JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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telecasterplayer
Bullies are the scum of the earth. What happens to them? I've seen these stories before, where others are named in a suicide note. Does the media get the names, is there follow-up, do the kids feel regret or anything?
Posted in: Mie high school student commits suicide, leaving names of seven classmates in note
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There's a definite masculinity deficit in Japan. Every Japanese boy should be required to watch Bunta Sugawara movies from the '70's.
Posted in: In recent times, many men in their 20s and 30s aren't preying on women, nor are they fixated with demonstrating their masculinity.
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Actually, I would think that copying themselves would be a good idea. Look back to Matsushita, Dr. Honda, Shinji Sogo, etc etc and to the four-word national strategies that led Japan out of the ashes of WW2 and to the peak of the economic miracle. However, political leadership will be important, and right now it looks to me like Japan's politicians are a bunch of spoiled trust-fund babies who've never made a contribution nor accomplished anything on their own, let alone on the scale of a Shinji Sogo.
Posted in: We have run out of outside models to imitate. We must start from scratch, embracing an idea of progress that is based on innovation, ambition and dynamism. Doing so will take risk — and extraordinary leadership.
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The step before being recruited as the next generation of hostesses in the fetish clubs of roppongi.
Posted in: Marui shop attendants
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telecasterplayer
Where were her parents during all of this?
Posted in: Teacher forces female student to wear maid's costume in Akita
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So... they weren't shoplifting and their roach wasn't hurting anybody? Way to go, get those public menaces off the street.
Posted in: Hong Kong pop stars busted for drug possession in Tokyo
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A block away from the tower is a store that sells some pretty good local microbrews
Posted in: Indulge your sweet tooth while strolling streets of old Japan in Kawagoe
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Understandable. The third season seemed rather diluted and they have to keep finding ways to get the kumai character back in (it's the only acting gig that guy gets apparently). If they wanted to keep it going, they'd throw Yankumi into new situations, such as teaching adorable yet precocious little kids, or getting in over her head in a high-level college-prep class. But the purpose is to promote the next wave of increasingly fey-looking boy stars, so doing the same thing over and over gets boring.
Posted in: Drama 'Gokusen' to finish with film-length version
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What a picture.. I can't wait to see people dressed up in police riot gear to protect themselves from friggin pollen. Are people really going to do that? Please JT post the pictures.
jonnyboy, I love that store, too, although the customer service at the store at Takashima Times Square reminds me more of an American store (sullen, disinterested and completely unhelpful)
Posted in: Hay Fever
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Setting the ringer on 'loud' and speaking loudly and then using the cellphone as a bludgeon to open week-old shellfish right in the middle of a busy crosswalk, forcing pedestrians to walk around. No matter how many times I see that, I just cannot get used to it nor abide it.
Posted in: What cell phone habits by some people bother you the most?
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Nudity plus underage children at school plus socially conservative Islamic and Hindu countries. Can't see why that would raise any red flags. By the way, the executive who approved this keeps his spare change in a jar with razor blades and salt.
Posted in: TBS turns viewers off with its topless T-shirt project
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You smoke it in a hookah.
But seriously folks, does this fellow come to the food convention every year? I've seen him on TV before.
Posted in: Foodex 2009
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telecasterplayer
Ineternational Political Instability.
Posted in: What are your worst fears if mass layoffs continue due to the economic recession?
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Would have loved to have seen this.
Posted in: Fire walk
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telecasterplayer
I dunno.
Posted in: Do you believe in life after death?
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Wouldn't viewing romance at the workplace make that person a voyeur?
Posted in: Romance at the workplace: What's your view?
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Why do these freaks always claim, "but I was drinking"? Then don't drink, dammit! Are the laws in Japan written with the disclaimer, "...unless you were drinking"? This guy's a slug and ought to do time.
Posted in: Man arrested for hitting 15-year-old girl with metal bat in Yamaguchi
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It might be okay. Then again, it might not.
Posted in: Romance at the workplace: What's your view?
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5'2".. so regardless of the racism or other idiocy he spouted, it was merely a case of little man syndrome. I agree that not smacking him was the right thing to do, but a good old fashioned s##t-eating grin would have really fixed his wagon. Heh heh heh heh heh.
99% percent of the people I've met in Japan were great. I've gotten frowny faces but they were outweighed by everyone else's courtesy.
Posted in: Different strokes for different folks
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Akihito could easily solve this by issuing a statement, but that's not going to happen, is it? His father reportedly disliked Yasukuni. Who's in charge in the imperial household?
Posted in: Court rules soldiers' names to stay on war shrine