saborichan said...

saborichan at 02:40 PM JST - 1st July

If someone else can link more details from other news stories, let us know!

Posted in 16-year-old boy dies after fall from window at Ehime school at 02:40 PM JST - 1st July
saborichan at 01:23 PM JST - 1st July

Unfortunately, the blossoming of a subculture into a recognised steretype doesn't always help its members very much. Japanese might use the word otaku, but as far as I've heard it used amongst kids, it's a fairly derogative word. It brings to mind images of anti-social types who are 'KY' and…

Posted in The Otaku Encyclopedia at 01:23 PM JST - 1st July
saborichan at 12:23 PM JST - 1st July

All the hating on this article needs to be taken elsewhere, a hater forum or something. Let's celebrate someone whose powerful and evocative music lifted so many hearts.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if MJ had serious psychological issues as a result of not only being a child star,…

Posted in Michael Jackson dies of reported cardiac arrest at 50 at 12:23 PM JST - 1st July
saborichan at 03:56 PM JST - 19th June

I'm curious, cleo: Was your kids' time at university the bludge that I've heard it to be, after the high school hell? Is it a doddle to pass, but very hard to get honors, etc?

Posted in Japan's 1st company-run university stops admissions at 03:56 PM JST - 19th June
saborichan at 03:49 PM JST - 19th June

Let's just be glad he didnt try to shoot his web at anybody.

If you're going to change out of your secret identity costume, at least do it in a car with tinted windows.

Posted in 'Spider-Man' burglar arrested in Fukuoka at 03:49 PM JST - 19th June
saborichan at 03:11 PM JST - 19th June

Yes, "cackle" is a very undignified sounding word. I dont really believe a J-girl, half or otherwise, would be caught dead laughing in a manner other than daintily, with a hand over the mouth.

Posted in Are wedding bells ringing for Michibata and Button? at 03:11 PM JST - 19th June
saborichan at 03:41 PM JST - 18th June

As for mum tracking her kids on the GPS, there's no way the kids are going to be able to hold on to their phones on their person at all times. And working in a school as I am, I assure that there'd be no time or allowances for 40…

Posted in Ishikawa moves to bar some school children from having cell phones at 03:41 PM JST - 18th June
saborichan at 03:39 PM JST - 18th June

You need to go back to Rhyme School, Tokyo. Gulag rhymes with school about as well as it does with munificent. One has two beats, the other doesnt! And they aren't elitists, they're teachers trying to keep control of their students whose parents, if they give in and let their…

Posted in Ishikawa moves to bar some school children from having cell phones at 03:39 PM JST - 18th June
saborichan at 01:15 PM JST - 18th June

I think that was the point, Ichya, I guess the speaker knows that 'Oriental' is an outdated term that emphasised the 'modern' west and 'exotic' east, when in fact the world is round and even compass directions are all actually relative, with no start point.

Posted in Television perpetuates outmoded gender stereotypes at 01:15 PM JST - 18th June
saborichan at 01:08 PM JST - 18th June

More worrying is the fact that the job he was offered is driving a children's school bus.

This guy hasn't driven in 17 years - has he still got the chops? Also, regardless of his apparent innocence, there will still be parents exchanging alarmed looks and saying it's not right…

Posted in Man wrongfully convicted of murder gets apology from police chief, job offer in hometown at 01:08 PM JST - 18th June