Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    How much salt does it contain? Many cereals tend to be very bad for you due to added and included salt.

    Posted in: Kellogg’s Fruit Granola

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    "And Rohypnol now contains a dye so you can see if someone has put it into your drink." unfortunately a canned drink would make that feature less useful.

    Posted in: Man arrested for spiking drink and raping woman in Osaka

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    onewrldoneppl - who cares if they have a branch in the US - what does this article have to do with the US in any way?

    Posted in: Lotteria to give refunds if customers do not like new hamburger

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    There definitely is an issue of this, but more now it is about threats and such. Places that you shouldn't be in forcing you to sign for 150,000 bottles of moet etc. Ironically the police have fuelled the fires as that standard like has changed. Now the bar owners just threaten to take you to the koban and report to the police that you are behaving erratically and maybe using drugs.

    With the current anti-foreigner drug testing clampdown in the pong lots of people - guilty or not, aren't taking chances.

    That said, as a regular in the pong, I worry very little about that. My face is pretty well known by most of the regular hawkers and such and they know well enough to leave me alone.

    Posted in: U.S. Embassy issues new warning over drink-spiking in Roppongi

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    The Potsdam conference held Germany to pay $20bn to the Allies. The Treaty of SanFrancisco took >$25bn from Japan.

    Oh, something else I did not know until checking out - that 4,000,000 German POWs were used as forced labour after the war to meet obligations.

    Posted in: How do you feel about the call by some World War II POWs for Prime Minister Taro Aso to apologize and offer reparation over their wartime forced labor at a coalmine owned by his father?

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    Actually - I do find this an issue. I have pretty good spatial hearing however a hybrid rolling up behind you is basically inaudible over Tokyo's noise...

    Posted in: Gov't may add noise-making device to quiet hybrid cars for safety

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    I recently picked up an Asus 1000HE, it is really sweet. XP home and performance is good, 160GB HDD and an unkillable battery

    Posted in: Sony to sell low-cost netbook in August

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    pawatan, timeon, the point of the survey is to compare like for like.

    Sure you can live in a 2DK 45 minutes train commute from work, but that probably doesn't compare well with raising 2 or 3 kids and putting them through school.

    This is an expat survey, where companies take an employee from one condition in their own country and ask them to live for two or three years in another country. Why would they downgrade their lifestyle to do that?

    Compare your costs for your quality of life with that where you originated to decide if the cost of living index is justified.

    Posted in: Tokyo becomes world's costliest city for expats: survey

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    LFRAgain - very well said.

    Brunobear - much of the Jewish community litigation is aimed at recovering pre-war community assets that were raided by the Nazi and collaborator parties.

    Much of mainland Europe mysteriously emptied holdings and accounts (even in 'neutral' Switzerland) from '39 and before. Recovery of stolen assets is a little different from punitive damages.

    Something else to think about also, the Treaty of San Francisco was signed by many international countries, but who represented the Jewish Community? They were, at the time, citizens of many countries, yet were compensated (if at all) the same as any regular citizen, not reflective of the genocide that took place.....

    Posted in: How do you feel about the call by some World War II POWs for Prime Minister Taro Aso to apologize and offer reparation over their wartime forced labor at a coalmine owned by his father?

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    piss poor on average. The word no, and the phrase 'don't do that' do exist.

    Posted in: What's your impression of parental supervision of children in Japan?

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    "neverknow2" sexual assault? Really?

    Posted in: Fetish fashion

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    er waived

    Posted in: Should the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco be amended to allow surviving ex-POWs and their kin to take legal action for compensation against the Japanese government?

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    You have to feel sorry for victims and their familes, however you also have to draw a line somewhere.

    I'm sure it isn't fair and maybe all this should have been resolved decades ago, but I don't believe it would now be 'fair' so go back and punish companies or countries retrospectively for something that was already agreed in treaty and where any of the decision makers are now beyond questioning.

    If anything maybe the individuals should sue their own respective countries for signing a treaty that wived their rights?

    Posted in: Should the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco be amended to allow surviving ex-POWs and their kin to take legal action for compensation against the Japanese government?

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    It is a completely ridiculous idea to have government caps on pay - the markets don't work if you do that.

    If you cap, how do you distinguish between good and top performances? How do you compete with other countries who don't cap?

    Let the shareholders decide executive pay based on their experience of coporate and executive performance. Government - keep you nose out.

    Posted in: Are you in favor of government-imposed caps on executives' salary packages?

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    Pretty much all Japanese obstetricians will tell mothers to be not to gain more that the rough birth weight of the baby 3-4kg. If they are already overweight, then they will be asked to gain no more, and if underweight, to gain enough to hit ideal weight + a little.

    I don't see this as being medically wrong, although as a father I know how much emotional and physical stress is involved for mum during that preiod so managing weight really shouldn't be that high a priority ;)

    Posted in: Gravure idol Nozomi Fujikawa takes kimono off at press event for upcoming movie

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    absolutely hilarious - except the more desparate they become the more they will encroach on 'regular' turf and the more we are likely to inadvertantly interact with them....

    Posted in: Yakuza hard hit by economic downturn

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    Den Den 10 emails, not 10 customers... One working e-mail it seems. 20,000 on this day - could be 100,000/week. Say 80,000/week. Seems about double what she'd make as a waitress in a chain food place.

    Posted in: Single mothers, squeezed by recession, turning to prostitution as last resort

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    IvanCoughalot - I trust you are not being serious? "Just the flu" Thell that to over 50 million people in 1918...

    Posted in: WHO says swine flu pandemic is imminent

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    goldsounds - huh? Since when does protecting the public against antisocial behaviour count as bossing around?

    I guess you still believe the effects of second hand smoke and such are a non-issue?

    Posted in: Author Barry Eisler finds gold on the mean streets of Tokyo

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    womanforwomen - I didn't even understand your first post in response to tigris - "Temporary or permanent, the residents share many things with the natives. The rest of the world is in harmony with each others culture and respect the good aspects of each others cultures. We feel sorry for you sometimes because your way of having fun is sometimes is tasteless and distorted. We want you to keep up with us so that you could enjoy the various things in life that are innocent and fun."

    I have to assume you don't get out very much if you really believe that the rest of the world is in harmony and respect's each other's cultures. That's probably the saddest funny thing I read all week.

    We feel sorry for you... "We - who?" Who do you represent? Which peoples of the world have you chosen to speak on behalf of?

    "your way of having fun is sometimes is tasteless and distorted" meaning it is different from mine - what was that about being in harmony with other's cultures?

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