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  • timtak at 11:34 AM JST - 1st December

    batface

    Posted in Ringo Shiina at 11:34 AM JST - 1st December

  • timtak at 04:32 PM JST - 25th November

    I disagree that "Women in general are second class citizens in Japan." I think that they are only seen as second class citizens outside of the home, but the home is seen as the larger part of society. Society outside the home is secondary to the home, which it functions…

    Posted in Mother arrested for stabbing two daughters in Ibaraki at 04:32 PM JST - 25th November

  • timtak at 11:37 AM JST - 25th November

    Miyazaki, believes it is becoming difficult to reach out to children’s souls because of increasing consumerism and the virtual world. Television, video games, email, mobile phones and manga (BUT NOT ANIME!?!)are sapping children of their strength, he worries.

    Posted in Animator Hayao Miyazaki worries about children's future at 11:37 AM JST - 25th November

  • timtak at 11:47 AM JST - 19th November

    A leader of non-Japanese descent would be very unlikely for some time to come. If a politician were from a discriminated Japanese minority group then no one would be allowed to mention it, and there would be no visible distinction so few people would even know.

    About the closest I…

    Posted in Where is Japan's version of Obama? at 11:47 AM JST - 19th November

  • timtak at 11:38 AM JST - 19th November

    Who in the hell would even think of taking their own wife's life? Then killing his own 9 year old son?

    someone from a culture with shinjuu (double/multipe suicide).

    Posted in Court reduces sentence on man who killed wife, son at 11:38 AM JST - 19th November

  • timtak at 10:45 AM JST - 18th November

    Soooooo many mother issues in this country. Freud would be in heaven! Freud and Western society focus on daddy issues. If this was a daddy thing in the US, if son came back and killed daddy, then would it make the national news?

    Posted in Man held for killing mother after meeting her for 1st time in 20 years at 10:45 AM JST - 18th November

  • timtak at 10:12 AM JST - 5th November

    There is a lot of research on arrogance (Google "self-enhancement") and there can be little doubt that Americans go in for it big time, and far more and far more vocally than Japanese.

    Posted in World hopes for a 'less arrogant America' at 10:12 AM JST - 5th November

  • timtak at 10:18 AM JST - 28th October

    If Asians could get to together and cooperate economically perhaps they could reach a situation where their economies are not at the mercy of Wall Street.

    Posted in Aso hoping election talk takes back seat to his foreign policy drive at 10:18 AM JST - 28th October

  • timtak at 11:46 AM JST - 25th October

    If she were yet to be sentenced then why isn't her name released as a suspect?

    Posted in Ex-college student gets 5 1/2 years for fabricating groping story on Osaka train at 11:46 AM JST - 25th October

  • timtak at 10:19 AM JST - 21st October

    It is not who anymore but, by how much. I think that a landslide will be generally positive and good for the economy.

    Posted in Obama blitzing Florida, McCain defends Missouri at 10:19 AM JST - 21st October

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