rjdsr comments

Why would anyone buy into this when there are plenty of good investments out there? This firm did business with unsavory characters in Japan, and thus was ignored by most legit businesses.

Hughgarse, $16 was a steal??? Our hedge fund was still shorting them at $9 we shorted them all the way down from $140 a share when we saw their accounting - the firm isn't worth more than about $2.50 a share right now. They have no assets whatsoever and nothing but debt. Their brand equity is now worthless.

She's hurting. She would not be a model in any other country.

Who?

Did some googling here - it's not going to be easy to find the rich man she wants, when they could go for something with 15 more years of shelf life.

Imagine the massage she could give!

Cos, don't put spaces before question marks.

Baidu will fail here - their marketing is awful. Their search results are terrible.

Sarge:

All along, I thought Hitomi Kuroki has been playing Yuriko Koike as a politician in real life!

Have to wonder how many shares Horie still holds.

I find there are two groups of foreigners here. One comes to teach English at a school or investment bank for a few years and the only Japanese people they get to know are at pick-up bars. They tend to believe that Japanese people are apathetic about politics. They don't speak the language.

The other type have been here for years, or decades, and have often married into Japan. They are fluent in the language and talk politics with Japanese people and hear other Japanese people talking it. They know it's absurd to say that Japanese people are apathetic about politics. They know better than to use a single adjective to describe all of the people in Japan.

farhaan,

You cannot get the death sentence in Japan from killing only one person. Read the law.

Sounds like one of my crazy neighbors in the 'Hills.

The correct term in Japan is newhalf.

I give it two posts before someone making cracks about it being "all show and little else" or something about resurgence of militarism

You've already done so.

Norika looks awful in commoner's wear.

She should be better than that.

I am also rich, and I am tired of the poor destroying America with their vote. Every election of a democRAT shows what damage the poor in America can do. They are in the majority because poverty is caused by laziness and immorality. Most humans fall victim to at least one of these two and cannot get out. The rich are above both, we transcended them by birth.

America needs to give more strongly weighted votes to those of us with a net worth above $100 million.

Obama will appease the terrorists. McCain will obliterate them,and make the world safe.

This is 100% true. Obama is not only a terrorist himself, but a muslim. This should disqualify him from leading the nation founded by Jesus Christ.

Good, good. Space is ours. It is imperative that we get there and set up before China et al.

These foreign firms need to get out of Japan NOW. Japan does not need the moral corruption that their employees bring. Japan is quite capable of financing its own projects, thank you very much. Send them packing!

Youdontknow,

You're not a judge either. You have no place to say he is innocent. A court found him guilty. Do you know what drugs do to people's lives? We are safer with him behind bars.

These foreigners are obviously innocent. They need not worry as the Japanese judicial system is biased FOR foreigners.

rjd_jr, I agree 100%. It's unfortunate that the Japanese justice system is so lenient to foreigners.

What not name the workplaces of all ten then? Destroy one Brit publicly, while respecting the others' anonymity. Wrong, very wrong.

shanabelle,

No, not wrong. This is Japan. You are a guest. Breaking the laws is disrespectful to Japan. Don't like how it is in Japan? We have plenty of airports with flights you can take home.

Name and shame, but not our own!

Obama falls right in with the Neville Chamberlain mold of appeasement. He has no chance when the american voters know they need a strong President.

he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals.

Who's accusing him of that? He basically said the war will never end.

Now I know how to get home - shoot a bunch of manga!

Once again we see a civic group pointing fingers in the wrong direction. "London Hearts" might be bad for kids, but it is on late at night, and parents should have some control over what their young kids are watching to begin with.

What is there to support this statement? I think more young people than ever are better cooks.

They should prosecute the Korean pimps and brothel owners who ran those places!

Anything to keep marketing the myth of DaVinci.

Don’t ask about the remaining 56%

Don't ask about water? Why not?

You can't have night without day. we hear so much talk of "gambaro" and "suck it up" because workers in Japan simply do more complaining about their situations than anywhere else in the world. I've worked all over the world and never heard so much constant complaining from workers who aren't really doing much of anything to begin with and often don't get clear expectations from their bosses. Mix that with an unwillingness to take proactive problem solving approaches and that's what we keep hearing "gambaro"

You can't ignore the world's second-largest economy and call yourself a serious investor.

I can and I do.