The article says... ads featuring models and personalities who don't look Asian would "plant a sense of inferiority among Asians,"..."Why must we use their faces in our advertisements?" .... "Aren't our own people handsome enough?" Oh yeah. The "Orang Asli" o...

Toporific-san, WTF is your avatar? .. I get a vaguely kimochiwarui feeling when I look at... It's a Rorschach Inkblot Test. It is what you see it is. Looking at it, some people see things vaguely gynecological... or maybe it's just "chokin' da chicken." Sad to say, I just ripped it off. M...

Spent time in the US Military and spent a lot of time with the Self Defense Forces. Women are relegated to jobs like telephone operators, medica, and secretarial positions. Not much different then the Japanese corporate world... I've known a few Jietai girls back in the day when the Jietai HQ was i...

hhmm what if all those flags were with that funny little symbol the germans used in their "world tour" about the same time 60 years ago????? Zen zen daijobu, yo! http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:cwCtuXX1KssC:www.heathenworld.com/swastika/buddhist_temple.jpg

Simple question, oh wise and weathered gaijin: how many times can I enter and re-enter Japan on a tourist visa? How much money do you have? How many times can you repeat the procedure until you decide you need a real job? You can get tourist visa extentions if you claim you want to visit Kyoto, Nar...

Japan's jails still hell holes December 17 2002 / The Sydney Morning Herald Despite constant international pressure, Japanese prison conditions remain as harsh as ever... The number of inmates imprisoned for life obtaining parole is sharply declining, even though the penal code does not permit a li...

Click here for a picture of the Party Poopers' protest Helmeted demonstrators aboard a boat head for a protest near Yokosuka base, south of Tokyo, today as Aegis-equipped destroyer Kirishima, in the background as heads toward its home port for the Indian Ocean. ... protesters yelled into loudspeake...

Bad news comes in threes... Japan's economy at risk of collapse Ok, ok. Just to be fair... Japan's gloom is only on paper, say some analysts The Business Times ( S'pore) December 16, 2002 Firms are booming, investment is up and living standards better BEHIND the daily headlines that scream doom, gl...

jotty wrote:Have you never heard of the three metre rule? Its the idea that you will most likely marry someone who sits less than 3 metres from your desk.

I can't say I have heard that rule before.
But I do know that more than 50% of the marriages in Japan are work related in some way.

Bad news comes in threes... Japan's economy at risk of collapse Just an nice turn of phrase in the New York Times... Rumors of Japan's Recovery Are, It Seems, Exaggerated By JAMES BROOKE / Dec 16, 2002 TOKYO -- Japan's lost decade is stretching toward a lost baker's dozen. Forecast growth of 1 perc...

Teen attacks on homeless signal dark days for Japan wished to eliminate the homeless. Actually, the creepy Japanese phrase for this general crime is " Oyaji gari " (mugging old farts). This is a delinquent's crime to rob money from weak looking oyajis . I think the "hunting the homel...

I don't see why people are so against the use of phones on trains in Japan. The dirty looks that are given to people speaking on phones are enough to cut glass. EVERONE in Tokyo "texts" on the train. Using the iMode on the train is the norm for women (and only the occasional odd-ball wome...

It all sounds very unsexy to me!!... peoples bits flapping about in the breeze like bits of meat is just not aesthetically pleasing. IMHO :?I have seen photos of naked sky diving YIKES! :eek2: Do not click on this link to the concave titty pictures! :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

This brings up the FG "meta" question: Do you XXXXXXX (or claim to XXXXXXX ) the XX XXXX so they cannot be XXXXXXXXXX in a XXXXXX XXXXXX ? Have you ever XXXXXXX out an XX XXXXXXX XXXXXX , to XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX and XX lesser lifeforms? THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN EDITED FOR YOUR SAFETY. :rofl: :ro...

The thorny topic of 'office flowers' Every OL corps has several otsubone (godmother figures). They're usually in their mid-30s, know all the company secrets. HINT: A "good" otsubone will GLADLY help in the seduction of the new shinjin employees. Get on the good side of your otsubone and s...

Teen attacks on homeless signal dark days for Japan Another [boy] said he wished to eliminate the homeless, who he said made underground shopping malls smell bad. Middle-aged people smell. Dr Shoji Nakamura...works for the cosmetics giant Shiseido.. [The smell] is called nonenal: a greasy, oily odo...

Screen dreams of the good old samurai days The number of new and recent Japanese films set in the past is extraordinary... It may be "extraordinary" to a Japanese or hen-da-na gaijin :wink: , but to alien from Uranus like me, the current growth of samurai movies looks magical---like Piage...

What Is The Girl Saying In Apple's Japanese Switcher Commercial? (Yes, this is redundant for most of you f*ckers.) LET's "rip". What Kikuchi Momoko is saying? Ms. Kikuchi is the Ellen Feiss of Japan's Switch scene...Brett Rumble, a New Zealander who lives and works in the Tokyo area,...he...

bikkle wrote:Wild boy captured after decades on U.S. base

He can speak a little Japanese, but usually uses English.

I wonder which person here on FG is "A-kun"?
Any guesses??????

I've never had to wait longer than 10 minutes. But I was traveling with my wife and we went thru the Japanese line. YES! REMINDER to all you FG: If you have an GAIJIN Card, always use the Japanese line (in now reads "Residents") at the airport. Please, don't be shy about standing in the J...

The article went on to say... The temple sex scene has also caused upset in South Korea where some opponents are trying to organise a boycott of the film before it opens. I am sure there won't be a protest in Japan about the temple sex scene. Shrine/temple sex scenes have been a staple of the Japane...

Japan's funerals rank among the world's most expensive While many Japanese businesses are edging closer to extinction, the country's death industry is alive and kicking. Buoyed by an ever-graying demographics... the death trade [is] gearing up for a spike in demand for their services. But the yen d...

Japan angry over Romanian gymnasts' bare-all performance Japan's gymnastics chiefs are to lodge a formal protest with their Romanian counterparts after double Olympic gold medallist Lavinia Milosovici filmed a nude performance near Tokyo. Five-times world champion Milosovici, 26, and two other fema...

Where is that tree ? Is it in Tokyo ? Can anybody go and see it ? The special viewing of the tree was Saturday, December 7, 2002, during a weekend special sale for selected, by-invitation-only [for Piaget] customers in Tokyo. See a better picture of the tree here. You could call them and ask for an...

Site of Japanese-American internee camp to be restored LA Times (12/12/02) A piece of Manzanar has come home, trucked down U.S. Highway 395 past the snowy teeth of the Eastern Sierra to the empty flats on which it once stood. The return of a weathered mess hall is a small milestone in a painstaking...

Japanese Reality Show---Road Rules with a Twist! WDEF-TV News 12 / Dec 12, 2002 A reality series with a new twist ...the hottest craze in Japanese television, and it's called Ainori . ...The show combines four women and three men and sends them on a cross-country tour...The group has traveled the U...

check out this story for the real poop on Japan's six-day underwear. http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/waiwai/0106/010630panties.html WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY! :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: That blast-from-the-past was one of your best. Pleeeeeeeese Marvin-sama, we want more l...

Marvin wrote:What she SHOULD be hung for...

She ought to swing because she's the most dread lifeform to ever walk this planet .... she's a Japanese INSURANCE LADY. Arrrrg!