Seems everywhere I go nobody knows what the fuck is going on around them. Socially, of course, that's not new, but physically. In Tokyo, seems someone is always as far up my ass as they can get. I know there's shit tons of people, but c'mon... just pay attention. It can only have gotten worse since...

chokonen888 wrote:Great way to make "Japanese" companies appealing for successful CEO's.

You have to wonder a bit why people still bother.

That's been my experience for the last couple of years.

Oh, for the bygone days of the Land of Milk and Honey.

Good bloody post. As somebody whose been out of Oz for a while, whenever I go back home there's a lot of shit there to remind me that I aint regretting not wanting to go back home and not making the effort to go back home permanently or semi permanently. Expats often have a timewarp - esp if they d...

Screwed-down Hairdo Quote Are you serious? How can a gaijin give a peer review of Japanese practices if they're not Japanese? Are you referring to the well established Japanese practice of not citing or using foreign derived analysis on Japan - where only Japanese sources are used? Gdp stats are not...

Here is an interview with Mr Eammon Fingleton on the wonders of the Japanese economy, the misrepresentation of Japanese GDP statistics (have there ever been any serious, peer reviewed studies of Japanese deviations from this practice?), and the numerous "anecdotal references" that exist on the overa...

Ishihara is a master of burning through our taxes. Only the other day I saw these posters for the Olympics featuring Exile. Getting the Olympics seems to be his only idea for economic / social regeneration.

Sorry state of affairs.

Some of the best of the worst "English" names I've heard Chinese people take were Hanffy, Vivi and Diva. I also met a Korean guy who liked to go by Dandy and a Thai dude who went by Nut. In Nut's defense that was his Thai nickname and he didn't know any better. There was a Chinese guy in grad schoo...

I was reading Brutus Casa the other day in a cafe. Quite enjoyable and informative, with many innovative and interesting designs. The Japanese can get away with being adventuresome as they wish due to the overall messiness of their cities. It's quite nice, though I agree that these houses are probab...

sillygirl wrote:It may be because of your appalling grammar.

Since you done that I rembrered another such teacher with appling grammer.

Everyday is April Fools Day with Will Hutton.:p If Japan could reset its macroeconomic policy, there is an enormous pool of dynamic hi-tech medium-sized firms that could immediately grow very fast. Consultant Gerhard Fasol argues that in areas like LED lighting or mobile phone payment systems, Japan...

I had my own business for a couple of years. The stuff I could claim as pre-tax deductions was amazing. My Dad, who also has his own business back in the UK, was amazed at the stuff I was claiming as essential for my business. Stuff that he would never be able to get away with was being thrown in th...

8% is cheap. VAT is easy to enforce but you as a consumer can choose how much money you want to spend. I can easily cut back, and probably will a little bit when it first comes in. Going to Europe hurts - if I couldn't claim it back 20% takes the piss on products and I would hardly buy anything. How...

I heard that the British School is around 2m per year. For a Brit this would be a shocking amount of money given the weakness of the pound against the yen at the moment. You could probably send your kid to Eton, Westminster or Harrow or one of those other posh schools for the same amount. Of the nat...

"Gordon Brown is ....

On page 4 or 5 of my results they have this weird link to this russian dating site with my name displayed prominently. I'm not sure why my name is there, or how it got there. I would like it removed.

Maybe this is their business model, the bastards.

Me and my woman tend to go for buffet dinners in high end hotels on sundays. With my beady eye though, I'm looking around and can see a hell of a lot of talent in these places. Groups of 3-4 classy women at various tables about the place - really nice clothes, hair, appearance, early to late 30 rang...

Japanese Constitution in English This Art. 14 business, I doubt how far this really goes. Just the fact that there are fewer female board members here in Japan than even the Middle East speaks volumes though. If I had a daughter, I would want her to grow up hungry and ambitious without glass ceilin...

Seems like quite an accurate description: an old man, stuck in his ways, resistant to change or anything substantially new or some new way of doing things, resigned to his fate and lacking in energy or passion for anything new. I get this impression everyday. That said, this Eric C has clearly still...

Just on the basis of what you've written about this chap, he may be deluded or maybe not. Still if he left his home country for new pasteurs he's maybe not such a loser. I have no idea which it is. But if I look around me at the hunched shoulders and sleepy demeanor of the average Tokyo salaryman as...

What a great thread.

These are without doubt grade a answers.

I almost never go there but I've had experiences that are pretty much the same. Many lemurs have feelings that change with season, day, and even wind. Don't waste any time on them, drop em and move on. (though some FG I know that complain about these types are the cause of their own pain...try bein...

[quote="Neo-Rio"]Yes, J-girls need a reality check. No disagreements there. Essentially though, J-girls are starved of love and attention. Look around Tokyo and you'll see a race of sterile, miserable, lonely people who avoid human contact, and have trouble telling people that they like th...

if they would have done this a LONG time ago, Japan would be a damn good cuntry.

They've been saying this stuff for so long that even if they are really doing it now, I still won't be able to believe it.

Hiroko Tabuchi writes some pretty good stuff. I follow her on Twitter.

Coligny wrote:well... unless youze zee most beautifull gurl in zee world...

See, now I'm sure I have seen something with her in it. Name totally escapes me. Aya Yua, ueto???

Don't know any of them... With the amount of pr0n I browse through on a daily basis I find that frightening... (you need 48 hours per days to follow the news on this topic or whut ?) Me neither. It is but surely a full time job. My days of daily checks of the latest updates on DMM are long gone, bu...

There is nothing more saddening than watching these people go crazy over such distasteful and ugly crap.

It really tells you something about the depraved and wanton condition of some of the dregs of mankind to whom this kind of rubbish can be held up as some kind of status symbol.

Guy ran a test to see which network performed better with the iPhone on a circuit of the Yamanote line. Softbank lost heavily to au in this experiment (Japanese) http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794f2b7dff2091a.jpg Yeah, I'm not surprised by this. I commute on the Chuo. Connecti...