Comments on: Farm Minister Endo Resigns: Abe Goes 0 for 3 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/09/03/farm-minister-endo-resigns-abe-goes-0-for-3/ Independent Podcasting from Tokyo. Featuring Seijigiri, a discussion of Japanese news and politics, as well as TPR News, our twice a week look at Japan's top stories. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:18:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: DeOrio http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/09/03/farm-minister-endo-resigns-abe-goes-0-for-3/#comment-311193 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:03:25 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/09/03/farm-minister-endo-resigns-abe-goes-0-for-3/#comment-311193 Don't worry, Sam - it would be hard to take a hard line that one form of transliteration was "correct," anyway. I think what you wrote was abundantly clear. (If you want, you can use Japanese.) For all the "theories" we hear and read about how Japanese poeple are supposed to be, I have yet to hear or read one that even hints at the fact that, anecdotally, most Japanese people are no different from Yanks in their wide and consistent mistrust of politicians. A very small percentage of people with whom I've ever talked politics have ever had anything good to say about any politician (and, just as in other countries, a lot of those people really don't follow politics.) Don’t worry, Sam - it would be hard to take a hard line that one form of transliteration was “correct,” anyway. I think what you wrote was abundantly clear. (If you want, you can use Japanese.)

For all the “theories” we hear and read about how Japanese poeple are supposed to be, I have yet to hear or read one that even hints at the fact that, anecdotally, most Japanese people are no different from Yanks in their wide and consistent mistrust of politicians. A very small percentage of people with whom I’ve ever talked politics have ever had anything good to say about any politician (and, just as in other countries, a lot of those people really don’t follow politics.)

]]> by: Sam http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/09/03/farm-minister-endo-resigns-abe-goes-0-for-3/#comment-310778 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:38:55 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/09/03/farm-minister-endo-resigns-abe-goes-0-for-3/#comment-310778 Wish there was an edit button, I can't write translitterations of Japanese sentences into romaji at all without making many mistakes! Wish there was an edit button, I can’t write translitterations of Japanese sentences into romaji at all without making many mistakes!

]]> by: Sam http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/09/03/farm-minister-endo-resigns-abe-goes-0-for-3/#comment-310776 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:37:49 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2007/09/03/farm-minister-endo-resigns-abe-goes-0-for-3/#comment-310776 On the morning that this story broke, my host mother and I were looking at the Asahi Shinbun's front page. And there in big black bold kanji was the headline over a picture of Endo appologizing at his press conference. The first thing that came out of my host mother's mouth was, "Hazukashii! Nihon no sejika hazukashii!" Both my host parents being teachers, are no friends of the LDP, but it doesn't seem like they hold much trust in anyone in government currently, including the DPJ. On the morning that this story broke, my host mother and I were looking at the Asahi Shinbun’s front page. And there in big black bold kanji was the headline over a picture of Endo appologizing at his press conference. The first thing that came out of my host mother’s mouth was, “Hazukashii! Nihon no sejika hazukashii!”

Both my host parents being teachers, are no friends of the LDP, but it doesn’t seem like they hold much trust in anyone in government currently, including the DPJ.

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