Pretty amazing.

Can't understand the bitching.

When the contracts stop, and the money stops coming in....

In the meantime I'll put up with all kinds of crap ...

Plenty of milf in the nursery yard each morning on the way to work, absolutely agog.
Not sure if this photo would qualify her, though surely a sweet deal for a 15 year old.

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Always dangerous to sit like that on white sheets.

I never smile at my neighbors! I treat them with contempt because I value my privacy and anonymity.

I can guess that you live in Tokyo.

I bet "PS" is wishing he never even opened the door. (I sure as hell don't anymore...unless its Takyubin bringing me packages!) ( Same here. Having an intercom is a great thing. NHK ... nope, takyubin ... yes. Jees, I didn't even know the number of the old bill till I read this. If these dodgy look...

Just on the basis of what is written here. I'd like to wish her every success - women could really make a big contribution to how Japan functions. It can only be good.

Hopefully the days of miserable old fart politics is on the way out.

Got to be a bit of a loser for using Delta anyway. Jesus, I'd rather swim than use some of these US airlines. Especially for a holiday where you can choose your airline. That said, it's rather unusual for a Japanese chap to actually strike someone. I've only ever seen them puff their chests out and ...

Legion I liked the article taking a contrarian view to the usual Japan is doomed line, people have been writing off Japan for years, but it still grinds on. I agree. It's refreshing for someone to take a different view on Japan. Unfortunately, I don't think the author, Eamonn Fingleton, is up to th...

This is a very interesting article by Eamonn Fingleton, who argues that "Japan should be held up as a model, not an admonition". http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/the-true-story-of-japans-economic-success.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 Friends of mine have been flagging it on Facebook but I h...

Mulboyne
If you went further and included the distance to an actual platform then Oedo line stations would start to come into their own for inconvenience.

The Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

Mulboyne
If you went further and included the distance to an actual platform then Oedo line stations would start to come into their own for inconvenience.

The Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

http://scottdaly.com/files/gimgs/13_dalyjourney09.jpg

I too pretty much hate New Year's here (chiefly because I really hate having to sit in front of Japanese TV in a cold, and we're talking sub-zero, house in the inaka), and normally flee the country at the nearest opportunity to avoid it. This year I stayed, and stayed in Tokyo too. It wasn't that ba...

Seems like a big problem, not only in terms of international prestige, but maybe also for Japanese society as well. I liked the chapter by William Saito in the Reimagining Japan book, where he talks about business development and start-ups in Japan and their relationship with empathy and philanthrop...

old people They are generally quite nice for the most part; but they are very slow. Passage through ticket gates is fumbling, and pace of walking slower than even the slow paced average for most people here. For Tokyo to be an attractive international city, some kind of zoning or curfew type system...

GomiGirl wrote:Childcare is woeful ... If there was more childcare available...

Or family friendly restaurants that aren't full of smoke, parks to play in, pavements that are safe to walk on ....

I saw some of them on TV the other day. From a distance they don't look bad but up close they're a bunch of munters.

AKB might be anodyne crap, but at least there's a couple that are worth a pop. Most of these k lasses I've seen are dogs.

Can't see where they they are going to find the space for more greenery in the city, or cycle paths. Unless they go all Chinese on us and simply enforce it with compulsion. Can't see that. As for taxes, I read in the Nikkei only last week that they plan to raise upper level taxes (for those that ear...

Samurai_Jerk wrote:As for stains on your teeth, soy products stain teeth so if you've been eating lots of tofu and miso that could be the cause.

If so, this is very bad news as Miso is a seriously civilised soup.

Indeed, one of the greater regrets in my life is not discovering Miso soup at an earlier age.

Well, tea is just a more civilised drink.

Coffee makes your breath smell foul, stains your teeth something rotten, hardly has any beneficial properties (other than caffeine - but that's a plus or minus depending upon your need), and is well, lacking in the refinement and sublime taste of tea.

I have some friends who took the eikaiwa ---> headhunting route. They're all doing pretty well. Pretty stressful at the start as you learn the ropes, but if you have the balls and aren't lazy then maybe it can turn out alright. They are now traveling around the world as they take on extra responsibi...

Coffee really seems to be usurping tea in many ways. It's a very negative development and makes me fear for Japan's future.

Japan needed tea party types 15 years ago, before the budget deficit got ridiculously out of control.

Coming along now is just stupid, though of course, I always welcome lower taxes [SIZE="2"](but I have no real stake in the country).[/SIZE]

It was always the young cop in the pair that would want to radio HQ for instructions on how to write a ticket to one driving on an International License, while the senior cop would say it was too much trouble, and to just make his woman impress upon him the sternness of the warning in Engrish.:fres...

Might need a US credit card.

Have ****** on my iphone, with purchases made through my foreign cc. not sure if J cc's are accepted in overseas ****** sites.

Why do we foreign blokes marry the ugliest Japanese women? A couple of my better halves were fucking gruesome. I bet this bird must have given great head back in the day...I fall for it every... fucking...time ... Being in prison reduces access to the many essentials of the female armoury. No makeu...

The "announce of finalists" [sic] kind of suggests to me that not many "cool people" took part in the voting.

Tyler Brule, who has a special vision function to only see cool well dressed people, certainly didn't participate in this exercise.