JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Wolfpack
A make over every now and then is always nice. The site looks more up-to-date and still has some of the same feel as the old site. I haven't run into any bad links or other types of bugs. Good job by your development team.
I love that there are so many people who live, have lived, or just have an interest in Japan participating on this website. I just wish there were someway to make it possible for the average Japanese to be able to interact on this English language site. I guess that would require the same story to be posted in both English and Japanese and some kind of instant translation between the two languages for story comments.
Thanks Japan Today. I visit your site daily and always find something interesting to read and enjoy. Please keep up the great work!
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@Alphaape
It is odd that a young Enka singer would wear the ghetto chic that Jero does, but hey, not any less odd than the fact that he is a black Enka singer. Yet he isn't any different than many young men these days - even in Japan.
I do give him credit for his success in a very niche musical genre.
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Wolfpack
A group called JEARS.org is one organization that sprang up very quickly after the quake and tsunami hit and are doing great work. Other folks have also taken the initiative to help like Heidi's Operation Tomodachi http://heidisoperationtomodachi.com/ The activist groups are right - things are bad in the evacuation zone.
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Wolfpack
Pop music acts like AKB48, Kara, and Shoujo jidai have a target audience that they appeal to. Just like Hannah Montana, the Backstreet Boys, or Beyonce for example. If you don't like them, then you are likely not the type of fan they are looking for anyway. Regardless, they are doing a public service for the Red Cross - nothing wrong with that per se. However, based on the list of exclusions that Japan has for those that cannot give blood, they have their work cut off for them.
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Wolfpack
@Moderator:
Right you are. Hopefully Maeda and the rest of the group will continue to use their popularity to help with the disaster relief efforts and with visits to those that are still not permanently settled into their own homes.
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@Nagoyalove:
Get real - she is a Madonna retread. As Genjuro says, her fans probably are just so young that they have never heard of Madonna. At least AKB48 has it's roots in theater and in live performance.
So Gaga she can play the piano, triangle, and tabourine... that makes her something special? Her music is just as airy and shallow as any typical pop song. Several AKB members play the piano and others play various other instruments. That doesn't make them musical geniuses - nor does it make Lady Gaga a great musical talent. Believe it or not, AKB48 has a number of songs that take on serious social issues such as enjyo kosai and suicide. I know of one former member - Hoshino Michiru - that wrote and recorded her own songs. Sure, she is one of numerous members but it just goes to show that just because Gaga has written a few pop songs isn't anymore amazing than what an AKB girl can do.
Lady Gaga is much more of an insult to music than any fluffy Jpop group there has ever been. She has simply made a spectacle of herself - nude, rude, and in the long run - irrelevant.
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Wolfpack
Cree has received hundreds of millions of dollars from the Federal government and has created 5,000 jobs in China. Obama is doing a better job of creating engineers in China than in his own country - much as he is doing a better job of developing oil in South America than in the US. Obama was simply making a campaign stop in North Carolina - a state he won in 2008 by a mere 14,000 votes. I can assure you, he will lose that state in 2012 as he will many states in the mid-west that are in dire economic shape under his presidency.
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Wolfpack
Went to a Hurricanes hockey game and yes, there were cheerleaders. They do their cheering from several platforms located all the way around the rink. The home team was in the playoff race that year and the atmosphere was great - and made even better by the cheerleaders. I'm not much of a hockey fan so I spent a bit more time enjoying the cheers squad than I would at a football game.
The Washington Redskins had a Japanese cheerleader for several years but she apparently isn't on the squad this year. With Emi on the sidelines, I'll have to watch the Jets this coming season (assuming there will be one).
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Wolfpack
The group is doing a lot to raise funds for disaster relief - so no matter what your opinion of their talent level, they are making a significant contribution to Japanese society. As for talent, they are no less talented than the omnipresent mass marketed Lady Gaga - who is nothing more than an updated and repackaged Madonna clone. I really can't figure out why she is so popular - she isn't even attractive or have a particularly good voice. She is just flashy and trashy.
Japanese "idols" are simply entertainers. AKB48 sing pop music tunes that are for the most part not much different from the teen acts from Western countries. However, it is undeniable that there is a certain amount of exploitation of young teens in the group. Bikini layouts of 16 year old girls for example, and a few songs with sexually charged lyrics are jarring to non-Japanese. For whatever reason, Japan has been more tolerant of that sort of thing.
I would note that the top three girls; Maeda, Oshima, and Kashiwagi, are all over 18.
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Wolfpack
I remember being able to see the Ofuna Kannon from the train - spectacular!
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Wolfpack
It's going to take a lot of oil and natural gas to make up for the nuclear energy that Germany is doing away with. Good thing that global warming was found to be an elaborate hoax - otherwise I would question this move on the part of Merkel's government.
Posted in: Germany decides to abandon nuclear power by 2022
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Wolfpack
Your children will eat what Obama tells you they will eat. Now shut up and do what the government tells you to do!
In the meantime, if Liberals would like to pool their own "private" money together to promote healthy eating then I am all for it. I am sure a lot of Conservatives would join their efforts. Otherwise, you can tell big brother that this is an obama-nation of a policy idea. The government needs to keep its nose out of the lunch boxes of private citizens.
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Wolfpack
Yeah and power lines might cause cancer also. So now what?
Posted in: Experts say cell phones are possibly carcinogenic
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Wolfpack
Either these "bunnies" are on break from work on some advertising job nearby or they just love the reaction they get from Ojisan's in the park.
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Wolfpack
Now that there is no political gain to oppose the Patriotic Act, Democrats are strangely sanguine about it.
Posted in: U.S. Senate moves Patriot Act toward extension
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Wolfpack
@sensei258:
That was the first thought I had when I read the headline for this article. DSK - like Clinton before him - is an idiot. I hope he doesn't try the old "it's only about sex" defense.
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Wolfpack
Nothing wrong with that. Keep it up as long as you can, at some point youth will fade and a pint will be enough to knock you out for the night.
Posted in: Obama arrives in London ahead of schedule after jubilant Ireland visit
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Wolfpack
Classy move Eto. Next time you would be better off throwing a punch. Throwing water on another person is just wimpy.
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@Tamarama:
The occupation of the West Bank is due to a war - one precipitated by Arab states in 1967. Since then and before, the Palestinians have continuously engaged in and support terrorist acts against Israel. Once the Palestinians stops blowing up cafe's Israel will be able to withdraw and/or negotiate. Until then, I see no reason for Israel to reward terrorist acts by surrendering any advantage.
What inflames the situation is the never ending attempt to "wipe Israel off the face of the map". Why is it so hard for the Palestinians to just stop being terrorists? Every time the Israeli's try to hunker down and put up with the rockets, pizza shop bombs, and suicide vest explosions on buses, they just get played for suckers.
Posted in: Obama addresses Arab world; urges Israel to go back to 1967 borders
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Wolfpack
I though Obama rejected his white/Irish side. Isn't he America's first Black president not Americans first bi-racial president. He thought of his white Mother (the person that stuck around to raise him) a racist and his father (the guy you took off when he was a child) got a book named for him.
Why go through all the trouble of saying that you think of yourself as black and then travel over to Ireland and say you want to add an apostrophe to your name. Politicians can just be amazingly disingenuous.
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