JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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Blue_Tiger
Wow! If she's fully Japanese, I'll be surprised....
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Blue_Tiger
Emulating Sex on stage is now called "dancing"?
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Blue_Tiger
God. Help. Us.
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Blue_Tiger
Not presumptive, arrogant, nor ignorant, likeitis. There is only one reason for this divorce hapening: selfishness. And your case, friend, is the exception, not the rule....
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If same-sex mariages are made legal, what's to stop other chosen lifestyles form demanding their "rights" also? Its a pandora's box that needs tobe kept closed....
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Blue_Tiger
By the way, Ai, thanks for messing up your kid's life....thanks too, to the husband....
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Blue_Tiger
"I’ll do it my way..."
Perhaps this is why the divorce is takign place: selfishness....
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Blue_Tiger
So much for Obama breaking away form Bush's militarism! Didn't Prez O. say he was going to end the war and bring troops home?
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Blue_Tiger
I wanted ot stand in the balcony area of Narita Airport and toss eggs on them as they came in.....
Posted in: 'Samurai Japan' return to heroes' welcome after WBC triumph
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Kreza -- No problem.
JoeBiggs -- Your using of my words (suing? typo?) is to prove, what? That I think Korea is the better team? The point you are missing, Joe, is that "Samurai" Japan seems to think that they are the best team in the history of Asia Baseball, and their lack of class throughout the WBC, especially with regards to Team Korea, is a glaring piece of evidence of that fact.
The World Baseball Classic this year was, much like the past WBC and past Olympics, just another grotesque, glaring repeat of "Samurai" Japan walking across the world stage, not so much with their heads held high as their noses, giving little credibility to any other nation (especially in round one Tokyo Pool Play), other than passing a few bones to Cuba, and not even givng Korea credit for defeating them twice, and playing them a great game in the WBC Championship game.
I see this second WBC Win not a humblign thing in that "Samurai" Japan played some great teams and some great games, and that Team Japan is grateful to their opponents and the WBC that they were able to win, but more along the lines of, "We're supposed to win, we are entitled to win, and any loss or hard game we had happened because that is what we wanted, and since we won the title and we got what we wanted, to the flames with our competition."
Moderator: Readers, stay on topic please. Your comments should be about the final of the WBC tournament.
Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title
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JoeBigs -- Actually, I love Japan and Japanese people. I am glad for the people of Japan that their team won, but I am not happy (nor looking for some alleged smoking gun of cheating) that "Samurai" Japan continues to look down their noses at the competition in (a.) Asia, and now (b.) the rest of the world. Please don't put words in my mouth.
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Kreza -- This -- WBC 2009 メダル授与 -- is your "proof positive" that Team Korea was snubbing Team Japan at the supposed Congrats line-up? Are you serious? That's proof of nothing except that, yes, both teams were lined up, but some Korean players were facing Team Japan, and some were not, some members of "Samurai" Japan were facing Team Korea, and some had their backs turned ot Team Korea as well. No snubbing, no offense, no nothing going on except a whole lot of nothing. Nice try anyway.
About Jojima, so which is it, Kreza? Is he "arguing with the ump" and still being sportsmanlike as you imply in your first comment, or is he being unsportsmanlike as you say he is in your second? Hardly consistent. Etiehr defend Jojima for being professional and sportsmanlike or accuse him for being a spoiled brat who didn't get a call he felt he was supposed to get.
About the congrats line up, my apologies, was this an entirely professional thing, or were amateur players invited too? Was this final game between the BoSox and the dodgers, or was it between two teams on an international stage, one having a LOT of amateur players? And, yes, to be quite honest, I have seen it happen at Royals Stadium in Kansas city, at Reds Stadium in Cincinnati, and at Cardinals Stadium in St. Louis. Just because the Yankees or Red Sox don't do it, doesn't mean nobody else does.
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Kreza --- I've checked the internet, and all over YouTube Video, even the WBC site for this supposed line-up you say happened after the third out of the C'ship game: NOTHING. No line-up, no hand-shakes, now bowing, no......NOTHING. If you have some sort of PROOF positive that Japan and Korea lined up after Team Japan Jumped around and Celebrated for twenty minutes, after receiving the trophy and gold medals for winning the WBC, then please, be my guest and lead me to a link. Otherwise, it's your word against the video footage I've viewed and seen.
Re: Jojima --- You are right that calmly laying down a bat doesn't equate ot a hissy fit, but laying down a bat, all the while sputtering and muttering and talking about the bad call DOES. Further, in your initial rebutt to my initial post, you equated those actions with arguing a call. Now you change your tune and agree with me? How do you, then, expect me to believe that you really were a part of an organized sports team, if you change your tune at the drop of a hat? Anyone also knows that before you line up, after a baseball game, and congratulate your own team, your winning team libnes up and walks across the field to congratulate the losing team on a good effort. Haven't YOU ever seen that (obviously not)? Ditto that for Volleyball. So much for your claims about being some sports captain for both in high school...
thorgrimfile --- Who has analyzed the bad calls? J-Media? Only if the "bad calls" went against Japan. If "Samurai" Japan got away with a bad call, no replay whatsoever was shown.
ispano6 --- If Korea was trying to win the game with their "big Guns", then please explain why their biggest gun of all (the one who put out "Samurai" Japan's lights in the Olympics with three home runs) Lee Sunyup wasn't even on the team? Further, you think that Team Japan isn't trying to win some political war? The subtility of Team Japan's attitude was clear to see for anyone having eyes to see it. They pass themselves off as the only real baseball team in Asia, and their glaring lack of respect for Team Korea at the end of each and every game agaisnt them was clear as a bell. How can Team Korea -- or any other team who played against Japan for that matter -- not help but attempt retaliation? Team Japan needs wake up, smell the coffee, and begin to realize that their record against Team Korea (championship trophies notwithstanding) is a woeful 6-9. Unfortunately, Team Japan explains away losses againts others as flukes, or they pass the blame for their pathetic play off on the head coach (as they did Hoshino after failng to medal in 2008).
Someone mentioned my name with regards to Hoshino: for the record, Hoshino took the Hanshin Tigers to a Japan League Series where, despite a great effort by his team, fell short to the then-Daiei Hawks in Seven Games. Nice try, but the blame for "Samurai" Japan's failure in both of the past two Olympics falls squarely on the players on the team, not the managers nor coaches involved.
Smithinjapan --- Thank you...
Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title
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fightfan2008, how was Hara's words giving any kind of credence to Team Korea, aside from saying that they both represented Asia in the WBC? He'd have said the same thing had Chinese Taipei, Red China, or Vietnam had won their ways to the Final Game as well.Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title
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Please, northlondon, the attitude of the "Samurai" Japan players has been since they won the first time in '06 (and even before thenm, really) that nobody in Asia (nobody in the world, except for MAYBE Cuba)deserved to be mentioned in the same breath as them, let alone actualyl give them competition, and any win by an opposing Asia team is either regarded as a fluke (such as was the 1-0 Korea Victory in Tokyo), or dismissed with not so much as a second look. And, yes, I actually have seen it where the winning team of a championship actually did bother to go across and congratulate the losers on a fine game. If they didn't do it in person, they at least threw them a bone in the press copnference. "Samurai" Japan did neither. And, yes, a little research would help you, northlondon realize why Team Korea planted that flaf where they planted it, and took such a dislike to Ichiro's words three years ago...
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Blue_Tiger
WilliB - they do mine. I've taught at the college level for more than ten years, and half-Japanese/Half-Something-Else students to a man basically told the same story: bullying and name-calling by their classmates in school.
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Kreza23 - Obviously, you haven't heard the players coment following games, or prior to them. "Samurai" Japan, after they lost out on a medal in the Olympics, blamed everyone but themselves, even so much as subtily blaming Coach Hoshino (which is, perhaps, the reason he didn't take the job this time around when offered). They knew that the US Team at Beijing was made up of college players and minor leaguers, and had every expectation to win the gold in an almost-walk. Again, take soem time and listen to the commetns made by the "Samurai" Japan players then, and as well as now. Never once in any of the interviews since "Saurai" Japan won did anyone on the team give any kind of credence or credit to the strength of Team Korea.....never once.
Yes, Jojima did have a hissy fit. Leaving your bat in the batter's box after striking out is an ejection offence. That isn't "arguing", but basically being a whiny, spoiled, I-didn't-get-my-way-so-I'm-doing-it-my-way attitude that -- I thought -- Kenji Jojima was bigger than (obviously not). Arguing involves TALKING to the umpire, not leaving your bat in the batter's box in protest following a clear and easy-to-see fastball right down the middle of the plate. It uis further eveidence of this attitude of entitlement that Team Japan has always had when playing against teams they consider inferior (this time, it was Team Korea).
And what line-up? When? Was this alleged line-up after Team Japan had bunced around on the pitcher's mound for twenty or thirty minutes, not one of their players taking the time to go and say "Good game" to any of the Korean players? Must have been some diferent WBC Championship game, because I never saw any line-up of the kind following the thrid out in the bottom of the 10th. And if it was some great offense, why didn't the media pump it up like they pumped up Team Korea plantign the Korean Flag n the pticher's mound following their second win over "Samurai" Japan? Hmmmmm.....that turning of the back thing seems to have been a major offense in the eyes of the J-media. Amazing that I could find that offense absolutely NOWHERE on the internet. Big offense obviously.
Finally, you've obviously neverp layed any knd of organized sport at any level. The reason? At the end of the game, either before or after the celebration (and I had sports coaches that were pretty strict aobut their players doing it before celebrating) the winning team takes time to thank the losers for a good or great game (this includes baseball, and if the teams don't exchange thanks and handshakes, the winning team at least takes the time to express their gratefulness at the losing team giving its best effort at the press conference [didn't happen at the end of the WBC Championship game, at least, no Japanese players said anything close to being congenial to the Korean Team, though Coach Hara did mention their defense in passing).
Fnally, team Japan is aware of one thing, and one thing only with regards to Team Korea: that they have no business being even mentioned in the same sentence as "Samurai" Japan, let alone bothering to be on the same field with them or Gasp! (dare they) actually pull off a win against Team Japan. That attitude was most obvious after Japan was blanked 1-0 in the Tokyo Final, and in the Pool B rematch soem time later. If Jojima's reaction doesn't best express this attitude, or Ichiro's words, then there's nothing that will convince you....
meanmutha - Thank you.
LFRAgain - You must have missed the lead-up to the Beijing Games in
08, or the Athens Games in04, when the J-Media basically explained to anyone who cared to listen that their team was going to win the Gold basically in a walk. The players on this year's "Samurai" Japan team basically said the same thing in interviews, expressing in no uncertain terms that the Tokyo round was going to be theirs to take, and that they really didn't have any true competition in the whole Tournament except for MAYBE Cuba. Team Korea and their wins were dismissed as easily as a Summer Sun dismisses cool morning mist by "Samurai" Japan.And on point (2.)? No, it isn't just me....
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JoeBigs - Did "Samurai" Japan bother to cross the field and thank the Korean team for a good game, shaking their hands in the process? I guess not. I guess that "Samurai" Japan chose to celebrate like hot shot jerks rather than go over to the opposing team, show a shred of class, and thank them for a good game. That's called sportsmanship, something Team Japan has not a whit of....
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Blue_Tiger
Just another disgruntled Scott McClellan: side with `em when the approval ratings are up, but once they sink, thanks to media bias, jump ship, turn coat, and make a cool million with alleged "insider" information. Mr. Obama will have his turncoats, too, and here's hoping turnabout is fair play when the Obama turncoats start coming out of the woodwork (but I'm not going to hold my breath)...
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I like how Jinnai dodged questions aobut his affair with another woman today at the press conference. What a loser! Here's hoping Fujiwara finds a man the second time around, and not a punk like Jinnai.
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