thehedonist comments

Kids today the world over have been pampered and sheltered from reality. They walk around with their noses stuck in Ipods and cellphones.

Simple, if you know your history and the events preciding and post Atomic bomb then the answer is clear.

Get the teachers out of the staff room and into the classroom/ patroling hallways during breaks. Get the parents involved before it becomes an issue. Educate students/parents./schools/public on bullying. Stricter punishment for offenders.

Japan is a great place to visit once, Like any other Island unless you fall in love with what it uniquely has to offer, the world has many more options to chose from. I don't know anyone who vacations in the same place year after year, but to each his own.

While I appreciate the efficiency and thoroughness of the cleaners, the bow is unnecessary.

Eisuke Himoto winner of the Darwin award...twice.

Pass thanks.

Because some people don't have lives.

Good. While you're at it, disband AKB48.

The theory is sound, but what actually happens behind closed doors negotiations is another issue.

No. the government needs to review / implement new / stricter safety standards and better employee training at Nuclear power sites. Simultaneously, the govt needs to actively pursue new, safer and cheaper means of providing electricity to consumers.

Cheaper to develop Selective auditory attention skills.

Sleeping with the heat on / electric blanket is a waste. Wear heat tech long johns under your pajamas, pile blankets on your futon and use a " 湯たんぽ " (hot water bottle).

Living in a country that is on the ring of fire and is subject to typhoons every season, it should not come as a surprise to anyone when a disaster happens. I am most dissappointed in the fact that the J-govt consistenly drags it feet , apologizes for late response, and tries to save-face when these things occur.

Strengths- keeping seats warm. Weakness- anything that requires brain power.

Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame.

All fashion items created after the 1950s.

Basic manners. People used to have social skills before the advent of cellphones, comptuers..etc. Also, people are always in such a hurry nowadays, you have to be on your toes not to get knocked over by some rude person at the train station rushing to get where they are going or so busy gawking at their mobile device they aren't paying attention to anything else.

"I don't think this is an issue. Kanji is not like spelling. It is much more complex and difficult to master. Japanese is the most difficult language on the planet, and there are bound to be occasional mistakes."

Funny, it took me all of 10 seconds to find his name in Kanji on multiple websites online.

Good luck.

Give people the choice to decide what brand/kind of rice to buy. There will always be Japanese who will buy only Japanese rice.

****No to Syria, and any further support of any kind to foreign nations!

Also, stop bringing up the constitution constantly. If you go by that, then that would also mean that Blacks are 3/5 of a person, then you surely would HAVE to agree with that.

The counting of slaves as “three-fifths” of a person was for representation purposes. The fewer slaves counted the fewer number of representatives. “It had NOTHING to do with the worth of a person and EVERYTHING to do with diminishing the power of” the pro-slavery Southern states.

It is an interpretation of the law and laws are subject to change or can be modified depending on the circumstance of the situation or crisis.- The sontitution can be changed. However politicians to often change or modify laws when it is in their best intrests not Americas.

"The President is the military's commander-in-chief; however Article One gives Congress and not the President the exclusive right to declare war. Presidents have often deployed troops with Congressional authorization, but without an explicit declaration of war. According to historian Thomas Woods, "Ever since the Korean War, Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution — which refers to the president as the 'Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States' — has been interpreted to mean that the president may act with an essentially free hand in foreign affairs, or at the very least that he may send men into battle without consulting Congress."[4] Since World War II, every major military action has been technically a U.S. military operation or a U.N. "police action", which are deemed legally legitimate by Congress, and various United Nations Resolutions because of decisions such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Authorization for Use of Force."-

When you grant one single branch this kind of power. this is the first step towards an authoritarian government. The system of checks and balance was set in place for a reason. He is commander-in-chief, that does not mean he is free to by-pass congress to send soldiers into a conflict/war unless the United States is under imminent attack. The American people should be raising holy hell about this!

The U.S. needs to abide by it's constitution. -

Under the United States Constitution, war powers are divided. Congress has the power to declare war, raise and support the armed forces, control the war funding (Article I, Section 8), and has "Power … to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution … all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof", while the President is commander-in-chief of the military (Article II, Section 2). It is generally agreed that the commander-in-chief role gives the President power to repel attacks against the United States. Period.

"Sending the android to space is part of a study aimed at seeing how a non-human companion can provide emotional support for people isolated over long periods."- WILSON!!

Cool Tech t-shirts and briefs.

"Japan's wartime brothels were wrong, says 91-year-old veteran"- You don't have to be 91 years old or a veteran to figure that one out.

Yeah, well my house is a meeting place for inter-galactic space aliens. Nut jobs the world over will make any kind of claim.

Open mouth, insert foot.