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 [...]
Category Archives: Out of his depth
Taking the piss
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on March 31, 2012
107 comments
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 [...]
Nanking, Kawamura, and Ishihara: what about Hashimoto?
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on February 29, 2012
84 comments
As you will perhaps have read on Debito.org and other places, the Nagoya mayor has been getting into hot water over his claims that only conventional acts of warfare took place in Nanking. He is now, however, trying to douse the flames by claiming that he meant to say that there wasn’t a systematic massacre [...]
Every silver lining has a cloud
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on November 24, 2011
74 comments
Here it is the clouds in Thailand that have a silver lining; rather than being out of work for six months, skilled workers will be brought over to Japan to boost production here. We wouldn’t want to have Japanese corporations losing out because of natural disaster overseas impeding our supply lines, now, would we? So, [...]
Stalking Japan Times contributors
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on November 10, 2011
57 comments
Searching the web I came across this site of batshit-crazy loons concerned Fookooshimars citizens discussing the merits of Mr Arudou’s recent article: http://enenews.com/japan-times-column-public-possibly-worldwide-sickens-time-truth-will-leak-about-fukushima (Note that it appears to be down right now – the GoJ’s DoS seems to be working! Click here for the Google cache.) Skip past the extract and the ads – the [...]
Radioactive waste: Tohoku rubble versus coal slag
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on October 20, 2011
61 comments
With Debito.org straying quite far from its mission statement by reposting information on Japan-wide rubble distribution, let’s have a look at what he’s on about. First, for the actual matter; there seems to have been a degree of secrecy regarding this action, which I would join Mr Arudou in condemning. However, he says that they [...]
Japan’s most useless
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on September 27, 2011
81 comments
CHEAP SHOT ALERT It seems not In Appropriate™ to ask Mr Arudou to write for an article on Japan’s top 10 most useless PMs, a list curiously not featuring Kan and a rather soft critique of Hatoyama – "It was all the Americans’ fault!" So, we have Tomiichi Murayama (1994-96), of whom I know no [...]
Fookooshimars
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on August 26, 2011
113 comments
I’m trying to coin a new word here, much like we have the Troofers who know all about the 9/11 conspiracy that the MSM is hiding from the sheeple, Fookooshimars are those who believe the wild-eyed rantings of those self-proclaimed, self-serving experts saying everyone is going to die horribly from cancer. Mr Arudou is one [...]
"Literary sludge insults child abduction issue"
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on July 31, 2011
57 comments
No time right now to review the review, but here is Japan Times on In Appropriate. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20110731a1.html UPDATE: Just for fun, here are a couple of quotes from Mr Arudou on the novel-writing business: http://twitter.com/#!/arudoudebito/status/35682562680557568 Amazed at just how fast one can write fiction. http://twitter.com/#!/arudoudebito/status/36066851997880320 I was once told that fiction was not my bag, [...]
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 [...]