Graffiti guerilla tells Education Ministry 'Life is a Fart' ...scribbled "Life is a Fart" on one of the building's main columns. So, anyone got pix? What would be a clever bon mot to write this in Japanese? JINSEI WA, O-NARA DA! :?: Or maybe ... O-NARA SA ?:?: ---Taro, AKA Hei gokkimushi

FORMER VIKINGS LINEMAN BOB SAPP A BIG HIT IN JAPAN Associated Press TOKYO (AP) 2002/12/12 So who's the biggest sports figure in Japan these days? Ichiro Suzuki? Hidetoshi Nakata? Try Bob Sapp . The former Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman is the hottest thing in Japan since Godzilla... in Japan h...

Brief updates Orlando Weekly ---NEWS of the WEIRD (DEC 12, 2002) News of the Weird reported in 1988 on the Japanese inventors---expo at which was introduced "six-day" underwear -- a cotton panel with an elastic band and three leg holes, so that the wearer could rotate one leg hole per day...

'The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.' - David Lloyd George SO? What does this image mean in the hollow and empty reference, to each and every one of us from the previous usages of it you had confronted us in this excavation of meaning is a score of echoed dada realm of an a...

... most of the people cheering from the sidelines have never met either the defendent or the victims. Getting all giddy over something like this seems rather sick and tasteless to me. The wacko baba is as guilty as O.J. In the real world, she would have walked. That said, she was great theater whi...

Is there an online guide to TV in Japan? I don't mean the pitiful selection of English programs published by Metropolis. Variety show takes top Tellie honors The Daily Yomiuri / Dec 12 2002 The Tellie for Most Creative Use of Network Resources goes to Yugata DonDon on the Hokkaido TV Asahi affiliat...

Say a contractor causes a malicious "disruption of service" on a server for say 2 days, does any contract with said contractor become null and void? It would depend on your "non-performance" clause in the Real World. Here in Japan, whether your contract was 'in breach' would dep...

His first and probably still best gaijin student is an Israeli. Really nice guy, very skilled and modest. Not the type to go around advertising his abilities. No doubt we're talking about a different guys...the Mossad guys I know never, never said anything about their purpose or employer. They just...

I was wondering if any of you f#cked gaijin knew of any English Nengajo software programs. ! Check out the suggestions offered by the Japan Times today.. Internet opens new era in New Year's cards A number of companies are now offering a full menu of Net services, ranging from designing and printin...

Bad news comes in threes... Japan's economy at risk of collapse KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 11 ......The irony here in Japan is that despite this economic crisis, there are no bread lines. There are no unemployment queues. This country still enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world. For th...

Hayes was given the name `Kinryuu` by his teacher Hatsumi....to a Japanese it really reads `money dragon`. :D Yeah, from what I can remember of the early 1980s scene, Master Hatsumi was taking money from anybody. He had a lot of 90+kg "menopause majors" studying with him. The French Opera...

Soon salarymen will be smoking ' Weak Seven' (tm)... Japan Tobacco May Slip; Mild 7 Ruling MARKET TALK/JP: Thursday December 12, 7:58 AM [Dow Jones] Japan Tobacco may fall on report company will be forced to rename its Mild Seven cigarettes, No. 2 seller in world, following ruling by E.U.'s highest ...

Toilegami : "The world could be divided into two kinds of people - those who fold their toilet paper, and those who crumple it?" Read more at Toilegamii about the ancient Japanese art of toilet paper folding. http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Dec/200212112540355200805219.jpg For...

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..And Suntory had that cool Chu-hai robot promotion going a while ago. I'd BUY that damn robot, if it was for sale. But getting back to the topic of pseudo-beer, hopposhu ... Japanese brands like "HOPS" are better than 3.2% beers like Coors sold in US colleges. Coors 3.2---What a YUCK-a-D...

bikkle wrote:

American Oyaji wrote:The only one I drank was HOPS.

Well, I haven't had that one, so I'll have to take your word for it.

There's also a huge variety of 100yen cans of CHU-HAI; most are better the bug-juice (KoolAid).

If you grew up in NYC you would have been f*cked before you even got to Japan then.. There is no eating on trains there either. :P Actually, there is PLENTY of eating on the trains here. Every Saturday morning I would get on the Yokosuka Line to go to work and it is filled with obaaasan with their ...

No online TV guide, is there a paper version? Or do I have to buy 7 English newspapers to find out what the regular weekly programs are? (assuming they have complete listings) What are the must see Japanese TV programs anyway? OK, ok. There are TV guides of regular RF broadcasts in the Japan Times,...

Wondering what sort of Christmas gift would be suitable for that person who has everything? See Japan's 10 Million-Dollar Christmas Tree trimmed with Piaget watches and jewels in a Reuters Video at: Japan's 10 Million-Dollar Christmas Tree (on Yahoo! News Japan ) http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/...

Camera-in-a-pill is being offered as an endoscopy alternative at an international medical symposium in Tokyo recently. Today's Yomiuri said: the white capsule illuminated the dark stomach wall and moved along the digestive canal while rotating. ... The scenes in the footage resembled those taken by ...

...as they do have some leeway in decisionmaking, I suspect. Yeah, the dread Japanese "case-by-case" worked for you. Even the always-helpful Father Joseph of the Japan Times says to use an administrative scrivener with the bastards ... Make sure you go through a gyosei shoshi, which is th...

Is there an online guide to TV in Japan? I don't mean the pitiful selection of English programs published by Metropolis. In one word: No. In two words: Sheeeee-it NO! There OUGHT TO be a better way, but as a HUGE terabi-ko I have not found one. http://www.etedeschi.ndirect.co.uk/museum/TV8-301W.jpg...

I was wondering if any of you f#cked gaijin knew of any English Nengajo software programs. I would like to try and make my own this year, but unfortunatley my kanji reading skill is not up to snuff to use one of the multitude of Japanese programs available now. CUT and PASTE! http://images.google.c...

kamome wrote:Actually, I am now so assimilated that I've even stopped eating on the train. Now I snack in front of the conbini until I'm finished, throw away the wrappings, and then get on the train.

But, you have to let the gomi /wrappings drop down out of your hands where you stand to be a true Japanese.

Sheesh... American billed in public ad as model Japanese The American in a kimono bows deeply with a polite smile, daintily arranges flowers and kneels to put her traditional Japanese slippers in their proper place. The message of this TV public announcement starring Jeanie Fuji, innkeeper at a hot-...

Ok, ok, it's not quite like the movie "Predator" where the object-to-camoflage has an all-in-one system that transmits light from the back of the suit to the front. However, this University of Tokyo website shows "Active camouflage -- tricks of the light" The TODAI site has MPEGs...

Steve Bildermann wrote:Big Behemoth Bouncer=Beautiful Behavior

Yeap. The bouncer factor was sorely missing in this mess.

from the "JoongAng Ilbo" South Korean newspaper: Puff, puff, puff Imagine this: "Smokers have disappeared all over the world, except in Japan. Even in that despised, cigarette-underdeveloped country, an anti-smoking movement has begun to gear up at last. "...Finally, cigarette sh...