Debito is hanging up his fude. BLOG BIZ: Thoughts about the future of Debito.org: What’s next?

11 comments

1. No more tiresome, insufferable, whiny blog posts sounds like a win.

2. I too have pretty much given up on Japan. It’s just kind of lame and mostly irrelevant

3. That dude is still spewing his nonsense? People are still licking it up?

4. I’m sorry, who?

5. Thirty years of not at all mattering.

6. I have not read his blog in many years. I had forgot about it. But he is right. This part especially resonates with me:

   “After more than twenty years in Japan, every day became Groundhog Day. I could sleepwalk through most conversations. I had to find diversions to alleviate the boredom; they no longer found me.”

   Yup, Japan is boring now and I cant even imagine how much more boring it will be after retirement.

7. LOL at all the butthurt in here. Dude spoke up when you didn’t. And, if you don’t like negativity, why read his blogs?

8. I will give him props when he made people aware of the famous “no-foreigners allowed” establishments. It’s helped us move forward as a society by attacking other establishments that follow such practices.

   I thought he was over stepping when it came to writing puff-pieces on gachapon characters that looked like exaggerations of foreigners faces, etc. Grasping at anything to stay relevant.

9. By 40 people need to figure out if they want to stay in Japan permanently or not, so he’s right about that, but the tone of his writing… he always comes across as so pompous. He’s that type of expat that likes to show off their “superior”Japanese language/culture knowledge to other “inferior” expats.

10. I didn’t like the attitude, but the guy did cover damn important topics and made more efforts for positive change than anyone who ever criticized him.

11. Good riddance. He’s always been such a whiner about all that human rights and equality-under-the-law jazz. We we simply don’t need Debbie downer complainers like that in this country because everything’s wonderful and the justice system is completely fair towards foreigners.