Posted in: Japan succeeds in test flight of first stealth fighter jet See in context
Disgusting.
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Posted in: Murder charge dropped against American in case of woman found floating in bay See in context
karma will hit back.
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Posted in: Backlash as Japanese police tweet warns women to not ride elevators alone with men See in context
First step to conquer all this is to establish proper social conduct between women and men. Getting into gender groups automatically is X at the start when normal conversations are ongoing. Alpha, Beta, Alien males? None of it. It doesn't matter whether that person is funny, etc, women have to try make effort to actually put an interest to talk to a guy she doesn't like, or likes. Women have to start making an effort to talk to any guy equally, just like we do. Why is it always that we text, chat so much and the receiving end doesn't even bother to make past the 10 lines? All should talk equally, one on one.
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Posted in: Japan launches satellite to study black holes See in context
Hope it goes further than that.
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Posted in: Japan needs immigrants to boost population: minister See in context
My Japanese friend just moved back to his hometown somewhere in Yokohama from New Zealand, and seeing that he still is just the same, how will he be treated back there? Perhaps some indifference? Please shed light on this.
This systematic mentality, (the machine chunking out humans like used parts) should be stopped by each small changes as possible, that perhaps is more likely the base issue than the issues that branches from it, karoshi, gaijin, etc. It won't matter whether you're a foreigner or not in fact, since the system suppresses each individual free of beneficial thought. Coming from a graphics designer/artist/illustrator, it's as if saying we only need Japanese graphic designers that have that particular style, and not of any other cultural types. This doesn't make sense. We're all artists, at the end, although if you prefer, our style is dominant in that painting?
Obviously, it is a bureaucratic, run-around-the-mill, non-achievable system that blocks our way for an improvement.
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Posted in: Culture clash: 10 insider tips for visiting Japan See in context
Superficiality is a killer of genuineness. Explore your emotions, and don't succumb to what people should tell you to do.
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Posted in: 'Star Wars' proves treasure trove for philosophers See in context
and there's also more to it than the "good and evil" dichotomy. ;)
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Posted in: 6 tips for learning Japanese See in context
.....if you are in Japan, start off by getting a job in a Japanese restaurant. well, you can pick up loads of bits. How language is learned? Don't translate it to english. Try your hardest to make yourself think of the meaning visually, when you say a word in Japanese.
ps- Thunderbird2, listen to that JLPT N1 audio course again, sped up 2x XD
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Posted in: Japan's tiny refugee community urges Tokyo to open doors wider See in context
I think we need to watch Shinjuku Incident again, even though it's a movie.
It's because of the militaristic mentality that the Japanese/Japan is a unique country/race. And... who, or what gave this cancerous mentality to the Japanese themselves anyways? It's even affected some of the foreigners that originally arrived for a good break in the far eastern part of the world?
Hopefully, if the populace wakes up in times of crisis (no matter how late), or that your own citizens are aware and sneaking out the back door, in the end... the rich are left alone in this forsaken island.
Anyways... this may be an even impossible obstacle (but heck of a solution) to Japan's problem of identity and culture/race. Teach the Japanese themselves, that there is no race. "You are just part of a collective whole that embraces the country's work. ", again. If they are so collective, overpower one mindset that is already in there.
It's weird seeing people fighting and arguing about something that does not exist, yet we made it possible that it should exist, to the point it even changes our own biology. "Purity" of race. You even do know that the Japanese stole/borrowed many concepts and ideas from their brotherly nations. At least Korea had the initiative to invent their own actual written language, perhaps, and be twice as successful being a materialistic nation than Japan wanted it to be for it's own.
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Posted in: Why is Japan such an unpopular tourist destination? See in context
So...what's the reality? Realistic situation? Being a malaysian-chinese (looking mostly like a korean though)...
Am i going to face a bit of... embedded hostility on the first week i arrive in tokyo or osaka? My friends are from Yokohama and Sapporo... so i don't know about that, and... fukuoka too.
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Posted in: Japan should accept more refugees, fix asylum system: UNHCR See in context
If any type person/group is using any type of ideology, belief, system, etc in order to instill violence or disorder (even corruption) then they, having understanding reason should and need change their value. If she/he is here to talk about ways that we could actually formulate a plan (regardless how theoretical or practical it is), that individual should do whatever it takes to get the first step in.
But unfortunately in Japan, disorder is covered up as order.
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Posted in: 9 ways Tokyo could become more foreigner-friendly in time for 2020 Olympics See in context
More english signs. More furigana?
Less superficiality?
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Posted in: U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore opens home to Syrian refugees See in context
What a joke.
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Posted in: In Japan, even the train evacuations are orderly See in context
Considering the situation, there isn't a need for panic. It isn't a disaster, or an actual calamity of sorts. I wondered what happened to the people who were in urgent situations? Would they rush themselves?
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Posted in: 10 factors that make Japan a safe country See in context
Japan is JUST a normal country, like any other... except it's more categorized, prejudiced against it's own will, awfully bureaucratized. Albeit, unlike in other countries, negative labels are mentioned much more than usual. They've even got their own terms for such phenomenons. Saddening.
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Posted in: 16-year-old boy dies after inhaling lighter gas See in context
You can get high by drinking just tea. Try it. Get addicted to healthy things, not...chemicals.
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Posted in: Students complain of being exploited in part-time jobs, survey shows See in context
Someday we ought to have a protest.
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Posted in: 6 types of Japanese people you’ll meet while living in Japan See in context
It's a good joke for sure.
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Posted in: Aerobatic review See in context
....LOL, why is there an extra circle in our sky, with that olympic symbol?
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Posted in: China calls Japan's new security laws threat to regional peace See in context
A word can be spoken to end, or prevent a "war", let us remember Vasili Arkhipov, whom prevented the oncoming of a nuclear war, by arguing a moment's just "waiting for Moscow's orders", even though three officers (of a majority) decided to hastily and unanimously authorize a nuclear launch...
Japan should be now "diplomatic" more than ever, but this current Administration is too fear-mongering upon itself and towards it's citizens and beyond towards it's neighbours. It's egoistic shadow is still lingering there, fueled by it's heritages. What we should really be focusing on is preventing the escalations. The administration should've done it's best at that, too... but it's quite bleakly unfortunate that they choose to propose and article in which the weapon industries get a massive profit off, and so on. Are we not supposed to focus on the internal affairs of the country? Japan, at it's current state is absolutely not in a sustainable condition and it obviously wants to eat a bigger cake than it could.
There really isn't a point, having Japan "defend" itself from China, either. It surely may defend itself towards it's homeland, from any foreign type of hostile presence, but the fact that remains, this is actually a issue of tensions ,rivaling between the US and China, and Japan should not be included in it. For a country that has a huger advantage over Japan, (just look at the whole stats), it should be said that war would just lead to suffering. No matter what would people say "Japan needs to defend itself", etc... there is no point. absolutely no beneficial point, and we know this ourselves, beyond our social, identity conditioning.
In essence, it's great to see where and what this statement would lead to (from China)... and perhaps more so on South Korea.
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Posted in: Man jailed for 2 1/2 years for stabbing neighbor See in context
It's not the length of how many years criminals should stay in prison. It's the severity of (said) treatment does the prisoner get in the prison.
Is there a little more... specification on what "kind" of "hallucinogenic" drug is being used? He might've really gone past the line to murder someone just being "toxicated" with that. Must've been a mix, obviously...but this case really does sound like a "grudge" type of thing.
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Posted in: Mother, son fall to their deaths from 14-story apartment in apparent murder-suicide
Posted in: Mother, son fall to their deaths from 14-story apartment in apparent murder-suicide
Posted in: IAEA chief visits Fukushima as Japan returns to nuclear power