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Old enough to be given a license but not old enough to fully take responsibility when it goes wrong. There's something not quite right about that is there.

Jonathan PrinToday  01:26 pm JST

How possible to be 3 on a motorbike ?

Have you ever been to Thailand or Vietnam?

There are quite a few tattoo parlours in my neighbourhood and many punk type younguns sporting them, so there are pockets of Japan where no one gives a hoot.

It is illogical to fight hate with hate.

I wish this was true but unfortunately I have to point out that a barrage of roses and chocolates would not have defeated a guy like Hitler.

BackpackingNepal

(Btw, aren't there clear blue beach for swimming in Japan (or nearest to Tokyo, like in Bournemouth or Cornwall?)

I love going down to southern Izu, some lovely beaches and clear water down there but it does take at least 2 hours from Tokyo, (much longer if the traffics bad) so I usually take the kids to Onjuku in Chiba. It's a big beach so there's plenty of space and the sand is decent enough. You can do it in an hour and 15 if the traffic's OK and it's a nicer beach with better water than you get down by jellyfish ridden Zushi.

We almost always ate family meals round a table together in England. My wife's Japanese family did the same when she grew up, so in our home we have breakfast together every day, although i'm back a bit late on weekdays to have dinner together with the children, on the weekends we have a very slow breakfast together, lunch out somewhere and dinner round the table together, with music and lot's of discussion. I thought that's pretty normal tbh.

I would say the best way to enjoy a debt-free holiday, is to holiday within your means.

She's gorgeous but no doubt was very hard work to be in a relationship with. I do feel very sorry for her being passed around as a child, then exploited as an adult.

CrickyAug. 22  07:00 pm JST

Wait a minute, no one is wearing a costume, is it really a serious drill.

WRONG, it's actually a drill performed by Ueno zoo pandas in JR employee costumes.

Desperate men unfortunately turn to desperate deeds.

My kids are 3 and 5 and speak both English and Japanese as fluently as they can for their ages. Both went/go to English pre-school for 4 hours a day, 3 times a week but now the 5 year old goes to the local kindergarten and has a private English lesson an hour a week, focusing on reading and writing. Of course, they have the benefit of speaking English with me in the evenings and at weekends and Japanese with mum during the day or any other time but we see a lot of parents who take their Japanese kids to the same English pre-school, who I feel are wasting their money because their children have absolutely zero exposure to English other than that (most of the parents can't speak it at all). Sadly, their kids will likely forget what they have learned when they get into the Japanese school system.

I hope they were worth it lads!

Haha you guessed right with the 'pink' kit but Charlton, Millwall and Wimbledon also especially hate Palace.

It is quite reminiscent of that grey CANDY sponsored shirt they had around 1990 isn't it.

My team had an away kit that looked like a pink Chewit wrapper and a home kit like Andy Pandy's pajamas in '91.

I hate Palace.

Weed is openly smoked in my home city in England and there's some really potent stuff around.

Shirako tempura is really nice but it's grim raw, however, like a good girl I swallowed it anyway.

I've said it before but a good start is to train the store clerks to be more thoughtful with their use of plastic bags. However, it's also ridiculous the amount of plastic waste you end up with when buying stuff for lunch from supermarkets etc in this country.

Whenever I've been to the beach this summer I've picked up any plastic rubbish I've walked by but there's way too much out there in general, it's pretty sad so I do hope they are serious.

I can't see this government being any good for Italy and I can't see a break from the EU being any good for Italy. The EU is determined to make an example of Britain to deter others.

Yeah.....nah

Given the governments lack of desire to protect common workers throughout the economy, i'd say the chances of them doing anything are slim to none.

I find myself totally incapable of exercising for the sake of exercising. I need to actually be going somewhere.

Happy with yourselves scumbags?

Soooooo FIFA are a law unto themselves eh?

Instant karma

The thing that irks me about ANA is when they deliver the meals they then go around only offering asian looking people miso soup, which I did point out to them when I requested mine after they ignored me.

She will now find herself in a very hot cell.

Ike-in-Tokyo-from-89Aug. 11  08:54 pm JST

What do you call it when a “friend”, a colleague, asks for a loan, fails to repay it and skips the country?

You hunt them down without mercy of course.

They won't send it to court unless they are at least 99% certain he will get convicted, can't mess with the stats people!

There's hardly any filling! They appear to have pushed the filling up to one end for one of those photos, just like the combini sandwich makers do to make them look fuller on the shelf.