tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264416.post4874006634032990868..comments2023-06-06T17:49:29.254+09:00Comments on Rock Japan Elec-tric: JournalismElechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14147224396887035942noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264416.post-50829686191922801232011-02-22T18:17:08.681+09:002011-02-22T18:17:08.681+09:00Dammit, Go. I have been plotting a blog post on th...Dammit, Go. I have been plotting a blog post on the half-truths of Japan. Does that still fly? (Mostly personal observations, frustrations)Evan Bennerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13103946721873376507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264416.post-5076964184583751692011-02-14T12:40:24.121+09:002011-02-14T12:40:24.121+09:00I think the articles about Japanese pop culture ar...I think the articles about Japanese pop culture are the worst as the authors always seem intent in showing how "weird" Japan is in those. They also tend to have the most errors in them as well.Thennary Nakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08091740635880337469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264416.post-13929506204044437302011-02-07T22:18:09.189+09:002011-02-07T22:18:09.189+09:00Journalists should better ask... why the hell they...Journalists should better ask... why the hell they are eating things like that...Rinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05673884328694638521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264416.post-2934379470405969092011-02-06T07:07:45.732+09:002011-02-06T07:07:45.732+09:00How to identify a crappy article about Japan: if t...How to identify a crappy article about Japan: if the first paragraph contains the sentence:<br /><br />"Japan is a land of opposites/dichotomies/contrasts." <br /><br />then IT'S CRAP. :)Gohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14781930470259967200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264416.post-68099864137712295602011-02-03T14:06:20.342+09:002011-02-03T14:06:20.342+09:00You know us Americans ;D
We like to think we know ...You know us Americans ;D<br />We like to think we know everything.<br /><br /><br />P.S.<br />Chinese people still kill their daughters. JK.Tanghttp://blog.163.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264416.post-91630644692475671422011-02-03T10:54:37.568+09:002011-02-03T10:54:37.568+09:00You are not a grumpy old man; a five year old woul...You are not a grumpy old man; a five year old would grump at this stuff!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264416.post-34533205180804300502011-02-03T06:07:04.515+09:002011-02-03T06:07:04.515+09:00"By breaking down the Japanese language like ..."By breaking down the Japanese language like this, so finely and so literally, it gives a further distance and further exoticism to the language that isn't there. "<br /><br />Yanno where this also happens? Song titles (and lyric translations)! Makes the song seem so much epicly cooler with all those "to which the of that thing that does not"s...Gohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14781930470259967200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15264416.post-89084542001731047792011-02-02T20:53:11.385+09:002011-02-02T20:53:11.385+09:00Don't blame the journalists totally- my friend...Don't blame the journalists totally- my friend is a journalist who is very knowledgeable about Japan, but when she wrote an article, the editors messed with it and put a bunch of errors in:/<br /><br />But yeah, it annoys the hell out of me as well when I read stuff like that!Xelynahttp://www.xelyna.comnoreply@blogger.com