JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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CaptDingleheimer
Androgynous Japan would certainly be more fitting.
Posted in: Japan to be known as 'Samurai Japan' at WBC
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CaptDingleheimer
No problemo. All you've gotta do when you first get there is ask one of the lawyers: "Hey- this isn't gonna take all day, is it? I've got a klan meeting at 3:30, then I've gotta help make banners for the God Hates Fags rally this weekend." You'll be at home on the couch in your undies before 9:30am.
Posted in: How would you feel about being called up for jury duty?
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CaptDingleheimer
How come anytime a Japanese guy attacks a random passerby, he chooses a schoolgirl?
Posted in: Man attacks schoolgirl with knife in Nagasaki
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CaptDingleheimer
How is this news? They weren't even foreigners...
Posted in: Two men arrested for possessing 108 cannabis plants in Fukuoka
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CaptDingleheimer
Aso: "Mista Obamasan, can you use Japanese chopsticks?"
Obama: "Yes, I can."
Aso: "ええええ、すごいね！ Can you eat Japanese sushi?"
Obama: "Yes, I like sushi quite well."
Aso: "ええええ、すごいね！ Do you know Japan has four seasons? Japanese four seasons very famous!"
Obama: "Yes, I figured it does. Illinois has four seasons, too."
Aso: "うそ！えと... oh, rearry? Sank you bery muchi, Mista Obamasan. Good ruck presidento."
Obama: "Arigato."
Aso: "ええええええ！！！ 日本語じょうず！”
Posted in: Aso among 9 leaders to speak with Obama on phone
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CaptDingleheimer
I grew up in a small town in rural New England, and I lived for a number of years in a similarly-sized town in rural Tohoku. Not only using these two towns as barometers, but also other small towns I've been to across America and Japan alike, I've noticed a notable difference in small-town mentalities between the two countries. Small town Americans are generally happy to have their town be off the beaten trail, and appreciate it as a refuge from the noise and activity of metropolitan areas. Told that one has never heard of his small town, the small-town American is likely to say something like "we like to keep it that way." Small-town Japanese seem to have an inferiority complex vis-a-vis their big-city brethren, and put significant effort to talk their town up bigger than it actually is. "Naninani-machi town is very famous for pickled eggplants- VERY FAMOUS!" It seems nearly every little backwater town in Japan has some sort of full color promotional brochure, a glance at which would mislead an outsider to believe that the town has 200,000 more inhabitants than it actually does. This Obama Fukui phenomenon seems case in point, to me. Sure, some of the furor can probably be attributed to people who want to make a quick yen selling bean-filled 'Obama' cakes, but most of it seems to be generated by ordinary citizens who know nothing of the president-elect other than that his name might somehow put their otherwise insignificant town on the map. I guess the general observation is that rural Japanese try to shoulder their town up with much larger cities and get it noticed, while rural Americans recognize that their town is decidedly not a big city and are happy to have it go unnoticed. Not as much a 'right or wrong' judgment as it is a general observation.
Posted in: Obama city residents delighted over presidential victory
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CaptDingleheimer
Get outta here- Miss World? If she passed me on the street I wouldn't even leer at her.
Posted in: Miss World Japan goes for the crown
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CaptDingleheimer
That shaggy orange mop of bleached hair look has never done a whole lot for me. Keep it long and black, Japanese chicks.
Posted in: Tiffany handset
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CaptDingleheimer
Haha, good stuff. I remember seeing those tools in stations in Japan. I alsways got the impression that, rather than trying to perfect their swing, they were trying to say in that quiet humble Japanese yet painfully obvious way "HEY EVERYBODY! LOOK AT ME!!!! I'M A GOLFERrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Posted in: Manner poster
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CaptDingleheimer
Pretty much a bunch of uninteresting, socially inept people. That's my conclusion after a handful of years there, and a large part of why I left.
Posted in: Japan's online social scene isn't so social
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CaptDingleheimer
That number would probably go down if they'd allow diners to pack up and take home what they didn't eat. I imagine they don't want to be held responsible for the food once it's out of their hands, then catch a bunch of crap because someone got food poisoning from eating fish they left in their hot car for 7 hours after leaving the restaurant. Funny, restaurants in sue-happy America allow it. Restaurant portions in America are so huge, I'd hate to see figures our tonnage of wasted food if we DIDN'T allow people to take home doggy bags (though the portions in Japan are so small, I wonder who the hell there can't finish his dinner in one sitting).
Posted in: The agriculture ministry estimates 22 million tons of food get thrown out by consumers, restaurants and supermarkets each year in Japan. What are your thoughts on this?
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CaptDingleheimer
Phelps is American, and it's cool to get mad at whatever Americans do. I want to be cool, so I say it's BAD.
Posted in: What do you think of American swimmer Michael Phelps' long victory yell after he wins a race?
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CaptDingleheimer
What a terrible, dangerous idea. Sure, I'm sure Al Gore will like it, but wait until you're trying to merge into traffic and you figure your turbocharged V6 will get you out and up to speed in front of that dump truck that's coming, when the Greenomatic 7000 kicks in and slows you down; WHAM-O!!! Sayonara...
Posted in: Nissan cars to push back when drivers floor it
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CaptDingleheimer
They appear to be doing that 7-year old girl "Yay!!!!!!" thing that so many Japanese girls do when they're trying to look cute- Disney characters involved for ultimate effect. I guess I prefer that image to a hefty Western girl spilling over the side of her lounge chair at the side of the pool while she wolfs down a big bag of Cheetos, but I gotta say, a chick pretending she's 7 doesn't really do it for me. I'm not that much of a perv...
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CaptDingleheimer
Great picture. Reminds me of pulling out of a big city station on a shinkansen at night, looking down on the town seeing all sorts of things going on. Knowing that within just a few minutes, you'll be speeding between ricefields and farmer's shacks in the boondocks where some crusty old guy is inside warming up with a bottle of sake while his old lady serves him up a bunch of grub. And feeling good to be going back home to inaka.
Posted in: Yakitori
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CaptDingleheimer
Screw that, I go to work to get away from the old lady for 8 hours.
Posted in: How do you feel about workplace romances?
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CaptDingleheimer
And by the way, that's a dope purse that kid's carrying.
Posted in: Police search
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CaptDingleheimer
You know, that 'Do you think J-cops deserve their bad rep?' thread from the other day got me thinking, and now I realize why I can't fully take J-cops seriously: No mustaches.
Posted in: Police search
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CaptDingleheimer
reporters shouting "Miss Hilton! Can you eat Japanese sushi?" "Miss Hilton!! Can you use Japanese chopsticks?" "Excuse me, Miss Hilton! Do you like Japan?" "Miss Hilton! Do you know Japanese natto? Verrrrry famous! Can you eat Japanese natto?"
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CaptDingleheimer
Great. The Japanese now have a platform from which to perform their pointless, cutesy space 'experiments'- like trying to see how far a 'very famous Japanese oragami' paper airplane will fly in space, playing with boomerangs in space, seeing how many times a Hello Kitty doll can somersault in the weightlessness of space, or whatever the hell it is they do up there. It's clearly amateur hour when the Japanese take to the cosmos, and I hope the Americans and the Russians make sure they kick in for gas money to get them up there.
Posted in: Shuttle blasts off carrying Japanese lab