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How dare those North Koreans do what America, France, Russia, China........ have done.

Even Pollyanna would not believe that we could stop the march of nuclear proliferation, of which by the way America is the largest profiteer.

It is time to take our heads out of the sand and spend our energy dealing with loons with nukes rather than waste our time on the impossible task of keeping nukes from loons.

who really believes that even the creation of a palestine state will result in peace?

hamas' stated goals include primarily the creation of a palestinian state in place of israel. as long as the palestinians allow hamas to dictate their future, they are choosing a future of violence.

Obaby would have better luck negotiating an expansion on guantanamo bay with the big C.

mindovermatter: do you think that people, companies or countries play fair? its all about number one baby and as far as japan is concerned, getting the GNP is the most important thing. and part of that is the GDP. there was this book, Pollyanna...

this is a sad story about two people trying to do their best to get what they want out of life and having a difficult time attaining it.I think people should quit pointing fingers and just morn. worked out bad for both of them. feel sorry for them both.

I didnt think of that!

Good call Jcops. Now enforce this at the supermarket so that fish monger will shutto appu! and I can shop in peace.

This should be a national law! No more irrashamase! would be heaven on earth.

of course deriheru services flourish. everyman on the planet has a sex drive, some lie and put up with nonsense(much more so with a jgirl) to get it, and some pay for it.

standard practice is to say the 8000 yen for the hour was just to hang out and watch tv. 'now where is my beer ketchi ossan???'

bad day looking for temp work, he just snapped. sad all around.

Who cares if the figures are meaningless!!

They will fool plenty of people to get things rolling.

pollyannna was right! revel in the new reality!

yeah! go japan! nippon daiichi!!

my life would be so boring if I did not live here.

and it would be even more had I not learned to read japanese to get the more ridiculous news off the jsites.

been posted a bunch of times here.

Dont like the action in Roppongi, go somewhere else...

I havent seen a single nigerian tout in my neck of the woods. why not try going some place with some class for a change?

How do you even comment on this?

10 year old the queen of her castle?

This guy goes to all the trouble to dress up as an employee of the water co.?

He obviously did not read the other post today, he could have saved the trouble n just perused the park.

Seriously, 10 year olds are not supposed to be home alone.

my gut tells me that bamboohat is right. this guy is probably talking big knowing that he can not be connected to any other crimes. just another incredibly lonely social misfit frustrated to the point of acting out.... just speculation though ; )

people making a living, so they are a bit annoying but success goes to the annoying.

live n let live. if you dont like it, there are many others places to go besides roppongi.

are all touts nigerian? sounds a bit racist. are all bars owned by the yakuza? doubt it.

whiners, get a life

oh, and studebaker, it makes no difference where the child is born or how many passports as long as it is registered in the womans family registry.

A woman can start her own registry, but a foreign national may not. He is listed on her registry as a note; married to american national Bob Tom. And dont get me started as to why my child spawned with my Japanese partner can not have a middle name.

Most children have 'japanese' names on their passport, and foreign names on their foreign passport.

like sakura anne kline, will have a japanse passport that says something such as Sakura Nomura in kanji and kana of course. NO MIDDLE NAMES! You would think that they could just put it on and ignore it but the law says that only the tennou has the right to have more than two monikers；）You could name her SakuraAnne but then she will be called SakuraAnne because.... WE HAVE TO ; )

bottom line, as soon as they are listed in the that registry, they are property primarily of japan and secondarily of the mother and thirdly of her parents or relatives. Her father is irrelevant.

bottom line, if you marry a japanese national, and you love your children, divorce is NOT an option unless you want to just walk away.

good article, when japan washes it own hands it can start whining about NK etc.

in the end, she is being nice to people. honorable in my book. anna has nor should she have anything to regret unless there are a bunch of people sitting around telling her she is wrong for not fitting in their social and moral mold.

Well, she will learn more about Japan in a week at the Maid Cafe than by working a year at NOVA ; ) And why would she not grow thru this experience of dealing daily with customers, management and other staff? She would grow more by getting coffee for the salarymen at OOO KK? What is with the professional prejudice?

If you hang out with the rugby team, people are probably going to assume you are a player.

19 yo. plus 4am plus alone = player

No one knows if she is shaking him down, which happens FREQUENTLY to silly old men here, or if he was a little too frisky before finding out the availability of the goods. HOWEVER, she should have been arrested as well and charged with vagrancy. If it did happen, the time and circumstances should be taken into account and leniency should ensue. This is a much different situation than if it had occurred at 4pm.

What is with all the hangups in the posts here? Talk about judgmental! womanforwoman are you for real? Where did that hostility come from?

The maids are not my type, but there is nothing wrong with being attracted to that style anymore than being attracted to say, 'athletic' girls, or brunettes etc. And what the hell is wrong with fantasizing about a girl not giving you crap when you ask her to do something for you? hahaha, is it something sick and twisted for a man to fantasize about not having to beg and jump thru hoops for physical affection? Or heaven forbid that your partner would enjoy it?

And why rank on shy guys? For God's sake, do you think every guy is a Don Juan that sweet talks girls? Even in america, lots of guys are shy, fall in love with the waitress in the Denny's and go there for breakfast 4 times a week until they manage to strike up a conversation and it blossoms into romance. That happened to one of my buds and he would have been no stranger had he frequented the maid cafe because Anna made him feel special.

Sounds to me like Anna is having fun and actually doing something to deepen her understanding of Japanese life, language and culture. Good on her!

what is wrong with women being sex objects? no way to know for sure, but I am thinking that nobody put a gun to her head to make her do this. some people are rocket scientists, some people make peoples blood circulate and enjoy doing it. looks like she is the one that is control to me ; )

one of the great boondogles of all time as aso n his crew try to buy popularity. robbing peter to pay paul never results in anything positive unless you hate peter...

when I first got to Japan a million years ago, like all americans, I detested the tolls. but I quickly came to realize that with the incredibly high population density here, the absence of ridiculously high registration fees, taxes, and tolls, the ability to own and operate a car would be affordable to too many people making road travel impossible. the simple fact is there is not enough roads for everyone to drive and we need to actively discourage it and taxes and tolls are the most efficient way to do so.

the current reduction of tolls has only served to causse me grief as I work on the road traveling to and from.... before I had the freedom to choose uncongested tollways and pay for the time and angst savings or buck up and joust my way down the lower roads. now, I am forced to slog either way...

what should really happen is a toll that changes with the traffic flow to reduce congestion at peak times and encourage use at times of low use... I guess that would be too simple.

One reason is that most long term success in the american market is built on live performances. Lip sync performances and uniforms are just not going to cut it. Most Jpop is just not of the quality necessary not to mention that the US audience pretty much demands English. Abba didnt make it singing Swedish....

Boy bands are low talent, lip sync acts but for the average young american girl exile is not going to turn their crank like Jonas Brothers or Back Street Boys...

Utada is unique that even though she is a product of her family launching her career, she writes the majority of her music and is in fact quite talented though her stage presence is not the best. Did is slip anybodies mind that she sings in English?

If B'z , Southern Allstars, Yamazaki Masayoshi sang in English they would have sold zillions of records in the US. Puffy would have done well too in English cause they gave a great concert as does Hamazaki Ayumi.

Bottom line is no English, no sales.... unless you sing in Spanish ; ) then you can have limited success if you have talent and target California/Texas/Floriday ; )

quite soon, women in japan will no longer have to worry about being bothered by the boys

I think the word mom is too loosely applied to trash like her.

This article does seem to suggest that there are still some people that we could house in guantanamo bay. Would waterboarding befit the crime here?

bandogeek, do you really think that Japan is in the shape with it's wanna be boy scouts to give anyone an ass kicking? Not to mention that China is just itchin for a chance to try their technology out on the US. and it would be the perfect chance to stand up for their underdog brethren. with the economy already on the ropes, lets throw a Chinese blockade in the mix. how much food/oil/rice/twinkies do you really think is on this little island? I would die without some aussie beef. who knows what NK would send this way if their back was against the wall. remember that Japan is downwind. I certainly would not like to be caught in the middle while I am here. Japan should spend more time making friends instead of making gross statements that need to be backed up by Obama.

When Japan quits testing their own missiles and gives up its space ambitions it will have something to say about North Korea.

Japan has no business addressing the UNSC let alone becoming a member because they do not provide even their own defense let alone establish some position of partnership on a material basis for the aisia. They have done nothing sans serving as another base for American military in asia to bring stability to the region. Their divisive rhetoric and coercive regional economic policies disqualify them.

At this point, there is no conclusive intel on the nature of the launch and it is ridiculous for members of the UN to be thumbing a sovereign nation for pursuing both military and economic aims that they enjoy. Should North Korea cow tow to Japan and America at this point, they loose any bargaining power that they may have.

IF the UN wants to bring them under submission they are going to have to cough up more than a few boat loads of food to buy their sovereignty. As whack as I think the the country is, you have to admire their refusal to bend under the pressure and carrots until they get something substantial.

nothing kicks the economy into gear like a military campaign ; )

unless it is the exporting of military technology and goods which is the real reason for the push to amend article 9.

money, pure and simple. it is japans last grasp at maintaining its economic might.

japans ruin was in mimicking european and american colonialism.

they continue down the same foolhardy path mimicking americas economy.

the only problem is they have not enough food nor raw materials to survive on their own for more than a couple weeks, and as soon as the neighboring countries that japan is raping for raw materials and cheap labor advance enough to prosper without being japan's step child, japan will dry up n blow away as so much fodder for the chinese that will absorb them without a shot.

japans future is in being the information center (glorified OL) and play ground ( soap ) for china.

go japan.

No Sex? Not a date. Moot point. Next?

nonsense

how many hundreds of kilos of jet fuel was poured into the atmosphere for this environmental project?

and very few people noticed that it was sponsored as most charitable events are by the tobacco and alcohol conglomerates tying to put the clean on their image.

when are people going to begin to look critically at these kinds of things. there is without a doubt a heavy minus on the aggregate social benefit here if one factors in the good will the death merchants receive, the environmental damage from the transportation, and of course the nonsense of any japanese trying to put forth japan as anything other than a land awash in their own garbage. honmachi may be clean, just step down the street to namba or nishinari ku to see the real japan.

this reminds me of the 'white band' anti poverty campaign a couple of years ago and the fact that when none of the funds was going to provide aid to the poor was uncovered, the chairman just responded that they never claimed the funds were going to be used as aid.

be smart. dont give to organizations that suck at the trough of the death merchants. be critical and check to see if there if the positives supersede the social costs of projects that you might think of sponsorin

Yeah, just take em to guantanamo n waterboard em.

And the critics of capitalism have what to offer as an alternative? The collective economic programs of china and the soviet union were all failures and have been scrapped, the soviet union crumbling under the weight of those failures.

Too much of any good thing leads to a point of diminishing returns and eventually to a meltdown. But throwing the baby out with the bath water is certainly not the answer. Each failure in life is another opportunity to grow. We will survive this and if some sense of sanity prevails we can be better for it.

The problem is that we rarely learn from our mistakes and quite often compound them by choosing the path that lessons our pain as opposed to choosing the course that leads to healing and growth because it usually entails growing pains.

The world economic system was brought to its knees in 1907 as wall street averages fell to less than 50 percent of its average value the previous year. As a result, the Federal Reserve Act created the central banking system in the US that was to prevent such panics from occurring again. Just 2 decades later the greatest economic meltdown of modern times was fostered at the hands the architects of the titanic like system.

The current tax and spend free for all is just like the slash and burn environmental policies that are eroding our rain forests and bankrupting our children's futures. That is not to say that Keynes was all wet. True strength comes with flexibility. But reason dictates that whatever we spend today, we will have to repay in the future. With interest. Just where do these economic einsteins think that money is going to come from to fuel consumer purchases if the government sucks up all the available credit?

The world is indeed floundering. We have forgotten the value of hard work, thrift and savings. The way out of this situation is the nationalize the banks and sell the assets assigning the outstanding notes to fannie mae, hold corporate executives criminally liable for mismanagement instead of guaranteeing their wages and bonuses, eliminate the ability of corporations to own stock, return to the gold standard, eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank, establish capital and debt limits for capitalization as a percentage of the money supply, and change the tax code to reward savings as opposed to spending.

I cant think of a more perfect way to effectively show the world the depth of Japanese culture. These girls epitomize all things Japanese. Good on you foreign ministry!