Japundit Posts

Needless to say, I haven't posted many articles to Japundit during the past month or so, as I was pretty busy with a few other things! The handful I posted are once again an eclectic collection. The article on Japanese work culture is very interesting and gives a good insight into part of Japanese society which confounds me I must admit. That article generated a fair amount of discussion on the website. The article on the best defense was a silly article on a woman who outsmarted a robber. The healthy diet article was also silly; it is about "eating champion" Takeru Kobayashi. Japanese whaling is controversial and is dealt with in one of the articles. The article on Japanese technology discusses some of Japan's innovations. I am concerned that developed countries which are more progressive than the U.S. (i.e. all of them) will develop the environmental technologies which we will all need to implement soon, so instead of exporting we will be importing while the profits go in the opposite direction. The last article is on the Ainu; an indigenous population in the northern part of Japan. I didn't know that Japan has it's own native population. It turns out that their fate is similar to that of the Native people in the U.S.

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Japanese Work Culture (Washington Post)

Best Defense: Gun? Knife?... Tea? (Associated Press)
Healthy Japanese Diet? (ESPN)

Japanese Whaling (Newsweek)

Japanese Energy Technology (NY Times)

Ainu Recognition (NY Times)