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parents of this age, in Japan, have a tendency of not wanting to be parents anymore.…
Tokyo governor Ishihara wants: 1) Olympic games, 2) Foreigners out of Japan or in jail (http://tinyurl.com/72cj6fv),…
Posted in: Rome's 2020 Olympic bid scrapped, leaving Tokyo, 4 other cities
More panels, more talking, no-one being proactive.
Posted in: Gov't panel discusses contaminated crushed stone used in buildings
I would love these announcements to be borne of honesty and sincerity, however, the cynical voice…
Posted in: Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
This reminds me of the Japanese "experts" who, on viewing damaged freeways in Northern California after…
Posted in: Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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I take that back and I tell this guy, "More power to you due! You've got your act together. You're the real Joe." My little boy can only catch a snippet of you on his way out to day care and he goes off like one little happy camper... appreciate it.
Posted in: Singer-songwriter teaches Japanese kids the fun of learning English
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This guy makes Mr Rogers exciting.
Posted in: Singer-songwriter teaches Japanese kids the fun of learning English
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There is never anything to deny in auto industry reports - the press hear it directly out of the mouths of people involved in the planning. They're all begging for writing jobs so they run with every secret to the media.
Posted in: Mazda denies report on North American plant
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120cm off the floor is the height of the bed from which he hung. Suicide?
Posted in: Case against Miura formally dismissed; supporters question jail suicide
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Let's pray Mbeki comes clean and tells the world about the ANC's role in destroying Zimbabwe. Check the ANC article of JULY 23 1997.
Posted in: Mbeki visits Zimbabwe in bid to save fragile power-sharing deal
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Show a picture of the body as it was discovered. You'll probably find that he is kneeling.
Posted in: LAPD says Miura hanged himself with shirt in cell at detention house
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I thought Sudan got them.
Posted in: Egypt desert hostages freed after 10-day ordeal
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ABSOLUTELY NOT SUDANESE. The writer should be ashamed to repeat such a glaring lie. Look at the map - Sudan has a seaport and the ship would be coming from the Black Sea. This means the ship would have docked before it reached the horn. Pathetic journalism is what this is.
Posted in: U.S. warships surround ship hijacked by Somali pirates
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Proxy : Come again? Faster shipping in Russia? By rail? Have you ever seen what it entails? Every car has to be driven onto a railcar. Then the loaded carriers have to be shunted every time the train is moved through different depots. On ships the cars are tied down on four corners and the insurance industry already understands all risk involved. On the otherhand the Russian rail haulage has no study for insurance. Imagine the possiblities: theft in Siberia, fire, damage through railway shunting, scratching of paint.... The reason for going directly through Russia is something other than this article mentions. I'd guess it's more to do with export taxes that can become fuzzy once we go into 'unregulated' Siberia.
Posted in: Mazda to ship vehicles to Russia via Trans-Siberian Railway
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Reasons being? 1)- They don't understand the meaning of subpoena. 2)- They couldn't find the RSVP. 3)- Somebody told them that only president Palin can tell them what to do.
Posted in: Subpoenaed Palin aides don't appear at abuse probe
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And McCain said, "Sorry Mister Zed. It was Senator Obama."
Posted in: Pakistan tells U.S. to stay out of its territory
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Sarge: just like the lobby gangs can control congress so can they control the 'unbiased' pollsters. Remember when DOnald Trump was caught manipulating polls?
Posted in: Obama, McCain attack each other's performance at debate
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McCain and economics is an oxymoron. The guys an ex-fighter pilot, where would he get the acumen to understand commerce and that sort of stuff?
Posted in: Obama calls McCain economic ideas 'out of touch'
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Kenya buying tanks from Russia? I thought Kenya was the 'good friend' of the US. And why is anyone concerned about these tanks anyway? Just sink the tub if they pose a problem - crew an' all (they're merchants of death). A lesson for McCain - Somalia is what happens when you jump into a war without thinking.
Posted in: Somali pirates want $20 mil ship ransom; crewman dies
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Could be true, but form what I recall, they charged about $4,000 to ship a car from Hiroshima through Vladivastok where's to ship from Hiroshima to Antwerp or through the Bosphorous was, respectively, less than $1,000 and $3,000. For Antwerp the rate was ligit but for the other two it was highly inflated and the difference was kicked back by the shipping company as a hidden profit. Shipping through Siberia takes not much less, in fact it is a major risk for vehicle damage and theft. I know because I carried out the market study and paperwork for Mazda's entry into Russia (the morons defrauded me hence I'm talking).
Posted in: Mazda to ship vehicles to Russia via Trans-Siberian Railway
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Nature surely works in strange and mysterious ways... I an just see the hairs turning white in JAMA - time to tell the truth. Watch how great an impact this is going to have on the TSE since as I've been saying the JAMA gang has been cooking the books seriously for three years using the US market in particular to rack up fictious sales.
ThreeTigers: To answer your first question, I don't even know if Toyota can actually answer that for you. You see they hedge a lot of numbers. They book sales based only on so-called 'budget' targets. The beautiful part of their little arrangement is that when the actual numbers do come they are always far off the mark. So they 'borrow from the next 'budget' and repeat the 'scam'. I know this for a fact - 15 years of insider experience. The second question I have no idea.
Posted in: Slumping U.S. market hurts Japanese automakers
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USARonin With wit like yours sir, you certainly don't need a leader - you're doing okay by yourself ha ha... Actually I empathise with the senator. This has to be the result of bad karma. Man, talk about lightning strike more than three times in the same place... I had a feeling this was going to be an unusual year - Hilary suddenly has it all to lose and... she loses it. Then McCain's turn and his party let's him know exactly what it has been thinking about him for years. Well at least he's still got Joe. Happened to see the gov on Katie Couric this morning... my eyes are still watering. Well if the debate fizzles, I've still got F1 to look forward this weekend. Have a good weekend.
Posted in: McCain suspends campaigning over financial crisis; Obama rejects call for debate delay
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And what about the guys who got them into this mess in the first place - Ehud Barak (by attacking Yasser Arafat's peaceful new Palestine) and Sharon (by his provocation at the temple/mosque)? Barak's awefully impotent and is Sharon still alive?
Posted in: Israel's scandal-hit PM Olmert quits
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Hey what happened? Where did all the experts on Zimbabwe's crisis go?
Posted in: South African President Thabo Mbeki resigns
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Debate! Debate! Bring it on! Bring it on!
.... John? John? Senator McCain?
Time to bring Chicken John out of hibernation.
Posted in: McCain suspends campaigning over financial crisis; Obama rejects call for debate delay