Wednesday February 15, 2012

soldave's past comments

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    soldave

    Blair Herron - Why shouldn't they mention anything about "dowa" in the article? Surely if it's related to him winning the election then it's something that should be mentioned in the story. As long as it's legal to do so, the role of news outlets should be to report the news; not choose what news might be touchy for people and omit it.

    Just my thoughts anyway.

    TorafusuTorasan - I doubt the BBC would make up quotes. Sometimes the editorials can get a little skewed by personal opinions but the stories like this, and especially quotations, are usually on point. Am assuming the red light districts are going to compete against the masses of hostess bars in Osaka. I swear if the rest of the Japanese economy falls on its face, it will be propped up by Osaka's hairspray sales!

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    soldave

    Interesting how media can shape people's views on this. Japan Today gives the headline you see above; the BBC announces that, "'Gangster son' wins Osaka ballot"

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    soldave

    A news story before, this has been.

    Posted in: Tasty, these noodles are: Nissin gets help from Yoda

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    soldave

    What happened to this guy under the UCMJ? Also, do these new rules mean that Japanese courts can impose their own sentencing on someone who has already been tried under the UCMJ? Or will it mean the US military would have to relinquish their right to try that individual if the Japanese courts do?

    If it's the former then isn't it similar to double jeopardy?

    Posted in: Naha prosecutors indict civilian employee of U.S. base after SOFA revision

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    soldave

    Gentlemen's snack club = hostess club?

    Posted in: Female manager of gentlemen's 'snack club' stabbed to death

  • 2

    soldave

    Who knew?! If only we'd known that a quick hosing down could stop radiation from being harmful then all those people in Chernobyl could have been saved! I hope the government is strongly telling them that this will do virtually nothing to stop radiation

    Posted in: Growers attempting to 'decontaminate' fruit trees in Fukushima

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    soldave

    Not heard much from DPRK recently. They're just making a bit of noise to let everyone know they're still around.

    Posted in: North Korea threatens 'sea of fire' in Seoul

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    soldave

    In the same way, would you class 2nd or 3rd generation Japanese people who might look completely foreign (non-Japanese) as not being Asian or Japanese? Looks can be deceiving, you know.

    Posted in: Djeparov named Asian Player of the Year; Japan wins 9 awards

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    soldave

    NetNinja - If that system you mentioned is so good then you can imagine it will get adopted as a rule for any car sold in Europe. If that is the case then Japanese manufacturers will be forced to use it, even if only in the vehicles made for foreign markets. If they implemented the system in Japan you'd still have the task of getting people to believe that they should strap their kids in.

    Didn't the UK have a similar problem with seatbelts (or was it drink driving) in the late 80s? People weren't paying attention to the normal ad campaigns so they had a 6-month hard hitting campaign showing footage from actual crashes on TV and shocking people to watch and take note. Result was a huge decrease in the offences (from what I can remember). Japan needs the same IMO. Instead they have a campaign with a cute girl in her late teens in a fisting pose with "whatever it is... DAME!" on the poster and a cuddly mascot and think it's going to change how people think.

    Posted in: 2-month-old baby boy dies after car crash in Tochigi

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    soldave

    Passing all these extra budgets is great, but I think people are also curious to know what the Red Cross money and money from other aid agencies that was given to the local governments has been spent on.

    Posted in: Diet passes 3rd extra budget to reconstruct tsunami-hit regions

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    soldave

    Well it's more relevant than his religion, which is being speculated about now.

    Posted in: Manhattan man arrested in bomb plot

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    soldave

    This guy's on $36,000... a month?!?!

    Posted in: Hosono gives up salary over dumping of radioactive soil by environment ministry official

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    soldave

    Come on, this is someone famous in the Entertainment section of JT. Where's the journalist asking her who she will "Love, Laugh, Live" with this Christmas?

    Posted in: Nozomi Ohashi sparkles at Takashimaya Nihonbashi Christmas event

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    soldave

    tokyokawasaki - Very optimistic there with your prediction. Replace months with years, maybe.

    Posted in: Gov't bans sale of rice from part of Fukushima

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    soldave

    Arthur Dumbolov - "won't stand even a SECOND of watching such crap".

    Unlike the people who bought the DVD, I'm guessing!

    Posted in: Man secretly videos 2,000 women in public toilet; sells DVDs of footage

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    soldave

    smithinjapan - Scarily, we are on the same page once again ;)

    Posted in: Defense minister reprimanded for not attending state dinner for Bhutan king, queen

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    soldave

    "Could be misconstrued as disrespectful"? Is there any other way of seeing it?

    Posted in: Defense minister reprimanded for not attending state dinner for Bhutan king, queen

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    soldave

    pawatan - True. Apple are not really that original, but they market themselves very well to make people think what they are doing are original, and have been successful doing that. Prime example would be the iPod. Plenty of MP3 players around before it, but they managed to get people to believe an MP3 player had never existed before they had released one.

    Google Music is shaping up pretty well on Android. Been using it with a VPN here in Japan for a while.

    Posted in: Google opens music store in challenge to Apple

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    soldave

    Think one of the reasons is that there is no punishment at all for children who misbehave badly/repeatedly in schools. They go to the staffroom, kneel on the floor while a teacher berates them and pretend to listen, do a bow at the end, and then are left to go back to class, where they instantly forget what they were being told and do exactly the same offence the next day. After a while some teachers regard the kids as a "lost cause" and so don't even punish them, so they feel they can do anything as it doesn't matter.

    Posted in: 3 junior high school boys arrested for bullying in Shiga

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    soldave

    Are there emergency violence shelters in Japan? Certainly haven't heard of any in Okinawa.

    Posted in: Women's abuse hotline hours extended until Nov 20

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