taiko666 said...

taiko666 at 12:32 PM JST - 8th September

This is not true.... Check it first

Symbian OS (from London) has been driving DoCoMo 3g FOMA phones since at least 2004.

http://www.embeddedstar.com/press/content/2004/11/embedded17311.html

Posted in Foreign manufacturers steadily make inroads into Japan at 12:32 PM JST - 8th September
taiko666 at 09:39 AM JST - 8th September

Where's Gillette?

Schlick (sp?) is actually British manufacturer Wilkinson Sword (but the stuff they sell in Blighty is far superior.) They're an example of the Japanese using foreign products without realising it. My favourite example is the disdain many Japanese have for the 'foreign' i-Phone. Yet the software which drives…

Posted in Foreign manufacturers steadily make inroads into Japan at 09:39 AM JST - 8th September
taiko666 at 08:32 AM JST - 3rd September

Make me wonder how the UK got their choice for 2012.

The UK didn't get it, London did. And a huge proportion of London's residents are non-Londoners who don't give a monkey's for the long-term well-being of the city they live in, and were therefore not supportive of the bid.…

Posted in Tokyo still confident of 2016 bid despite IOC report at 08:32 AM JST - 3rd September
taiko666 at 12:52 PM JST - 2nd September

I'm sure Japan will find a way to weasel out of the clauses which stop it doing exactly what it wants to do.

Nations can also decide to apply the new rules to their own fishing fleets.

Does anyone seriously expect Japan to do this?

Posted in 91 countries agree to treaty against illegal fishing at 12:52 PM JST - 2nd September
taiko666 at 12:19 PM JST - 31st August

YuriOtani: If Japan wants to stop being America's lapdog it should stop being America's lapdog. Simple as that. You seem to blame the US for Japan's whining obsequiousness.

Posted in Japan needs to diverge from status quo of following U.S., says adviser to Hatoyama at 12:19 PM JST - 31st August
taiko666 at 04:30 PM JST - 28th August

Internet savvy my arse.

Internet services in Japan are still in the Web's stone age.

Plus in Japan it's not so much the WWW as the JWW (Japan-wide web)

Many of my Japanese friends refuse to view foreign websites for fear of "birusu" (viruses.) And your Yahoo account gets you…

Posted in Internet campaigning arrives cautiously in Japan at 04:30 PM JST - 28th August
taiko666 at 12:26 PM JST - 27th August

davidintokyo: it's taken the action of an Aussie town to finally make Japan's public aware of this shameful practice. When I first visited an izakaya I asked my whale-eating friends if they also ate dolphin, and they were shocked. "Japanese don't eat dolphins!!! Where did you get that idea??!!" One…

Posted in Broome sweeps away sister-city ties with Taiji over dolphin kill at 12:26 PM JST - 27th August
taiko666 at 12:26 AM JST - 27th August

They consider them pests And because they're Japanese, they must be right!

We're talking about Taiji fishermen's livelihood at stake here

What's so special about their livelihoods? Livelihoods are lost / changed / improved every day all over the world. Fishermen in just about every other fishing port on the…

Posted in Broome sweeps away sister-city ties with Taiji over dolphin kill at 12:26 AM JST - 27th August
taiko666 at 02:48 PM JST - 26th August

Rugbyfan: - Japan bashing? We're trying to identify reasons why Japan's not a favourite tourist spot. You've found some nice spots because you've been here 14 years. Apart from the handful of 'real' attractions, a tourist normally just gets to see concrete. How many un-concreted Japanese rivers are there? Even…

Posted in Number of foreign tourists to Japan falls 23% in July at 02:48 PM JST - 26th August
taiko666 at 01:15 PM JST - 26th August
Maybe the drop is due in part to:
- It's easier for a holder of a foreign bank card to get cash from an ATM in a rural Thai village than a major Japanese bank in central Tokyo. Therefore tourists have to resort to carrying wads of cash or travellers'…
Posted in Number of foreign tourists to Japan falls 23% in July at 01:15 PM JST - 26th August