The Munya Times comments

Jesus Christ it is becoming like a live cage fight with fans on both sides. Dirty little war.

for inability to stop stalker killing 2 women

Inability??? It's not the word for that. I would call it professional negligence.

I am neither a lawyer nor a native English speaker and I just don't know the proper legal term for a thing that called something like the "refusal of giving mandatory help is a felony count," even for civilians. So what about professionals?

They also said that at the time, they had a number of "more urgent cases" to deal with

May I ask what was that? What could be more urgent than halting repeated harassment and serious bodily assault from a man already under criminal investigation, which according to their long years of experience and work routine has a great possibility to escalate into murder.

The National Police Agency said it has instructed prefectural police departments to make sure their is greater coordination and sharing of information in the future.

Empty cliches of law enforcement's arrogance. Even this feigned, meaningless reaction itself constitutes a crime in my eyes.

"A" class criminals.

so that the current board members can resign without worrying about the company's future.

When did they worry at all? If they had done, the company and the country wouldn't be where it is today. Isn't it amazing how the worm of conscience started biting their delicate sense of responsibility at a sudden?

daikonyakusha

It makes no sense to support the police, and in general the authorities or the law enforcement and expect them to do their duties except harassing motorists and little men. You'd better reduce crime by yourself i.e. defend yourself, for they (police) not only steal the money but they wouldn't protect you anyway.

So, just take care of yourself, but if you should be able to defend yourself against criminal attacks, be sure to flee the scene as fast as you can, because you are obviously not a criminal, you are easy and can be sure if you succeed and survive they will be there in no time, arrest, interrogate and drag you to the court.

For Japanese shoppers, food safety was taken for granted until the Fukushima crisis.

It has just never been. I remember well the many of the food scandals.

Yuki brand dairy products caused mass poisoning, even after discovered they merchandised the leftover on more time.

Toxic rice scandal in 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/19/japan.rice

Candy scandal by Akafuku confectioner in 2007 article by Norimitsu Onishi http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/world/asia/31iht-31japan.8123604.html

Arrests in Japanese meat labelling scandal http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/2978546/Arrests-in-Japanese-meat-labelling-scandal.html

Japan recalls sweets in melamine scandal in 2008 http://articles.cnn.com/2008-09-26/world/china.milk_1_melamine-thousands-of-chinese-children-milk?_s=PM:WORLD

Dozens died of eating tainted gyoza, got sick consuming powdered and canned milk products.

Now I should write a 1000 pages report to mention all of them, instead have a look at the Japanese food hazard map.

http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/11/01/food-scandal-map-of-japan/

Don't worry, food has never been safe in Japan it's just the contamination is different.

I could be wrong, but I think trains in Japan are setup so that the cannot run with the doors open I think the are rigged to the braking system.

Yes, they will run.

Almost daily news, the train traveled one full station with a passenger squeezed between two doors, or just their briefcase or backpack, or dragged others down the platform after pinching their legs. The door were not fully closed, yet the train started.

I personally saw from inside the car, a woman was running to catch the Nanboku, double doors, the car and the platform door, she fell, both door closed, not fully of course but with a gap of about 30cm by grappling, pinching her legs and upper torso, and the train started. People were screaming, someone was quick to hit the emergency button, she were not tore into two.

Yes, the train doors are dangerous, if they go malfunctioning they can cause fatal accidents.

That's a serious matter.

Inserting any object in any normal automatic door might be a mischief or the beginning of practicing vandalism. Doing the same to the door of a train is worse , because a malfunctioning door might not shut properly and might even open during the run, causing people fall out and death.

I don't believe the guy of his 20 who did this was not aware of the risk of serious accident may happen and I think he was wanting it to happen.

Another one? Maybe all Japan is going bankrupt.

but the punishingly high yen and fierce competition have made life difficult.

Certainly one reason among the many others. The third world war has been going on for years, in a novel way. It's called globalism and the difference between the traditional and our new war is just one letter,........ the "T" has changed to "B".

Now they can destroy any countries with banks instead of tanks.

Japanese tend to "gambaru" and swallow the pain by accumulating tremendous amount of tension, without their rigid culture and over-disciplined and over-regulated society giving them a chance to let some steam out sometimes. I do believe even if they tried, they just wouldn't know how.

Discussing it about it with many of my Japanese friend I noticed, and they confirmed, that the great average of Japanese people lack the verbal power, as well as the culture, to express their emotions openly, effectively and acceptably. Some of them told me that its the feature of the Japanese language that it is more adequate to explain end express intellectual contents than emotions.

Anyhow, once the bucket is full, any tiny affair is enough and they blow. Go for killing. We only read about the incidents that were the last drop in the bucket.

Otherwise I must mention, that although the Japanese basically tend to consider death as a solution to problem solving, ( see extra high suicidal rate) this craze seems to grow bigger. It might not only be Japanese after all, as reading the comments here lately, I meet more and more grizzly ones, that suggests torture and death as a problem solving to crimes, most of them triggered by social tension, depression, lack of education, ignorance, and poverty.

sometimes he goes mad, like on this infamous video when he made Eminem leave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsvVdRNkNEI&feature=related

A falling angel :-D

It might be a part of the most disgusting story of corporate arrogance of the century, when Nissan is on the killing spree to annihilate nissan.com.

http://www.digest.com/Big_Story.php

MARCH - 2008 Nissan Motor's trademark registration. Nissan Motor is attempting to obtain a Federal Trademark Registration for computers and computer peripherals among other classes of goods and services. We feel that Nissan Motor, in this action, is staging a future case against us in the computer and peripherals market. We are left with no other course of action but to oppose this registration.

More about the story at

http://nissan.com/

I am a Nissan owner but certainly as for the other 5000 people there it was my last Nissan car, not because of Nissan action, but because the Nissan service is extremely expensive and very bad quality, they broke my car three times in the service and they didn't even apologize, and when I wrote their English customer service, specifically formed for foreigners, I got the most humiliating, dismissing reply I ever had.

So, Nissan with global app for Android and with their English customer services is no more than a polishing the rusty junk. Thanks Nissan, it was my last Nissan.

Marshall Islands are shark sanctuary. Japanese vessels love poaching in sanctuaries. They have a slogan, lets go harvesting the sea.

good to see that the Marshall Islands are not afraid of enforcing their laws..

Yes, it might be. Or it was just a warning to the Japanese to pay the bribe.

Whatever it is, one thing is sure, the Japanese arrogantly disregard and shamelessly evade all laws at the sea. This was nor the first one. Oh, yes, and they have another slogan to the world; please respect us, our culture and our laws.

Why did it take them so long to decide to replace the Board?????

Because at first they had to collect the money and decide whose pocket it will migrate to.

New citrus traders on the horizon? This year yield was too big to sell?

We can read these kind of scientific studies in every now and then, promoting something. Depends on what they have too much stock unsold and accumulated or just expected to be a good and profitable trade on the market.

Business as usual. Tomorrow we can read that a newer study shows that licking ginger lollipops is even better to avoid stroke and playing with tamagochi minimum 20 minutes a day develops excellent social skills and prevents bed wetting.

@the-grouch

Munyatimes... Why offer them a job? They deserve nothing.

So that they can earn money to pay the check through hard work and not milking their parents.

@cleo

1......Getting them to apologize to the monkeys is totally absurd, premeditated revengeful humiliation.

2......And, I imagine, very effective.

To make them hate monkeys and animals more and pay back for the humiliation that they will not forget for decades. Never humiliate anybody, humans or animals, they will never forget and will haunt you. There must be other ways to get satisfaction and make changes.

and with their company

@Verisimilitude

how many of the homeless today lost their jobs, because they could not cope with the technological changes

Actually a thing that came to my mind was, how many of the successful survivors ate the companies could keep their job despite they are unable to cope with the technological changes, for they are winners in keeping up with the changes in human resource management and their with company unrealistic and cruel social requirements by hoisting their faked colors and shifting responsibility onto one another, .....just inside their own firm. Seems they possess some kind of creativity, don't they. A different kind of creativity.

Now that's, .......yes, dystopian in and out beyond the misery of the homeless and is growing unlikely villain.

Otherwise, agreed everything you wrote. We are on the same page, just this little thing I mentioned above. Too bad I can't see the tomorrows.

How many of them are hardworking, talented men (they all seem to be men) who lost the fight inside the company for keeping their job despite their nice work achievement, while the pushy, the aggressive and the arrogant with good career technique, including endless night work alcoholism, survived.

Keeping job and get money has very little to do with good work performance today. Maybe they just lost their last chances before the HR, during the interviews when they failed to give stupid answers to their stupid questions.

Not even Huxley put it that bad in his Brave New World although everybody could see he described hell.

I don't think it was necessary to have them clean the monkey's enclosure, that is a paid job for payed stuff. Getting them to apologize to the monkeys is totally absurd, premeditated revengeful humiliation. Similarly insane as the criminals' action.

Both are totally useless, it only makes those people similarly revengeful and teaches them to retaliate with the same cruel thing for everything.

Apologizing to the zoo director, to the staff is proper. Having them to clean the enclosures is only fair ion voluntarily base and as a part time summer job, payed the same way as the normal employees.

What I think could be a proper and sane reaction is:

A., Make them pay for the extra cleaning and the medical treatment for the animals they have harmed plus for the trespassing.

B., Undergo a obligatory full medical and psychological evaluation on their own cost.

C., If they have no money to pay for the damage and their medical evaluation, then assign them to any summer job they are willing to do. If they agree even enclosure cleaning. For fair payment of course.

D., If the evaluation is favorable, as a rehabilitation, for normal salary, offer them an animal attendant and care job at the zoo. It might help them to get love and build understanding and respect for others' life, human or animals.

E., If the evaluation is unfavorable, put them under police surveillance for years until a repeated medical evaluation will report they are harmless. That would be; checking in at the nearest police station every day at 7 or 8 in the morning. After finishing work or school, check in again, latest time ten a clock again and submit a short report on what they did all day specifically in their free time. That sometimes should be checked by the police at random. Certainly even this on their own cost.

@noriyosan73 Feb. 25, 2012 - 02:44PM JST

Though, I am scared by nuclear energy I basically don't object the use of it.

What you have mentioned as an alternative energy carrier is certainly not bad, but please consider the possibly of the soaring and unaffordable prices of pig waste if such alternative methane power plants were build on industrial scale.

Let alone the necessity of building expensive pig waste processing plants, those who would throw out the 80% of the purchased basic commodities for being faked imitations of pig waste.

After all what we have experienced in the food industry in the past few years what could we expect in the pig waste industry for electric power plants. Serial blackouts.

It's O.K. to go nuclear if they don't do what the Japanese did and they would build the NPP at a safe place and not in the fault line, consider the timely warnings, care about safety and carry out the costly regular and proper maintenance, employ competent and capable staff who knows at least what the Japanese staff didn't, how to activate the emergency cooler system, the water stored in huge tanks in case the diesel generators failed, can provide proper manuals and training for well payed responsible staff to do a high risk job.

It's simple like this. More exactly have the NPP built, operated, and supervised by humans and not wild boars.

Why is she standing legs crossed so much? Correcting curvy legs. Doesn't affect me, I wouldn't want to have an affair with a vampire anyhow, even if sexy. But she doesn't look that bad, not that bad at all.......... for a vampire.

Well, for relaxing I'll go to see some women.

"I want a carnivorous boyfriend who can bite me gently."

Look Serina, we have an old carnivorous sex addict oojisan in the apartment building where I live. if you remove his false teeth his he can do it for you very gently without causing a scratch.

It would also be nice if he were telepathic,

Now, I am not so sure about he can do that, but if he doesn't sense your presence and opens the door you might as well ring the bell. Good luck.

As far as I know SSCS couln't catch up the whalers' mother factory vessel yet, due to Yushin Maru No. 3 relentless tailing on the Steve Irvin. Maybe they are trying to get rid of Yushin Maru No. 3 . I don't know actually that apart from the skirmish and the damage they inflicted on one another they could protect a single whale from being killed this year.

Not the first time he tries to raise his word to make the ruthless work of the IHA more human.

@cleo

Oh dear, looks like I've gone too far.

No, you have not, I misinterpreted it writing my post in haste and I should have put it in different way like @cleo convinced me it might not be fair to leave the family with the blame in case of possible sudden death.... etc..etc..

Sorry I didn't mean to put words in your mouth.

correctly

It seems to happen more often in big cities where people are so close and see each other all day, but they just don't want to notice one another.

People are constantly "getting together", but they never really get there and whilst everyone is terrified of being alone and despite the universal assumption of wareware Nihonjin comradeship, in company they often remain as remote from each other as the stars

They enjoy their loneliness better in crowd. They are familiar to being in crowd but it seems it is just being so overcrowded has developed a culture of mutual discreet consideration of others personal sphere and are afraid of invading or hurting it. Even my best Japanese friends tend to hide their problems and fight alone for they are afraid of causing inconvenience to others with their problems. It seems to be one of the basic fundamental of the Japanese social evolution and culture.

Well, I don't think is is good, but even if I acknowledge and accept that, it seems to me it has really gone to extreme, especially when even the handicapped or the children are involved. I guess it is high time for Japan to redefine their social norms and expectancies.

I mean, @cleo has convinced me that the life of the mother couldn't be saved, but two corpses rotting for months in a big city apartment (not an isolated country farm) that's morbid. That is unacceptable. Something really came off the track here.

It seems to happen more often in big cities where people can are so close and see each other all day, but they just don't want to notice on another.

@cleo

Thanks for the additional info and the link.

@cleo

How do you know? Found in Japanese news? Anyway, I believe you, otherwise it was one of my guess, anyway.

But I disagree with your other point of;

Whatever country you're in, no matter how close you are to family and neighbours, no matter how efficient the ambulance service, they aren't going to be of much help if you're struck with a sudden debilitating illness that prevents you calling for help.

If either the neighbors or the father, if there is any, or relatives payed a bit more attention, at least the kid could have been saved from death of starvation. It takes days.

@mastertigurius' point reflects well on reality here in general.

Didn't the mother even have time to call an ambulance or relatives to ask for help, such a sudden death? In my country I could even call my coo-workers or friends or the next door neighbor for help.

Maybe she suddenly collapsed as she was found on the floor. Or it's just her sober judgment of the graveness of the situation failed her? Maybe she knew, she felt that something went wrong in due time, but had nobody to ask for help hoping for a little bit more than a "gambatte neeee"!

Or just didn't mind dying, being exhausted from child care of a mentally handicapped child? Well, at the age of 45, living the life of the poor and the hopeless, taking care of an incapable child, sadness and hopelessnes can make anybody ill and can even kill. But no husband, no father of the child to help her, to look after them even if it is not more than a daily phone call, after delivering a sick child at a late age of her 41? God knows what had happened.

I can imagine the scare of the little child trying to talk to his dead mother, crying, shaking, stroking, pushing her in an attempt to bring round his mother and than patiently waiting to die in a tiny closed apartment. Horror of horror.

Good we live in a rich, developed, responsible, humane society where no one will be left alone and can be sure their dead body will be discovered within a short time of two months. Latest time half year when they fail to pay their dues and taxes. Gambatte neeeee.

I am just disgusted as usual.