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Sexy Japanese Beer Posters (Asahi)
Asahi, Kirin Sapporo – all are guilty! There’s really no subtlety when it comes to selling beer in Japan. Here’s a collection of older posters from Asahi.
Continue reading...Book Signings: An Endangered Species
16. February 2011
There are different kinds of book signings. There are the ones where you go into the bookstore and sign copies of your books that they have in stock. Then there is the author event where you sign books at a table and sometimes give a reading beforehand. My very first stock signing was in the [...]
Continue reading...Child Abduction, the Hague Convention and Japanese Culture 2
8. February 2011
An estranged non-Japanese father, whose children have been ‘abducted’ by a Japanese mother, expressed the opinion that while he believes in and respects justice, law, and rights of children, the Japanese, or the Japanese legal system does not. This issue is massive, and massively tragic. The agony and the outrage are palpable. I beileve that [...]
Continue reading...The Putticks’ Shinju
17. January 2011
In 2009 Neil and Kazumi Puttick put their dead paraplegic son, Sam, in one rucksack, some of his toys including a tractor in another, drove a hundred miles to Beachy Head, ate a snack, and jumped of the cliff. I have a son about Sam’s age. The story made me weep buckets. It still does. [...]
Continue reading...The Centres of their World: Bureaucrats and Caregivers
17. January 2011
Today a Mr. Takehara failed to get elected as a major of a small Japanese town under a baner of reducing the power of public administrators. Why is it that the Japanese are so tolerant of the power of bureaucrats, civil servants? Why is that so many young people want to become a bureaucrat, and [...]
Continue reading...Japan, Funny Side Up by Amy Chavez
16. December 2010
I’ve read a lot of guidebooks about Japan, but I’ve never encountered one like Japan, Funny Side Up by Amy Chavez. Chavez, the long-time “Japan Lite” columnist for The Japan Times (the country’s premiere English-language daily newspaper) has written a funny and insightful guide that not only gives readers excellent travel advice, but also offers [...]
Continue reading...Ric O’Barry Saves Dolphins
6. November 2010
Ric O’Barry Saves DolphinsOriginally uploaded by timtak This is a picture from/copyrightwww.savejapandolphins.org/pressportal.php I am strongly opposed to the opposition to Japanese dolphin hunting. I think that dolphins are more intelligent than cows and pigs, and am sad about their death. However, 1) I think that cows and pigs are intelligent, 2) I do not think [...]
Continue reading...Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami Giveaway!
30. October 2010
I was psyched when the good folks at W.W. Norton & Co. Publishers sent me two copies of the latest English-translation novel by acclaimed Japanese author Ryu Murakami, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, to use as giveaways. An irreverent satirical take on the inter-generational battle of the sexes, this novel was first published in [...]
Continue reading...Taji and the dolpin slaughter
28. October 2010
I have been in Japan a long time. It is my country now (whatever everyone else may think). So, I get upset when Japan is insulted. And I find this advert for “The Cove” or its agenda really insulting. I am not keen on making animals suffer. I have lived and worked in the proximity [...]
Continue reading...Social Loafing in Japan
18. October 2010
Social Loafing in JapanOriginally uploaded by timtak Social Loafing is the name of “the first” social psychological phenomina, wherein those working as a member of a team, such as pulling a rope, are less likely to put their back into it as when they are pulling the rope on their own. There is research to [...]
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14. April 2011
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