JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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taiko666
@TokyoTanuki
The head of the nail succinctly hit, bravo.
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taiko666
In what way exactly?
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taiko666
@Asagao
Total, utter rubbish. It has rich people, comfortably off people and poor people, just like anywhere else.
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taiko666
@Skeptical Hippo
Clarkson recently praised a Nissan supercar to the skies on Top Gear, explaining how it completely blew away the (British) Jaguar that it was up against. So your cry of "Japan Bashing" is ludicrous. He's electric car bashing.
And what's more, Top Gear's James May states that the Honda Clarity is the most important car for 100 years. Such Japan-bashers at the BBC!!!!
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taiko666
Speaking as (as I've mentioned before) a bemused Brit with no axe to grind, I'd like to know how the shooting of centre-left politician by a radical left gunman has anything to do with the Tea Party.
I vehemently disgree with the American right on a number of issues, most noteably gun control and health care. But I could never nail my colours to the mast of the Americal 'Liberals', since they seem to think that brazen lies, underhand smears, loutish behaviour and grievous insults are a good substitute for informed debate.
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taiko666
@Zenny11
Research, such as you suggest, reveals that WilliB is correct. But then, why is stating basic tenants of Muslim theology necessarily 'anti-Muslim'?
Being agnostic myself, I don't mind that people are criticising or even mocking this man, or challenging his beliefs. But had he been a Muslim (or come to that, anything other than a Christian) I don't think people would be so eager to wade in, because they would be shouted down immediately as 'islamophobic' or 'bigotted'.
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taiko666
Apple addicts are people who prefer form over function, and there's nothing really wrong with that. But I notice that they tend to never accept or tolerate any criticism of an Apple product. And even when the products go wrong (as they do quite often- my MacMini's sound has never worked reliabably) they will blame anything other than the Apple product itself. And they're quite happy to put up with lower performance, high prices, and Jobs-instigated drawbacks (such as the lack of Flash support) because basically the product is stylish, natty and fun.
Posted in: How the iPad won over an unbeliever
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taiko666
You mean that in Australia too you have to pay for health care? What a vulgar concept.
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taiko666
Perhaps I should make it clear that I've seen nobody challenge the legal right to build the mosque. Challenging the moral right is entirely legitimate. Or do modern day liberals believe that having the law on your side gives always you moral justification? If so, you'd be at home in any authoritarian, fascist state.
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taiko666
Nice post!
Posted in: Obama says Muslims have right to build mosque near ground zero
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taiko666
20 years ago, the spectacle of women being stoned to death anywhere in the world would've had liberals out protesting in the streets. These days it seems to have been accepted. How liberalism has fallen. What are people who do care about these women supposed to do? It seems any challenge to the ideology of Islam brings Orwellian charges of bigotry, intolerance or racism.
Posted in: Obama says Muslims have right to build mosque near ground zero
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taiko666
I've never seen anybody directly challenge the right of Muslims to build the mosque. And such a challenge would be clearly illogical. And the consistent tac of the mosque supporters is "they have a right to build it", with all other concerns null and void.
I believe that even if the mosque is meant as a provocation, or some kind of statement, there's nothing that can be done or should be done other than to appeal to the mosque proponents themselves. Even some Muslims are against the mosque, saying that it's counterproductive or a provocation, so discussion about the motives behind the mosque are clearly legitimate, and have nothing to do with 'intolerance' or 'bigotry' - the buzz-words which the 'new' liberals (as opposed to old school liberals like myself) like to throw around so ... liberally.
I think the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. Let's see how the Muslim world, and especially the fundamentalists in Afghanistan, Somalia, Nigeria, Indonesia etc respond to the building of this high profile mosque at the very place that symbolises their fight with the west. I reckon their cause will be nourished, aiding the spread of Sharia in those places and increasing the suffering of those over whom they have power, and about whom nobody seems to care.
Posted in: Obama says Muslims have right to build mosque near ground zero
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taiko666
Nobody, but nobody, has challenged the right of Muslims to build this mosque. They've only raised questions of good taste. Are questions of good taste totally irrelevant in modern America?
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taiko666
A curious argument. Should we all tolerate intolerance? I'm sure you'll agree, SushiSake, that South African apartheid was intolerant. And the rest of the world, especially the 'left', (rightly) refused to tolerate it. Does that make the rest of the world intolerant?
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taiko666
Define "provoked."
Simply asking a Japanese DJ to turn the volume down can get you killed (Scott Tucker.)
And on one of my few visits to Roppongi, a Finnish mate of mine started chatting to a Japanese girl in Meuse. Next thing he knew he was on the deck after having been brained with a nearly full beer bottle by a chinpira.
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taiko666
You've obviously never studied the origins of many the idioms and slang phrases in use in America then.
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taiko666
Nuances seem to be getting lost in American English...
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taiko666
I didn't think they ever had a place in Japanese society. They certainly don't today. Travelling on trains in Tokyo with my pregnant wife has convinced me of that.
In the west, feminism has seen to it that chivalrous manners are now considered boderline sexist by PC fascists. Yet it seems all but the most radically feminist women still expect to be treated differently.
And even if/when the PC loons eradicate the forms of chivalry we're discussing, you can bet that, until the end if time, if your car tyre gets a puncture in the pouring rain, it will always be the man who has to get out and fix it.
Posted in: Do you think a man holding a door open for a woman, holding her chair for her when she sits down, or giving up his seat for her are outmoded gestures of politeness or do they still have their place in today's society?
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taiko666
Why do Americans insist on calling soil 'dirt'?
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taiko666
But for women all over the world, brains or no, first impressions count. And a huge part of the first impression is looks, style, and (much more in the western world than in Japan) height. If a man fails to score well on those 3 points, a woman won't hang around long enough to find out what's 'inside'. The main thing about whole Japanese woman/western guy dynamic is that the woman usually gives the guy a chance- even if he doesn't score top marks on the checklist.
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