New "Bushism" Slang Word Sweeps Japan! "KAKKATE KOI!" ("OK, Bring Them On"): Japanese Press

Nikkan Gendai News ^ | 4 July 2003 | AmericanInTokyo

[lawdude]

I love it.

[ErinsDaddy]

No, this is the phrase the Japanese PM used just before GW's Dad hurled on him.

The Japanese always get what they ask for--you would think they would have learned by now.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Heck, who DOESNT?? :0

[Treasa]

This goes to show how much confidence Our President has in our military. :)

[AmericanInTokyo]

KAKKATE KOI!!!

[f.Christian]

To: AmericanInTokyo

What a REFRESHING change!!REAL LEADERSHIP!!!!God,I LOVE "W"!!!!!!!!!!!!!


37 posted on 07/03/2003 7:54 AM PDT by bandleader

[jla]

This goes to show how much confidence Our President has in our military.

That's an excellent point, and I'm sure the feeling's mutual.

[jla]

This goes to show how much confidence Our President has in our military.

That's an excellent point, and I'm sure the feeling's mutual.

[Treasa]

oh you bet! YOu can see it in thier eyes when the President visits any of the military...I'm so glad to see both standing Proud these days...

[dr_who_2]

Perhaps this illustrates it best.

[dr_who_2]

Perhaps this illustrates it best.

[AnAmericanMother]

Thank you!

Can always count on your posts being interesting AND educational.

I'm studying aikido, so I know just enough Japanese to get myself into some serious trouble.

(And I am going to CAREFULLY refrain from saying anything that might sound like "Kakkate koi!" within 2-3 blocks of the dojo . . . . :-D )

[AmericanInTokyo]

Actually, I struck up a conversation with him one day in the lobby-level bar of the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo about 10 years ago. It was only 4:00 p.m. and he was already starting--alone. Seemed like a lonely fellow but quite approachable and not arrogant at all. He seemed pleased to talk with me a little bit in Japanese--he might have dismissed me if I rambled on in English--another benefit to languages. And yes, even off camera, Mifune had that gruff samurai grunt way of talking that John Belushi copied. Poor fellow. R.I.P.

[Question_Assumptions]

Nihon Bump.

[AnAmericanMother]

Mifune was amazing in "Seven Samurai". First exposure I ever had to Japanese tradition, after the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, which enchanted me as a child (and still do). I have told some of his versions of traditional Japanese ghost stories to a tough audience (6th grade boys) with very good effect. Does anybody remember "Herun-san" in Japan nowadays?

[Ronin]

Yabai!!!

[Ronin]

Bump

[Bobibutu]

I remember back in '67 during the 6 day war Japanese were wearing a button that was simply "5 - 10 - 5" ... said it all.

:-)

[Wombat101]

Here's another one, if you don't know it already..."Shimatta" (SHE-mat-Ah)...It means, roughly, "I f***ed up!".

[George W. Bush]

Great report! Thanks for the laugh. Our Japanese friends are underappreciated in these days when other so-called allies turn out to be fair-weather friends or in bed with a brutal dictator like Saddam.

I'm just picturing these working-class Japanese guys saying "Okay, bring it on then!". Biff! Bang-boom! Ow!

Hilarious.