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: Straw-clutching
A twice emigrant speaks on immigration
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on March 6, 2012
211 comments
Yes, it’s Just Be Cause time again. No, it’s not the hoped-for wrap-up. Yes, it’s poor, even more poor than usual. About the new special immigration scheme: You must get 70 points on the Justice Ministry’s qualifying scale (see www.moj.go.jp/content/000083223.pdf) And it’s tough, really tough. Take the test and see if you qualify (I don’t). [...]
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 [...]
The "truth" about Olympus
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on October 31, 2011
1 comment
From one end of the spectrum we have this magnificent troll (please be a troll!) from the Japan Times letters page: While there were probably dubious goings on, the real reason ousted President Michael C. Woodford was rubbing people up the wrong way is more likely to be because he was ushering in American business [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reading fail
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 19, 2011
63 comments
I got a request from one of my commenters to post a link to each new story on Debito.org as a separate thread to spark off unmoderated comments. Here is the first one: http://www.debito.org/?p=8930 I cannot stay quiet on this one, however, as after the cut and paste we get: COMMENT: As submitter CJ commented: [...]