Truth About Japanese
2005.10.18 5:57

We have two baseball leagues, one is Central League and the other is Pacific League. SoftBank Hawks belongs to this Pacific League and the first winner of the 145 games long pennant race with 4.5 games margin. But the team had to win the play-off.
SoftBank Hawks lost to Lotte Marines with the total score 3 to 4 in 7 games.
SoftBank is an affiliate company of Yahoo! in Japan led by Masayoshi Son, whose ancester was originally from China more than 10 generations ago and from Korea more than 5 generation ago, he was born here in Yahoo! City, but educated in the US. The manager of SoftBank Hawks is Sadaharu Oh, who is wellknown as a homerun world recordholder with the total 846 homeruns is half Taiwanese.
On the other hands, Lotte was founded by wellknown Korean Japanese, and his company is not only big here but in Korea too.
Many Japanese believe they are Japanese, but they are just the result of intermixture from surrounding neighbouring areas, and countries.
Last game was held in Yahoo! Dome whose capacity is 48,000. There were many Hawks fans as well as Lotte fans, after the battle they went together to have some beer in downtown.
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Ainu(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.10.18 6:13 (#13812167) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.10.20 8:41)
I'd venture to say (but there are no pureblood Ainu left) that the Ainu are the only true Japanese. The rest are obviously a mixture of aisan races who landed in the Islands over the centuries.I still have yet to hear a believeable theory of where the Ainu came from; but the mongolian desert mummies, most of whom were caucasians and date back at least 10,000 years, provide a tantalizing clue of eastward expansion from the caucasian mountains.
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Tower of Babel(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.18 6:52 (#13812453) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.20 5:21)
I think it's high time to forget about our ancestry background. Probably Ainu are thought to be one of the earliest tribes who migrated from Caucasus to eastward soon after the end of glacier period and left untouched out of the wave of intermarriages from other races.
On the other hands American native peoples are thought to be from Asian continent at the time still two continents were connected in northern lands, migrated through on foot and spread all over the two American continents long before Europeans came to the continents.
But I must say all these facts or speculations were gone or have no significant meaning in our daily life.
We all live in the age of Internet, now all we are in Tower of Babel, we don't have to worry about our difficulty in communication any more.
By the way your thousands comments in Draft is amazing. You must have learned a lot about economics. I took my hat off.
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Re:Tower of Babel(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.10.18 6:54 (#13812478) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.10.20 8:41)
It was only hundreds of comments- and I focused in on the obvioius hole. The libertarian/Austrian argument against interventionism sounds fine- until you examine what society woud be like without such interventions by the government into business.
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Re:Tower of Babel(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.10.18 7:24 (#13812683) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.20 5:21)
These points are controversial. I keep silence for a while.
As to Tower of Babel, this is not a symbol of human arrogance. People started migrating with convincing that they are still able to communicate each other. But once they started moving they found difficulty in communication. That was the result of their arrogance. They had to wait another several thousands years to be able to communicate each other again.
Internet is the Tower of Babel in our times. Whether God will punish us again is not sure though.
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