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Trade Off
A friend just directed me to a Financial Times article that had some harsh words for Japanese trade policy. The article, entitled “Truth Behind Japan’s Free and Open Market,” takes Hyundai as an example of a company that should have … Continue reading
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Tagged free trade, FTA, Honda, Hyundai, Japan, Korea, LG, Nissan, Samsung, Toyota, TPP, US
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Go West, Young Man
Living abroad strikes everyone just a little bit differently. I know Americans in Japan who will do any number of things when they get homesick — buy a Coke, listen to Springsteen, organize a football game. Me? I watch Westerns. … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, film, movies, Westerns, Great Train Robbery, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Brad Pitt, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Dodge City, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, The Gunfighter, Gregory Peck, Karl Malden, High Noon, Gary Cooper, Little Big Man, Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, The Magnificent Seven, Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Woody Strode, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, My Darling Clementine, Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Walter Brennan, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Ox-Bow Incident, Jane Darwell, Red River, Montgomery Clift, Rio Bravo, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Rio Grande, Maureen O'Hara, The Searchers, Stagecoach, John Carradine, John Ford, Howard Hawks, True Grit, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld, Unforgiven, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, The Wild Bunch, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine
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Hanami
This post is horribly late, but that’s no big deal. Hanami [花見] is the Japanese tradition of cherry blossom viewing. This year, the week that cherry blossoms were in bloom was the second week of April, so the blossoms have … Continue reading
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Tagged Cherry blossoms, Hanami, Ohanami, protest, S, Shinjuku, Shinjuku Gyoen, Shinjuku Station, trains, women-only train cars
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Blackout
Well, my computer’s broken. I’m sure it’ll be a whole ton of fun bringing it to a repair shop and figuring out what’s wrong in Japanese. No posts for now, but several in the tube for when I’m up and … Continue reading
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Still Hungry?
For my American readers, there’s a good chance you’ve gotten caught up in all that Hunger Games hullabaloo over the past week or so. Suzanne Collins’ novel for young adults dropped in 2008, and you probably know the rest. The film … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle Royale, film, Japanese film, Kinji Fukasaku, nov, novel, Suzanne Collins, Takeshi Kitano, The Hunger Games
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Wanted: Asians in Hollywood
Over the past few weeks, Jeremy Lin has become a role model in the Asian American community. Being a Taiwanese-American making it in the NBA is a big deal, although I would argue it was just as big a deal … Continue reading
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Tagged 47 Ronin, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Asian Americans, Asians, Christopher Nolan, George Takei, Hollywood, Inception, Jeffrey Wright, Jeremy Lin, John Cho, Ken Watanabe, Last Samurai, Letters From Iwo Jima, Lucy Liu, Memoirs of a Geisha, Oscars
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Meme Time
If you spend as much time glued to your computer or a smart phone as I do, you’ll have caught the meme that’s currently making the rounds of social networks, featuring six photos of a person or place as viewed … Continue reading
I Hate Remakes
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I hate remakes. Film remakes, to be precise. Let me say from the start that I’m not entirely against the idea of remaking a film, because some of them turn out okay. The Departed was better … Continue reading
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Tagged 47 Ronin, Chushingura, film, Hollywood, Keanu Reeves, Ken Watanabe, Mifune Toshiro, remake, remakes, Ronin, Setsuko Hara, Universal Pictures
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Tokyo Photos [10]
This may look like just another company logo in need of some spiffing up, but I thought it was pretty appropriate. The company is Tokyo Electric Power Company [TEPCO], the firm managing the Fukushima nuclear power facilities. TEPCO fell out … Continue reading
