@CacheThatCheque Yeah, I'll file this under conversations that definitely happened.
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Connor Cislo
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-Gaijin redditor meets up with Japanese friend
-Japanese friend says she has a new hobby: "reporting foreigners to immigration"
-Gaijin redditor loses it, Japanese friend hints "you're getting reported next"
The blackpillers and libs have lost. The Japanese youth now are based
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@GearoidReidy I doubt you'll find many American taco purists. They've been one of the top vehicles for fusion foods.
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Prepare for excruciating American "not real tacos" Mexican food discourse...
エオキ・サクノスケ Saku Aoki@AokiSakunosuke
New trend? Tacos seem to be gaining popularity in Japan. The article cites some reasons: the dish’s simplicity makes it easy to enter the market, its colorful thus instagrammable, etc.
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Grok loves to make Japanese say “you know”, ya know?
b7wenty@b7vventy
do Japanese people really talk like that or is the auto translator unable to capture the essence of their speech
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@wantan_tabetai @nizgu Respectfully, I think HPL is not a great writer. His prose is filled with unnecessary adverbs and adjectives, and his plots are repetitive. But he also had nightmares, and in his era, it was truly alien stuff. The climax of every HPL story is intense, filled with vivid imagery.
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@nizgu 私には原典を読む英語力がなくて残念です。H.P.L.の文章はかなりの美文らしいですね。どうしても翻訳では失われてしまうものがあると思います。
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日本人はクトゥルフ神話をあまり怖がらない。なぜなら多神教だから～って話はちょくちょく話題になるけれども、そもそも米欧の人たちもクトゥルフを「ガチ怖」の対象としては捉えていないなんて話も耳にする。実際のところはどうなんだろう？
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@GearoidReidy Also strange to describe him as loyal to the LDP. He left the party in the 90s. That, not running against Abe, was the original sin that his opponents in the party wouldn't forgive. Moreover, he led his own (admittedly small) faction - hardly a foot soldier.
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The one thing that he very much did not do was try to unite the LDP. On day one, he sought to sideline his enemies - fine if you think you have the power to do it, which he didn’t - which is also why he wasn’t a great politician, which requires compromise.
RobertPlausible@HQuestion2
All they ever did was mock Ishiba. He was never nationalistic enough, he was never socially conservative enough. He dedciated his life to the LDP and served as loyal party footsoldier. But in the end, it didn't matter, they betrayed him anyways. Japan did not deserve him.
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@Jkoutsoukis @NikkeiAsia @ShigesaburoO @Mikepeeljourno @sharp_writing @grimes_ce @RobinsonBKK @ZColemanHK Hi Jason, I heard the good news. Good luck in the new position!
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Sayonara @NikkeiAsia and farewell Japan. Thank you for an absolutely wonderful three years. A better group of colleagues it would impossible to find. Extra special thanks @ShigesaburoO @Mikepeeljourno @sharp_writing @grimes_ce @RobinsonBKK and best of luck @ZColemanHK.
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@connorcislo For better or worse traditional celebrity culture is filtered through media gatekeepers who are subject to some element of regulation(self-regulation included), which has implications on how crazy one can be whilst still getting coverage
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@BeijingPalmer @JimMFelton @ProfDaveAndress Fwiw (and also pedantically), it's not only the powerful. The same language is used for victims of traffic accidents and other regular folks. Just a legal technicality about what can be said until a doctor makes the call.
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@koreanforeigner I think that is the exact point he's making - Japan needs a more robust security policy considering the current international environment.
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Did he get the memo that the PLA Navy is literally circumnavigating the entire Japanese archipelago?
Unseen Japan@UnseenJapanSite
Aso Taro, former PM, current VP of the ruling LDP, and perennial foot-in-mouth grandee, has caused controversy with this statement today regarding Ukraine: "What sort of children get bullied when young? Weak kids get bullied. You can't bully the strong." jiji.com/jc/article?k=2…
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@PaulJNadeau Awesome! Will send you some options early next week 👍
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Here’s the thing though…I’ve probably been studying politics longer than most* and I know my ish but people are supposed to have political opinions, even if they’re just based on feelings. That’s how democracy works. My expertise counts for as much as your feelings. That’s ok.
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@PaulJNadeau Btw, I'm back in Tokyo now, so if you have an opportunity it'd be great to get a beer sometime
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@PaulJNadeau Hm, that's fair. I guess I have a lot of thoughts about this and Twitter probably isn't the best format for them.
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@connorcislo tbh I think the record is better than people think, it’s more that failures get exaggerated and, being empirical, it’s hard to quantify big changes until we have demonstrable evidence of those changes, which usually means an election that hasn’t happened yet
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@HiromuNagahara I was a bit curious because in my experience evangelicals are not the most politically active Christian organization in Japan. Obviously totally different from the US.
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@HiromuNagahara Apologies if I missed it, but does it say on his website that he is specifically evangelical (the participation in the Graham event notwithstanding)? I see one event at an evangelical church, but he seems to describe himself generically Christian. (ofc I may be missing context)
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@sharp_writing No question that Cool Japan is a flop and I appreciate the sentiment, but my understanding of art history is that it's mostly one of sponsorship.
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Maybe it wasn’t such a cool idea I’m the first place?
Or maybe that’s just me who believes art should spread organically asia.nikkei.com/Business/Finan…
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@GearoidReidy It's not politics, but I think the magazines' arrow game is on a different level.
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Me: I don't know why everyone finds Japanese politics so hard to understand
Japanese politics:
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@koreanforeigner This is (probably) all about the Japanese election in July. Kishida already has a weak hand within the LDP on SK because he is largely held responsible for the collapse of the comfort women deal. After July, he will have years before the next set election.
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An unnamed senior Japanese official said a summit might not be held between President Yoon Suk-yeol and Prime Minister Kishida Fumio during the NATO summit because of "the environment where South Korea and Japan can't see eye to eye on historical issues."
yomiuri.co.jp/politics/20220…
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