Jack wrote:Nice pic in Hong Kong Central. Eminently doable.

Hosepipe thin.

No fun.

She might not have known about her legal status, but this woman is so fucking retarded going back to the States to renew her visa that she doesn't seem fit to bring up a child. The court will be doing the kid a favour for sure.

And I thought Green Cards were for the Creme de la Creme.

Speaking of which, there are plenty of lemurs that I have woken up next to that I wish I could blame on being drugged...a little alcohol seems to bring my standards down to levels that Coligny's cats wouldn't even bat at :drunk: Indeed, sometimes having your camera stolen on a night out is not with...

See, here's the thing: there doesn't exist any sort of biconditional proposition that Debito can write about Japan if and only if he's living in Japan. As chokonen wrote, his site is still up and he's still writing columns. But to continue writing that stuff when he's not even living here anymore (...

a girl or two of them find you walking the street and chat you up and get you to buy them a drink at the bar of THEIR CHOICE. Israeli women were doing this in the pong a couple of years back. Would meet you in 911 or similar then they'd recommend their favourite bar. Once you'd go they'd try and ge...

You poor, monolingual thing... if only you knew... Who said anything about being monolingual? I have JLPT2, which is more than enough to get by. If I only knew what exactly? It's not as if I'm missing great conversations down the pub, missing great tv programmes etc. The point is that you should ma...

I love anything Japanese, I am just not enjoying their company] Debito writes a lot of crap, but I tended to agree with his assessment of Japanese men. I tried too much to blend in with the Japanese. It's all very well learning the language and being able to communicate, but there is nothing more n...

Curious. My old colleague went there recently and told me how very beautiful it is. I was a bit taken aback. For me it's just like any other Japanese city, but with a few nice temples scattered here and there amidst the typical mess. I think with Kyoto people have a kind of expectation. Despite what...

The FT are reporting that Woodford is to return to Japan to help police with their investigations.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fd33f60c-10e7-11e1-a95c-00144feabdc0.html

I hope they don't arrest him for leaking secret corporate information... that would be funny.

If he does decide to return then he's certainly a bigger man than I.
My own reaction would be "fuck em".

But still, should he return the primary satisfaction would be through telling that little man that told him to get the bus to the airport that he's fired.

Convenient as in 1.5mins to the eki. Can't complain on that front. Reikin is a waste. Time is limited in Japan so I don't want to give some moron a gift + removal fees + time wasted dealing with arsehole realty guys. One or two more winters and I'll be out. I can live with that, and am happy to not ...

I have the pleasure of paying 250k per month. Only yesterday I put cling film type material around the windows to keep the draughts out. I will put some insulation tape around the toilet door because the air vent in the ceiling seems to have no insulation or proper coverage (I can feel the cold on m...

Not sure, but if the odds are stacked against you in a bar situation, at least there's the P2P where, should you like that sort of thing, you'll be at an advantage against whitey, to whom many such services are out of bounds. Just point and nod if your j-go is not up to it.

NHK gave it top slot on their 7pm news last night. I guess they were waiting for an official response from Olympus before they gave it any serious coverage, as they held their first proper news conference on it only yesterday. It may have been best to wait to get both sides of the story and not just...

As a non-smoker and non-coffee drinker, I'm rather partial to Doutour. The Milano Sando A with toast on the side is a good deal. Doutour fills a market gap. Starbuck's food is really lousy. McD is just too unhealthy.

Jake Adelstein's take:

http://www.japansubculture.com/2011/10/olympus-bringing-it-into-focus-a-special-breach-of-trust/

I hope there's some room for some shops.

I'd like a Beams, United Arrows, Afternoon Tea, and maybe one or two French style cafes.

What a strange question....Of course, there's only one possible answer: TIJ TIJ. But I wonder about those thinking of coming to Japan. Surely it becomes even more unattractive as a place for business. That isn't a good thing for those of us with jobs and careers here, and somewhat tied to the econo...

I get home from work and the telly is on with the news. As the Euro implodes, governments' collapse across the middle east, a company's stock drops 50%, NHK will spend 25 minutes talking about a cat falling out of a tree in Chiba. They'll then spend 10 minutes talking about some odd local festival, ...

It's starting look like this may be Japan's Enron. Anybody making popcorn? This is gonna be fun to watch!

If Olympus could get away with it so easily, it makes you fear what could happen to other blue chip kaisha's in Japan.

I have a small number of Jstocks. Makes me want to dump them.

NHK leads on those lazy Greek bastards protesting about having to repay their debts. Wonder if they mention Olympus at all....

Maybe he was also their webmaster... Maybe Kikukawa is the webmaster for most Japanese news organisations... I thought it was just the Nikkei that was downplaying it. Looked at Google News Japan, Asahi (below) at the top business stories. There's just nothing. Nikkei in English has a little article...

I find this case really fascinating. The involvement of the SFO and Woodford's actions towards Olympus - I really wonder how it will pan out. Looking at the BBC's website it says: He says he was called into a board meeting on Friday at which the agenda had been changed. The only new item to discuss ...

"Change in Japan can be difficult to implement. It can be done, it will be done"

"Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?" Having received a satisfactory answer, he continued, "So why the fuck doesn't it do that?" "You've tarnished Apple's reputation," he told them. "You should hate each other for having let each other down." http://gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-...