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DisillusionedToday  07:00 am JST

I'm not victim blaming but why do so many young girls go to love hotels with older men? What do they think they are going to do there? Make green tea or flash for cash? Stop going to love hotels with older men and this problem will go away.

Surely you udnertsand 'sexual consent' - please tell me you and the folks voting understand what Sexual consent because it is very worrying to me.

One man sexually assaults a woman, and he gets arrested and reported in the news while hundreds (if not thousands) of women every day are sexually assaulted on public transport and other areas throughout Japan and get away with it every day.

Japan's hidden sexual assault epidemic that the media and authorities choose to ignore every day is shameful.

I committed arson once at the age of 18. I burnt a pile of newspapers outside a shop late at night. The fire department came and put it out while I hid. There was no damage to the building except for some black marks. I was suffering from depression and undiagnosed ADHD and autism at the time.

We don't know what this guy is going through, but I doubt he's just born bad.

> ZaphodToday  01:40 pm JST

Xanadu

Where do ya'll draw the line?! 10 years old, 5?

It is a sliding scale, of course. There is no magic "line" where a "chiid" suddenly transforms into an "adult", at say, 18 years old. Similar situation as with those endless abortion debates. Why is it necessary to immediately jump to the strongest term like "pedophilia"? My main beef is that this devalues the term. If everything is "pedophilia", then nothing is.

Sorry, but your 'sliding scale' does not match that of the law, pediatricians, and parents everywhere (16-18).

This man is a pedophile according to the definition of this word so why on Earth does using it here 'devalue' the 'term'?

pedohphile:

sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object. specifically : a psychiatric disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child.

ZaphodToday  10:19 am JST

Fighto!

> Why do people overuse such strong words immediately? Such hype de-values the word. It is similar to calling every military conflict a "genocide". Words have meanings, if they mean everything they mean nothing.

Er, ... ccording to the law, having sex with a child is considered rape, regardless of the child's consent or actions towards the adult.

Adults are held to higher standards of behavior and are not permitted to exploit or manipulate vulnerable children.

@Japan GlimpsedToday  09:27 am JST

Thickening plot. Sapporo TV reports that the two are father and son, the latter a central government official.

https://www.stv.jp/news/stvnews/kiji/st88c3166de5e543ee99ea70da31569d94.html

Yeah, that's why it's in the news, not as some of the more naive commenters think it's because this was the only violent crime that day! lol

At least they were treated with some degree of humanity, which is more than can be said for the Jp military, which treated all enemies, especially POW's as inhuman and worthless except for slave labour and cruel punishmnets and torture.

OssanAmericaToday  09:31 am JST

Hervé L'EisaToday  07:24 am JST

The alleged atrocities seem eerily similar to those that happened under the Nazis.

If you studied the subject you would know that while specific medical experiments may have been similar, there exists an enormous difference in that U731 was just one small part of the IJA and the victims were predominantly POWs, whereas the Nazi's used rounded up civilians which were a product of an offical policy of genocide. Imperial Japan, while found guilty of several War Crimes, had no such official policy. Hence most of the crimes related to treatment of POWs.

Not sure where you got your info Osssan but you could not be more wrong Ossan.

And as hard as it may seem to top the level of cruelty by the Nazis, Japan managed to do just that with Unit 731.

More people were experimented on and killed by Unit 731 than the Nazis.

The majority of experiments conducted by Unit 731 were on Chinese civilians, including whole villages consisting of men, women and children. The Nazis never dropped the plaque, anthrax and cholera on civilians.

The range of experiments conducted by Unit 731 was extraordinarily diverse, including not only biological and chemical warfare but also studies on the effects of physical trauma, such as gunshots, burns, and explosions, on the human body​

Unlike some Nazi experiments, which occasionally used anesthesia, Unit 731's procedures were designed to maximize suffering. Prisoners were often fully conscious during dismemberment and other forms of experimentation​.

Many members of Unit 731 were granted immunity by the United States in exchange for their research data unlike the extensive prosecution of Nazi war criminals​.

Gene HennighToday  08:41 am JST

Oh, c'mon. Really? Someone 12 years old is mature enough to be blamed for her own assault? People here must never have had any children. 12. She was 12. Anything this guy did to her was wrong - his fault. Idiot kid? Really? Idiot pervert, yes. But a 12 year old isn't an idiot because she's 12. She is just a kid. I can't believe anyone would blame her. Well, I guess there are more idiots than just this guy.

Yes, and at any age, not just 12 years old.

As others have said here, only the perpetrator of sexual assault is to blame.

I can't even get into the heads of these guys who think a girl is partly to blame for being assaulted.

Like, she went somewhere with a guy, so it's somehow her fault he decided to attack her?! WTF?

Marc LoweToday  01:38 pm JST

Unfortunately, committing this sort of crime in overly omotenashi customer service oriented Japan is a piece of cake, really. It saddens me that a scam like this, typically found in Brooklyn or Long Island, would make its way to lovely Japan.

It would be the same anywhere else in the world with modern food standards and regulations and it has nothing to do with 'omotenashi'.

> While Japanese cake is clearly the cream of the crop and the best in the world, its patissiers need to be wary of ill willed customers such as Iwata from the

Yeah, there are very good cakes in Japan, but 'the cream of the crop', meh, it's subjective; there are equally good cakes in France and anywhere else for that matter if you know where to go.

PokerNCigarsToday  08:49 am JST

Foreign activists, aka wanna-be Marxist! lol

Give them 1 year in a Japanese prison then deport them with a lifetime ban! Investigate who funded them and freeze their accounts and assets.

I’ve met a few of these individuals who claim to be paid activists. The Japanese government shouldn’t tolerate these individuals perio

Why? They are clearly passionate about Japan and its environment and are willing to take this risk knowing the consequences.

> factcheckerToday  06:21 pm JST

Why not do what shops do in most other countries: dim the lights and walk around the store politely reminding folks it's time to go? 

Is it hard?

Yes. Someone might go home and have a breakdown if they're told directly to leave. Hence the music.

＼(＾▽＾)／

1997 Maibashi, Gunma was the first time I heard this.

I had just arrived in the country and was in a bookshop when I heard Auld Lang Sang play.

I went to another shop and heard the same tune. I later asked my friend;

"you know I had the most odd coincidences happen ...."

Mr KiplingToday  06:41 pm JST

They are shown interacting with anthropoids, presumably native to the island, who are depicted as primitive and servile...

To be fair, at least partially correct historically. Europe was far more technologically advanced at the time of Columbus than the natives of the Americas.

How is it fair to depict Native Americans as apes in this context?

BertieWoosterToday  05:26 pm JST

We don't need any more of this PC and woke nonsense! It's pure insanity!

Describe 'woke' in this context?

What does 'woke' mean to you?

TobleroneToday  04:50 pm JST

"I took a hard look at" the criticism that the video's imagery can be seen as reflecting specific historical events, he said.

That is some sad pc malarky.

Descibe PC in this context.

wallaceToday  05:23 pm JST

“Woke” is the most overused meaningless word.

Smart

wolfshineToday  05:10 pm JST

Look, I am absolutely not afraid of giving Japan fair criticism where criticism is due. This country has a lot of problems that it will need to address in the coming years and I certainly don't think we should shy away from calling them out when needed.

However, the World Economic Forum, perhaps once perceived as a reputable institution long ago, has lost its credibility in recent years and has rightfully come under fire for its rather dubious intentions and also the extent of their political influence.

I looked at the report. I immediately noticed that ranked above Japan there are several countries notorious for having serious problems with sexual violence. In theory, analyzing discrepancies related to partcipation in business or politics makes sense, but in practice it ends up being this mess of obviously cherry picked data intended to produce a specific type of outcome.

You cannot convince me Kazakhstan, Romania, Zimbabwe, and Serbia are treating women better than Japan is. Maybe among urban elites they have more political and economic participation rates, but how do you even measure what is going on outside of what those country's governments are willing to show you? I imagine in the rural parts of those countries equality has not advanced very much since their ages of industrialization, if at all.

Reports like this are counter productive and actually do more to cover for gender inequality than anything else. WEF is trash and no one should trust or support them.

Did you read the research, though?

All the other research and reports have Japan at similar levels - do you dispute their objectives and accuracy too?

IllyasToday  05:07 pm JST

This is just an arbitrary ranking using subjective criteria by an advocacy organization.

 I despise how news organizations will report on these stories like they're some objective, factual comparison and not just an attempt to dress up advocacy under some pseudo-scientific veneer.

Similar reports have similar results for Japan.

So are you suggesting Japan has a similar gender gap and women empowerment to other developed nations?!

If you think this is not factual, what do you think is the current state of gender bias in Japan?

He was a great researcher and has undoubtedly helped many lower their cholesterol.

However, I am not sure statins are as beneficial as they seem—at least not for everyone.

My medical buddy says that young doctors today are reluctant to prescribe drugs excessively because they feel under pressure to do so.

Despite the fact that my family and I both have high cholesterol, we do not take statins because there are safer, non-drug-causing alternatives to lower cholesterol (for some people).