gonemad said...

gonemad at 09:47 AM JST - 27th October

Will new executive pay rules cause a brain drain?

No, I really don't think so. There will be enough of now lower rank managers within those companies themselves who are at least as capable doing the job of directing the companies. Those with strategic thinking will happily replace those…

Posted in Will new executive pay rules cause a brain drain? at 09:47 AM JST - 27th October
gonemad at 01:38 AM JST - 21st October

so Australia is still infested with this backward puritan pseudo-morality - or again?

Posted in No hugging allowed for preteens at Australian school at 01:38 AM JST - 21st October
gonemad at 09:45 PM JST - 15th October

There's no problem if they try to establish payed news services. It's just a matter of supply and demand and if they find enough customers, then why not. But to win me as a customer, they'd have to do a couple of things which I don't see to happen soon:…

Posted in AP, News Corp bosses say pay up for online news content at 09:45 PM JST - 15th October
gonemad at 08:02 AM JST - 30th September

"post-retirement reemployment"? What the heck...???

Posted in Another suit over Tokyo's 'Kimigayo' policy filed at 08:02 AM JST - 30th September
gonemad at 04:12 AM JST - 23rd September

Let's forget citizenship and let's forget Japan for the moment and look at it from a higher perspective.

First of all, it has become the rule rather than the exception that people migrate. Migration is this context means they change their place of living, independent whether it is within their…

Posted in Should foreign residents have local voting rights? at 04:12 AM JST - 23rd September
gonemad at 12:06 AM JST - 23rd September

in most societies, correlation between wealth and birth rate is negative, that means the higher the wealth, the lower the birth rate - at least in the long term. Japan has been no exception to this rule. Therefore I have some doubts that your observations about birth rate in the…

Posted in 'Konkatsu' marriage activity businesses booming at 12:06 AM JST - 23rd September
gonemad at 06:57 AM JST - 19th September

@ HonestDictator: that was my first thought as well, but then we should get such news from all the many other countries as well, where religious law applies? Just think about Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran which quickly comes to mind as examples. Why suddenly so much about Malaysia?

Posted in Malaysian court orders Muslim lovers caned for trying to have sex in car at 06:57 AM JST - 19th September
gonemad at 02:41 AM JST - 19th September

JT presents only five topics of international news a day. How many have been about islamic court rulings in Malaysia recently? Considering that there are many other important things to report from the world, aren't these Malaysian court rulings a bit overrepresented here?

This doesn't mean I wouldn't find these…

Posted in Malaysian court orders Muslim lovers caned for trying to have sex in car at 02:41 AM JST - 19th September
gonemad at 01:47 AM JST - 18th September

it's hard to beat the previous governments, so yes, I'm optimistic. There's almost no chance to make it worse. Also, during the last couple of years I remember Hatoyama (Yukio, not his brother ;-) as one of the more reasonable voices in Japanese politics. For the short time he's been…

Posted in Are you optimistic that things will get better in Japan under new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama? at 01:47 AM JST - 18th September
gonemad at 01:00 AM JST - 16th September

while I think learning to speak Japanese is no problem at all, I'd like to second fishy's concern about the children learning to read/write Japanese when they attend an international school. Given the enormous amount of time they spend on teaching Kanji in Japanese schools, can the international schools keep…

Posted in Guide to International Schools in Japan at 01:00 AM JST - 16th September