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You have to look at the debt number. Softbank is only assuming 130 billion yen. Ripplewood pays down the rest (or has paid it down). Since the company hasn't turned a profit since they bought it, there are no internal funds to set against that sum. In September 2003 mid-terms, this company lost 125 ...

From Daily Yomiuri Televiews Is the Japanese public getting bored with their long-standing love affair with television? ...Something is playing havoc with the ratings. I spent some time on the Video Research Company Web site ( http://www.videor.co.jp/data/ratedata/top10.htm ) last week and was shock...

The English Daily Yomiuri says this: Ripplewood acquired Japan Telecom from its main stakeholder, Vodafone Group PLC of Britain, for 260 billion yen in November. The U.S. investment fund appointed the former vice president of IBM Japan Ltd. as president of the fixed-line carrier with a brief to rest...

Aozora Bank Shelves Tokyo Listing Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at 04:00 JST TOKYO; Aozora Bank has dropped its target of being listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by the end of fiscal 2005 because of affluent capital, its president said Tuesday. "We have enough shareholders' equity at present, and t...

Taro, the link you gave says this May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Softbank Corp., Japan's second-largest provider of high-speed Internet service, said it's in talks to acquire a majority stake in Japan Telecom Co. from Ripplewood Holdings LLC. If that is correct (and it could well be wrong) then a 100 billion...

Big pull-out section in the Daily Telegraph recommending Tokyo. They are usually pretty good but this looks like a workmanlike piece. All part of the tourist push, I guess. Big Break Tokyo Essential Tokyo (Filed: 22/05/2004) Hottest hotel Four Seasons Marunouchi Best bar Geronimo Shot Bar Best sundo...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_mod/upload/e2eb45caac363aef16b1808317060bef.gif Review of "The Advantage" by The Advantage Needless to say, Nintendo meant a lot to me as a kid. So when I heard about this, the debut album from California five-piece The Advantage, I just about shit ...

Nice spot - and I've even read the damn book.

Actually, its not too bad. The author pays tribute to Elmore Leonard and that's the tone he wants. Mainly set in Osaka which makes a change.

As far as I recall, the characterTaro is 1/2 Japanese 1/2 Philippino. Or Brazilian (instead of Philippino).

You could also look at the economics of Sumo since that touches on fight-rigging and broader allegations of corruption which all threaten modern sumo. And possible parallels to boxing in the west which has seen a slump in popularity. When Akebono decided to switch to K1, it was partly, it seems, bec...

IMDBPro says nothing about this one. I know some people who were involved with Quill so if they have any leads, I'll pass them on. "The Bang Devils" looks like it will be optioned along with the ones mentioned earlier Here I doubt all this stuff will actually get made but there ought to be...

Ta for that.

A while ago a mate of mine tried to tell me that there had been a Lassie film set in Japan but he didn't know the details This sounded deeply unlikely and I certainly couldn't find anything in the files so I assumed he was wrong. More recently, another film guy told me that it wasn't a Lassie film a...

From the UK Daily Telegraph's "Alex" series

Since adding to Taro's post with clips of "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" [url=http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?p=51303#post51303&sid=f8a8070e9bc9b43177ba397c73a4ffd3#51804]Here[/url] I've found a few more gems on the Authentic History Center Site So I thought I'd break out...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_mod/upload/7a42ad715c9e05d17c8e5a2c8f53a599.jpg Call me a big kid but this cartoon is very well done. It turns up on the "Toonami" Channel on UK satellite TV. Is this in Japan at all? It has been cancelled in the US now. "You might call Samurai...

I even saved the pic on this site as "Chick and Me" but didn't make the obvious connection with the Jazz Taxi theme. I've now washed down a jar of QP Gold with some genki drinks. The "helpful" taxi pic comes from here: More than you could want to know about Japanese Taxis Bit out...

Just so we know what we're talking about

Do you know many taxi drivers with their own web page? And who is this FG?

Jazz Taxi home page

These gents would like a word

I think I was the only gaijin.

Because, of course, nothing else could possibly validate the experience.

As for Japanese names, Sangster sometimes uses a little trick. To pronounce the name of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, she recommends announcers to stress the first syllable, "ko." Sangster knows the pronunciation of "Koizumi" should basically be flat. However, becau...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_mod/upload/df62674c150432f409212d7ee600db63.gif vs http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_mod/upload/28905e3baad58d2ec3e84018df2e3de5.gif Link to "Full" Starbucks logo Check out the logo at the top of this page for another "unconscious" E...

I agree with Taro that you could easily do two months on $100. that gets you 11,000 around current rates and gives you 180 yen a day. If you eat at home at least half the time by cooking for yourself then food won't be a problem. I think your biggest initial challenge, depending on how you have set ...

Are you asking us if house prices are going up? Maybe property prices have finished their worst declines but I don't think anyone posting here has the foresight to know if residential property prices are set to rise. I have a friend who believes prices will double and has already bought a place. Oth...

Financial Times usual PR job for Morgan Stanley Japan's stock market is set to receive an extra inflowof foreign capital following Morgan Stanley Capital International's move to boost the country's weighting in its global equity indices. Yahoo Japan is the largest company joining the index. The bro...

Sazaby hooked up with Starbucks and, as you allude, took Doutor to court when the later ripped off their green logo. Doutor settled and now brands Excelsior (initially it was Exceisior) in Blue. The king of ironies is that Sazabys themseves ripped of the name of Sothebys in GB in an attempt to get s...