FG members are quite right to throw cold water on anyone hoping to get a job in Japan without bringing much to the table. It's worth pointing out, though, that hiring does still take place even in a down market and you'll never get offered one of those spots if you don't put yourself in play. Japan ...

It's not fair to say all Japanese reporters turned a blind eye to Woodford's allegations. One of the new journals, FACTA, reported the same questions being asked at the Olympus shareholders meeting and made it their cover story back in August , well before Woodford went public. I won't pretend to ha...

...almost to a person, they couldn't figure out why the gaijin would drop a dime on the company, even if he was fired. "A J-employee wouldn't do that!" even if he was fired the same way, according to the peanut gallery... They have short memories. After Fujitsu sacked president Kuniaki Nozoe he sue...

He's been kicked out after six months In a rare case of tensions boiling over in one of Japan's typically staid boardrooms, Olympus said Friday it removed Michael C. Woodford from his role as president and executive officer after only six months in charge, citing clashes in management style with oth...

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Freddie Ljungberg is a class act. He doesn't particularly need the money so joining a Japanese team is really just a way for him to keep playing. Good that he had no qualms about being in Japan.

Well, police have arrested a 53 year old Brazilian man for the arson. They believe he left the anti-foreigner note to lead police suspicions elsewhere.

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Sign reads: "This is what we do to pickpockets".

People are leaving flowers outside the Apple store in Ginza:

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CNN: 1970s pop icon David Cassidy sues Sony Pop star David Cassidy filed suit on Wednesday against Sony, claiming he was not paid for his image on merchandise from the hit television show, "The Partridge Family," in which he starred. "For nearly 40 years, defendants have swindled Mr. Cassidy out of...

A paddy field in Oita prefecture in Kyushu has set up a diorama of scarecrows to celebrate the World Cup-winning women's soccer team.

There are 308 Tourist Information Centres for foreigners in Japan but they vary greatly in the kind of information they provide and how they are managed. Feedback from tourists suggests that there should be more centres in better locations. The government is aware that standards need to rise but is ...

Another Shin-Koiwa suicide just after 11pm last night. Not the Narita Express this time. Some reports say a woman sat on the tracks about 500m away from the station.

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Apple has confirmed KDDi will be handling the iPhone 4s along with Softbank.

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e8a36f138a65.jpg UN.org: Veteran Japanese diplomat elected as head of UN-backed sea court A veteran Japanese jurist and diplomat has been elected President of the United Nations-backed International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), whi...

Diets gone bad...


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[YT]qLUCxEerxoM[/YT] A Tokyo Court has lifted a ban on a Korean musical opening in Japan. "Bijo wa Tsurai no" ("It's Tough Being a Beauty") is related to the Japanese manga "Kanna wa Daiseiko Desu!" (Kanna's Big Success!) by Yumiko Suzuki. It's a story of how a plain, overweight girl undergoes major...

nice find... weird how the N word dose not trump wanker or cunt... It's a British survey and the word doesn't have the same history or usage as America. What's interesting is the way two racial slurs rose in the rankings compared with 1997, which the report mentions specifically. They also have a h...

I'm sure no good will come of posting this. Anyway, I just found an old British study called "Delete Expletives?" (PDF), published in 2000, which ranked words by their offensiveness. http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e88b03abc42f.jpg (The same list appears as a bar chart on pag...

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The new au catalogue has no entry for the iPhone but one small entry has slipped through the proofreaders. It appears at the foot of one of the pages:

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Gravure idol Akina Minami shows up the other celebrities taking part in a TBS kart racing challenge.

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e86149ceb9fb.jpg Trey Parker popped up in this thread five years ago when he married Emma Sugiyama. It now seems the relationship ended. Parker has mentioned in interviews this year that he has been living with a girlfriend, and her 10 year ol...

Samurai_Jerk wrote:I just heard some off the record shit today from somebody who knows some folks. If what they're claiming is true, it's time to RUN!!!

If only you could be more vague.

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MEXT has released a cesium dispersal map based on readings taken by helicopter between the 8th and 12th of September.

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