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  skroknogNov. 27, 2011 - 02:16PM JST

  It's a survey guys. They did not interview everybody in Japan to get the results so obviously there is going to be some deviation in percentages.

  Posted in: 61% of single men aged 18-34 have no girlfriend; 49% of women unattached: survey

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  skroknogNov. 15, 2011 - 03:21AM JST

  Drunk, no doubt

  Posted in: Man dies following assault in Tokyo apartment

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  skroknogOct. 26, 2011 - 02:21PM JST

  More cyclists on the roads will probably mean more deaths.

  Posted in: Police to get tough on sidewalk cyclists

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  skroknogOct. 26, 2011 - 02:16PM JST

  Gave up riding a bicycle a few years back...got sick of being harassed by the cops.

  Posted in: Police to get tough on sidewalk cyclists

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  skroknogOct. 21, 2011 - 04:51PM JST

  I hope this 'mother' does time.

  Posted in: Newborn baby found in convenience store toilet trash can

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  skroknogOct. 19, 2011 - 10:46PM JST

  marcelito@ Here we go again

  My sentiments exactly.

  Posted in: Hirano under fire for calling tsunami victims 'idiots'

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  skroknogOct. 19, 2011 - 10:44PM JST

  What the world needs is an acute case of amnesia. Then maybe we could all get along living in the present.

  Posted in: South Korea urges Japanese leaders not to forget history

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  skroknogOct. 17, 2011 - 09:33PM JST

  That'll teach 'em.

  Posted in: Olympus shares plunge 24% following British CEO's ouster

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  skroknogSep. 21, 2011 - 04:17AM JST

  Jeez. Japan is really taking a beating this year. Still, it makes me wonder what people were thinking building homes in tsunami and flood prone regions.

  Posted in: 1 dead, 2 missing, over 1 million urged to evacuate as typhoon nears

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  skroknogSep. 10, 2011 - 09:20PM JST

  Witnesses have also said that after his visit to the plant, Hachiro made as if he was rubbing his jacket against a journalist, while making a remark to the effect that 'I will infect you with radiation.'

  What a clown. He'll be able to replace Shinsuke on those TV game shows.

  Posted in: Industry minister resigns after 8 days over 'town of death' comment

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  skroknogSep. 05, 2011 - 11:12PM JST

  @smithinjapan Japanese TV programs, with a few exceptions, suck.

  Exactly. You said it - with a few exceptions. Outside the huge US series exporting machine and the BBC what other non English speaking country has put out a TV show worthy of export? The only one I've seen is an excellent series from Germany. Most countries are in the same boat as Japan - low budgets, mostly poor products. And they will never get the big budgets because they will never have the power to export the way English speaking countries can. Why? Because the English language market wants to hear English, not see subtitles or listen to overdubs. Within severe budget contraints Japan at least manages to produce a few good shows now and again. And that is certainly better than where I come from (NZ and Australia) and it's better than than the rest of Asia. Chinese or Korean drama anyone?

  Posted in: Ryoko Yonekura plays bounty hunter in new drama

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  skroknogSep. 05, 2011 - 02:36PM JST

  Don't judge before you actually see it. People here love to bash J dramas...like there are no ridiculous US dramas. Yeah, right. Within the tiny market that J TV shows have, it does produce some remarkably good shows. But you can't compare to the US or the UK, which is able to export their English language shows all over the world and have big budgets.

  Posted in: Ryoko Yonekura plays bounty hunter in new drama

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  skroknogAug. 29, 2011 - 04:06PM JST

  Look forward to a nose dive in international relations especially in Asia. Noda is a right winger who denies the existence of J war criminals.

  Posted in: Noda to become Japan's next prime minister

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  skroknogAug. 28, 2011 - 11:30PM JST

  I wonder how many of these people complaining are part of the 38% of the adult population that actually voted.

  Good point. Voting apathy contributes to politics becoming the mess it is now in Japan. So many people I meet here are ignorant about politics and do nothing but shrug their shoulders. Those people don't have a right to complain. Politics and politicians don't exist in a vacuum, they can't exist unless the people allow them to. I hope more Japanese will realize this soon and foster some real leadership and bring momentum to change this country for the better.

  Posted in: Anger mounts in tsunami-hit areas over political power games

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  skroknogAug. 28, 2011 - 10:15PM JST

  If a politician promised to screw up the economy even more, they might get more votes for honesty. I predict whoever gets in will only do worse than Kan.

  Posted in: 5 candidates for PM promise to resolve nuclear crisis, revive economy

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  skroknogAug. 28, 2011 - 01:05PM JST

  Assume for the sake of argument that both of those statements are true. Still, In my observation, westerners of both sexes get wrinkles well before Japanese women do.

  Yep. The wife often gets mistaken for being 10 years younger than she is.

  Posted in: Seiko Matsuda, Kyoko Koizumi to costar in ad for first time

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  skroknogAug. 27, 2011 - 12:51PM JST

  One of the woman’s acquaintances, a hostess named Sakiko Nakagawa, is believed to have noticed the girl walking along the street at around 4 a.m., apparently looking for her mother. She allegedly picked the girl up in her car and drove her home without contacting the girl's mother

  Sounds like she (the hostess) feared for the girl's safety. It sounds like they arrested the wrong person.

  Posted in: Missing 4-year-old girl turns up safe; 21-year-old hostess arrested

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  skroknogAug. 27, 2011 - 12:44PM JST

  I don't understand how anybody could live with the stench of a dead body in their room, let alone how that could go undetected for years. My guess is that he was a terminal hikikomori who ran out of funds, so decided to end it all. Weird.

  Posted in: Man commits suicide; mother's remains found in cupboard

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  skroknogAug. 25, 2011 - 07:41PM JST

  Jobs has done excellent work with Apple and has kept it on the cutting edge, especially in the 00s. I'm sure Apple will continue to put out good products in the short term after he's retired, but I wonder about the future. It takes a certain kind of person to accurately predict what direction will serve a company and its public best in the right time and place. Jobs was and is that man.

  Posted in: Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

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  skroknogAug. 25, 2011 - 07:30PM JST

  Shimada's exit comes amid gov't drive to stamp out organized crime

  'cus there's already enough of that in the gov't, no?

  Posted in: Shimada's exit comes amid gov't drive to stamp out organized crime

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