Society and Sociopaths

A question on a message board about house rabbits-- bonded pairs are common, but apparently bringing a new rabbit into a home where another rabbit is already established is much more complicated than adding another puppy or kitten-- led to questions about etiquette in crowded burrows, and that to this interesting journal entry on the concepts of giri and gimu in Japan.
Japan has a lower crime rate than almost any other modern country (one murder for every 100,000 people compared to 8.7 per 100,000 in the U.S.). The author wonders why Japan, with all its industrialization and alienation (the Marquis de Sade would blanch at the violent fetishism in Japanese pop culture) doesn't produce more sociopaths.

Oolong, a Bunny with a Pancake on His Head

"The rabbit of this day was observed this way." "Oolong" the much loved Japanese house rabbit, has gone gentle into the night at the age of 8 years, 5 months and some days, in the arms of his master, Hironori Akutagawa of Hokkaido Japan.

Around 1997, Mr. Akutagawa started recording Oolong's day on his web site for friends and neighbors. When dozing, the patient and trusting Oolong would tolerate small objects being balanced on his head, an idle amusement for many house rabbit owners. The editors at Syberpunk, a collection of Japanese culture, added a caption to Oolong wearing a Japanese dorayaki on his head, and visits to Oolong's site went from a few hundred to millions.


Oolong, "Black Dragon" (I don't know if he was named for the dragon or for the popular tea of the same name), will be remembered by his young house-mate Yuebing ("Mooncake") and friends in 25 countries.

See also Saul Bellow , Fanny Fountain , Ibrahim Ferrar , August Wilson, Col. Ted Westhusing, Richard Pryor, Fayard Nicholas, Yuebing visits the Rabbit Shrine in Urawa

GOD I LOVE BAD JAPANESE TRANSLATION (another in a series)

Literal English translations found on a Japanese blog of comic and anime reviews:

女の子が非常に魅力的でエロく描かれているので、これがエロマンガであれば受けが良いのではないだろうか？
If this is HENTAI MANGA, it might be popular because the girl is drawn in very attractively and eroticism. Moreover, an essential part is concealed with the strawberry.

なかなか扇情的な表紙なので、しばらくの間、記憶に残っていた。
It rang in one's heart at a while because it was quite stirred cover.

この漫画で気になった所は、設定が説明口調である事と、第三者の目線で物語を進めている所だ。
The place about which it was anxious in this cartoon is a place where the story is advanced by the line of vision of the thing and the third party whose setting is an explanation tone.

第三者の目線だと思った根拠は、主人公の少年と、少年のペットの心情が非常に分かり辛い点だ。
Grounds thought to be third party's line of vision are points that very understand feelings pet of hero's boy and boy and are painful.


さて、この漫画は全2巻なのだが、初回やその他の回に張った伏線が消化不良のまま、無理やり終わる。
Well, the advance hint put on first time and other times ends by force like dyspepsia though these cartoons are two all volumes.

作者も伏線の未消化が着になっていたらしく、同人誌で解決するという。
The author also says that it solves with paved DOUJINSHI [a parody of established manga characters] the undigestion of the advance hint is anxious.

See Also: Twisted Kaiju Theatre, et alia