mito comments

Look to Europe for models, where language education is working. Theory from the USA is not so reliable.

Japan is not overcrowded - Tokyo, Osaka, etc. are crowded. The rest of the country has tons of room, especially for farm help. Fields are lying fallow due to retired farmers, and youth who have no interest or cannot support themselves farming.

We need a maid, but J-companies charge ridiculous rates, unconscionably expensive. I want a nice Filipina/o for a decent rate. Open up!

car runs...

Almost every car near my home run yellow and red lights. I almost never see a car stop for pedestrian crosswalks. The only thing I see j-cops checking is seatbelt violations, which they can do by just stepping outside their koban, and setting up a mini-sting. If they moved a few meters down the road, they could see an endless stream of cars running red lights. I don't understand their priorities.

Great photo, made me smile.

Let's hope there's a second choice--and it's not Mac.

Catchy names. I'm sure I'll remember them when I go to the store.

I thought I was reasonably tech-tough, but I have no idea what this article said, or what it can do. Hmm.

Oh dear . . . .

Oops, number 6, iPad! (not 7 - never heard of it)

Number 1 & 7 - great. The others? Not in my world.

form...

Rampant ageism rears its ugly head once again. Ageism is the most ironic forms of discrimination, as all you ageists will be victims in turn.

This is so sad. (ps. what is "the heaving capital"?)

gaijintravellerOCT. 16, 2013 - 09:10AM JST Note that this was a business, not just a someone with a lot of pets. The animals were basically fashion items, currently popular brands.

The lesson to learn from this is do not buy dogs from pet shops because, if you do, you are supporting this sort of business and share the blame for this sort of incident. There are plenty of nice healthy dogs available for free from shelters. They are probably much healthier than the inbred animals from puppy mill so often sold at pet shops.

DITTO

Half = Yuck!

"Crackdown"??? No jail time! This is a crackdown?

A ray of sanity in the drug war, which is patently unwinnable.

Damn. This happens just too many times. Starts to look suspicious.

iskysongOCT. 01, 2013 - 11:13PM JST "Where is the "Emergency Stop" button? Why nobody pressed "Emergency Stop" button when someone fell unto the track?"

Of course they could put buttons here, but then punks would probably push them all the time.

I can attest to this, having received home delivery for mistakes two times.

Everybody needs a hobby.

Congratulations! 3rd is pretty good compared to the other 6,999,999,997 living on earth.

This article belongs in the Crime section.

Marshmallows? In coffee?

Very sad lives, in the land of plenty.

Better late than never for "Japan’s brutal colonisation."

Until there is a reliable survey done, this headline should read:

"Elderly shoplifters WHO GET CAUGHT outstrip teenagers in Tokyo," as stated in the article.

I'm sure teens with nimble fingers are much less likely to get caught.

77 years on 7/7 - Happy Tanabata Andy