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Oh, for one second I thought the mother in law was angry because of the dishonesty behind this scandal, but if this article is to be believed, it's actually just because she found an excuse to rave about Akie who wasn't elite enough for her tastes.

If I were the manager is toss anyone out of the store not asking.

What a great way to lose a customer. You can have a recurring customer who often buy things in your conbini without ever needing the restroom, and the day he needs it and is in a hurry, you'd toss him out of the store. Don't expect him to come back.

Everybody saw that coming.

What awaste of taxpayer's money. And in the meantime, Tokyo still lacks public daycare centers.

By the way they should just move the venues no matter what the IOC says. What are they going to do ? Attack Japan ?

Police quoted Takano as saying he enjoyed running in the nude because it satisfied his sexual desire.

At least he was honest and didn't try to pull the " I was drunk, I don't remember anything" excuse.

I have conflicting feelings on this.

While it should be solemn places, I think it is also a nice contrast that sends the message that the horrors of war that took place there are a thing of the past, replaced by the youth enjoyment and their future perspectives. But on the other hand, I'm not sure about a future where people get completely focused on catching virtual things.

"soul-searching" ?

Well it's pretty clear why these guy did that. Now France needs to drop the political correctness and crackdown on all these "S classified" guy who are left roaming free in spite of having spotted them as terrorists threats. Same for radical imams.

Every time it's the same thing "Oh, he was known by our services " or "he was supposed to be serving a longer sentence but got reductions or house time accommodations". The judges who release these guys after they're caught also need to take some responsibility.

Stop the empty apologies and start to pay that money back from your own pocket.

The police should take the boy's sister right away from these parents. Hope the boy will be found safe, if he really got lost.

Have tried cricket prepared for human consumption. It's ok, but I'm not a big fan of it either. About the looks, when you think about it, shrimps or crabs are as alien as crickets or spiders, and yet most people don't mind eating them or seeing them on the table. Oysters and mussels are even weirder.

The kid will get hired by a network security company asap.

Not really, he didn't hack anything, he simply downloaded a tool to launch a DDoS attack. No skill involved. A network security company impressed by that has to be a very incompetent company. Of course it doesn't excuse the incompetence of whatever firm was contracted by the schools to host their websites (or maybe a server run by the school).

I'm not saying this kid handled things maturely, but HOW IN THE WORLD IS ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL MORE THAN 400 TIMES OVER ONSIDERED INCOMPETENT?

Because he didn't achieve his goal 400 times. He wanted to target his school website, but accidentally brought down other website which probably were hosted on the same server. If a dentist removes all your teeth instead of the one he was supposed to remove, would you consider him competent ?

The police should be doing that.

If the city take a land without any identifiable owner, they can still resell it to a parking company after the demolition. Where I live, old houses and closed shops are all turning into paying parkings, one after another. Guess the owners couldn't find any normal buyers.

Not that great in my own experience as a customer. Might be a lack of luck, but most of the time I ended with guys who didn't really know the shortcuts or even the streets / blocks in the town. I would appreciaite if they could at least study more their car navigation system, I had a few ones who were clearly lost in the menus. The drivers are polite.

Now, as a cyclist or passerby, I often find them very dangerous, much more then regular drivers. The latter may sometime stop when you're on a crossing, but with taxis it's a swerve-fest around you.

Ah, the music industry. I remember a case a few years ago in France where the SACEM ("french JASRAC") attacked a primary school because the kids sang lyrics from copyrighted musics. The original artist wasn't even in a position to give his permission. In the end he paid himself the bill for the school since he didn't agree with SACEM's doings.

"these days" ? It has been that way for quite many years.

you realize that great sums of money had been devoured by the a monster called the “campaign.”

Well said, Ayumi-chan !

Not sure about the logic link between the company size/location and the use of a maiden's name. It's like saying "I don't like carrots because of my smartphone size".

shonanbb Most people are simply doing it illegaly in Japan. The law doesn't seem to be enforced frequently, but if it happens to you (neighbors reporting you or authorities stumbling upon your case), you'll probably be arrested. Look for "British expat arrested short-stay hotel" in google.

Words can get a different meaning once imported in an another language, deal with it. Or should we mention wasei-eigo ?

It's written that she was in a six-tatami-mat room, as a unit of measure. It doesn't say that it was an actual room with tatami.

Wonder why Japan is so behind when it comes to basic car safety liek seatbelts. In France there was a massive crackdown on that 30 years ago, and nowadays you can still be sure that police won't miss a chance to fine you 90 euros and remove points on your licence (0 points and your licence is revoked) if you or your passengers don't have a seatbelt attached, no negociations. Guess the "Sorry officer, I won't do it again" "Fine for this time, you can go" attitude in Japan doesn't help.

Don't put all the blame on the programmer doing grunt work while the actual instigators come from the management.

Uwe Paschen> you might want to look into MVNO and offers such as Mineo. They're not touchy about which phone you use (and are much cheaper than the big 3).

Not sure about which city is the best, but Tokyo seems great compared to the hell Paris is. I'm not in a wheelchair, but for going back there recently with a stroller and luggages, I can assure that Paris facilities must be a pain for wheelchait users with all these stations with stairs only or unpractible gates.

Well in some ways it is good that this kind of things can make the news. In my home country, it wouldn't even make into the local newspaper, even in the crime section.

It's also quite common in Europe (maybe not in UK).

.. on second thoughts maybe I'm better off just relying on the GPS log in my iPhone which my own lawyer can download and prove I was never there. Yeah, that might be better.

And what would prove you were the one holding the phone at that moment ?

Step 1: If someone touches you inappropriately, grab his wrist and scream so that everybody can hear.