The entire country of Japan only has about 500 murders per year. Not gun murders. 500 or so murders total.

If only this were the most serious issue affecting Japanese-Korean relations...

It's not just the grammar that's bad. The pronunciation is also horrible. It was definitely intentional, though. You can't mess up the language to that extent without really trying at it.

I know that this was a tentative itinerary and the dates could be changed, but why so little time in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan? For that matter, a whole month in LA? What's there to do for a month in LA?

Metal Gear Solid IV was really good in the first two levels, but after that was pretty ho-hum. When I finished the game, the first thing that came to my head was, "Is that it? Is this really the end of the game?" Still, I loved the first two levels.

Wouldn't they have to have a pretty advanced understanding of the electronics involved in order to be able to make a machine that would turn on but "just barely?"

They don't want to get sued for using a company name/logo without permission. And if you have to change it to something, why not?

Women in college should be issued pepper spray and/or stun guns. Of course, they should be properly trained in how to use them.

To the government of New Zealand: You better make damn sure that these guys are never issued a passport.

People often brag online about things that they didn't actually do. I'm not saying that these boys didn't do it, but in a court of law, the statements need corroboration.

I think it does a pretty good job conveying what "happened" on a conceptual basis much better than a real photograph of the "event" would.

Staying in love hotels has a major downside: if you want to stay the night, you have to check in after 8:00 PM. This is because they also have people coming and going throughout the day and they want to maximize turnover. And they almost never do reservations. Some places will let you enter before 8:00 if you pay the…

What he said could just as easily have been translated as, "someone who doesn't know what he/she is doing."

Try searching for 「セックスレス」 on the Japanese version of Google. It gives you a lot more reputable stuff, including a Wikipedia entry. Of course, the term refers to couples (mostly referring to married couples, though not exclusively) who have more or less stopped having sex and the figures, even for younger couples, are…

Congrats! Way to go, dogg!

Um... It says 生産終了 (seisan shuuryou). They're not giving birth to those things, you know...

It was also a national holiday. I'm sure JR East took measures to avoid inconveniencing people. Unlike JR West, who could care less.

It looks to me like they did it in the middle of the afternoon, when even the Yamanote Line is hardly crowded.

Who else thinks this is Borderline Personality Disorder?

If our modern culture has taught us anything, it's that you have to blame someone when something goes wrong.