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The only thing they forgot to mention within this article of scientific mumbo jumbo was what it'll actually do for us.

This is a tragedy for both of them. Where was the help for her?

I suspect when they find the "woman in her 40s," they'll find Ms. Hagiwara's killer and her cash. Horrible.

Hosers.

So amazing. Truly impressive.

Why is a 50 year old guy hanging out with people 30 years his junior?

This is relevant to the overall issue of blame. As I say, there's no question that Japan deserves its share, but having lived in Korea for several years, I never heard Koreans take responsibility for their part. The finger is always pointed at Japan without taking responsibility for their own part.

One needs only read Sarah Soh's book entitled "Comfort Women: Sexual Violence in Post-Colonial Memory in Korea and Japan" to recognize that many many Koreans, particularly sex brokers, were complicit in the horror experienced by these women. She maintains that compatriots recruited a majority of the Korean comfort women by luring them to "factory jobs" in Japan, and some were sold to traffickers by indigent parents. Moreover, after the war Korean society stigmatized these women, compounding their tragedy. I am not attempting exonerate Japan for its misdeeds, but to illustrate the totality of the picture. Korea needs to look not only outwardly but inwardly as well.

Why is this news? Some tiny business association calls for a boycott of Japanese goods and it gets top billing here on Japantoday? Absurd.

"The Empire of Passion" was the film that shocked and absorbed me. Brilliant and disturbing. But Mizoguchi and Naruse have to be mentioned among the greatest directors. Mizoguchi was Kurosawa's senpai and the man Kurowawa thought was the greatest ever. Oshima certainly got people's attention, though.

She obviously believed that she had better standing with the company than she actually did. It sounds as if this was simply a convenient excuse to let her go. I feel for her, but she probably needs to just let go and move on.

How about, "no problem" instead of "your welcome." That's annoying and rude.

Wow! A surprising and fantastic win! Nice job, Kei.

there's a shocker: drunk driver kills woman. At least it's news. In America it's an accepted everyday fact.

Yubaru san, I agree that she may have been "brainwashed." but she can't then claim, "I didn't know what I was making" as if if to say, "I wouldn't have done it had I known." The logic doesn't make sense. She did a very very bad thing (and brainwashed or not) she must pay for her actions.

It's interesting that she now claims to repudiate Aum, but did you notice the name she chose for herself during her years on the run? "Chizuko." Asahara's birth name is "Chizuo." This tells me that after the attacks, she certainly understood what she had done and still continued to revere Asahara.