JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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yabusama
does anyone know why Japan has such a fascination with this wine? not even the french are this fanatical about it.
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yabusama
I would hardly call this mutant a man.
Posted in: Cop arrested for breaking into female cop’s apartment in Chiba
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yabusama
> Can we stop saying that there are loads of guys out there that cant control themselves and grope women if they are wearing something sexy?
no we can't because it is true. This guy was drunk so he wasn't aware of his surroundings, didn't care about his surroundings, or both. If the guy was sober perhaps he would have been a bit more discreet. Either way given the right circumstances he probably would have done this in any event. And it's news because the guy's a cop. Given how crowded the trains are in this country and the fact that they have Women only cars tells me that it does happen a lot and lot of it just goes unreported or it's just some baka salaryman who hasn't got an interesting life worth reporting.
Posted in: Cop arrested for molesting woman on train
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yabusama
If women in my hometown dressed like a lot of women dress here they would be stopped every 10-20 minutes and asked "how much?". Having said that nobody deserves to be touched or fondled in a way they don't want to. However while it is a woman's choice to wear what she wants, if she does wear some pretty revealing clothes she would be an absolute moron to think she would not expect any attention. And since there are a lot of guys out there who don't know how to control themselves and look at a woman's choice of clothing as a silent invitation to molest her, perhaps a little common sense in what you choose to wear might help instead of being all innocent and ignorant.
Nowhere in the article did it say she was wearing a short skirt or really sexy clothes. Perhaps she was wearing a business suit, which I for one find quite sexy. But whether she was or wasn't doesn't give this Keystone turd any right to touch her.
Posted in: Cop arrested for molesting woman on train
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yabusama
well judging from some of the more "intellectually profound" comments you have made on this site I highly doubt you are sorry to say what you've said. Perhaps you meant " I am really sorry I didn't think before I say this but......
whatever the case may be perhaps you can enlighten us with how any of us could possibly be jealous of this human piece of apathy? Yes you're right. I wish I had the guts to brutally kill a woman,have sex with her, then dump the body in a bathtub and fill it with sand. Yes, then I wish I had all these pathetic women lusting after me as well. Yes truly we are jealous of old "stone chopsticks".
As much as I would love to have all these airheaded simpletons thinking I was a catch and be given the opportunity to sow my wild oats because they thought I was cool and cute, I prefer the human species and I for one wouldn't degrade myself associating with this trash.
Give your head a shake.
Posted in: Airhead female fans can't get enough of 'cool' accused killer Ichihashi
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yabusama
How often I have dreamed of doing this. But the idea of spending time with the keystones doesn't appeal to me.
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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yabusama
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I think everybody's got it wrong, including Nikkan Gendai. Ichihashi's appeal is that he refuses to be sunao, a nice obedient otonashii Nihonjin who does what is expected of him. He runs, he hides, he ducks, he weaves, he gets plastic surgery, he refuses to respond to interrogators, he won't take meals -- in other words, by whatever means he can, he resists. The system here is so good at breaking people down that only a few Japanese have anything that could be described as indomitable spirit, and it is this aspect of his behaviour that people may view as admirable. His crime, of course, was evil.
A very good point.Similar in theory to what, I think, Bill Maher said of the 9/11 hijackers; they were brave in the sense that to fly a plane into a building knowing you were facing a horrible death was "brave". He of course wasn't comparing them to the brave firemen and policemen who ran into the building afterwards to try and save people.
But I digress.
NOTHING surprises me in this country anymore.
Posted in: Airhead female fans can't get enough of 'cool' accused killer Ichihashi
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yabusama
> I watched a bloke - a grown man - this afternoon picking his nose, licking it, rolling it between his fingers and flicking it on the floor.
I'm going to start filming them and posting them on YouTube. Now here's this week's segment of "Digging for Gold"
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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yabusama
you're welcome kirakira.
Azrael I agree somewhat with what you're saying. But the use of religion or culture to excuse a way this country and it's people act or think sometimes doesn't hold water with me. Most Japanese can't tell you the origins of something whether it's a thought,concept, or object. It's always "that's the way it's always been." The ironic thing is most of the time they say that they're dead wrong.
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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yabusama
Aveda's scrubbing shampoo does a great job. and smells good too. What does open price mean?
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yabusama
I solved it! It was Sadakazu Tanigaki!!!!!
Posted in: Seven bicycles set on fire in Chiba
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yabusama
because it is. not all acts of violence or vandalism is a clue to some deep rooted problem. Maybe the guy was bored.
Doesn't Chiba have a lot of cops already? How could this have happened? A murder and letting the suspect escape in his socks I could understand. But this?
Posted in: Seven bicycles set on fire in Chiba
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yabusama
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I think it's a lot easier to enjoy this country by avoiding use of rush-hour transport in major cities. Or avoiding going to places where the natives will be out in full force, like temples at new year's, anything to do with shopping, anywhere with cherry blossoms/koyo. Avoiding the trains is only one way to have a better quality of life in Japan.
Japan would be a great place if it weren't for all the Japanese :p
> Chivalry is a Western concept. All the manners and deferences associated with chivalry are foreign to Japan and are not taught to children by their mothers simply because Japan has a different set of manners and what is considered polite in the West does not match what is considered polite in Japan. Simple things like, allowing the elderly to go to the front of a line, for example; leaving one's seat for a pregnant woman to sit down; holding open doors for women and children; allowing an older person to pass first through a narrow space; none of these things happen in Japan. Hence, is strange to expect chivalry to manifest in Japan train cars or anywhere else.
Why is it that every time someone uses these kinds of arguments they think Commodore Perry opened the doors yesterday? You can't tell me the Japanese, or anyone for that matter, don't know right from wrong, or what is considered good behavior vs bad. It's simply a choice that is made. To say the Japanese are not aware of this is just because it's a cultural thing is wrong.
The Japanese have the idea of WA, preserving the harmony of society, not being disruptive. Acting like a bunch of monkeys on the trains is not practicing WA.
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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yabusama
I've only been here for 4 years so I can't comment on what it was like 5 years ago but did manners and chivalry ever exist on trains in this country? I've travelled all over Japan and lived in Osaka for awhile(now live in Tokyo) and I have rarely seen courtesy practiced on a train before.
As far as letting little old ladies get to a seat first I'm thinking they're as rude and pushy as they seem because of the lack of courtesy on trains by those who pretend not to see someone in need of the seat either because they are "sleeping", reading, or just simply don't care.
Having said that I'll be the first to say that if you elbow, punch, smack, push, kick, hip check, body slam me out of the way to get to that elusive seat I'll return the favour in kind. When in...do as... as they say.
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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yabusama
It's because the Japanese are facing serious problems in the future that they are looking to co-operate with the other Asian nations. Does anyone truly believe the Japanese would give a flying f!!k about the rest of Asia if China, S.Korea, and other Asian nations were becoming more economically strong? Japan sees the writing on the wall and is panicking. However if this was an LDP govt in charge I would say NO Way would this happen. But with the Hatoyama govt. there might be a chance.
Yes, recognizing their past deeds, and truly apologising for them is an important first step. Just look at Germany. Once despised they apologised, made reparations, outlawed Nazis or any mention of them, made denying the holocaust illegal and they earned the respect of the rest of the world, for the most part. As long as Japan allows black vans to drive around spewing their bile and continues to look at the whole situation as "regrettable" while dancing around their responsibility of making the situation regrettable in the first place, the rest of Asia will not and should not trust them.
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