I found an interesting view on that microaggressions article by Gord Sellar in Korea. He bases his article around Highly Sensitive Persons (perhaps as flaky a concept as microaggressions itself, but…) to explain why Mr Arudou and others can have a completely different experience to that of NHSNJ (as it were). His interesting proposition is: [...]
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An interesting view on microaggressions (and some other stuff)
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 19, 2012
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Bread and Becquerels パンned
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 16, 2012
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You may remember my mention of the awful Bread and Becquerels article in the Japan Times a while ago. Well, the reader responses are up – I don’t like the "Readers vent" title, though – and no doubt these nine againsts will be another bunch of names to be added to the Tepido Twelve. In [...]
Japan Times’ wonky flyjin editorial, microagressive poll
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 8, 2012
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An editorial entitled ‘Flyjin’ rather few took a look at a recent survey by Tokyo into proving that flyjin exist re-examining how information is delivered to foreigners. JT says: That survey seems to imply that many foreign residents did indeed become "flyjin," [...]. The survey, however, also confirms that the vast majority of foreigners in [...]
Stuff Just Be Cause, this is more interesting!
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 1, 2012
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Japan Times also prints It’s just because . . . foreigners know best, a very pointed message to Mr Arudou. I’m heading out shortly, so I’ve got no time to comment on it further right now…
Microaggression: the new scapegoat for our ills
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 1, 2012
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It’s Just Be Cause time again, and Mr Arudou tackles what he labels "microagression", but what I would call "making small talk". It’s difficult for me to find any stand-out nonsense, but I think my readers more versed in the social sciences may be able to fight their way through verbiage like "since NJ subordination [...]
More nuclear panic, less nuclear power
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on April 19, 2012
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Remember a few weeks ago that the Japan Times published a letter from a person from Singapore and their miscarriage rumours? Fortunately, but a bit belatedly, the Japan Times has published evidence that it is all nonsense. Although others say the evidence is nonsense. In the JT the day before, we got Bread and becquerels. [...]
Magical radiation detectors
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on April 6, 2012
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I saw a story today about some radiation-related quackery being flogged to unsuspecting members of the Japanese public. Some of the most anxious are the parents of young children, who experts say are the most vulnerable to the effects of radiation. And, I would add, these parents in turn are the most vulnerable to the [...]
Assfinger IV: CJ’s Back!
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on April 3, 2012
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And he’s firing on all cylinders, with only just a little sugar in the tank: http://globalite.posterous.com/mental-meltdown-in-an-nhk-world It’s an, umm, interesting and exceptionally lengthy read.
Elderly abuse
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on April 3, 2012
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Donald Keene gets slagged, along with a rehash of Mr Arudou’s PowerPoint slides. And yes, as iago and Eido predicted, Mr Keene’s joke about his promising not to commit crimes based on his naturalisation oathhas been taken by Mr Arudou as an attack on flyjin. Just to balance things out, Mr Arudou himself gets a [...]
Powerless, pointless PowerPoint
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on March 24, 2012
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Mr Arudou stalkerises himself by first off putting "Affiliate Scholar, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii" on the front page of the presentation, then by saying in the accompanying article "I gave a couple of presentations on my campus", so I wonder if he will entertain questions from his readers about his status? I also note that [...]