Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

Japan just told the foreigners who built lives here, who learned the language, paid the taxes, raised the kids, buried the years — you were too slow. No permanent residency. Not because you didn’t earn it, but because it’s easier to blame 3% of the population than to answer for thirty years of decline. It’s a good short-term play. Scapegoats always poll better than self-examination. But the rot was never the foreigners — it was three decades of the LDP running the country like a family business, cronies first, everyone else an afterthought. One day the math will catch up. People will look around and ask how it all fell apart. But by then the answer will be sitting in Singapore, or Berlin, or back home — because the smart ones don’t wait around to be blamed for a mess they didn’t make. They just leave. Quietly. And they don’t come back.

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

2 weeks ago

YouTuber called out fake Professor Arday three years ago! "A boy who could not read and write until he was 18 becomes a professor a... youtu.be/UYwkgmJtBeE?si… via @YouTube

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

2 weeks ago

@JohnnyDuerden Let's not forget, Infantino's deal means carving off 30% of all future FIFA earnings.

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

2 weeks ago

@LeoKearse Nice try, but as you say in your best-selling autolieography, the remaining 5/4 are Scottish....

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

3 weeks ago

@Jhensy2001 @MemeversGZ I thought it was Ben Whore...

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

3 weeks ago

@Eliz_Beattie @japantimes Bummer. Brilliant writer

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

3 weeks ago

@cbliddell And we have Simon Cowell. He's a deterrent for just about anybody.

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

3 weeks ago

@henrywinter Well said, H. Cucurella had a great season. But are you sure he's better than Arthur "I don't know where I'm going either" Masuaka?

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

4 weeks ago

@cbliddell I think it's just flipped from one cunt to another

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

a month ago

@JohnnyDuerden Think it's overplayed. I lived for 5 years on top of a 2,000-meter mountain in Saudi Arabia, played a lot of sport and barely noticed altitude. Direct sun, heat and humidity will affect players more.

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

2 months ago

@shhhbreslin I wrote the same (sort of) five years ago and after 20 mins take the keepers off until someone scores: fredvarcoe.com/tag/football/

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

2 months ago

@JohnnyDuerden @koreatimescokr After a Korean team thrashed Kashima Antlers, I wrote an article (30 years ago?) for The Japan Times headlined "Why the Koreans are better than Japan." I loved the Koreans' energy and gung-ho style. Where's it gone?

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

2 months ago

@henrywinter You forgot to mention kimchi....😋

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

3 months ago

WTF?

Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie

3 months ago

If you wanted to discover why The Sun has collapsed both journalistically and financially you need to look no further than when they were exclusively told ( prior to the election) about Zac Polanski’s mum being an escort thereby explaining his Green Party policy of legalising

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Fred Varcoe @fredvarcoe

5 months ago

@bryanbrosgolf I will watch it, BUT I got THREE BB videos today: your 1on1 with Wes; Wes with Ryan; you and Wes with Peter Finch (which I won't watch). Not exactly great management, is it?