Re: "Prime Minister Shinzo": I'm not actually sure that we can conclude that Trump doesn't know how Asian names work just from that gaffe. It's true that Japanese names, like Chinese and Korean names, go surname first, given name second. But the thing is, that's only necessarily true if actually speaking or writing in…

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A slight way in which it might be semi-appropriate to call it sushi, if they've done something I don't see that they have here. I've been seeing rice flour-based pastries and breads becoming more popular here in Japan, these past few years. It's not out of any gluten-free kuso-detarame; these pastries and breads…

Japan is actually kind of a strange example for them to use here; it's actually a lot more liberal than the US is itself when it comes to personal importation of drugs (I believe the Food and Drugs Act technically bans the importation of virtually all drugs into the US by individuals, even if it isn't necessarily…

Yes, because it's physically impossible to do nasty things to people if you learn their language, and, conversely, everyone who might want to move somewhere but for whatever reason can't or won't speak the majority tongue will necessarily want to oppress the natives. It's simply inconceivable, even hypothetically,…

I think one would be hard pressed to find that many people of any political persuasion who would claim that something should be done merely because another country does it, even if they would admit to generally liking things in that country. Left wingers point to European healthcare systems and the like because…