tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post4907926535923567490..comments2024-03-14T07:32:30.141+09:00Comments on Marketing Japan: Three Generations to Greatnessmike in tokyo rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-51787042205253056532013-07-07T13:10:41.856+09:002013-07-07T13:10:41.856+09:00Thanks IndividualAudienceMember!
The DUI checkpoin...Thanks IndividualAudienceMember!<br />The DUI checkpoints? Yes. They've started that nonsense in Japan too. I've been stopped 3 times, but I do not participate and simply reply, "No thank you!" I also tell them, if they get feisty, ""Do you have any reason to suspect that I have been drinking? No? Then, no thank you and may I go on my way?" Roads in japan are very narrow and they've let me go all three times because I just sit there and then, when dozens and dozens of cars start backing up, they freak out and let me go....Here is an account of the last time I went through this sort of thing (not a DUI) at Narita airport. :http://modernmarketingjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/03/dont-submit-to-illegal-searches-narita.htmlmike in tokyo rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04977446676243085409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2207076947655236975.post-83526806161517480592013-07-07T13:05:00.980+09:002013-07-07T13:05:00.980+09:00"I thought that this story might be useful to..."I thought that this story might be useful to those of us who sometimes wonder why they are on this earth and what their purpose is."<br /><br />Legacy.<br /><br />Easy to see (for some?) as a parent, not so easy for those who are not.<br /><br />The Will Rogers quote makes it seem like a tramp is such a bad thing,... as say in comparison to a politician?<br /><br />"Grandfather works hard as a day laborer. He struggles and saves. He builds a good business. He doesn't want his children to struggle and suffer as he did. He wants them to become doctors or lawyers."<br /><br />Unless of course he thinks doctors and lawyers are all lying no good s.o.b.'s.<br /><br />“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”<br /><br />(Marcia Angell, MD, The New York Review of Books, January 15, 2009)<br /><br />SO i guess maybe the Grandfather meant doctors like Dr. Mercola?<br /><br />Anyway, as I read this I envisioned the Grandfather wanting to pass on the labor business to the son rather than create a lawyer.<br /><br />I also envision the Grandfather sending the child to piano school and the child hates it.<br /><br />Pardon my contrary rant. <br />I liked the blog entry anyway.<br /><br />Due to a conversation I'm involved with elsewhere, Now I shift gears and wonder what the D.U.I. checkpoints in Japan look like.<br /><br />After reading this blog for awhile, I wonder if there are any?<br />If not, might be a good place to send a grandchild.<br /><br />... And what's Moby Dick got to do with any of this?<br /><br />Just thinking out loud.<br /><br />- IndividualAudienceMemberAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com