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Japan loves Obama so much they gave him his own verb by Brad Rice, 11/16/2009 #weird news: Obamu: v. To proceed optimistically despite challenging obstacles.Really, Japan? According to CNNGo Tokyo, the Commander-in-Chief has gotten his own verb, after it was passed around on a Kyoto Un... |
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Japanese government has a blog now by Josh Tolentino, 11/14/2009 #weird news: It is the Age of the Internet, and the new DPJ-led administration under Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is flexing its progressive, youthful muscles by...opening a weblog. OK, so it's a baby step f... |
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Futenma: a sticking point in US-Japanese relations by Brad Rice, 11/09/2009 #politics: The headlines both online and in print have constantly been mentioning Futenma when it comes to US-Japanese relations. Especially with Obama's upcoming visit to Tokyo, just about everyone is wond... |
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My Boyfriend is Obama by Jon Snyder, 11/04/2009 #ZOMGWTFBBQ: Remember that trailer for the eroge game My Girlfriend Is The President? You know, the one where aliens brainwash everybody into thinking that cute girls are actually world leaders? Well, n... |
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George W. Bush throws out the first pitch at the Japanese World Series by Brad Rice, 11/04/2009 #weird news: Now that he's retired, I suppose former President George W. Bush can finally go and have some fun while he's over in Japan.Accompanied by former Prime Minister Junichiro (The Lion) Koizumi, Bush ... |
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LDP proves they're sore losers, calls the DPJ members 'Hitler Youths' by Brad Rice, 10/28/2009 #politics: Earlier this week, Prime Minister Hatoyama spoke to the Diet in a situation not unlike the State of the Union here in the US. Seeing as his own party, the Democratic Party of Japan, holds a stron... |
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Prime Minister Hatoyama calls for a single Asian currency to compete against the Euro by Brad Rice, 10/26/2009 #politics: This is certainly something interesting: Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is calling for a 16-nation currency trading bloc to rival the European Union, and would operate under a single currency. Thi... |
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Teen heartthrob Junichiro Koizumi takes up his next role as a seiyuu by Brad Rice, 10/13/2009 #politics: Koizumi really can do just about anything. Reform the post office, save the world through games of mahjongg, and now he's taken on the mantle of seiyuu! That's right, the former Prime Minister of... |
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Former minister Shoichi Nakagawa found dead, suicide suspected by Josh Tolentino, 10/04/2009 #politics: Shoichi Nakagawa, formerly Finance Minister under the previous administration, was found dead in his Tokyo residence yesterday. While no official cause has been announced, police suspect suicide ... |
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DPJ to allow married couples to use separate surnames by Brad Rice, 09/29/2009 #politics: Some things you never give consideration to when you're thinking about another culture, and then all of a sudden the differences slap you in the face. That's what I found when I came across this ... |
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Recommended reading: The history of yaoi, Ichiro Ozawa on US - Japan relations by Brad Rice, 09/25/2009 #yaoi: I know, it's a Friday night and you're either out on the town or sticking around, glued to our coverage of the New York Anime Fest. Well, while you're waiting, why not take a little breather with... |
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Japanese entertainment focusing on the glory days of post-war Japan by Brad Rice, 09/22/2009 #politics: In this past week's issue of Variety, there's an interesting article talking about a new type of drama cropping up in Japan: The Showa-era drama. While our drama lovers normally talk about shows ... |
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DPJ's Ozawa looking to grant voting rights to foreigners by Brad Rice, 09/21/2009 #politics: Well, color me shocked! It seems that Japan, the nation we all know for its homogeny and resistance to outsiders is making a huge change in its attitude. In a recent talk with a South Korean lawm... |
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Wa-wa-wa-wasuremono: Prime Minister Hatoyama's hidden singing career by Brad Rice, 09/21/2009 #weird news: Don't you love it when old dirt on politicians comes to light? While not as exciting as Meiko Tanaka's predicament, Yukio Hatoyama, it was revealed, released his own little single when he was ele... |
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DPJ discovers, a little too late, that they got a rather racy girl elected to the Diet by Brad Rice, 09/16/2009 #politics: You know how a candidate's history can come back to bite them in the ass? Well, in the case of Meiko Tanaka, she already made it into office when it was revealed that she had a bit of a wild side... |
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Japan's new first lady believes she met Tom Cruise in a past life, was abducted by aliens by Brad Rice, 09/04/2009 #weird news: “While my body was sleeping, I think my spirit flew on a triangular-shaped UFO to Venus.”Um, right. So, why are we letting her anywhere near the Prime Minister? Oh, because she's a ... |
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Amidst the confusion, an 11-year-old girl voted in the Japanese election by Brad Rice, 08/31/2009 #weird news: Sometimes mishaps happen with elections. Like letting old people vote down in Florida or letting the dead vote in Chicago. But what about letting 11-year-olds? Well, I can't get as mad. At least ... |
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A few more notes on the Japanese election by Brad Rice, 08/31/2009 #politics: In the past two weeks, the leadup to the Japan election has caused my RSS reader to blossom a new folder: Japanese politics. I've now started reading a half dozen sites, with one or two more bein... |
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Now that's news: Japan's election coverage makes me scared to vote by Josh Tolentino, 08/29/2009 #weird news: When it comes to making otherwise mundane things fun to watch, Japan seems to have a key ingredient in mind: melodrama.From using overly dramatic reenactments and cheesy background music to d... |
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The 'Happiness Realization Party' sounds like it wants to build a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere by Brad Rice, 08/29/2009 #weird news: Today is election day in Japan, where we're likely to see the DPJ take power away from the LDP for the first time in a long while and hopefully set Japan on a new course of action, and finally es... |
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From the Eroge Front: United Nations recommends h-game ban by Josh Tolentino, 08/23/2009 #Video games: It's not quite over yet. In a press release regarding a July 23rd meeting of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United Nations listed a ban on... |
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Japanator Link Love: Mutantfrog Travelogue by Brad Rice, 08/20/2009 #politics: My interest in Japan isn't limited to just anime and manga -- I've spent the past four years reading up on and writing about Japanese history. Of course, current events and politics in Japan fall... |
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Make way for Koizumi the 4th: Shinjiro Koizumi by Brad Rice, 08/18/2009 #politics: For those of you who don't already know, former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is my jam. The man does what he wants: visits to Yasukuni, privatizing the post office, playing mahjong with Putin... |
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We should do this: Manga written to explain economic policy by Josh Tolentino, 08/15/2009 #weird news: Politics and legislation are terribly boring things to study and keep track of, yet remain critically important to the maintenance of society. It's a great challenge to keep people both young and... |
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Kamen Rider villains form political party; world domination is still a priority by Tim Sheehy, 08/06/2009 #politics: With the upcoming elections later this month, it appears that Ambassador Hell and Dr.Death (Jigoku Taishi and Shinigami Hakase respectively) plan on forming their very own political party in hope... |
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From the Eroge Front: Paddle to the metal by Josh Tolentino, 08/04/2009 #Video games: While the most pressing threats to the future of fetishistic H-games have passed, the industry is showing signs of "turtling up" in response to the hostile climate.Download-based distri... |
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Japan's government hates Twitter, too: No tweeting allowed on campaign by Josh Tolentino, 07/23/2009 #weird news: A common criticism of politicians is that they, on the whole, are a group of backwards old men with little regard for present-day progress. In light of this latest development, I'd say the charge... |
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From the Eroge Front: Bullet dodged, but bleeding may continue by Josh Tolentino, 07/15/2009 #politics: Those who fear slippery slopes may find a brief opportunity for relief, as the legislative tsunami triggered by the rape game controversy seems to have subsided somewhat in the wake of greater po... |
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Prime Minister Aso looking to save political life via election by Andres Cerrato, 07/14/2009 #politics: Saying that Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is an unpopular figure is a bit of an understatement. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated Japanese politics for the past half centu... |
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From the Eroge front: People are sane, authorities not so much by Josh Tolentino, 07/08/2009 #politics: With the fate of fetishistic eroge all but sealed for the time being, the front is beginning to expand beyond the world of 2D illustrations, particularly in cases regarding loli and other underag... |
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International Relations: The president of Russia might be your girlfriend by Josh Tolentino, 07/07/2009 #weird news: Vladimir Putin seems to get himself into a lot of places. The Presidency of Russia, European energy policy, and the nation of Georgia, just to name a few. I doubt though, that he'd have ever anti... |
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Don't let the Koreans nuke Japan, says Happiness Realization Party by Josh Tolentino, 07/03/2009 #weird news: And you thought political advertisments in the US were sensationalist or fear-mongering? Try this one by Japan's Happiness Realization Party, the political organization run by the Happy Sc... |
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From the Eroge front: Yuzu Soft and VisualArts haet gaijin, too by Josh Tolentino, 06/29/2009 #video games: As the fight for deviancy continues two more H-game distributors have raised the drawbridges and filled the moats. Eroge outfits Yuzu Soft and VisualArt's have begun issuing blanket bans of forei... |
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Stay classy, National Review! (racism) by Zac Bentz, 06/06/2009 #ZOMGWTFBBQ: The new cover of the conservative publication National Review seems to depict the Catholic, Puerto Rican descended, 100% American, born and raised in the Bronx, Princeton and Yale educated female... |
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Taro "KY" Aso has a little trouble reading his speeches by Brad Rice, 11/19/2008 #politics: No, I'm not saying that the Prime Minister of Japan is a big proponent of a specific brand of lubricant -- the term commonly means "kuuki yomenai;" It means that the person can't really... |
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Welcome the new Prime Minister of Japan: Taro Aso! by Brad Rice, 09/22/2008 #politics: Alright, so we've had Fukuda resign, and so who was going to fill in his shoes? Well, naturally everyone looked to Taro Aso, the manga and Rozen Maiden-loving cabinet member who came in second to... |
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On Final Fantasy Tactics and personal accountability by Webimpulse, 05/14/2008 #video games: I know I brought up a lot of personal feelings from people when I brought up World War II in my last post, and while it was my intention to stir up debate, I didn’t know it’d end up a... |
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World War II - just war or not? A glimpse at the book "Human Smoke" by Webimpulse, 05/08/2008 #politics: I’m not sure where the readers of Jtor stand on such thorny subjects as that of World War II, but I’m about to do something to find out by highlighting a book that recently came to li... |
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Obama on Obama: it's a 'nice town' by Dale North, 03/04/2008 #Tabemasen ka?: Not too long ago we told you about the little Japanese fishing village of Obama, and how its residents are throwing their support behind the same-named US Presidential candidate. Of course, they... |
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