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...but a shame that things like kimono relate so little to how people live in modern japan now. need to build a modern identity for yourself as well...

great! they know who did it. now we just have to wait for him to turn himself in..........

Good his estate and thus his children will benefit from the profits.

i wonder about this. seems he pretty much sold the rights to his estate in order to dig himself out of debt a few years back. this movie is those interests trying to see a return on their investment

Let's see how the British Empire responds.

i'd like to see that too, seeing as it's been gone for almost a century

next week: passports linked to 9/11 found at iranian embassy!

bloody handy that terrorists are so careless with their passports, isn't it!

well it's written into the culture: soto outsiders aren't even really people, thus their feelings don't count

the burger is equally as detrimental to your health as installing windows 7 will be

what a shame this sign isn't posted in Nagatacho..

And those perky breasts will be perky far into the future, while your plump breasts are down to the knees.

i'm afraid i don't have much hope for their packages

hiromi looks like she'd be more fun

next time a nihonjin says anything about "foreign diseases", kindly remind them of the existence of Japanese B encephalitis

i tell you what, i'll take any one of them. i wouldn't want to be fussy

Beelzebub - quite right. and with all the constant talk about aids in africa leads us to ignore the fact that africa is in fact dying of treatable diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, etc. but AIDs is a headline grabber because it plays to that age old notion that sex = death

'ROIDS

she's not the hottest j celeb, but she does have nice, understated homely looks. she at least seems like a real person

By the time they reach 7 billion

if the present ratios endure, that would mean a world population of more than 21 billion. i really can't see that happening. we're already staring down the barrel of a population time bomb (to somewhat mix metaphors)

in the long run, not much to fear from muslim extremism. they hate each other at least as much as they hate everyone else. thus their goals are fundamentally flawed. pardon the pun

shiny happy people laughing...

“The story is about people whose prejudices prevent them from being able to interact,” Matsui says, measuring every word. “For this reason, I really want foreigners to see the play, because part of it deals with racial prejudices. Living in Japan, there aren’t many chances to confront one’s prejudices, so they remain taboo and hidden. Most Japanese—and this character—can’t express or understand their prejudices. So he doesn’t meet his prejudices head on, but has strange experiences—such as of a cult religion, or self-realization seminars—that bring them to the fore.

wow! nail to head! seems this guy is pretty darn switched on

Don't worry Mr Hatoyama has the solution. He will rectify the crumbling medical system. Reform!

i can't tell whether or not you're being serious

hmmmm... one lesson to be learned should surely be don't have contempt for those you would like to win over to your cause

glad rio got it. should be a good show

what's the point of school if people can only understand a text if it is watered down into a manga version?

“Paris Hilton of Office Kitano”

sic?

"Police said he has admitted to the charge but gave no motive."

i think people always do have motives, but might lack the personal insight to define one, or the courage to admit to one. police psychologists really ought to understand this and develop ways to get to the root of it, but probably as long as the perp confesses i doubt anyone cares to dig deeper

"and where are you guys from?.... oh! japan! oh yeah! i remember that place!"

...and they can use xenophobia to guarantee public support

so women are going to stop trying to cling on to men? sounds great to me!

Its only the Japanese Prime Minister. I think I see a person wearing headphones... probably listening to old Michael Jackson CDs.

errr... methinks the simultaneous translation. any word on hatoyama's eigo?

the issues in this age group have everything to do with a belief that learning a foreign language so young will somehow "pollute" their minds

sigh