http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_mod/upload/57cd557ace026cfa34421b5bb3bc9a7c.jpg "Gohatto" (1999) In 1860 Japan, a young, newly-inducted samurai trained to fight against insurgent rebels steals the hearts of many of the his fellow warriors. People have called this a story of homose...

In the book, a "legendary" FG trader regularly holds court and business meetings in hostess bars and routinely mixes with yakuza. In one club, his bright protege falls in love with "the most beautiful girl" who not only isn't actually a hostess but turns out to be the owner's dau...

Sometimes you can get great deals on lastminute.com. There is often a deal where you don't know the carrier in advance (but you can usually work out who it is from the departure times). ANA and BA are the most common and they are both direct. You'll have to buy a return originating in London but you...

Captain Japan wrote:Taro thought so as well and filed it under "Newbie Journos" finding Japan.

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Taro Toporific wrote:"I don't want Spassky in my cell. I want a chick."

Fischer hasn't completely lost it, then.

Ugly Americans : The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions This book gets a ringing endorsement today from UCLA's Tom Plate who "cannot recommend it more highly" I have to disagree. It is about the expat finance crowd in Tokyo and falls very short ...

Very late reply, probably out of date too but. here's one link I just stumbled on. Made in Japan: The American Lawyer's Profile of MoFo's Tokyo Office and Practice (11/3/2003) Japanese firms have another reason to worry: Japanese clients like the treatment they get from foreign attorneys who activel...

I have no choice but to pull out the Hairspray/Lighter combo. It really gets the job done. Mind you don't try pesticides first Smoker tackling pesky mosquito sparks blaze that guts home Onishi's 22-year-old son, Tatsuro, had sprayed the area immediately outside the home with pesticide to try and ki...

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That pic is from the movie Hush! This funny, poignant comedy, in the gentle tradition of Shall We Dance? and The Wedding Banquet, traces the lives of two handsome boyfriends who become entangled with a young woman who proposes the idea of conceiving a child with them and creating a family. A hit at ...

Just in case you don't get them, help may be at hand Japanese researchers develop West Nile virus vaccine, plan human tests in Japan Japanese scientists have developed a vaccine for the mosquito-borne West Nile virus and will start testing on humans in the coming months, a researcher said Friday.

I remember the Ai Iijima interview and that goes back some. There was a good one with Mitsuko Baisho too which had stuff even her fan club didn't know

Another article from Japan Media Review Here The writer is worried about what he sees as growing calls to regulate the web in Japan Recently The Asahi Shimbun's popular weekly AERA magazine featured a three-page report on Hiroyuki Nishimura and the Channel 2 bulletin board. The article focused on m...

The Pia website confirms that tickets will not be on sale now on the day before the Shelter gig on the 25th. That will likely apply to convenience store sales too. If you can't find somebody to get them beforehand, I'd send an email to Melt Banana. Even if the venue is full, they probably won't have...

If Metropolis was not free, would you read it? What would you pay for? I used to buy Tokyo Journal up until about 1996 and it never had anything like the information content of Metropolis although the articles were often good. I remember when TJ did an expose of Aum in Matsumoto. It was confusing b...

Annus needs to provide urine Hungarian hammer gold medallist Adrian Annus has been told to provide a fresh urine sample on Friday or risk losing his Olympic gold medal. He did not test positive at the Games and returned home, but this may have breached regulations. "Annus will be the subject o...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_mod/upload/9b799d3f308eb69ce3d1a37b78615a51.jpg J-Power Plans to Sell 371 Bln Yen of Shares in IPO Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Electric Power Development Co. [J-Power], Japan's only nationwide electricity producer, plans to sell as much as 371 billion yen ($3.4 bi...

Oh, and... Monthly Seminar - TUESDAY, September 07 Mark Devlin - "Metropolis & Japan Today: Past, Present and Future. Mark Devlin - Arriving in Japan in October 1989, Scottish-born Mark Devlin gained his first taste of the Japanese market by working in a variety of positions including Engli...

But I reckon the treatment of the rehab board varies depending on who you are and what industry you are in. A big swing factor is whether there are unpaid corporate taxes. If the tax office gets involved, it slows everything down and leaves very little behind. The bane of everyone in corporate turn...

But he's got his hopes up for better... ATHENS (Kyodo) International Olympic Committee Medical Commission Chairman Arne Ljungqvist denied Wednesday any irregularities regarding the doping tests on Hungarian hammer throw winner Adrian Annus, who edged out Japan's Koji Murofushi to win the gold on Sun...

I've never understood the appeal of the Weekender. Inertia seems to have played a big part in its longevity. At one stage, before Corky Alexander died, it seemed like most of the contributors were based in Hawaii. I think it reached a low after 9/11 when, wittingly or unwittingly, helped propagate s...

What kind of experience does Giuliani or Sage have to help DG Largely the experience of having 10 billion yen that DG wanted. Giuliani has a name value that his company is quite happy to lend around freely and Sage thought it would help them do business in Japan. Giuliani Partners have concluded a ...

That is just a chip on some GI's shoulder more than discrimination. Indeed. For a different view of the martial arts in Japan from a man who actually knows what he's talking about..... http://www.hpo.net/users/atansley/index.html A.A. Tansley seems very narked about being let down by on old mate wh...

Former Undertone Feargal Sharkey takes Neil McCormick on a club crawl to discuss his new job as head of the Live Music Forum "I've seen old gentlemen sitting playing the banjo in a back room of a pub in the Yorkshire Dales, the Darkness selling out Brixton Academy, and everything in between. I...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_mod/upload/4e91da7a957e345c2965969652092271.jpg Okinawa teaches karate to the US The American GIs occupying Okinawa had money and were looking for something to do...Some teachers of the martial arts in Okinawa soon found the American GI, although big in statu...

The Nikkei is the best newspaper in Japan even for topics other than business Yep. Have to agree with that. If only the damn company would give it away online for free...you'd think they were running a business or something... I understand that a lot of foreign companies cancelled their subscriptio...

I think their argument can be summarized as "it'll all come out in the wash". I don't think I'll be using that in any investment return calculation soon. Actually, they are right about the cross lending but I'd like to see someone try to cancel it out. You can only do it if net debt is zer...

I was looking at yesterday's JT and I've just noticed that all the letters in that edition were written by Japanese. Readers in Council, 25th August Maybe this has happened a lot before but I've never particularly noticed. Is this a confirmation that FGs have increasingly moved to online forums to l...

AICN has picked up a report that the last Godzilla film will feature the "traditional" Godzilla and the US CGI Godzilla. Toho's English Web site says this "Godzilla Final Wars", the latest in the series, which will surely be the best of the stories, started its production with al...

Just seen on the Shelter website that they may pull ticket shop sales the day before your the gig so if you arrive on the afternoon of the 24th, you'll be too late for a Pia. If you get in early, you could be OK but it will be tight because there is nothing in Narita. I would try the other three opt...