Posted on 04/14/2017 8:18:03 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-14/the-great-japan-potato-chip-crisis-panic-buying-12-bags
(Excerpt) Read more at bloomberg.com ...
They will not import any....
Irish potato famine redux.
:-D
“They will not import any....”
Well, crap...my daughter has a friend in Tokyo...I was about to ship several cases to her and we split the profit.
Reminds me of the 1974 toilet paper crisis.
I could only crap on odd-numbered days.
They also sell bags of dried squid. It’s a poor substitute.
I remember when McDonalds had to fly french fries in.
I remember a similar rice crisis in Japan that had them importing rice from the US. When Japanese consumers began to like if not prefer the taste of US rice, the government made companies intermix the US rice with domestic rice. Japanese agriculture policies that heavily subsidize their farmers and strict import restrictions of agricultural products mean ridiculous food prices for Japanese consumers and loss of a large market for US ag products
Science Frontiers ^ | 1989 | Dr C Loring Brace
Posted on 01/17/2004 2:50:55 PM PST by blam
THE SAMURAI AND THE AINU
Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.
Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:
"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."
The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.
Those were the days. Buying gas on odd or even days for the Ford Torino, toilet paper shortages, and Walter Cronkite droning on and on about a third rate burglary called Watergate.
I have read all kinds of Japan Centric stuff for decades and I’ve never heard the theory.
In fact the Ainu were openly discriminated against for hundreds of years.
this report is just more “Hate da Homnkies” crap love to buy multiculturalists and collectivist.
Sorry that was transcripted on my phone from voice recognition
“They will not import any....”
From the article you linked ...
” She said the company will consider using more imported potatoes from the U.S.”
Guess they couldn’t eat just one.
The Japanese Agriculture OWNS the Japanese Diet...........Double Pun intended...................
Anyone sick of winning the potato chip gap? We have the best potato chips.
That’s most countries, potatoes aren’t a major traded food. In most countries it cheaper to buy domestic.
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