CaptDingleheimer comments

Posted in: Western-style toilets have become widespread, and many students are not accustomed to using Japanese-style latrines. See in context

Fact:

Every time you encounter a bathroom that has nothing but squat toilets, it's always when you have to take an explosively furocious industrial-sized 4-alarm emergency dump that can't wait for you to find another bathroom.

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Posted in: Woman using smartphone falls to her death from bridge in Shizuoka Prefecture See in context

How sad, a young person with so much ahead of her. And I can't imagine the horror for that poor dad.

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Posted in: Elementary school janitor arrested for using camera to spy on girls in toilet See in context

He’ll get a six month suspended sentence. Watch.

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Posted in: South Korean DJ Soda reaches settlement over groping at Japan event See in context

Do they have to register as sex offenders now?

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Posted in: University of Tokyo asks firms to stop pressuring job-hunting students See in context

If a company treats you like that before you even start working there, that's quite the harbinger of things to come. It sounds like those kids are in such high demand, it's not like they wouldn't have other options.

If I accepted a job and then they started in with all that crap, that's probably where I say "Mmmmm yeah, I'm gonna have to go ahead and tell you to go F*** yourself, m-kay?"

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Posted in: 2 men disguised as couriers arrested for robbery resulting in injury See in context

If there's anyone that's gonna get tuned up good down at the Japanese police station, it's a couple of Chinese nationals who tie up and injure a hard-working Japanese woman and steal all that she worked hard for.

I hope they keep them in there the maximum 21 days so they can spend the first 15 roughing them up and banging them around, and the last 6 days for the black eyes and bruises to heal so they're presentable in court.

Oh yeah, and "they were missing those teeth when we arrested them, your honor."

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Posted in: U.S. military bulk buys Japanese seafood to counter China ban See in context

This is a pretty significant development in what's been a hot topic in Japan.... which certainly makes it puzzling that there isn't much Japanese press coverage on it... at all.

It seems that Japanese face is lost when the US -especially the US military- helps Japan out in a time of need. When Sendai International Airport got buried under 6 feet of mud after the 3/11 tsunami, the US Marines went in full force with heavy equipment and had the place cleaned up and open for business in 2 weeks. The NYTimes did a story about how it was kept quiet as possible to help Japan save face for the shame of needing help from others.

There is no shame in getting some help from your friends. That's what friends are for. Knowledge of their help certainly shouldn't be hidden from you on purpose. An open book in a friendship makes it deeper.

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Posted in: Tokyo's Shibuya braces for Halloween crowd despite calls to stay away See in context

Lighten up, Francis.

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Posted in: Man on motorbike arrested for groping woman’s buttocks See in context

I would never do that.

Motorcycles are dangerous!

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Posted in: Tokyo's Shibuya braces for Halloween crowd despite calls to stay away See in context

"300 security guards and 150 wards officials" will be enforcing the no drinking/no smoking rules.

So they aren't police officers? Then they can go pound sand.

When a security guard approaches me on a public way and tells me I can't do something, that's where I tell him something that starts with "F" and ends with "off".

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Posted in: S Korea, U.S. and Japan hold first-ever trilateral aerial exercise in face of N Korean threats See in context

Pretty hardcore how the US flies 70-year old bombers right alongside 5th generation stealth fighters. If it still works, it works!

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Posted in: Next-generation EVs in spotlight at Japan Mobility Show See in context

The Nissan Hypertourer looks pretty cool. I wouldn't;t buy one, but it would turn my head.

Might wanna raise those fairings on the front quarter panels up off the road a bit though. It wouldn't look so cool when you rip them off on a speed bump or a steep curb up into a supermarket parking lot.

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Posted in: U.S. welcome in Indo-Pacific region and should do more, ambassador to Japan says See in context

BertieWooster says:

We don't need either China nor the US.

We don't, huh?

Never mind that the world seems to need a cheap factory, it certainly needs a strong police department. What do you think would happen if the US simply stopped policing the world, if they packed up from South Korea and Japan and went home, vowing not to get involved if any conflicts arise? How long would the peace last?

Look to San Francisco and Seattle, where local progressive politicians have kneecapped their police departments, cutting their funding and ordering them to stand down to the enforcement of many crimes. Those places have become urban disaster areas, with people and businesses leaving in droves, and tourists largely turning elsewhere. How's that one workin' out?

Do police in cities abuse power sometimes? Sure. Does the US military? Sure. Do thousands of good deeds by both get overlooked while a single episode of bad behavior gets 34M YouTube views and protests in the streets? Absolutely.

But sure, send the US military home throughout the world. Good luck with that.

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Posted in: Each day, you leave digital traces of what you did, where you went, who you communicated with, what you bought and much more. Does this concern you? See in context

I'm not too worried about it. I don't think the CIA really concerns themselves with where I eat my lunch. And if Google decides to send me an advertisement for some new ski goggles because they know I was at a ski resort all weekend, that's fine with me. There will be ads regardless, might as well have them relevant.

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Posted in: International visitors to Japan reach 96% of pre-COVID level in Sept See in context

I'm glad that the people who were waiting to go now get their chance, and I'm glad for the restaurant owners and whatnot... but with a family who needs to go visit the grandparents once a year, I can't say I'm too thrilled about the airfares all that demand has created.

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Posted in: Man arrested for allegedly paying teenage girl for sex See in context

@Alongfortheride

It takes 2 to tango.

I hope you try making that argument to the father of a daughter sometime, after he's been drinking. I also hope he lifts weights.

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Posted in: Japan to promote security camera use to curb child sexual abuse See in context

@Paustovsky

Child molesters are much less likely to go after kids whose fathers are perceived to be a threat. 

So if you're a dad, put that toxic masculinity on full display!

What a ridiculous idea. 

The special units of the world’s prisons are full with sons of toxic men.

I think you missed the point. I said that children are less likely to be victims of child molesters if their fathers are perceived to be threatening. I didn't say that children of threatening men are more likely to end up in prison...

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Posted in: Japan to promote security camera use to curb child sexual abuse See in context

Child molesters are much less likely to go after kids whose fathers are perceived to be a threat.

So if you're a dad, put that toxic masculinity on full display!

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Posted in: Japan economy minister visits Yasukuni shrine ahead of autumn festival See in context

Is it possible to disinter people in Japan/Shintoism?

If so, get the war criminals out of there and put them somewhere else. Then Yasukuni is a great place for them to visit, as it's memorial of mainly common folk who died.

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Posted in: 1st pretrial procedure for Abe shooter held amid tight security See in context

I bet the cops tune that guy up every time he's out of view of the cameras in that jailhouse.

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Posted in: Man pleads guilty to fatally abusing girlfriend’s 6-year-old daughter in Okayama See in context

Send him to Riker's.

Nah, that’s just the lockup for prisoners awaiting trial. They have something to lose. While some real stuff goes down in there, he’d be better off amongst lifers who don’t give a hoot.

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Posted in: Man pleads guilty to fatally abusing girlfriend’s 6-year-old daughter in Okayama See in context

Sounds like a great candidate for my penal homestay program. He is welcome to come study abroad at Massachusetts Correctional Institution- Shirley for 6 months where he will learn how American maximum security prisoners treat child abusers.

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Posted in: Israel says it won't allow aid to flow to Gaza Strip until Hamas releases hostages See in context

The older I get, the more this stuff depresses me. I just don't get how humans can treat each other the way we've seen over the past week.

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Posted in: 73-year-old man arrested for shoplifting from supermarket says he was hungry See in context

How is this national news

poor old fella, hope someone helps him

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Posted in: Bodies of 4 elderly hikers found near mountain trail in Tochigi Prefecture See in context

Hypothermia? I see Japanese geared up like they're headed up K2 for a little day hike. What are in those packs?

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Posted in: 3 bears captured after sneaking into Akita tatami factory See in context

I've literally been shown around that little tatami factory by the owner before his son took over. I lived in town years ago in my 20's, and I still go back for a visit nearly every year with my family. In recent years I've been told by old friends and neighbors not to do the hikes we sometimes do in the mountains on in the east end of town because the bear situation is getting out of control. We had a little BBQ in a park over there with some old friends last year and one family wouldn't come because they were afraid of all the problem bears; we had to hook up with them later.

That tatami factory, by the way, is only a few hundred years from the town preschool/kindergarten. There are over 100 kids there, with a big schoolyard out back that literally faces the tatami factory. You can see it right there, with the right breeze you can smell it. It is VERY fortunate that this did not go tragically different.

Japan needs to get the hunting going at scale, and NOW. This bear population needs to be put in check.

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Posted in: 78-year-old woman goes on trial for attempted murder of 9-year-old grandson See in context

This sounds like a legitimate psychotic break. I can think of no other reason a grandmother would do such a thing. Too bad granny didn't get the mental health treatment she needed beforehand. I question the findings of the court regarding her competence. But I'm so glad the little boy got away, I hope he now gets the help he needs to process this trauma.

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Posted in: Reports Sapporo will drop 2030 Winter Games bid draw mixed reaction See in context

Maybe the proponents can go busy themselves finding some "very famous" this-or-that to declare a UNESCO World Heratige Site or something instead.

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Posted in: Okinawa pub posts 'Japanese only' admission sign based on some shaky logic See in context

Elvis is Here said:

Where is 有道 出人 when you need him?

Dude, I came down to the comments to say literally the same thing, verbatum!

We're aging ourselves with that wisecrack at this point. I think ol' Debito jumped ship years ago. Last I heard he was humping a chalkboard at some obscure college in the US. Looks like his website is still up, but he seems to have chilled out with the "Japan is a racist hellhole" schtick a bit.

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Posted in: Japan to buy Tomahawks from U.S. earlier than planned: Kihara See in context

I like how they made him do the Pledge of Allegiance if he wants to get the Tomahawks.

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