JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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Dogdog
*‘It has been suggested that most Roman composite bows may have been asymmetric, with lower limbs shorter than the upper…..By the 5th century, there were numerous Roman cavalry regiments trained to use the bow as a supplement to their swords and lances, but the sagittarii appeared to have used the bow as their primary rather than supplemental weapon –***Wikipedia.**
Sorry about the source, but I really don’t have the time or patience to substantiate that the moon is not made of chedder cheese.
I said long bow and wasn't being regionally specific
Posted in: Samurai archery, an ancient sport, still thrives in Japan
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Dogdog
That's how most of them entered Palestine 60 years ago.
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Dogdog
While the guy is a total tool and the statement is ridiculous I too think the world could learn something from the Japanese concerning religion.
I like the complete indifference Japanese have towards religion and while Japan could do with a universal moral code that supersedes the group moral ethic, that code should not place the practitioner closer to God's favor; a lesson both the USA and the Middle East should learn.
Posted in: Aso says world religions can learn from Japan
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Dogdog
Need anything else be said about the wretched state of Japanese entertainment in the 21st Century.
Guaranteed this movie will be as an enjoyable as getting root canal work
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Dogdog
The woman was the true icon/epitome of modern Japanese womanhood. Empty, shallow, devoid of the desire for personnal empowerment, materialistically obsessed and immoral.
Posted in: Ai Iijima's last days shrouded in mystery
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Dogdog
Take it from an ex-archer and not the fact that you post to form, the Japanese guy in the picture is using a long bow, jusr like mounted Italian archers do all over Italy every year in their local municipalities
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Dogdog
In the future I can see Sony becoming a generic verb/noun, like the Brit Eng verb 'To hoover'
Future English test.
Don't be a sony.
Don't sony this opportunity up.
He sonied the plan.
Posted in: Sony unveils pocket-size VAIO laptop
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Dogdog
Can you read Japanese? They might not be in the Daily Yomi or J Times, but every story that comes up on Japan Today is in the 'real' Japanese press the same day or the next day.
Japan has a lot of women hating pervos walking and functioning on a daily basis. 70 years old, heck, I'm 48 and having problems getting it up. This ,like the numerous chikan episodes, are all about showing the beetches where the real power lies in this country
Posted in: 70-yr-old man held for molesting 17-yr-old high school girl in Saitama
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Dogdog
Agreed, Sony, over the last 10 years, has become the British Leyland of the Hi Tech world. I really go out of my way to avoid buying any of their products which all seem to have a magical life of 2 years before they start messing up.
Now Toshiba is a different game altogether....
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Dogdog
Nihinjinron ignorance at its best. As a poster previously said Mongolia and I watched something similar in northern Italy.
Posted in: Samurai archery, an ancient sport, still thrives in Japan
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Dogdog
smithinjapan at ......
Good points, never thought of it that way... fair enough... I'm back in my anti-Aso comfort zone.
Posted in: Aso rejects calls to resign, saying he has to lead Japan out of recession
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Dogdog
I'd prefer we spent it, than the government spent it for us.
I strongly disagree with Aso on most points, but Hatoyama's point that the government knows better than me how to spend my taxes is patronizing and one of the major ills of Japanese politicians who are there to be served by us, rather than the other way around.
Posted in: Aso rejects calls to resign, saying he has to lead Japan out of recession
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Dogdog
Only in Japan...........
1 set = Y1,480.
3 sets = Y5,480.
Buying 1 set x 3 = Y4,440.
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Dogdog
Japanese beer is the 'same old same old', packaged in a different can. If only someone could make them think outside of the box and brew something other than the German style lager beers.
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Dogdog
You couldn't pay me enough to eat the vomit that those meal bimbos cook up each week on that program.
Posted in: Daisuke Matsuzaka and his wife to make first appearance on 'SMAPxSMAP'
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Dogdog
Mother complex or what?
Jeeesssuuz, the younger generation are growing up as assinine as their elders.
Posted in: Daisuke Matsuzaka and his wife to make first appearance on 'SMAPxSMAP'
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Dogdog
I wish someone would get aroud to applying 'Kaizen' to the banks in this country. A customer base of 5, still takes 30 bank workers 30 minutes to resolve a very minor problem.
I wish someone would get aroud to applying 'Kaizen' to the fast food outlets in this country. It's the only place I've been where Macdonalds and fast food are oxymorons .
I wish someone would get aroud to applying 'Kaizen' to the local government offices, where it doesn't take me an hour and inspection by four government workers to get a photocopy of my marriage certificate.
I wish someone would get aroud to applying 'Kaizen' to the police force in this country.
I wish.......... Jeeeesuzzz, what a totally useless article. If companies want to really see the ''Toyota success', maybe they should look at the way Toyota screws over its subcontractors, makes its management work incredible hours of unpaid overtime, sometimes leading to Karoshi and passes as little of its profits onto its workers and shareholders, so it can invest it all in R and D.
Fuedalism seems a more appropriate translation of Kaizen..
Posted in: Ask why: American states seek efficiency via Japanese way
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Dogdog
Gosh you sound very naive.
Look I know this may be hard for you to comprehend, but Globalization was first coined by a Japanese and Japan is the country which has prospered most from globalization. Without access to the markets of others Japan, would never have had the ability to develop a value added industrial economy - it could never have been built on a domestic siege economy - and become the second most powerful economy in the world.
Japan does this under the terms of the WTO agreement, an agreement that gives Japan access to the markets of others for its manufactured goods. Yet Japan still manges to welch on this by not allowing that rice to directly enter the domestic market. Imagine if the EC and NAFTA played by the same rules concerning Japanese electronic products?
Directly yes, but the bigger picture, like a lot of Coleman's articles ( go read his articles for the LA Times concerning whaling and WW II history among other thing) promote a very slanted Japanese perspective that border on the 'Japan is unique, therefore must behave on the world stage to its own unique standards' angle. Indirectly the article is about maintaining the existing Japanese agricultural model at any expense to the Japanese economy as a whole and no matter the cost to the Japanese taxpayer. You're assumption that opening the Japanese agricultural markets to global competition would ring in the death of Japanese agriclture (by the way this is not Japan specific, I have the same complaints about the US and EC)is completely flawed. Any rational person can see that Japanese agriculture would find its niche in the market that don't have to be heavily subsidised by my taxes.
And there is the real chink in the armour. The japanese government doesn't trust the Japanese people enough to allow them, with their hard earned cash, most often made from exports to other countries, to make their own value judgement on what is best for them as a consummer.
Posted in: Japan struggles to boost homegrown food
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Dogdog
Have you ever been to California or Florida and before you say that Japanese rice is different, sorry, the Californian strain of Japanese rice tastes exactly the same as home grown Japanese rice?
Sorry Nihonjinron claptrap? Next you'll be throwing in the intestine line. Califonia, Australia, China and India. Most of the rice is cultivated on autonomous family held holdings.
Posted in: Japan struggles to boost homegrown food
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Dogdog
The above quote must go down as one of the most nonsensical sentences ever put together on JT. I can guess the 'myopic international trade deals' you refer to are the FTA's that Japan has signed with such countries as Mexico, Singapore etc, where the motive of the METI negotiators was to ensure that the 7% tariffs allowed under any FTA were exclusively on agricultural imports to Japan. I know this from people who were involved in the negotiations (the Singapore FTA discussions nearly broke off over the issue of importing goldfish into Japan). The result of these FTA's is that the Japanese info tech industries have to pay heavier tariffs on their exports, in return for the protection of Japanese agriculture from imports - yet again the Japanese value added industry subsidizing the under efficient Japanese agricultural sector.
As for the inefficiency of Japanese agriculture because of smallholding farms, I suggest you do some research. However a very good read on this is 'Japan in the 21st Century' By Pradyumna Prasad Karan, Dick Gilbreath. If you google it, you can actually read that one over the net.
Posted in: Japan struggles to boost homegrown food