inakaRob comments

"sing the image of a pretty little blond girl to get people’s attention is “just plain outdated and cheesy.” Agreed. Finnaly the frist words of wisdom to ever come from someone invovled in Anime. Ghibli is probably the only non-skebe studio out there. Seriously even my three favorite animes of all time, Ghost in the Shell, Eva, and Cowboy Beboop all have massive breasts and tight clothes in them. Fei, Major Kusanagi, Rei and Asuka. Not to mention the last two are 14 and where skin tight clothes the entire series. Grow up anime. seriously.

"dealing with boyfriend’s anime girlfriend" I can't believe this is a thing

What is stopping a terrorist from putting a bomb in there anyway? "Ok fellows, there is paper on this trash can. It is secured, move on to the next sector. "

"oblivious to almost everything else. " yep, sounds like the drivers in Japan. oblivious to every other car on the road, oblivious to using their blinker, oblivious to basic road laws like stopping for red lights, yielding to other cars, merging into traffic.

"How law-abiding are the Japanese?" Not very. They run stop signs, run red lights, don't use their blinker. I would know. Someone hit my car 5 years ago becuase they ran a stop sign. Someone hit two weeks ago because they ran a light. I see them breaking the law at least 10-20 times a day and that just in my 5km commute.

I got in a wreck EXACTLY like this 9 days ago. Don't blame the cop. I was going through a light, albeit yellow, and this idiot just turned right in front of me. I didnt even have time to break or swerve, I t-boned him. He admited it was his fault. I bet you hard cash the child who died didnt have his seat belt on.

jesry boy. Yeah. While the USA has 50 nuclear reactors, building 4 more as we speak, and they contrinue to reap in the rewards of cheap energy and savings passed on to its people. Its not nuclear power. ANYTHING has its dangours. Its the idiots who run the plants. You can have cleanish coal. like USA and Japan. In the hands of the Chinese and other psudo 1st world coutnries their coal plants are destroying the world. Nuclear CAN be a very prospersous hold over until green energy takes hold, but in the hands of idiots....you get get Japan.

sounds like these "monster" recruits are actually standing up for NORMAL workers rights.

"What's the difference between Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro?"

Hmmm. What is the difference between google and Japantoday? One you can use to ask questions like you just did and one you can post relevant comment pertaining to news articles.

"Very poor representation of the US military and the US, and a great example of pure greed." A quote from the article: "they were actually being blanketed with radiation that has since led to dozens of cancer cases and a child being born with birth defects"

A billion dollars is nothing for TEPCO. If you ask me its symboilc. TEPCO is still turning a profit. They are paying the lowest biders to fix the problem, and surprise they have had 100 setbacks or more. No one at TEPCO is serving jail time. Why is that? Why is it that they are still raking in the money?

In japan for 7 years. no, no, no, no, no, yes, yes of course, HELL NO, no, yes

"I like the little Spiderlings better than any of the actors. Even Emma Stone is only so-so....." you are an AKB fan. so... basically your opinion is null and void.

I really enjoyed to the new spider man so much more than the Sam Ramy ones.

"would diligently remove as much as necessary so that none jutted out from behind their loincloth, which was considered an unsightly fashion faux pas."

umm... how was this popular in Edo era, but not in MODERN times??!?! Talking about both J-gals and J-guys. Trim the hedges please!

I am playing devils advocate. So don't down vote me just because I am posting unbiased facts. (but who am I kidding this this is Japan Today, you will downvote me anyway) this "10 sq km" nets Japan ten times or more that in ocean property for oil, gas, and fishing rights. That is what all this fighting over tiny uninhabited islands is about. It has NOTHING to do with that actual land. It has to do with the fish in the ocean around the island, and the natural resources in the ocean floor.

Can I please borrow 800 MILLION yen? I have to put food on the table, gas in my car, and pay the electricty bill? Oh... No? But my pay is going to stay the same and you are going to increase my cost of living across the board... Ok got it! I wont make 800 million yen in my life time if I stay in Japan.

"Is there such a thing as a 'workplace health and safety officer' in Japan? It doesn't seem like it." I am telling you, if OSHA stepped foot in Japan their heads would EXPLODE.

"Japanese people have a real thing about food. I reckon it's to do with the hard times after the war."

You are 100% right. The is exactly what it stems from. People have written many things about Japan and their food obsession. It goes back further than that, but having 90% of TV with shows running around to all corners of Japan shoving their faces with food screaming nothing at all but "OISHI!!!!" harckens back to the post WW2 days when food was a scarce commodity.

People just don't get it. At the end of the day, you are going to buy stuff you didn't really need. Spent more than you would have initially on a purchase, or buy so many extra stuff some of it is going to go bad or unused, surely more than 3%. It makes MUCH more sense to just curb your future spending. I have already turned down my hot water heater a touch. Trying to turn down my kerosene heater by 1 degree and bundling up a touch more. Putting my computer to sleep more often instead of leaving it on to run to the store. Being more carefull about leaving lights on. I cam guarantee you I am going to save more than 3% in total income next from this April just trying to consciously waste less. Instead all the people go out and buy MORE.

"He was lucky he was drunk!"

1. if he wasn't drunk he wouldn't be wandering around, no I mean, stumbling around, dark train tracks at night and probably would not have fallen. 2. Alcohol thins your blood. He is lucky he didn't bleed out. I SERIOUSLY doubt the alcohol saved his life at all. I think its a miracle it didn't kill him. For all we know he might have been able to keep his leg if his thin blood was not drenched in alcohol.

"Makes you think how many have been executed with fabricated evidence?" but for the greatest good of society. So no matter how often this happens, the people involved can still tell them selves it was for the greater good, and they sleep like babies at night. Japan has one of the lowest murder and violent crime rates in the entire world. People know even if they even SUSPECT you are guilty, you are as good as convicted. So for the greater good they have a near 95% conviction rate. Not a defense of their actions. But I am sure that is how they see it and justify it. And hey. I don't know about you, but I feel a hell of lot safe here than in the USA.

"I actually prefer the tipping system." are you mad? I just took a 5 week trip back to the states. It was maddening haveing to top for this and that. Oh you want a beer? 7 dollars. Oh wait now I have to tip him because he HANDED me a beer. Even one of the hotels I was staying at. They sold beer at the front counter. They were out of the one I wanted, they said oh just walk over to the starbucks/cafe/bar, he will have it. Well he exepcted a tip! Wait. So if I the SAME beer 30 feet over here at the counter, no tip, but walk over here to the STARBUCKS I have to give him a tip... How can you prefer that system.

$300 sushi- wow

I bought a car already. I was in the market for one in August. But for what I bought 3% is nearly 50,000 more. So It just made sense to go ahead and buy it in april. Now... am I going to buy 10 cases of beer to save 300 yen like my local Saki-ya is suggesting? No. Of course not. But I have a friend whose father in-law is in the home construction biz. He said their orders went up 300% in the last 6 months. I mean why not? If you are planning on buying a house, or a car, or doing a BIG purchase, then doing so before April just makes sense.

What. That was probably someone giving away valid cash for a what they thought was a good deed. Now they police get it and it goes where? Sits in a box for ever? goes in cops pocket, or the government gets it.

Way to go.

Sorry, but Japan wouldn't know a good hamburger if it hit them in the face. I just took a trip to the states and hamburgers are my favorite food in the world. Of course I went on a hamburger tour. I ate no less than 12 hamburges. Even fastfood places like Five Guys and Milos put ANYTHING hamburger you can find in Japan to shame. But what about gourmet hamburgers? Can you even get them in Japan. Atlanta's and Birmingham's Flip burger. Atlanta's The Vortex. I can get ONE good hamburger where I live, and surprise its cooked by an American.

Japan adopted baking from Europe and they perfected it! Japan just won the World Baking Championship. When are they going to apply that same passion to hamburgers. I mean a where is my bacon? no not a flappy piece of fatty ham. REAL bacon! Where can I get a pepper jack bacon cheese burger in Japan?

The ps4 is sold at a loss, just like every console. They still make money because accessories are marked up. Buy one extra controller, bam they break even. They also have in-house games that make cash. And they get a cut from all games sold on their system. It's also one giant advertisement sitting in your living room.

@Elbuda Mexicano "And no one was killed??" Did you take the 15 seconds required to actually read the article? Let me answer your question with a 4 word quote from the article: "The jets landed safely"

8 years? Is this another case of lazy Japantoday reporting. Are you SURE you didn't forget a zero. 80 years is what you meant to publish right?

Its sitting in Kim Jong Un's living room right now.

"At least some one is making good cars in the US " I hope you are kidding. Honda is TERRIBLE nowadays. I have owned 3 Hondas. I LOVE Honda. After 2009 they have not made a SINGLE car I would drive even it was free. The civic is a joke now. Overpriced and not nearly as good as all the other cars in its class. The only people buying Honda's in the USA are people who not good at shopping, don't do their research. Honda is riding a wave of "oh its a honda, it will last forever". People are catching on trust me. Just head over to Jalponik or any other car website. Car people KNOW Honda is not what they used to be. Head to any Honda forum, and they will all tell you, our hearts hurt for the good ol days when Honda USED to be a good company. It all went down hill when some been counter took over Honda and took them out of racing, and started trying to make the cheapest product in town, without improving anything. I had a 95 Accord I paid 5K for. 3 years later I put an ad in the paper. for 4.5k. Not one day passed before a man called me and offered 5k for it! That is how good Honda USED to be. Show me a Honda today that would INCREASE in value like the old 90's cars they used to make.

Osaka Castle. I understand that most (many) castles are reproductions, but that one doesn't even try. Its like a modern building inside, with loud pop music playing and a glorified combi/toy store at the top. "The Sapporo Clock Tower. Noting to see here. Move along." 100% agree.

Kyoto. 100% disagree. There is tons to do in Kyoto. While maybe a few of the places are over rated, the sheer volume of places to see and things to do in Kyoto more than makes up for any of its shortcomings. I am sorry, but climbing to the very top through one of the MANY paths to the top of the Fushimi Inari shrine. How is that overrated? There are THOUSANDS of them. It boggles the mind. And as you are huffing and puffing your way to the top of the mountain, how can you be amazed that while you are tired caring nothing but yourself, someone had to carry these stone steps your climbing and the massive torri gates pieces up here. AND there are so many tori gates that they basically are fixing and replacing 100% of the time year round. And Kiyomizudera in winter covered in a sprinkle of snow. Or spring cherry blossom time, when they let you stay until sundown. Sorry those are two of the best moments of my touristy time in Japan.