Roland Kelts's Blog, page 89
February 12, 2010
More Toyota/Japanamerica on ABC's "Good Morning America"
Here's a slightly different angle with reporting from Tokyo and me in Miami via ABC's "Good Morning America," taking into account shame and suicide at the corporate level.
Talkin' Toyota on ABC's World News Tonight
Just getting my bearings back after a week in Miami at the Super Bowl and a week in NYC talking Toyota with the US media.
Here's my interview with ABC's Brian Ross of World News Tonight.
Here's my interview with ABC's Brian Ross of World News Tonight.
February 1, 2010
Super Bowl in South Beach
Off to Super Bowl in South Beach w/Saints, Colts and The Who. [pic of me and PT in NYC.:]
January 22, 2010
Japan jumps shark?
I ask that question in my latest column for
The Daily Yomiuri
, out today, writing about Sony's booth at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, the JAL bankruptcy, political shenanigans and stagnancy, and the ongoing troubles in the anime and manga biz. Now I learn of yet another Toyota recall in North America.
Yeesh.
SOFT POWER, HARD TRUTHS / Is this the year Japan jumps the shark?
Roland Kelts / Special to The Daily Yomiuri
"Jumping the shark" is an American idiom describing the...
January 10, 2010
January 9, 2010
WNYC's Studio 360 (re)Visits Japan this weekend
Here's my segment, called "This is their Youth."
January 6, 2010
Back in Japan
It's 2010, and I have just returned to Tokyo--and man, the news here is bad. Very bad.
More forthcoming.
December 31, 2009
"This Year," Loudon Wainwright III
Listen HEREThis YearAnother year's goneHere comes a new oneWhat's gonna happen?This year
We're gonna make itNot gonna take itMake no mistake it'sThis year
Last year was a fiascoA real disasterSo full of sorrow
This year will be a great yearI just can't wait, dearUntil tomorrow
Forget the old painSing a new refrainUncork the champagneThis year
No, it's not too lateWe've got a clean slateThe future's our fateThis year
Last year was a fiascoA real disasterSo full of sorrow
This year will be a great...
December 30, 2009
Confucius for US? Adbusters 2010
My latest contribution for Adbusters magazine is Confucius , a riff on the shifting winds of influence in the 21st Century, with special mention given to the now-iconic Sony Walkman. Let me know what you think.
Yoi otoshi o -- Happy New Year.
Confucius
East-West, good-evil, right-wrong?
"What I only dimly knew then, of course, was that the Walkman was produced by a nation low on national resources, limited in space and keen on reinvention. A nation much like the world we are all living in...
