sabinuki said...

sabinuki at 05:53 PM JST - 3rd July

If Japan's sudden bloated sense of importance could be measured alongside the tv ratings, then yes.

Posted in Do you think G-8 summits achieve anything tangible? at 05:53 PM JST - 3rd July
sabinuki at 05:37 PM JST - 3rd July

It seems very appropriate that this year’s Miss Universe Japan, Hiroko Mima, excels at high jump

Why is high jump or anything like it part of the contest now? Maybe convenient would have been a better word, as in now I have something to start this article with.

Posted in Reaching for the universe at 05:37 PM JST - 3rd July
sabinuki at 05:28 PM JST - 3rd July

Sarkozy's wife will be no-show at G-8 summit, disappointing many Japanese

and putting a small dent in the supposed prestige of this overhyped summit. If Japan doesn't land the 2016 Olympics, at least it won this summit.

The spouses of the Italian and German leaders are also not expected to…

Posted in Sarkozy's wife will be no-show at G-8 summit, disappointing many Japanese at 05:28 PM JST - 3rd July
sabinuki at 05:05 PM JST - 3rd July

When I see stacks of Russian literature on display at bookstores, I am overwhelmed by a feeling of how far we've come, and then by a feeling of how far we've yet to go; we've got to sell those mountains of books that aren't going anywhere and I certainly can't…

Posted in When I see stacks of Russian literature on display at bookstores, I am overwhelmed by a feeling of how far we've come. at 05:05 PM JST - 3rd July
sabinuki at 04:56 PM JST - 3rd July

...follows an African-American man who visits Japan to retrieve a collection of paintings produced by his estranged son Mickey, who had been living in Kochi Prefecture until his untimely death.

That's the worst kind of death.

Posted in Danny Glover and Saki Takaoka at 04:56 PM JST - 3rd July
sabinuki at 01:19 PM JST - 2nd July

Square melons for square people. The idea is to make it easier for them to think inside the box.

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sabinuki at 01:15 PM JST - 2nd July

It was done by a foreigner, the tags even had side writings written in English

Case closed.

Don't exactly know how to comment on this issue...

Maybe you should have left it at that. The garbage written to the side of the main garbage was incorrect, any native speaker would…

Posted in English graffiti 'Hack' grounds bullet train at 01:15 PM JST - 2nd July
sabinuki at 06:12 PM JST - 1st July

Yawn another Japanese trying to be cool by using English, this time by a go nowhere loser who needs his mother-bought Nike imports stolen so he can learn the value of property.

Posted in English graffiti 'Hack' grounds bullet train at 06:12 PM JST - 1st July
sabinuki at 06:09 PM JST - 1st July

I see they borrowed the no-personality mannekins used in the salaryman suithouses.

Posted in SDF PR house at 06:09 PM JST - 1st July
sabinuki at 06:05 PM JST - 1st July

Yeah, right. If I waited for anyone to speak to me in English I'd have no one to talk to from one day's end to the next.

Ahh the benefit of not living within 100 km of Tokyo or any of the other concrete jungles.

Why don't Japanese speak English…

Posted in Why don't Japanese speak English better than they do? at 06:05 PM JST - 1st July