gonemad said...

gonemad at 05:51 PM JST - 10th August

Henry, what's the problem? A bilateral - or trilateral including China - solution seems anyway the only way to proceed. SK and Japan are not interested in any progress due to domestic politics.

Posted in Kissinger accuses Bill Clinton of helping N Korea get int'l acceptance at 05:51 PM JST - 10th August
gonemad at 10:50 PM JST - 5th August

KitsuneYoukai, your comment screams for a reply.

Look I don't think you guys realize that lees than mature minds should not have to be subjected to learning the error's of their country until college. It affects a child's developing mind.

It's the school's foremost target to "affect a child's…

Posted in Yokohama adopts disputed history textbook for junior high schools at 10:50 PM JST - 5th August
gonemad at 10:12 PM JST - 5th August

While the world’s No. 3 chipmaker

This should be the world’s No. 3 DRAM maker. Quite a difference, as DRAM is only a small part of the chip market.

Posted in Chipmaker Elpida logs Y44.45 billion loss at 10:12 PM JST - 5th August
gonemad at 11:31 PM JST - 4th August

JT, can you please be more precise? Who has appointed this panel of "experts", what is their task and and who are they? I can hardly see why the chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co should be qualified to make statements about defense policy or arms exports.

Posted in Panel seeks changes to arms export ban at 11:31 PM JST - 4th August
gonemad at 11:19 PM JST - 4th August

Tsukurukai is formed by nationalistic scholars who call conventional history textbooks ‘‘masochistic.’’

This is where the problem starts. How can a history textbook - used by teachers and students who haven't lived during the period which the book treats - be masochistic? These guys have some serious personality disorder...

Posted in Yokohama adopts disputed history textbook for junior high schools at 11:19 PM JST - 4th August
gonemad at 09:30 PM JST - 3rd August

So according to de Mente, what happened to the superiority of the Polynesians?

Posted in Why the Japanese Are a Superior People at 09:30 PM JST - 3rd August
gonemad at 08:17 PM JST - 3rd August

I'd think that 2005 manifesto contained a lot of crap, hence the score of 46 can actually be seen as quite good result...

Posted in Ruling bloc gets low scores on implementation of 2005 manifesto at 08:17 PM JST - 3rd August
gonemad at 10:52 PM JST - 13th July

isn't there any anti-monopoly agency in Japan? It seems to me that especially in the beverage sector there is almost no competition. Now two of the big players want to merge - how can they expect that this would be accepted?

Posted in Kirin, Suntory in merger talks to become Japan's top beverage firm at 10:52 PM JST - 13th July
gonemad at 11:14 PM JST - 9th July

Really the only thing I hate on the train is the inordinate amount of farting that goes on. What do these people have for breakfast?

Natto...?

Oh tempura, oh mores!

LOL. Thanks for that Japanese version.

Posted in Older men up in arms over slovenly female behavior at 11:14 PM JST - 9th July
gonemad at 09:17 PM JST - 29th May

Shopping with Bing can yield an Amazon.com-like experience, with ways to narrow results by price, brand and the availability of free shipping, without leaving the search page.

Yet another shopping-infested search engine. For anything you can buy on the world, you will just get flooded with shopping links as…

Posted in Bing it on: Microsoft overhauls search, again at 09:17 PM JST - 29th May