JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 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
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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- 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
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plasticmonkey
@BarelyAlive
What nonsense. The combination of sexiness and schoolgirl innocence is clearly designed to cater to unhealthy appetites. Unless you think there is no problem sexualizing minors (or the image of minors) for the satisfaction of adult men who cannot achieve relationships with real women their age--which you seem to imply. This has nothing to do with 'love' or 'respect'. It's pure manipulation, selling young girls as objects to be drooled over by, yes, pervs.
I see. AKB48 are keeping deviants off the streets. How insightful.
Posted in: Second AKB48 documentary to hit cinemas on Jan 27
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plasticmonkey
Let me guess--scenes of girls crying after being mercilessly scolded for mistakes, or because they didn't get picked to be most popular. The only difference between AKB48 and Kim Jong Il's Joy Brigade is that the Japanese actually choose to get involved in this madness.
Posted in: Second AKB48 documentary to hit cinemas on Jan 27
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plasticmonkey
@unreconstructed
OK, let's then have Newt face the fact that virtually the entire world, with the exception of Israel and the fringe right in America, recognizes Palestinian national identity and self-determination as a given. This same wide world understands that the violent extremism of Hamas, Hizbollah, etc should not delegitimatize realization of a Palestinian state that can live in peace with Israel.
Discourse on this issue shouldn't be hijacked by extremists like Nasrallah, Netanyahu, or Gingrich, or the small minority of people who think like them.
Posted in: Gingrich stands firm on blunt Palestinian stance
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plasticmonkey
@WilliB
Palestinian identity as we know it now goes back to the early 19th century, which is at least as old as interest in resurrecting an Israeli state. The cause of the Palestinians was never taken up, while the Jewish cause was (for political, religious, sentimental, and racist reasons).
You may wish to make a point about there once having been a Jewish kingdom (there obviously was), but recreating such a state thousands of years after its demise was bound to cause problems (and it did). Now that it's there, however, the world will have to live with it. Israel has proven to be, in many respects, a modern and well-functioning democracy (albeit one that only allows full participation based on ethnicity). Israel should be left to exist peacefully, but it should not be exempt from criticism.
As for Palestinian claims: the creation of Israel, as well as Israel's discrimination of its Palestinian neighbors, intensified calls for Palestinian empowerment and statehood. It is not any more unreasonable to consider the legitimacy of this desire as it was for the Americans to declare independence from its colonial masters. Americans at the time, after all, had little claim to linguistic, cultural, or political uniqueness.
Posted in: Gingrich stands firm on blunt Palestinian stance
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plasticmonkey
By saying such, Newt is following an extremist pro-Israel line of thought that assumes:
1) Palestinians are just Arabs, and Arabs are all alike. 2) Palestinians have never historically had statehood or made unified claims to statehood, and are therefore undeserving of ethnic or political identity. 3) Palestinians do not deserve recognition (much less a state) because they object to Israel's treatment of them as an unwanted hindrance to Jewish hegemony in the region.
Newt is not alone in this bigoted and offensive way of thinking, but to say such a thing as a presidential candidate reconfirms his illegitimacy to direct the US and its policies toward the Middle East.
Posted in: Gingrich stands firm on blunt Palestinian stance
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plasticmonkey
Almost every Japanese movie made about WWII follows the theme of people who were not responsible for causing the war. For once I'd like to see a film about who was responsible instead of this constant excuse-making and self-pity.
Posted in: Movie shows wartime Admiral Yamamoto in new light
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plasticmonkey
The 787 will prove to be a much better investment than the A380. Increased comfort will draw business travelers who want to feel sharper on arrival, and business class is where the lasting profits are for the airlines. The fuel efficiency is also an obvious plus.
Posted in: JAL announces routes for new Boeing 787
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plasticmonkey
@Hagusuffix
It's pronounced タンタン and its been wildly popular here for decades.
Posted in: Tintin videogame arrives ahead of Spielberg film
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plasticmonkey
In 2009 German Chancellor Angela Merkel was present in Gdansk for ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Poland, for which she apologized (again).
Marked contrast between that and Gemba's so-called "deep emotion".
Posted in: Gemba says he feels 'deep emotion' about Pearl Harbor
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plasticmonkey
How is Tomomi Itano a fashion leader? I thought all her trashy outfits were chosen by her manager Akimoto.
Posted in: Yonekura, Becky, Itano, Sasaki, Rinka named fashion leaders for 2011
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plasticmonkey
Utter BS. A Tokyo Olympics would be an expensive pork barrel project sold to the Japanese public as nationalistic self-congratulation.
Posted in: Diet passes resolution backing Tokyo's 2020 Olympic bid
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plasticmonkey
This glamour ramen thing in the West has gone way overboard. Ramen is soul food, not gourmet. Served in a place that shakes when the trains pass.
Posted in: David Chang, the rock star of ramen, goes global
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plasticmonkey
@unreconstructed again: By "serf systems", I guess you mean feudalism.
Posted in: Obama pledges to fight for middle class
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plasticmonkey
@unreconstructed:
Therefore Obama must be ___? You're saying Obama doesn't believe in capitalism, but pretends (deceitfully) to care for the middle class, which was born of capitalism, so therefore Obama is ___?
Your post makes no sense, but I take it you have a great disdain for this president, whatever the reason.
Posted in: Obama pledges to fight for middle class
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plasticmonkey
Koban are a great idea. But whoever designed these things deserves to be locked up. The one in Ueno Park is a prime example of the Ultraman school of architecture. Jeff Koons would love it.
Posted in: Koban unwrapped: Tokyo's colorful police boxes
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plasticmonkey
@BlueWitch
bad behavior means showing a little bit of personality
Posted in: TV commercial of the week: Snickers and Erika Sawajiri
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plasticmonkey
right on Scrote-- @Blair Herron: That Ichikawa is unfit for the job is apparent. He's a dolt. My problem is with the LDP's way of dealing with the issue, i.e. obstructing the functioning of the diet for the sake of playing the opposition role to the hilt.
Posted in: LDP, New Komeito to file censure motion against defense minister
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plasticmonkey
@sailwind:
Who said such a thing? Cain's deficiencies in nuanced thinking has no more to do with race than Bachmann's does with gender.
The anti-intellectual wing of the GOP continues to field candidates who take pride in ignorance and simple-mindedness while deriding Obama and "liberals" for being elitist eggheads. The GOP has taken this tack because they know it appeals to a large segment of the American public who don't want to think too much. Some people, including me, are appalled by that strategy. That is the issue, not race.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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plasticmonkey
@sailwind: I don't remember Obama getting any kind of free pass. What about Fox, Limbaugh, etc painting Obama as a non-American closet Muslim with ties to subversive and unpatriotic terrorists and a radical socialist agenda to undermine American exceptionalism. Obama survived these infantile smear attacks and was elected because he had something of substance to offer. That these attacks continue is a cynical maneuver by the tea party loonie fringe to manipulate public frustration and gullibility.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign
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plasticmonkey
@Farmboy
Well, yes, but then again, Cain and the other GOP clown candidates have also risen in popularity because of the non-print news media and their focus on soundbites (e.g. 9-9-9, Obama is a socialist, Obamacare = death panels, etc) rather than substantial discourse. 30 years ago there would have been no way on earth that Cain, Bachmann, Perry, Santorum, or Gingrich would be accepted as viable candidates for POTUS. And then there is complaint against the media when the candidate's boat proves too leaky to sail? Cain is not out because of allegations by women that he is a horndog, or because of some liberal media lynching. Cain is out because he has proven to be an ignoramus and opportunist who never seriously thought through the implications of being a world leader.
Posted in: Cain 'suspends' U.S. presidential campaign