Obama Inauguration UFO

Perhaps our extraterrestrial friends are going green. Maybe they created a winged, extremely small, fuel efficient, pedal powered UFO.

Nirasawa and Yaoi are the figures that most Japanese people take with a grain of salt and/or for entertainment: they are known as “researchers” of UFO and occult phenomena.

If Mainichi translates, for instance, “sex and love” or “bizarre “categories of the Sun every week, saying these are news from England, English bloggers might as well doubt the integrity of Mainichi and criticize it as, say, a pervert.

You might criticize someone for applying the double standard when the same person apply one standard while applying less strict standard to a similar situation.
Japan is not the homogeneous entity.
If Japanese people who criticized WaiWai didn’t criticize the equivalent of waiwai in the same way, they hold double standards. But here we lack the equivalent.

“Nirasawa and Yaoi are the figures that most Japanese people take with a grain of salt and/or for entertainment: they are known as “researchers” of UFO and occult phenomena.

That’s true. When they, especially Yaoi Jun-ichi, appeared on the show, almost all Japanese would have realized that it was not a news report but a report for entertainment. Those who don’t know the cultural backgroud may never understand it though.