Encryption wars heating up in wake of terror attacks It took nearly two weeks for French officials to piece together how a team of nine terrorists planned the deadly Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130. And during that time, intelligence officials filled the media vacuum with their o...

It can be a double edged sword. Speak frankly with women in the Nordic countries and you will find many of them are not entirely happy that they feel forced to participate in the workforce. Sure, there is universal childcare but not everyone wants to deliver their children up to strangers in an ins...

American Oyaji wrote:I have doubts to the quality though.

Me too but Japanese cars and Korean electronics were junk until they weren't.

The problem is Japanese women opting out and WHY they are opting out. It's the CULTURE of forcing Japanese women out after they reach a certain age or get pregnant. THAT is what must be attacked and a penalizing of companies that do this. Anything else is just a sop to the idea of equality or progr...

The $8.6 Billion Yahoo Dilemma Facing Japan's Second-Richest Man Masayoshi Son has a $8.6 billion dilemma on his hands. His SoftBank Group Corp. is the largest investor in Yahoo Japan Corp., controls several board seats and wields more power over the country’s most profitable website than anyone. T...

Well it was just a modest proposal.

If the goal is to create amakudari jobs for worthless dinosaurs, why not just fund non-lethal bullshit whale research?

China Surpasses Japan as Asia's Top High-Tech Exporter China has brought to an end Japan’s dominance of Asia’s high-technology exports, according to the Asian Development Bank. China’s share of Asia’s exports of high-tech goods such as medical instruments, and aircraft and telecommunications equipm...

The easiest way to solve the problem would just be to require companies to have female managers and to pay some tax penalty otherwise (this is already done for the disabled, although just in general employment). Companies will bitch and moan but it'll get done. Plus what's the worst that could happ...

Smileys predate emojis... And were doing the same job... Back in the VT100 terminal days... But yeah sure, them japs invented everything from hot water to the wheel, electricity and the space shuttle... ...and Origami... You guys are confusing Japan with worst Korea. Same shit, shorter gooks... You...

Reality check time. Japan cut its target for women in leadership positions from 30% to 7% For years Japan’s government has been touting a goal to increase the number of women in senior jobs, both in the private and public sectors. In 2003, then-prime minister Junichiro Koizumi proposed the goal of h...

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Speak American.

Russell wrote:

Coligny wrote:Smileys predate emojis... And were doing the same job...
Back in the VT100 terminal days...
But yeah sure, them japs invented everything from hot water to the wheel, electricity and the space shuttle...

...and Origami...

You guys are confusing Japan with worst Korea.

Dunno if this applies to Souka Gakkai. I get off at Souka Gakkai Eki every week day (Shinanomachi). Between the big hospital over the road and SG street going up to Yotsuya San Chome it is happy baba central. It is indeed. I only go to Shinanomachi during beer garden season but they are always out ...

wagyl wrote:Surprisingly few people are aware that circumcision has a wider cultural spread. Just like few people are aware that Kwanzaa uses a candelabra.

It's also still standard in the US regardless of religion though rates are falling.

World must agree to disagree on hunting whales, Japan official says "We did our best to try to meet the criteria established by the International Court of Justice and we have decided to implement our research plan, because we are confident that we completed the scientific homework as well as ....

Toshiba shareholders sue in Tokyo for $2.45 million after stock plunge Fifty individual shareholders of Toshiba Corp sued the Japanese conglomerate in Tokyo on Monday, seeking 301.99 million yen ($2.45 million) in damages after the firm's stock plunged in the wake of a multi-billion dollar accounti...

Widow: Husband, shooter allegedly argued over Holocaust Thompson-Thalasinos said her husband never spoke ill of his colleague and never expressed that Farook may have had extreme views. She said the two just "agreed to disagree." "There are those out there who are spinning this,"...

It does seem weird that they would block users in Japan from looking at their site. They don't have to deliver to customers here just because people can see their website. I guess it could be a way of keeping traffic that's not going to lead to a sale down.

That definition doesn't satisfy the freedom fighter vs terrorist distinction. Does that distinction need to be satisfied? Doesn't that depend on which side you're on? But that makes it too difficult! We sometimes change sides. I distinctly remember Afghan Mujahideen being freedom fighters . Did the...

That definition doesn't satisfy the freedom fighter vs terrorist distinction. Does that distinction need to be satisfied? Doesn't that depend on which side you're on? But that makes it too difficult! We sometimes change sides. I distinctly remember Afghan Mujahideen being freedom fighters . Did the...

Good point about the abortion clinic killings, though. I wonder how much domestic political considerations play into that sort of linguistic gerrymandering? On the flip side calling something terrorism that might not be means much stiffer penalties and, in the case of the US, federal charges. Haras...

If the definition of terrorism is clean, clear and simple why aren't this guy and his ilk branded terrorists? http://www.vox.com/explainers/2015/12/1/9828590/planned-parenthood-colorado-springs-abortion-mass-shooting They are as far as I know. Anti-abortion extremists are considered a current domes...

wagyl wrote:That definition doesn't satisfy the freedom fighter vs terrorist distinction.

Does that distinction need to be satisfied? Doesn't that depend on which side you're on?

If you don't see an issue with using the same label for the unabomber and daesh trained assassins... Those clowns are at best domestic terrorists. Then you need to come up with a new word for Daesh trained attackers because the Unabomber has always been considered a terrorist. The guy was a serial ...

Coligny wrote:If you don't see an issue with using the same label for the unabomber and daesh trained assassins...

Those clowns are at best domestic terrorists.

Then you need to come up with a new word for Daesh trained attackers because the Unabomber has always been considered a terrorist.

California massacre shooter pledged allegiance to ISIS Could have pledged allegiance to the flying pasketti monster or slender man all the same... Russel, if you take a shit on your neighbourg mailboxe and post "i'm wiith Isis"... You're not a terrorist. You are a nutcase. It's the same a...

Actually, Take has it right for the most part What's he right about? That aikido is the path to Nirvana? If there's some kind of spiritual benefit to aikido for some people, that's fine. However, that doesn't have anything to do with whether or not it's effective. There are definitely some things i...

Forget about everything else, ask yourself what will be best for your career, and give yourself an honest answer. That's the choice you should make.