Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    tigris

    Don't understand the love affair with Koizumi on these pages. People are so easily manipulated by style. that guy is responsible for the fingerprinting on entering Japan and laid the foundation to the new immigration law. He's an Ishihara in sheep skin.

    Posted in: Junichiro Koizumi rocks up to unveiling of Elvis statue in Kobe

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    tigris

    Most Japanese don't have any problems with gays. The author says it himself:

    One of my students was telling me the other week about his dad having gay friends; I couldn’t see a boy of 16 in Wales doing the same thing without someone making jokes about the father or the kid. It just doesn’t occur to them to make fun about it.” Having previously worked at two senior high schools myself, I too have witnessed this seemingly more accepting nature.

    He obviously has no problems in Japan working in a high school and talking about gays with his students. I know quite a few countries where the school administration and the parents would be up in arms. If you are discreet as in not creating a fuzz, people in this country don't care about your sexuality, religion or other private matters.

    Posted in: 'Gayjin' find it tough going in Tohoku

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    tigris

    That he now quotes Dr Tadanobu Tsunoda, an utter crackpot whose research has been firmly repudiated across the board, is reason enough to dismiss this book as a load of crap. I've lost all respect for this 'respected' Japan veteran.

    Agreed. At best his books are totally outdated. The Nihonjinron authors were popular in the early 80's when Japan was painted as economically invincible. This was debunked by harsh reality in the 90's. At worst De Mente succumbs to 'fuzzy' logic:

    De Mente attributes the special knowledge and skills of the Japanese to the premise that they are primarily right-brain oriented as a result of their vowel-heavy language — a linguistic circumstance they share with only one other group of people: the Polynesians of the South Pacific.

    That's plain BS and if true the Thais with 32 distinctly different vowels would be way 'superior' (whatever that means) to the Japanese.

    Posted in: Why the Japanese Are a Superior People

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    tigris

    So far many of the comments prove De Mente has a point:

    • This is why they win so many Nobel Prizes and other international awards and are in great demand at the Academy Awards ceremonies and pro wrestling events.

    • Hey presto, his bank acoount sewlls up.

    • it means the US is outperforming Japan with half it's brain tied behind it's back

    • but then again, he's french so what do you expect

    De Mente is American (worked as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency...)

    Entertaining, but I think if you want to prove him wrong you have to do better than above.

    Posted in: Why the Japanese Are a Superior People

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    tigris

    Maybe a modest maid costume would have been better than the Hooters ...ehrr hookers fashion for representing modern Japan.

    Posted in: Barrage of complaints force Miss Universe Japan to change costume design for finals

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    tigris

    TokyoHustla

    Not if it's your wife, or girlfriend.

    Spousal rape is also called marital [...]. It is a crime in most parts of the Western world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spousal_rape

    Moderator: All readers back on topic please.

    Posted in: Thanks, honey -- put it on my AMEX card

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    tigris

    tigris, I think it rather says "there's nothing cheaper than free"

    I think you should check on your Japanese. Just in case you don't read Japanese:

    One of many catchphrases that has turned into a proverb is tada yori takai mono wa nai. Literally this translates as "Nothing is more expensive than something that's free." In other words, "There's no such thing as a free lunch."

    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ek20070522a1.html Please scroll to the end of the article.

    Take what's yours, by force if need be.

    Wow. That's rape, plain and simple.

    Posted in: Thanks, honey -- put it on my AMEX card

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    tigris

    SwissToni

    The words of a realist. There is a saying in Japan: Tada yori takai mono nai Roughly translated as "Nothing is more expensive than for free."

    Posted in: Thanks, honey -- put it on my AMEX card

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    tigris

    If you think marriage isn't a business contract wait till you got a divorce.

    Posted in: Thanks, honey -- put it on my AMEX card

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    tigris

    By law the Japanese police needs a search warrant to inspect your bags. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090707ad.html

    I carry the mobile number of a Japanese lawyer at all times. He always complains about the ignorance of Japanese people concerning their rights. Seems foreigners are no different. If you don't like it get informed.

    Posted in: My first run-in with the police

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    tigris

    Boy, amazing how one tiny altercation stirs up the proverbial "racial shitstorm" in the US.

    How does he know? Completely outrageous for the president of the US to make a statement like this when there's been no formal investigation of what actually happened. But I'm not surprised either since the left needs to perpetuate racism in order to garner money and votes

    This kind of stuff is commented on on any given day at this site. Think gaijin and J police. A foreigner is racially profiled by the J cops and acts up. Some of you should take a serious look into the mirror.

    Posted in: Boston policeman who arrested Gates won't apologize

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    tigris

    tell me if i'm wrong but aren't proportionally more crimes committed by black people?

    More black people are convicted of crimes than white people - law of the privileged nothing to do with justice.

    Posted in: Boston policeman who arrested Gates won't apologize

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    tigris

    grafton,

    Believe me, that is a patched sky, not a natural sky even, just a partial selection filled with blue with the top slightly darkened. And I don't guess - I do this stuff professionally. The natural color of the sky was much more pale as you can see at the tree tops. The light of the field doesn't fit the light of the sky - sky is much too dark for starters. A UV filter would never produce this effect (hardly any for that matter), not even a pol filter. It was done in Photoshop with the Quick selection tool by a dilitant. Not that I am particularly against digital manipulation as long it doesn't change the content. In old times we did it in the lab. But this is a wretched job anybody in the photo/media business would recognize immediately. Wanna bet?

    Posted in: Lavender

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    tigris

    Considering the awful false sky - easily recognized by the incompetent selection visible at the tree tops- this is a terrible photo.

    Posted in: Lavender

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    tigris

    few people will vote, except those who are old and (likely) still on the side of the LDP

    I am living on the countryside surrounded by elderly farmers. I can't confirm that those who are old are on the side of the LDP. On the contrary. Since the pension funds debacle the elderly are really fed up and angry. That is one major reason the LDP lost a large number of its supporters.

    Posted in: Only a miracle can save LDP now

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    tigris

    These soldiers will continue to be sitting ducks because the Taleban engage cheap tactics leaving roadside bombs and sniping and vanishing. They do not come out and fight face to face.

    So what do you call carpet and cluster bombing a country without airforce or air defense? The use of drones? Heroic? Face to face?

    Posted in: British military death toll in Afghanistan higher than in Iraq

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    tigris

    New Oxford American Dictionary: an inferior imitation of something = rip-off. Concerning inferior: just check out Rotten Tomatoes an American website with American critics.

    Posted in: It's a dog's life for Richard Gere

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    tigris

    First "Shall We Dance", now “Hachi: A Dog’s Story”. Is he specializing now in Hollywood rip-offs of Japanese movies?

    Posted in: It's a dog's life for Richard Gere

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    tigris

    This happens when accountants, administrators and business school types take over the reigns. They only can count. Remember Apple without Steve Jobs. At Sony, when Morita was gone things started to go downhill and the company has been on the decline ever since. Without the creators/engineers in charge the passion is gone while creativity and vision get suffocated. After that the endless 'restructuring' to maximize profits and efficiency until all lifeblood is evaporated. It's just the malaise of the times, not only at Sony, but everywhere.

    Posted in: Sony struggling as Walkman hits 30th anniversary

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    tigris

    The Thai police says.... whatever. Not to be trusted especially if foreigners are involved.

    Posted in: Carradine may have died from sex act: Thai police

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