Fruits of a Repressed Culture

Murder, Suicide, Bullying, Sex Crimes

• Newborn abandoned outside Shiga gynecological clinic
• Schoolgirl found hanged in Akita junior high school toilet
• Chiba woman kills 9-y.o. son, fails in suicide attempt (Chiba Prefecture Cruelty Rating: 10)

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• Hokkaido 69-y.o. man arrested for molesting schoolgirl
• Tokyo daycare center poised to be charged over girl’s jelly choking death
• Woman arrested for murder, attempted murder of sons

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• Mother arrested for leaving toddlers to die
• Woman arrested for murder, attempted murder of sons
• Man appeals 9-year prison term for killing woman who wanted to commit suicide

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• Man strangles wife in failed murder-suicide bid
• Man commits suicide by jumping off building in Shinjuku
• High school boy hangs self from stairway on public road in Nagasaki

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• MPD sends investigators to the Philippines over supposed suicide of Japanese man
• High school boy who bullied another student into suicide put on probation
• 5 people gas themselves to death by burning briquettes in car

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• Trio of strangers commit group suicide in Saitama hotel
• MPD sends investigators to the Philippines over supposed suicide of Japanese man
• Parents of suicide teacher apply for worker’s comp., claiming she suffered depression

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• Man gets 9 years behind bars for killing woman who wanted to commit suicide
• Mother, daughter found dead in Tokyo home in apparent murder-suicide
• Murder-suicide in Osaka hotel claims three lives

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• Ex-gangster shot to death in latest Kitakyushu yakuza shootout
• Fuchu Prison inmate commits suicide with chopstick
• Chiba Prefectural Police detective copied porn seized as evidence, took it home to watch (Chiba Prefecture Police Officials’ Thug Rating: 10)
  

Why Don’t Wealthy Members of Japan’s Ruling Class Commit Suicide?

Learning Japanese: Vasectomy of the Fertile Mind

Learning Japanese language is like vasectomy of the fertile mind. With each word, verse and “sentence” the fecundity of the young mind steadily erodes.

In Japan You Must Speak Japanese; Not English! [Part 2]

• Must Japanese Children Learn the Lingo?
• How foreign teachers are graded [discriminated against] by the prefectural education authorities according to their sex (female only), marital status (married to Japanese), fluency in Japanese, nationality (Holland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia).
  
• The order of preferability [manageability] of foreign nationals (the Americans are ‘too loud,’ but Mormons are welcome, and the Brits are ’stupid.’
• If the ‘incompetent’ Brits [or Americans] ruled a vast empire with their 26-letter set of alphabet, ‘WE’ could do a lot better!
  

Japanese Language: A Hit-or-miss Non-entity

Japanese children are forced to learn three sets of ‘alphabet.’ High school students can read the national papers only after they learn the compulsory set of 1,945 + 166 kanji (Chinese characters). For the reader who is unfamiliar with Japanese writing system below is a brief introduction to its three forms:

Kanji (漢字). Taken and modified from Chinese (so you know who occupied and ruled Japan before the Americans and LDP, despite the denials) characters, each kanji (“Han characters”) can have more than one meaning. Kanji is pictographic; it evoled from using pictures to depict words or ideas. There are about 47,000 kanji (Kangxi dictionary has 47,035), however, Japanese language uses between 5,000 – 10,000 characters. Students are exposed to certain number of kanji at school with the characters getting progressively harder in each grade. [In China full literacy requires a knowledge of about three to four thousand kanji.]

Japanese government introduced the jōyō kanji hyō (常用漢字) (List of Chinese Characters for General Use) in 1981, which includes 1,945 kanji characters, and another 166 special characters used for people’s names. All official documents, newspapers and textbooks use only these kanji. Other publications for specialists may use additional characters. Students can normally read the national newspapers without difficulty by the age of 15.

Kana. All Kanji have their equivalent in Hiragana (平仮名 or ひらがな), with 131 characters (a few are obsolete) and Katakana (片仮名, カタカナ or かたかな), which means ‘fragmentary kana‘ because they are derived from components of kanji, with 146 characters (a few are obsolete). These two other forms of Japanese writing are called Kana. Some Kana are added to kanji to change its meaning, clarify how it’s said and make up the grammar. Hiragana are used for words with no kanji equivalent. Kana are also used when the writer does not know kanji for a word. (C/UNIX nerds see The Japanese Locale)

Continued . . .

Part 1 : Do Not Speak English in Japan!