Beat Takeshi snaps at DPJ lawmaker over space budget cuts

Maybe Beat should cough up some dough for JAXA. He's rich. The Japanese gov't isn't rich. They've spent too much money on American bases and the SDF and now they don't have enough for JAXA.

Maybe Beat should cough up some dough for JAXA. He's rich.

My thoughts exactly. Let's see some cash.

“A country that doesn’t spend money on research is in serious trouble!”

Definitely a smarter comment than anything I've heard from the DPJ lately.

unagidon, I concur.

Renho's decision to cut funds to the supercomputer was pretty shallow and uninformed - Beat's spot on!

Before I pass comment, it is funny how the media distinguish between the world-famous Takeshi Kitano and the somewhat low-brow Beat Takeshi.

Anyway, with regard to this issue (and the whole pantomime of public hearings on government expenditures), Takeshi has hit the nail right on the head.

Indeed, with such policies (and others such as the US-Japan security saga), the DPJ has shown itself to be incapable of formulating realistic policy, instead pandering to the lowest common denominator via the leveraging of populist hysteria rather than policy substance. Although I hate to say it, the fundamentally corrupt organization that is the LDP is starting to look like the better of two evils.

Very well spoken, timorborder!

timor border - the distinction exists soley in your own mind.

Wasn't Renho the one who said "What's wrong with being in second place?" Definitely "lost decade" thinking.

I doubt that Beat can pony up money for JAXA. Recently he has been appearing in advertising for an English school. He has to be rather hard up to do something like that.

I stumbled across a bizarre magazine called FAMOSO in the konbini this week - it was back to back Takeshi, with his face pasted on lots of famous / old pictures and all sorts of inane articles. I just didn't get it.

Why not slash a few billion yen in 'research' per year from the whales and send it to space?? I agree with Beat-Takeshi, and this is a first!

“We used to appear on game shows together! How can she do something like that?”

because you are both Japanese....

I agree and disagree with Takeshi, though you know the government will only start to listen when the celebrities make it an issue (or other countries ridicule them for it).

I agree that a country doing no research is in big trouble, and think he's bang on in that respect, but on the other hand it was a fact that Japan was doing the research SOLELY to be recognized as the first to build such a computer... or so they planned.

smith;

on the other hand it was a fact that Japan was doing the research SOLELY to be recognized as the first to build such a computer...

What nonsense - no-one does that kind of research just to be seen as the first. However if it's "a fact" as you claim you should be able to point to evidence of this fact, as opposed to your own ill-informed opinion?

unagidon- space race??!