Comments on: Kurosagi episode 1

By: evane

evane — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:53:30 +0000

David > thank you for your considered comment!

Unlike Nigerian scams these actually involves going out physically and approaching alot of people to find just one gullible person, at the same time having the risk of raising someone’s suspicions and attracting the attention of the authorities. I don’t know about Japanese being far less suspicious though. Perhaps my Chinese/Malaysian/Western background makes me rather untrusting.

2. This is why I find Japanese law so interesting. It’s like a whole different beast altogether. It could never work in a Western system; but Japanese society doesn’t seem on the verge on breakdown even though they have, in the eyes of the West, inadequate laws. I should read up on this sometime.

3. Maybe it’s because access to justice is so difficult, and lawyers are considered to be unapproachably expensive? I doubt the victim would decide not to get back at the swindler through legal means because it wasn’t “nice”. I’m not talking about a business deal gone sour here, where you may want to do repeat games with the same players in the future and have to keep relationships good. This is straight swindling. From the drama, I get the feeling the victim is overwhelmed by his helplessness and lack of a way out more than anything else.

I suppose this is all of a muchness though. I need to go wiki the Japanese legal system before I do another Kurosagi review

By: David Johnston

David Johnston — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:03:06 +0000

Well problem 1 is no problem at all. Surely you’re familiar with the Nigerian scam? They wouldn’t churn them out in all their countless variations if there weren’t people naive enough to fall for them. That part is entirely realistic. And the Japanese are far less suspicious than Americans and Australians. They do a lot more handshake business. As for problem 2, consumer protection laws are much weaker in Japan than most first world nations and there’s no agency vested with enforcing them. Even when someone is doing a clearly illegal swindle and gets caught, white collar criminals in Japan rarely see any jail time as long as they are willing to confess and apologise. The importance of confession in the Japanese legal system is huge. And as for problem 3, civil suits disturb the wa. In Japan people are about 20 times less likely to file a civil suit than an American and ten times less likely than someone from Britain.

By: evane

evane — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:41:52 +0000

majoodah> heh. I did indeed finish watching it sometime ago.
I don’t love it enough to keep on blogging about it though

By: majoodah

majoodah — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:04:23 +0000

Oh my god !!
I LOVE this drama..
it’s sooooo coooooooooool !!
if you didn’t watch it.. then do RIGHT NOW !!!

By: evane

evane — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:56:58 +0000

Oh no I didn’t mean Kurosagi was bad or anything, I just meant that despite it’s not-very-legal nature I still like it ^_^”

LSIH –> I might check it out one day then. After I finish downloading My Name is Kim Sam Soon >.< [so much to download, so little bandwidth...]

By: SakuraSatoshi

SakuraSatoshi — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:22:48 +0000

Hey i didnt say i didnt like Kurosagi its awesome! and bout LSIH actually its like haf and half because half the series takes place in Harvard Law School then they go back to Korea i think.

By: evane

evane — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:16:30 +0000

SakuraSatoshi> I guess I like Kurosagi because I don’t know of any series that talk about Japanese law >_<

I wonder if Love Story in Harvard is about Korean law then? If it’s American law I don’t wanna know XD

By: SakuraSatoshi

SakuraSatoshi — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:20:43 +0000

oo you like law series?! okay to tell you the truth this series doesnt really have much of that legal stuff… just alot of swindling… hey maybe you should try watching this kdrama called Love Story in Harvard? its got lots of this legal entanglement in it and most of the story takes place in the US they speak english somtimes (not too good but they do).

By: evane

evane — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:47:43 +0000

yeah…i’ve been sick for the last week!! arggggggh.
it turns out it was acute gastroenteritis. and i feel very very horrible. not to mention my backlog of work >_______<

By: dtran01

dtran01 — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:48:21 +0000

not trying to throw up? *eyebrow*

By: evane

evane — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:18:18 +0000

IE is a stupid piece of shit >.< I have IE7 at home and it doesn't work correctly there either.

I reverted back to original template because I thought it would work on all browsers :@ :@

Now I've lost the original CSS file so I can't do anything about it though >.< Go use opera/firefox~~

Heheh, hopefully the synopsis was helpful to you. Actually I banged it out while half asleep and half exhausted from trying not to throw up a the same time…

By: dtran01

dtran01 — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:19:33 +0000

Edit 2 — more interesting stuff. the behavior as described above with the refreshing only works with the comments displayed. if it is hidden, as it initially is, then sidebar will never show up in IE6. …..heh.

By: dtran01

dtran01 — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:16:35 +0000

Edit –uhm.. interesting. its damn weird. so on the first load of the page, it doesnt show right, but if i hit F5 (refresh) enough times it eventually gets it right usually the 2nd or 3rd refresh. …wth…

By: dtran01

dtran01 — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:14:46 +0000

Hmmm interesting synopsis. ill look into it… been looking for a good jdrama

btw just so you know, the template isnt showing up right in IE 6.0 (its ry’s lappy)..i think its a CSS problem because MSIE is stupid and isnt W3C compliant. At home i have 7.0, which is supposed to be compliant, and it seems to show up right though. funny thing is, the old modified template u had showed up correctly (kinda..or at least better than this one) in IE60. I think its because the bar is on the left now.. sidebar is pushed to the bottom is the problem. just fyi.