As a follow up to my previous post (Strange Spin on the Gas Price Reduction Story) about the negative spin placed on the gas price reductions that went into effect in Japan on April first, I found an article which gives another reason for company’s to leave the price of their gas off their signs….
I’ve mentioned this before in other articles about what I call pop-Japanology in the media. People saying something about Japan which is completely unsubstantiated, never fact checked, but people who don’t know better believe it. The example this time may be found this article found on CNN. Man Wanted For Murder Goes on Stabbing Spree…
Already wanted for the murder of an old woman, 24 year old Masahiro Kanagawa, stabbed eight people outside a mall in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture. One 27 year old man died. Kanagawa was said to be something of a loner who loved playing computer games, and was not very good at communicating or expressing himself. Kanagawa…
JTB did a poll of Japanese people in their 20s published online by Yomiuri here: If you had 300,000 yen would you save it or take a trip? Travel Abroad 20.4% Save it 17.3% Travel within Japan 12.5% The numbers are interesting, but the poll is probably skewed. The poll was given on the internet,…
This was big on the morning news shows today. A 43 year old bus driver killed his wife and son. His wife, Crisanta, was originally from the Philippines. Some friends of the family were interviewed saying that Crisanta had talked about their families plans to sell their apartment, move to the Philippines and live off…
Granted, some of these cases could be people going to hospitals that did not have the facilities to deal with a particular emergency, but this is a huge number of people being refused. But these are just the EMERGENCY patients! What about the non-emergency cases in which people are left taking cabs, subways, or driving…
I don’t know if the writer agrees with me completely, but in this article, “Warm Reception May Not Await iPhone in Japan“, a Japan Times journalists voices a lot of the sentiments I wrote about in my blog entry titled “The iPhone in Japan?” last year. I’m still using my trusty Toshiba W52T pictured below…
I think this story isn’t getting as much air time in Japan as it should… not because of the right wing activist angle, not because of the suicide angle, but because a guy took a taxi to the south gate of the Japanese Diet building and… pulled out a gun Ok, maybe I overemphasize with…
Generally in Japan, kids graduate from college in early Spring and then start working on April first. They generally need a lot of training in order to learn the right way to work. It’s not as crazy as people see on tv (like the scene in the first season of Heroes in which Hiro is…
Crash into me with a battleship once, shame on me… crash into me with a battleship twice, shame on… I don’t know… maybe… Defense Minister Ishiba? How is this MSDF collision with Cambodian freighter in Vietnam going to influence calls for Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s dismissal?
New facts about the case California has against Miura keep coming out so I’m not going to try to pull new information out of the news… I’ll just try to give a little perspective from over here. The fact is, a lot of Japanese people are pretty angry about this case. There’s a lot of…
A Mainichi Shimbun poll came up with a 51 percent disapproval rating. 1043 people over age 20 were polled in a random phone survey this weekend. It’s easy for someone to say that they may not actually be over 51 percent given the standard of deviation for the survey, but really… is that how you…