Wednesday February 15, 2012

kaminarioyaji's past comments

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    kaminarioyaji

    Agree with Tkoind2 about Japan's over-emphasis on cute, and that it should do more to promote those who are not part of the mainstream. But then again, those people (artists/designers/musicians,etc) tend to get picked up by foreigners in those circles in Japan, who then spread that info by word of mouth/internet.

    Japan has never fully capitalized on the potential positive impact that Cool Japan can have on its international competitiveness.

    This is true per se, not just related to business. Given Japan's geographical placing in the world, many tourists will go to "nearer" places. Japan needs to do more to promote itself full stop. But they also need to do more than trotting out the old "unique culture" line (which only took until the 2nd paragraph to make its expected appearance)

    The first step is to identify the needs of the target country from a broad range of possible choices that would include film, TV dramas, fashion, food, and lifestyle.

    Well, we can drop "TV drama" from that list, as JTV dramas are god-awful. "Lifestyle" is a point of contention also; not sure many countries would be enchanted by working endless hours of unpaid overtime, or the (to the west) outdated ideas of women's role in society, or any other of Japan's social ills.

    On this point, it should be noted that because the information transmitted after the Great East Japan Earthquake was frequently inaccurate, extensive damage was caused by false rumors. This misinformation must be countered with the transmission of accurate and speedy information in multiple languages using the Internet and other channels.

    Sorry, but you need to look very much at home with this one. You can translate it into any language you like; but as long as it comes form the Gov or Tepco, it's always going to be a half truth at best...

    Posted in: Creating a Vision of Japan: Promoting Cool Japan

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    kaminarioyaji

    MaboDofuIsSpicyJAN. 11, 2012 - 02:29PM JST Everyone has a right to drive, even if they do not do it so well.

    I'll have to disagree with you on that I'm afraid; driving is not a right, it's a privilege.

    Posted in: 5 injured after car plows into ATM

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    kaminarioyaji

    Can someone wake him up? isn't sleeping in court contempt of court? (not that he holds nothing but contempt for that court I'm sure.)

    He's so slippery, he should have an eel species named after him.

    Posted in: Ozawa says he knew nothing of how campaign fund was managed

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    kaminarioyaji

    And who could blame them? What with the labour law (non) abiding, bullying bosses, lame government that fails to do anything to properly ensure workers work-to-live rather than live-to-work, bugger-all pension when they get to that age, whilst subsidising other people's pensions for their entire working lives (see lame government again)... I could go on.

    Posted in: They don't feel the taste of success after they start working. There is mass pessimism.

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    kaminarioyaji

    Noriyosan73 -

    As far as I'm aware, the early bouts start at around 8am; and the last bouts finish about 6ish; but I fully agree, everyone would probably be better served by moving the matches to a later starting/finishing time.

    Posted in: Empty house

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    kaminarioyaji

    Someone who had no part in the war throwing petrol bombs at a building that (probably) wasn't built until after the war with people inside who also had no part in the war.

    Good grief... What gives? I mean, Germany & the rest of Europe don't have this problem...

    Posted in: Chinese man held after petrol bomb attack on Japan's Seoul embassy

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    kaminarioyaji

    Police say the man activated the vehicle’s siren and emergency lights before driving through traffic and clipping vehicles waiting at stop signals before reaching an expressway.

    Perhaps clipping the cars was due to pretty much all Japanese drivers not moving out of the way for emergency vehicles? (I wonder if people ever regret that as they lie dying in the back of an ambulance that's crawling through traffic...)

    Posted in: Man attacks emergency rescue team workers, steals ambulance

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    kaminarioyaji

    j4p4nFTW - "Unique" has another meaning in English, and often Japan embodies that definition... As for strong, yeah, that must be why the Japanese run and do everything in their power to resist change; if you really were strong, you'd be able to deal with change, and use it to your advantage. And btw, isn't Japan still under the umbrella of US protection?

    Posted in: Woodford to sue Olympus, citing lack of investor support to get his job back

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    kaminarioyaji

    Soldave, I fear you're probably right.

    Posted in: Woodford to sue Olympus, citing lack of investor support to get his job back

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    kaminarioyaji

    Was he really the best one to bring back Olympus? Note that investors lost a lot of money when the share price went free fall.

    That was mainly on the back of Kikukawa's lying and attempted cover-up; that's not on Woodford.

    none of the major Japanese institutional shareholders have offered one word of support to me and conversely have in effect allowed the tainted and contaminated board to continue in office

    So maybe not all the investors felt Woodford was the right man to take Olympus forward, but you would have thought some of them would back him, and that a few more vociferously demand the resignation of the dirty board. Alas, no. Therefore, as Woodford suggests, those investors have tacitly given the corrupt board a mandate to continue.

    Well done J-inc, you've done yourselves proud.

    I wonder how this would have played out had Woodford been a native...

    Posted in: Woodford to sue Olympus, citing lack of investor support to get his job back

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    kaminarioyaji

    It's a snappy name.

    But, as a number of posters have said since its announcement, totally ironic; and seemingly the irony is lost on those in the party.

    Posted in: What do you think of the name Kizuna, which nine DPJ defectors have chosen to call their new party?

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    kaminarioyaji

    More on this here, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/04/aum-tokyo-makoto-hirata-sarin

    Including the precious line "How Hirata managed to evade detection for so long remains a mystery."

    It's no mystery if you've lived in Japan a while and seen J-cops (not) in action.

    Posted in: Police at first turned away surrendering Aum fugitive

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    kaminarioyaji

    If it's about "aspiration", then I'd just as well sew some strips of meat together as a shirt than buy an AU phone if I wanted to aspire to be like LGG.

    Posted in: Arashi, Lady Gaga fail to help KDDI in TV commercial rankings

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    kaminarioyaji

    J-cops; their hearts just aren't in it, are they...

    Posted in: Police at first turned away surrendering Aum fugitive

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    kaminarioyaji

    Perhaps time to start making some interesting and original commercials then; I'm sick and tired of Japanese CMs just having someone (often a celebrity) simply holding the product in their hand(s).

    Get some imagination in there!

    Posted in: Arashi, Lady Gaga fail to help KDDI in TV commercial rankings

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    kaminarioyaji

    WIth such "vigilance" in the police's part, is it any wonder he evaded them for 17 years?

    Posted in: Police at first turned away surrendering Aum fugitive

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    kaminarioyaji

    On the topic of DUI, I live in Fukuoka, which apparently has the highest drink/drive rate in all Japan, and has done for many years. However, I haven't seen any random checks this year, no "checkpoints", just the usual little vans whizzing around going about their normal business with their lights on which gives every DUI/speeding/keitai-using-idiot a heads-up.

    Now, if I were the chief of police in Fukuoka, and my prefecture was year in, year out the worst in Japan for drink driving, I think I'd want to do something about that; to lessen the shame if nothing else. Alas, here in Japanland, it appears the police don't have the initiative nor gumption to really take the bad driving to task, so much so that I would say that the problem is now out of control (generally, not just talking about drink driving here, I mean the red-light runners, speeders, keitai/watching-TV whilst driving brigade as well, of which there are far too many).

    Points on licences and fines that barely lessen the weight of a wallet are not enough of a deterrent; the police need to get serious about this. Japan - low violent crime rate, soaring traffic crime rate.

    Posted in: Father and son killed by drunk driver while heading to shrine

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    kaminarioyaji

    The powerbag link leads to a women's clothes website...

    Posted in: 10 best travel products for 2012

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    kaminarioyaji

    Yubaru. Agreed, it's sad, but why don't people learn?

    Everyone knows the risks of eating Mochi, and at their ripe age they certainly should have. No one would knowingly eat Fugu from an unlicensed restaurant, and yet people still try to eat Mochi whole... (shakes head wearily)

    Posted in: 13 elderly people taken to hospital after choking on 'mochi;' 2 die

  • 5

    kaminarioyaji

    I'm a strong advocate of the blood alcohol content for driving being zero (there's no "grey" area then); but even I have to admit that it probably won't stop the likes of this arrogant idiot from getting behind the wheel after a couple of shochus.

    Given that, in a metropolitan area like Saitama, there are combinis and cigarette vending machines aplenty, could he really not have walked?

    Try as I might, I really cannot understand the way of thinking of some people.

    Posted in: Father and son killed by drunk driver while heading to shrine

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