mistersmarmy comments

when it comes to spying issues, America acts in exactly the same way as Iran. Actually, the US is probably even more exagerrated, or did I just watch too many movies and read too many newspapers? please don't critisize Iran and exonorate the US when it comes to this issue. The US has a long history regarding witch hunts and jailing / executing innocent people accused of 'spying'.

domestic flights in the US must be a real nightmare with a high possibility rate of being squashed between 2 selfish tubbies. good grief. train travel should be a serious option even if its much longer.

Listen people, this is a different culture and its nowhere near the 21st century. problem is that many people are judging these acts through a western and modern perspective but the fact that the parents basically organized for the deaths of their children coz they broke the rules says it all. there's not much point trying to debate this. they broke the rules and they paid with their lives. its not for us to judge another culture's values.

add to that all the people running around carrying firearms, most of them legally and its a pretty worrying scenario. so what's new?

US citizens carrying out terroists acts against their own country? I can't believe that would happen?! they probably go to church too...

she attended church and was a Sunday school teacher. In that case, its impossible that she carried out this crime, there must be a mistake.....

i dont believe this story. if so i guess the movie dumb and dumber was also largely based on a true story? even if the taxi driver had a very low IQ, he still would not have agreed to this trip. where did JT get this info.?

This coffee thrower will be quietly hero worshipped by most Japanese people.

'the students were just fooling around'. nothing appears to be taken serioulsy. I guess if a student in Japan took a gun and killed all his classmates the head teacher would also say, oh, give him another chance he was just fooling around with a gun.

grafton is right. this should be named the al queda burger as its gonna kill a lot of Americans who exercise little or no self control, good observation.....

I'd love to actually see someone eating it, but I would stand at least 20 metres away.

why is it that anti conspiracy theorists are so arrogant and condescending to others? you guys really show your true inner selves during these threads and its unpretty.

USNinjapan2. Let me explain this to you, as it also appears that you learnt very little at school. whether the US claims it landed once, twice or a hundred times on the moon - I don' believe it - get it? and I'm also entitled to my opinion without people like you 'teaching' me a lesson. If you don't like to see people expressing their opinions - why do you read this website?

Yuki 51, or is it really Neil Armstrong? u r so smart. we may as well close down this website. instead you can set up another website and we'll just read your know it all comments. congrats.

there is absolutely no way that anyone has landed on the moon. if they could have done that 40 years ago, why wouldn't they have been back. The technology now is far superior but aparantely they can't go back until 2020. I'm not sure exactly how this was reinacted because I agree that many people would have to keep a big secret. Its just weird.

any action to be taken against NK will be determined by where the missile lands/how much damage is caused.

despite this guy being a complete lunatic, he's actually only a threat to western girls. so that must be why he's classified as low priority.

Ha ha, Anne Droid, thanks for making me laugh out loud!

just googled it but it doesn't say. what I mean is that for example Christiano Ronaldo is an Ambassador because most people in the world know who he is. He is Fifa world player of the year and most countries receive images of him. therefore people can relate to him when they meet him. Surely people in Kenya would think - who the hell is this woman? that's my point, that's all. ambassador is not the same as volunteer.

Red Cross ambassador in Kenya - what does this involve doing? anyone know?

Fujiwara is currently in Kenya as an ambassador for the Red Cross.

so she's a big star in Kenya???

And also, if you ask me, such fantasies are better entertained than left to fester.

come on likeitis, you can't be serious with this statement? As far as I'm aware, only Jesus never had any fantasies that would have ended up in a potential custodial sentence.

there's no way Japan will shoot down that rocket without permission from America. so nothing else really matters.

maybe they are stupid, but this looks bad on China - NK security officers going into China - whats that all about??? First NK fires a missile across Japan and now its military enters China - this is a serious diplomatic incident....

if she's changing her story - she must go back to court. this guy is being detained for 40 years! come on.....

also, even if her parents didnt give her the correct instructions, that is still no exccuse on her part. everyone can learn manners and politness for themselves. even monkeys learn basic skills quickly.

dont take it personally memyslfl, she's just very antisocial and probably treats some other people in the same way. she's just rude and ignorant.

this is a great article which is obvioulsy going to generate the most comments this week. actually everyone is correct in their feedback in one way or another because its such a complicated issue. but why should japanese people who live in japan speak english? of course it would be great if the only language in the world was english, then we wouldn't have to discuss this topic. this language / culture issue also exists in other areas such as Hong Kong, its not exclusive to Japan. The only time Japanese people wish that they knew more English is when they have to go abroad for sometime on behalf of their company and then they find that they are unable to communicate. If they don't travel on business - no problem. A few years ago the French were also very proctionist regarding their language, but even they had to give in to globalization.

a 45 litre bucket?! thats a lot of water! of course residents were concerned that they had two idiots in their building.

I agree with frontandcentre and love the 'ratner moment' comment:)