone who died probably have a case against municipalities that did not have high enough sea walls. One town did and the residents all lived so surely every other town was negligent.

Posted in: Families of 2 kindergarten kids killed by tsunami to file suit
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proxyNov. 11, 2011 - 01:22AM JST

Ever heard of the "chicken tax?" It is a 25% import tax levied on light trucks and vans by the US government since 1963. Now that is a barrier!

Posted in: U.S. senator criticizes Japan on auto trade barriers
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proxyOct. 25, 2011 - 11:47AM JST

Very Interesting. I did not know that the Mongols sent many ships to that area; I thought most went to Hakata bay.

Does anyone know if the Mongol invasions where in retaliation to the wokou pirates?

Posted in: Remains of 13th-century Mongolian warship found off Nagasaki Pref
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proxySep. 25, 2011 - 09:10AM JST

Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think they are actually testing the "rice" but only the paddies.

Posted in: Radiation found in rice from Fukushima Pref; more tests planned
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proxyAug. 22, 2011 - 12:42PM JST

NATO needed a success.

Posted in: Clashes reported near Gadhafi compound in Libyan capital
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proxyAug. 18, 2011 - 10:58AM JST

I hope the headline writer knows that Hello Kitty is not real.

Posted in: Korean group After School to collaborate with Hello Kitty
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proxyAug. 16, 2011 - 02:29PM JST

Start at the top and root out the 'moral collapse' in the banking industry and politics and everyone else will follow.

Posted in: Cameron: Riot-hit UK must reverse 'moral collapse'
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proxyAug. 16, 2011 - 02:22PM JST

I could have/ should have been killed a couple of dozens times by the time I was 19. Poor girl.

Posted in: Niagara Falls search for Japanese woman turns up man's body
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proxyAug. 15, 2011 - 09:14PM JST

@BreitbartVictorious

"Flattening" society" has worked pretty good in the Nordic countries, Canada and Australia which all rank high in social mobility.

The OECD has noted that the UK has about the lowest social mobility in developed countries. (The US hardly does much better than the UK.)

It seems to me that both in the UK and US they make a big deal celebrating somebody who has "pulled themselves up by their bootstraps" as it is pretty rare for people born into the lower end of the social scale to succeed but iy is not newsworthy in other countries with much higher social mobility.

Posted in: British PM clashes with police over 'zero tolerance' strategy, hiring U.S. cop
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proxyAug. 15, 2011 - 03:42PM JST

@ AerosX

"Private lenders would not lend unless they know your going to pay them back."

Over 600 000 people in the UK have gone into bankruptcy in the past 5 years. There were 1,593,081 personal bankruptcies filed in the US in 2010 and 1.47 million business bankruptcies.

Why did private lenders lend all that money to people and businesses that did not pay them back?

Why did Domain Capital lend money to sex.com and not be paid back?

Socialist Canada now has a higher GDP per capita in $US than the US.

I think we would certainly agree on one thing though, governments should not bail out failed business.

The US and the UK governments failed miserable when they decided to bail out failed banks. Force the banks to mark to market and let the ones that are insolvent die quick deaths!

Posted in: British PM clashes with police over 'zero tolerance' strategy, hiring U.S. cop
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proxyAug. 15, 2011 - 01:41PM JST

@AerosX Nice try.

Sweden deregulated their banking industry in the mid '80s which led to a huge credit expansion and with Sweden allowing people to deduct interest payments from their taxes. One little financial institution that had recklessly lent money could not roll over their debt and the entire house of cards collapsed.

The cause of Sweden's banking crisis was not socialism, they financialized their economy.

The scenario is almost exactly the same as what happened in the US, the UK, and Ireland that have socialized the losses of the careless unregulated banking industry.

Posted in: British PM clashes with police over 'zero tolerance' strategy, hiring U.S. cop
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proxyAug. 15, 2011 - 12:55PM JST

@BreitbartVictorious

Sweden had GDP growth of 6.4% in 2010, has one of the highest tax rates in the world and one of the best social security systems in the world. The Swedish government says the objective of social policy model is "to reduce the gaps between different social groups while giving people security, the opportunity to develop and an acceptable economic standard."

If what you define as "socialism" can work there it can work in the UK as well.

And for your information, both in Japan and in China, government has played a pivotal role of lifting people out of poverty.

You should also be aware that there are almost daily riots of one sort or another in China.

Posted in: British PM clashes with police over 'zero tolerance' strategy, hiring U.S. cop
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proxyAug. 15, 2011 - 10:28AM JST

How about a zero tolerance policy on shenanigans in the City?

How about stop letting every aXXhole with a pot of money into your country? There is a very long list of questionable people from around the world with London addresses.

How about stop selling weapons to dictators?

How about charging Tony Blair with war crimes?

Posted in: British PM clashes with police over 'zero tolerance' strategy, hiring U.S. cop
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proxyAug. 12, 2011 - 12:14PM JST

I wonder if you will continue to add everyone exposed to radiation to the total for the next 60 years.

Posted in: 20,425 dead or missing as Japan marks 5 months since disaster
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proxyAug. 11, 2011 - 04:23PM JST

I completely understand why people ignored the tsunami warning. At least 30 days since March our city has broadcast heavy rain warnings often in the middle of the night but not once did we have a heavy rain and only twice did it rain at all on days that there were broadcast warnings.

Everyone, and I mean everyone has learned to ignore these warnings. People are fed up with the warnings broadcast every time a cloud appears.

If you ask me the city should be held liable in the future if they broadcast a warning and it is ignored depending on how many middle of the night, crying wolf" warnings they have issued in the past.

Posted in: Parents of 4 children in bus swept away by tsunami sue kindergarten
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proxyAug. 09, 2011 - 11:02PM JST

They were sucked into a trap cleverly sprung by the Afghans.

The shoot down should be extremely worrying to Nato as it indicates how sophisticated the Afgahans are becoming particularly since over the summer they have been able to assassinate at will.

Posted in: Deadly copter crash highlights role of U.S. special forces
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proxyAug. 08, 2011 - 12:27PM JST

@cleo So you are saying you are comfortable with sacrificing the health of your children for your credit rating and a bunch of replaceable junk? I am not so cavalier and, would walk away from a mortgage and live in a tent in the mountains long before I would live in Fukushima.

Posted in: Parents live with radiation fear in shadow of Fukushima nuclear plant
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proxyAug. 08, 2011 - 11:31AM JST

@cleo Those graduates are just too lazy. I may be funny, being a well educated professional but I would be willing to do anything legal including shoveling pig dung to feed my children. There are plenty of jobs posted at "Hello Work."

Even at 6% unemployment rate there is work aplenty is you consider that at least 6% of the workforce are really really lazy, are alcoholics, have some kind of mental problem, on drugs, are changing jobs or worked for a company that went bankrupt.

Posted in: Parents live with radiation fear in shadow of Fukushima nuclear plant
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proxyAug. 08, 2011 - 10:45AM JST

@cleo Oh please! There are plenty and plenty of housing units and jobs in Kyushu. I guarantee you if people from Fukushima had the gumption to get off their butts and hitchhike with their children to Kyushu they would be housed and employed within a couple of days, no connections required. Everyone is sympathetic with the people in Fukushima and everyone knows of an empty house and has a friend who could use a good worker.

I promise if anyone evacuating Fukushima shows up in my neighbourhood I will have you staying in our community center within an hour, and a house or apartment and a job within a week, no sweat. And I an have your house furnished and children clothed in a week as well.

Posted in: Parents live with radiation fear in shadow of Fukushima nuclear plant