Potes'n'Roll

Et il ne dit pas si les machines doivent fonctionner au Mir Lavande ?

C'est marrant, mais ce genre de remarque n'ira sans doute pas bien loin au Japon... en France, on en aurait parlé pendant des mois et le ministre aurait été dénigré par ses pairs...

Pour revenir sur le Ministre de la Sante et ses bourdes, il en a dit une autre hier : "Les couples normaux devraient vouloir au moins deux enfants"

version en anglaise : http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070206p2a00m0na019000c.html

We got a winner!

(a deplacer avec les deux derniers posts dans topic actualite asiatique? Damien, Meg, qu'en pensez-vous?)

Sinon, pour les posts, je pense qu'ils sont bien là; ils ont trait à la société japonaise... On peut garder le topic actuamité asiatique pour les relations entre les pays asiatiques, voir les problèmes de sociétés des autres pays.

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Sinon, pour les posts, je pense qu'ils sont bien là; ils ont trait à la société japonaise... On peut garder le topic actuamité asiatique pour les relations entre les pays asiatiques, voir les problèmes de sociétés des autres pays.

Moi je pensais que justement ce topic etait plus pour parler des trucs un peu "carnet de voyage" ou blogesque, chronique du Japon actuel... Comme un topic decouvertes quoi. Pas pour copier/coller les news reuter (et la, jetez moi la premiere pierre) 

Moi je pensais que justement ce topic etait plus pour parler des trucs un peu "carnet de voyage" ou blogesque, chronique du Japon actuel... Comme un topic decouvertes quoi. Pas pour copier/coller les news reuter (et la, jetez moi la premiere pierre) 

     Publishing date: 7/2/2007 14:11:16
    Magazine [editorial] director: “I feel I am in danger”
    Shigeki Saka, director of a xenophobic magazine, receives a wave of complaints and threatening mails. Interview.
    Tokyo - IPCJAPAN/Shiho Kohinata

    Shigeki Saka, Eichi Shuppan’s editorial director, which published Gaijin Hanzai Ura File, a magazine accused of being xenophobic and racist, told ipcdigital.com he was conscious the magazine could arise criticism from foreigners, but he claims his intention was to lead Japanese people to discuss the increase of crimes by foreigners and the country’s internationalization.

    He denied the magazine has any xenophobic sentences, claimed he’s not a racist and refused to apologize. During the dialogue with ipcdigital.com he received threatening e-mails whose content he did not want to disclose.

    ipcdigital.com: What is your opinion on the reaction of the public about your magazine?

    Shigeki Saka: I don’t understand it yet well. There are a lot of questions from foreign press [outlets] as Reuters or Bloomberg. I know there are a lot of complaints. But that depends on how you receive this stuff. In principle it is a magazine written in Japanese and sold in Japan. Then, it’s for Japanese people to read it. Besides, on the magazine there are not any discriminatory claims, though I imagine that foreigners who are always discriminated are a little bit more sensitive.

    ipcdigital.com: What did you wanted with the approach given to the magazine?

    SS: Currently Japan is facing a lot of offences starred by foreigners. There must be a why. I wanted to find that “why”. I can’t act as if nothing was actually happening. Today there are some Japanese afraid of foreigners and I wanted to survey these people’s psychology. I want you to read the magazine. You’ll see.

    ipcdigital.com: And what have you discovered so far?

    SS: Foreigners’ crimes in Japan have a profile which changes depending on the country and this is what I also wanted to know. For example, about Chinese and Koreans. Japan welcomes them as kenshusei and that system is officially intended to they to learn Japanese working techniques and that they take them back to their countries. But it happens that they are put to work as common employees, but with low salaries and some of them cause minor offences. The kenshushei system is the problem that has been generated by Japan. It is a problem from here.

    ipcdigital.com: What are you based on to give an opinion about the crimes?

    SS: We have spoken with Japanese police in order to write each article. For them this issue is serious and they have provided the data. I have also spoken with Japanese specialists, as university professors devoted to this issue. This magazine is a summary of these data and focused on the foreigners’ issue.

    ipcdigital.com: Don’t you think the way the photographs are used is tendentious?

    SS: If you read the magazine you will understand it. Maybe foreigners can’t read the articles in there and they only see the pictures of the discriminated. The magazine has a lot more than photographs, which is 1/4 of the total. I wanted the magazine to be read by a lot of people, so many people bought it we put shocking pictures, to call everyone’s attentiona. But I don’t want they think it’s a discriminating magazine only because of the pictures. Besides, I’m not a racist. In Japan there are a lot of contradictions and, in order to have a coexistence between different cultures we have to erase those contradictions. To solve those contradictions is one of the goals of this magazine.

    ipcdigital.com: How did you get the photographs you published?

    SS: There is a very special photographer. He walks the commercial districts as Roppongi, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Shibuya. He’s around the city all day. He’s a freelancer. I did not ask him to take pictures of the foreigners, but he offered the ones he had to us. In the city there are a lot of foreigners, but he doesn’t go only after them.

    ipcdigital.com: What do you think about Familymart’s withdrawal of the magazine?

    SS: I’m sad about that. We can’t say anything else about the withdrawal of the magazine at the combini because Familymart has not communicated anything yet, they withdrew it without asking us. Normally distributors are more powerful. We can’t do anything, but I think that withdrawing it is a way to reject the debate. The magazine raises an issue to discuss. Why there are so many crimes by foreigners? What can we do? Without a magazine of that kind we can’t know the positive or negative opinion from the people. I want a discussion and I want to find the way to solve this problem. This is my other objective. But I see that the foreigners who are angry, but that’s because they’re afraid to be discriminated, that’s why they overreact. At the internet blogs I see they’re only putting the pictures and they discuss from that, I confess I’m discouraged about that. I want a discussion. Else, we will never be able to internationalize this country

    ipcdigital.com: Will you apologize?

    SS: Look. First, I’m receiving a lot of e-mails which seem like a joke.

    ipcdigital.com: What do they say?

    SS: I can’t tell you, but I feel I’m in danger. I want opinions, but most of the ones I receive are overreactions from the foreigners. Most complaints come from foreigners. I want to know the reactions of the Japanese. I must say I’m a little worried. I know there are some people bothered but if you read the magazine, you’ll see there’s no single discriminatory phrase, so I don’t know why should I apologize.

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On s'en fout ! Comment ça on pourra continuer à commander sur le net à payer 50 euros pour 10.000 yens ! 
Et les Japonais arrêterons de se prendre pour les rois du monde quand ils viennent sur Paris ! 

Nan plus sérieusement, c'est vrai que ce genre de singeries on en profite quand on fait Europe--->Nippon, mais l'inverse ça doit être dur quand même. Je ne sais pas si Megara ou tinou sont revenu il n'y a pas très longtemps mais ça doit faire mal de convertir ses petits yens en euros là quand même non ? Notez que c'est pareille pour le dollar d'ailleurs.

La forte dépréciation du yen est soupçonnée par les économistes d'être le symptôme d'une gigantesque bulle spéculative qui, si elle se dégonflait trop vite, déstabiliserait le système financier mondial. Cette bulle se nourrit du vaste différentiel entre les bas taux d'intérêt au Japon (0,25%) et ceux dans le reste du monde, qui incite les investisseurs à emprunter massivement des yens à moindre coût et à placer cet argent dans les pays où il rapportera beaucoup plus, un phénomène appelé "carry trade"...

La suite ici : http://www.aujourdhuilejapon.com/article.asp?IdArticle=526

........That's easier said than done in uniquely homogeneous Japan. A reminder of the nation's aversion to opening the floodgates came last week with the publication of a magazine on crimes committed by foreigners. FamilyMart, Japan's third-largest convenience-store chain, pulled "Gaijin Hanzai Ura Fairu," or "Secret Foreigner Crime Files," from its shelves, citing the publication's "inappropriate racial expressions."........