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Careful! 2,100 Japanese people might sue him!

2,100 people sue Asahi Shimbun over 'comfort women' stories

http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/2100-people-sue-asahi-shimbun-over-comfort-women-stories

Wow, the kid must've been semi conscious.

Calling gyoza "potstickers"? How uncouth.

Betcha the hackers can't wait.

I had no idea what a satsuma was, let alone that they were used in schools for subduing intruders.

Here's a school satsuma drill that someone has posted on YouTube (5 min.).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUkA8BlfSNY

"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching."

- John Wooden (1910-2010)

Today's euphemistic phrase:

I'd like to paddle her kayak.

Here's a clip of the Nov. 17 CNN interview, where he's saying he's "sorry."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPT5dFHK3wo

It seems to me that he's sorry for getting caught, not for doing these things in the first place.

What a moron.

When the story about this predator first showed up on Japan Today, I went to the Real Social Dynamics website and saw 31 corporate logos of various media companies, including CNN, Playboy, MTV, ABC, BBC, The New York Times, Bravo, GQ, msnbc, FOX NEWS, Men's Health, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Yahoo!, news.com.au, The Australian, and AOL, in the footer of all of the Real Social Dynamics webpages.

Today, when I read that he was on CNN, I went back to the Real Social Dynamics website and found that all of the corporate logos of the media companies had been removed. (Sometime between Nov. 6 & 11, according to a search using the Internet Wayback Machine at archive.org., using: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.realsocialdynamics.com)

Get a few cease-and-desist letters from various companies' lawyers, Real Social Dynamics?

The "Cuddlefish" bra.

Urine trouble!

Anyone know if the searchers are using search-and-rescue dogs? I haven't seen any indication in the news, so maybe they are ineffective at finding victims completely buried in the ash?

You would think that after 3/11 there would be many more new teams of searchers and dogs scattered throughout the country and ready for deployment, in case of another disaster---such as this one.

Hmm, his tweets have words with more than five letters in them... Is someone writing these for him?

I'm proud to say that I bought her first five vinyl albums back in the '80s---and they're still in pristine condition.

Glad they're inspired by ZARD's "Makenaide." I still find it sad what happened to the group's singer Sakai Izumi (1967-2007).

With those boots, I doubt she was sitting in an emergency exit row on the plane.

"Nessie" wrote:

So until when do we have the perigee-syzygy, Monaka?

Technically, perigee occurred at 17:44 UTC on Aug. 10 (and the Moon was 356,896 km away) and the full Moon (syzygy) occurred 25 minutes later at 18:09 UTC.

So, you could say the "supermoon" occurred at 18:09 UTC on Aug. 10. If you looked at the Moon 12 hours before or after that time, then you pretty much see the same thing.

The next perigee-syzygy occurs on Sept. 9, 2014 at 01:38 UTC.

Anyway, enjoy the peak of the Perseid meteor shower tonight (Aug. 11-12)!

The astronomical event occurs when the moon is closest to the Earth in its orbit, making it appear much larger and brighter than usual.

Not quite.

The Moon is closest to Earth, ie. at perigee, approximately every 27 days and what people are calling a "supermoon" does not occur every 27 days. A "supermoon" occurs when the moon is full within 24 hours of it being at perigee.

Astronomers use the term "perigee-syzygy" to describe the event. Syzygy is when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are aligned.

The term "supermoon" was coined by astrologers. Astrology is a psedo-science, based on ignorance and superstition.

I won't get on any 787 less than the 9-series. The 787-8 is so last year!

The 787-9 is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.

I remember watching her performance of "Gekka" on the "Music Station Special SUPER LIVE 94" TV program at the end of 1994. She had a high-fever and obviously an extremely sore throat, yet she managed to belt out the song. She was in tears at the end of her performance because of the pain, but still managed to crack a smile...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOOoa3SQj9E

Good luck to her!

If anyone's interested, here's the Japan Meteorological Agency's English cyclone info. page:

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/

I wanted to see the location of the Ashina River but couldn't find it in Google Maps. Could this be the Ashida River?

Because, according to learned scholar John Oliver, most Americans think ''soccer is something you pick your 10-year-old daughter up from.''

Can't stand Sharapova's grunting. Hope Bouchard silences her for the rest of the tourney.

100,000 yen tickets?! Forget it!

Anyway, I'd rather see a different performer/band in an intimate basement venue in Shimokitazawa for 3,000 yen---plus you get a drink!

"You don't go to Denny's... you end-up at Denny's."

--- Jerry Seinfeld

So will the next movie in the series be called Godzilla vs Diabetes?

@ Abhorsenaube

Here's a link to an AP article ("Rowdy youths blamed in festival deaths") from July 23, 2001, that was in Bangor, Maine's Bangor Daily News :

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o6JJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Vg0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=3996%2C1986644

What's next? A gig in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park? Maybe a music-video shot at Genbaku Dome?

OK, thanks Daijoboots! I watched a YouTube video that someone had recorded while on the BRT. Looks like the bus ran through a narrow tunnel, so I'm wondering if they removed the rails and paved over where the Ofunato-sen used to run. Also, wondering if the BRT is permanent, as it would be a shame if the SuperDragon was no more...