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 [...]
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Japan Times’ wonky flyjin editorial, microagressive poll
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 8, 2012
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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 [...]
Debito Arudou is currently an affiliate scholar at the East-West Center in Honolulu
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on February 7, 2012
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See the foot of this page. And this too!
Every silver lining has a cloud
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on November 24, 2011
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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, [...]
A eulogy for flyjin?
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on July 4, 2011
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As a place-holder for our favourite monthly event (fellow editors, please feel free to add the URL when it appears!), I’m posting about this month’s Just Be Cause, which when I read the first half of Mr Arudou’s preview seemed to be quite a serious look at issues relating to a friend who died, but [...]
Soylent Brown is people(‘s poo)!
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on June 16, 2011
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Now this is one good reason to become a flyjin: I suppose since the breweries have mastered turning piss into lager, this was a predictable step. Isn’t it vegetarian, as it’s just like eggs or honey.
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 [...]
Ichiro Ozawa joins the flyjin!
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 27, 2011
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He says: This problem may be contained in Fukushima for now, but the contamination may spread outside of Fukushima. Anxiety and frustration are growing. People cannot live in the contaminated areas. These areas are becoming uninhabitable. Japan has lost its territory by that much. If we do nothing, even Tokyo could become off limits. There [...]