someone has to @grummz and encourage him to ask people to contact nintendo investors
Extremely difficult to do when the investors only read and speak Japanese, a language that Google Translate badly butchers on the best of days. One would either need to hire the most dedicated of überweebs, or ideally track down a Japanese person who is fluent in both English and Japanese, in order to properly convey the message they want to send.
Aren't we assuming American's aren't owning the Nintendo stock? and I am sure rich people earning large stakes can afford interpreters.
Our dollar is almost three times their dollar. We can definitely out-buy them at their own stock. We just have to rattle their English speaking sugar daddies.
Yes, because Nintendo isn't listed on the NASDAQ (US stock market), they are listed on the Japan Exchange Group (Japanese stock market). Stemming from that, one could also assume that you need to be not only fluent in the language, but also their laws which can be either stricter or different (or both) compared to dealing with the US stock market.
Furthermore, even if everything was on the up-and-up (read as: greased the right amount of palms), and you did manage to buy enough stock to get in on their investors' meetings, the chances are quite high that you would never get to speak at all because they would rather commit seppuku than let 馬鹿外人 speak on their own turf.
Alright, alternatively, isn't education a standard part of both primary and secondary education in Japan?
I'm not saying all are fluent, but there is probably at least a couple who read twitter and engage with twitter. Who can be @'d, and we have to hope we scare that investor enough to get him to talk to other nintendo investors, and start a buzz amongst themselves.
Is there actual harm in trying? Or are we just lay down and take it bottom bitches?
There's no harm in trying, I'm just trying to get it through to you that you are severely underestimating the gap between US and Japanese culture. There have been instances where East and West have clashed on the internet, and attempts at dialogue fell apart quickly due to significant differences in their respective understandings of how the world works (despite translation).
Case in point, when the Youtuber TotallyNotMark got all of his reviews of One Piece copyright struck in one fell swoop (talking dozens of videos here), all westerners in the comments saw it for the BS that it was, whereas all the Japanese commenters were straight up calling him a thief and a plagiarizer for making reviews without explicit written permission from the publisher (which in the US, where Youtube is HQ'ed, falls under "Fair Use").
He has since gotten back on his feet, but the whole ordeal left a sour taste in my mouth, and it should serve as an example of how much your average Japanese person will simp for faceless corporations (especially a juggernaut like Nintendo)
Extremely difficult to do when the investors only read and speak Japanese, a language that Google Translate badly butchers on the best of days. One would either need to hire the most dedicated of überweebs, or ideally track down a Japanese person who is fluent in both English and Japanese, in order to properly convey the message they want to send.
Aren't we assuming American's aren't owning the Nintendo stock? and I am sure rich people earning large stakes can afford interpreters.
Our dollar is almost three times their dollar. We can definitely out-buy them at their own stock. We just have to rattle their English speaking sugar daddies.
Yes, because Nintendo isn't listed on the NASDAQ (US stock market), they are listed on the Japan Exchange Group (Japanese stock market). Stemming from that, one could also assume that you need to be not only fluent in the language, but also their laws which can be either stricter or different (or both) compared to dealing with the US stock market.
Furthermore, even if everything was on the up-and-up (read as: greased the right amount of palms), and you did manage to buy enough stock to get in on their investors' meetings, the chances are quite high that you would never get to speak at all because they would rather commit seppuku than let 馬鹿外人 speak on their own turf.
Alright, alternatively, isn't education a standard part of both primary and secondary education in Japan?
I'm not saying all are fluent, but there is probably at least a couple who read twitter and engage with twitter. Who can be @'d, and we have to hope we scare that investor enough to get him to talk to other nintendo investors, and start a buzz amongst themselves.
Is there actual harm in trying? Or are we just lay down and take it bottom bitches?
There's no harm in trying, I'm just trying to get it through to you that you are severely underestimating the gap between US and Japanese culture. There have been instances where East and West have clashed on the internet, and attempts at dialogue fell apart quickly due to significant differences in their respective understandings of how the world works (despite translation).
Case in point, when the Youtuber TotallyNotMark got all of his reviews of One Piece copyright struck in one fell swoop (talking dozens of videos here), all westerners in the comments saw it for the BS that it was, whereas all the Japanese commenters were straight up calling him a thief and a plagiarizer for making reviews without explicit written permission from the publisher (which in the US, where Youtube is HQ'ed, falls under "Fair Use").
He has since gotten back on his feet, but the whole ordeal left a sour taste in my mouth, and it should serve as an example of how much your average Japanese person will simp for faceless corporations (especially a juggernaut like Nintendo)