whitepocky said...

whitepocky at 01:46 PM JST - 27th March

One student at the high school I teach at had his contract canceled. Luckily he found another job. The government isn't naming names, but Canon is one company who did this.

backstabber!

Posted in Record 1,469 students have had job offers canceled at 01:46 PM JST - 27th March
whitepocky at 01:45 PM JST - 27th March

> The article doesn't say he had been arrested at that point. It's easy to imagine the koban crowded with the punk, the lady and the station staff all yelling at once and the duty officer trying to get a coherent story out of it all, when the punk loses…

Posted in Man held for punching 50-yr-old woman on Saitama train over playing games on cell phone at 01:45 PM JST - 27th March
whitepocky at 01:42 PM JST - 27th March

This is what happens when a whole society doesn't teach the difference between "RIGHT" AND "WRONG." You end up with punks like this, who probably had a completely expense paid university tuition and apart by mom and dad... Sadder yet, will grow up to be 55 year old punks, an…

Posted in Man held for punching 50-yr-old woman on Saitama train over playing games on cell phone at 01:42 PM JST - 27th March
whitepocky at 01:33 PM JST - 27th March

Almost none of today's hi-tech innovations have come from Japan: personal computers, the Internet, e-mail, the Web, cell phones, e-commerce, IPods, digital-music download services, they were all invented in the U.S. and elsewhere.

JeffLee, you seem to trumpet on about how the US gave us all these great products and…

Posted in Why I’m bullish on Japan at 01:33 PM JST - 27th March
whitepocky at 04:20 PM JST - 26th March

Maybe just me but, the old adage of 'if you make a quality product, people will buy it' seems to have vanished for the electonics giants. For a while Sony had the market sewn up and I included bought a 32" TV w/DVD player and the surround sound system some…

Posted in More companies pressuring employees to buy their products at 04:20 PM JST - 26th March
whitepocky at 01:33 PM JST - 26th March

Could we please retire this third-worldweary cliche?

If you can show evidence as to why, then yes.

Posted in Japan's jobless benefit conditions worst among industrial nations: ILO at 01:33 PM JST - 26th March
whitepocky at 01:31 PM JST - 26th March

There is a very large difference between having a legal (contractual) right to a bonus & a moral right. Many of the people receiving these bonuses are at the same time watching their fellow workers lose their jobs & yet see nothing wrong in taking their cheques.

I can think…

Posted in Anger mounts in Europe over job cuts, exec bonuses at 01:31 PM JST - 26th March
whitepocky at 01:17 PM JST - 26th March

Japan may be a first world country economically speaking, but I must say that the social make-up of this country is of a third world ilk. Only 90 days of benefits if you lose your job, 30% to be paid by hospital users etc. My native country, the UK, may…

Posted in Japan's jobless benefit conditions worst among industrial nations: ILO at 01:17 PM JST - 26th March
whitepocky at 02:08 PM JST - 25th March

I don't know much about baseball, and in all honesty don't really care, but it smacks of poor organisation how two teams can meet each other 4 times in a single tournament!!!

baseball sucks.. but its probably the closest thing japan will get to a "world title" in the forseeable…

Posted in Japan celebrates WBC win at 02:08 PM JST - 25th March
whitepocky at 02:02 PM JST - 25th March

For those of us from the nation that gave the world baseball.....

....from which it's roots are taken from the England!!

Posted in Empire State Building lit up in Japanese flag colors after WBC victory at 02:02 PM JST - 25th March