movieguy said...

movieguy at 02:16 PM JST - 18th July

The final link to when the U.S. news was news. Not propaganda like it is today.

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movieguy at 02:12 PM JST - 18th July

Because people in Japan are brainwashed to not complain and think critically they don't have the guts to refuse the overtime work. The fact that Honda is "bringing back overtime" means nothing.

Posted in Honda bringing back overtime at Japan plants at 02:12 PM JST - 18th July
movieguy at 01:08 PM JST - 18th July

asthecrow_flies - Because even part-time workers are given benefits and corporations don't want to pay extra to match those casual workers. And why should they when the regular contemporary slave workers will do the overtime for free???

Posted in Honda bringing back overtime at Japan plants at 01:08 PM JST - 18th July
movieguy at 12:54 PM JST - 18th July

Bogi... I like your thinking and I feel for you having to work today.

That being said. This is a nice kid, but that's it. He can not compete internationally and he's gotten rich for being young, good-looking and competing in a market with ZERO TALENT. Because he is young…

Posted in Ishikawa misses cut, Kuboya in contention at British Open at 12:54 PM JST - 18th July
movieguy at 10:18 AM JST - 18th July

You can't tell me that these workers have been going home at 5:00 every day for the last year (or however long the "global slump" has been going on) and there's no way they've been paid for the overtime in that period either.

I came to Japan before the bubble…

Posted in Honda bringing back overtime at Japan plants at 10:18 AM JST - 18th July
movieguy at 08:00 PM JST - 17th July

They were saying on the telly this morning that when they signed, the petition had had a different cover sheet so that they thought they were signing up for something else.

And if anyone believes that I've got some swamp land to sell you in Chiba.

In this day and…

Posted in Aso gets to keep his job ahead of election at 08:00 PM JST - 17th July
movieguy at 06:28 PM JST - 17th July

"We concluded that the signatures don’t meet the one-third requirement" with some lawmakers who are on the list denying that they ever offered their signatures and asking to have their names taken off. If they REALLY had their names forged on the petition like they say then they should go…

Posted in Aso gets to keep his job ahead of election at 06:28 PM JST - 17th July
movieguy at 03:29 PM JST - 13th July

"90292"... Great point!

BTW, aren't "family and relatives" the same thing?

Posted in Mikitty embarrassed at exchanging vows in English with hubby in Hawaii at 03:29 PM JST - 13th July
movieguy at 11:04 AM JST - 12th July

Disillusioned.... He will NEVER go to jail. The parents of the kid will be lucky if this even goes to trial. The school will pay them off and the fact that this guy should see a jail cell so that he's held responsible will be ignored because he will "regret…

Posted in Driver arrested after bus carrying high school baseball players tips over, killing 1 at 11:04 AM JST - 12th July
movieguy at 10:51 AM JST - 10th July

"We are opposed to making sexual crimes subject to jury trials in the first place..."

I'm having a really hard time trying to figure out why this women's group would want to leave this in the hands of any of these fossil, MEN (sorry, but MOST are men) judges. Most…

Posted in Group seeks privacy for rape victim in Aomori lay jury trial at 10:51 AM JST - 10th July