Comments on: Obama Chopsticks

By: Haf

Haf — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:17:17 +0000

Maybe he wasn’t even aware that Sudoku didn’t originate in Japan? And by the way, who cares, it became popular first in Japan and only because of the popularity there, people elsewhere started to get interested.
“Because it’s from Japan, so it must be hip and trendy!”

By: Tadashi

Tadashi — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:41:27 +0000

He gave it to her because she likes to play it. So what’s the problem?
It’s just a present.

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:22:57 +0000

Contrary to popular belief, sudoku isn’t even Japanese. What’s Aso doing giving her sudoku? It’s Swiss or American depending on how far back. Another example of Japan thinking thinking they invented everything (>_<)

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:40:22 +0000

I checked the Japanese sites, and I was wrong, it does seem it was a metal sudoku – something or other. My web searches don’t bring up anything definite, but I would suspect that it is something like a Scrabble board only with numbers instead of letters, and you place the tiles corresponding to the numbers in the book.

I wonder if a handful of sudoku books from Daiso would have been more welcome!

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:34:53 +0000

What on earth is a “board game featuring “sudoku,””? I would suggest that there is no such thing, as I wonder if this was an erroneous translation of ゲーム, ge-mu, which almost always refers to electronic games – was it a DS with a sudoku cartridge or one of these sudoku-only devices?

And what a naff set of gifts – it’s a bit like the slightly bonkers aunt who gives you totally inappropriate Xmas presents.

(The chopsticks are nice, though)

By: Ryry

Ryry — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:24:33 +0000

Gosh, he’s the 44th? Does this mean that the more superstitious Japanese will expect him to have an untimely death?