Tolstoy comments

V. interesting article. Would be interesting to have a similarly in depth article on the 'secretly introducing a new ball' story

I assume the games will be held in August.

Yup, July/August. October (as in '64) or Sep/Oct (as in Seoul '88) might have been better?

I think it's fair to say (???) that folks have been a bit negative on this website in the past about Tokyo and the Olympics . . . so it's good to see mostly (!!!) positive responses above.

Congrats to everyone . . . especially Yuki Ota, who everyone says did a great job with his presentation.

The Madrid bid is in bad shape with the Spanish doping scandal, so we're still in the race.

COME ON TOKYO!

Confused?

If people are that easily confused, maybe they should just stick to reading comics.

Woah, hang on a sec...

it would be more helpful if we thought of “better English communication” as meaning “better English ethos, pathos and logos.”

Seems like an answer to last week’s “TOEIC is no guarantee of success” story.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/required-or-not-english-knowledge-no-guarantee-of-success

Rather than pursuing numbers, we try to sell one car at a time, producing good cars. We aren’t focused on being No. 1

I can think of soooo many companies that would benefit from adopting this kind of attitude.

It’s not only this region where China is “gaining clout” - just a few days ago, Iceland became the first European country to sign an FTA with China.

TOEIC was never designed to measure how “persuasively” someone speaks, because how do you quantify that?

TOEIC simply measures “English proficiency”.

If you want to know how how much “human depth” someone has - well, that’s what job interviews are for.

CH3CHO: How many of them know Nintendo? Exactly!