Economic disparities and poverty cannot be wiped out without an improvement in workers’ employment conditions and wages.
Yep, you can wipe out much of that suicide problem, too. Improve people's lots and defuse at least SOME of that hopelessness that drives them to despair.
Not surprising. Despite having a tradition of healthy food (sushi, sashimi, broiled meats versus fried, vegetables, etc.), there sure is a lot of fried, mcfried and over-sugared garbage available.
I rode a train somewhere in Japan a few years ago, and this chubby little girl runs onto the car and…
You folks making assumptions about the murder victim's involvement in some sort of wrongdoing are certainly reaching. There's no indication he did anything wrong. And for all you folks know, he night have been killed for refusing some crude organized crime effort to use the fish exporting business to smuggle…
I hope those weirdo wachoskis didn't ruin it, or if they did, it'll be so bad everyone will forget it quickly. I grew up on "speed racer", with the '60's action music and goofy early anime style. The previews have all this dayglo computer generated crap.
The government has been battling to contain the country’s alarmingly high suicide rate. The government said 32,155 people killed themselves in 2006.
Soulless corporate culture, mind-numbing and stressful jobs consisting of moving paper from one part of the office to another, nothing even remotely like a normal 8-hour day for…
telecasterplayer at 11:38 AM JST - 2nd May
awabmus, yeah I was going to say a reward was more in order.
Posted in Woman gets 10 years for killing boyfriend who forced her to work in sex industry at 11:38 AM JST - 2nd May
telecasterplayer at 11:37 AM JST - 2nd May
I thought Panda Express would get it.
Posted in Panda's body donated to museum for scientific study at 11:37 AM JST - 2nd May
telecasterplayer at 01:34 PM JST - 1st May
Yep, you can wipe out much of that suicide problem, too. Improve people's lots and defuse at least SOME of that hopelessness that drives them to despair.
Posted in Participants at May Day rallies call for wiping out poverty, economic disparities at 01:34 PM JST - 1st May
telecasterplayer at 12:29 PM JST - 1st May
"Hello? Yes, this is the Police. Please put the toothpaste back into the tube. Thanks. What? No, I've never seen 'Seibu Keisatsu'."
Posted in Police ask websites to delete posts on gas used for suicides at 12:29 PM JST - 1st May
telecasterplayer at 11:16 AM JST - 1st May
Not surprising. Despite having a tradition of healthy food (sushi, sashimi, broiled meats versus fried, vegetables, etc.), there sure is a lot of fried, mcfried and over-sugared garbage available.
I rode a train somewhere in Japan a few years ago, and this chubby little girl runs onto the car and…
Posted in 18.7 million Japanese possibly suffering from diabetes at 11:16 AM JST - 1st May
telecasterplayer at 11:06 AM JST - 1st May
You folks making assumptions about the murder victim's involvement in some sort of wrongdoing are certainly reaching. There's no indication he did anything wrong. And for all you folks know, he night have been killed for refusing some crude organized crime effort to use the fish exporting business to smuggle…
Posted in Murdered Japanese man in Mexico identified at 11:06 AM JST - 1st May
telecasterplayer at 10:54 AM JST - 1st May
I hope those weirdo wachoskis didn't ruin it, or if they did, it'll be so bad everyone will forget it quickly. I grew up on "speed racer", with the '60's action music and goofy early anime style. The previews have all this dayglo computer generated crap.
Posted in Actor Hiroyuki Sanada takes part in U.S. premiere of 'Speed Racer' at 10:54 AM JST - 1st May
telecasterplayer at 10:42 AM JST - 1st May
"I still don't get it, son.. where does the McNugget come from?"
Posted in at 10:42 AM JST - 1st May
telecasterplayer at 11:58 AM JST - 26th April
Soulless corporate culture, mind-numbing and stressful jobs consisting of moving paper from one part of the office to another, nothing even remotely like a normal 8-hour day for…
Posted in Japan sees wave of suicides using detergent-produced gas at 11:58 AM JST - 26th April
telecasterplayer at 09:37 AM JST - 26th April
The SMAP Prefectural Employee Lunch may be discontinued, but the ARASHI Matsu-Jun Sidewalk-Crack Repair Campaign remains in full swing.
I don't want to know what they do for Razor Ramon-Hard Gay.
Posted in SMAP meal set suspended at Osaka prefectural government office at 09:37 AM JST - 26th April