The sorry state of affairs in Japan is enough to turn WGs into FGs
News On Japan via Japan Times -- Jul 08
Many years ago I coined a phrase - "Frozen Gaijin" - to describe a particular kind of foreigner living in Japan.
A frozen gaijin can be recognized in an instant.
The longer frozen gaijin stay in Japan, the rosier everything in their native country looks to them.
Everyone in Australia becomes magnanimously multicultural; everyone in Germany, hardworking and scrupulous; everyone in India, forthright and ambitious. Even British beer starts tasting good to displaced Brits. Frozen gaijin not only feed off the sanguine stereotypes of their nationality, they exalt in them.
Frozen gaijin never tire of saying to Japanese people, "In my country we would never do things like this." Unusual (to them) Japanese traits are seen as, at best, quirky - and, at worst, backward. They are often heard to "urge" Japanese to scrap all the "outdated" features of their society and become "international" or, to use the trendier phrase, "global."
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May 22
| Cops crack down on porn films targeting lolicon lechers |
|  With crackdowns on violators of child prostitution and pornography statutes having increased in recent years, Nikkan Gendai (May 17) wonders how a manager of an online operation that primarily sold lolicon (“Lolita complex”) films was able to evade detection for an extended period prior to his arrest earlier this month. (Tokyo Reporter) |
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May 22
| X Japan waxes lyrical at Madame Tussauds debut |
|  This Monday, members of the seminal metal band X Japan were in Odaiba rubbing shoulders with the likes of Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and AKB48′s Yuko Oshima. The catch? They were all made out of wax. (Japan Times  ) |
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May 21
| Senior Kyodo News official dismissed over improper act |
|  Kyodo News said Monday that it has dismissed Satoshi Kondo, 51, deputy chief of its general administration bureau and former personnel affairs division chief, for meeting individually with a female student searching for a job and doing an inappropriate act.
(Jiji Press ) |
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May 19
| Japan's child kidnapping problem |
|  Dozens of American children are abducted to Japan every year-not by strangers, but by parents after messy divorces. (thedailybeast.com ) |
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has announced that it intends to draw up a set of unified rules for the use of baby strollers on buses and trains. (Japan Today 
Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito will visit Spain for seven days from June 10, the government said Tuesday. (Jiji Press 
Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Monday announced the arrest of a broker of Thai females for violating immigration laws by employing the women as masseuses. (Tokyo Reporter 
The parents of a nightclub worker killed in an arson fire three years ago filed a suit in the Nagoya District Court on Monday seeking damages against top members of the Yamaguchi-gumi organized crime group. (Tokyo Reporter 
Saitama and Okayama prefectural police last week arrested the manager of an online porn DVD operation that specialized in films featuring children. (Tokyo Reporter) 
A 5-year-old boy sustained an injury at a shopping mall in Nagoya on Friday after his hand became trapped in an escalator. (Japan Today