winterbadger | Mar. 17th, 2004

Mar. 17th, 2004

got this email from a friend in Japan

As we like to say in Japan:

"O-hisashiburi desu, ne?"
(It's been a long time, hasn't it?)
(Long time no see!)

I'm not attaching any long updates or Word documents today. I'm simply sticking on a link to a movie clip
my friend sent me.

It's better if you have sound, but you can get the meaning from just the pictures.

http://www.jda.go.jp/JMSDF/event/cm_p/index.html

I find it hard to believe that one of the greatest navies the world has ever known has now come down to
this. When ships like the Yamato and Kongo went down, they took more than steel and souls to the bottom.

This link is the real advertisement campaign. This isn't a joke.

Adm. Yamamoto must be spinning in his grave...

Current Mood: horrified

Thanks to Nick Bruner for pointing me to this article.

( Very interesting. I didn't realize that katakana was exclusively used for foreign words. )

Saudi authorities have arrested five of the country's best-known reformist intellectuals, sources told the BBC.
...
Also, the country is under pressure from its ally, the United States, which ever since the attacks of the 11 September 2001 has been urging the Saudi rulers to take tougher action against extremism and intolerance.

So, Saudi authorities arrest those who are calling for economic reform, more democracy, and civil rights. But Brutus is an honorable man...

And, yes, in 2002, Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers.