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I find it funny how they basically value the marginally informed opinion of a researcher in the USA over the word of someone actually involved in the story へ‿(ツ

• nicolas_t 8y ago
  Yes, that jumped out at me too :)
• andrewl 8y ago
  Sabine Fruhstuck, the professor interviewed, appears to be more than marginally informed: http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/sabine-fruhstuck/ http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/sabine-fruhstuc... Her specialty area is listed as Modern Japanese Cultural Studies. She's researched and written on sexuality in Japan, Japanese military culture, Japanese leisure culture, men's issues, and more. I think a foreign researcher who had spent a career immersed in my culture (I live in the United States) could well have more insight into how pieces of it fit together than I would.
  • fenomas 8y ago
    I imagine GP may have meant "marginally informed" about the company specifically - the article makes it sound like her judgment of it is based its website.
• amarant 8y ago
  it's also funny how that researchers name is the german word for breakfast. I couldn't help imagining the journalist interviewing a bowl of cereals