tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post115789297203308137..comments2023-09-28T19:24:57.649+09:00Comments on jmglov: Japan: The Cleanest Nation on EarthJosh Gloverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01937662965184237064noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post-49716968632150320612010-06-06T16:41:22.491+09:002010-06-06T16:41:22.491+09:00Japan is real clean nation. Everything there is ve...Japan is real clean nation. Everything there is very neat and under control.Auto Accident Attorney Houston, Texashttp://www.joelagordon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post-1158692498007913062006-09-20T04:01:00.000+09:002006-09-20T04:01:00.000+09:00I think that Japan has about 75,000,000 cars (and ...I think that Japan has about 75,000,000 cars (and trucks)for just over 125,000,000 people. I would guess that the USA has over 200,000,000 cars and trucks (very similar ratio). New Zealand has an almost 1:1 car / population ration which is pretty sick.<BR/><BR/>You are 100% correct about drink driving in Japan. Most people will take trains home (or cabs). This leads to fewer deaths from drink driving but a higher rate of piss-drunk salarymen staggering around the streets at 2 in the morning....<BR/><BR/>In Japan, road deaths involving alcohol typically make the national newspapers. In Canada or the USA, I'm not sure that DUI related deaths would even make the local press in a larger city.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the USA's road deaths are not higher than Japan's simply because of drink driving. In the USA, there are PLENTY or roads where you can average more than a 50kph crawl.... Not as common in Japan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post-1158689724453015152006-09-20T03:15:00.000+09:002006-09-20T03:15:00.000+09:00Out of curiousity does anyone know what the ratio ...Out of curiousity does anyone know what the ratio of cars per people in in Japan versus the ratio of cars per people in the US. <BR/><BR/>Anyway it makes sense doesn't it that with such a great public transit system most drunks and other people tend to use the train which results in fewer people driving?SFBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17700480045130842688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post-1158178844498828602006-09-14T05:20:00.000+09:002006-09-14T05:20:00.000+09:00Japan records drink driving statistics just like a...Japan records drink driving statistics just like any other country. You can see them in various government white papers.<BR/><BR/>Since Japan has about 1/4 the road fatalities of the United States (about 1/2 the rate per 100,000 people), something is being done right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post-1158160248923488342006-09-14T00:10:00.000+09:002006-09-14T00:10:00.000+09:00On NHK "news" tonight, they spent about 30 minutes...On NHK "news" tonight, they spent about 30 minutes discussing the Japanese convention of drink driving and how whilst drivers should be responsible for not drinking and driving, they are in fact so used to it that we shouldn't expect them to be responsible for their own actions and that their families should 'ask' them not to do so. did you know there are no drink driving offences here? if a driver hits someone whilst drunk, it's an 'accident'.<BR/><BR/>there's also the small matter of occasionally feeling brave enough to cycle on the road. the sense of achievement i get when i realise no car has hit me is enormous.<BR/><BR/>bloody weird country, ne?!Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02833176927782655960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post-1158044094477901822006-09-12T15:54:00.000+09:002006-09-12T15:54:00.000+09:00I think that the saying is --出る釘は打たれる *deru kugi h...I think that the saying is --<BR/><BR/>出る釘は打たれる *deru kugi ha utareru* if that didn't come up in kanji. <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure that I like the saying so much. It may have had meaning in the Edo period (unless you were Miyamoto Musashi, in which case... deru kugi are still being talked about with mad respect hundreds of years later) but now.... Now it seems like deru kugi get on TV every night. Have you seen "Hard Gay" on TV?<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3W9PGdMwDU<BR/><BR/>For America, it may go --<BR/><BR/>出る釘は撃たれる<BR/><BR/>Of course, it does not fit (unless you think of Lincoln, Wild Bill, Hemingway, Malcolm X, various Kennedy family members, Tupac (!?), etc.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post-1157947088468325352006-09-11T12:58:00.000+09:002006-09-11T12:58:00.000+09:00That is classic, Kohler! You need to add that to y...That is classic, Kohler! You need to add that to your quotes library, along with my one on masturbation. ;)Josh Gloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01937662965184237064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post-1157947035780694682006-09-11T12:57:00.000+09:002006-09-11T12:57:00.000+09:00Whut ya gittin' at, guvnor? Can't understand a blo...Whut ya gittin' at, guvnor? Can't understand a bloomin' word! ;)Josh Gloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01937662965184237064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15370741.post-1157939866222924832006-09-11T10:57:00.000+09:002006-09-11T10:57:00.000+09:00Entertaining as always - and pretty heavy with the...Entertaining as always - and pretty heavy with the british lingo to boot!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com