Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    koizumi

    I may have given Miss Ono a few extra billion $ above - forgive, she's only got ONE.

    Posted in: Yoko Ono dishes out peace in Tokyo

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    koizumi

    Get real, people. This 'peace getter-outter' is worth upwards of one billion U.S. $ ... that's $1,000,000,000,000. Disgusting that one person thinks their entitled to such an embarrassment of lucre.

    Ono - and equally rich McCartney - should feed the mouths of hungry children with half of their wealth ... yesterday! What are they going to do, take it to their graves?

    "Imagine all possessions" ... oh, what a sad, heartless scam!

    Posted in: Yoko Ono dishes out peace in Tokyo

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    koizumi

    This woman is not news. Extremely rich, uncommonly money-grubbing ... and decidedly without any talent of her own. Please refrain from any further 'reportage' where the Ono san is concerned. Thank you.

    Posted in: Yoko Ono dishes out peace in Tokyo

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    koizumi

    For goodness sakes, it's a blooming Christmas tree.

    Is illumination tree some kind of new PC thing here in Nippon?

    Posted in: Enya plants 'illumination tree' at Tokyo Midtown

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    koizumi

    This story has absolutely no point ... and goes around in a meaningless circle. Keep such dross off your otherwise interesting site.

    Posted in: Countdown begins on extinction of family restaurants

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    koizumi

    How do the Japanese connect to ANYTHING extraordinary abroad ... the fall of the USSR, the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe, the bye-bye of Suharto in Indonesia, Nelson Mandela's return his people ... Obama : folks here are so POWERLESS (or enervated) to make any significant changes themselves.

    The outside world must seem really dreamy to the Japanese.

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    koizumi

    Thanks for the memories, TheEnd. I could not agree with you more.

    The Who's music is pure poetry and it's amazing that two of them are still reciting it.

    Posted in: 40 years late, The Who rock Budokan

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    koizumi

    Japanese politicians have not led on the international stage for decades. As another poster stated, they merely maintain the status quo ... and with this mode of operation eventually fall behind.

    So the idea of a dyed-in-the-wool career Japanese politician like Aso actually 'leading' on anything of any significance outside (or inside) Japan is basically laughable.

    In any case, Mr. Aso will not be PM this time next year. And by the way, 'PM' should be changed to 'PC' ... for Prime Caretaker, as caretaker is closest in meaning to the role these geriatric, right-wing, status-quo at all costs guys take on when assuming the Japan 'top job'.

    Posted in: Aso wants Japan to take lead in creating new global financial order

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    koizumi

    Daisaku Ikeda has this twisted idea that honorary degrees from world universities ... are the most important thing in the world ... so he currently has scores and scores of them ... continually trying to prove he's some kind of academic/intellectual - when in reality he's just the slightly creepy face of this cult-business-political party called sgi.

    Posted in: Soka Gakkai boosts advertising on TV

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    koizumi

    When I was in my early twenties (I'm now in my mid-fourties) I hitched all over Honshu ... from the very north to the very south. It was at times a desperate way to go ... but always showed me the BEST that Japan has to offer in terms of hospitality and genuine kindness. Some of the sweetest times of my life.

    Posted in: Want to see the real Japan? Try hitchhiking

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    koizumi

    The government must support the stock market - this is an imperative. The economy as a whole and the financial markets are completely connected. It's perverse, but ... if the markets collapse, the economy will also fail ... and take millions down with it, even those millions of people who have absolutely no direct involvement with financial securties.

    Posted in: Nikkei index closes more than 11% lower

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    koizumi

    I sure hope this government has a PLAN B to support the stock market.

    What they've done to this point is obviously not nearly enough.

    If they could just get people in Japan to spend a little more of their massive savings ...

    Posted in: Nikkei index closes more than 11% lower

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    koizumi

    Make that August, 1961.

    By the way, Panama McCain was NOT born in the U.S.

    Posted in: McCain vows to whip Obama's 'you-know-what' in last debate

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    koizumi

    Hey Romeo,

    Get a clue ... that Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in August, 1964 is beyond question.

    Why must you insist on questioning this fact? This kind of silliness blows my mind, dude.

    Posted in: McCain vows to whip Obama's 'you-know-what' in last debate

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    koizumi

    Sorry, that's 1 Billion Yen, not $.

    Posted in: Mid-sized insurer Yamato Life goes bust, affecting 1,000 employees

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    koizumi

    As I stated on these pages on 17 September - in response to some rosy comments by Japanese officials and foreign investors - my friend at New City Residence would be out of a job by year's end.

    Well, sorry to say, Christmas comes early this year as New City, along with Yamato Life, filed for bankruptcy in the past 24 hours. It's the first REIT in Japan to go into Chapter 11 ... but will absolutely not be the last. The sector is in terrible shape right now. (I simply can't believe that New City has racked up debts of $ 1 BILLION plus.)

    Now begins a coming rash of corporate busts in Japan. We can but hope that the government here will put sensible, prudent economic policies into place. Otherwise, this nation is easily in for another ten year recession.

    Posted in: Mid-sized insurer Yamato Life goes bust, affecting 1,000 employees

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    koizumi

    Goldman Sachs ? Is this some kind of joke? This firm may not even be in business next year.

    Posted in: Japan's housing market weathers subprime crisis

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    koizumi

    This fellow is whistling in the wind. Abosolutely nothing is 'over' here in Japan - especially when it comes to real estate. My goodness, have you looked at the Japan REITs lately?! They are TANKING! A friend of mine works for New City ... he will be out of a job before year's end, though all looked rosy a year ago. (And one major reason for this is the bonehead Nippon govt. decision making which DeepAir65 so aptly describes above.)

    Of course the market will come back someday. But in the meantime, the shocks are going to continue coming ... and before all the dust settles, major consolidation will take place ... and a lot of losers will ... LOSE.

    Shimada san is doing everyone a disservice by chatting on about a present/future he, nor anyone else, cannot possibly pretend to know. The current housing market is, in a word, volatile.

    Posted in: Japan's housing market weathers subprime crisis

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    koizumi

    IchyaParadise,

    You are so very welcome.

    Do you think Obama will pull it out?!

    Posted in: Why are Japanese people so apathetic toward politics?

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    koizumi

    BETTING,

    You're right on the money. My Japanese in-laws never discuss politics, nor do they discuss anything of ANY serious import. I think this 'communication method' is to ensure that no topic ever gets anybody upset. Sorry, but I'm bored silly whenever I'm with these folks - and very appreciative of the fact that my wife herself is very interested in everything, including politics.

    I'm also grateful that my better half, like me, doesn't watch television. Her family, like most other folks in Japan, are addicted to the horrid 'programming' here. Politics, like every other serious topic on the tube, is seriously dumbed down ... so we just switched to the internet, where there is literally a world of choice.

    Yeah, the only people I've met in Tokyo who are seriously into political activity are SGI members ... they really get out the vote for THEIR candidates ... but you can't talk politics with them because they won't stop talking about their dear leader ... and why he, King and Ghandi are the three greatest peacemakers of all time. No matter that nobody has ever heard of the gentleman in the rest of the universe.

    Posted in: Why are Japanese people so apathetic toward politics?

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