Jumin Rhee comments

Mens-only carriage for protection from gropees ????

Nippon234:

article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it asserts that:

a citizen of a state in which that citizen is present has the liberty to travel, reside in, and/or work in any part of the state where one pleases within the limits of respect for the liberty and rights of others, and that a citizen also has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country at any time

Citizen2012:

Please understand the difference between offence and injury. I can say you are a [insert word here]...just words. You can respond or walk away. Striking someone is different. Hitler physically harmed people. Colbert and Hebdo offend people. Big difference.

AsianGaijinYesWeExist:

And those wearing red shirts. For the love of all that's holy, do not be a black guy in a red shirt. That is just tempting fate ????

sf2k:

While I abhor this deal, there is always an exit, even if it means the people storming parliament and putting in new interim govt. If world boycotts and blockades, many resources can be produced internally.

Screw em right back. Get a consular officer and renounce your citizenship. If resident of the country you're in, they cannot deport you as you would be stateless. Enough people do that, then I'm sure congress would act.

More govt overreach in the people's democratic republic of SOUTH korea. An idea cannot be defamed. If she named actual names of some of the comfort women, maybe.

smithinjapan: To your comment about north korea, google kim jong style.

I come from old school thought: if something offends you, turn the flippin channel. If we banned everything people found offensive, nothing would be printed or on tv.

Lastly, anybody got a link to the videos? Not on YouTube yet.

Shame they can't just have a quota system. SC said no quota, but need to be fair and diversify. Sorry SC, but quotas are a tool to diversify. In Germany, quotas are used on boards of directors to ensure equal representation by employees. Their constitutional court doesn't say no quotas but continue as that would leave companies stacking the deck against employees and forcing wages cut and factories shut.

Get around funeral costs altogether: say its against your religion to have any business related to death. If christian, quote "let the dead bury the dead." Unsure if can quote other religions.

Modern mass media doesn't help, but he was alleged. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, not guilty until proven innocent in a court of public opinion.

How big was the suitcase? Mine can't even hold a manila envelope. Also, he didn't abandon the body...he kept it locked in the house.

Yubaru:

As far as the HS comment, it'll be the same as in the States. Teachers still can't touch by virtue of position of authority. They may, however, split the age of majority from the drinking age as well.

Well, a private Japanese association could setup a counter-statue of their choice at the south korean embassy in tokyo.

Itsonlyrockandroll: "Japan pacifist constitution cannot be arbitrarily discarded by any government."

It depends on the independence and willingness of judicial (supreme court) to strike down any attempt to circumvent. North Korea has the most freedoms detailed in its constitution, but reality shows a much different place. We need to not have the justices appointed by the executive, but rather a jury-style selection for a set term (just make sure constitutional law is part of the school programme).

Will take a while before the cram schools take effect as everyone is broke in Iraq.

"Helping to set the stage for Kishida’s visit, a South Korean court last week cleared a Japanese journalist of defaming Park."

Excellent, but they need to take that autocratic law off the books, especially since the korean presidency is political unlike the Japanese monarchy or the Canadian governor general. Half the population of the US would be in jail for a law like that.

Chris glen:

"Taking the kid aside to give him a dressing down is one thing, but striking is way out of line"

I wouldn't want a teacher dressing down my child either. Only person dressing down should be parents if child can't do it himself and doctors.

How about 50/50 combo? If a takehashi and a fujioka marry, why not takeoka or fujibashi? Everybody gets something...

Fxgai:

The lower paying jobs are usually manual labour. If he would quit one manual labour job for another manual labour job that has less work, skills needed, or brainpower involved, then yes that would be an issue. A person working 60hours per week in an office probably won't want to work at McDonald's.

Serrano:

Thank you. I call false advertisement and demand FTC or whatever makes them change their name. That sugar substitute has to do it so rollerboards should as well.

Perhaps a change in economic systems is in order. If zombie companies go under, there'll be more unemployment. More unemployment means pension will collapse faster. Old and young will riot...

Papi2013 at Dec. 11, 2015 - 09:57PM JST

Note to US car buyers. Do not buy Subaru.

I believe Subaru North America and Subaru Japan are separate companies that have interlocking shares (similar to conglomerates in the States). Depending on amount of shares Subaru JP owns in Subaru American, they may have little to much influence.

TheRat at Dec. 11, 2015 - 10:40PM JST

I wish that the USA would deport Trump and ALL of the teabaggers, THEN we can make some progress. Throw out the fundie Christians too!

That would leave about 15% of the population !

A smartphone that, when paired with another, creates a new and better (depending on parents' specs) model smartphone. The colour and settings being a mystery until birth.

YeahRight: "Twenty-first century and the Japanese are still pushing "royalty." How absolutely anachronistic. For all its modernity, Japan is still, in many ways, set in the past."

Many modern liberal democracies have a monarch (reserve or figurehead only, of course). They seem to unite the people better than a partisan political leader (presidential system), and hold country together slightly better thsn elected figurehead president (parliamentary republic).

The prejudices are equally shared against anyone who is not 100% Japanese, which is Chinese anyway

While they are both Asians, the genetic markers are different.

Anybody else noticed those the people in the. article changed their foreign names to Japanese ones to fit into society? How many refugees would be willing to do that and obey the customs and conform to culture?

Two things. 1) boy scouts 2 deep leadership would work wonders. Never be alone with child unless there are 2 adults present, for protection of both child and adult. 2) couldn't the dude just go to an onsen for that?

Yubaru:

Chill. Just having a little fun introducing other contenders amd showing that the modern countries aren't really the successors of territory. You still see this with Taiwan. Taiwan (republic of china) is claimed by people's republic of china, but they won't let them take over. Republic of china took over the empire of china despite emperor not backing down. As far as senkakus go, japan annexed them along with its owner, the Ryukyu kingdom. Depends on how far back you wanna go, which is the fun part in these little kerfuffles.

Taiwan, china, etc. No one can really claim them as people's republic of china is the country that took over the republic of china (taiwan). Republic of china took over the empire of china. Depending on how long ago, the land should be returned to the great grandson of the chinese emperor (successor jin yuzhang) orthe Ryukyu kingdom. Since America says annex of crimea was illegal (and hence much of American territory since it was taken from the natives), the annexation by Japan was as well. King mamoro shou of Ryukyu is the other lawful contender.