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Boris Johnson


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A few weeks back, I was looking at a bunko (paperbacks) shelf at a local, small, family-run bookstore. I often go to the store because they have a excellent selection of books – other bookstores in my area are too consumeristic to have Edward Said and other books that make me feel intellectual.

I was looking for a "The Secret of Google" sort of books needed in my work, when I found the "B・ジョンソン (B. Johnson)" book. I know one B. Johnson – Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, a British MP, a Tory, etc. The amusing title, 「世界同時中継！　朝まで生テロリスト？」　caught my eyes too. I couldn’t find the right kind of my book, so I bought this. 1,000 yen is rather costly for an entertainment book, but this is Boris Johnson. I didn’t know how long the store keeps it or it might not be very long until it gets in the usual out-of-print status. (I don’t reckon this sells so well, and I know how publishers make decisions.) It was "now or never".

「朝まで生 something？」 is sort of in the Japanese pop culture, after a TV debate program, 「朝まで生テレビ」. It literally translates as "Live TV til Dawn", in which guest members do some debates from 01.00 til 05.00 (or something). I seldom see the program, as I don’t like the host. Anyway the phrase 「朝まで生 something？」 is catchy enough.

The book is rich in details. I have just read the first 100 pages, and am sort of bored of the tale but some details make me LOL. There will be a huge go in the tale in the next 100 pages, I hope. If Robert Altman were still alive, he’d do a clever job on this novel.

And 「世界同時中継！　朝まで生テロリスト？」　translates: Live on Air World-Wide! Live Terrorist til Dawn? … Looks seriously stupid for a title of a book. (Originally, as on the cover, "Seventy-Two Virgins".)

Visual Ideology


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In addtion to the subtitles to what the speaker is saying, and in addition to the fact that they both read from a written speech rather than pretend to extemporize, both these leaders (one the minister for defence, the other a prefectural representative) are wearing overalls. Do they reckon, do we reckon, does anyone reckon that they will or should be doing manual labour? No.

All three Japanes cultural phenomena, or non-book-religion, non-logocentric phenomena, attestify to the fact that in Japan visual signs, be they subtitles on what someone is saying, the script that the person is reading, or the clothes that they are wearing, are more vital than the phonemes. And this in spite of the fact that there are many Westerners that say only phonemes have meaning.

But to show their solidarity with those that are engaged in manual labour at this time of crisis, Japanese leaders choose to wear overalls.

C.f. the fact that, Japanese sports persons, no mater how much of a novice or not they are will get the right gear. Japanese sports persons some times have all the gear and no thought? What is an "thought" and how does one express it?

My heartfelt sympathy is with the victims of the Japanese earthquake.

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Japanese soldiers making the ultimate sacrifice


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Painting on the ceiling of Hiyoshi Shinto shrine.

Yosano Akiko’s husband wrote a poem about these three heros who were to become the first war gods (kami) of the Showa era.

Engineers of the 24th Kurume regiment, Eshita Takeji, Kitagawa Susumu* and Sakue Inosuke carried a ignited pipe made of bamboo containing 20 kilographs of explosive into the line of enemy fortifications, and died in the blast. The blast opened a path for the Japanese army to advance.

The event was celebrated by Yosano’s poem, Kabuki theatre, cinema and several songs. Three courageous soldiers rice cakes" and biscuits were releases and the canteen of an Osaka department store offered Meat Bullet Three Courageous warriors food (of unspecified ingredients).

made heros of the these soldiers over night.

Some claim but that the incident was a mistake owing to the use of a too small, or incorrect fuse, and that soldiers expected to return unharmed but blew up. Other claim that the solders knew the odds that they were facing.

As I heard when living in Kurume, it is also claimed that two of the three were from the Japanese underclass. While living in Kurume I heard the rumour from an ageing gentlemen that those from the Japanese underclass where the first to volunteer for such missions and the first to be questioned. But that is only a rumour.

Please see the folowing Japanese page for details.
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The tremendous popularity of this feat is dealt with in Censoring History: CItizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany and the United States where it is suggested, and I agree, that an examination of the media attention surrounding the "meat bullet courageous men" allows us to know just how fervent the war effort in China became. Some recent fiction describes the Japanese as a land opressed by militarists that forced the Japanese to participated in an unpopular war.

Engineer Kitagawa’s name might also be Tasuku, the character for his hame can be can be read in more than one way.

Japanese Surprise: Suning Conspiracy Behind Mergers Laox

2007 9 20, when the well-known Japanese

Home Appliances Announced closure of the largest retailers LAOX time flagship store in Tokyo Electric Road – Akihabara under a heavy rain. Perhaps God, that a fortune from the Akihabara Electric

Sell Companies, from this position into the dark. 134 shops have closed down, and today only 18 small shops.

2009 6 18, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun Post a message for the whole world was shocked the Japanese economy: “China’s second largest home appliance retailer

Suning Intends to LAOX reverted to its. “Reported that Suning will invest 1.5 billion yen of about 110000000 yuan acquisition LAOX 30% stake, thus the largest shareholder holding LAOX. The report also made clear that Suning and LAOX next week the announcement at a press conference.

A result of this news, the stock is LAOX spacecraft such as the catch, straight to heaven. Several hours later, had announced daily limit. End the day up more than 83%, nearly doubled.

The whole of Japan talking about the question: “Why do the Chinese buy LAOX?” Can clearly answer this question, the 100 million of 20 million Japanese are not a person.

Business in 1930 LAOX, can be said to a Japanese home appliance retail ancient shop. Different from other home appliances retailer, it was born in Japan’s largest electric street – Akihabara, home appliance retailers in Japan as “royal.” Prosperity through Akihabara, LAOX to develop rapidly, from the last century, 90 years, LAOX announced that Japan’s largest retailer to do to start a large number of mergers outside Tokyo and local cities, home appliances sales company. Career’s most brilliant, LAOX in more than 150 stores nationwide, ranked second in sales.

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But, LAOX “city of surprise from the rural” strategy, and soon by Yamada Motor and other Japanese to the local urban and rural areas as the center of the home appliance retailers in the hunt. In 2003, LAOX in northeastern Japan now has the black and blue, while in the Kansai region was hit was beating local retailers. Although a large number of relevant shops that withdraw troops, but there’s a huge company operating deficit, no one can pay. In 2004, overseas investment companies have to accept the funds from this fate exhausted.

LAOX in Tokyo’s Akihabara Electric Street head office

Under LAOX latest annual report, fiscal year 2008 sales revenue of 40.648 billion yen of about 2.886 billion yuan, less than 31% in 2007. This is the LAOX losses for 9 consecutive years. The ranking of the industry in Japan has also been dropped from the second section 10.

Into 2009, LAOX into the company’s business restructuring. The core of this restructuring is the shots of existing stores, making final preparations for the bankruptcy. This year in March, LAOX reached with rival Wild Island electrical shop buy agreement, plans to transfer part of the wild island of electrical shops, but both sides quickly LAOX unilaterally terminated the agreement and announced plans in Tokyo, Kanagawa and other one is three counties The 15 suburban stores before the end of September this year, all closed, prepared to burn its boats. At this critical juncture, Suning suddenly appear in LAOX side, and claimed to be God when LAOX the quadrangle. Can not read Japanese, the Chinese people are confused.

LAOX news reports about the Japanese economy, expressed unusual caution. In the June 18 Tokyo stock market opened only last 15 minutes, LAOX issued a emergency declaration of cooperation with Suning published information is not itself, not an exact price. LAOX’s statement reads as follows: “about China’s Suning Appliance Company and my community a message of cooperation to the capital, not my community released. So far, this is not the choice of the facts. If this final choice, we will be tell you the fastest. “

Read LAOX this statement, you can find: first, LAOX denied revealing the message of cooperation with Suning; second, denied that the so-called Suning has chose to cooperate with the news; third, suggesting that if, as cooperation with Suning report said if the media will be informed.

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ISBN 4-05-603120-7


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This book has some really incredible pictues of miniature EVERYTHING: sushi, bicycles, pastries and more. Plus, it also has instructions in the back on how to make miniature things. Too terrible I can’t read Japanese.

Apple iPad change the rules and threatened the Japanese publishing industry-ipad, Publishing – Printing Industry

April 12, according to foreign reports, iPad severity of the Japanese publishing industry may change the ecology? Recent Japanese government officials, the publishing industry and analysts have warned, the Japanese publishing industry for many years in the pricing, but there will be an epoch-making because iPad change.

General Minister of Japan and Japan Kazuhiro Haraguchi Electronic Book Publishers Association, last week likened the iPad listed Zhunqiang Pei in 1853 led the U.S. Navy fleet, forcing Japan to open trade in “black ship to freedom” (BlackShips) event.

Japanese publishers to set the retail prices of books, and limit the discount, this point with the Western countries, Japan, 450 to several publishers and therefore survive.

The iPad comes, could change the status of the Japanese publishing industry, mainly due to the Japanese e-book market for the United States four times, while the two Japanese electronics manufacturers Sony and Panasonic have been abandoned in 2007 and 2008 in Japan cause the development of e-book reader, but Amazon has yet to launch Kindle reading Japanese browser.

Analyst at Daiwa Securities in Tokyo than Hasse, said: “like the iPad the product, it may no longer looking for writers published works, Japan Print , Publishing and book distribution industry are dependent on all of the threats facing the iPad. ”

In the U.S., Amazon and Nook electronic reading browser manufacturers Barnes & Noble, are to hold pricing publishing industry to counter Apple.

By the Kadokawa and Shueisha composed of 31 Japanese publishers e-book Publishers Association of Japan, President of Kyrgyzstan, said small island of light, a number of publishers on the iPad may affect the price of consultations with dealers worried.

Tokyo Takagi Grandeur ImpressR & D Fellow, said: “from the United States iPad, the Japanese publishing market is bringing new rules of the game.”

Analyst at Deutsche Bank in Tokyo, said Liang Xiao Koike, unlike the United States, Japan, bookstores can not sell the books returned to publishers, so there is no pressure of price competition. Nomura Securities released a report last November that the Japanese publishing industry, this operation system, making electronic books cheaper prices than physical space shrinking.

Koike Xiao Liang said: “Japan is unique in the publishing market is that bookstores have to strictly abide by the Press set the price, but the bookstores can return the books, this is a lot of small companies to survive the reason.”

Example, if a book to sell Tokyo 1,000 yen (about 10.7 U.S. dollars), usually get 630 yen publishers, authors get 70 yen, dealers get 80 yen, 220 yen bookstores are taking.

Kadokawa Publishing Group, Japan’s largest Kakizawa History spokesman said: “We are interested in joining iPad platform, but do not want to sacrifice the price of publications.”

Sony spokesman for the small child and Panasonic spokesman Lin Xing Tian Ming door indicated, Japanese consumers used the Internet using a mobile phone, but do not want to buy the equipment can only read e-books.

Hasse than that, iPad combination of text and Video Will decline in the Japanese publishing industry revenue to bring a chance of survival.

According to the Japanese Research Center’s data published in 2009, physical books and magazines in Japan Sell Amount of 4.1%, to 21-year low, since the peak in 1996 have dropped 27%.

Follow latest updates at twitter.com and www.facebook.com Dramatic new pictures emerged on Sunday of a tsunami wave smashing into the Japanese town of Miyako, in Iwate Prefecture, on Friday. The wave crashes over the seawall carrying away everything in its path, including boats that topple over the wall and are smashed into a bridge. Cars were simply washed away, crashing into each other and buildings. More than 1400 people were killed by the quake and resulting tsunamis and hundreds more were still missing, according to officials, but police in one of the worst-hit areas estimated the number of dead there alone could eventually top 10000.
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You can view the sheet music they are reading here: www.keeper1st.com Thanks to YouTubers Quietschquatsch and Raphy013 for the music suggestion a few days ago! Not only did Tom find this a fun tune to play, but, as you’ll see, flautist Julia Riley and tubaist (tubist?) Mark Meeker chose to join in as well! After Tom’s first sight-read, you hear Julia mention another Nintendo videogame tune that she liked. That was KK Ragtime. A small time later, Tom and Julia played it from memory! I’ll have to post the video of that moment at a later date. It was fully evolved into a fleshed-out rag arrangement, much like the second run through this tune from Super Mario World 2 in this video. This tune was composed by Koji Kondo (近藤浩治). It is also known as “Hop! Hop! Donut Lifts” by some people, but in a concert video of Nintendo video game music at which the composer was in attendance, the title that appears clearly reads (if you read Japanese, anyway) simply “Yosshii Island Athletic Theme”. You can buy Tom’s latest album here: cdbaby.com