Tuesday, June 2, 2009

strange news

there were two news i saw which i thought very strange to me.

1. a drunken college student grabbed a woman and jumped off to a train track in tokyo.

well as a news it's not strange, but the outcome was very strange i thought. guess who apologized at the press conference? the university which the suspect belongs to. i believe this will not happen in any other country but japan.

how could the university be responsible to this individual's account? as i mentioned before, japanese society is very collective. when a minor or student does some criminal activity, not their parents, but school the youth belong speak for them in public.

2. a tv personnel is questioned by police by holding a hunting rifle on a tv show.

he just held a rifle to check how heavy it was on a tv show and is being questioned for an account of violating the firearm control law. just let you know, in japan you need a permit to hold an firearm. i think there are a lot more issues that police should pay attention to...

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