Borrowing a title from Hikosaemon’s blog, I note that there is an interesting comment thread on this article on Hoofin’s blog. Let’s start with one issue that is quite unconnected with the article but features in the comments – Hoofin’ says, in the context of phoning up places with discriminatory signs: The idea that friendly [...]
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Schlong-measuring war opens up new front on Hoofin’
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on September 23, 2011
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Politically motivated literary sludge (yes, it’s In Appropriate time again!)
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on September 13, 2011
4 comments
First off, there was a review by Amanda Harlow of Being A Broad of Debito Arudou’s In Appropriate, which is worth a read. Second off, Mr Arudou decided to post about it and other reviews (as well as doing his usual cut’n’paste and linking back to an In Appropriate framing site): But she actually DOES [...]
Is that all?
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on July 19, 2011
69 comments
Sorry for being a little quiet recently, but I’ve been too sleepy in the evenings to do much updating! So anyway, recently we had a couple of videos from the entertainingly-named HITECHCOMMUNIST about the Zaitokukai far-right loonies. Oh no, a few dozen middle-aged people demonstrating Oh no, violence that I haven’t seen the likes [...]
Flames of the Week
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 14, 2011
130 comments
It’s a while since I’ve done a Flame of the Week, but I hope you find all three here enjoyable! Up first we have a poster who has a serious problem with Hello Work and gets a generous offer to get his story out, but the poster persists and gets for his troubles: Get read [...]
Mr Arudou’s favourite sport – slagging the Uncle Toms
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on January 3, 2011
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Or, "Sky pie under the conflation rubric and dynamic" – I haven’t a clue what that means, but it does sound impressive! There was a recent interesting article in Japan Times on how Peter Barakan, Konishiki and Tsurunen Marutei get on in Japan. However, rather than publish his analysis of what they said, Mr Arudou [...]
Handbags at dawn!
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on November 14, 2010
79 comments
Ken Joseph Jr (never heard of him before!) decided to drop a quick flame on Mr Arudou’s (or is it Arudow?) Facebook page. Read it for yourself and draw your own conclusions, but it looks to me like Mr Joseph was rather drunk when he made these posts. I must say, however, that I was [...]
Flame of the week – or not
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on October 25, 2010
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After the recently-mentioned outing of a troll, we get in the same thread this wall of abuse: We do generally get reasonable treatment – but have no legal right to it, because gaijin aren’t really human and thus don’t actually have any rights. Eg education, many NJ children do attend Japanese schools, but if there’s [...]
Flame of the week – two for the price of one
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on October 25, 2010
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Finally the afterglow from Canada has worn off and Mr Arudou’s true self is once again shining through. A punter asks about how to find a breakdown of registered foreigners by nationality, a figure that one would expect an activist on these issues to have at his fingertips, but instead the commenter gets left with [...]
Flame of the week – three for the price of one
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on July 25, 2010
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This week’s poor sod managed not one, not two, but three consecutive flames from Mr Arudou, here, here and here. The commenter suggests: Will she come to Japan, or stay there for an extended period, or rather go to more immigrant friendly places like the US or Australia? This merits the totally over the top [...]
Another rational poster pushed under the bus
James Annan has been putting up a brave fight against the scaremongerers in this thread, but he did get a bit short with other posters, perhaps partially because he was getting fed up having his comments selectively edited. Now, what first caused this issue to come to the fore was this comment from AJ (my [...]