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  • scap at 11:08 PM JST - 13th November

    I guess Aso fears giving 12,000 yen to every Japanese will not up his low popularity enough, so they are groping at straws, hoping a visit with President-elect--with all the resulting publicity--might help. How pathetic.

    Posted in Japan sounds out U.S. on Aso-Obama meeting before APEC summit in Peru at 11:08 PM JST - 13th November

  • scap at 10:05 PM JST - 15th August

    I lost respect for Hoshino the day I saw him punch a Japanese umpire a few years back, and he has done nothing since to change my feelings toward him.

    Posted in Japan baseball manager Hoshino fined $2,000 over ejection at 10:05 PM JST - 15th August

  • scap at 10:40 PM JST - 4th August

    You wouldn't want to eat those factory, chemical-fed chickens anyway. They spend their whole life in small wire cages and never see the light of day. If they had been raised out in the open (free range) like animals should be, this would not have happened. I'll pay more for…

    Posted in 30,000 chickens die in Kagoshima fire at 10:40 PM JST - 4th August

  • scap at 08:48 PM JST - 20th July

    Wai Wai had value of a sort. Where else could foreign readers get tabloid type journalism if they can not read the articles in the orignial Japansese? There is more than enough "straight" news out there for English readers, but little of an off-color nature. I think they over-reacted.

    Posted in Mainichi promises new start following criticism of online English column at 08:48 PM JST - 20th July

  • scap at 10:12 PM JST - 15th July

    This is just one more example of immature Japanese boys who have been so spoiled by their mothers that they can not take rejection of any kind. Often they kill the girl. You see this in the news here a lot, and I think it is more prevalent in Japan…

    Posted in Man killed by car after arguing with girlfriend over whether to break up at 10:12 PM JST - 15th July

  • scap at 08:57 PM JST - 3rd July

    I had a Korean male friend in Korea, who, about 25 years ago, showed me a big scar on his head. When I asked how he got it, he told me that when he was about 12 a Japanese policeman caught him speaking his native language and hit him over…

    Posted in Japan's colonial rule of Korea not fact, says city education board head at 08:57 PM JST - 3rd July

  • scap at 11:59 PM JST - 30th June

    Debito is not perfect, but someone has to do the dirty work. Most of us see discrimination in one form or another here, but most are like me, "don't stick you neck out",types.

    Someone said the Japanese are not racist. On the contrary, they are so racist they don't even…

    Posted in Debito Arudo protests police questioning targeting foreigners at 11:59 PM JST - 30th June

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