Yeah, it's ruff there is the crazy work hours and then often the "mandatory" drinking parties after work. It really can put your own culture in perspective.
Unfortunately, the past war crimes, were horrific and the lack of accountability for them remains an issue. I can not speak for the average Japanese citizen but I have a feeling most of the Japanese people are ashamed of the cult of personality of their past leaders and wish the current government would handle things like the controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine differently. Much like most American's don't support Trumpism.
The crime rate and especially the murder rate compared the the US is shockingly different.
One of the highlights of my life was having a chance to live with a family in the Tokyo suburbs - in Akitsu Higashimurayama. Miss them so much. お母さん に 会いたい な~
A lot of the pay and benefit increases come with an expectation that the worker will increase their productivity. US workers have been conditioned to blame themselves if they don't meet these expectations and it has become baked into the work culture. We can not maintain the current imbalance in pay disparity and 1% wealth without structural changes but it's culturally forbidden to even talk about this without being accused of being a communist. This paradigm has been created after decades of messaging from the system that supports the existing oligarchy - IMO.
I'm interested in finding ways to use it but when if I'm writing code I really like the spectrum of different answers on stack overflow with comment's on WHY they did it that way. Might use it for boring emails though.
It was good...might have been 2012 or 2015...Jeff had a lot of musicians helping him out on stage to reproduce the sound. Got the feeling he really wanted to give the fans a good show. I think i remember the guy from elf power getting out the saw even... Just read on his wiki that "Slate described Mangum as the "Salinger of Indie Rock."" So kind of cool that he gets out there and does it at all, I was grateful.
Saw a version of NMH at the Moore theater in Seattle... I think several people from Elf Power were helping out. Such a classic album!!! Never thought I'd get a chance to see them.
Hopefully music is still happening like this somewhere in American
Based on my memory, like a lot of musicians in the "good old days", the record label cut him out of everything and actively hid royalties from him. The documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" goes into more details. As i recall they find the producer but can't find the money. Great Doc check it out. Also found this " One of the dramatic highlights of the film is when the interviewer confronts Clarence Avant, the label’s owner. “What happened to all of the royalties?” the interviewer asks. Avant becomes visibly agitated and is unable to offer a satisfactory answer to the question. "
Classic tail of an great artist who got fucked by the music industry...
She's even sighted in the wikipedia article "In 2023, Linda Yaccarino was appointed as the CEO of Twitter while the company was facing an uncertain future and a number of challenges, including outages, user discontent and advertiser skepticism. The company lost more than half of its value since its acquisition by Elon Musk six months prior."