What's up with Japan?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Still, Merkin, Gall...pretty much the same thing

You just crossed the fucking line. I might have to beat you ass next time I saw you if you God hadn't already punished you enough already by making you both plastic Paddy and Australian.

ohhh dem is some fighting words!

Not a hope. I know he's only taking the piss. I was almost his father-in-law once (well, for one night at least...)
Besides, he's younger, stronger, fitter and more powerful than I am. The only way I'd ever fight him is to run up behind him and smash him to the back of the head with a blunt instrument and hope like hell it knocks him out or at least stuns him long enough to let me get away....But, that's not my style, either. I'd rather find a way to really destroy his life...make him get married, or force him to share a house with Coligny, or something else like that...

[IparryU]

Still, Merkin, Gall...pretty much the same thing

You just crossed the fucking line. I might have to beat you ass next time I saw you if you God hadn't already punished you enough already by making you both plastic Paddy and Australian.

ohhh dem is some fighting words!

Not a hope. I know he's only taking the piss. I was almost his father-in-law once (well, for one night at least...)
Besides, he's younger, stronger, fitter and more powerful than I am. The only way I'd ever fight him is to run up behind him and smash him to the back of the head with a blunt instrument and hope like hell it knocks him out or at least stuns him long enough to let me get away....But, that's not my style, either. I'd rather find a way to really destroy his life...make him get married, or force him to share a house with Coligny, or something else like that...

ya i know that.

Putting him in a room with Coligny would be a big and bright red flag...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Still, Merkin, Gall...pretty much the same thing

You just crossed the fucking line. I might have to beat you ass next time I saw you if you God hadn't already punished you enough already by making you both plastic Paddy and Australian.

ohhh dem is some fighting words!

Not a hope. I know he's only taking the piss. I was almost his father-in-law once (well, for one night at least...)
Besides, he's younger, stronger, fitter and more powerful than I am. The only way I'd ever fight him is to run up behind him and smash him to the back of the head with a blunt instrument and hope like hell it knocks him out or at least stuns him long enough to let me get away....But, that's not my style, either. I'd rather find a way to really destroy his life...make him get married, or force him to share a house with Coligny, or something else like that...

ya i know that.

Putting him in a room with Coligny would be a big and bright red flag...

If Coligny brought his contraband cheese from Vietnam, we could find a way to keep the peace.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

If Coligny brought his contraband cheese from Vietnam, we could find a way to keep the peace.

Until he cuts it....

I'd go for the tits from the train bird if I were you...

[Samurai_Jerk]

If Coligny brought his contraband cheese from Vietnam, we could find a way to keep the peace.

Until he cuts it....

I'd go for the tits from the train bird if I were you...

Good idea but I don't think he brought her back to Japan though.

[IparryU]

If Coligny brought his contraband cheese from Vietnam, we could find a way to keep the peace.

Until he cuts it....

I'd go for the tits from the train bird if I were you...

Good idea but I don't think he brought her back to Japan though.

fuck... canceling my trip to Coligny's house...

[Coligny]

Come on guys... It's safe to hang for a pijama party at my place...
I'm building a goat farm on the roof...
Goat cheeze and harem all in one...

[Mike Oxlong]

Bureaucrats seek to pick winners with $1 billion "Cool Japan" Fund

Japan's industry bureaucrats once guided the nation's world-beating drive to export cars and electronics.

Now that Toyota and Sony have been household names worldwide for decades, the government wants to make sure the rest of the world buys Japanese sake, sashimi and anime.

The "Cool Japan Fund," to launch on Monday, aims eventually to use about $1 billion of mostly public funds to boost distinctive food and drink, fashion, animated and live-action movies and other such "soft" exports.

Although conceived before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office last December, it fits his theme that "Japan is back".

Some experts question the need for taxpayers to pump money into private companies. But Nobuyuki Ota, chief executive of Cool Japan Fund Inc, said it made sense for the government-dominated effort to pick winners among companies keen to expand abroad.

"A state-backed fund can do what private investors cannot," Ota, a former fashion executive who brought Issey Miyake designs to the world, told Reuters.

"Private investors sell their assets once their investment targets becomes profitable. We can be a long-term investor because it takes time for those small companies to grow."

As disputes with neighbours like China and South Korea simmer, Abe's government is keen to exploit chances to project Japan's popular cultural wares.

The expected adoption soon by UNESCO of Japanese cuisine - "washoku" - as an "Intangible Cultural Heritage" is the latest example of Japan's "soft power" push...

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/11/2 ... 0Y20131125

[IparryU]

As disputes with neighbours like China and South Korea simmer, Abe's government is keen to exploit chances to project Japan's popular cultural wares.

Call on Hashimoto for advise on how/when to exploit people. and ya... tension is really dying down with China's new airspace rule.

[Samurai_Jerk]

As disputes with neighbours like China and South Korea simmer, Abe's government is keen to exploit chances to project Japan's popular cultural wares.

Call on Hashimoto for advise on how/when to exploit people. and ya... tension is really dying down with China's new airspace rule.

You do know what simmer means, right?

[kurogane]

This got me thinking...is "cool" even "cool" anymore.
I can dig "cool" being groovy, but I wonder if Gen Ys think "cool" is "awesome" and use something hipper.....

Seems to be so. I don't get half the references to something being 'cool' anymore. I would have preferred to see it called Groovy Japan. That would be very cool. Where did that silly cathcphrase come from, anyways?

Japan needs to focus more on how to get their people out of the xenophobic mind set...)...

While it probably wouldn't hurt in any appreciable way, Japan isn't really much more xenophobic than a lot of places, and it's much better than any of the Anglosphere. 'Cept for Canada, of course

Employ foreigners at busy stations, not some J who sorta kinda speaks a foreign language.

What would be the point? Economically it makes no sense, and half the foreigners I meet that need that sort of help don't like getting it from foreigners (based on my interactions with tourists in Kyoto and Okinawa). BTW, they do seem to do that at Kyoto Station and I have seen it in Naha as well. For some reason they are always mildly weedy looking 30-ish redheads. Seems like a nice idea, though I still argue it's a trivial issue.

ban child porn and limit manga on how they can recreate child porn child porn = little girls in bathing suits posing in sexual positions... how are magazines like this still sold??!?!?!?!?!?

Yup. That is creepy creepy stuff.

be proactive on the Hague Convention and back date cases.

I think that's unconstitutional. A bit like the old Nuremburg defence that the crimes as charged weren't crimes when they occurred. I'm not kidding about the constituional thing, though. I can't remember the legal term.

Open more public daycares and allow foreign workers... reading proficiency should not be a major concern for people who feed kids and change diapers...

Open more retirement homes and allow foreign workers... reading proficiency should not be a major concern for people who feed old people and change diapers... medicine should be written in romaji... the Dr.s know what it is in English (surprisingly)...

Why foreign workers? There's no lack of an underemployed pool of literate natives, after all, many of whom might well be more employable were those other really good social policy ideas you mentioned enacted. The lack of any appreciable OECD level public provision of maternity and child care services or plans for same in a country allegedly facing a demographic crisis is truly shocking to me, along with the ridiculously low level of taxation and high levels of corporate welfare.

What I don't get is the way you seem to be making heads of tails and tails of heads. 9.85 of 10 of potential clients are Japanese, literacy in health care is a very good thing, and I think you have completely overlooked the major pitfall of any such ideas ever coming true: it would be BOTH Muzukashii and Mendokusai.

While it is nigh on impossible to disagree with your positive spririt, your actual ideas do seem to suffer from an incredibly enduring misconception, namely that Japan somehow needs to, wants to, or is even trying to become a more open society a la our New World homelands. It's an ethnocentric blindspot we suffer from, IOW. If Japan can learn anything from the Scandowegian models, it is that monoethnic societies don't assimilate outsiders all that well, and with a high level of efficient government intervention, it is possible to build an orderly, equitable and rather pleasant place to live for its citizenry.

All they really need to do is shrink effectively and efficiently. I'm not holding my breath, mind.

[Mike Oxlong]

Japanese cuisine added to world heritage list

The United Nations cultural organization has added traditional Japanese food to its cultural heritage list, making it only the second national cuisine to receive the prized designation.

A UNESCO committee announced the decision Wednesday at a meeting in Azerbaijan.

Previously, only French cooking had been distinguished as a national culinary tradition. UNESCO has also recognized specific dishes from Mexico and Turkey, and added the Mediterranean diet - the tradition of sharing food and eating together - at this week’s meeting.

Known as “washoku,” Japan’s traditional cooking embraces seasonal ingredients, a unique taste and a style of eating steeped in centuries of tradition.

Japan hopes that UNESCO recognition will both send a global message and boost efforts to save washoku at home.

Purists fear that Japanese are turning away from the often time-consuming traditional cooking, as fast food and western cuisine become more popular and people lead busier lives.

Masanori Aoyagi, the commissioner of Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency, told the UNESCO committee that washoku gives Japanese a feeling of social cohesion. He said that it’s low-calorie and healthy, but quipped that it doesn’t work in his case, because “I take always double portions.”

http://www.japantoday.com/category/nati ... itage-list

[IparryU]

This got me thinking...is "cool" even "cool" anymore.
I can dig "cool" being groovy, but I wonder if Gen Ys think "cool" is "awesome" and use something hipper.....

Seems to be so. I don't get half the references to something being 'cool' anymore. I would have preferred to see it called Groovy Japan. That would be very cool. Where did that silly cathcphrase come from, anyways?

Japan needs to focus more on how to get their people out of the xenophobic mind set...)...

While it probably wouldn't hurt in any appreciable way, Japan isn't really much more xenophobic than a lot of places, and it's much better than any of the Anglosphere. 'Cept for Canada, of course

Employ foreigners at busy stations, not some J who sorta kinda speaks a foreign language.

What would be the point? Economically it makes no sense, and half the foreigners I meet that need that sort of help don't like getting it from foreigners (based on my interactions with tourists in Kyoto and Okinawa). BTW, they do seem to do that at Kyoto Station and I have seen it in Naha as well. For some reason they are always mildly weedy looking 30-ish redheads. Seems like a nice idea, though I still argue it's a trivial issue.

ban child porn and limit manga on how they can recreate child porn child porn = little girls in bathing suits posing in sexual positions... how are magazines like this still sold??!?!?!?!?!?

Yup. That is creepy creepy stuff.

be proactive on the Hague Convention and back date cases.

I think that's unconstitutional. A bit like the old Nuremburg defence that the crimes as charged weren't crimes when they occurred. I'm not kidding about the constituional thing, though. I can't remember the legal term.

Open more public daycares and allow foreign workers... reading proficiency should not be a major concern for people who feed kids and change diapers...

Open more retirement homes and allow foreign workers... reading proficiency should not be a major concern for people who feed old people and change diapers... medicine should be written in romaji... the Dr.s know what it is in English (surprisingly)...

Why foreign workers? There's no lack of an underemployed pool of literate natives, after all, many of whom might well be more employable were those other really good social policy ideas you mentioned enacted. The lack of any appreciable OECD level public provision of maternity and child care services or plans for same in a country allegedly facing a demographic crisis is truly shocking to me, along with the ridiculously low level of taxation and high levels of corporate welfare.

What I don't get is the way you seem to be making heads of tails and tails of heads. 9.85 of 10 of potential clients are Japanese, literacy in health care is a very good thing, and I think you have completely overlooked the major pitfall of any such ideas ever coming true: it would be BOTH Muzukashii and Mendokusai.

While it is nigh on impossible to disagree with your positive spririt, your actual ideas do seem to suffer from an incredibly enduring misconception, namely that Japan somehow needs to, wants to, or is even trying to become a more open society a la our New World homelands. It's an ethnocentric blindspot we suffer from, IOW. If Japan can learn anything from the Scandowegian models, it is that monoethnic societies don't assimilate outsiders all that well, and with a high level of efficient government intervention, it is possible to build an orderly, equitable and rather pleasant place to live for its citizenry.

All they really need to do is shrink effectively and efficiently. I'm not holding my breath, mind.

Hard to do on the phone.... But regarding backdating for Hague, they were convicted overseas, so it would be handing someone over for a warrant that has been issued. They don't need to be convicted in Japan, just hand them over cause they are "on the run".

Foreign workers won't ask for higher pay and they will put up with more shit so they can live here. This is not the case for all FG, but the elderly care workers that are from the PI and other East Asian shit holes. The Js could always be in charge of medicines, but they need a fuck of a lot more people caring for the elderly.

For public day care, extremely short staffed. I know the tests can be done in 1 year if you bust your ass, but there gots to be some way to make a fg friendly exam.

Not realistic, just putting it out there. If I was being realistic, I would just say fuck it all and shoganai.

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[kurogane]

Hard to do on the phone....

I don't know how you guys do that. I think I would end up saying F'it and having a good nose pick.

But regarding backdating for Hague, they were convicted overseas, so it would be handing someone over for a warrant that has been issued. They don't need to be convicted in Japan, just hand them over cause they are "on the run".

Aaaah, gotcha. I think there is still an issue of retroactivity, if you will, and moreover, few countries extradite their own nationals and I am rather sure Japan doesn't at all. Think Peru's Fujimori. The important issue there would be if they will act on past court decisions retroactively and reunite children taken to Japan with their parents abroad. And again, there's the retroactive problem.

they need a fuck of a lot more people caring for the elderly.............For public day care, extremely short staffed.......................Not realistic, just putting it out there. If I was being realistic, I would just say fuck it all and shoganai.

I getcha, but I would argue the best realistic solution to those 2 problems is training and hiring underemployed Japanese, of which there is an icebergian tip visible, and an incredible number sunk below the waterline, many of whom live on 50,000 per month and would love some more income.

there gots to be some way to make a FG friendly exam...............................

Again, I don't disagree, but there's also got to be some reason to do that at all. The Double M problem aside, and aside from not needing it in any real way, shape or form, more than not needing to do it, they don't want to do it. So, to repeat the mantra, Why unnecessary Foreign Workers?????

I accuse you of being an Ethnocentaur!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


PS very unsure about the willingness and desire of Phillipinas and Indonesians to put up with much crap in Japan anymore. I think the gloss has worn off that one, and the word is out. The only group that desperate to be in Japan seem to be the Weebo Eikaiwa types. They're now working for wages an Asian or Brazilian would have sniffed at ten years ago.

[IparryU]

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Hard to do on the phone....

I don't know how you guys do that. I think I would end up saying F'it and having a good nose pick.

But regarding backdating for Hague, they were convicted overseas, so it would be handing someone over for a warrant that has been issued. They don't need to be convicted in Japan, just hand them over cause they are "on the run".

Aaaah, gotcha. I think there is still an issue of retroactivity, if you will, and moreover, few countries extradite their own nationals and I am rather sure Japan doesn't at all. Think Peru's Fujimori. The important issue there would be if they will act on past court decisions retroactively and reunite children taken to Japan with their parents abroad. And again, there's the retroactive problem.

they need a fuck of a lot more people caring for the elderly.............For public day care, extremely short staffed.......................Not realistic, just putting it out there. If I was being realistic, I would just say fuck it all and shoganai.

I getcha, but I would argue the best realistic solution to those 2 problems is training and hiring underemployed Japanese, of which there is an icebergian tip visible, and an incredible number sunk below the waterline, many of whom live on 50,000 per month and would love some more income.

there gots to be some way to make a FG friendly exam...............................

Again, I don't disagree, but there's also got to be some reason to do that at all. The Double M problem aside, and aside from not needing it in any real way, shape or form, more than not needing to do it, they don't want to do it. So, to repeat the mantra, Why unnecessary Foreign Workers?????

I accuse you of being an Ethnocentaur!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


PS very unsure about the willingness and desire of Phillipinas and Indonesians to put up with much crap in Japan anymore. I think the gloss has worn off that one, and the word is out. The only group that desperate to be in Japan seem to be the Weebo Eikaiwa types. They're now working for wages an Asian or Brazilian would have sniffed at ten years ago.

True, true, true... Need to Google Ethnocentaur, and true.

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[kurogane]

Ummm, that was me makey Joke...................

I do most of it as an arch pose, but most arguments for greater immigration or labour migration to Japan seem woefully unrealistic to me, especially in the versions usually promoted by The Economist et al. They certainly don't want it, and they actually don't need it.

To be fair, there are no other monoethnic large economies (I am currently boycotting China), and it is a standard and often viable solution for most, but not Japan. Plus, any given nation has a duty to fully employ their own first, in myHOMO. And there is no shortage of those. I get a little giggle thinking of the still Super Genki 65 year old new trainees caring for the rather still Genki 85 year olds. It's kind of a sweet image.

[Mike Oxlong]

Japan plans to register WWII kamikaze pilots’ letters as UNESCO World Heritage

Japan is looking to list as World Heritage items letters left behind by World War II kamikaze pilots with UNESCO. In September last year, Tokyo drew sharp criticism as it wanted to list coal mines and other facilities where Koreans were forced into slave labor during the war as World Heritage sites. It would be interesting to see if this effort to memorialize these suicide pilots’ letters would attract the same negative reaction.

Japanese broadcaster NHK reported on Tuesday that the town of Minamikyushu in Kagoshima Prefecture has submitted 333 items left behind by kamikaze pilots for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage list. Minamikyushu was home to a base for pilots who flew suicide missions against U.S. warships toward the end of the war. By the end of World War II, when Japan was obviously losing the battle in the Pacific, Japan appealed to the fanatical nationalism of young soldiers by asking them to fly their planes directly into U.S. ships. More than 1,000 of these pilots left letters and photos for their families at their bases. A museum in Minamikyushu houses 14,000 of these items, of which 333 have been translated into English and have now been submitted for consideration as World Heritage items...

[Russell]

What's next?

Einstein's letter to Roosevelt also a world heritage?

[Coligny]

Every nengajo ever written...

[Russell]

Every nengajo ever written...

In that case they can just file a single sentence

本年もどうぞ宜しくお願い申し上げます

or any variation thereof.

[Coligny]

You fotgot the pics of the car/pets/kidz

[Taro Toporific]

You fotgot the pics of the car/pets/kidz

You forgot taking a pics of every 300yen crap lunch you have eaten and posting it on mixi.

[IparryU]

And the stupid cat captions. One reason why hate social media.

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[Coligny]

You fotgot the pics of the car/pets/kidz

You forgot taking a pics of every 300yen crap lunch you have eaten and posting it on mixi.

Yup, but I posted every aftermath pics on rateMyPoop.com

(mixi is not exactly illiturut gailledjin friendly...)

[Coligny]

And the stupid cat captions. One reason why hate social media.

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