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allegedly because their drinks were drugged.

Don't they have tests for this during post-mortem, surely they would know if she had been give/taken such drugs?

I agree with her mother - A very lenient sentence and I feel sorry the way she says at least now everyone knows she didn't do anything wrong. I don't care how much you party/drink/meet guys, you don't deserve to be murdered.

Oh well.

Don't go into hospitals and clinics when you have this - get advice over the phone from your doctor who would probably recommend drinking plenty of rehydrating fluids and resting. As above it can be fatal to elderly and very young, and unborn babies, clinics are usually full of these vulnerable people so you would not be helping anyone from visiting. I have also had this before and it was the most ill I have ever been. You just need to sit it out (or shit it out as the case may be)

Quite a contrast to the pictures of about 5 Japanese demonstrating about the Fukushima crisis. Good to know where their priorities lie.

This actually happened to me once on a Virgin Atlantic flight. Had just got married so was seated with my husband on a row of 3 seats. I had already prebooked an aisle seat (always do) but was asked to move into the middle when a little girl of about 7 or 8 arrived, so i sat at the window, hubby in the middle and girl at the end. The flight attendent then started telling us she couldn't sit next to a man so I would have to move to the middle. It WAS very humiliating and I argued that my husband was not a pedo and women were just as likely to be. I noticed the little girl was starting to get upset so I shut up and stated playing computer games with her. Was just a bad experience all round, we were made to feel terrible by the airline. I don't think these policies come from worried parents, they are definitely thought up by the ridiculous PC brigade airlines.

By the way GaroJ, the passengers with small , noisy children are given preferential treatment because travelling with them is really, really hard work. Trust me, I do not take my baby/toddler half way across the world to piss people off, I'm doing it cos I have to.

However, we acknowledge that it is difficult to say that the opinions of a survey group represent the opinions of the public as a whole

That really says it all. Less than 2000 people? This survey was ridiculous.

Almost all the supermarkets and shops in my town now have the cigarettes hidden behind shutters (with exception of small family owned shops). You also need to be 18 to buy them - was 16 a few years back. When I was at school I bought cigarettes from age 14 easily and when I couldn't it was easy enough to wait outside the shop and ask someone going in to buy them for you -which they usually did. Now people caught doing that risk a massive fine, along with the shop selling them.

I never have trouble buying alcohol but am always ID'd buying cigs for my dad and I'm 30 now! I honestly don't think the plain packs are a bad idea and I can see the cigarette companies crying over the impact it will probably have on their sales. Am just glad those horrible billboards and posters are banned over here. Smoking isn't cool or sexy in any way!

Gyouza - No it rarely makes news in London - but then again most (all that ive ever heard of) glassing incidents don't end in death.

I saw it happen once in a pub and it was horrendous. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Not mental illness...Calousness.

There have been several death linked to these "legal highs" and the dangers are now quite well known - certainly in the UK where two teenagers recently died after taking them. A foolish thing to do. I hope Japan looks into ways of keeping them out of the reach of young people but these adults should have known better.

Boiling water and kids don't mix well. Oh, I forgot Mickey mouse is for adults here, too.

Have had a good Japanese friend, 2 colleagues and a taxi driver tell me that there "is no nutrition in foreign rice".

Receiving monetary gifts from inlaws and being expected to return 50 percent of the cost back to them in the form of department store TOWELS....

How crass.

Several years ago I went to a Tokyo hospital without referral and again to another about a year back - I had to pay around 5000yen for a first time fee, so I actaully thought this was already common practice.

Problem is, the only time i've needed to go to hospital was at night, it couldn't wait til the clinics were open but was urgent enough to get immediate attention so for this reason I think " out of hours" should be treated differently.

A good "picture of the day".

I must promise myself to visit the macaques next time i'm in Japan but I won't be getting that close!

Some European countries also figured in the top 15

Andrew Wakefield has a lot to answer for.

This reminds me of my first visit to Japan 7 or 8 years ago. I remeber seeing these hundreds of black suit wearing people all over the place and my BF telling me they were looking for jobs - thought it was just something that happened every day :) I can't see any females in this picture at all.

"If your in big metropolitan areas like Vancouver, Ottawa, or Toronto, sure it doesn't matter. But if your in a small town like Kelowna with 90 percent white people, most people behave differently since you look different and at the same time, they are not exposed to other cultures"

I can bet you anything, 99 percent of this "sample" group are living in Osaka or Tokyo.

Love it that the "American man" thinks that Europe is a country :D

Why don't they make a start by banning the ludicrous adverts. Giant posters of beautiful women puffing away on a disgusting menthol..if that girl actually smoked 20 a day she would look NOTHING like that.

In the UK all advertising of cigarettes is now banned. In addition each pack of tobacco carries a huge picture of a black lung, rotting teeth or the results of some hideous autopsy on a smoker along with facts about what smoking can do to you. I smoked when i was a teenager and these images are what made me stop.

Is that is celcius or farenheit?

This picture makes me feel very sad.

Oden is the only type of nabe that I dislike! I think it's the fact that the ingredients in nabe are generally lightly cooked, retaining the fresh taste, whereas oden is stewed to death, big chunks of disentegrating daikon, and those huge triangles of konnyaku (I LOVE it cut up small or in shiratake style) then there's the random hard boiled egg which has turned grey in the stewing liquid- nope not for me :) It could also be that the smell in conbinis in the winter turns my stomach. Kimchi nabe is also my favourite.

Don't have a bread maker at home?

No, actually I don't. I make it by hand and I use flour, water, yeast and a pinch of salt. I wouldn't by a pack of pancake mix either, you are just paying for someone to put extremely cheap ingredients in a bag and charging triple the price. If you like the convenience of it then good for you :)

This is hilarious!

Just add water and yeast. Great - It's a bag of flour?

The plant is BASICALLY stable.

The plant is ESSENTIALLY stable.

So is the plant stable?

No.

What an achievement. His parents must be proud.

3 months? It's hardly worth the time and money when he is going to get off with a slap on the wrist.

So the murderer was "ill" and taken to hospital. If a criminal suspect is so ill that they need to be taken to hospital there is no way they should be let outside to smoke with family members I mean COME ON. REALLY?

All 15 of them...thought they might get a better turn out! I can't really work out what the paragraph underneath means though. Can anyone translate it into English?

A group of protesters are listening to another group of protesters and a citizens group..who, what, where??!!