JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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Mark_McCracken
I'm so looking forward to hearing Obama supporters' reaction to this.
Posted in: Obama, receiving Nobel Peace Prize, says war sometimes justified
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Mark_McCracken
Anyone remember what some people said before Titanic? "Who wants to see a movie about a boat sinking? Everyone already knows how the story ends."
Avatar has mass appeal - it looks moderately interesting to a wide, diverse segment of the market. Fantasy, love story, Army guys, stuff blowing up, flying reptile all captured with cutting edge film making. I'll be very surprised if this isn't a big hit this holiday season.
Posted in: Can Cameron deliver Titanic results on 'Avatar?'
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Mark_McCracken
What if I take an image of McDonald's arches and shorten the leg of one arch. How many people would be able to tell it wasn't the actual McDonald's arches?
I think the standard should be - take an actual image, show it to the population of the world and ask "What's this?".
Posted in: What do you think is the most recognizable image in the world?
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Mark_McCracken
Youth - so much energy, so little wisdom.
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Mark_McCracken
A picture of the moon.
Posted in: What do you think is the most recognizable image in the world?
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Mark_McCracken
There are unconfirmed reports that Tiger may have been beaten by this wife, yet he clearly refused to speak to the police about the incident. Domestic violence is so sad. Infidelity, whether true or not, is no justification to become violent with a spouse.
Tiger seemed to be trying to get away from the violent situation and may be victim of Battered Person Syndrome, which Wikipedia explains..."In lay terms, this is a reference to any person who, because of constant and severe domestic violence usually involving physical abuse by a partner, becomes depressed and unable to take any independent action that would allow him or her to escape the abuse. The condition explains why abused people often do not seek assistance from others, fight their abuser, or leave the abusive situation."
Posted in: Tiger Woods' troubles widen his distance from blacks
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Mark_McCracken
They seem pretty busy at Jusco.
Posted in: What it's like for department store staff in a recession
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Mark_McCracken
Sounds like Jello.
Posted in: Skeptical Democrats resign themselves to Obama war plan
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Mark_McCracken
Me too. (It was her birthday.) But it really wasn't too bad. Better than most of the movies these days, though that's not saying much. The behind the scenes perspective was kind of interesting, though you can get that on MTV. Music sounded pretty good. Singing was hit and miss, depending on if Micheal wanted to save his voice or not. But I definitely won't be buying the DVD, (even if it were to be bundled with a new Noriko Sakai release).
Posted in: Jackson's 'This Is It' documentary to be released on DVD on Jan 27
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Mark_McCracken
Nice to see this story getting more coverage. The possibility of scientific fraud being conducted to support the global warming theory should have been the leading story in the mainstream media.
Posted in: Climategate: The fix is in
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Mark_McCracken
A similar product will likely be appearing at your local 100 yen shop very soon.
Posted in: The big squeeze
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Mark_McCracken
I see Japan Today is milking the for all it's worth. One picture, one article, one poll.
Unfortunately you are asking the wrong question. The question is whether Obama bowed improperly. A slight bow would have been OK, I think, but the Obama's bow was too deep.
Posted in: Should President Barack Obama have bowed to the emperor while he was in Japan?
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Mark_McCracken
So the Emperor, by not bowing deeply, is showing his lack of deep respect for Obama. Is that correct?
Posted in: Obama's bow to emperor causes outrage in Washington
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Mark_McCracken
How can you tell the difference, specifically?
Posted in: Obama's bow to emperor causes outrage in Washington
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Mark_McCracken
Obama is bowing incorrectly. His bow is too deep.
If this bow is the correct way world leaders greet each other in Japan, then why isn't the Emperor bowing the same deep way?
The Emperor knew the correct protocol. Obama did not.
Posted in: Obama's bow to emperor causes outrage in Washington
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Mark_McCracken
Unnamed, I suppose, to avoid the embarrassment of being associated with protocol officials who don't know how to bow.
Posted in: Obama's bow to emperor causes outrage in Washington
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Mark_McCracken
I suppose you can watch Fox, CNN and MSNBC in Japan - if you have cable.
Posted in: CNN finding that prime-time success is elusive
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Mark_McCracken
Here's US Ambassador Douglas MacArthur, Jr. greeting then Emperor Hirohito back in 1957. Compare that with Obama above and you can see the difference.
http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/Enlargement.aspx?id=U1131582&ext=1
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Mark_McCracken
He's not observing the local customs. He's doing it wrong. He's bowing too deeply. That deep a bow is commonly associate with subservience or extreme regret. That deep a bow (minus the handshake, of course) is what the airline executives do after the plane crashes, what the celebrities do after they've been released from the police station, or what common Japanese might do if they met the Emperor.
A correct bow, between heads of state, as AllforOne stated above would have been much closer to a 15 degree angle, with a straight back, and hands at the sides. Maybe 30 degrees if Obama wanted to convey extra respect.
Obama looks like a fresh-off-the-boat 22 year old overly anxious to impress the manager of the Eikaiwa he got assigned to.
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Mark_McCracken
Way too deep a bow for a head of state.
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