“…clearly every country has its retards (yourself for example).” - Karl

“How old are you ampotan, 5?…Unfortunately there are also cretins out there (the youtube vid maker and yourself).” - hoju_saram

“…just because you’ve been brainwashed into believing this nonsense, doesn’t mean that the rest of the world does too.” - Memomachine

“…the ‘yarashii’ blogger” - Tobias Harris

“I never thought of you as being bright. Now that’s confirmed, ya little prick.” - Pawikirogi

“This is racist.” - Plunge

“I merely saw an extreme right-wing current flowing on this page.” - Cristobal

“His usual small-hearted rhetoric.” - Edith Cavell

“Denier of Japan’s less than glorious Imperial history.” - Edith Cavell

“Ampan-man…You must be one of those Sankei Shimbun readers.” - Bill Underwood

“…the audience for this piece is a couple of kids in junior high school…” - Ken

“Are you a lobbyist? One really has to wonder.” - Garrett

“You really really really don’t want to get it”. - Albion

“An odious half truth” - Dan

“AMPONTAN: Est. January 2007 by an American expat in Kyushu. He parrots Japanese reactionary conservative websites and viewpoints. His choice of topics and timing are suspiciously close to one that a PR professional may choose who was speaking for MOFA. Also posts travelogue-type descriptions of charming Japanese festivals. Ampontan is a misspelling of Anpontan, Japanese for a simpleton.” - Asia Policy Point

“I hope living in Japan for so long isn’t what turned you into a self-loathing racist.” - Paul

“…a broken record…” - John K

“…ludicrous, outrageous and biased…” - John K

“OK, I call horsehit. Ponta emails Bill then holds from commenting until Bill makes his comment, which is not amused, but angry, and ends by focusing on the issue of disagreement. Are we to believe that this idea of DeOrio somehow not being able to accept that Japanese people disagreeing with him stemmed from one email from Ponta? And all in a couple of hours at the absolute most?
Furthermore, Ponta returns to the fray no more than four minutes after Bill makes his comment?! And says nothing about it?
And Ponta and Bill “amPONTAn” just happen to know each other well enough to email each other over this kind of thing?
And always agree?
And Ponta appears on Bill’s blog to kiss his ass on a regular basis?
And Ponta, despite irregular misspellings and grammatical errors, makes those mistakes within complex grammatical structures that rarely interfere with meaning?
We’re into my area of expertise now. Ponta is not a Japanese person with good English, he’s an English-speaker attempting to sound Japanese, but who hasn’t ever made a careful study of HOW language learners actually speak and write.
Bill, you and Ponta have the same unusual idiosyncracies of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. You even make the same common typos. (I’m a regular readerof both TPR and Ampontan.)
Beyond that, Bill, you and Ponta argue in the same unusual way - the selective ignoring of points made, the repetition and rephrasing, the coming down on the same side of almost every issue. The fact that Ponta tends to pester and disrupt everywhere except for Ampontan.
Dude, give me a break. Bill-in-Ponta-character, as DeOrio always winds up complaining, you just don’t know how to make a reasoned argument. You clog up comment threads with epic nonsense. Knock it off.
DeOrio, I’m sorry, but you egg him on. You respond, you bite, you can’t let it go. Make a decision. Allow it and let it stand or just bar him, but don’t trade epic explanations for epic nonsense and scare away other commenters and readers. Knock it off.
Bill, grow up, be a man. If you want to kiss your own backside with fictional characters on your own blog go ahead, but be man enough to use your real f**king name and stand by your words - as you say you do.
Enough of this. You gum up Japan Probe, you gum up TPR. And now you can’t resist the chance to go one step too far in your charade.
It’s over. Cut it out.
All of you. This has f**king jack-s**t to do with Japan joining the UN.” - Steve Schapiro (presumably his real name), losing it after his tin foil hat slips on Trans-Pacific Radio