Comments on: Nippon Noel: How the Japanese spend Christmas http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nippon-noel-how-the-japanese-spend-christmas/ Japan from the inside out Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:32:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Global Voices بالعربية » الأرشيف » اليابان: كيف يقضي اليابانيين عيد الميلاد http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nippon-noel-how-the-japanese-spend-christmas/#comment-12036 Global Voices بالعربية » الأرشيف » اليابان: كيف يقضي اليابانيين عيد الميلاد Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:15:28 +0000 http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nippon-noel-how-the-japanese-spend-christmas/#comment-12036 [...] Ampontan يدون عن استطلاع للرأي حول كيف يقضي اليابانيين عيد الميلاد. Oiwan [...] [...] Ampontan يدون عن استطلاع للرأي حول كيف يقضي اليابانيين عيد الميلاد. Oiwan [...]

]]> By: Dave Lucas' Notes http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nippon-noel-how-the-japanese-spend-christmas/#comment-12032 Dave Lucas' Notes Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:52:29 +0000 http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nippon-noel-how-the-japanese-spend-christmas/#comment-12032 <strong>Around The Blogosphere 24 December 07</strong> Seasons Greetings / Merry christmas to all of my friends, readers and fellow-bloggers out there! Around The Blogosphere 24 December 07

Seasons Greetings / Merry christmas to all of my friends, readers and fellow-bloggers out there!

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Japan: How the Japanese spend Christmas http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nippon-noel-how-the-japanese-spend-christmas/#comment-12019 Global Voices Online » Japan: How the Japanese spend Christmas Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:44:06 +0000 http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nippon-noel-how-the-japanese-spend-christmas/#comment-12019 [...] blogs a survey on how Japanese spend their Christmas. Share [...] [...] blogs a survey on how Japanese spend their Christmas. Share [...]

]]> By: Overthinker http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nippon-noel-how-the-japanese-spend-christmas/#comment-11992 Overthinker Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:50:44 +0000 http://ampontan.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/nippon-noel-how-the-japanese-spend-christmas/#comment-11992 "The survey group concluded that people aren’t splurging as they did during the bubble economy days, despite Japan’s brightening economic picture." Well, duh. But seriously, this idea that Japan's economy hasn't recovered until things "return to the Bubble days" of spending etc is not healthy. The bubble was not healthy. Flash, glam, expensive and heady perhaps, but then so is getting drunk on Pol Roger or Krug. “The survey group concluded that people aren’t splurging as they did during the bubble economy days, despite Japan’s brightening economic picture.”

Well, duh.
But seriously, this idea that Japan’s economy hasn’t recovered until things “return to the Bubble days” of spending etc is not healthy. The bubble was not healthy. Flash, glam, expensive and heady perhaps, but then so is getting drunk on Pol Roger or Krug.

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