Major Japanese Monthly (VOICE) In-Depth Article On Obama "Arrogance, Inexperience, Weakness"

"Voice" Magazine, Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese) ^ | August 2009 Issue (hits stands now) | Yoshiki Hidaka (through "Voice" Magazine)

[AmericanInTokyo]

Just a heads up to Freepers and fellow Americans.

Major Japanese political monthly, now on the newsstands here in Tokyo, called "VOICE", published only in Japanese by PHP Publishing House, has a significant article breaking the news of the TRUTH of Barack Obama to the Japanese People, after months of uncritical adoration by nearly 100% of the Japanese Mass Media outlets.

I hereby synopsize translate some points/subtitles of article, and provide a URL link to the Japanese site. If time permits a synop-translation may be provided on FRs. In the meantime, it is interesting to finally see these critical articles emerge internationally, and they are in line with Mr. Obama's unpopularity rise in the USA (to to mention a series of failures in critical foreign policy tests the Japanese are picking up, least of which is appeasement/indifference regarding North Korea):

A World With Superpower Leaving The Stage

Obama to Beat The Cr*p Out of Asia and Kick Up Chaos

Arrogance, Lack of Experience and Incomplete Staff of Advisors

The Shock of (new) US Ambassador Loose to Japan

Israel/Saudi Cooperation?

Rising Threat of Nuclear War

Does Not Grasp The Totality of China

And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo.....

[AmericanInTokyo]

For general comment.(Title of article, in red text, on the left side just below "Voice" logo).

[AmericanInTokyo]

pingu desu!

[null and void]

A series, no doubt?

I mean, how could the cover it adequately in one issue?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Oh, believe me, this is just the beginning.

[null and void]

Do tell...

[Jet Jaguar]

Arrogance, Inexperience, Weakness.

True dat.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Bottom line (”he is screwing up the US-Japan alliance”).

[dsc]

There are several interesting headlines on that page.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Also claimed in this Japanese article that the Obama foreign policy seems to be (claimed) as one amounting to:

敵に優しく、見方に厳しい

"Soft with Enemies. Tough on Allies (Friends)."

[2ndDivisionVet]

I saw an article here a few months ago that said the French, especially their intelligence & security services, are laughing their heads off at Mr. Obama and his naivete, bumbling, gaffes, etc.. Does anyone know where I can find that again?

[Vigilanteman]

I would translate the headline in the far left column as

The World's Vanishing Superpower

Obama Throws Asia into Chaos

Is there a link to the full article? I can't seem to figure it out. I haven't lived in Japan in over seven years and am not familiar with Voice. Is it a new publication?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, the other one which caught my eye--and may have caught yours, was "The Nationalization of GM and the Fall of the United States".

Nice little article there......

[brityank]

Arrogance, Lack of Experience and Incomplete Staff of Advisors

I know nothing of Japanese idiom, but are you sure that should not be "Arrogance, Lack of Experience and Incompetent Staff of Advisors" ??

      ;^)

Seriously, many thanks AIT for your info from a source other than the fawning maggots of the US MSM.

[pissant]

What is the japanese phrase for ‘gay crack whore’? That’s Obama

[skinkinthegrass]

thanks, for the information / post.
I wish, I could read Japanese / Nihonese.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The first issue was November of 2002.

Here is this month's cover:

Hidaka-san might well have his 原稿 in English. If not, he should!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Of course they are INCOMPETENT 無能な , most correct there, brityank, but actually the Japanese article said "incomplete" as in, after six months on the job, he still does not have important people in place and on/in key positions--(relating probably to Asia more than likely).

Actually, and ironically, the more Obama appointments, the more inmates to run the asylum!

[Vigilanteman]

I left Japan in April 2002, so I guess that explains why I’ve never heard of Voice until now. It looks like a great magazine, just scanning the headlines.

[Ronin]

This is pretty interesting. I am not familiar with “Voice” so I am not sure how influential it is, but it is definitely a different take from the lockstep rave reviews the media here has been dishing out.

It will be interesting to see how the other outlets react to it. I will be keeping an eye on Nikkei to see if this represents the start of a trend.

One thing I will bet on, is that if they ever get around to analyzing Nagatacho’s discomfort with Obama, they will find its roots in his bow to the Saudi Arabian king.

I don’t think a single American President has bowed to the Japanese Emperor. Nor has he ever been expected to. And you know how seriously they take bowing in this country.

[AmericanInTokyo]

同性愛者的なコカイン常用者

[pissant]

Excellent. The only japenese I know is Saki, Toyota and Godzilla.

[BIGLOOK]

敵に優しく、見方に厳しい

Seven DPRK unguided missile launches certainly give pause to previous thinking.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The J mainstream press here, yes, is not fully into anti-Obama mode yet, but the word on the street and confidentially and especially after a few beers or sake, is, within J. leadership at least, the guy is an absolute lightweight [ 未熟な人・つまらない人　] and in way over his head. Which is what we Freepers have already known (but not a lot of our fellow Americans it seems). The effect of a controlled media, I suppose.

[Islander2]

You asked, “What is the japanese phrase for ‘gay crack whore’?”

Haven’t been back to Nihon (Osaka) for 30 some years, but I will take a shot at the phrase.

Okama no maiyaku chudoku.

Machigai dattara, erai summahen. Kawachi no janyan yori.

[AmericanInTokyo]

No link to the article online. One might need to subscribe. Can “snippet” it later, perhaps.

[Frantzie]

Hey Japan - business bad for Toyota and Honda in America? Nobody spending too much money here Ginzu-san? You can thank Obama and your fawning praise for your export to USA being down thanks to Obama Depression. Maybe the Yakuza can find his BC.

[null and void]

To the best of my knowledge no American president has ever bowed to the leader of another country.

[windsorknot]

“Sayonara, Obama” can’t come soon enough.

[AmericanInTokyo]

NAILED IT! Bullseye.

You know da' Japanese.

[pissant]

It all sounds greek to me

[AmericanInTokyo]

good job ;-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

lol!

[BIGLOOK]

実質のないフォーム。

[Suz in AZ]

Try this... copy the url (http://www.php.co.jp/magazine/voice/) into Google and hit “translate”.

[AmericanInTokyo]

More like "出て行け！" (dette ikei!) or the Japanese version of "GTFO."

[null and void]

Japanese article said "incomplete"

From what little I know, the Japanese value completeness. It is a cultural/spiritual value that a thing be whole.

Am I correct?

[jpsb]

"Arrogance, Inexperience, Weakness."

BUMP, the Samiri are not happy. Very bad news for Obama and the Chinese.

[AmericanInTokyo]

How about 空スイツ (I made this one up).

Literally "empty suit". (aki suutsu, or perhaps kara suutsu)

[null and void]

Excellent. The only japenese I know is Saki, Toyota and Godzilla.

Subaru = the Pleiades

[AmericanInTokyo]

Some of this is cultural, yes, and believe me, things take time in Japan, too, anyone will tell you--you can wait a lifetime for decisions and action. But their conservative-led government nowadays has grown increasingly dispondent with the rate ZERO is placing people in authority who actually know something about Japan and Asia, into, well, positions dealing with Japan and Asia.

[matthew fuller]

Our President is an IDIOT! Who knew?

[Vigilanteman]

OK, thanks. I would appreciate it if you would and ping me. I'm still very interested in Japanese opinion pieces, particularly those that are originals and not regurgitation's from the enemedia like Reuters and AP.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I think we need a Japanese “Captain Obvious” to show up on this thread! lol

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, you do have to sift through the journalistic BARF on this side of the Pacific, too, (there are lots of lib Japanese in MSM) to really get the jewels and gold nuggets. It is painstaking at times. I will try. You have my word.

[dadgum]

“Gay crack whore” may be a term of endearment within his crowd of sycophants.

[null and void]

Yeah, well we think long term planning is thinking about the next quarter, don’t we?

A lethal disadvantage in dealing with an enemy who thinks a generation is short term.

Barack is in a hurry even by American standards.

See Rev 12:12...

“...Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

[Bellflower]

It seemed like an automatic genuflect, like he had bankrolled him and Ob owed him homage and felt servile in his presence.

[AmericanInTokyo]

They sure were not voting en-masse for Duncan Hunter, were they!?

[BIGLOOK]

I said the same thing to my brother....he laughed a little.

But he's on the mainland, far from the threats from the Korcoms; I told him he's not that far from Chicago or Detroit....and he stopped laughing.

Seems the domestic threats strike home first.

[matthew fuller]

"“...Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time."

Hopefully, the devil has but a very short time on this earth, and it ends very soon.