Topic: Media
You folks in the "Real World" aka not Japan have got it easy even if you're just a level 3 pitchfork handler. Japan Inc. only hires alien gaijin for careers as level-4-or-lower scoop shovel handlers to scrape up Japanese brain droppings.
5-Tine Manure Fork (for well-composted material)


VS
Eastern-pattern scoop shovel (scrape up the wet nasty stuff)

Lil' Kim & Koizumi avoid pesty alien/gaijin reporters
Topic: Media
Foreign Reporters Battle Kantei [Prime Minister's office] for NK Access
July 5, 2004, The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
Pyongyang II was a sequel the foreign media in Japan didn't want.
On Monday, May 17, the Prime Minister's office (Kantei) told the Foreign Press in Japan (FPIJ) that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would be going to Pyongyang on Saturday, May 22. Two of 27 media seats on the PM's plane were for foreign reporters...losing wire services -- Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse -- the news brought a flurry of scathing e-mails.
..."In normal emergencies, reporters rent planes. Why don't we charter a plane, call it Koizumi's press plane, and tag along?" suggested the New York Times' Jim Brooke in an e-mail. "I realize [the] Gaimusho and North Korea are two daunting bureaucracies...

"Flamola!" Dubbing & mugging Fuji TV's "Iron Chief"
Topic: Media
Wokin' and Rollin': Dubbing Iron Chef
June 24 by Captain Japan!
.....Though Bickard is developing amusing phrases like "Flamola!" and "Bang a gong, let's get it on!" - some of the show's trademarks - this is indeed work. With a VCR, red pen, and script of dialogue, he matches the pictures of the culinary action on the screen with these irreverent, over-the-top sportscaster-like phrases, a recipe that has been a major reason for the show's cult status amongst both finicky gourmets and Sunday afternoon barbecue cooks in search of a few laughs.....

Bill Gates is Chairman Mao
Topic: Media
Last night I got this week's issue of Newsweek Japan with Bill Gates on the cover looking like Mao Tse Tung.

He looks better.

See Microsoft's Cultural Revolution

Bush is No. 1 on Google for "idiot" & "miserable failure"
Topic: Media
Have you tried search for "idiot" on Google?


How about "miserable failure" on Google?

"Sea Monkeys" -- the movie!
Topic: Media

A sea monkey and a gentleman -a movie review

The Japan Times: June 16, 2004
...."Umizaru (Sea Monkeys)," an action movie based on a popular manga appearing in Shukan Young Sunday magazine. This time the heroes are Japan Coast Guardsmen training to be divers -- an elite group that constitutes only 1 percent of the JCG force. Think "An Officer and a Gentleman" in wet suits. To qualify, the trainees have to survive a 50-day course that is hell on earth -- or rather in the deep end of the pool.

Sexy to Japanese?
Topic: Media

Sex, self-image and the Asian-American man
Chicago Tribune (vile but free subscription required), IL - May 25
... Wars with Japan, Korea and Vietnam helped demonize Asian men further and gave Americans license to ridicule them, historians say. ...[professor] Hamamoto has taken the advice he gave his students, albeit in a more controversial manner. He financed a pornographic movie titled "Skin on Skin,"....

"I wanted people to look at this Asian-American and say, `He's great, he's performing, he's bright, he's beautiful,"' he said. "I wanted to take the lowest road possible. Something basic. Raw."....word of Hamamoto's project led to spoofs on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," which aired a mock news story about the dearth of Asian men in pornography, and NBC's "Tonight Show," which showed a skit featuring Godzilla with his groin blacked out breaking up an all-Asian
((View the full-size 4-some pix here))

Charles "Dumbo" Jenkins will find a firing squad has "very strong attitude"
Topic: Media
Dumbo Jenkins may weasel out of this yet....
Current laws may compel Japan to hand Jenkins to U.S.: Hosoda
TOKYO, May 25, Kyodo - Current laws may compel Japan to hand the American husband of a Japanese abducted by North Korea over to the United States if he comes to Japan and Washington wants custody of him on the charge of deserting the U.S. military, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said Tuesday....
''If America comes to us and asks with a very strong attitude that this person is being prosecuted thus and therefore they want him to be handed over, it is highly possible at this time that we will come to legal interpretations that would leave us with no choice but to hand him over,'' Hosoda told a press conference....

Empress Michiko has got worms
Topic: Media
Kyodo / May 19 Empress fees silkworms
TOKYO, Japan - Empress Michiko prepares mulberry leaves with the help of her aide to feed silkworms at a cocoonery in the Imperial Palace on May 19.

Mo' fun than Private Dogleash --- Japanese Sexual PSYOPs
Topic: Media
WWII's
Japanese Sexual PSYOP

....Both the Axis and the Allies printed aerial propaganda leaflets using sexual themes in an attempt to demoralize enemy soldiers at the front. Did these leaflets work? Did the finders become emotionally crippled and unable to carry on their duties and responsibilities? .....
.... The Journal of Personality and Social Behavior... "When males have not been angered or have been exposed to mild erotica, aggressive behavior has been reduced." He later says, "In summary, the present results suggest that highly arousing nonaggressive-erotic stimuli can be a mediator of aggressive behavior by males toward other males under certain condition." .....
Professor Linebarger noted that obscene pictures showing naked women, designed to make the celibate troops so desirous of women that they surrendered was a Japanese idea that did not work. "The troops kept the pornography and despised the Japanese as queer little people for having sent it."

"Lost in Translation" lost on Japan
Topic: Media
Via Gen Kanai's blog April 19, 2004 11:00am ...
"Lost in Translation" fails in Japan
..."Lost in Translation" is offensive enough to the Japanese that the distributor has only screened it in one 300-seat, indie-movie theater in Shibuya. ...more...

As Taro always says...

If the shoe fits, take it off at the genkan.

Posted by trek/taro at 4:19 PM KDT
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