kurogane wrote:FYI, Ikebukuro to Ekoda. On a suburban line nobody should want to live on but strangely some do.......

That definitely qualifies as inaka.

A Japanese how-to has Americans tossing out clutter by the bagful By the time Anna Kate Mackle of Tampa Bay, Fla., got a copy of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (the book by Japanese organizer Marie Kondo that has taken the U.S. by storm), she ...

Taiwan president says should remember good things Japan did Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said on Sunday it was important to remember the good things Japan did for the island while not forgetting the bad, as he marked 70 years since Japan gave up control of Taiwan at the end of World War Two. [...]...

a sunday spree by 3rd world ppl (Turks vs Kurds) in front of turkey embassy. https://twitter.com/hana_64s/status/658107043237134336/video/1 https://twitter.com/masmasyabai/status/658105754650472448/video/1 In case you're wondering what happened there ... At least three Turkish nationals were injure...

I've never seen anyone piss off a platform or train here. It must be an inaka thing. I have seen that happen. Takadanobaba, FYI. College kid or salaryman? I used to see it in the NY subway sometimes. The best was the guys who would stand between the cars and piss while the train was moving. Of cour...

wagyl wrote:No one takes trains while drunk out in the inaka. It is so much more convenient to drink drive.

I live in central Tokyo. Inaka means anything more than 20 minutes outside the Yamanote loop.

I've never seen anyone piss off a platform or train here. It must be an inaka thing.

FYI it's not displaying on Tapatalk for iOS. It's just a box with a line through it. Well this is ambiguous. Are you saying that all that iOS displays for you is a box with a line through it? If so, that is correct: the character looks like a box with a line through it. Have you not seen 豆腐あり〼 sign...

I could care less about slutty attire as it neither increases or decreases my chances of getting laid. Plus dressing up in costumes and screaming "Woooo!! Partaaaaaaay!!!!" or whatever is fucking stupid. In my experience, it brings out lots of non-club going people who tend to drink and d...

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Takechanpoo wrote:Z means zainichi, it doesnt?

OK, now I understand... but are zainichis actually a significant part of bosozoku?

Haven't you been paying attention? They're responsible for 99.9% of everything that's wrong with Japan.

FYI it's not displaying on Tapatalk for iOS. It's just a box with a line through it.

Man Dressed Up As Beautiful Woman ‘To Lure Men To Hotels, Drug And Rob Them’ A former stylist in China robbed men he’d met online by dressing up as a beautiful woman, luring them to a hotel and drugging them, police said. The 48-year-old, surnamed Tang, pretended to be a well-off, divorced woman wh...

I wonder if they've had to turn away any confused Japan tourists who were expecting something other than over-priced fusion cuisine.

I've never understood why anyone over 12 who doesn't have young kids is into it. I could care less about the holiday but going out any partying with grrls in sluttier than usual attire is worth being into. Not really. I could care less about slutty attire as it neither increases or decreases my cha...

:keyboardcoffee: Yakuza cancel halloween for kiddies....there is soo much wrong with that. Yeah, everyone knows Halloween is an excuse for stupid millennial broads to dress like whores. Maybe that's where to focus is at? All the hostesses and whores doing Halluiiiiiin teema this year? I've definite...

Top: Special Permanent Resident Officially Disabled It's easy to get welfare Even when you're arrested, they only report your alias Even when you commit a crime, they don't forcibly deport you If you encounter any trouble, you can change your alias and reset your life Is there anyone stupid enough t...

Wags, don't go full Take on us: SpaceX has not yet made a counterfiling, though it has denied the claims made in the complaint to Motherboard, adding that it plans to refute them in court. Unpaid overtime is as American as mom and apple pie and the military industrial complex. Don't tell me, tell M...

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Yakuza cancel halloween for kiddies....there is soo much wrong with that.

Yeah, everyone knows Halloween is an excuse for stupid millennial broads to dress like whores.

Unpaid overtime is as American as mom and apple pie and the military industrial complex. Don't tell me, tell Matsuki. Overtime update for American workers long overdue, reports say Only 18% of all US workers are eligible to receive overtime pay – and studies suggest raising the overtime threshold c...

Abe's Options for Halting Japan's Looming Demographic Crisis Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered his new minister for demographic issues to come up with “bold proposals” for raising Japan’s birthrate. His aim: Stem a slide in the labor force to drive production and fund the retirement of the coun...

What they don't seem to realise is that Elon Musk is already Japanese in practice. Allegations of service zangyo: The filing alleges SpaceX "knowingly caused a violation of the California Labor Code by directing its employees to alter the time records, or 'shave' the time worked by [Stan Sapor...

Do you mean because they provide decent incomes to over-educated upper middle class do-gooders or are you talking about something more sinister? Yes? Given that even on a good day only about half the income goes to the purported objective, I would characterise it as innocently insidious. Nice enoug...

Toats same thoughts. LOL BFF! That certainly helps to explain why I can't get a room at a Toyoko Inn. Feckin Tourists........... :rolleyes: The difference between this year and last is shockingly obvious. There are tour buses parked everywhere and since Asakusa doesn't have the infrastructure to ha...

Are Chinese bureaucrats taking over? I've noticed quite a few working at the kuyakusho on recent visits plus I had to make a couple of trips to immigration this month and two of the three people I spoke with were Chinese.

Tourist Spending in Japan Reaches Record One Trillion Yen Foreign tourists to Japan spent a record 1 trillion yen ($8.3 billion) in the three months through September as Chinese visitors -- encouraged by a weaker yen -- continued to splash their cash. The number of visitors rose to 5.35 million, up...

Whether it was from guilt or a genuine change of heart A change of heart might not have been needed. Being a bastard in one area doesn't mean you aren't a great person in others. Some of the worst gangsters love kittens, visit their lonely old grandmas every week, and do good work in their communit...

Congratulations, Coligny. I didn't think it was possible for me to hate life anymore than I already do but you proved me wrong.

Of kimono and cultural appropriation Fifteen years ago I visited Nishijin, Kyoto’s famed kimono manufacturing quarter with my then host family. I had just finished reading Yasunari Kawabata’s “The Old City,” a novel steeped in Kyoto’s kimono culture; its main character Chieko is the adopted daughte...

Ex-Fukushima nuclear plant worker confirmed to have cancer A man in his 40s who worked at the Fukushima nuclear plant after the 2011 disaster is the first person confirmed to have developed cancer from radiation exposure, Japan confirmed Tuesday. The Health and Labor Ministry said the man, who wasn...

I was trying to be Canadian there. There is nothing gayer than fat men in tights that only move when their aged, fat white dominatrix tells them to. If the fat fucks actually moved more than twice an hour it would count as a sport. I consider it a fetish. Not many fat boys in football these days. g...