JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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CharlieCard
^ This is JapanToday where half the posters are constantly negative. They don't even know what a joke means.
Posted in: 'SPEC' to be remade into U.S. TV drama
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CharlieCard
Huh? I have seen breakout kings, not really like SPEC at all. Same genre and that's about it.
Posted in: 'SPEC' to be remade into U.S. TV drama
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CharlieCard
I love how a few people not following the sign (which is on the opposite side btw) somehow proves that the entire 127 million people japanese society are rude and don't follow rules. Give me a break.
Posted in: Sign of the times
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CharlieCard
It's not only overconsumption..it's the fact it is white rice and not whole grain rice. I love japanese food don't get me wrong, but I don't understand why they remove all the essential nutrients of the rice just to make it white..it is absorbed much faster into the blood stream and spikes your insulin..just eat the whole grain.
Posted in: White rice linked to Type 2 diabetes, say researchers
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CharlieCard
vg866 you didn't really think your reply through very well did you? First of all Japan was forecasted to have a surplus with China in 2011, until the tsunami and earthquake struck..and assuming the yen goes back down to its real value this could happen again.
Not only that you clearly do not understand how important parts manufacturing is. Only the most high tech nation in the world has a monopoly on parts...the US had a monopoly on this in the 50s-70s and now Japan took it over with over 70% of the entire worlds high techn parts being supplied by Japan.
As long as the yen goes back to its fair value, Japanw ill compete just fine. As it is now the rate is the most overvalued in the entire currency exchange market and everysingle export sold from Japan is sold at a loss.
Posted in: Japan's largest chipmaker Elpida files for bankruptcy protection
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CharlieCard
Actually Korea IS winning simply due to the yen. If you look up the Korean governments own estimate, for every drop in the yen the korean gdp growth will go down by a certain small %. In fact at the current yen rate everything sold by Japan is sold at a LOSS. Every chip Elpida sold, they LOST money. If you don't think this is a big problem than you simply do not understand business and economics. The yen needs to go above $1=90 yen to make reasonable profits to be able to invest in future products. The break even rate is at 85, and right now it is 81..and has been below the break even point for a long time and has been below the "profit" margin for a few years now. Japan had a RECORD surplus with Korea in 2010, despite the strong yen, obviously if Japan was not handicapped it would outcompete Korea easily..the proof is in the surplus of 2010 which grew everysingle year.
Posted in: Japan's largest chipmaker Elpida files for bankruptcy protection
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CharlieCard
This is stupid because it is the US government agency EPA that sets the estimated MPG for cars..not the automaker so the EPA should be sued not Honda.
Posted in: 5 U.S. states won't oppose Honda fuel efficiency settlement
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CharlieCard
As a minority from the US its also pretty funny seeing some of the comments here, seems like white people freak out about being a minority in another country..and dont realize they do the same BS in their home country...like completely destroying other nationalities food to suit their tastes, constantly asking me where I am from (and when I say I am born in the US they ask me "NO, where are you really from?" As a minority in both the US and Japan, I can pretty much say my life as a minority in Japan was pretty much alot better than it is in the "multicultural" US. Everyone was polite and doesn't have that stupid "attitude" that you encounter in the US from grocery stores to banks.
Posted in: Things that foreigners find annoying about life in Japan
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CharlieCard
I agree with many of the comments..like the shops making too much noise and the sun coming up and being wasted in the early mornings.
But it's getting annoying reading that Japan is supposedly "eco" as if it is not a fact. Just because some things japanese do are not ecologically friendly, please, do not deny the facts. The facts are at a per capita level and also related to GDP Japan is by far the most ecologically friendly nation in the developed world. 1.5 times more efficient than the EU and over 2x more efficient than USA, Canada and Australia.
Posted in: Things that foreigners find annoying about life in Japan
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CharlieCard
I hate how some articles always use the annualized rate and not the actual quarter rate. Japan's gdp contracted .6% in the quarter not 2.3%
Posted in: Japan's GDP falls 2.3% on Thai floods, strong yen
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CharlieCard
Is Wakashu park new?
Posted in: Tokyo Gate Bridge opens to traffic
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CharlieCard
Too bad the eco terrorists don't understand that what they are doing actually has the opposite result of what they want, it pushes the japanese people to support whaling. But oh wait, they don't care..they have a show and make money off of it by lying about being shot and being a bunch of drama queens.
Posted in: Confrontation
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CharlieCard
^ Exactly.
Posted in: U.S. safety regulators investigate Toyota cars over door fires
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CharlieCard
^ Ridiculous post, considering some of the countries you listed have a higher background radiation in any day than in Tokyo. Especially saying Taiwan delivers more..when their city scapes are japanese..and even older and dirtier than the USA. Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines are the same kind of destination as going to Mexico or another poor country..it is not comparable to more expensive tourism like Europe or japan.
Posted in: Gov't aims for 18 million tourists a year by 2016
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CharlieCard
Not only that, I forgot to mention that Japan was ranked as the #1 "Dream destination" by Asians a poll done by mastercard/Visa..look it up yourself. This was last year mind you.
Posted in: Gov't aims for 18 million tourists a year by 2016
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CharlieCard
Cricky, compared to the USA..this IS japanese efficiency. Even before this agency was created the cities have mostly been cleaned..but look at a disaster in America like Katrina..it took them years. The Japanese will rebuild quickly.
Posted in: New reconstruction agency launched with Hirano in charge
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CharlieCard
I don't like the observatory names but changing the station name is a good idea..and no it has nothing to do with the "town"..oshiage only refers to the road intersection..big deal the intersection will keep its name but the station wont.
Posted in: Tokyo Sky Tree's two observation decks named
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CharlieCard
You guys are negative on EVERYSINGLE article. China has 1.3 billion people, the visas have been relaxed..and the most recent poll by the chinese government during the lunar new year showed that chinese voted Japan as their preferred destination. 18 million is perfectly achievable, especially if the koreans finally come back after the fukushima scare in a few years. Japan has extremely high potential, just last year british magazines and newspapers polled Japan and Tokyo as the #1 for tourist satisfaction. Stop being so damn negative all the time.
Posted in: Gov't aims for 18 million tourists a year by 2016
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CharlieCard
The article is incorrect, they agreed to cut the corporate tax by 5 than increase it through a surcharge by 2.5% for 3 years. So the corportate tax will be cut by 2.5% and than another 2.5% in 3 years.
Posted in: Gov't, DPJ settle on tax increase plan
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CharlieCard
And the murder rate has been decreasing every year for more than a decade, and the murder rate for young people (young people murdering others) is also decreasing.
Posted in: Osaka transportation bureau employee stabbed to death