He's appealing to the nationalist sentiment. If top level politicians regularly pay respects to a shrine that honours Japanese war criminals, you can imagine how the general populace votes.

They're also big on revisionist history. School textbooks are embarrassingly vague as it is about Japan's actions, but these are Japan's real life Holocaust deniers.

Japanese soldiers at the time thought of Chinese/Korean as a lesser species. He probably can't emphasize with non-Japanese women, since Japan hasn't done a good job of teaching its citizens about the realities of WWII history. High level politicians pay respects at a shrine that honours Japan's WWII dead, including…

This guy's in Australia.

I was the worst babysitter ever. The one time I was sent to babysit my mother's friend's kid, I ate all the candy and ice cream out of boredom and irritation at the irritating brat who wouldn't stop throwing stuff at me.

My grandparents' house was ancient, and it had a number of locked, unused rooms. I spent years there as a kid and never went into those rooms, though to be honest I thought there were ghosts haunting the place. If someone I trusted said 'don't go inside', I didn't, not even when I learned to pick locks at 13.

Maybe if she were ordering all her makeup from Japan.

Is it true that pigs sing to their piglets?

Pharmaceutical companies charging what they want? Although my ec prof would have said they were within their rights to recoup R&D costs through the tears of underprivileged women.

I hope he made them cry.

I stopped watering my grass last year during the heatwave, because save the planet, save my money, etc., and the neighbourhood association came down HARD.

They confused south with down. Or they think black people are Mexicans.

Yeah, but you need to check that their work doesn't involve things you're morally against, you know what I mean? Can't drive around with a licence plate spelling out the name of a pornstar who participates in... I don't know, clown sex.

You'd have to start watching a lot of porn to find that many names. Or, you already do?

A guy friend once told me that the really huge insertions required muscle relaxants. I'm not sure how true that is, but he watched enough porn to have named his pets after porn actresses.

This article should be cross posted to the other Gawker sites. They need it more than Jezebel (and io9).

I'd rather sleep for another three hours, but thanks for the tip.

Get your fashion facts right. Those are Hammer pants + adult diaper.

Since he's such a good actor, and since I pretty much screamed when I saw his face on Jezebel, a quarter of the season's good enough for me. I saw on wiki that he's a criminal now! That should be very fun to watch.

When I watched a few minutes of it while waiting for another show, I recognized many of the Toronto buildings and landmarks on Flashpoint, and I think that was what got me interested in the first place. I was all, "Whoa I lived near there," and "OMG my skating rink," "That's my school!" It was like an Easter egg with…