Congratulations!
December 8th, 2009
It was a relatively small graduating class this semester, but a very good one. Congratulations, guys!
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- Bush & Character: Part I, Part II, Part III
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- Japan Remembrances: I, II, III, IV, V, VI
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- Bush's Amended and Redacted Bill of Rights
- Hit by Lightning, Part I, Part II
- Psychics: Part I, Part II
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- Worst. President. Ever. (list of Bush crimes & screw-ups)
- Democrats: The Party of Responsible Economics
- In Case There Was Any Doubt (middle class tax burden)
- The Right Wing Assault on the Middle Class
- Fundamental Constitutionalism
- Hattori Revisited
- The Content of Their Character
- Ten Words
- Judicial Nominees
- The Right Wing War on the Judiciary and the Constitution
- The GOP Way: Blame Everyone Else
- If Clinton Had Done This...
- Another Bush Lie: Everyone Thought Iraq had WMD
- Osama on a Silver Platter?
- A.W.O.L.
- Cowards hiding Behind the Honor of Soldiers
- Media Filters and the Tools of Perception
- Using Fear As a Political Tool
- No, They Hate the Troops
- America Like Japan Like America?
- Move On, But Don't Forget
- The Futility of SETI
- The Invasiveness of DRM
- Certifiably Thuggish
- Adolescent Abstinence and Self-Delusion
- Always the Claim...
- Inventing the "Invented" Myth
- There Is a Point Beyond Bias
- "Honor and Dignity"
- Despite the Image (Bush on Security)
- Bush's War (Iraq sum-up)
- Not the Same Will to War
- The Art of Lying
- The Upside of Claiming the Downside
- Bush Cronyism in Texas
- Eyelid Twitching (An Internet Landmark!)
- The Great Chicken Struggle (hilarious hamster video)
- Was I Right? (Pretty much, yes)
- Evolution/Creationism Database
- Birdwatching Locations in Tokyo
- How to Avoid Email Spam
- Apartment Hunting in Japan: Updated, Part I, Part II
- The Republican Dictionary
- Making a Web Site - Domain & Hosting: Part I, Part II
- Filing U.S. Taxes from Japan (Unofficial)
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Yeah, I Started Twittering
- No public Twitter messages.
demographically, this is the trend of 21st century Japan — smaller & smaller.
Japan’s population peaked 2005-2007 and is declining now apparently.
In 1992, when I was FOB, I didn’t really grok that Japan was at its demographic peak as far as college kids goes . . . in that year there were around 10M college-aged 18-22.
Every 4 years since then this number has declined 10% so now there is only maybe 7M college-aged kids in Japan. In 2038 this will be 5M and in 2068 maybe 4M.
The major cities are somewhat insulated from this population shock as they can import youth — almost 50% of the population now lives within 50km of Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya.
Anyhoo, I *do* miss Tokyo college kids. So classy. Please write more about Japan and less about the US BS . . . is the hiring situation college grads face still horrendous? It’s horrible here in the US, of course, 5X worse than the early 90s.