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Yes, hiragana is used primarily for native words while katakana is used primarily for foreign/loan words. But katakana is also often used stylistically to write native words to give them a more masculine or more direct emphasis. Then there's also kanji characters. Hiragana can be used on top of...

Actually I wasn't aware of this until recently. You need to be 16 during the year of the Olympics. So you can be 15 while you're at the Olympics, you just have to turn 16 before the end of the year. No idea what the story with Koko Tsurumi is, though. There might simply be an error in her profile.

You can think of kana (hiragana and katakana) as the Japanese alphabet. Kanji makes up the bulk of vocabulary, but the characters can be spelled out in hiragana to help you figure out how it's pronounced. For example, the word "Japanese language": 日本語 (kanji) = にほんご (kana) = nihongo (romaji)...

Well, that info is a bit chopped up and edited. You can copy just the hash at the bottom of that info, then in Share, look in the Triggers tab and choose Add trigger. Then paste it into the hash field, and click Add. You're right about the clusters, although cluster keywords are intended as...

Well, in certain countries they certainly are predominantly U-18. It depends on how aggressively each country scouts and trains its athletes for specific events. Then again, female gymnasts need to be short and lightweight, and while we normally associate 5'2" 100lb females to be around the...

http://www.joc.or.jp/gallery/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics#Artistic http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/search/country=JPN/index.html I don't know if they're "mostly juniors". These were the only U-18 athletes I could find, out of about two dozen gymnastics...

Not sure which Nao video you're referring to. Just to clarify: a hash isn't a file, just a string of letters/numbers that represents the "fingerprint" of the file you want. In Share, a hash can combined with a filename, file size, and/or the ID of the person who uploaded it, to create a line of...

The Global IP is correct. You probably have a router which assigns your computer a "local" IP address (such as 192.168.?.?). Since this is a different computer, you need to make sure you add Share to Vista's firewall exception. If you are using a router, you will also need to check that your...

Countries or ethnicities that have been victimized feel those tragic moments of their histories with particular poignancy. Africans regarding slavery, Jewish regarding Halocaust, and so on: their sufferings make up a significant part of their identities. Within China-Korea-Japan relations...

I don't need to spell out the wrongdoigns of Japan because they are very well known -- at least among people who have studied 20th century East Asian history and are aware of Japan's modern international policies. Would you prefer it if I described Japan in an "overstated" manner by calling...

There is a fine line between direct racism and a personal projection of racism. Any foreigner living in Japan is going to feel segregated from Japanese society to some degree just by fact that Japan is over 90% ethnic Japanese, demographically. Accordingly, a foreigner may find him/herself...

Her permission, natch.

Never gonna happen. The RIAA and MPAA spend tens (if not hundreds) of millions of dollars to employ anti-piracy security measures (DRM) on movies and music. Porn producers will never willingly shell out that kind of money. I mean, the guy can go chase all the websites he wants, but for every one...

Obviously the issue is not so black-and-white. However, allow me to explain the problem surrounding this larger issue: Let's lay down the indisputable facts. Japan had a great many war crimes against Korea (and elsewhere), most significantly from the beginning of the 1900s until the San...

Do you endorse the behavior of killing birds then throwing them at embassies, as well as burning/soiling flags?

I'm sure they don't go to "work" every day. But you still have to eat every day, and have somewhere to sleep every night. :goodboy:

At current trading, ￥500,000 comes to about US$4700. It's plenty if you're only using it to buy non-essentials, but if you have to pay living expenses (rent, bills, food, travel), it'll last about 2, maybe 3 months.

They're not salaried, they're paid per commission. Usually about $300-500 per DVD (higher or lower, depending on label and the girl's fame). Also, ￥500,000/yr is pretty low even by part-time standards. Full time salaries start off at ￥200,000/mo (=￥2.4mil/yr). Even part time at ￥2000/hr...

How is this helpful? I don't disagree that a significant amount of the world's media outlets are under Jewish control, but I fail to see how supplanting a bilateral power struggle (Korea/Japan) with a hidden conspirator (Zionist) clarifies the ordeal. What difference does it make whether...

Well here you go: The [dispute over the islets] has affected 104 exchange programs between Japan and South Korea, including the cancellation of 63 ... Most of the cancellations, postponements, suspensions and scalings down of such events ... were decided on at the request of South Korea...

From my understanding, the name "Dokdo" only came into widespread use in the 19th century (evolving from Seokdo, Dolseom, Dokseom, etc). This is the argument used by linguists that claim the name Usando evolved into Dokdo. It would not make sense for an ancient Korean map to include both the old...

First, Germany's war crimes were the result of Hitler and his regime. That objective knowledge allows people to rationalize German history because, quite frankly, Hitler is dead (and neo-nazis are a vast minority). What you are doing is blaming one point of Japanese history on the entire...

Japanese history clearly shows a lot of tributary culturalization from the mainland, but ancient archeological artefacts do demonstrate that a native indigenous culture did in fact exist and flourished independent of control from the mainland and/or peninsula. To think that Japan owes all its...

gundamfan: The EEZ surrounding the islets is certainly one consideration -- and to that end recognizing the islets as Korean sovereignty would pragmatically be a "fair" way to divide the sea. But there should be no illusion that the primary incentive is nationalistic claim (ie: Japan's vocal...

You're missing my point. I don't care about the dispute, and I don't have a problem with Korea claiming sovereignty over the rocks. What I do have a problem with is how they are going about it by resorting "shock value" tactics, and legitimizing them by claiming that no one can possibly...

There is no "wrong" information surrounding Liancourt Rocks. There is an overwhelming amount of ambiguity, and both countries are simply interpreting history to their favor. If Japan claims Liancourt belongs to Japan by writing two sentences in textbooks, Korea certainly has every right to...

Every study deserves its fair share of scrutiny, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them worthless. The point is whether or not Japan really deserves such a stereotype of being a land full of rapists. There have been numerous reports that have tracked significant decline of sexual abuse in...

From my understanding of the issue, "Dokdo" (and variations of the name in different Korean dialects) has been identified in many Korean texts that date far before the 1905 Japanese claim. The problem is that all of the Korean historical evidence (geographical surveys and literary references)...

There is some debate about the economy around the area, namely fishing and potential oil. But this would hardly qualify as a diplomatic response from the general public if the main concern was economic rights.

Well, nanpa JAV isn't real nanpa, just staged (sorry if I burst your bubble). "Nanpa"-esque AV is quite plentiful in other porn-happy countries.

This is a bit of a hot button and there's a lot of discussion going on, but if you don't know the background I will be concise about it. The protest centers on the ongoing debate about the Liancourt Rocks, a pair of uninhabitable islets in the middle of the Japan Sea, and Japan and Korea have...

[SOD]LADYxLADY-40 (in original post) is available on Share (untested) AV [2007.12.11] (SOD LADYxLADY) 朝倉家3姉妹物語 おかあさんが帰るまでお留守番の巻 [2h18m50s 640x480 XviD1.1.2+MP3].avi 64,764,024 544fc70edd05c44198ec964ae3a56ecfa4fd7f66

Make sure your Windows time and timezone is setup correctly.

Maybe not that specific DVD. But it's one of many in a series, 「じゅーだいいえで体験記」. A lot of them have been posted here in the JAV sections and at other JAV websites.

￥250,000/mo (￥3M annual) is the bare minimum if you need to pay your own rent. If your company provides an apartment, they will probably still tell you the full salary but subtract a flat fee for rent. But you should get as much information about housing as possible, as people have been known to...

^ Popcorn Hour is a set-top media streamer, not software. Download mkvtoolnix, open up the offending AVI file, then select both audio and video streams and remux into an MKV file. Takes about 1 minute.

I run PerfectDark on my 2ghz single-core laptop and it runs just fine (I average 300k/s downloads). PerfectDark consumes more CPU because of more stringent encrypt/decrypt process, and also because the GUI is more CPU-intensive than Share. For PerfectDark to work well, you really need to let...

If you don't mind having your router assign an additional IP, switch your VM to Bridged networking. Your NAT setup currently has a missing link where the router is correctly setup to forward connections (the "virtual server") and your VM is setup to receive (Windows firewall and ShareEX port...

BD: Bondage/Domination (restraining a sexual partner, but no induced pain) SM: Sadism/Masochism (giving/receiving pain as sexual pleasure) Scat is short for scatology, though in AV it's broadened to include mostly any bodily excretion that isn't a normal part of sexual intercourse (eg: enemas...

Right now is actually "Mt Fuji season". If you want to go there's all sorts of ways, you can join a regular tour group, you can take a hiking tour, or you can just go by yourself/with friends; all with different costs. I think Mt Fuji is open all year, but I would advise against going during...

Check Wikipedia (or urbandictionary). :goodboy:

I don't think anyone said that there weren't any JAVs with english subtitles. But by and far most of them just don't. It makes sense that this example you provide is urabon since it's legal audience is actually international and the resulting high price of the content (since it's domestically...

Some JAV girls are scouted; that is, they're recruited and choose to do JAV even though they don't really need the money (only to buy luxury items). They mainly enjoy sex, which is why they consider it in the first place, and don't really care that it's filmed. But most girls treat it like a...

Interesting maps from Jacek Wesolowski. However, he only included the MTA subway lines for New York City, when other commuter lines should be included (like NJTransit, LIRR, Metro North, PATH, etc). Here you go, and good luck: http://www.mukiryoku.com/Tokyo_suburban.jpg (3.16MB file)

I don't think there's necessarily more freedom in Japanese adult entertainment (censorship and all), but I will grant that there's a cultural difference where the idea of the "innocent" girl (hence r*** as a common plotline) is more popular in Japan than in America where people prefer to think...

It's easy to sit in your armchair and blame the bystanders for not doing anything. The reality is that the idea of Akihabara is nothing like that of (any of the districts in) cities such as New York City, where crime happens so regularly that everyone knows to be on the lookout for trouble and...

$3000 before or after plane tickets? If you already have tickets, then $100/day isn't too bad, though you might be able to do more if you cut it back to 3 weeks. If you want to travel inside Japan, get a Japan Rail Pass ($270 for a 1-week pass, same cost as a Tokyo-Kyoto round trip). It will...

Well, the legal system is gradually improving. There's less pressure for successful prosecutions now, and conviction rate is falling, albeit very slowly. The introduction of the jury system next year should help things. I think the police system is just as much at fault. A lot of low-level...

If you have broadband (cable or DSL), you can check if your ISP is on this list: http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs If it is, there's a chance your ISP is the reason your torrents are slow (there are some recommendations on how to speed them up). Otherwise, you should have no problem...

I fully support gender equality and I think it's important to discuss problems like domestic abuse -- even within specific cultures as case studies (like Japan) -- but there's a difference between culture and race, which if misunderstood is outright racism. Take lolicon manga: lots of people...