Archive for June, 2009
New business models for the Japanese recession
I’m down, man! I’m HELPING.
Japan is in trouble, economy-wise. Hell of people getting laid off. Social safety-net crumbling. Foreign markets not buying Japanese exports. Bad stuff. But tough times spell ‘opportunity’ for new business ideas – ideas that might have seemed crazy back in the bubble days. But now everyone’s short of cash, so they [...]
CHISAI TSUUUUUUUUU !!!!!!!!!!!
You ever try to read Japanese and get puzzled at the great number of words that look like: XっXX? (For instance すっきり、はっきり、 とっても、 いっさいに , etc)?
It’s a weird phenomenon because there’s hundreds of these words but I’ve never come across a Japanese person who is conscious that this is a motif in the language, or a category of [...]
Oyaji Force Field:
Like a lot of old Americans, I tend to see USA kids as kind of spastic.
They’ll be talking with their friend, but also text-messaging, while listening to headphones. And they’ll be doing exactly none of those things competently: "Let’s have a half-heard conversation, send pointless messages and sort of listen to music that we don’t [...]