You may remember my mention of the awful Bread and Becquerels article in the Japan Times a while ago. Well, the reader responses are up – I don’t like the "Readers vent" title, though – and no doubt these nine againsts will be another bunch of names to be added to the Tepido Twelve. In [...]
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Just wanted to get this off my chest
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 13, 2012
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You are probably all familiar with this definition: Cult: A sect one doesn’t like. Let me create a similar definition: Stalking: A Google search one doesn’t like. Connected with this, Mr Arudou recently commented on Mr Spiri’s hatchet job in Japan Times, an article which the more I thought about it, the less I felt [...]
Japan Times’ wonky flyjin editorial, microagressive poll
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 8, 2012
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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 [...]
Stuff Just Be Cause, this is more interesting!
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 1, 2012
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Japan Times also prints It’s just because . . . foreigners know best, a very pointed message to Mr Arudou. I’m heading out shortly, so I’ve got no time to comment on it further right now…
Microaggression: the new scapegoat for our ills
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 1, 2012
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It’s Just Be Cause time again, and Mr Arudou tackles what he labels "microagression", but what I would call "making small talk". It’s difficult for me to find any stand-out nonsense, but I think my readers more versed in the social sciences may be able to fight their way through verbiage like "since NJ subordination [...]
More nuclear panic, less nuclear power
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on April 19, 2012
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Remember a few weeks ago that the Japan Times published a letter from a person from Singapore and their miscarriage rumours? Fortunately, but a bit belatedly, the Japan Times has published evidence that it is all nonsense. Although others say the evidence is nonsense. In the JT the day before, we got Bread and becquerels. [...]
A twice emigrant speaks on immigration
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on March 6, 2012
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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). [...]
An Unhappy New Year from Mr Arudou
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on January 2, 2012
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And here we have this month’s moan annual roundup of the top 10 human rights events that affected Japan’s non-Japanese (NJ) residents last year: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120103ad.html (BTW, is anyone else finding the JT site slow? The smrtlnks.com site seems to be holding things up) Number 10: Kim Jong Il dies Umm, that’s reaching a bit. Number [...]
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 [...]
Fairness in Mr Arudou’s Japan
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on December 5, 2011
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The latest Just Be Cause is out! I actually rate this one as "fair", with only a couple of and no , thankfully free of Fukushima and, wonders never cease, he uses foreigner throughout instead of NJ. Two discrepancies I noticed were: "Now that you are a Japanese citizen, we (want to protect your human [...]