flugelschmidt comments

He got 3 years. Wonder if he'll get a pardon sooner.

The cause of everything in Japan is bullying.

Poor girl, doing her duty for the old man and attacked in the barn in Daigo! Let's all keep an eye out for a man in his thirties!

Cheapskates, the only way to get god to really listen is to get one of those priests with the funny hat to take your extremely generous donation directly and mediate for you.

Americans are so funny, will never understand their amazement at the outside world. "Oh my Gawd, everything's so small!"

The problem isn't now, it's before. Japanese companies are overstaffed to the point of waste. It's been an orgy of incompetence for decades. Ten people to do one person's job badly and with weeks of meetings. This isn't horror it's reality. Horror would be losing a job you deserve. Reality is finding out that you, along with 80% of your colleagues, are superfluous.

Editor is there a bigger picture available for this one?

I will cheer up hard-working fathers

They'll just hate you for it.

Some must have read a different article from me. Nothing negative or whining in there, just celebrating differences. But the best thing about Christmas here, as already pointed out, is the sex. Save up during the year, buy that present and jump in bed. The Japanese love their sex and Christmas is a time of giving. Enjoy!

You don't pay the guvnor you get shut down. But it's good to know that the sex clubs will still be there in one form or another. Life would be very boring indeed without them.

Wow, Japan must be devastated.

Not kosher at all. They need to go out an hunt this boer and kill it. Anything less would be irresponsible and unfair. Incidentally they make excellent eating, boars.

This is sure to be a hit in all those Japanese companies where democracy is encouraged during meetings.

two Australian POWs died during the three-month period but the ministry blacked out the causes of their deaths as well as other personal information, citing privacy

Aso should just admit they were hungry.