JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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yasukuni
@Yuri Otani People are not blaming all Japanese for WW2 or atrocities. There is no need to "just drop" the study or discussion of history. Nobody is asking the Japanese govt or citizens to "just drop" any discussion of their suffering either.
There doesn't need to be all this ridiculous fighting about this now. There's nothing wrong with Japanese making a movie about the suffering of their people in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Okinawa or Tokyo. And neither is there anything wrong with Chinese making a movie about Nanking. Or Jews/Germans or whoever making a movie about the Holocaust. etc etc. In fact, it's good. Lest we forget.
No better or worse? How can you make a statement like that. Totally absurd.
Go study up on the Holocaust, see the movie about Nanking, study some history about other atrocities by Japanese in China, the Philippines, etc etc.
It's simple. Nobody is blaming Japanese for things after WW2 and everyone I know realizes that they are now a peaceful nation who aren't interested in war. All Japanese need to do is be big enough to simply admit that their country caused terrible suffering 70 years ago. Just grow up.
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yasukuni
They could even fall in love, or reconcile under the cherry blossoms of Yasukuni...
Posted in: Korean drama backlash
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yasukuni
Sorry, I meant that the hero would be the Japanese right winger who wins the girl. (serenading her with old war songs etc)
Posted in: Korean drama backlash
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yasukuni
Let's go for the solution instead. Japanese companies should make better dramas. If they can't, for all the time and energy and money some of these people spend protesting, why don't they form their own amateur all Japanese theater. But if it's TV they want, these days for a few thousand dollars you can be nice equipment and make your own dramas, movies, or even short films and put them on youtube.
They could even make the villains to always be Koreans and American English teacher, who always in the end wins the girl and rides off into the sunset in his big black truck.
Posted in: Korean drama backlash
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yasukuni
btw I've never seen a Korean drama in my life. Are they really that good?
Posted in: Korean drama backlash
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yasukuni
Of all the things in Japan that could enrage you so much that you feel you have to take to the streets, wave flags, get your feet sore, and make your voice hoarse ... it's soppy Korean dramas. Wow.
It's almost as ironic as seeing young kids with dyed red hair drinking coke while sitting in their big black trucks blaring out old war songs and bemoaning the loss of their culture.
Meanwhile, their grandmothers who actually went through the war are busy lining up to get a kiss, hug, or autograph from the very Korean stars these guys are protesting against.
It's a funny world isn't it? Remember though that if even 10 people in the US carrying US flags demonstrated against too many Japanese anime on TV, all the networks here would cover it and the guest would all be talking about why people hate Japanese so much.
The thing that has always bothered me the most is not that uyokusha exist but that you can have convoys of trucks blaring out war songs, blocking traffic every week for decades and Japanese don't see a problem, and don't even discuss it.
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yasukuni
Wow. If this is the way people live, then no wonder HIV rates are increasing.
Scary!
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yasukuni
Not having a boyfriend or girlfriend is not the end of the world. I can't live without a woman, but maybe some can.
Having said that, I know lots of nice guys who don't have well paying jobs. They're too nice to just be playboys, but also know that they can't marry because they have no money. It's sad.
As for the difference in percentages it's simple. Lots of women in Japan prefer much older. And they'll come straight out with the reason - they can be spoiled.
Instead of bashing Japanese young men, I have some sympathy for them. On the other hand, I don't have much sympathy for lonely Japanese women who wouldn't ask anyone out for a date, and wouldn't be interested in being approached by a stranger, and even if they were introduced by someone, would first ask about the guy's salary.
So there's lots of lonely people out there, but they don't have to be.
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yasukuni
Seems pretty straightforward to me. He is appealing the sentence. He doesn't want life in jail - he wants to get out. He probably figures that with a movie presenting himself as a flawed individual who made a mistake, but who afterwards suffered living on the run, and offered to give the proceeds of a movie to the victims family as a great act of remorse - or to a charity (wait for tears from people involved in the recipient charity ... then maybe his sentence will be reduced. And when he gets out, he probably figures he can make more money.
Given that the gruesome details, of what he did, the fact that he didn't turn himself in (lots of Japanese do), and the fact that he is appealing his sentence, as well as writing a book that makes his life sound exciting - I think this scumbag has no remorse. It's outrageous. And even worse that some people have some kind of admiration for him.
Posted in: Book by killer of British woman to become film
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yasukuni
I probably erred on going overboard thinking about the kids. For what it's worth, I'm divorced, but to my knowledge neither my ex-wife or I have ever said anything negative about each other to the kids. And if I knew then, what I knew now, I think we could all still be together, even though the kids seem super well adjusted.
The fact that this case has ended with the rights of the father recognized and the mother living in the US and out of jail, with the child seeing both seems like a great result.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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yasukuni
@Okimike. Great post. You're right!
And good to see the end result that Nessie pointed out.
@Bassfunk. Learned a lot from what you wrote. Probably there are many people like you who make better spouses and parents through having seen things from the kids perspective.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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yasukuni
@okimike. Yeah, for the sake of the child I love, I would do all I could to get her mother out of jail. Do you think this girl is okay with her mother being in jail?
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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yasukuni
Instead of lawyers, these people need some other kind of intermediaries to get involved.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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yasukuni
Okimike, I think he could get her out. There's a better solution to all of this.
I also don't know how much of a nut job she is. Some mothers would do anything to stay with their kids. And the child is already in a bad situation.
"... I was faced with divorce in a foreign land and the prospect of not being able to live with my infant kids, I would jump through any hoops that needed to be jumped through and break any laws that needed to be broken to keep the kids with me."
See what I mean. That behavior would seem like that of a nut job to many people, but it makes sense to a mother. When I was explaining this case to my Japanese wife, and said how the mother kidnapped her daughter, she didn't think it was possible to say a mother taking her own could be wrong in any way.
The child's welfare is paramount. I'd let my child be with the mother even if we hated each other, unless physical danger was involved.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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yasukuni
" Japan is well built for earthquakes"
Tell me that after a 6 or 7 hits Tokyo.
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yasukuni
I'd never let the mother of my child stay in jail. No matter how much I resented her - out of love for my child.
Posted in: American father wins custody of daughter taken to Japan
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yasukuni
And even if you thought everything was totally safe, there's still the thought of an earthquake.
In other words, Neversubmit, most parents seem paranoid to others - but paranoia has kept my kids safe thus far. Murphy's Law is especially applicable to little boys. If there's something crazy dangerous they could get up to, they probably will.
Posted in: 3-year-old boy falls to death from apartment balcony in Tokyo
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yasukuni
"I can imagine leaving a three year old unattended for 2 minutes."
You'd be surprised at what can happen in two minutes (which might actually be 5 if there are a lot of people at the counter)
@neversubmit. Most parents would also worry about stoves, sharp objects, ofuros, who knows -even s silly kid falling headfirst into a toilet, stranger at the door, etc etc etc.
Most kids get injured at home. Maybe you don't have kids, but there always comes the day when the young kid learns how to unlock a door, drag a chair etc. This poor kid died because the mother wasn't thinking even about the obvious. In fact it's so absurd that I immediately thought the Patrick Smash angle too.
But if it was an honest mistake ...man, a 12 yr old baby sitter would know better. Ironic that people can go to youchien, 12 years of school, maybe juku, maybe another 2 or 4 years after that, and still have less ability at basic things than some people who went to school for 6 years or less. Don't people have the ability to just think?
Posted in: 3-year-old boy falls to death from apartment balcony in Tokyo
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yasukuni
Weird. But is it that easy to plant a camera and keep checking on it for two years? Wonder how he got caught.
If I were a woman, I'd be checking for cameras from now on.
Posted in: Man secretly videos 2,000 women in public toilet; sells DVDs of footage
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yasukuni
Basically a normal buy wouldn't want to shower with guys and hug them.
I bet many more victims will come forward. I'm always amazed that kids don't belt adults when they are molested, but I've never been in the situation so I guess I can't say.
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