Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)... Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...   Thursday, March 14, 2002 I only got my hands on this software a couple of days ago, but already I can see how weblogging could become a seriously time-consuming habit. Am writing this while watching the 'highlights' (if they can be called this) of a programme called 'Koko ga hen da yo Nihonjin', which translates into something along the lines of 'Japanese people, this is odd!'. It's basically a programme where they get non-Japanese people to have a debate (in Japanese, or what's supposed to pass for Japanese) on a certain topic. Which would be fine if what ensued was anything remotely close to a debate. But it's not. Instead, the programme almost invariably degenerates into the lowest level of slanging-match. Who thinks that this makes good television, I wonder? And where do they get the foreigners from? Surely there can't be that many foreigners with such huge chips on their shoulders about anything and everything living in Japan, can there? (Or perhaps there can, given that we're taking about a programme presumably filmed in Tokyo...)      © Copyright 2003 Nathan Duckworth. Updated: 8/1/03; 7:43:25 pm.

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