JeffLee said...

JeffLee at 08:56 AM JST - 23rd September

Kakubin with ice and soda is one of the best value drinks in the world. Costs pennies to make at home yet is very palatable. For the price, Kakubin, Black Nikka, etc., are wonderful drams.

The international awards have nothing to do with this trend, as those whiskys are never,…

Posted in Highballs are hip again at 08:56 AM JST - 23rd September
JeffLee at 03:30 PM JST - 21st September

Every national, provincial, and state park in Canada and the USA requires that you get a permit to film for commercial purposes. If you don't have a permit, you will be charged with trespassing (among other things).

You're wrong. I just checked Alberta parks website. Its provincial parks require permits…

Posted in 'The Cove' director risks arrest to come to Tokyo at 03:30 PM JST - 21st September
JeffLee at 05:48 PM JST - 19th September

I would rather choose my own holidays rather than have the State choose them for me.

Posted in Expressways, train stations, airports jammed as Silver Week holidays start at 05:48 PM JST - 19th September
JeffLee at 03:59 PM JST - 18th September

Why the focus on Japanese makers?. This is an IT sector pioneered and now dominated by foreign (Taiwan and US)players. Yet again, Japanese manufacturers find themselves woefully behind in a leading IT trend.

Posted in Netbook craze pushes PC industry to rethink game plan at 03:59 PM JST - 18th September
JeffLee at 08:51 PM JST - 17th September

12 billion yen just for construction costs for a comic museum? No wonder this country is so massively indebted.

Posted in New culture minister calls halt to Aso's animation center plan at 08:51 PM JST - 17th September
JeffLee at 06:56 AM JST - 17th September

But he acknowledged there had been...nervousness about “an unexpected controversy."

Let's keep it clean, safe and unoffensive, people. This is an international film festival, after all.

Posted in Tokyo film festival decides at last minute to include 'The Cove' at 06:56 AM JST - 17th September
JeffLee at 12:30 PM JST - 14th September

jolted awake from decades of lassitude ...

Funny how Japan's own worse meltdown - collapse of Yamaichi Securities, the bursting bubble that sank the Nikkei to less than a third its value, and a decade of recession -- didn't jolt the Japanese from their "lassitude." Are foreign crises scarier than…

Posted in 1 year after Lehman collapse, Japan wrestles with wakeup call for change at 12:30 PM JST - 14th September
JeffLee at 06:38 AM JST - 10th September

He aleady plead guilty! So why's he on trial? Is this some kind of Chairman Mao-inspired "struggle session"?

Posted in Victim, defendant's mom questioned on 2nd day of jury trial with interpreters at 06:38 AM JST - 10th September
JeffLee at 01:38 PM JST - 8th September

I find a lot of Japanese products badly designed, semi-useless and uninspired. Gimme an iPhone or Blackberry over a Sharp or Toshiba handset any day. Gimme a Bently or Masterati over a Daihatsu or Nissan.

I also resent the patronizing tone of this article, as most of the top-quality products…

Posted in Foreign manufacturers steadily make inroads into Japan at 01:38 PM JST - 8th September
JeffLee at 06:25 AM JST - 8th September

If this film didn't win a foreign award, would anyone here have taken notice of it, I wonder?

Posted in Academy award winning 'Okuribito' marks one-year run at Shinjuku theater at 06:25 AM JST - 8th September