At least, that loser mustachioed whitey who touted for that titty bar upstairs from Propaganda seems to have fucked off forever. Or, maybe he got promoted and is working the streets of Kabukicho... At least before 3.11 he'd moved to Kabukicho. I bumped into him there but I haven't crawled around th...

The way Abe was talking it was a real Christmas gift to sell the yen over the past two weeks.

Even though I can't vote here; if I could, I surely would.

tl;dr it all, but I did note that our hero, whose colleague Nelson Rand survived being shot three times during the Red Shirt Rebellion in Bangkok, ran out of the shower and watched the magnitude 9.0 earthquake shake his Japanese-style home for about 4 minutes on March 11, 2011. Given his lifestyle,...

I just hope World War III or the implosion of the western world never happens during a typhoon hitting Japan. We would never hear about it.

I think this is the salient point here. The sense of entitlement that people feel after living here for a while. For all our whinging, FG's can get away with lots of stuff here that Japanese nationals don't have to. Like the very rigid social structures and bureaucracy that we just get other people...

I don't know, from what I see, read and hear the P4P scene in Korea is more closed off to gaijin than in Japan. I hear also that a lot of Korean chaps are arseholes towards gaijin. All on hearsay. I've been tempted to hop over for a weekend of fun a few times. Mates have always dissuaded me from it ...

I just figure, if you're not getting laid or not making money, there's not much point being in this cuntry... Truer words have never been spoken. That probably applies to most any country though. Yeah, but unless it's some thirdworld shithole in most other countries they normally have houses you'd ...

Fuck me, with a population of one billion that makes for a lot of retards.

Someone must be posting spoof ads. Hello, im yuki. Looking for a boyfriend. I can speak little english. Can you go with me to romantic time? i wana drink duiliners in shinjuku with good gay. Im tall, friends says im pritti but i dont have boyfriend. Send me email with your photo. Only european peopl...

So Craig's List is where these adverts are now being placed?

I derive only a fraction of the entertainment from the Metropolis advertisements that I used to. It's most depressing.

Music is dead here now. Surely you must be kidding? AKB General Elections are now televised live on the idiot box...music simply cannot get any livelier than that! I'm getting on a bit nowadays, but as I understand it, AKB is just mainstream pap for sex deprived retards, other goons, or teenage gir...

Maybe not as cool as it used to be. In the 90s it seemed pretty cool. There was a lot of good Japanese music about, Japanese in London were mostly pretty trendy. Seems that lots of Japanese brands started to come on the international scene and really gain a presence during that decade (Comme des Gar...

Given the aging demographic trends, I get the impression that Tokyo is poorly prepared for coping with an aged society. Either mobility/quality of life will decline or there will be a lot of broken hips or other injuries. Maybe the elderly will just hide away somewhere, like disabled people.

News outlets are reporting that the victim was restaurateur named Ryosuke Fujimoto （藤本亮介） and some Japanese bloggers are claiming Fujimoto was a Zainichi Korean who ran a yakiniku place in Shibuya called Meushi （雌牛）. I knew gaijin had to be involved somehow. Tsuyoshi Natsuno, a professor at the Kei...

Great thread title. About sums it up.

Indeed....though if the d00d was a visa over stayer at the time of the crime, he totally helped Japan fuck himself. (in Japan's eyes anyways) I don't know the detailed ins and outs, but find it quite wrong that they can effectively imprison a chap for 15 years for overstaying his visa. Wrongful imp...

Commuter special 10c. That for the most part it's not worth bothering to talk with Japanese men. 10d. That a suit does not necessarily make you look smart. 10e. That no-one exists in Tokyo except yourself - that is, it is fine to treat other people like they don't exist. 10f. That if there is a gap ...

1. It is great to be white 2. It is great to be from a developed country 3. Tokyo is big, but it is boring 4. Conversations are formulaic, but the formula can be broken 5. Japanese people have no spatial awareness 6. Crowds drive me nuts and I will do or pay anything to avoid them 7. Greenery is an ...

On a more serious note...whatever happened to Nonami?

Why do people always feel the need to wear Aloha shirts? Just the other day the finance minister was wearing a shirt that made him look like he was from the Phillipines or some other such shithole. They say that Japan is declining... For me, the adoption of these cheap looking shirts is but the next...

And there I was thinking of getting a lunchtime deli...

The number of Japanese I see on the trains checking FB is really growing these days. Never saw that a year ago, I'm sure. Mixi was always very gay. Needing an invitation from a friend (this is so Japanese), then just constant updates of food photos (J FB friends aren't much different actually, think...

legion wrote:Basically we need a champion freelance journalist to take them down!

In Japan? Ha ha, only to be read by the likes of Debito readers.

The way it reads, the citations would seem to be international...as in from other countries...which can still be rigged. There's a whole host of issues, such as integration into international research networks (more collaboration with external partnerss tends to result in papers with higher levels ...

I'm actually quite pleased not to have a vote. Allows oneself to distinguish themselves from the rest. To stand aloof and above the petty back and frow, heated argument and debate.

I mean, this is Tokyo and the Senkaku's are like miles away. It's like Boris Johnson buying Islands near the Shetland Islands (to secure oil fields after Scottish independence(if they're ever that foolish to vote for it) or like Michael Bloomberg buying islands off the coast of Cuba or Mexico or som...

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:This thread reminded me of this...

(Look very closely, especially at the bird second from right).

That's a shame, as she's perhaps the most doable.

(and then you tell they're all nh's)

I buy more music nowadays than when I was a wannabe DJ at 17 I reckon. Just so easy. Don't have time to read them, or much inclination, but my K***** reader is full of half finished or skimmed-through books. Guess I'm buying more, likewise cause it's so easy. Been a bit keen to brush up on my Japane...

squat on the sidewalk

These lasses are pure skankiness. Not noticed lack of trimming but I'm sure they do, like seelk.