Tangents

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• Merry Xmas: LIFER! cartoon on “End-Year Holiday Activities in Japan”

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  For the holidays, heres a timely cartoon by Lifer from the December 2009 issue of Hokkaido Free Paper SAPPORO SOURCE. How to enjoy the end-year holidays in Japan, with a twist, as always.
  13 hours ago

• Aristotles Virtues and Homers Doughnut: Vatican Gives Simpson’s an OK

  
  XYHD.TV — Authority: 122
  A recent article in the Vatican’s News Paper entitled “Aristotles Virtues and Homers Doughnut” acknowledges that Homer as an everyman has the same kinds of trials of faith that normal people face.Every few years overly critical social critics share their feelings on why the Simpson’s are “OK”  I remember ...
  1 day ago

• Sunday Tangent: Haagen Daz ice cream excludes Indians from sampling the latest flavor — in India!

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  For a Sunday Tangent, watch what happens when an exclusionary sign goes up in, say, India. Article from the Times of India follows (of quite questionable writing quality, but never mind). More interesting than the article are the comments from readers below it online. They are not amused, indeed. Have a read.
  5 days ago

• Bern Mulvey on the odd MEXT university accreditation system (JALT 2009 powerpoint presentation)

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  Dr Bern Mulvey of Iwate University gave a presentation for PALE at the national JALT Conference last November. Entitled "UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION
  6 days ago

• How Do I Choose and Really Know the Best Online Business?

  
  Cyber Flopping! — Authority: 153
  With the ever-changing economic landscape, and the emergence and growth of the internet as the ‘go-to’ source for income alternatives, it seems increasingly difficult to filter and ascertain what is indeed legitimate, ethical, and based upon a platform of principled integrity. Traditional business savvy and ...
  1 week ago

• Sunday Tangent: Headachingly bad Japan travelogue by Daily Beast’s “new travel columnist” Jolie Hunt. Go to town on it.

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  Sunday Tangent time: I saw one of the worst Star Trek (TOS) shows ever (one that makes you say, "Give me my 50 minutes back!", and no, it wasnt "Spocks Brain" -- it was "Catspaw"; enough said). In the same genre of howlingly bad copy and information, let me send along this little ditty of Japan travelogue by a Ms ...
  1 week ago

• Saturday Tangent 2: EU Observer: “Racism at shocking levels” in European Union

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  Excerpt from EU Observer: "The EUs Fundamental Rights Agency first-ever report, published on Wednesday (8 December), attempts to map the contours of discrimination across the bloc in a comprehensive, 276-page survey of over 23,000 individuals. It reveals that over a fifth (22 percent) of sub-Saharan Africans have been ...
  1 week ago

• Saturday Tangent: Word from Copenhagen Summit, Eric Johnston blog

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  A reporter I really respect, Eric Johnston of the Japan Times, is currently over in Copenhagen covering the COP15 UN Conference on Climate Change. He is maintaining a daily blog on what its like to be a scribe in the thick of it. Interesting reading (especially the entry on a day in the life -- Id burn out at that ...
  1 week ago

• Gifts for economists, 2009

  
  Mind Your Decisions — Authority: 408
  What gift would you give an economist? It’s the time of year when I discuss a few ideas. This is not easy to answer because economists are highly individualist. But there are a few guidelines I go by. All else equal, I feel economists prefer three things. First, they prefer practical gifts over stylish but empty. ...
  2 weeks ago

• December 7 1941 A Day That Will Live In Infamy

  
  XYHD.TV — Authority: 122
  December 7, 1941 is as Franklin D Roosevelt a date which will live in Infamy.  The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, stunned virtually everyone in the United States military. Japan’s carrier-launched bombers found Pearl Harbor totally unprepared. President Franklin Roosevelt quickly ...
  2 weeks ago

• SAPPORO SOURCE DEBITO column Dec 2009: Top 9 Things I Like about Japan

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  Time for a Sunday Tangent. My latest tangental column in SAPPORO SOURCE -- on the top nine things I like about Japan.Download the entire issue of SAPPORO SOURCE here in pdf format. Cover, scanned page, and text of the article follows.
  2 weeks ago

• Advice re Japan Law Society, Tokyo/Osaka association of NJ lawyers: they really won’t pay you if they invite you to speak

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  I gave a seminar for the Japan Law Society in Osaka a year ago, something that was even applied for legal profession education credit overseas. Checking my records recently I realized I never got paid anything for it. Contacted, they replied that they never were going to pay me anyway (not even the general minimum ...
  3 weeks ago

• Co-authored chapter in new Akashi Shoten book on “American Diaspora”

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  I just got a copy yesterday of a book in which Ive co-authored a chapter with Jens Wilkinson. Entitled "Yo-roppa, Roshia, Amerika no Diasupora" (The European, Russian, and American Diaspora), published by Akashi Shoten Inc. (which published all my other books, thanks), the book is in Japanese. Scanned cover front ...
  4 weeks ago

• Holiday Tangent: Delightful Maure Memorial Museum in the middle of nowhere, Hokkaido

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  As a holiday tangent, I would like to pass along these brochures from the Maure Memorial Museum. In the middle of East Boofoo, excuse me, Maruseppu, northeastern Hokkaido, is this hidden little gem of a place, a converted schoolhouse, with all sorts of lovely little artworks by handicapped people, as well as by other ...
  4 weeks ago

• Xinhua & Chosun Ilbo: South Korea has drafted dual nationality laws

  
  debito.org — Authority: 130
  Xinhua: The South Korean government has drafted legal revisions to adopt multiple citizenship, easing regulations for foreigners seeking to become naturalized Korean citizens, to attract talent from abroad, the government Thursday.According to the Justice Ministry, it will soon submit a proposal on the revisions to ...
  4 weeks ago

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