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The Wisdom of Mr. Miyagi

(via www.asianweek.com) 9 days ago

The Wisdom of Mr. Miyagi

To assume that true learning only takes place in a classroom is a fallacy. One of my generation's greatest teachers never stepped in front of a class full of students, but his wisdom cannot be denied. He is Mr. Miyagi...

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GameStop Wants The Girls To Spend The Night With John Madden

(via kotaku.com) 12 days ago

GameStop Wants The Girls To Spend The Night With John Madden

It's Madden Day — and video game retailer GameStop is hoping to soak up some of those "pink ocean" dollars, tapping into what it think is a currently untapped market of women gamers who not only love the Wii, but also love NFL...

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Nationalism in Japan?

(via www.japanprobe.com) 24 days ago

Nationalism in Japan?

Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University Japan, has written an editorial in the Japan Times reminding everyone that "Japan scores very low on nationalism."

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Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh: From 'Tai Chi Master' to 'The Mummy'

(via www.asianweek.com) 24 days ago

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the third in the popular franchise, pretty much follows the same plot as the previous films: Mummy comes to life, wants to take over the world and is eventually defeated by Brendan...

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LOGO Lesbian Reality

(via www.asianweek.com) 26 days ago

LOGO Lesbian Reality

Gimme Sugar is like The Hills with cast members trying to make their way through a staged world called Life. But the difference between the two, other than social class (Hills is trust fund and Sugar is white-collar working)....

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Japanese cinema complexes fight back against the home theater trend

(via www.japanprobe.com) 28 days ago

The Yomiuri reports that Japanese cinema complexes are attempting to win back movie fans who have been choosing to watch rented movies on wide-screen TVs instead of going watching films in theaters.

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How does China Define Terrorism?

(via www.lostlaowai.com) 28 days ago

When I read about the bus explosions in Kuming on this past Monday I was a little surprised that the local police weren't call it terrorism. I don't believe that it was done by anyone with a political agenda.

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The nascent Japanese eco-skepticism

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 28 days ago

The nascent Japanese eco-skepticism

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

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Comic-Con: It's a Wrap [Original]

(via kotaku.com) 28 days ago

Comic-Con: It's a Wrap [Original]

It's Monday and Comic-Con 08 officially ended over the weekend. Mike McWhertor braved the fest on the hunt for gaming news and he bagged himself quite a lot of big game. Here's the run-down of what we've run so far...

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Japanese and South Korean editorials on Takeshima: A comparison

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 29 days ago

Japanese and South Korean editorials on Takeshima: A comparison

ONE POINT I often try to make here is that the Japanese media is not as biased in a nationalistic sense as some people claim. Bias, as with beauty, is in the (biased) eye of the beholder, but I think the tone of the ...

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Are young people today more disrespectful or rebellious than their parents were?

(via search.japantimes.co.jp) 29 days ago

Ryuichi YoshimotoReal estate, 39Today young people don't take care of older people. Sometimes they act very selfish. I think young people are spoiled today because people have so few children.

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