ThonTaddeo said...

ThonTaddeo at 09:24 PM JST - 16th April

If only Erika Toda would take up Panel de Pon and discover the virtues of men who are solid and squarish!

Posted in Actress Toda says blob-like men 'not bad' at 09:24 PM JST - 16th April
ThonTaddeo at 09:35 PM JST - 15th April

Great to see Fumie still at it, and preparing for the next Olympic Games, in a world where all the media seems to focus on is the 17-year-olds.

I'd much rather see her win than overhyped Mao and Yona!

Posted in Suguri suffers rib fracture at 09:35 PM JST - 15th April
ThonTaddeo at 05:58 PM JST - 14th April

*three sho of rice [a small daily portion] *

Actually, three sho is 5.4 liters. Ryokan would have died a very fat man had he eaten this much every day. Perhaps the author meant three go, or 540 ml, which would indeed be a meager daily ration.

Posted in Recession a good opportunity to return to Japan's core virtues at 05:58 PM JST - 14th April
ThonTaddeo at 02:09 AM JST - 14th April

Northlondon, I like that decision. It's a lot harder to score from first than it is from second, and with a power pitcher like Kroon on the mound, you want to be able to get that lead run in even if you only get one more hit. If he gets…

Posted in Rasner pitches Rakuten over Seibu at 02:09 AM JST - 14th April
ThonTaddeo at 02:05 AM JST - 14th April

Brainiac, good catch -- I hadn't even noticed that both incidents were in the same ward of the same city.

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ThonTaddeo at 09:23 PM JST - 13th April

Note also that the price index, compared to 2005, is 4.3% higher. A whole bunch of things went up in price when oil spiked, and never came down. Wholesale and retail prices need to come down quite a bit so that people can afford things again, particularly young recruits whose…

Posted in Wholesale prices down 2.2% in March at 09:23 PM JST - 13th April
ThonTaddeo at 08:19 PM JST - 11th April

Japan has held Okinawa as a possession since the early 1600s.

Well, yes, the Satsuma clan forcibly took the islands in 1609 and enslaved the people. That they were able to hold the islands for so long doesn't mean that they have any moral right to continue to exploit the…

Posted in American consul general in Okinawa doused with coffee at 08:19 PM JST - 11th April
ThonTaddeo at 07:29 PM JST - 10th April

And before that there were people of the Ohotsk culture who inhabited them centuries before the Ainu. How far back do you want to take this?

Looks like we Ainu will be the ones taking up the "we stole them fair and square" gambit then!

(Still, I don't know much…

Posted in TBS clarifies Mino Monta’s remark that Japan should buy back Northern Territories at 07:29 PM JST - 10th April
ThonTaddeo at 09:37 PM JST - 9th April

After the way the police treated people during the G8 summit -- held all the way up in Hokkaido! -- I don't want Tokyo, or any Japanese city, hosting any kind of international event ever again.

It's a shame, because seeing the Olympic Games come to your city should be…

Posted in Ishihara spells out reasons why Tokyo should host Olympics at 09:37 PM JST - 9th April
ThonTaddeo at 09:22 PM JST - 9th April

If these four islands are gong to be returned to somebody, theyshould be given back to the Ainu, who lived there for centuries before the Japanese came along. Is this another of those "we stole them fair and square" gambits?

Posted in TBS clarifies Mino Monta’s remark that Japan should buy back Northern Territories at 09:22 PM JST - 9th April