JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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GJDailleult
So who will be Paul Henderson tomorrow? Henderson always scores for Canada!
Posted in: Canada routs Germany in men's hockey
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GJDailleult
@goddog - Why would they want a Japanese wife?
A Chinese guy once told me that he and many other Chinese men actually prefer Japanese women to Chinese women. Basically he felt they are less controlling and less obsessed with marriage. No idea if that is true or just a case of the grass is always greener, but that was his opinion. Also though, he was a scientist from Shanghai, not some uneducated guy from the countryside. Those are the guys who are going to face the demographic problem, don't know how many Japanese women are going to be interested in them, maybe none.
Posted in: Magazine airs anxieties over China's burgeoning economic clout
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GJDailleult
Much simpler solution than bringing back Gretzky is to glue Pronger to the bench, and change goalies. I'm not a fan of the butterfly style of goalkeeping, but if you're not going to play that style you'd better not let the puck go through your legs. Not twice in the same game.
Posted in: U.S. stuns Canada 5-3 in men's ice hockey
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GJDailleult
I watched too much figure skating growing up when my mother and sister commandeered the tv and I was too lazy to leave the room. But I always drew the line at ice dance, so don't know too much about it.
But I did watch tonight, and thought the Reeds did a nice job for Japan, the Canadian flamenco routine was excellent, and the Russian Aborigine thing was just weird. Very, very weird. I've spent a lot of time in Australia, and that didn't look like anything I have seen there. The music was a pretty poor selection too, considering what is available in Aboriginal music.
Posted in: Canadians lead after original ice dance
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GJDailleult
Watched most of the game, and congratulations to the USA for their win and great effort. But not to take anything away from them, as a Canadian I have seen this movie too many times. Players selected to play on the basis of past performance and reputation, and players selected to fill a "role", who are then not up to speed at the top level. It has happened many times over the years, and each time the Canadian management says "we won't make the same mistakes again", and then they do.
Neidermeyer, Thornton, Pronger, Bergeron, and Brodeur should not be on the Olympic team, for either of the reasons above. Brodeur has had a great career,but has benefited from playing on a team with a defensive philosophy all his career. He was badly outplayed by Miller, and at his age now is simply not the best goalie available. And Pronger is useless, he has personally been the cause of a goal in each of the last two games. You just can't make those kind of selection mistakes at this level, against players as good as the USA and those on the other teams.
Posted in: U.S. stuns Canada 5-3 in men's ice hockey
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GJDailleult
Ron Paul wins the straw poll, but he isn't listed among the politicians who were there. Is he playing hard to get?
Posted in: GOP's 2012 hopefuls crowd town they love to hate
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GJDailleult
These girls are very good, and Meguro is a much better skip than the one they had in Torino. Beat Germany and a medal is a real possibility.
Posted in: Japan beats Russia in women's curling
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GJDailleult
Soccer doesn't really apply here, as citizenship is not necessary to play for a country. Just proof of a connection through a parent's or grandparent's country of birth. The Olympics seem to require citizenship though, but obviously Japanese law does not apply in the US, so the "dual" citizenship problem can be got around.
Saw their interview though, and they really should have just done an Ichiro and claimed they needed an interpreter to answer properly. Then nobody would have known if they could speak Japanese or not.
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GJDailleult
Watched this live last night, and have to ask who is advising him and how much is Woods paying them. It was a bizarre and weird performance that probably made the situation for him worse, not better.
Posted in: Tiger Woods apologizes for behavior; unsure of return
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GJDailleult
Best I could do to follow this game was on Twitter, no live feeds online or even radio that I could find. Meanwhile NHK was replaying the Japan-China curling. That's not meant to bash NHK, it is the same in every country, and actually NHK has been pretty good at showing full events and keeping the studio time to a minimum.
But what needs to happen is for the IOC to get its act together. Denying people access to events they want to watch in order to protect an out-of-date business model of selling national broadcast rights is ridiculous. The technology is there, so figure out how to use it and join the 21st century.
Posted in: Canada avoids hockey upset, tops Swiss in shootout
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GJDailleult
Get used to seeing more of this kind of stuff. There is no shortage of broke, unemployed, middle aged guys who have no clue what hit has them or why, they just know that they are "mad as hell" and they are going to make somebody pay.
This time it's the IRS as the designated bad guy and evil-doer, next time it will be somebody else. But there will lots of next times.
Posted in: Man, angry at IRS, crashes small plane into Texas building
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GJDailleult
The important numbers are $50 trillion and 350% of GDP. That is the total debt in the USA, not including the hundreds of trillions of derivatives held by the big banks. 787 Billion is a drop in the bucket compared to that, and that 50 trillion is the source of all problems. The government debt is an effect not a cause.
Posted in: Obama says stimulus bill saved U.S. economy
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GJDailleult
Well don't know about the print edition, but she is right there on the front page of the New York Times website. Holding the flag too. An inspiration to small people with small hopes is she?
Posted in: After all the delays, Vonn shines light on Alpine skiing with gold performance
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GJDailleult
That would be because it isn't. Doesn't mean that stimulus is the wrong thing to do if it keeps things from crashing all at once, but it isn't a solution to anything. That's because it doesn't deal with the problem (giving trillions to banks doesn't either). The problem is the level of total debt (private plus government) in the USA, and it is the same problem all over the world too. If you grow your economy through continually increasing the level of debt, you will eventually crash your economy.
Nothing political or ideological about it either, just basic economics which was conveniently ignored for over a quarter century.
Posted in: Obama says stimulus bill saved U.S. economy
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GJDailleult
The simple rule is that anybody who walks into this minefield is somebody who is looking for trouble. Doesn't matter if they are a French speaker or an English speaker. The separatist side is trying to use the Olympics to score some points, the same thing would have happened if the Olympics were in Quebec City, only in reverse. Been going on for decades, and assuming people don't become complete idiots and actually break things up, it will continue for decades.
Posted in: Canada's French-English strife flares at Olympics
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GJDailleult
As if Cheney doesn't know that. He knows he is ignoring the facts, he's just pushing buttons.
Posted in: Biden and Cheney spar over antiterrorism policies
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GJDailleult
Excellent points by JohnBecker. In auto racing today, while deaths can still occur due to the inherent danger of the sport, they now NEVER happen due to a disregard for safety (they attempt to reduce that danger to the minimum possible level), or faulty track design that doesn't recognize potentially dangerous spots and situations.
Why the IOC and those responsible for designing the track did not think in the same proactive way is a head-scratcher.
Posted in: What part of 'slow it down' doesn't the IOC get?
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GJDailleult
Good to see that the ceremony went off well, hopefully things will go off reasonably smoothly. But right now, things are kind of in the balance. The ridiculous bobsled/luge track has to be made safer obviously, and there is also the lack of snow. How they could have put the freestyle and snowboarding at Cypress without having a back-up plan to move to Whistler if necessary is unbelievable (for any natives like me at least). Then you have the fact that it is massively over-budget and that the security is over the top (and who is paying for that???)
It may also turn out to be not such a bright idea to invite the world to the supposed "world's most livable city", so they could see up close the crap weather, the urban poverty, and the idiotic drug wars . None of that is news to me, but doesn't really fit with the blue skies, mountains, and water travel magazine photos, so it is news to everybody else.
And I won't even start on the hockey, other than to say the expectations in Canada are ridiculous. There are at least 4 or 5 countries with an even chance to win, and only one is Canada. I hope it doesn't happen, but we are setting ourselves up for a very hard fall.
Posted in: Vancouver Olympics open under a cloud after fatal luge accident
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GJDailleult
More accurately, the intentional misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment is the curse.
Posted in: Professor charged in fatal shooting on Alabama campus
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GJDailleult
The article very clearly states the maps in "this South American nation". That would be Argentina, and it's just a statement of fact. I think we all know they are called the Falklands everywhere else, no need to inform us of that. If you want to go off on an anti-media rant, you really have to do better than that.
Posted in: Argentina blocks British supply ship in Falklands dispute