Canuck35 comments

I get the feeling that, as the facts come out, many of us will not be surprised, although I will keep my speculations to myself for now.

32 year old killed her grandparents and her mother and then tried to slit her wrists?

Rebuking Trump ultimately means nothing if you keep endorsing him. You can talk about bravery all you like Mr McCain but you're taking the cowards route by refusing to stand up to Trump.

Stories like this is why I sigh and roll my eyes whenever a Japanese medical "expert" appears on TV.

Yeah, apparently it's an affair gone very wrong.No idea what this guy was thinking by contacting the police. Did he really believe that he would get away with this?

A far better Rising Sun book to read would be John Toland's The Rising Sun: Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 http://www.amazon.com/The-Rising-Sun-Japanese-1936-1945/dp/0812968581

It doesn't matter that she did it in a private capacity or that she is not an elected official. Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

So, yay for Abenomics? I wonder how long this charade will continue.

They're probably referring to radio contact.

Japan actually has a high drowning rate compared to other developed countries. Google search shows that Japan has a rate (per 100,000) of 2.4 compared to 0.8 for Canada and even less for UK and Germany.

So how does Murakami explain his success then?

Wow, I had no idea that JT was a bastion of Tea Partyism. Lot of ignorance in these comments.

I don't see how we can possibly blame the driver (and to a lesser extent the mother) without knowing all the details. At 5:30 it's entirely possible that the sun was in the driver's eyes. If the child suddenly ran out from behind a car just as the car was approaching then it would have been impossible to stop in time no matter how slowly the car had been going. As for the mother, perhaps she had allowed her daughter to run on far ahead of her. Or perhaps just as they were approaching the end of a car her child suddenly bolted and her hands were full of bags of groceries at the time. No doubt both women are now feeling horrible. Let's not be so quick to criticize an event that we did not witness and only know the barest of information. As someone else mentioned, if you have a child who made it to adulthood you should praise the gods for your good luck as I can guarantee that at least once in your child's life, he or she did something suddenly or unexpectedly and you were caught off guard. Fortunately when it happened it wasn't the one time out of ten thousand that would have resulted in tragedy. I'll be blessed with a boy in a little more than a month and I've been terrified throughout my wife's whole pregnancy and I'm sure it probably be terrified for my boy's safety his entire life. Despite my concern I don't doubt that at some point in his life I'll be caught off guard and I hope that I'm luckier than this young mother.

Also, excellent post by interuni321. Shame that most people on here aren't smart enough to realize that.

Wow I had no idea that Mac was in trouble-could have fooled me! I guess I'm part of the problem as I go there on Saturdays to teach English and buy a coffee and end up staying there for 4 hours.

Also the title exposes the writer's youth. "World's oldest ever man..." vs "World's oldest man..." Yes according to Wikipedia, he only ranks #9 as the world's oldest person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people

However, considering that he's living with his grand-daughter in law and she's 60 years old, it's possible that all of his children are dead or probably somewhere in their 90's. It's interesting to see that on that list of 100 oldest people ever, most of them are Americans. Better record keeping than other countries perhaps?

@Ichiro can you really be a teacher in Japan at the age of 21? Don't you need to do 4 years of college at least? I think in Canada it would be 4 years of university plus a year at teacher's college so you would probably be at least 23.

Hah! I'm sure a guy walking around wearing combat fatigues won't be mistaken for a soldier.

It's hard to comment about the train because we have no clear idea of the situation. What is clear is that trains can't stop on a dime nor would we want them to. Could you imagine all of the injuries and lawsuits if a crowded train travelling at 90km/h suddenly slammed on its brakes? It would be a disaster. If someone wants to kill themselves no amount of train safety is going to stop that.