In the annals of Debito.org and posts, today’s utter bollocks takes not just the biscuit, but the biccie tin and the whole Hobnob factory as well. FOBer gets asked for a standard (for almost every full-time employee in Japan) health check result including blood pressure, X-ray, and pee check: the pee check in my office [...]
Category Archives: English teacher
Astroturf in the Japan Times letters page
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on December 6, 2011
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A wee while back we had a short discussion about anonymous letters in the Japan Times, and today I saw an inevitable result of their policy, in a missive appearing to have come from an English teacher working at Olympus. First let me say that I agree with the sentiment that the rank and file [...]
Good news or bad social science?
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on June 6, 2011
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Good news about the NJ legacy of Greg Lekich and the Teachers for Japan organisation. What exactly are the debunkable claims of "fly-jin"? But anyway, I am confused by why Mr Arudou chose to categorise this as good news, as the news article is full of Bad Social Science™. I don’t see a survey as [...]
It’s Just Be Cause day today
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on February 2, 2011
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You know, I really get quite depressed doing my critiques of Mr Arudou’s Just Be Cause articles as they are quite spectacularly poor on the whole, and this is no exception, his reply to an end-of-the-year fluff piece talking to three natualised citizens. First, the composition of the article seems to suggest that he just [...]
New web comic from Roaf at Gaijin Tonic
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on January 25, 2011
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Little In Japan is a rather funny look at the everyday life of an English teacher in Japan.
More census nonsense
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on October 5, 2010
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At least in his latest Japan Times column Mr Arudou at least does not claim to be ethnically American, but instead he makes many more nonsensical census claims and displays evidence of having done almost no research whatsoever. By now, all households in Japan should have received and submitted Japan’s National Census No, we still [...]
Mr Arudou’s psychotic English
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on September 7, 2010
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As I’ve never taught English in my life nor do I know much about teaching English in Japanese schools, I have to work on hearsay, but I suspect that Mr Arudou too is relying on just posters to his blog and cursory web searches for his Japan Times article on the JET program. I’ll skip [...]
Lay judges
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on July 26, 2010
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Another day, another curious commentary. generally bringing six common folk to sit on Japanese juries as “saiban’in”, with three other real judges offering “legal guidance” "Three other real judges"? So the six common folk are real judges too? But here’s a lament by the Yomiuri about how those darn lay judges (how belittling; why aren’t [...]
Desperate straw-clutching
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 19, 2010
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In an article about a Prada Japan employee getting sacked for being too ugly amongst other things we get this comment from Mr Arudou: But what makes this a Debito.org issue is the allegation, made by at least one morning Wide Show (“Sukkiri” last Monday, May 17), is that the companies are practicing “racial discrimination” [...]