JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
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saborichan
FIGHTOOOO
Posted in: Androids to run in world's 1st robot marathon
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saborichan
It's a nice idea! The trick will be getting the photos you want to associate with callers onto its directory. If it's easy, this will be popular. If it's hard, this will sink like a stone.
Posted in: Combination digital photo frame and phone
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saborichan
Lovely article. Lacking the spleen we often see here on JT. And funny too!
I wish Japanese schools would just provide a few beds so that you can face your exhaustion on hard days instead of trying to struggle through it!
Posted in: Tokyo's catnap culture
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saborichan
I miss the karaoke places.
Posted in: Night life
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saborichan
He could spend the effort better on the present, seeking real strides for the bases.
Posted in: Kan promises to find remains of fallen soldiers on Iwoto
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saborichan
Sun like this at 5am in Japan's winter? Not likely.
Moderator: The photo was not taken at 5 a.m. It was posted on the site at 5 a.m.
Posted in: Shopping in the rain
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saborichan
I don't think this last conclusion is right at all. Social control in Japan is still enormously strong; it's why people despair at their lack of control over their circumstances and future. And I don't think 'control over the individual' has much to do with making friendships. Indeed, if people were truly free, they'd make bonds naturally. But they aren't. They're in a strange, warped reality where isolation or ostracism is the same as dying socially.
I DO agree that premade meals don't encourage things like independence, self-confidence, discipline (fiscal and otherwise), planning, etc.
Posted in: No. of people dying alone rises in 'no-relationship' society
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saborichan
Pinko! Darn Commies
Posted in: Tokyo Fuse
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saborichan
Art Vs Science! I love the video for Parlez Vous Francais !
Posted in: MTV Australia to rock Japan
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saborichan
I DO wonder who actually buys it. Maybe some old men with lifetime subscriptions.
Posted in: Bieber on the cover? Are you MAD? Yes, yes we are!
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saborichan
So then use facebook and twitter to market your blogs and videos?
Posted in: Google, Facebook consider buying Twitter
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saborichan
Nobody in any country's royal family has a chance of coming out normal or unscathed. What a pitiful life.
Posted in: Japanese tabloids make hay of royal family foibles
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saborichan
He doesn't need a rink, he doesn't play hockey!
A drink, sure ;D
Posted in: Hero of Asia Cup final at ease with his Japanese-Korean identity
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saborichan
I agree with Smorkian. While those people have it tough, I think it was more of a 'compared to previous generations' type of thing. Even when people were starving postwar about what to eat, there was a sort of 'advantage' in that being successful simply meant getting by. Now, kids are raised to wonder if they have 'enough' and not having an index of satisfaction to judge anythign by. They don't know how to be happy and it's some strange, empty life. Is it harder than starvation or guerilla militants? No. But it's hard in its own way. I loved living in Japan for five years, but I wouldn't be Japanese for quids.
Posted in: How many Katos are out there, ready to explode in rage?
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saborichan
American and Australian obesity are at terribly high levels; I don't think a difference of 5 years tells the story. Imagine being obese and old; the arthritis and other problems you'd have. I'd much rather be old and Japanese than old and American.
Posted in: Smoking, obesity are why U.S. lifespans lag a bit
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saborichan
Recruiter, that was obviously a sarcastic comment about why the book has been released at all, directed at the general Japanese public. Get a clue.
Posted in: Ichihashi's book goes on sale; says he hopes to give royalties to Hawker family
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saborichan
I'm occasionally worried that celebrating Japan's roots like this stops people from finding their own new path.
Posted in: The Essence of Budo
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saborichan
Nandaka, while I do agree that she could grow up to be as abusive as the bullies who torment her, I don't think her language is deliberately manipulative or rehearsed. Some kids truly can't seem to find a voice other than the one they've learnt to use around others and they soon lose the capacity to have another.
You're right about teachers having no tools for discipline now. They don't use lunch or after school detention because there is no way to do so in Japan. Lunch is only 20m of psuedo 'free time' after kyuushoku, and after school it's club. There's nothing to take away from them with detention. So they have nothing to lose when it comes to being punished.
Once the kids realise that adult preaching is just words and entreaties, they get this heady realisation that they can ultimately do what they want.
Posted in: 8 graffiti messages pleading for help against bullying found in Shiga
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saborichan
Yeah, a very nub article... And I dont think 'karoshi' qualifies as suicide! Those people didn't ask to die, they just didnt/couldnt resist their circumstances...
Posted in: Suicide in Japan
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saborichan
Why is it we never hear of Japanese PEOPLE being able to force out their poor politicians? It always has to be a game of words between men in the big house. Can't his constituents force a referendum and have him chucked?
Posted in: Kan prods Ozawa to resign, calls for tax reform