JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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Confrontation
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
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Dogdog
Great idea, not even a salaryman can slurp hus way thru a Big Mac setto.
Peace at last while flying with the Japanese!!!
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Dogdog
Japan purged its banking debt by making them public debt which helped to contribute to Japan having a public debt burden which is almost 170 per cent of its GDP and already the highest in the industrialised world. The amount is equivalent to about Y7.24 million for every Japanese.
Way to go..........
Posted in: Mid-sized insurer Yamato Life goes bust, affecting 1,000 employees
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Dogdog
Most economists argue that Japan is not the model to follow and the bad financial debts of 2000 were the bad financial debts of 1994 and the negative equity of 1990.
What makes 2002 an important date was that the G7 agreed that Japan could export herself out of the mess she had gotten into by having a weak Yen. How America is able to export herself out of this mess, as Barfly correctly sees as a solution is beyond me, unless suddeny Mars has a consummer market that we haven't heard about.
Japan as an economic animal on the world economy, is parasitic, when its true role as the second biggest economy in the world, should be as a consummer of other peoples products while developing its own information, technological and service markets. Through these, rather than manufacturing, which it can only compete in by distorting the working conditions of the domestic workers, it would create the wealth that allowed a genuine middle class with genuine middle class conditions to develop in Japan and stimulate the domestic consumption that Japan so sorely needs - a one room house only needs one TV, a 3 bedroom house would probably have 3 if not 4 TVs!
Posted in: Mid-sized insurer Yamato Life goes bust, affecting 1,000 employees
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Dogdog
The US need a Marshall Plan mk 2, paid by Western European and Asian countries.
Personally I wouldn't mind as it would only be repaying what the US did for other countries after WW 2 and I think it would finally release us all from any moral obligation that we still owe to a once great country, which is now no more.
Posted in: Mid-sized insurer Yamato Life goes bust, affecting 1,000 employees
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Dogdog
Barfly's comments, while tinged with irrational nationalism, are right on. The G7, in early 2001 agreed to a weaker Yen, so that Japan could export herself out of recession while implementing domestic economic reforms. The weaker Yen was achieved by near zero interest rates and flooding the market with Yen loans. Added to this was the rise of China - indirect exportation of Japanese goods via China and Korea - which gave the illusion that all was hunky dory with the Japanese economy.
However, while Koizumi talked a good talk, there was very little structural reform, instead there was employment reform which actually diminished domestic consumption by impoverishing the Japanese domestic consummer at the expense of Japanese companies.
The reality of the world economy is that too many countries are dependent on export orientated economies and for Japan to still be practicing it when it is the second biggest economy in the world is an international economic crime.
Both Japan and the European Union should have been engines for consumption, instead of leaving it to the USA and while the European Union has largely taken this role, the Japanese have just continued with the parasitic model that served them well, when they were a developing economy
Posted in: Mid-sized insurer Yamato Life goes bust, affecting 1,000 employees
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Dogdog
Great video on Youtube
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3359171073568901693&ei=kUbtSJSTLIqCwgOZgbWiCw&q=British+Man+Tokyo&vt=lf
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Dogdog
The sad fact of cheaper tourism is that one has to go to even further parts of the world to live off the facade of England being a land of gentlemen, rather than the reality, a land of drunken aggressive arrogant yobs.
Mars here I come.....
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Dogdog
Yoshinoya's strength in the market was based on it being the first to offer cheap beefball to Japanese, nothing else. Sukiya's beefball is miles better.
Yoshinoya messed up big time when instead of transferring to Aussie beef during the US beef ban, they took beefball of the menu. Salarymen, who are such creatures of habit, didn't take to the porkball or yakiniku substitutes and moved over to Sukiya, and soon realized themselves that Sukiya was a better quality beefball and when beefball came back on to Yoshinoya's menu, their old customers didn't return.
The only way is down for Yoshinoya noow unless they try to move into the healthy brand menu before the others start.
Posted in: Yoshinoya cuts net profit forecast by 98%
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Dogdog
Me too and it really freaks me out that they can sexually objectivey their own young daughters. It makes me really sad, the daughter has already learnt that her true worth in this society will be measured by how attractive she appears to males and nothing else.
Posted in: Japanese girls go sexier in their fashion styles
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Dogdog
Another white boy on his Japanese fantasy. No you're right they do not share our psychotic sexual mores, they share the psychotic sexual mores of Victorian England...
Posted in: Japanese girls go sexier in their fashion styles
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Dogdog
For once I agree with rjd jr. A lot of young Japanese women mistake dressing like a hooker as fashion.
Posted in: Japanese girls go sexier in their fashion styles
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Dogdog
There you go, it's English for you now.
You should learn a bit of Japanese. Excluding the political topics, both because of nuance and special vocabulary, the news in Japanese isn't that difficult to pick up with a little study, same theme and same vocabulary, and it will give you a little more authority when your challenge someone's facts concerning what or what hasn't been said by the concerned Japanese authorities.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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Dogdog
Maybe he can read and understand Japanese and although the police haven't yet commented on what action was taken, some of the her friends said on the news last night and in today's papers that the murdered woman had told them that the police had not taken any action and the stalking was still continuing.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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Dogdog
Japanese men need a good lesson in the art of accepting rejection from the opposite sex and that they are not little princes who the whole world revolves around; something they should have learnt as children from their parents.
Christ, if I had murdered every woman that had rejected my sexual overtures, I would now be one of the world's most proficent serial killers.
Bad upbringing doth a bad adult make.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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Dogdog
I might turn up just for the haggis. Boy oh boy, could I do with a nice haggis...
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Dogdog
They could start by stop sexualizing little girls and grow a pair on a few more so called men in this country so they start seeing girls and woman as people like themselves, rather than objects for their violent rages
Posted in: Mother of murdered girl releases comments after funeral in Chiba
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Dogdog
I had a friend who went to college with her and tried to chat her up. She wasn't having any of it...
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Dogdog
Same here. This time I don't think the mother did it, but it was definitely someone who knew the mother and the mother's routine.
Posted in: Mother of murdered girl releases comments after funeral in Chiba
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Dogdog
Actually, I apologize for my last post. It seems that I'm the one who has difficulty with comprehending rjd jr posts.
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Dogdog
Voted best police chiefest of the year.....
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