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shinjukuboy
By way of perspective, the US spent 700 billion in TARP funds to save failing US companies. Japan can do it.
Posted in: Rebuilding northeast Japan to take years, billions
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shinjukuboy
This is a chance for the US to fix its image in Japan after the a government official called Okinawans "duplicitous". Most Americans are really nice people.
Posted in: Obama: Japan earthquake potentially 'catastrophic'
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shinjukuboy
I've been using taxis in Tokyo all my life, and I've never had any problems, even in the days before GPS. Even when I lived in an obscure place in Asakusa.
Posted in: Why are Tokyo cabbies so clueless?
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shinjukuboy
Mr. Ramsey’s prisoner ship taking him to Japan was sunk by his ally the US and he was rescued by his enemy Japan. That is the height of irony.
Posted in: Japan hosts visit by 5 Australian World War II POWs
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shinjukuboy
Weekly Playboy? Any relation to the other Playboy?
Posted in: Christchurch quake may portend major seismic activity for Japan
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shinjukuboy
Well, just to add a sober note, he is running to raise money for a childrens' cancer hospital in Tokyo. Good luck to the guy.
Posted in: Ready to run
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shinjukuboy
@nimbus, at first I was confused about whose legs were whose.
Posted in: Ready to run
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shinjukuboy
Interesting that Kadafi blames drugged youth and al kaida for the trouble, but has not blamed the usual suspect: the US.
Posted in: Gadhafi forces, foreign mercenaries strike back at revolt near Tripoli
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shinjukuboy
I just discovered that there is a "unit 731" article in English Wikipedia. Nothing hidden about it. And remember, not to get to far off topic, but the US conducted human experiments too. Remember Tuskegee? Not treating syphilis in blacks to see what happens. I guess it was not uncommon.
Posted in: Japan excavating site linked to WWII human experiments by Unit 731
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shinjukuboy
There is nothing shadowy about 731. What it did was well known and there is a lot of material published about it in Japanese (the Japanese Wikipedia article on 731部隊 runs several pages with many references). Access of information was complicated by the US trying to keep the "research" from falling into the hands of the Soviets. In fact, in a deal with the US, all but one of the 731 researchers were pardoned from the Tokyo Tribunal in exchange for receiving all the "research" to keep it out of Russian hands. So ask the US where the material is. And yes, it is condemned in Japan.
Posted in: Japan excavating site linked to WWII human experiments by Unit 731
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shinjukuboy
At the Republican convention recently Palin only got 3% of the vote for the vote for the next Republican presidential candidate. Why is anyone paying attention to this woman? Entertainment value? Then she should be on Saturday Night Live. She has no business in politics.
Posted in: Palin rejects gun law changes; stays vague on 2012
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shinjukuboy
Yes, the rubbage is left for garbage pick-up. Look how neatly it is arranged in those Tokyo city hall-approved trash bags. I'm not sure about the boxes. 8 or 9 years ago Tokyo removed all trash cans as a cost saving measure, with the slogan "take it home". Strangely, it seems to work pretty well, on the whole and in the long run. I only see a little trash on the sidewalk.
Posted in: Night life
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shinjukuboy
@Paulinusa, "the best nighttime display of lights is in Shinjuku"? Shinjukuboy would say "the best nighttime is in Shinjuku". Of course, if you know where to go.
Posted in: Night life
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shinjukuboy
But Zempun, you'll remember that David defeated Goliath. How about quality over quantity? More than GDP, per capita income is what counts.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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shinjukuboy
Why on earth would China want to be like the US (=free marketers)? Free market economies have only shown how efficiently they can destroy themselves. The big problems with Japan's economy started when Koizumi tried to refashion Japan's economy to look like the US, especially destroying the labor structure. Now those hens have returned to roost.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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shinjukuboy
the relationship between Japan and China will become like the Chinese Olympics. The great opening day show was put on by China, but all the costumes were designed by the New York-based Japanese designer Ishioka Eiko. That will be the pattern in the future. Both can thrive, and the show will be great.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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shinjukuboy
@SmithinJapan You are right that I quote another poster about "fire in the stomach". That poster was me, incidentally. All I meant to say by the expression "comfort is not equal to happiness" is that if you are happy, of course you can enjoy your big house and big car. But if you are not happy, these will not make you happy. People look at the small houses here in Japan or the delapidated places you see in China outside Shanghai and think these people must be miserable. But that is not necessarily true (of course, some people are). A hard life can be happy, and an easy life may be miserablely boring. You know, needing drugs, like Paris Hilton or what's her name, Lohan?. They have lots of money and a big house, but I guess that does not bring happiness. Tipsy Japnese salarymen is not so much misery but trying to lossen inhibitions like shyness.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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shinjukuboy
@The true, you know about those big American garages bigger than houses here in Japan, that is true. But Americans mistake comfort for happiness. This is unlike most Japanese and maybe Chinese as far as I have seen when I visit China. But comfort is not happiness. That is why Americans use so many drugs and eat so much to become obese. Even rather poor Chinese seem rather happy and willing to work hard for a better life. That is the strength of Chinese. I hope Japanese get the same fire in their stomach someday like the Chinese have. A hard life is not necessarily an unhappy life.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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shinjukuboy
True, once you step of the meglev train to Shanghai and through the bright lights to the outside of town, it is like you've gone from the 21st century back to the 1950s. And of course, China could blow it. But, OK, I don't actually speak Chinse, when I'm there for work, I feel they really have a fire in their stomach, and that is what drives and will drive China's success, not the government. China is a big and complex country with a lot of players. You can't summarize it in one paragraph. For those of you who write off Japan: I don't think so. Come and visit sometime. Not all women are Akihabara maid caffe waitreses and not all guys are hosts in Kabukicho.
Posted in: Japan welcomes China becoming world's No. 2 economy
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shinjukuboy
I say they look more like childrens' hazmat suits.
Posted in: Mini ninjas