Wednesday February 15, 2012

JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION

ultradodgy's past comments

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ultradodgyFeb. 04, 2009 - 11:42AM JST

Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Sad end to what should have been a model of investment and ingenuity for the country.

Posted in: Shinsei Bank anticipates Y48 bil net loss
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ultradodgyFeb. 04, 2009 - 11:18AM JST

Good thing he's not a Russian Sumo wrestler.

Posted in: Phelps avoids hot water with sponsors -- for now
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ultradodgyFeb. 04, 2009 - 11:11AM JST

Wow, what a thoroughly depressing read. And with some such a wonderfully unintentional flair of irony - popular clubs for unpopular people?!

Posted in: Japan’s unpopular men and women boycott love
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ultradodgyFeb. 04, 2009 - 08:59AM JST

The tip of the iceberg. It's amazing how much demand for plasma TVs and that cool new laptop falls when you're homeless.

Posted in: Hitachi reports Y371 bil quarterly loss
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ultradodgyFeb. 04, 2009 - 08:58AM JST

Does this really need to be in English? In my experience the only tone-deaf spatially unaware belligerent subway rides are the locals.

Posted in: Tokyo Metro
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ultradodgyFeb. 03, 2009 - 01:26PM JST

Hey JT, how about some "life in Japan" articles from some people that, um, live in Japan?

And for the writer... Tokyo has a pretty active bar scene. Enjoy it (and ditch the laptop dating.)

Posted in: Dating in Tokyo is pretty easy—if you’re not looking for a single guy
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ultradodgyJan. 30, 2009 - 11:13AM JST

File this under "Tip of the Iceberg"

These guys are nuts. How do you change the culture of an entire organization like the NPA? Not easy... but I hope it happens before these guys really wig out.

Posted in: NPA left red-faced after official blows his top at Narita
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ultradodgyJan. 30, 2009 - 11:01AM JST

Nice boots.

Posted in: Homeless man
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ultradodgyJan. 22, 2009 - 11:05AM JST

Hold up, hold up, hold. Gitmo MUST remain open.

We need it to hold Bush and Cheney.

Posted in: Obama tackles recession, war and ethics on day one
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ultradodgyJan. 21, 2009 - 06:17PM JST

Poor dude managed to find the one undercover officer in the entire country.

Posted in: Student arrested after threatening undercover policewoman with box cutter
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ultradodgyJan. 21, 2009 - 01:52PM JST

Sounds like their interview selection process is crappy. No reason for them to upset will 'all' students.

Posted in: Companies angry over thoughtless students amid economic downturn
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ultradodgyJan. 21, 2009 - 01:50PM JST

It was in a bad, off-pitch location and never really seemed terribly inviting. I would be shocked (shocked!) if rental increases were the reasons for closing the store - this whole sub-market is in a downturn now, and if they were able to survive the rent increases in '07 and '08 there is no way they would have to fold now.

Score another victory for J-Pop...

Posted in: Rock 'n' Roll Museum in Harajuku closes after 16 years
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ultradodgyJan. 20, 2009 - 02:37PM JST

I certainly won't be writing some long treatise on employee protections here, but needless to say I think Terrie has missed one of the most crucial points for any employee to understand in the event of a reorganizational filing:

Is the form of reorg filing civil rehabilitation (minji saisei), corporate rehabilitation (kaisha kosei), or liquidation (hasan)?

Depending on what form the reorganization takes, employees will be protected to different extents. For instance, in a straight liquidation employees should have little or no comfort about being paid the full amounts owed to them.

As an aside, the concept that a company would have "sufficient assets" to pay employees during a reorg is a bit counter-intuitive. Typically, insolvency in Japan is a simple matter of liabilities being bigger than assets (with much less focus on an ability to service debts as they come due, which is much more common in the west.) I think what Terrie means is so long as the company has sufficient cash flow to cover super-priority claims (taxes and employees) then employees should feel relatively comfortable that they will be made whole, even if they ultimately lose their jobs.

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ultradodgyJan. 19, 2009 - 11:18AM JST

I agree completely with Kwatt. I have thought a lot about it, and I suspect there may have been some possibly minor issue or disagreement amongst the siblings. Maybe. Perhaps.

Posted in: 16-year-old girl hit with axe in Ibaraki; older brother on the run
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ultradodgyJan. 19, 2009 - 11:07AM JST

Since when is Tokyo insolvent?

The issue isn't the solvency of Tokyo - it's fine.

The issue is I have yet to meet anyone in the city who actually supports the games. Most people I have talked to see it is a waste of money when there are other far more important social projects to be focused on.

Posted in: Tokyo gets funding boost in 2016 Olympic bid
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ultradodgyJan. 19, 2009 - 10:55AM JST

Ah yes, Japan: the hardship post.

Posted in: How to beat the onsen blues
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ultradodgyJan. 16, 2009 - 09:33AM JST

As horrific as the police here are, I can't possible imagine that they are worse than the sensationlistic and yet amazingly naiive domestic media.

I have no idea why JT would chose to post this article, which likely has zero basis in fact and only serves to sensationalize a very tragic story.

Posted in: Fugitive Ichihashi may be in Philippines
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ultradodgyJan. 08, 2009 - 02:22PM JST

That big thing jammed into such a tiny space.

Posted in: Sony type P
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ultradodgyJan. 06, 2009 - 02:53PM JST

Do we really need to argue whether a 3 month contract is the same as a permanent contract?

And isn't this all kinda missing the point that some freaking psycho ran around a crowded area with a knife?

Posted in: Man arrested for wielding knife at Roppongi Hills
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ultradodgyDec. 19, 2008 - 01:38PM JST

Another disaster made of greed and incompetence. I have a few (hundred) examples of this in Japan too, presto.

Posted in: Aozora Bank reveals Madoff exposure