June 13, 2008
An entry [ja] by blogger gothedistance translating and introducing passages of the New York Times article High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers climbed the rankings a few weeks ago to become a popular article [ja] at Hatena bookmarks, Japan's most popular social bookmarking service. The a...
go to article »May 31, 2008
Niphonese wrote a post on the recent exposure of a secret agreement between Japan and U.S government in 1953 that Japan should abandon jurisdiction over crimes of Japan-based US soldiers, except serious cases. ...
go to article »April 5, 2008
All around the world an energetic and unprecedented movement is growing in support of Senator Obama's candidacy to be the 44th US President. Some examples of the worldwide movement include: In Trinidad, calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow sings that America could "regain worldwide respect with Obamaâ€...
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There are so many videos being created in support of Senator Obama all over the world what we've can't really keep track of them on this blog alone, so we've created a YouTube channel with songs, news reports, personal statements of support and translations of speaches and songs to other languages (...
go to article »March 16, 2008
March 11, 2008
Here are the results from polls we conducted of 1000 people across 5 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Latin America:71% of Brazilians support Obama, (Clinton 22%), (McCain 15%)61% of Londoners (UK) support Obama, (Clinton 32%), (McCain 7%)54% or Iraqis support Obama (Clinton 25%), ...
go to article »February 14, 2008
Edward Chmura from Japundit reposts a list of U.S Military sex crime record in Okinawa since 1955. ...
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Thousands of Pacific miles might separate residents of an isolated fishing town on Japan's snowy west coast from the buzz of the US election campaign but that hasn't prevented them from taking an avid interest in the fortunes of one candidate - the young Illinois senator with whom the ancient commun...
go to article »February 12, 2008
There seems to be plenty of critiques of this year’s presidential candidate websites. Here’s something I noticed for myself. While I was looking for Hillary’s and Obama’s speeches from last week, I observed that Clinton’s site was smaller than Obama’s in width! At where I work, we hav...
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Obama handed Clinton a serious beating in Washington this Saturday. It was a bit surprising — I thought with the support from both WA senators, Clinton would do a little better. But Obama clocked Hillary in every county in Washington. Whoa. I missed the chance to go see either one of them when ...
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