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I am SO funny, as you will soon see... I cleverly took a topic and manipulated it in to an amusing yet to the point heading for this article! The fact being that Arigatou Co Ltd. have launched a range of peanut business cards, that you can eat! See what I did? nuts... peanuts... you're crazy... kind of thing! Ill give you a couple of minutes to contain yourself and wipe the tears of laughter out of your eyes before I continue...
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"TaberuMe" (or Eat Me) peanuts are the latest of a range of foods which Arigatou Co print names on using their high grade CO2 laser engraver, which can print clear readable text on non-flat surfaces as small as a grain of rice!
Edu at PinkTentacle also made a valid attempt at humour in finishing off his article... mere peanuts, classic! but I think you'll agree my headline has him beat
Another funny one from Mr. Tsumeyama (Tokoyama?) at Gizmodo, whos name translates to "Eternal mountain of great physical strength", quite possibly the best name ive ever heard...
The Arigatou Co website describes the product as 食べれる名刺, "meishi you can eat", and they have stuck to Japanese tradition of being really creative with product names and cut off half of "eat" and "business card" to make タベルメ. I personally think "businuts" is a better name! Damn, gotta stop myself, just too funny! (think you can do better? challenge me in the comments!)
Amazing the products coming out these days... I mean whats next?
Chocolate beer? Chocolate sushi? Edible squid flavoured post cards?!
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and we're back.
"TaberuMe" (or Eat Me) peanuts are the latest of a range of foods which Arigatou Co print names on using their high grade CO2 laser engraver, which can print clear readable text on non-flat surfaces as small as a grain of rice!
Edu at PinkTentacle also made a valid attempt at humour in finishing off his article... mere peanuts, classic! but I think you'll agree my headline has him beat
Regardless, a set of 150 Taberu Me cards costs 5,800 yen (around $50), which is mere peanuts considering the lasting impression you will make on your new counterparts.
Another funny one from Mr. Tsumeyama (Tokoyama?) at Gizmodo, whos name translates to "Eternal mountain of great physical strength", quite possibly the best name ive ever heard...
ちなみに、商品名の「タベルメ」は「Taberu Me」＝「私を食べる」から来ているようです。初対面で「さあ！ 俺を食え」って…。（常山剛）
By the way, "taberume" is "eat me" in English, so imagine your first meeting with a new client... "Ok, lets kick things off, eat me!"
The Arigatou Co website describes the product as 食べれる名刺, "meishi you can eat", and they have stuck to Japanese tradition of being really creative with product names and cut off half of "eat" and "business card" to make タベルメ. I personally think "businuts" is a better name! Damn, gotta stop myself, just too funny! (think you can do better? challenge me in the comments!)
Amazing the products coming out these days... I mean whats next?
Chocolate beer? Chocolate sushi? Edible squid flavoured post cards?!
By Michele Gershberg
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Men in South Africa say they cheat instead of taking second or third wives, Americans lament that love has died in their marriages, and the Japanese believe ex-marital sex isn't adultery if they pay for it.
These are just a few of the cultural excuses for cheating on one's spouse as recorded by Pamela Druckerman, author of a new comparative look at infidelity titled "Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee."
This is not the first time I have heard this tidbit. It seems to be quite acceptable to pay for sex, even when married.
Japan has a huge sex industry, from oral sex booths to call girls, orgy clubs and rent-a-room-by-the-hour (and get a girl free!). One thing I bet you DIDN'T know, is that in Bali, Japanese women are the main sex tourists, often rodeoing with the Kuta Cowboys.
Frankly, the lack of sexual taboo here just tickles me pink!
More on this later,
LiK
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Men in South Africa say they cheat instead of taking second or third wives, Americans lament that love has died in their marriages, and the Japanese believe ex-marital sex isn't adultery if they pay for it.
These are just a few of the cultural excuses for cheating on one's spouse as recorded by Pamela Druckerman, author of a new comparative look at infidelity titled "Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee."
This is not the first time I have heard this tidbit. It seems to be quite acceptable to pay for sex, even when married.
Japan has a huge sex industry, from oral sex booths to call girls, orgy clubs and rent-a-room-by-the-hour (and get a girl free!). One thing I bet you DIDN'T know, is that in Bali, Japanese women are the main sex tourists, often rodeoing with the Kuta Cowboys.
Frankly, the lack of sexual taboo here just tickles me pink!
LiK
Here is a pretty interesting article on living and working in Japan. The article is specifically talking about the gaming industry, however a lot of the points made can easily be related to the Japanese working system in general.
Page 1 details some general facts about the Japanese working system, and some of the ways a Westerner might find him or herself in Japan, with page 2 detailing some of the differences between the working ethics.
I particularly like this part about working hours, and how Japanese workers are not necessarily 'working long hours', more that they are just hanging around because its not generally accepted to leave the office before your direct supervisor. I saw a LOT of this over the last 4 years, even in the school systems, and it always got to me. Foreigners are generally expected to fit in with these working hours too, but its something I decided early on not to become a part of, regardless of the consequences. The trick is to do it over time gradually, and make sure you get your work done on time. Then there 'should' be no problem. One of the authors of this article agrees with me
Work all day, sleep whenever you can! (couldnt resist)
The article gets a bit more game focused on pages 3 and 4, but has some good general points on page 5 with a great summary of the UK, US and JAPAN working environments:
Page 1 details some general facts about the Japanese working system, and some of the ways a Westerner might find him or herself in Japan, with page 2 detailing some of the differences between the working ethics.
I particularly like this part about working hours, and how Japanese workers are not necessarily 'working long hours', more that they are just hanging around because its not generally accepted to leave the office before your direct supervisor. I saw a LOT of this over the last 4 years, even in the school systems, and it always got to me. Foreigners are generally expected to fit in with these working hours too, but its something I decided early on not to become a part of, regardless of the consequences. The trick is to do it over time gradually, and make sure you get your work done on time. Then there 'should' be no problem. One of the authors of this article agrees with me
according to proper Japanese etiquette, nobody leaves until the boss and no individual leaves before his or her immediate supervisor. Regardless of whether a single individual has any work left to do. This is compounded by “slacking” during the day according to Tavares. “Japanese don’t ‘work’ long hours,” he said. “They just stay at work for long hours...
Work all day, sleep whenever you can! (couldnt resist)
The article gets a bit more game focused on pages 3 and 4, but has some good general points on page 5 with a great summary of the UK, US and JAPAN working environments:
“The UK is a pub culture - people like to doss and arse about a lot, but they are very good and very skilled at their jobs - when they do them.”
“The US is a corporate culture, everyone is a cog in the machine, even in a smaller company, so there is far less responsibility towards the company and its finances and people assume that they should have the best wage, best equipment, best software, best everything, even if they don't use them. That said, they have great responsibility to the work itself and there are some extremely clever and diligent people there. Corporate politics, gossip and rivalries can get a bit too much.”
“The Japanese games development culture is still slightly "salaryman", everyone kind of avoids responsibility by remaining quiet but they persevere by themselves until they get the product done. Unfortunately, this lack of sharing is hurting the technical development of the games industry here in Japan. The Japanese never give up until all the details are in place and they try and leave nothing haphazard or rough-edged, or oozappa (in Japanese).”
Well, look no further, as "Game Dutch", from Japanese company Lofty is here to help. This "chest pillow" is designed to allow you the comfort of sleep while still being plugged in to your own virtual world. And it solves the problem of human contact by giving you something to hug whenever the occasional pangs of lonliness manage to creep through the constant battling of otherworldly creatures. Now thats what I call a chest pillow. If they could only make one that gives hea.... uh... back massages.
read full article here
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2007/01/game_dutch_for_.html .
It appears as though Asahi is at it again. This time they are milking the Brandy lovers for all they are worth by marketing 60-70 bottles of Louis XIII Black Pearl French brandy, Remy Cointreau Group's new high end brandy. The price tag: a measly 1 million yen. Thats right, a TEN-THOUSAND (US) DOLLAR bottle of brandy.
The 700-milliliter bottle is designed by Baccarat, a French crystal vessel maker, and the number of bottles produced will be limited to 786 (twice the number of living people liable to waste such an insane amount of cash on a bottle of booze). As for me, I'll stick with bathtub gin and Thunderbird.
view article at Japan">http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20070206a2.html">Japan Times.
The 700-milliliter bottle is designed by Baccarat, a French crystal vessel maker, and the number of bottles produced will be limited to 786 (twice the number of living people liable to waste such an insane amount of cash on a bottle of booze). As for me, I'll stick with bathtub gin and Thunderbird.
view article at Japan">http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20070206a2.html">Japan Times.
Keigo 敬語 けいご
"Honorific Japanese / Respectful language"
This is a real Western / Japanese divide that I think will never end mutually. As international business develops, one of these two powers is going to outplay the other, and from a biased Englishman point of view: Western will prevail.
Put simply, reducing yourself to the size of a fly and praising the people above you for being better in every way is not something Westerners do well. Some do, most dont... I for one just cannot. I even feel embarrassed watching visitors to the school come and introduce themselves, almost purposely appearing nervous wrecks in front of the staff they are meeting (even to me on some occassions) as they offer their services.
Rather than being impressed by them for showing respect and trying to offer their business in an honorific way, my first impression is negative and I lose all respect I might have had for them for degrading themselves so openly.
"Honorific Japanese / Respectful language"
This is a real Western / Japanese divide that I think will never end mutually. As international business develops, one of these two powers is going to outplay the other, and from a biased Englishman point of view: Western will prevail.
Put simply, reducing yourself to the size of a fly and praising the people above you for being better in every way is not something Westerners do well. Some do, most dont... I for one just cannot. I even feel embarrassed watching visitors to the school come and introduce themselves, almost purposely appearing nervous wrecks in front of the staff they are meeting (even to me on some occassions) as they offer their services.
Rather than being impressed by them for showing respect and trying to offer their business in an honorific way, my first impression is negative and I lose all respect I might have had for them for degrading themselves so openly.
'Global watchdog Transparency International' has created a list, the Bribe Payers Index 2006, of 30 countries which ranks how likely their businessmen are to pay bribes when operating abroad. The figures contained are from answers of over 11,000 people in 125 countries, and covers around 80% of the worlds exports.
The cleanest countries in the list were Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Austria, Canada and the United Kingdom. Japan placed 11th on the index, with the dirtiest (least transparent) country being India, followed by China, Russia, Turkey and Taiwan.
Read more at Mainichi Daily News.
The cleanest countries in the list were Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Austria, Canada and the United Kingdom. Japan placed 11th on the index, with the dirtiest (least transparent) country being India, followed by China, Russia, Turkey and Taiwan.
An official for the organization said it was time for countries at the bottom of the list including China, which is the world's fourth largest exporter, to "contribute to the vitality of tomorrow's markets." - Mainichi
Read more at Mainichi Daily News.
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