Unlike the United States, for example, there are no precedents for these kinds of problems in Japan. "In America, lawyers for the prosecution and the defense would likely learn during juror selection if any of them are fluent in the language of the defendant or the plaintiff. Interpreters must be very careful, because misinterpretation of key statements opens up the possibility of a mistrial," said S. McIntire Allen, an Osaka-based American attorney who is licensed in California and New York.

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But it would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in, was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into. ― Karen Michelle Johnston aka ichelle Shocked

...there is nothing in this world which is, God forbid, extraneous... ― Zebra Wolf of Zhitomir Bonai Shalom Siddur

At fifteen my heart was set on learning; at thirty I stood firm; at forty I had no more doubts; at fifty I knew the mandate of heaven; at sixty my ear was obedient; at seventy I could follow my heart’s desire without transgressing the norm. ― Confucius

I used to think that men went gray because they had stressful jobs with stressful decisions to make. Now, I think it happens when men start to feel in their bones that the great moments of their lives...might not turn out to be quite as great as they’d always hoped. When the real world starts creeping in. What separates the believers like Glen from everybody else is... [Glen salutes] their ability to block this real world out. Some people call this insanity. ― War Machine

Science is a systematic approach to the material world in which there is an empirical analogue in the material world for every element in science. ― Oscar Whitfield Brock, Jr.