jeff198527 comments

Gokai. Yes, Japan is doing much better than what the "official" reports suggest. As long as people think Japan isn't a threat they'll keep buying Japanese products. It's a brilliant strategy.

IMO, both sides of US politics are both equally to blame and equally insane.

Maybe one day Indonesia will have high-speed rail, but being indebted for half a century seems foolish.

Wherever the Pentagon is involved one can expect inefficiency and pools of red ink.

Sure, fxgal, this from someone who only knows Japan via the Internet.

And yet another country passing us Americans by as our infrastructure rots and falls apart.

I use "Before You Know It" on both my PC and HDX. It's an electronic flashcard program. The mobile version only costs $7.99 a language, with 70+ languages to choose from.

@itsonlyrockandroll

When the East-Asian countries need foreigners to fix their economies I'm sure they'll call you.

Seriously though, the US has less than 100 million full-time workers, the lowest since 1977. However, if anyone criticizes America the ethno-centrists come out and state how perfect and infallible America is.

@Alex80

Yeah, lets put everyone on Japan on the dole and let China walk all over Japan. /.s

Try thinking like a realist/adult

Obama's statement is endemic in US politics. Too many people in America see morality in Black and White with no shades of gray. IMO, the US should aim for neutrality as much as possible. We've got too many domestic problems, so shrinking our empire makes the most sense.

Since when are lunatics allowed to leave the Asylum without supervision?

Maybe this is North Korea finally (beginning) to open up to Capitalism?

Maybe the beginning of the end for Apple? A company can't just rely on reiterations of the same product forever.

I thought only the third-world got diseases like this.

However, oil stockpiles at an 80-year high. Everyone who can produce oil is producing oil. If Everything is as peachy-keen as the politicians and talking heads say, then why the big rush to secure oil?

There would be far fewer wars if our Government did what was best for the people rather than Defense contractors.

Up to this point China's manufacturing has been mostly junk that people buy at thrift shops. They'll have to start making higher-end goods if they want to stay in the game.

What?! A business article on Japan Today without a dozen Liberals being jealous of the "1%"?

I was being sarcastic.

Jerseyboy, the Japanese are doing better than what their false economic and business articles and stats say. I have two friends, both well-connected multi-millionaires. Both have told me more than on one occasion that Japan is doing much better than the Japanese Government states.

I agree, but that's assuming anything the Japanese government or businesses on this the media prints is true.

And you honestly believe the official MSM predictions on Japan? All I hear from you anti-Japan people is, "The sky is falling!". What makes you think that Japan needs a white person such as yourself to run their country for them?

The EU should quit avoiding the inevitable and let Greece collapse.

Obama is a politician, what do you expect?

It's a sad fact, but tech companies like Facebook are supposed to be driving the U.S. economy.

Show me, in any religious text, where God says to slaughter the innocent.

Tech Bubble 2.0 is here.

According to the Japan-hating "Engrish" teachers on this site nothing good comes from Japan.

An older-lady I'm friends with and who is well-connected told me once that US phone lines have been bugged in one way or another since the late 1920s. On another interesting note, German-speakers were spied upon until 1956. The U.S. Government is unbelievably paranoid. IMO.

Boeing might become the Government Motors of the aircraft industry. Putting everything high-tech they could think of on their planes, whether the technology was proven or not, was probably a bad idea.