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Posted in: In a rare action against Israel, U.S. says extremist West Bank settlers will be barred from America See in context

JJEToday  03:28 pm JST

Voting for someone who has stabbed you in the back is completely illogical.

Tell me about it, yet voters do it time and time again.

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Posted in: In a rare action against Israel, U.S. says extremist West Bank settlers will be barred from America See in context

JJEToday  01:04 pm JST

It is hoping to mend the irreparable damage done with Arab American voters in swing states and save Biden bacon. Now they are attempting to put a band-aid on a pile of nasty war crimes.

These voters need to remember that and go with other candidates. He betrayed you; abandon him.

Like what other candidates? Isn't the GOP even more pro Israeli? I seem to remember the last republican president actually recognised Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, which must be really popular with Arab Americans....

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Posted in: Chilean insists he did not kill Japanese ex-girlfriend at conviction appeal in France See in context

Well he left France quickly enough when she went missing and stayed with a cousin in Barcelona for 5 days before returning to Chile. His cousins testimony said he concealed his meeting with Kurosaki, asked his cousin (a medical student) about death by suffocation and spoke of her in the past tense.

What prosecutors do know is that he was the last known person to see her alive, he stayed with her the night she went missing and her blood was found on an emergency door leaving her dorm, that he used.

I think he did it out of jealousy. He went to France and tracked her down after she told him she had a new boyfriend.

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Posted in: Alcohol taxes aren't high enough, says World Health Organization See in context

Leave my beer alone!

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Posted in: Alcohol taxes aren't high enough, says World Health Organization See in context

"It has a positive ripple effect across society - less disease and debilitation and revenue for governments to provide public services," Krech continued,

BS! Taxes are rising and public services are being cut in many countries because governments spend so much on their military and other rubbish.....

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Posted in: Taxi driver arrested for running over pigeon See in context

You are kidding me.

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Posted in: UK unveils tough new rules designed to cut immigrant numbers See in context

Gee thanks James but I think I'll pass.

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Posted in: 14-year-old girl riding bike seriously injured after being hit by car; driver arrested See in context

smithinjapanDec. 3  08:12 pm JST

"The girl was not wearing a helmet and sustained a severe head injury..."

If a person is not wearing a helmet and is seriously injured (to the head/brain, etc.) the fault in cases like this should be 100% on them. Unless we can verify the woman was negligent in her driving

Which is exactly why we almost always read the driver has been arrested in these cases. The driver is arrested while the police examine the evidence and if she is found to be not at fault she will be released without charge.

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Posted in: Narita or Haneda: Which airport should I fly into? See in context

It depends on the destination first but also if it's a destination served by both, then it boils down to the flight departure times for me. I prefer using Haneda, it's closer to home and just easier to use but sometimes Narita has a better departure time.

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Posted in: 9-month-old girl being carried by mother dies after car backs into them at supermarket See in context

MilesTegToday  12:05 pm JST

Harry_GattoToday  10:01 am JST

No, they have not charged him, they have arrested him on suspicion; ****big difference.

Not in Japan. If you're arrested in Japan, you're going to get charged. It's just a formality,

Close but not quite. If you're charged in Japan there's that 99% chance or whatever it is you will be convicted but an arrest certainly does not always lead to a charge.

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Posted in: 9-month-old girl being carried by mother dies after car backs into them at supermarket See in context

It's pretty rare for a driver in Japan to back out of a parking space, most people back in back into them. With combustion engine cars, if I notice one running in a parking space i pause before walking past just to make sure, that's not so easy to judge with electric cars though.

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Posted in: U.S. continues to fly Osprey aircraft in Japan, despite Tokyo's request not to See in context

CaptDingleheimerToday  10:42 am JST

If you don't like it Japan, then next time you start a war with us, DON'T LOSE.

You might want to have a word with your military about winning wars.

Desert TortoiseToday  11:08 am JST

Fly them over US cities instead for training, w@nkers.

The fly over our city and so far nothing bad has happened .........

You lot won't mind taking them all back and let them fly at low altitude over you then will you.

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Posted in: U.S. continues to fly Osprey aircraft in Japan, despite Tokyo's request not to See in context

Fly them over US cities instead for training,

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Posted in: How to deal with your Japanese neighbors See in context

My neighbours are really nice and friendly, I feel very at home and comfortable in my neighbourhood. I am definitely not made to feel like an outsider, quite the opposite actually.

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Posted in: Locals use big-city thinking to bring Gunma onsen town back from brink See in context

Bad HaircutNov. 28  03:39 pm JST

True, Bad Haircut, but I am increasingly beginning to think that nobody actually notices the cheap ugliness, foreigners and Japanese alike. They just see what they expect to see and leave discernment at home.

Moonraker, you're probably right. I sometimes ask my Japanese wife why there are so many hideous buildings around, and she just says Japanese appreciate the inner beauty of them and don't worry about the exteriors.

A lot of it is cost saving but a hell of a a lot of it is just lazy and unimaginative developers. I've built a couple of houses here, the first of which was a 'free plan' and the second totally custom. During the design process of the first, the developers architect was saying I should have the main living space, balcony and large sliding window on the south side, as they were doing with the other 5 houses they were building. I got where he was coming from and all that but as I pointed out to him, if we did that, the balcony and window would be right up against an apartment building behind, where as if we put it on the north side it would have a lovely, more open aspect across the quiet, narrow street to trees in front AND get more indirect light. He was peeing his pants with glee when it was done, just unfortunately for the other owners (and countless before them) he had already misadvised them.

I made sure for the 2nd place I employed an independent architect who was more in tune with real life.

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Posted in: Locals use big-city thinking to bring Gunma onsen town back from brink See in context

I love visiting Gunma but yes many of the towns that perhaps were very pretty once upon a time look terrible now, mainly due to poor planning followed by neglect. Having looked into this project in a little more detail it looks pretty cool. The former dorm building is quite a nice one to keep and remodel.

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Posted in: Woman admits stabbing herself at Yokohama music arena See in context

I've just checked the venue schedule and attending that event would've made me want to blow my own head off.

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Posted in: UK leader Rishi Sunak urges world to use AI and science to end malnutrition See in context

AI should be used to end politicians. Surely it cannot do a worse job for the UK populace than the tories.

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Posted in: Figure skating icon Hanyu announces divorce; blames slander, stalking See in context

Well, after reading the comments here I can understand where he's coming from anyway.

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Posted in: S Koreans sit for key exam as flights halted to limit distraction See in context

Shunryū SuzukiToday  01:58 pm JST

Why is testing still so popular in South Korea and Japan but almost extinct in many Western nations?

There is of course still testing in the UK but also a lot of emphasis is put on course work completed over a year or 2. Pinning so much on a 9 hour test is not only unfair, it really does not give an accurate score of the students true ability. Some very smart people just aren't that good at tests and some so not so smart people are very good at blagging them. A 9 hour test is just torture.

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Posted in: S Koreans sit for key exam as flights halted to limit distraction See in context

The nine-hour test

Is utterly ridiculous.

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Posted in: Takarazuka group head to quit over actress' death but denies bullying See in context

So we have various entertainment organizations here whose staff rape and/or overwork their members, sometimes driving them to death, yet they are allowed to investigate themselves?? Are the police too busy checking bicycles or something?

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Posted in: YouTuber arrested for allegedly slandering woman in unblurred video See in context

Oriental Pear

Big yaaaaawn I honestly don't get how she's quite popular, it's the same old rubbish over and over again 'look at me a blonde girl in Japan speaking to locals!'. I like travel vloggers who mix it up a bit, Sabbatical is pretty good.

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Posted in: Fireworks festivals in Japan dim their lights amid financial woes See in context

I read somewhere that in some countries cities overseas they've been replacing firework displays with illuminated drone displays. A bit of a different effect of course but probably still pretty cool.

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Posted in: Japanese suspects say life was harsh in Cambodia scam operation See in context

Awww my heart bleeds for them.....

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Posted in: Scholz vows to protect Germany's Jews on anniversary of Nazi Kristallnacht See in context

Yrral I get the impression America supports Israel more for biblical reasons, rather than rational reasons.

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Posted in: Premier League's slow slide into video review chaos far removed from FIFA vision for VAR in 2016 See in context

The PL is doing a grand job of destroying itself, the TV viewers will watch elsewhere if they don't get a grip with it quickly. My team is in the PL and I watch their games live but overall I now prefer watching the Championship and lower league games as they flow better.

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Posted in: Unification Church in Japan offers to set aside up to ¥10 bil in compensation fund See in context

So they're paying the government off. We can expect this to be swiftly swept under the rug and the UC will return to business as usual then.

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