JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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rtrhead1
no den den, they shouldn't face any courts. the pirates, although young, went out onto the ocean, took hostages, stole, and threatened death to anyone who resisted. i'm not sure what bubble you live in, but here in the real world, we have choices we make, and those choices have consequences. they chose to steal and threaten harm, so they pay the consequences, even if that payment is with their lives. i don't feel bad for them.
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rtrhead1
it should be as soon as they are showing symptoms of the disease. yes, taking something like this away can have a bad effect, but is it any worse of an effect than someone who forgets which way to go on the expressway and get in a head on crash and kills someone? worse than that? no, it isn't. hurt feelings are easier to get over than death.
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rtrhead1
yes, it is an issue, although i'm sure the mods will say it isn't. it may not be the all encompassing issue some say it is, but it has often had a big effect.
Moderator: No, it is not a racial issue. Please focus your comments on what is in the story.
Posted in: Motorcyclist campaigns to keep his family’s killer behind bars
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rtrhead1
i am an american and i thought that "freedom tower" was a ridiculous, half-baked, silly sounding name. one world trade center sounds a lot better.
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rtrhead1
i still don't get the uproar over using a cell phone on the train. i mean, if you are talking in a normal conversational tone, why bother with it? why not go after something that actually impacts others, like drunk, un hygenic, half asleep salarymen? i'd rather hear someone's convo than be in the same car as some of these "men" who refuse to acknowledge the existence of soap...
Posted in: Man held for punching 50-yr-old woman on Saitama train over playing games on cell phone
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rtrhead1
hockey players do it, basketball players do it, baseball players do it, and that's in america, hard as that is to believe. god, now i have to hear about the brave "samurai japan" team for the next 3 years. i like japan, but i hope they lose their title next time.
although they did play well, how did they do in the olympics? just curious.
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rtrhead1
man, he is well dressed. i mean, he has to be to beat off all that competition...
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rtrhead1
nice try asara, but no.
Posted in: Yakuza eligible for gov't Y12,000 handout
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rtrhead1
down here in okinawa restaurants very often try to tell you that you CAN'T take home something if you couldn't finish it due to "food safety" issues. all it takes is reminding them that you did in fact pay for the food, not to mention the "horrible things will happen to you if you don't wrap that up for me to take home" face that I give them if they try to tell me no. hey, I paid, and if I don't or can't eat it all at once, tough for them.
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rtrhead1
"didn't intend to kill them"? are all the criminals here retarded? he stabbed them in the neck, not the hand. what did he think would happen? man, criminals here are an insult to criminals everywhere...
Posted in: Two men stabbed with scissors in Yamaguchi convenience store car park
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rtrhead1
maybe we should wait and see the outcome of the trial before we so ignorantly label them as "trigger happy red bull high henchmen".
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rtrhead1
read the article sonnoujoui. he isn't complaining about J-tv or J-food in general. he is complaining about the absolutely ridiculous tv shows that have some no talent hack eating at some restaurant/bar/grill/house and, if it's a woman, very, very loudly and ear piercingly exclaiming OISHIIIII!!! that is ridiculous. all they need to do is say it tastes great, and describe it. the only reason that it seems the women do that is because the media tells them that it's attractive/cute to speak like they are a 6 year old girl.
Posted in: Japanese cooking shows and the loss of sanity
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rtrhead1
romulus3 and boboh,
i've been reading both of your comments. i see what both of you are saying. it seems to me that romulus is saying that because of her choosing him, and her being out, she is partly responsible for what happened. mind you, that seems to me to be a far different thing than saying it's her fault that it happened. i believe that her decisions up to this point have led up to this horrible act.
although she may have indirectly led to the event, he, and he alone is at fault for the act itself. i hope karma catches up with him, and she makes better choices. but we all know how life goes, and there's a good chance she won't learn.
Posted in: Father held for beating wife, 3-month-old son in Osaka
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rtrhead1
altria, there is a NAVY base there. It's usually funnier if you at least get the service right. But hey, you got the country right...
Posted in: Man attacks schoolgirl with knife in Nagasaki
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rtrhead1
i've only very rarely had trouble using my foreign visa while i was in mainland japan or in okinawa. i did have a gas station attendant tell me my card wouldn't work at the gas station because it wasn't issued in japan. then i asked him to try it, then I told him to try it and magically, it worked.
888naff, what are you talking about with cash society of japan and not borrowing money and getting into personal debt? with the amount of very new cars on the road and the very low popularity of buying a used car, i'd say that you are just getting the impression that people aren't getting into personal debt. i live next to one of those eifuru (sp?) easy loan places where all you need is a driver's license to get a substantial loan that is instantly approved at a stupid percentage rate, and that place gets an insane amount of business.
Posted in: Visa publishes expats guide to living in Japan
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rtrhead1
wow. these two are some trashy skanks. do my fellow men even think these two actually look good?
Posted in: Kano Sisters
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rtrhead1
for god sakes people! root beer floats have NO ICE! that is a japanese invention, and a poor one at that. as far as the green apple fanta, it is kinda nonsensical to make it seasonal.
Posted in: Green apple Fanta
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rtrhead1
eh, beg to differ. ever heard of sexual abuse? rape? girls getting taken advantage of by older men? hello incest. that's a pretty narrow way to look at it notimpressed.
Posted in: Net cafes becoming delivery rooms for poor pregnant girls
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rtrhead1
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Births have been known to occur in the ambulance while the crew frantically searches for a hospital able to accommodate the emergency. >
does this strike anyone else as ridiculous? hospital - emergency. if you can't handle an emergency birth, you have no right being called a hospital or even being open. you are worthless.
Posted in: Net cafes becoming delivery rooms for poor pregnant girls
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rtrhead1
why should quality and style be mutually exclusive?
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