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
This girl is famous, so we had better have empathy with her personal life. After all, it is a marketed product.
Posted in: Maki Goto's last live performance to be held Dec 4
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plasticmonkey
Yeah! Cool! I want to follow commercials more and more from now on. I hope that someday all cultural activity will be centered around what is marketed by big and fun corporations!
Yay for famous, popular, and cool!
Posted in: TV commercial of the week: Cup Noodle Futomen Dodo
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plasticmonkey
i.e. any criticism of J-pop is not allowed because it is a sacred cultural product of the "exotic other"? If I were living in the US and thought Boys II Men were detrimental to society (which I don't), would I be required to shut up or get out? Is this North Korea?
My criticism deals with a certain element of Japanese commercial culture that I find to be unhealthy for teenagers, socially challenged otaku, and the tenor of mass-marketed entertainment in this country. I am not taking down all of Japanese culture or even J-pop, as you seem to suggest. I have lived here for over 20 years, love many aspects of this country, and want the best for its people, including my family.
If I am critical, that is my nature. I can dish it out to my own as well, including myself.
If you disagree with my thoughts about AKB, you are most welcome to express so. My opinion should not make me a persona non grata.
Posted in: AKB48 takes part in music festival of friendship in Vietnam
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plasticmonkey
What's she going to do with the profits? If they're not donated, she's just making money off people's suffering.
Good to see she had a mini live for school kids. That's nice.
Posted in: YUI's song for disaster victims tops Oricon chart
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plasticmonkey
zichi speaks wisdom
Seems to me, usually when you read one of these "to be decided next month" stories, it drags on forever until it evaporates. Relocation of Futenma. Signing of the Hague Treaty. Allowance of dual family names. Adapting daylight savings time. It's shorthand for some powerful drag pulling back from the boys upstairs, especially the boys who depend on a well-connected rural constituency.
Let's see where this one goes. Hard to call.
Posted in: Japan to decide on joining TPP by next month
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plasticmonkey
@Vernie
by watching a pack of sluttily dressed teenagers prancing around, plus Kumi Koda. Family entertainment indeed. You'd bring your kid there? Your comment is condescending to the Vietnamese, who have a culture of their own which beats the pants off any of this commercial vulgarity.
@Elbuda
Sorry, the people benefitting are the production companies and the top tier "artists". I understand that Japan has its own music, so don't play the cultural relativity card. Some J-pop is good, some is crap. My point is that Japan could promote friendship and commerce in in more positive ways than spreading slut-pop around Asia.
Japan is in real trouble if it's government has to rely on the dumbest elements of its pop culture to sell Japan as a brand around the world.
Posted in: AKB48 takes part in music festival of friendship in Vietnam
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plasticmonkey
music festival of friendship = please buy more of our crappy music
Posted in: AKB48 takes part in music festival of friendship in Vietnam
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plasticmonkey
4,000 yen. Marketed celebrity sure is an expensive replacement for real talent.
Posted in: SMAP to greet 110,000 fans at Tokyo Dome on Nov 12-13
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plasticmonkey
Sorry, but this sounds piece reads more like a Monty Python sketch.
Posted in: 14 injured in tug-of-war accident
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plasticmonkey
The ¥18.9 million isn't just for the value of the box. The price also includes a paid advertisement for the fetishization of conspicuous consumption. Leopard skin pill box hat, you fat cats?
Posted in: Takashimaya selling Y18.9 mil gold 'Osechiryori' boxes
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plasticmonkey
@realdoll--And we all know that any non-white only goes for the presidency out of an elite sense of snobbery, like they own the place, er . . . ah, anger at the white man . . . or, um, vicarious sublimated white guilt by a half black man . . . uh, no, determination to overthrow capitalism to enrich George Soros and other rich capitalists while redistributing wealth through big government intervention, and getting away with all this liberal jive just because he's colored. Whoodathunit realdoll.
Posted in: Obama: Americans aren't better off than 4 years ago
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plasticmonkey
@Lieberman
and @yanee
Well, that's a dizzying example of a rightist's cynicism, when realistic and modest expression is taken as pompous self-glory. What would you have Obama say in this situation? Apologize for the whole mess? The economy would certainly be no better under a Republican, and you know it. Or did Obama just walk into Garden of Eden and spoil it with his lefty agenda?
As for being "powerless"-- interesting comment from the side that simultaneously derides Obama for ramming his "socialist" agenda down our throats and secretly plotting a fascist/Muslim/communist/liberal humanist/elitist/statist takeover. Make up your minds.
Posted in: Obama: Americans aren't better off than 4 years ago
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plasticmonkey
@Lieberman
Ordinary? You've been ranting about how out of step this guy is with your ideal of white bread America. Your analysis is getting curiouser and curiouser.
If you want to make a case that radical Islam is an attractive option for disturbed weirdos, I can entertain that possibility. But a dark-skinned man attending a prestigious university, smoking pot, playing in a rock band, and living with his parents hardly qualify as red flags.
Anyway, they got him, so you can sleep a little easier tonight knowing that Obama's justice department is on the ball. G'night!
Posted in: Man arrested over plot to blow up Pentagon using remote-controlled aircraft
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plasticmonkey
bass4funk: Don't be so quick to stereotype liberals. I consider myself a liberal and don't see a problem with nailing this guy with a drone. And obviously neither does Obama, who ordered the hit and who is (according to descriptions by many on the right) an uber-liberal socialist who goes around the world apologizing for America's actions. Go figure.
Posted in: U.S. strike kills American al-Qaida cleric in Yemen
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plasticmonkey
Another shrine to mindless consumerism.
Posted in: AKB48 open new store in Akihabara
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plasticmonkey
Sounds like a typical American university student. What are you getting at Lieberman? That the authorities should have seen this Muslim guy coming, never let him into college, and jailed him for life for exhibiting terrorist tendencies like smoking pot?
Posted in: Man arrested over plot to blow up Pentagon using remote-controlled aircraft
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plasticmonkey
This guy is an American citizen. Why are you so hung up on him having gone to university? He's a loony zealot who got nabbed for plotting terror. Affirmative action has nothing to do with it.
Posted in: Man arrested over plot to blow up Pentagon using remote-controlled aircraft
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plasticmonkey
What planet is this jerk from?
Posted in: DPJ hopes to start Diet session in early Oct despite LDP opposition
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plasticmonkey
At least not officially. Saying so maybe excuses their infantile and repetitive shtick.
Another grassroots movement like AKB with absolutely no yak connections whatsoever.
Posted in: Meet the 'dirty girls' of Ayaman Japan
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plasticmonkey
Good. They can grow something else, like food or industrial-use hemp. Besides, these tobacco farmers should never have assumed it their god-given right to grow a plant that ends up killing millions.
Posted in: Gov't plan to sell Japan Tobacco stake causes volatile trading