sydenham said...

sydenham at 11:05 AM JST - 11th September

Next they'll start taxing people for breathing too much. Or having too many "unsustainable" offspring.

Posted in France to introduce carbon tax next year at 11:05 AM JST - 11th September
sydenham at 11:03 AM JST - 11th September

Great series. I remember seeing Torajiro Kokoro no Tabiji when I could barely understand Japanese and still enjoying it.

Posted in Viennese park to be named after 'Tora-san' at 11:03 AM JST - 11th September
sydenham at 08:29 PM JST - 9th September

akimbo

now there's a word you don't hear enough these days.

Posted in Speak up at 08:29 PM JST - 9th September
sydenham at 08:26 PM JST - 9th September

It's a farce!

I guess that's why they still outscore the vast majority of OECD nations on international tests. lol

sounds like a lot of empty whingeing to me.

sure, a lot needs to be changed. more money needs to go into teacher training and the English curriculum is another…

Posted in Japan 2nd lowest among 28 OECD nations in education spending at 08:26 PM JST - 9th September
sydenham at 09:28 AM JST - 9th September

Canadians have this "buy Canadian" mentality, and yet I never hear any sniping about that. Americans have this "buy American" campaign, going on. What the Japanese consumer does vis avis favoring Japanese products is pretty par for the course worldwide, I'd guess.

And just because people around the world buy…

Posted in Foreign manufacturers steadily make inroads into Japan at 09:28 AM JST - 9th September
sydenham at 09:46 AM JST - 6th September

"dice-cut beefsteak"

hmm. isn't there a better way to say this?

Posted in 11 may have suffered food poisoning from E. coli at Pepper Lunch at 09:46 AM JST - 6th September
sydenham at 05:03 PM JST - 5th September

a lot of pathetic comments here, akin to the "why can't the Japanese be more like us?" type, especially regarding keitai wallets and 1 seg tv.

if you have to ask those kinds of questions, you'll never understand the answer.

i'll buy the iphone when it has more than 100…

Posted in iPhone turns corner in Japan at 05:03 PM JST - 5th September
sydenham at 03:40 PM JST - 4th September

yokomoc, i agreeee.

Posted in Walkman outsells iPod in Japan at 03:40 PM JST - 4th September
sydenham at 02:03 PM JST - 1st September

Another fine example of tax-payers' money being well spent, lol. Cut and paste conspiracy.

Posted in UK police to review Rolling Stones guitarist's death in 1969 at 02:03 PM JST - 1st September
sydenham at 01:55 PM JST - 1st September

I, for one, am all for these ironic anti-LDP clones of the LDP. Everything in their half-baked dish of ideas has some loose sense of plausibility.

Of course they have to go green/biotech/hightech and all that, but I especially like the very ungreen toll-free road/lower gas tax idea, essentially helping…

Posted in DPJ's win may herald 2-party system; LDP urged to soldier on at 01:55 PM JST - 1st September