Herro Flom Japan

What's preventing Japanese or Korean manufacturers from selling their totally bitchin' light-years-ahead mobile phones in the US? Why are US phones do darned crappy in comparison?

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Some caveats:

• This is 40 minutes long. That's how long it took for me to lose 1000 yen. Some will love it being that long, some won't.
• I completly disown the part where I said, "Yeah Baby! Keep puttin' out!" It didn't sound as funny as I thought it would. In fact, I sound quite pathetic. I apologize.
• It sounds boring on speakers, but absolutely amazing on earbuds. In fact, it sounds like you're sitting right in front of the machine playing.
• I have no idea how the pachinko machine knew my name and kept calling it out

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You know, I might have seen this magazine in a convenience store last weekend. I can't remember which one or where. In fact, I'm pretty sure I did. I just didn't give it much thought.

Even the title Gaijin Hanzai Ura Fairu (Foreigners Underground Crime File) uses an epithet for "foreigner" that's offensive enough to be banned from broadcasts.

From Chiba Beat:

“It goes beyond being puerile and into the realm of encouraging hatred of foreigners,” Debito Arudou, a naturalised Japanese citizen, told the Guardian. “The fact that this is available in major bookstores is a definite cause of concern. It would be tantamount to hate speech in some societies.”

From Reuters:

"We wanted to take this up as a contemporary problem," said Shigeki Saka of Tokyo-based publishers Eichi, which also publishes magazines on popular U.S. and South Korean television dramas. "I think it would be good if this becomes a chance to broaden the debate," he added.

One caption in the magazine refers to a black man as "nigger."

"This is not a racist book, because it is based on established fact," Saka said. "If we wanted to be racist, we could write it in a much more racist way," he added, saying that the word "nigger" was not considered offensive in Japan.

More articles:
debito.org
Japan Probe
Japan:Stippy
It was pulled from Amazon.co.jp I'll look through the user reviews later.

You want my opinion? I'm glad it was published. Living in Japan is the only way a white male like myself can truly understand what it's like to be on the receiving end of racial descrimination. I can say for certain there are plenty of Japanese who are disgusted by this kind of publication, just as there are whites in the US who believe in racial equality.

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Originally uploaded by Barack Obama.

He also has YouTube and Facebook accounts. And you can order that bitchin' T-Shirt here.

Update: I can't wait for my shirt to arrive. I'll wear it in every video. It's so easy to impulse buy something when it only costs $15 and can be paid for through PayPal.

And I signed up at Facebook. I figure it's time for me to jump on the bandwagon. I also have a MySpace page I never visit. I have one friend there, who also never signs in either.

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