Word: lies
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...course, governments in every country occasionally lie to their people. The difference is that in Japan this practice has long been acceptable. "The government is structured in a way that it regularly does not tell the truth," says Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a professor of history at Tokyo's Chuo University. "They simply demand our trust." Yoshimi made headlines several years ago when, after painstaking research, he documented the charge that during World War II the Japanese military had forced Chinese and Korean women into prostitution. Like other evidence of wartime atrocities, this is still denied by many in Japan, which, unlike...
...member of Hashimoto's reform advisory council, traces Japan's collective dishonesty to a cultural trait. Kawai likes to joke that he is president of Japan's "Liars' Club." "There is no club at all, really," he confesses, winking. "In Japan, as long as you are convinced you are lying for the good of the group, it's not a lie." So it is that Japan is a place where doctors often withhold information from their patients, instead telling family members about a serious illness. Corporations customarily withhold potentially damaging information from their shareholders. Kawai points out that the trait...
...school. Facilities are spartan, discipline strict. At Tranquility Bay, students are supervised from wake-up at 6:30 a.m. to lights-out at 9:30 p.m. Punishment for violations of the 54-page student rule book range from loss of merit points to "observation placement"--meaning a student must lie on the tile floor of his room all day, not sitting up except for meals and bathroom breaks. And parents sign a contract allowing the school to use handcuffs, mace and stun guns on their children. "Restraints are rare," says Jay Kay, a former San Diego gas-station and mini...
WASHINGTON: At a breakfast in Washington last week, Mike McCurry was asked if it was de rigeur for a press secretary to lie to protect his boss. Typically, he opened with a joke: "Press secretaries cannot lie." Then he revealed the secret of success: truth was simply not his job. His term is that he is not "an original fact-finder." And if the President lied to him? "When there are prospects too horrible to contemplate, I don't contemplate them...
...process notwithstanding, it seems Clinton has already been found guilty in the court of public opinion. An overnight CNN-USA Today poll shows half the respondents firmly believe the President has lied under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky. At least Clinton is given the benefit of the doubt over suborning perjury: only 39 percent believe he told his former intern to lie about their affair...