IparryU wrote:wow not roppongi? finally crackin down on the yaks or just the korean and chinese joints?

Police have been moving on Kabukicho for longer than the same efforts in Roppongi.

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The police went on a major patrol around the Okubo and Kabukicho, to close down unlicensed bars, clear off touts and get establishments to remove illegally-placed signboards.

I don't think anyone should get hung up on the numbers. Naruke's main point seems to be to say that many people waste their time learning English. That's why he uses a provocative title. Rather than trying to argue about what an appropriate percentage might be, it would seem more useful to address h...

[YThd]MxMsggG4ppg[/YThd] [floatl] http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e66875499f9b.jpg [/floatl]There's a new documentary recounting the story of the old Moulin Rouge in Shinjuku. The theatre was located near the south exit of Shinjuku Station, a street away from the building whi...

OC Weekly: Five Things You're Doing Wrong with Japanese Food

1. Mistaking Miso for Shiso Leaf

2. Mispronouncing Santuko vs. Santoku

3. Slurp vs. Not Slurp

4. Asking for Tonkatsu When you Want Tonkotsu

5. Ordering Sushi When you Want Sashimi...more...

Dayam...in any civilized country, you'd expect those prosecutors to be locked up for such criminal behavior or criminal negligence at the very least. Under the law at the time, the prosecutors didn't do anything illegal by withholding that evidence. Yomiuri: New facts may affect retrial / Discovery...

Update: [SIZE="4"] Mother of falsely accused groper who killed himself seeks justice [/SIZE] This case is now in front of the Tokyo District Court. The mother is claiming 10 million yen in compensation over what she believes was an illegal search and illegal detention. Police are contesti...

Yomiuri: Prosecutors 'concealed crucial evidence' Prosecutors withheld key evidence from the defense in the trial of a Nepalese man accused of murdering a Japanese woman in 1997, according to sources close to the case. Govinda Prasad Mainali was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of an empl...

chokonen888 wrote:Viva le revolution?

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http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e64b602c8a93.jpg http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e64b602b45dc.jpg Interestingly, both Toyo Keizai & Shukan Diamond have similar front cover stories this week. The economics magazines look at potential problems with ...

Havenaar made his debut for the national team in the win over North Korea. One of his shots hit the post. He's actually good with the ball at his feet but it seems the team want to use his height to be a threat in the air.

[floatr] http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e638e7c2ec7c.jpg [/floatr] SMH: Giant crab stuck in quarantine ...When an exhibition of giant crabs opens at Sydney Aquarium today, the star will be conspicuously absent. The Japanese spider crab, the largest crab in the world and ''he...

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e63768e6610a.jpg The changing cover of Jiro Akagawa's "Three Sister Detectives" which was first published in 1985. I suppose the one below represents an intermediate development. http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e637762d...

Shizuoka prefecture has redrafted some of the textbooks used by Japanese nurses for the state examination to make them easier to understand for foreign candidates. This entails using furigana as well as explanations closer to spoken rather than written Japanese. The authors have been conscious of th...

...Go to any other large scale supermarket in Asia like in Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia etc and you'll see both domestic and international products. Japan is just too much about Japan all the time... The question is why foreign retailers do that in Japan. Either they can't find sufficient demand f...

You could try paying someone to ride it for you. There might be some young kid who fancies the challenge. They could always blog about it.

14 FG Zen Buddhist monks have arrived for 3 months of training at Yokoji

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http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghost/9794e61708d0ba70.jpg FoxSports: Digby Ioane set to sacrifice $1 million paycheck in Japan to stay with Queensland and ARU Star Australia winger Digby Ioane is set to turn his back on a $1 million a year in Japanese rugby and re-sign with the ARU a...

And talking about "honesty," didn't you edit your original post to make the introduction sound less abrasive? :rolleyes: He didn't edit it. Tassie is newly registered so his posts get held up for moderation. He ended up posted his question twice and you answered his other, shorter, post. So as not ...

The old hotel swimming pool has been turned into the Shinagawa Fishing Garden.

Bucky wrote:Back in the day, Funabashi had that indoor ski structure.

That's where the Ikea now stands.

[quote="M Bison"]an industry source tells me] That's certainly the general suspicion. Quite a few entertainers are now hoping that more revelations will come out. As its stands, the kind of links Shimada had admitted are not uncommon among other top stars. If that's the standard for retiri...

[YT]mXsBnQK6eNA[/YT] HuffPo: Crystal Renn Gets Her Eyes Stretched For Japanese Vogue It's generally a bad idea to physically mimic a race or ethnicity that is not your own...But Anna Dello Russo is not someone who cares what people think of her. So she went ahead and styled Crystal Renn for Vogue Ni...