Made in Japan

Nope, it's worldwide. I'm Australian, and my recalled car is a Mazda 6 which I think was probably made in Japan (it would make sense to manufacture all the right hand drive versions in the same facility).

Oblivious to the issue? Or just "there is no issue"?

The exclusion of an Asian actor from auditioning for Death Note strikes me as wrong, but if the director is going for a certain aesthetic, it's hardly racial discrimination.

But irt GITS, Johanssen fits the aesthetic. Most of those asked noted that she resembled anime characters ergo it's fine. Seems to me that the furor is a bunch of white people deciding that because something was made in Japan, that it must be interpreted as "Japanese actors only", when even the Japanese see anime as apart from their own racial distinctiveness...

If the culture that produced the original IP doesn't have a problem with non-Japanese actors playing the role, isn't it a tad presumptuous for white people to get offended about it? \= )

Bit of a storm in a teacup really.

When I was around 12 I got my first album and it was Deep Purple Made in Japan. Machine head is a must. DP has always been a favorite.

Child in time Live is the greatest

Made in Japan. It's a late 90's/early 2000's model. Came with the tremolo installed.
http://ibanez.wikia.com/wiki/Edge

It could be user error.

One of the early ones made in Japan? Cause Japan tends to make a decent guitar over say China or Korea-Did it COME with a floating tremolo?

Checked-they're all made in Japan, did come with it-The deal with tremolos is, that there are most likely only a few that can stand up to serious wangin'-on and stay in tune, and those are the ones on some really solid guitars that run in the 1500-3000 dollar new range. Otherwise, you could always get you a vintage Fender Jazzmaster....hehhe, sell yer car and get one!!

Talk to a guitar tech and they'll probably tell you that even a better floating trem wouldn't do well on that Ibanez.

Best DP album Made in Japan
and the best song is Child in time live from that album.

Pro lenses are made in Japan. Consumer lenses are made in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Malaysia.
*Asia
*Engineering

>> ^legacy0100:

I found this to be in poor taste, racist even.
You know this is made in Japan, by Japanese people, right?

"What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."

Awesome.

>> ^Truckchase:

After other incidents (Hati) I'm very skeptical of major charity organiztions right now; I really want to donate towards the relief effort but I'm uncertain as to who can be trusted. Does anyone have any charity reccomendations that have been conclusively vetted? (links please!)
I don't think Japan needs too much financial help right now. I think they will need a lot more help a bit later on for their economy to recover. At that point you can buy "Made In Japan" products...Or take a trip and spend some money there.

Apart from the whole Keynote thing meaning you only really have one option...

To me there is really only one "travel" laptop. I really like mine (even if its a 5-6 year old model now) http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/laptop-computers.asp

Panasonic also still makes the laptops themselves. Not foxconn, not some outsourced company in china. Still ALL made in Japan. And this is why they are more expensive.

Not really Japanese gun film, but US film made over Japan. This would be the summer of 1945, after Okinawa was finished, and the USAAF (US Army Air Force) would be sending fighter missions over Japan looking for targets of opportunity - whatever looked like it could help resist the coming invasion of Japan. SO trains, boats, ships, planes, just about any vehicle and factories. At this point, the atomic bomb was unknown, and they were preparing an invasion that would cause an estimated 1 million US casualties and 10 million Japanese. SO anything they could destroy now was something they wouldn't have to destroy later. And the Japanese were preparing to use everything they had, including women and children, to repel the attack.

One thing that they don't realise is that many of the older games DID have "gay" aspects to em. It wasn't uncommon for games made in japan (ie, most of them) to contain both risque images (girls with the tank tops in final fight) to flamboyant designed characters which eventually get replaced or removed in the American release. Same thing happened with anime back in the day when it was outfitted for american cable tv. Scenes featuring characters that clearly liked the same gender (or some other perversion) often had lines changed, or the scene was just cut.

>> ^spoco2:
This doesn't get a WTF from me in the sense of 'Holy cow, are they really doing that?'
This gets a WTF from me in the sense of 'Really, people older than about 12 years old find this sort of stuff entertaining?'
Really, Anime fricken leaves me so cold. People wax on and on and on and on about how it's so damn superior to western animation, but really, so much of it is lazy (a LOT has an awful lot of static image in the frame with barely a mouth moving), outlets for the repression of the Japanese culture. The amount of violence and sexual abuse that is in these things is truly horrible. I found the violence funny when I was a kid, but after that, it just bores the pants off me.


How do you know this anime was made for people above the age of 12? Studio Ghibli films are usually for kids, I thought.

As for the rest of your post, I certainly spend more time enjoying animation that's "Made in Japan" than animation that's "Made in America", but I don't see why I should care either way. I'm an American. If I draw a shitty cartoon in my basement, am I automatically an example of shitty American animation? At what point is my failure my own and not my country's? Factor in multi-national corporations/ownership and the whole issue becomes even more muddled. Dreamworks and Pixar, to my knowledge, are the sole two animation companies in "The West" that are admired, and Dreamworks is owned by an Indian company based in Mumbai. Elsewhere, multiple anime titles have been and are being produced by Japanese studios specifically to appeal to "Western" audiences (read: white middle class youth), or at the very least significantly factor in their interests.

Anyway, the giant budget 3D animated movies cost dozens of millions of dollars to produce, and only offer up perhaps 90 minutes of entertainment after years of production time (The Incredibles cost $92 million, Wall-E: a whopping $180 million). Because of the massive budgets these movies require, the scripts of these films rarely take any risks. Everything's rated G and has a story that is very "lowest common denominator" in my eyes. I'm getting far too old to enjoy these films beyond their technical merits, since their target audience is primarily below the age of 14.

Meanwhile, partially due to smaller budget requirements in anime production, I can choose all sorts of anime that tries to cater to a slightly older crowd. Very little anime attempts to appeal to anyone above the age of 30, but even in the "age 13-18" type shows, there's interesting themes to chew on. One of my fav animes, Gundam, is basically Star Trek with robots. Its creators have described the show as a humanist show, and the shows take on imperialism, racism, and war really line up with what I saw in the humanist Star Trek shows (I loved TNG/DS9). Since Star Trek has been dead for a while, it's nice to have a place to go to (btw: the upcoming movie will abandon much of what the shows were about in favor of violence and sex). Most Gundam shows are about a teenage boy who hops into a war robot, gets traumatized by war, manipulated by corrupt politicians into fighting questionable wars, and deals with issues of imperialism. Not the most intellectually challenging stuff in the world, I know, but it sure beats what I've seen in stuff like 24 or Heroes and a lot of other dramas on the major networks. And those are aimed at considerably older demographics. I think the much smaller budget requirements of anime helps studios create things for niche demographics (such as sci-fi loving humanists) and that's good for me. Are they technically superior to something like Wall-E? Not by a long shot. But a 1,000 minute Gundam series didn't cost $180 million every 90 minutes either, and yet still left me more entertained.