JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
-
- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
-
- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
-
- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
-2
plasticmonkey
This is quite a generalization. "Inde" is not a homogenous genre. There have been many profitable films made outside the large studios, and many big-budget films fail to break even. I think the issue here is whether governments should fund or encourage productions that can potentially attract a wide audience, or whether governments should provide funding and support for less mainstream (and more artistically adventurous) films that cater to a niche viewership. Or neither.
Posted in: Make money not arthouse films: British PM tells industry
-2
plasticmonkey
@unreconstructed
I wonder where members of your so-called 'Media/Academic Complex' (in caps) get together and plan their desperate and diabolical schemes to go after conservatives. What evidence do you have that this documentary is motivated by 'rekindling old hatreds'? So you disagree that Cheney wielded greater power than usual for a vice president and that a balanced documentary on him would be appropriate?
Anders Breivik would be proud of your angry delusions.
Because?
Posted in: Showtime making documentary about Dick Cheney
-3
plasticmonkey
According to the tenets of Islam, does a remote controlled bomb immediately go to heaven like a suicide bomber?
If so, this new technology may become fierce competition for its human counterparts. For the Americans, remote killing makes it easier to live with the guilt of combat. And so come the drones. For radical Islamists, pushing a button from afar takes the thrill out of it because there's no doggie bone after their trick. As far as I can see, the main cause of Islamic terrorism is a fundamental inability of medieval-minded people to live in the modern world around them, and so they seek an afterworld full of mythical virgins. An explosive annihilation of inquiry and cooperation.
RIP the innocents who die as a result of such selfishness.
Posted in: Remote-controlled bomb kills 35 in Pakistan
1
plasticmonkey
I couldn't stop laughing. When famous talent dance like a crab with a funny song I wet myself again and again. This commercial gives more and more meaning to my life.
Posted in: TV commercial of the week: Pizza-La
-2
plasticmonkey
You're assuming a lot about me, and changing the subject. Or are you insinuating that people who work in miserable conditions are stupid and have nobody but themselves to blame? Or that I'm lying and that everybody was rich in the 80s under your glorious Reagan?
Posted in: Republican White House hopefuls gird for key debate
-2
plasticmonkey
@unreconstructed--you can throw as much skepticism at my story as you want but it doesn't change my argument. It was '87, I was not a minor or a student, and I don't know how the management knew OSHA would be coming. Maybe they guessed. In any case, the plant was storing toxic paint byproducts in a lot next to the city's water treatment facility. For the sake of my privacy I'm not telling you the state. The point is the conditions and violations in the factory were appalling, and I used the story to illustrate why government oversight is necessary in this world.
Posted in: Republican White House hopefuls gird for key debate
-2
plasticmonkey
Laguna--brilliant.
Posted in: Republican White House hopefuls gird for key debate
1
plasticmonkey
Screwing the lower classes is not a 'caricature' of America. I've lived it. Sub-minimum wage factory work where management would order employees to stencil over storage dates for toxic waste when they found OSHA inspectors were coming. Two workers burned to death in a fire that was the result of noncompliance of government safety regulations that were deemed to expensive by the millionaire owner of the plant.
Your vision of America is an embrace of such unfettered corporate behavior? I am not what you would call a statist or socialist or communist, and I understand that governments cannot and should not control every aspect of a society. But I do believe in a democratically elected and monitored body that protects the interests of both the strong and the weak and attempts to ensure (in ways the private sector cannot and will not) a system in which competition leads to a healthy and harmonious society.
Why anyone in the middle or lower income brackets supports these Republicans makes no sense to me.
Posted in: Republican White House hopefuls gird for key debate
-1
plasticmonkey
Yes, and I can read too. That Huntsman is the only reasonable candidate among the bunch and that he supports the Ryan Plan says a lot about how unreasonable the rest of the GOP has become (as Laguna pointed out).
What's the predominant theme in GOP plans? Cut taxes on the rich so that they can supposedly create more jobs (which they didn't under GW's cuts), and loosen regulations that protect the environment, workplace safety, wages for the lower classes, and human rights. The key to the future? The magic of good old fashioned feudalism.
Posted in: Republican White House hopefuls gird for key debate
-2
plasticmonkey
Bachmann may be out, but her nuttiness lives on in the hearts of those remaining. The debate will essentially be about trying to outdo the others in extremist dogma --"repeal socialist Obamacare", "bomb Iran", "ban gay marriage", "reign in activist judges", "eliminate the EPA and the DOE", "make poor pay their fair share". Santorum, Perry, and Paul actually believe the nonsense they spout. Gingrich is a pathological liar, egomaniac, and opportunist. Romney is a shrewd businessman who will say anything to get elected. Huntsman is the only reasonable person in the pack, which makes him unattractive among most of today's Republican voters.
unreconstructed, you really have a thing against Minnesotans, dontcha. Personally, I like the place. Your comment offends my liberal sensibilities.
Posted in: Republican White House hopefuls gird for key debate
-1
plasticmonkey
...and "We'll be more careful to keep it quiet from now on."
Posted in: Yoshimoto Kogyo president says he hopes Shimada will return to showbiz
-1
plasticmonkey
Yoshimoto's way of saying "We can't dissociate ourselves from our gangster friends, so give us a break already."
Posted in: Yoshimoto Kogyo president says he hopes Shimada will return to showbiz
-2
plasticmonkey
@Serrano: that's what I said--they didn't plan to defect because their family members would end up in the gulag if they did
Posted in: Three North Koreans, one dead body found in small boat off Shimane
-2
plasticmonkey
That's rich coming from Santorum, who has built his campaign around an anti-gay, anti-abortion (even in the case of rape), pro-prayer in public schools agenda. Those values clearly put him out of touch with the majority of Americans (even if people were more concerned about social issues in the middle of a recession).
And his K Street lobbying activities don't speak much for grass-roots politics either.
Posted in: Republicans swarm on next-to-vote New Hampshire
5
plasticmonkey
They want to go back to N. Korea because if they don't their family members will be severely punished. That's how the glorious system keeps people from defecting.
Posted in: Three North Koreans, one dead body found in small boat off Shimane
-1
plasticmonkey
As I understand it, an audience rating is based on surveys of how many people watched a particular program. How can you accurately rate a particular segment of a program since viewers have little advance notice of when an act is going to perform on the show? Did a certain percentage of viewers switch on the tube just to watch SMAP? Or was it just luck? Or did Johnny's pay just a little more to Sports Nippon?
Another reason for me to take these ratings with a very generous grain of salt.
Posted in: SMAP garners highest audience rating during 'Kohaku Uta Gassen'
1
plasticmonkey
How about legal action against the restaurants that hire them? The morning news I watched had the restaurant names blurred. Kakaku.com obviously doesn't want a short-term disruption of business with its valued clients, even though transparency would benefit them in the long run.
Another example of journalists bowing to business pressure.
Posted in: Operator of restaurant rating website Tabelog says paid posters manipulated rankings
-2
plasticmonkey
Yep, that's all it was. And it was big government overregulation that caused meatpackers to be working in vats of poison.
Posted in: Romney snags key McCain backing; Bachmann quits race
0
plasticmonkey
That someone can utter such nonsense shows how irrational political discourse has become on the right in America, particularly in the idiot belt of the country where voters are persuaded by angry soundbites that are a cynical replacement for nuanced articulation of their frustrations. No wonder candidates like Santorum and Gingrich can get as much support as they do.
Do explain. Are you talking about health care reform? I suppose you consider seat belt laws and sanitation requirements in restaurants to be totalitarian repression as well. Read a little Upton Sinclair and see where unfettered capitalism takes you.
Ron Paul is at least consistent, I'll give you that, and his ideas on foreign policy deserve some attention. Otherwise he's just unconstructive/destructive polemic, just like the other GOP clowns.
Posted in: Romney snags key McCain backing; Bachmann quits race
0
plasticmonkey
A brave man to stand up to the US government's wrongful policy. I sincerely salute him for it.
However, since he was a US citizen, I wonder why this story is under national news. Is it because JT believes race and ethnicity trump nationality? If so, this reasoning is as faulty as the US government's decision to separate its own nationals on the basis of race and ethnic background.
Or is it another chapter in the 'woe-are-we-Japanese' saga? Let's see how long it is before we hear a story about a Japanese national who fought the imperial government's policy of abduction and forced labor in this country.
Posted in: Japanese-American who fought WWII internment camps dies