JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Unions did not cause the financial disaster of ’08 and ’09, but neither do Unions help the recovery process. Politicians will ultimately negotiate and compromise. Everybody will get something, nobody will get what they really want.
Posted in: Big labor's last stand in the U.S.
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Life based on science and technology ignores, to its detriment, the inner life of the soul. Not to nourish the soul is to be bereft of what truly makes a person fulfilled.
Posted in: How many Katos are out there, ready to explode in rage?
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The parent has already “lost it” at that point. Leave it along, and hope the parent knows how to deal with it later.
Posted in: If you saw an adult hitting or roughly handling a child in public, would you intervene or just mind your business and assume it was a parent disciplining his/her child?
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Galapagos is just one device out of many out there in Japan. Consumers who choose this cell format are making a free choice, like choosing to wear Kimono.
Posted in: What do you think of the expression "Galapagos effect," that refers to some Japanese companies that prefer to focus on their domestic market and be less influenced by global technology trends?
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Let’s make “toilet” the new “water cooler”.
Posted in: 'Toilet God' song makes a star of songstress
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All these posts are very informative and very interesting, but they all lack an overall view, a global view wherein these bits of information tie in to make a larger statement. For instance, China will, just as U.S. has, ultimately be forced to develop a more effective customer relationship awareness. At some point China’s customers will demand a more give-and-take relationship, or take their business elsewhere.
Posted in: China has some major issues coming
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U.S. farming is a huge agribusiness protected by expensive lawyers in Washington. Any notion of fairness of trade is a fiction. Anyone fly across the U.S.? The sheer vastness of farming land is jaw dropping! Once the FTP is signed, and it will be signed, any semblance of farming will disappear in Japan, like the Dodo bird.
Posted in: Japan’s current trade fiasco
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“@knews Could you enlighten us with your religious insights?”
Religious insight is open to all who study it. It doesn’t come to you on a tray. It starts with a desire for the insight, then the search….. The problem is that people don’t know how to seek knowledge.They become their own obstacles.
Posted in: Waiting for a sign
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Why is it that discussions on religion are carried on by people who have no religious insights… would people who have never studied Quantum Theory debate on the theory? The problem is that people assume they “understand” religion when they have no idea what it is to understand religion.
Posted in: Waiting for a sign
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Lack of Release Form will be a critical factor in this lawsuit—once the case is taken over by lawyers its all legalese. Its not looking good the movie director.
Posted in: 'The Cove' director fights lawsuit by Japanese scientist
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Everything good starts with a positive attitude, which this Mom seems to have already. Only hard work and tenacity will do the rest.
Posted in: Japanese widow, son of Marine closer to immigrating to U.S.
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What first sticks out as unwieldy and awkward about J-pop is the way words are sung. J-pop singers faithfully enunciate every words clearly and crisply, as if grade schoolers are reading the text in front of the class. One, than, is forced to follow the words rather than the music. In American pop music, the words are almost secondary, or even tertiary; words/voice are just another musical instrument, music making is the primary event. J-pop singers are so focused on form that MUSIC MAKING gets the short shrift. In Art good students make bad artists.
Posted in: Does J-pop really suck?
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Princess Kiko, I believe, is either a Harvard or Yale grad, and grew up mostly in the US and EU. Boy, talk about culture-shock, no wonder she is often ill.
Posted in: Happy birthday
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“Reframing normal, century old human and market behavior and using it to claim some sense of Japanese cultural superiority.”
Since when is saving money equivalent to claiming cultural superiority? True, Japan has gone, perhaps, too far in this direction, but the reverse was the case prior to this swing. So, there exists, apparently, a pendulum phenomena, despite any lofty theories. Maybe the focus should be on “why should a pendulum phenomena exist at all”. Any theories?
Posted in: The effects of a frugal Japanese society
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Shows such as “Lost” all are pushing the definition of “true reality”, or “true history”. These shows “question the traditional way of perception” and offer/suggest an “alternative” view/perception by introducing often an improbable, and or an uncomfortable explanation, not to deny any established facts, but only to offer that maybe we should be ready to re-think, or look through a fresh angle. And, after all, that’s ENTERTAINMENT!
Posted in: 'Space Battleship Yamato' blasts off
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China-Russia tie-up to test DPJ government is an interesting gambit, as Russia itself has been struggling with the Russian Far-East issue, a long source of Russian insecurity caused by massive number of Chinese workers “invasion” as the native Russians “escape” to western parts. On the surface, the Chinese workers provide the work-force necessary to develop and maintain RFE, but the history tells a different story: Russia fears Chinese take-over of the entire Russian east coast, which China feels Russia stole from them. The issue is more complex as there are still more territories Russia took from China when China was a helpless nation. China is being overtly coy with the Russians.
Posted in: What is the best way to resolve the territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the four islands off Hokkaido?
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When a person of high rank shares a laughter as the Secretary does here, with open mouth and throat revealed, she is signaling that she feels comfortable relaxed. Add closed eyes and you have “trust”.
Posted in: Laugh-in
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It is very likely that the Chinese men are being used to test Japanese reaction, perhaps, by a political organization in China. It is a strategy to entice Japan into reacting inappropriately, so that China, then, will have to take “measures” to teach Japan, again. Sound familiar?
Posted in: I protest
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Much of our daily communications such as greetings and asking for things happen with the much vaunted “body language” within the cultural “soup/stew”. Understand that your average wait-staff are not trained in international politics—if this comes as a shock, perhaps, you are missing the point. When you, the international columnist, insist that the Japanese “live up” to its own—the sharp steel edge to your barely hidden agenda creeps me out. You are the thug, wheeling your “weapon” to intimidate the least able to fend themselves. Your behavior is akin to the Chinese in the recent Senkaku incident.
Posted in: In Japan, the customer is not king
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In the end, nationalists will bow low to money, and this is a good thing. Money becomes the voice of reason and rationality.
Posted in: Japan, China test each other's diplomatic resolve