JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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ultradork
Don't blame the US for asking - lots of Americans in Japan, massive economic stakes and potential fallout affecting many nations. Can't blame Japan for declining either. Just my 2 cents about GE: While much of the original plant infrastructure is GE design & manufacture – how can one assume that GE decided on exactly where to build to the plant in the first place? And how do you assume that the owner and operator of the plant (TEPCO) is not responsible for the design and placement of numerous protective and safety features in the FORTY years since the plant was built? Just wondering…
Posted in: Japan declined U.S. offer to station nuclear experts in Kan's office: Edano
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ultradork
Seems the local promoter Indonesia screwed up and will lose some serious cash. "Japanese sensibilities" - Yes, Japanese prime time TV never has bawdy topics & the tarento and entertainers never wear revealing attire. Additionally, the newspapers never have pictures of women in bikinis or underwear, nor advertisements for special "ahem" services. What Japan are you living in? I feel much better letting my kids watch lions tear apart their prey on National Geographic than watch what passes for "family" tv here during prime time, which can be often unsuitable for young children. I don't feel like explaining about breast enlargements or what an "okama" is to a 5 yr old.
Posted in: What do you think of the decision to cancel Lady Gaga's concert in Indonesia?
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ultradork
Get used to it...will only increase from now on.
Posted in: Alaskan ecologists see surge in Japan tsunami debris
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ultradork
Interesting reading that Southwest is trying to get permission for int'l flights - they only fly within the continental US.
Posted in: United to fly 787 from Denver to Tokyo
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ultradork
Meh - in this day and age it seems like a vanity project. Still much more impressed by the Empire State Building at 443.2 m, with 102 floors of actual offices with people working there. It was finished during the height of the Great Depression in 1931 - over 80 yrs ago! The most amazing thing is that it was completed in 15 months. It is still the 15th tallest building in the world.
Posted in: Tokyo Sky Tree opens
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ultradork
sure because all of your food, energy, clothes - everything you purchase and consume is made by wonderfully happy people who want for nothing and have permanent smiles........NOT, get real.
Posted in: Apple's Cook top-paid U.S. CEO in 2011
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ultradork
Just to be clear the Harrier is smoke & mirrors, never even coming close to actual VTOL operations when loaded with weapons. Ask any Harrier pilot - it is a joke.
Posted in: F-35 option: Produce the JACK-Fighter
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ultradork
Fabulous! Actually I would think gay couples would have the good taste and dignity to not even consider Dizzyland for their wedding. I've been invited to weddings there and declined as they weren't close friends and I know that I would've been thinking of snide comments the whole time. Figured to them enjoy their special day without my dose of sarcasm. The pix my wife shows afterwards confirm the full-on retardedness of the whole Disney branded wedding - yuck.
Posted in: Tokyo Disney Resort eases rules on same-sex weddings
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ultradork
No immunity as it clearly has nothing to do with his actual job (doesn't need a wife for work and didn't happen at the consulate) AND he is low-level so he's farked. The crimes took place in the US, so the local police have authority - rather simple. Moving violations driving to the office would be covered under immunity, for example.
Posted in: Japanese diplomat charged with domestic abuse in San Francisco
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ultradork
I hope the Australian govt proceeds. A product with no redeeming qualities, so tired of breathing in 2nd hand smoke at bars and restaurants. At least alcohol in moderation has been shown to have benefits (ask ugly guys). Fine, go ahead slowly kill yourself but don't pretend their is no impact to others. I despise JT with their smug public service announcement TV commercials showing people picking up trash - nice way to get the JT logo all over the TV when tobacco commercials have been banned for years. Love it that the JT HQs in Tokyo is next to a hospital - maybe the employees should take a tour of the oncology ward every week, cheer up all those wheezing patients and see how most are released from care to funeral parlors.
Posted in: Japan Tobacco among companies fighting Australia over cigarette pack labeling law
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ultradork
that's toight!
Posted in: In sync
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ultradork
"vituperation" - hard-line regimes have the best vocabularies. I'll take a nuke test followed by some artillery exchanges as a chaser.
Posted in: N Korea demands Seoul apologise or face 'sacred war'
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ultradork
In many of the major cities, it may appear that a lot of int'l marriages are foreign guys to Japanese women (often younger) but that is merely a drop in the bucket. The majority of foreign residents in Japan are Chinese and Koreans, makes perfect sense that they would make up the bulk of the international marriages. Just a lot harder to see as you walk around your city or town.
Posted in: Int'l marriages test ability to balance love with tolerance
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ultradork
CSI - Shizuoka...he was collecting forensic evidence. Obviously, a cry for help...needs some counseling. The police do seem wrack up quite a lot of ridiculous incidents: upskirt photos, flashing, groping, etc.
Posted in: Policeman arrested for licking woman's hair
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ultradork
Bombings of civilians started in the Spanish Civil War and continued after that. If you lived near a target of some military importance (munitions factory, port, railroad head, military base, fuel dump, etc) you were at risk.
Posted in: Doolittle's Raid survivors hold 70th reunion in U.S.
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ultradork
@Spiderman29 - prostitution is glamorized in Japan? Have't seen that - please give some examples. In my opinion because so many "services" are available to men here that may lessen these kind of things. There seems to be a plethora of shops catering to a huge variety of needs here. This guy needs help and I hope this girl will be able to laugh about this incident eventually as she was only visually assaulted.
Posted in: Policeman in schoolgirl uniform arrested for flashing
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ultradork
To clarify my post above - I know there has been hundreds of Buddhist monks (or nuns) of European / North American origin in Japan but she may be unique in helping to run a temple and all the responsibilities that involves.
Posted in: Baptism by fire
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ultradork
Utterly fascinating - there may be women of Chinese or Korean nationalities who've done the same (by far the greatest number of int'l marriages here are between Japanese husbands and Chinese women) but I would imagine she is perhaps the only non-Asian to go through this. Many foreigners become embedded here and become artisans, etc but wow, absolutely nothing in here native culture would prepare her for this life she has chosen. It would make an interesting documentary, I'm sure.
Posted in: Baptism by fire
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ultradork
Not the vaccines - pseudoscience playing on the fears of parents, encouraging false correlation as diagnosis occurs around the same age children get vaccinations. If you don't vaccinate your children you are doing them a great disservice - your children are at risk and will put others at risk, they should not be in the public school system. Dozens of terrible diseases have been brought under control (typhoid, TB, yellow fever, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, etc) or eradicated (smallpox) through vaccination programs. Know anyone with polio? You don't - ask your grandparents, they might remember. Read about how wide spread TB used to be. The list goes on.
Posted in: Autism cases rising in U.S.
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ultradork
The news videos of people using / attempting to use umbrellas was CLASSIC...even my 3 yr old son thought it defied common sense.
Posted in: Massive storm leaves four dead in Japan