chardk1 said...

chardk1 at 11:11 PM JST - 15th August

chardk1, the person who you have quoted is what the rest of Koreans call the ultra pro-Japan Korean or a Japanese pretending a Korean. I want to make it clear to all Japanese here, however, that those Koreans who deny Japan's childish claim on Dokdo are not extreme nationalists at…

Posted in Ad asserts S. Korean claims in isle dispute in Australian paper at 11:11 PM JST - 15th August
chardk1 at 06:53 PM JST - 15th August

Can't sing, can't act, and how the hell she stays on TV is beyond me.

Same way all the little ingenues who can't sing and can't act stay on TV. She's cute.

Posted in Aya Ueto to play Paris Hilton-like celebrity in new drama at 06:53 PM JST - 15th August
chardk1 at 06:49 PM JST - 15th August

I agree that there are quite a few extremists in SK but they are the exception not the rule. Also each country has its own group of extremists that give the rest of the country a bad name. I guess this particular group in question has been a little more…

Posted in Ad asserts S. Korean claims in isle dispute in Australian paper at 06:49 PM JST - 15th August
chardk1 at 01:07 PM JST - 15th August

It's tough. That was a monumental choke job and Suzuki, the Japanese media and fans, everyone knows it so it's hard to say "well, he gave it his best and sometimes these things happen." Suzuki won gold before so he isn't going to be remembered as a loser or anything…

Posted in Suzuki tumbles, Nakazawa also ousted in Beijing at 01:07 PM JST - 15th August
chardk1 at 01:03 PM JST - 15th August

All of you offering to attend her wedding realize she probably expects in the neighborhood of several thousand dollars cash minimum from each guest right? Everyone I know dreads being "invited" to Japanese weddings, it's like being "invited" to pay your taxes.

Posted in Celebrity Waka Inoue says 'I want lots of people to attend my wedding” at 01:03 PM JST - 15th August
chardk1 at 12:59 PM JST - 15th August

If her parents could buy her a new nose, jawline and chest (according to her high school classmates, and you don't have to be an expert to spot the knifework), I imagine they could pay for tutoring as well. Also, she grew up partly in Hawaii and speaks pretty good…

Posted in Singer Nana Tanimura performs in Odaiba at 12:59 PM JST - 15th August
chardk1 at 12:11 PM JST - 14th August

One of the oddest things I've heard in a while came during Bush's interview with Bob Costas where he said blithely, "the Chinese government has nothing to fear from religious freedom, anyone who has ever lived in a country where religion is strong knows that it is an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE…

Posted in Bush's balancing act on China dictated by candor and fear at 12:11 PM JST - 14th August
chardk1 at 05:56 PM JST - 13th August

How is it a "Hollywood" film when it has been filmed fully in Japan by Japanese producers?

It's got some American actors in it, and an American wrote the screenplay. Otherwise, a vanity project by the Japanese to create a fake American movie so they can claim to have gone…

Posted in Actress Megumi Okina appears at Japan premiere of horror film 'Shutter' at 05:56 PM JST - 13th August
chardk1 at 05:50 PM JST - 13th August

I'm sorry, 5.5 million yen. Still outrageous!

Posted in Chrysler makes its mark in Japan at 05:50 PM JST - 13th August
chardk1 at 05:49 PM JST - 13th August

You'd be nuts to buy an American car in Japan considering the premium you have to pay, and you don't get those fat American rebates. For $35,000 a Hemi 300C looks pretty good but 55 million yen for the V6?! I'll pass, thanks.

Posted in Chrysler makes its mark in Japan at 05:49 PM JST - 13th August