>>950 You may be arrested immediately upon your vist on Korea. LOL Half joke. Because it's probable. A korean journalist who has been candidly critisizing korea for its unfairness and mistakes couldn't go back home because she could be arrested. She eventually chose to be a japanese citizen. In japan anything and anyone prefarable of Korea and againt Japan are O.K. They are rather enshrined and some japanese were awared korean orders (of culture). They can come back to Japan and speak anything they like in Japan.
Korean can say anything bad about Japan but their freedom of speech is limited, expecially on the matter of current political powers. Then they will be arrested after they let go of the power. It's the same story again and again.
>>953 I don't think so. I don't know much about the law. But youtube should not be operated under crazy korean law. Rather under american law. You still didn't get any warnings from youtube and the authority. Why not consider if you got the warning from them?
In addition to >>954. I'm afraid if it intimidated you. The author of "anti-korean wave" visited Korea and was able to return home. Even he excaped being arrested, why can't you? Even crazy korean authority can't put their crazy law on japanese citizen.
>>954 You mean as long as I'm in Japan or foreign countries except Korea, there is no possibility for me to be arrested? I didn't know that Korean freedom of speech is limited like what you mentioned. I really realized that I'm lucky that I was born and grew up in Japan.
>>955 I haven't recieved any warning from youtube yet. I've made a decision that I won't take it seriously that even Koreans give me threatening message. I'll just ignore them. thanks.
>>961 Are you a foreigner? that's depply connected with the critical situation Japan is facing now. They are worried about how Korean anti-Japan activities infuluence on their real life. The probelems are ranging from WW2 to the right of vote for foreigners bill that Japan's gorverment is tyring to bring in now. No wonder Japanese are discussing Korean-related issues.
A tall australian woman was the guest of harumi kurihara's cooking program. Australian was ahead taller than harumi. What would happen if harumi kurihara suggested cooking a whale meat dish? lol I thik this kind of joke is permissable in the U.K. Mr.Bean and Sacha Baron Cohen would dare to the same thing. Why not japanese do black joke like British?
I didn't remember when I ate whale meat last time. Many foreigners must belive japanse eat whale meats regularly. But it's not true.
I heard a documentary film bashing dolphin hunting got a academy prize. I don't remember eating dolphin. Dolphin eating habit is limited to tiny portion of Japan. It's delicacy. Dolphin is not the thing to eat for most of japanse and it's regarded as cute animald and featured on various manga and comics. I heard that dolphin hunting is relating to protecting fishery business there because dolphins are pest eating their products. The director of the film ignored this aspect?
The move of Academy Award seems to be in accordance with the move of banning fishing blue-fin tuna. This move is understandable if blue-fin tuna is becoming endangered species. However, whale also eats tuna. That aspect should be considered too. If whales are allowed to breed freely, tuna could be perished by whales.
Whitest people of the whites, Norweigen are for whale hunting. It's very interesting. Why not attack white brethren with arms and firm will to fight back and kill if attacked?
I think it is one of the options to avoid traveling all the way to antarctic for research whaling. It might make matters worse and go against Japanese will. Generally japanese is likely to set back to avoid friction. It's strange japanese insisting solely on research whaling against the world. I suppose that special interest group is connected with whaling and bureaucrats obtain posts in govemental agency.
Whaling is bread and butter for them regardless of its legitimacy. I think whaling has ligitimacy but it should be carried carefully.
>>730, >>732, >>736, >>738 You have pretty good memories... >>738 is correct, however. Just applied for my Russian visa for this year, too, but the application form is much longer. Now we have to state where our last two jobs were, where we were educated, if we had explosives training, or if we ever did military service...
>>736, my walls are all magnolia in colour now. The only bright walls are the hallways, which are raspberry in colour. Normal rooms are now normal colours and easier on the eyes.
>>963 British television is very tolerant, though there are some things people would complain about. The broadcasting regulator accepts many complaints for even trivial things. It's a very British trait to complain about things, I think, such as quality of tea, weather, politics, kids these days, noise, people walking dogs... all sorts of things... so although people often complain about TV and radio shows, most of the time, nothing is done.
Things people complained about this year and last include... Peter Andre breaking down during an interview (if you don't know who he is, it's not worth finding out), Gordon Brown talking about his daughter during an interview, Simon Cowell forcing the public to vote someone off X Factor, Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand insulting Andrew Sachs (Manuel from Fawlty Towers) on his answering machine on radio, racist remarks on Big Brother directed at an Indian participant... Most people don't really care about any of this...
I was shocked to see Hugh Grant on TV promoting his latest movie 'Did you hear about Morgans?' I know he has been renowned for playing the role of miserable men, but I thought that was only his acting ability and not his reality. But viewing his appearances on TV this time, he himself 'looked' miserable, i,e, less fit, weary, not making witty comments at all, etc. He reminded me of his mug shot when he got arrested in Hollywood some ten years ago.... Is this the image you guys carry of him in UK? In Japan, he is still renowned for his charming role in 'Notting Hill.'
>>966 It's true, these past few years he has looked rather worn down and weary, even during interviews and appearances. He still has a charm about him and often tries to evade personal questions with humour and wit. We don't really hear about him so much any more, but the image we carry is of his later films, more of his roles in 2004/2005 with Love Actually and the sequel to Bridget Jones Diary. The British paparazzi are quite ruthless when they pick up on something negative about someone popular, so I'd say that did massive damage to his image here.
>>965 You brought up the story related to Katie Price, Jordan again. You really love her. You are obssessed with Jordan consciouslly or unconsciouslly. I should have learned him at leat one time. But I totally forgot about him. Memory revived and tells me he and Jordan should have met at survival reality TV of something.
I saw his face on google search for this time. He came as gay or iranian. I also forgot about your loved one Jordan. I talked to myself "who is this sillicon boobs?". I apologize to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybiM51194MA I don't know what's going on and don't have guts to watch through the video for now. But i can say Britain is fantastic with those drag ladies and black guy york(is he football player york?). I don't know whats going on, but crazy and fun!
>>968 Thanks for the reply☆ It's good to know that he really is a humorous and witty person, because at least stereotypically, we belive that it is a prerequisit for an Englishman to be witty and even cynical.
I don't know if you are interested in this at all, but did you know Mat Damon has been idolizing Mickey Rourke for a long time? He said on an interview show 'Actors Studio,' that he even had Mickey's poster on the wall in his bedroom before he became an actor. He also said that Mickey gave Mat an advice (when they met on a shooting or someting) that Mat should do things properlly and should not waste his talent and life, like Mickey himself. In Japan, Mickey Rourke became a passe a long time ago, so it really is a surprise that a popular actor like Mat Damon still listens to Mickey... Sorry, I was just mumbling to myself. Please ignore this post.
I think it's because the British have a problem getting new people who are talented enough to be celebrities at the moment. So they focus on the older ones until new blood can course through the system.
There was a comment on Hugh Grant in a previous post, and I'm also the one who was surprised to watch him on a Japanese TV show. He looked so worn-out, and I found him no longer an intelligent, sweet looking kind of guy. He was mumbling some cheap jokes and responded to the Japanese comedians in a rather masochistic manner. What happened to him? I felt the same kind of sentiment over Mikey Rourke. I found him in an article of a magazine and I was so surprised that he has changed a great deal I couldn't believe my eyes. I know he is a professional wrestler and there was a lot of stuff after his huge success in several movies as an actor, like drugs, plastic surgery and so on. But I can't still believe my eyes because he was such a good-looking guy with a great reputation that almost every single woman in the world called him sexy. What has become of him again?
>>980 You must be kidding!!! They've got Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, Jude Law, Jason Flemyng, Hugh Jackman (the latter 2 are not as young as Jude, though) and many more young & talented actors!
Hugh Grant should maybe follow the footsteps of Richard Gere... to remain in the movie industry.
The Obama administration got so many issues to solve. The health care reform, Troops stationing in Iraq and Afganistan, high unemployment rates, etc. Seriously, I doubt if he got what it takes. As everyone knows, he is a mix of black and white, born in a muslim and christian family. I think that this is a new type of propaganda used by the power behind him. I'd say he is a first(or second, third) symbolic president of the US. In other words, he is sending a false image of the US, where everyone is equal regardless of the color of skin, races, religions, sexes that they belong to. Just after his inauguration people were cheered and welcomed the first black President at first, but personally it only reminded me of Hitler. In fact, it was just a few days after his sending 20,000 troops to Afganistan that he took the Nobel Prize. It's nothing but a new form of propaganda. The US people are now focusing their attention upon health care plan. But whether the bill will be passed remains to be seen for the moment. They say it will be due by the end of this month, but it is still unclear when the bill will be passed.