The headline in a recent Nikkei article tells many recent graduates something they already know first hand. Japanese Firms Increasingly Hiring Foreign Students Other recent a...

2012年02月22日

Nothing shows the disconnect between the Japanese elite and the population more than when a politician tries to show his concern for the plight of the common man, a plight, we migh...

2012年02月22日

Just last month, we wrote an article about poverty in Japan in which we found that the poverty rate in Japan was increasing.  The government's response to that situation was to sim...

2012年02月21日

Proving, perhaps, that empty promises and platitudes, deceptions and cover-ups, the primary relationship between the Japanese elite and the hoi polloi in the past, is no longer wor...

2012年02月22日

We have been wondering why the US Marines are still on Okinawa.  Despite the learned opinion of those who are paid by the US military to have such opinions, there are neither strat...

2012年02月20日

Doesn't anyone look around Japan, especially since the March 11 disaster, and say, "Hey, the government sure has made a mess of things?" and then realize that their mayor or govern...

2012年02月21日

I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy de...

2012年02月20日

Of course, the Japanese government will be more than happy to comply with its overlords.  This is not a law passed by the US Congress, merely a regulation enacted by bureaucrat...

2012年02月17日

Once upon a time in Japan, degrees and diplomas from prestigious universities and schools were believed to be tickets to advancement in life. The emphasis on academic qualification...

2012年02月20日

One of the unintended consequences of government and drug companies pushing the use of antibiotics, mass vaccinations, and other marvels of medical science is that bacteria, germs,...

2012年02月20日