Maff said...

Maff at 08:25 PM JST - 9th October

It's a bit of a gamble if you ask me. The best young players might just decide to go to the U.S. and never play in Japan - ever.

If that happens, NPB will become even less popular than it is now.

Posted in Japan's baseball teams to curb talent drain with ban at 08:25 PM JST - 9th October
Maff at 09:23 AM JST - 8th October

One point that should be mentioned is that Nambu completed the work for which he was awarded the prize in the 1960s, but only became in American citizen in 1970. H therefore earned the prize as a Japanese, though will receive it as an American. So perhaps the U.S. media…

Posted in 2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics at 09:23 AM JST - 8th October
Maff at 05:31 PM JST - 30th September

A prefecture with seven-million people crammed together in a contigious suburban sprawl.

And this is all that's happened there in the way of serious crime in the last week or so.

Woooh. Scary place.

Posted in Woman held over abduction of 1-yr-old girl from Saitama shopping center at 05:31 PM JST - 30th September
Maff at 03:45 PM JST - 22nd September

What people who get the impression that such crimes are "rampant" here have to realise is that in Japan every single murder makes the national news. This just isn't the case in many other countries.

Posted in Mother arrested on suspicion of killing 6-year-old son in Fukuoka park at 03:45 PM JST - 22nd September
Maff at 12:16 PM JST - 22nd September

beavis:

You're very influenced by the Japanese media, aren't you? Heres how it works:

Japan = low rates of murder and other violent crime = not much to report each day = journalists desperate for a story = even dull, relative-on-relative killings getting reported

Don't let your views be shaped…

Posted in Mother arrested on suspicion of killing 6-year-old son in Fukuoka park at 12:16 PM JST - 22nd September
Maff at 10:35 AM JST - 19th September

I've been a nicotine junkie for over 20 years because I find it absolutely impossible to give it up. But I'm still in favour of bans being imposed wherever they can be because they protect me from myself. If I can't smoke for certain hours of the day, I'll probably…

Posted in LDP lags behind other parties in anti-smoking campaign at 10:35 AM JST - 19th September
Maff at 11:20 AM JST - 18th September

In Japan, kids are generally allowed out to play with friends as soon as they enter primary school. It's great, because the kids get to play with their peers every single day, not like the poor kids in the West whose parents are so busy that the kids are lucky…

Posted in 6-yr-old girl critical after hanging herself on overhead ladder in park at 11:20 AM JST - 18th September
Maff at 06:20 PM JST - 15th September

American banks and securities houses are a joke. Even more poorly managed than the Japanese banks were in the 1980s and 1990s.

Posted in Lehman declares bankruptcy; Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch at 06:20 PM JST - 15th September
Maff at 10:11 AM JST - 15th September

Ridiculous. Aso = PM = defeat for LDP at next election. Simple as that.

Posted in Aso almost certain to become next LDP leader: poll at 10:11 AM JST - 15th September
Maff at 11:47 AM JST - 13th September

ColAmerica: Who is treating it as a right-wing attack? That doesn't make any sense to me. It's usually the left-wingers that fire rockets at U.S. bases.

Posted in Rocket bombs launched near U.S. naval base in Yokosuka at 11:47 AM JST - 13th September