I’m in the newspaper!
The Japan Times, as part of their Blogroll feature, decided to interview me! To answer one email question, the shop where the photo was taken is Konig’s Krone, a very nice and reasonably-priced tea and cake shop based in Kobe but with branches in many big cities. The particular one I was in is located in the underground passage from Hanshin Sannomiya to Mint Kobe. When they asked for a photo, it was rather surprising to realise quite how many of them featured me and some cake, and that was the one with the least amount of cake and the most amount of me.
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vincent said,
November 15, 2007 @ 00:58
Congratulations! Nice picture, nice article. Good blog.
Eloy said,
November 15, 2007 @ 08:08
That’s cool. Sweet blog.
Mari said,
November 15, 2007 @ 11:12
Just read the article. Have added your RSS Feed. Really interesting stuff, cool blog!
Joseph said,
November 15, 2007 @ 14:35
Congrats. Keep up the great work!
Shari said,
November 16, 2007 @ 10:01
You certainly deserve the attention and I hope it increases your site traffic.
BTW, why is it that you “avoid other foreigners?” (You said you’re anti-social but you specifically said you avoid foreigners, not all people so I assume you don’t mind hanging out with Japanese people.)
Garrett said,
November 16, 2007 @ 21:15
Ken, congrats. It’s about time the Japan Times got around to profiling one of my few daily reads. Thanks for mentioning TPR, too! Bless you, sir, you’re a gentleman and a scholar, even if your best-known work is letting the Anglophone world know when Japanese men first heard their wives break wind. (Like you, I wouldn’t dare answer such a question lest I find out whether the missus would rather strangle me with a rope or her bare hands.)
Here’s hoping this bit of fame brings you traffic and the traffic brings you cash, which makes it worth your while to keep doing what you do for years to come.
Ken Y-N said,
November 16, 2007 @ 21:42
Thanks Shari and Garrett! I’m busy rewriting my About page, and I’m not really that much of an anti-social git. I think… I’d love to explain more, but there’s a lot of issues on the go at work and with neighbours and other stuff that doesn’t need to be written about on this blog.
Nick Ramsay said,
November 19, 2007 @ 01:57
That is a good article. Well done! The part that stuck out the most for me (besides the obvious “farting wives” bit) was when you said “realizing how the framing of the question can influence the results is another key to understanding polls”. I never really thought about that until recently when Zogby claimed 52% of Americans were in favour of war with Iran. And then Opinion Polls Skewed To Marginalize Ron Paul. Don’t mean to get political, but that’s where surveys get really twisted! Keep polling away!
Nick Ramsay said,
November 19, 2007 @ 01:59
Whoops, there should have been a link around the Zogby poll bit.