Wednesday February 15, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

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spudmanOct. 04, 2011 - 01:46PM JST

"I'm sure ole Hank didn't do it thissaway!" He'll be very electable now however. Gotta love Redneckucans.

Posted in: ESPN pulls NFL song after Hitler analogy
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spudmanOct. 03, 2011 - 02:20PM JST

goodbye either SA or AUS, that is really a semi final. Wales are looking the most likely of the NH teams.

Posted in: It's knock-out time at Rugby World Cup
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spudmanOct. 03, 2011 - 11:36AM JST

Android version soon please.

Posted in: KanjiSpy iPad app ends Tokyo street-walking frustration
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spudmanOct. 02, 2011 - 06:16AM JST

imagine if America did this, world financial problems solved and enough left over to fund a Mars station.

Posted in: Denmark levies world's first fat tax
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spudmanMay. 16, 2011 - 07:41AM JST

Thank you Tomoko Hasada, great article.

“Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. In the end, people will understand.”

Words to be put in Fudai's crest I think.

Posted in: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami
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spudmanMay. 12, 2011 - 12:18PM JST

well traditionally womanhood is like Xmas cakes, best used before the 25th. If that was playing on her mind 24 isn't so young. RIP young lady!

Posted in: 'Talent' Miyu Uehara dead after apparently hanging herself at home
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spudmanMay. 09, 2011 - 10:38PM JST

If only the other ten Mariners played like Ichirô.

Are they playing soccer or cricket?

Posted in: Eye on the ball
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spudmanMay. 09, 2011 - 05:26PM JST

Gotta love Seattle fans, they sure do love their losers.

Posted in: Eye on the ball
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spudmanMay. 08, 2011 - 12:18PM JST

Such a stupid sign after a national disaster, just businesses piling on the feel good vibe to make money.

Posted in: Eat and pray
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spudmanMay. 02, 2011 - 02:52PM JST

Neither of them did jack. All credit goes to where it belongs, the CIA and intelligence community that found him and the special forces unit that carried out the attack.

After they dropped the ball back in 1999-2001. Go easy on the back slapping, it was poor communication and arrogance on the US intelligence community's side that let OBL have such a successful attack on 9/11. Glad he's dead but America is no winner. 10,000 Vs 1 and countless thousands more innocents.

Posted in: BIN LADEN BURIED AT SEA AFTER BEING KILLED IN FIREFIGHT WITH U.S. FORCES
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spudmanApr. 29, 2011 - 07:41AM JST

Rush Limbaugh, millions of dead head followers. millions of dead head haters pulling the US into the toilet together. Bill Gates, tech and philantrophic goliath. Hu Jintao, billions following his leadership out of the toilet. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, his reign will set the path for middle eastern stability or lack of. Richie McCaw, he is the benchmark all men aspire to be like.

Posted in: Name 5 people who you think are among the most influential in the world.
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spudmanApr. 27, 2011 - 12:17PM JST

Not the best timing on the day that Sony announces new tablets to compete with the iPad. New tablet is now tainted with bad security association. Timing sucks.

Posted in: Sony PlayStation disconnects 77 million user accounts after massive data breach
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spudmanApr. 25, 2011 - 04:23PM JST

just-a-guy. you obviously haven't lost loved ones.

Posted in: 25,000 SDF troops launch massive search for bodies
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spudmanApr. 25, 2011 - 04:22PM JST

More than twenty helicopters flying overhead today, convoys of GSDF trucks all this weekend. Grim thankless task but thanks.

Posted in: 25,000 SDF troops launch massive search for bodies
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spudmanApr. 24, 2011 - 12:20PM JST

everyone is now using 3/11 to propagate whatever ends they have. I would have thought Okada would have been above that, by a long way, but I was wrong.

"never misunderestimate the ability of people to sink to the lowest common demonator" Spudman 2009.

Posted in: WOWOW to launch 3 new channels
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spudmanApr. 17, 2011 - 10:46PM JST

byejin flyjin, why wouldn't they? it's not like Japan actually would like them to stick around.No dual citizenship. foreign identification certificates and being labelled by the indegenous population as outsiders. The nature of itenerant workers is mobility. Japan was facing a crisis, Media hysteria was rampant and the fact that gaijin is the single biggest identifying label on these people it is obvious they are not actually integrated or integral to the society they were in. Loyalty is a two way street. Oh by the way what about the Japanese that fled Japan or high tailed it to western Japan? Surely less loyalty from them. Maybe they can be called something like "nigonejins" Good luck to them and I hope they have happy lives back where ever they came from.

Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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spudmanApr. 16, 2011 - 08:14PM JST

Can we please see the next basho on TV?

Oh please God no, last thing people in Tohoku need is to think of their tax money funding this sham of a supposed sport. Tohoku folk are busy reconstructing their lives; watching TV from 3:00pm to 6:00pm isn't high on the list of things to do.

Posted in: Face off
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spudmanApr. 16, 2011 - 08:36AM JST

the young lass has the backhanded payment pose down pat! Deep pockets as well, perfect for fitting into the psuemo world

Posted in: Face off
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spudmanApr. 13, 2011 - 06:12PM JST

No I think 3 million is the start up money and the fund gets 15% of the shares of the company. If the business is successful then obviously the share value increases but initially the value of the company is 3 million.

Posted in: Fostering best and brightest for Japan's future
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spudmanApr. 12, 2011 - 03:05PM JST

Cars will also use less gas if they do not have their headlights on.

Someone needs to go to car school.

Posted in: Do you think switching to daylight saving time in summer in Japan will help ease the power shortage?