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  timorborder at 02:06 PM JST - 24th July

  Learning to swim at Japanese schools is certainly a joke. Actually, with all this trouble down in Oita Prefecture, it was interesting when they opened up the testing program for new teachers. Guess how far teachers have to swim to pass the swimming component of the teacher's examination: 25 meters.…

  Posted in 10-year-old schoolgirl suffers head injury after diving into pool in Yamagata at 02:06 PM JST - 24th July

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  timorborder at 01:08 PM JST - 24th July

  Saw a couple of drunk guys down Roppongi a couple of weeks ago doing this same thing early in the morning.

  Posted in Roppongi at 01:08 PM JST - 24th July

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  timorborder at 11:37 AM JST - 24th July

  Wish some parents had the gall to sue the board of education down in Oita. I wonder if an argument of discrimination would work with regard to the prefecture failing to employ suitably qualified teachers and the education of the students suffering as a result. An argument regarding the children's…

  Posted in Daughter of arrested official quits teaching post at 11:37 AM JST - 24th July

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  timorborder at 11:31 AM JST - 24th July

  What about supervision from teachers? I don't have a PhD in math, however, even I know that these numbers don't add up. Seems like a clear case of negligence.

  Posted in 10-year-old schoolgirl suffers head injury after diving into pool in Yamagata at 11:31 AM JST - 24th July

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  timorborder at 11:29 AM JST - 24th July

  Ban or no ban, I would ask that everybody at least put a helmet on their kids' heads. Rapid deacceleration syndrome onto hard concrete can have shocking results.

  Posted in Ban on riding bicycles with 2 kids to be lifted at 11:29 AM JST - 24th July

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  timorborder at 11:07 AM JST - 23rd July

  Wish McCain would calm down. At least I want him around until the election. At the current rate, his rants against Obama are going to damage his health.

  Posted in McCain under pressure to pick running mate at 11:07 AM JST - 23rd July

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  timorborder at 11:03 AM JST - 23rd July

  Several friends of the suspect in the area at the same time?

  This sounds suspicious. Maybe we are talking about a lynching, a popular pastime here in Japan. The usual scenario is that one of a group rings up the victim and asks them down for a chat (or a…

  Posted in 15-year-old boy arrested for beating ex-classmate to death in Gunma at 11:03 AM JST - 23rd July

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  timorborder at 09:58 AM JST - 23rd July

  the military holds their people to a much different, and higher standard, particularly their officers

  Really? William Calley did not get the noose? Orifices have also side-stepped the bullet more recently in atrocity cases in Iraq. I think the days of holding officers to a higher standard are long gone.

  Posted in Japanese captain in U.S. Army charged over equipment exports at 09:58 AM JST - 23rd July

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  timorborder at 09:07 AM JST - 23rd July

  And meanwhile millions are starving in Africa. Me thinks these people have somewhat lost the plot.....

  Posted in Institute develops robot that can pose like fashion model at 09:07 AM JST - 23rd July

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  timorborder at 09:06 AM JST - 23rd July

  This is so depressing. Another day, another looney. So much for the myth of a safe Japan. After so many years in this country (18+) I cannot remember a summer that has started off with so much bloodshed. And the excuses given for carrying out these horrendous acts? "I was…

  Posted in Suspect in stabbing of book shop clerk says he did it on impulse at 09:06 AM JST - 23rd July