JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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realist
Actually, the other guy`s suit is even worse!
Posted in: No date tonight
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Where is Princess Masako? The Crown Prince should get a better tailor - that suit is a sight, and his dickie bow is crooked! Also, where did he get that awful hair style? I think he needs a visit from the "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" teacm - and quickly!
Posted in: No date tonight
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These fanatical ultranationalists in Japan are just violent thugs, trying to impose their form of censorship on the Japanese people. They do not like the truth about Japan to be shown and made known, either within the borders of Japan or in the outside world. The amazing thing is that they always get away with it. It also happened in 1989, when the BBC made a wonderful documentary about Emperor Showa. The bully boys threatened the TV stations with bombing and their executives with death if they dared to show the documentary on TV in Japan. To the best of my knowledge, it still has not been screened in Japan, thus depriving the ordinary Japanese people of their basic human rights. Bullying works in Japan, and the Government`s silence on this issue is deafening. How can it be, in a "civilised" country like Japan in the 21st century that thuggery is allowed to gain the upper hand in this way? This is the shame of Japan. This amounts to mob rule, in a so-called democracy. The jackboot rules in Japan.
Regarding the actual movie, "The Cove" I am really looking forward to seeing it for myself and making a judgement about what goes on in the sleepy little town of Taiji. The Japanese really have a problem with their little secrets being exposed, as we all know. The hacking to death of beautiful dolphins is something that the international community, of which Japan desires to be a part, will not tolerate. No matter how this movie was made, I am glad that it was, and that it exposes one of the darker sides of this country.
Posted in: Internet service company to show 'The Cove' in Japan
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The more I hear anout Islam and the actions of fanatlical Islamists like these people, the more I think it is an anathema. How sick, and how hypocritical can these people get?
Posted in: Two Somali soccer fans executed, 30 arrested for watching World Cup
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I have no idea who the guy is who wrote this nonsense, nor how long he has been in Japan. Methinks he is still in the "everything in Japan is wonderful" stage, or the "I am a gaijin who is an expert on Japan" stage. Either way, he has it wrong. The payment of "reikin" is bribery, no matter what sort of fancy ideology you wrap it up in. Secondly, the fact that 80% of Japanese lanlords in the Tokyo area do not want to rent their properties to foreigners of whatever ilk, and the fact that more than 60% of Japanese dont want to have anything to do with foreigners, speaks for itself. Anyone who says "No foreigners" is a racist,and is guilty of racism, pure and simple, despite the baloney in this article.
Posted in: Why Japanese property managers are so strict on renting apartments
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Mobile phones are for that purpose - to be used while you are mobile. Its only in Japan that these stupid, brainless "rules" exist that you are not allowed to use your mobile phone while you are mobile on a train. In other countries, there is no problem. I agree with ratpack - Id rather listen to someone using a phone than hear an ojiisan sucking his teeth, anyday. It amazes me that these "silence" rules exist on trains. The Japanese people are the noisiest people I know, in other situations.
I think in this case, both these guys were in the wrong - but the one who punched is the one who needs to be locked up and punished for a vicious physicval assault on another human being, no matter what the provocation. Japan is a nation of bullying, so the bully boys are always around, to try to enforce their will on the weak.
Posted in: Man punched in face by fellow train commuter over phone manners
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Sexual images in manga, or anywhere else, are all obscenity. I think pornographic manga should be banned, and the reading of this filth should be especially banned on trains.
Posted in: Sexual images of minors in manga: Art or obscenity?
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Israel has the right to protect its citizens and its terrority from thugs, whether they are Palestinian Hamas thug/terrorists or their international supporters, like the people in this flotilla. I support the actions of Israel 100% and admire them constantly for their gutsiness in the face of Arab/Islam brainwashing of most of the Western media.
Posted in: Israeli commandos storm aid flotilla; 10 killed
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I agree that drivers who leave their engines running needlessly should be penalised for wasting fuel, not for "polluting the environment." The Kyoto Protocol died along with "global warming" sometime back. Copenhagen failed, because it was based on misinformation and lies. Scientists have been deceiving the world about climate change and "global warming" for wuite some time, aided and abetted by the political motives of the UN organization, who are intent on imposing a World Government upon us.
Posted in: It’s time to penalize drivers who leave their motors running
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When will the Japanese join the rest of the civilised world in banning cigarette advertising, and also in cafes and restaurants? This is one of the most stupid adverts I have ever seen. Like another poster already said, the price should have another zero.
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realist
What a hideous shirt! I think this gentleman is being influenced by his crazy, UFO - riding wife. Maybe she bought that on Venus, during one of her trips there, or maybe its because both of them have been eating too much sun in the mornings? Either way - a fashion disaster.
Posted in: Hatoyama's style
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No. I would definately hope for the opposite. People spend far to much time in front ot compture screens. printed books will always be with us.
Posted in: Do you think paper-based books will eventually become a thing of the past as digital books become more popular?
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Lets face it, folks, the writing is on the wall with regard to English teaching in Japan. Given the fact that according to polls, over 65% of Japanese "want nothing to do with foreigners" and over 80% of Tokyo landlords actively discriminate against foreigners, plus the demise of these Eikaiwa schools, added to the slow but sure shutting of the gates in universities to foreign teachers, and the discrimnination against foreign teachers with regard to the demeaning contract system they operate, it is not easy to figure out the direction this country is heading. "We Japanese dont need to speak English" is a sentence I am hearing with increasing frequency these days. Yes, it appears that the Japanese are retreating into the bad old days of isolationism. Their mindset has never really changed, even though Perry & Co forced them to open up their borders all those years ago.
Posted in: Back to the 'eikaiwa' drawing board
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This is a frightening and sad case, and highlights the lack of basic human rights in Japan. The J police use mental torture as a means of extracting confessions from people. This case brings the entire justice system in Japan into disrepute. This brave mother should take her son`s case to the International Courts. She will get no satisfaction here.
Posted in: Mother of falsely accused groper who killed himself seeks justice
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Hell on earth - the daily rush hour commute in Tokyo.
The trains used to run on time - but these days, they rarely ever come on time. People crammed in like sardines, smelly salarymen who reek like they havent seen a bar of soap in a week, and who would never dream of using deodorant. Sour faced men and women, who are mostly totally selfish about their space. Outbreaks of violence and rudeness everywhere. Most people do not use the words "shitsurei shimasu" or "sumimasen" anymore - unlike the Japan of decades ago. The politeness has all but disappeared, and when you do hear someone say "sumimasen" it is a shock to the syatem. Never have I seen such silent, lifeless, dull and unhappy-looking people anywhere else in this world, and I have been to many countries, both rich and poor. Tokyoites look miserable and lack colour.
Small wonder, when they have to endure this commuter hell every day, and then go home to their cramped, dark, lifeless and overpriced "rooms." No wonder their is such a large sucide rate here - the qualisty of life of people in Tokyo is abysmal - and I agree with an earlier poster that this is also one of the loneliest and unfriendliest cities on earth. Sad. I remember when it was different.
Posted in: Rush hour
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realist
Never in the world, outside of Japan, have I read spo many cases of men stealing women`s underwear. Im sorry, but I think that this is a really sick country. How many J cops have been arrested for similar misdeeds this year alone? Is there a basic want among many Japanese men?
Posted in: Panty-thieving cop caught in the act
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Even though I am not American, I personally admire the new Immigration laws in the State pof Arizona. I wish the government of my country had the same guts. All the left-wing media only focus on the rights of the illegals, and not on the poor innocent people of Arizona who have been brutalized by the illegals. They dont even reoprt that. I read that one Arizona farmer living near the border has been robbed and attacked many times, and has found 17 dead bodies on his land. The current left-wing Federal Government, of course, couldnt give a rat`s ass about decent ordinary farmers, who are American citizens, because they are so politically correct. Political Correctness is a cancer that is destroying modern society.
Posted in: Immigration fight in U.S. will fire up wrong base
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The Euro is on its deathbed, and I for one dont care. Its a silly currency, and the aim was to give the "United States of Europe" a common currency of its own. The EU itself is an undemocratic quango, a hotchpotch of different peoples and ideologies. If given the chance (which I will probably not experience) I would vote my country out of it. Thankfully, my country has not embraced the awful Euro. Im glad. I feel very sorry for Greece and the other countries who took on this failed currency.
Posted in: In view of what is happening in Greece, what do you think should be done to stabilize global financial markets?
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What this article does not say is that there are also many WOMEN gropers/chikan in trains. I have seen them in action myself, and I know fo Japanese young men who have been groped by women. This article is rather one-sided, because it only focuses on the men gropers. maybe the J police just turn a blind eye to the women, or maybe the women are better at doing it without getting caught?
Posted in: Police nab 77 in 3 prefectures during one-week crackdown on train groping, molesting
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This picture represents the REAL "beautiful Japan." Japanese drumming is fantastic. I wish more Jaspanese young people had an interest in their own rich culture.
Posted in: Let the drums roll