JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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telecasterplayer
o.c. welch is, by his own statements, an imbecile. 70-years removed from the present in his racism, and 28-years removed from reality in his logic. The targets of his rage ought to be: the ineffective auto execs who manage to eek out huge bonuses for themselves while forbidding our guys to build decent cars; the banks, which have taken the money from the giant federal bailout and STILL won't loosen the credit markets so people can buy cars; the auto press and nameless talk radio shills who poo-pooed the need for reasonably-sized, fuel efficient vehicles and constantly pushed idiotic house-sized trucks as the ideal for consumers who love to be told what to do. o.c. welch should also be irate at lawmakers who put the American manufacturing base in peril by allowing these top-heavy, corporate bureaucracies to put short-term layoff-generated profits ahead of long-term planning.
> He's the kind of neanderthal that is representative of those guys in Detroit that killed that asian guy in the early 80's thinking he was Japanese.
Vincent Chin was the guy's name, btw. And you're right, this is exactly the kind of "shouting fire in a crowded theater" racism that directly led to Chin's murder.
Posted in: Angry Ford dealer in South Carolina blasts Japanese imports in ads
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telecasterplayer
"Bill and Ted.." cemented Keanu for me. I can't look at him in anything without imagining him speaking like a San Dimas kid. "Dude, we got to totally avenge Lord Asano! Kira Yoshinaka is totally bogus!" Too bad George Carlin ("Rufus") is dead.
Posted in: Keanu Reeves goes way of the samurai in '47 Ronin'
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telecasterplayer
Why don't these economic 'experts' just expect the worst-times-3? Then, whatever happens is a distinct improvement and investors (who are incredibly gullible and greedy anyway) will poor money back into the system, and float it for another couple of years, hopefully giving thoughtful governments time to reregulate and fix the problems that led to this.
Posted in: Japan's recession worse than thought
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telecasterplayer
Whatever is 'ailing' Masako is beyond her control. Give her a time machine to go back and stop herself from getting into that gilded cage.
Posted in: What's your recommendation for helping Crown Princess Masako recover fully from whatever is ailing her?
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telecasterplayer
Why are these corporations addicted to layoffs?
Posted in: Sony cutting 8,000 jobs amid global downturn
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telecasterplayer
OssanAmerica,
I don't want to get too off-topic or the JT mods will toast this.. suffice to say, there WAS a Presidential Daily Briefing ("PDB") preceding 9/11. But, there was no specific such warning preceding Pearl Harbor.
And back on topic, General Shinseki's new gig doesn't really speak to the U.S. relationship with Japan as it does to the U.S. relationship with its own citizen.. many of whom were interred completely unfairly and immorally during World War II.
Moderator: No further references to 9/11 please. It is not relevant to this discussion.
Posted in: Pearl Harbor ceremony focuses on U.S. response to Japan's attack
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telecasterplayer
Geez.. this is Japan Today.. where are all of the Japanese Films? 6) Gojira and 7) Mothra.
Posted in: Name your five most memorable movie scores.
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telecasterplayer
There's a lot of presumption in this, considering that Mister Obama has not yet served ONE DAY as president! He's NOT president yet, how the heck could ANYTHING have changed?
Posted in: Where is Obama's change we can believe in?
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telecasterplayer
Earlier, these auto execs were talking of shoring up what's left by laying off more workers. HUH? NO bailout should reward the harming of auto-workers. Not one secretary, accountant, paper-pusher, janitor or (above all) Autoworker should lose their job because of the incompetence of the execs, or as a result of the bail-out. The bail-out MUST preserve every job possible, except for the jokers who refused to market the electric car, who chose to build hummers over an American Kei-car, who biased production to feed the fad of suburban-monster trucks over what the nation NEEDED.
Posted in: Obama suggests some auto execs should lose jobs
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telecasterplayer
Hmmmm.. maybe not. National Security Agency historians concluded the U.S. had no advance notice of Japan's plans to attack Pearl Harbor. The NSA says weather reports, meant to alert Japanese diplomats to destroy codes, did not reach U.S. officials prior to the attack. It's in the Saturday edition of the New York Times. However, if you're talking in terms of the 'overall' trade, military and diplomatic situation pointing towards eventual aggression, I'd agree. But specifically, the NSA says there was no reasonable warning of an attack on Pearl Harbor.
Posted in: Pearl Harbor ceremony focuses on U.S. response to Japan's attack
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telecasterplayer
1) Yojimbo, 2) Enter The Dragon, 3) Star Trek: First Contact, 4) Dawn Of The Dead ("The Gonk", the goofy background music in the mall while the zombies got killed), 5) All of those other big American popcorn films, mostly by John Williams, Raiders/Jaws/Star Wars/Superman.
Yeah, Five's not enough.
Posted in: Name your five most memorable movie scores.
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telecasterplayer
Interesting. I was at a sushi place in Sukiji recently, and saw kujira on the menu. And didn't see one person ordering it.
On what authority? Why don't the anti-whaling activists arrest the whalers?
Posted in: Japan to arrest anti-whaling activists, newspaper reports
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telecasterplayer
I don't see how any reasonable, rational mind can blame President-elect Obama since he's NOT THE FRIGGIN' PRESIDENT YET. Geez, why not just take that nutty logic all the way and blame whoever is elected in 2016?
Posted in: Avoiding blame in the auto industry crisis
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telecasterplayer
Yes.
Posted in: Are there any circumstances that justify war?
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telecasterplayer
Judge disregarded the law. The child is born on U.S. Soil to an American father and a mother with dual passports. That kid is an American citizen first, and the judge violated the child's rights. That the child 'learned' everything in Japanese is irrelevant. Without knowing more about this case, one might guess that there's something about the father that led the judge to make this (bad) decision, there are other unpublished details, or maybe Nebraska is biased towards Mothers' Rights over Fathers'. But had the mother been Iranian or Egyptian or something like that, you can be dang sure the court would never have decided to send the child with the mother.
Posted in: Nebraska court rules Japan has jurisdiction in child custody case
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telecasterplayer
He shouldn't do that anywhere else, either.
Posted in: Man arrested for cutting off 5-year-old son’s toe in Okayama
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telecasterplayer
Hide the sake.
Posted in: Britney Spears to visit Japan this month
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telecasterplayer
I feel safer.
Posted in: Maomi Yuki promotes traffic safety in Tokyo
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telecasterplayer
This guy has been angling to become prime minister all of his adult life, and he's going out of his way to give the appearance that he's just NOW boning up on international politics and diplomacy? At face-value, this makes Aso Souri-Daijin look very dumb.
Posted in: Aso buys books on diplomacy, but no comics
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Aso-san is correct. Unfortunately, there isn't going to be any positive, meaningful action out of the UNited states until AFTER January 20th.
Posted in: Aso says banks must disclose non-performing loans