How long is the flight from the US? From Houston, it's 10 to 14 hours depending on your route. Don't worry---on your first trip you'll be too pumped to be bored or even notice the length of the flight. What kind of demand is there for Telecomm Engineers over there? Plenty!! BUT, you better be good ...
HAPPY IN THE EAST ( -- ) OR SMILING :-) IN THE WEST Ok so I'm slow but it wasn't until I read this that it dawned on me how different my wifes email (containing emoticons) to me was. Just shows you 'something new everyday' (^_^) Hey, it was sometime until the whole yoko-moji/tatemoji emoticon concep...
Why Shane Lipscombe and his sweat shop "Shame" English School are BIG scumbags in Japan I know an English teacher seriously thinking about coming to Japan to work with Shane. Scumbags? Who really knows anything about state of a Japanese EngRish business. However, looking at this piss-poor...
Wanna pay rental fee to your J-library? Japan's Book Battle Japanese publishers say they are getting clobbered by an unlikely upstart: the local public library. It was not until the 1970s that public libraries first appeared in Japan, and while still relatively rare.. ....publishers and authors bega...
Douglas apparently decided to take the alleged action after the woman learned last summer that he was married and broke up with him. So he not just a completely fucked up unit - he is a cheating fucked up unit. from Marvin- sama in WaiWai ...especially women, get a kick out of taking a snap while t...
Sect: Dead toddler cloned YIKES, the Japanese deadbaby clone has an alien FG mother. :!: Clonaid exec expected in court Wednesday In Japan, a spokeswoman for the Japan Raelian Movement said that the Japanese baby is a clone of a 2-year-old boy who died in an accident 18 months ago. An Asian woman n...
[ Japan 'loses' 206kg of plutonium See also the Asahi Shimbun's Court rules Monju fast reactor unsafe ... The decision may be the death knell for the government's nuclear fuel strategy. KANAZAWA-In an unprecedented decision that could throw the nation's nuclear power policy into disarray, a high co...
SLATE.com goes to the Davos Meeting's "Japan Dinner".... Dispatches From Davos -- Japan's Gross National Cool ... Japan Dinner, an annual event hosted by some of the country's most powerful industrialists....It started as a pretty formal-looking affair with a soporific agenda of greater u...
Japan 'loses' 206kg of plutonium Japan on Tuesday admitted that 206kg of its plutonium - enough to make about 25 nuclear bombs - is unaccounted for. Government scientists said that 6,890kg of plutonium had been extracted since 1977 from spent nuclear fuel at a processing plant about 120km north eas...
Nude photos on Net lead to arrest An English-language teacher in Tokyo who allegedly posted on the Internet nude photos of a woman he had been dating has been arrested on suspicion of defamation, police said Monday.
What about us ugly guys! I'll take a girl on the fringe of Japanese society any time. This is probably TMI but I found that it is easy to pick up J-girls with a defect, like this cross eyed girl I dated in Sasebo.... That's not a "defect"---that can be cute in the Japanese point-o-view. Y...
http://www.theonion.com/onion3902/kim_jong_ii.html Funnier still is Kim Jong Ill's aim http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:qca7jYuXfQIC:www.netwiz.net/~eclay/hitomiss/hitmiss1.jpg and equipment ... http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:zNuPaQ9w0XkC:www.xsystems.co.uk/machinehead/images/path4.jpg
Did anyone see the panel show on Sunday night featuring numerous FG with their Japanese spouses discussing the issues of a cross-cultural marriages in Japan?... Was about 7:30 last Sunday forgot which station. Sunday Big Variety , TV Tokyo (ch 8 ) from 7:30 to 8:54pm! Dang that was one hour and fif...
Did anyone see the panel show on Sunday night featuring numerous FG with their Japanese spouses discussing the issues of a cross-cultural marriages in Japan? Dave baby and my other least fave tarento "Kyra" (spelling?) sans brightly coloured wig in the front seats. She was fairly quiet fo...
Anyone know what the success rate is for American/Thai relationships? Tough to find that info... Thailand Divorces per 1000 population per year: 0.58 -88.28% the Rate Compared to USA --from 'Asian Countries Divorce Statistics' However, I did find the following on the Divorce Reform[/ur] site.... [u...
I'd have to agree with Steve B. about running your own show: far fewer unproductive meetings, but you work your ass off. ] I hear you!!! :roll: Oh, and there's another "little" problem of running your own FG show in Japan: Japanese clients think they don't have to pay small KK owned by a ...
Garbage disposals are not banned in Japan. Details on the "in-sink-erator" can be found here: http://www.madcap.jp/ FG homemakers from North America often suffer from severe GDWS (Garbage Disposal Withdrawal Syndrome :? ). He, he, did I just say "withdrawal" and housewife? :wink...
Garbage disposals are not banned in Japan. Details on the "in-sink-erator" can be found here: http://www.madcap.jp/ The key word is Basically garbage disposals are banned. You can buy them, but they won't fuction properly. Many FG have tried get them but their building's 2.5 inch main dra...
Via Terrie's Take of Japan Inc. magazine... Insured bank accounts for old fools ..in Japan you can buy insurance against being an old fool (but not a young one). Apparently the 77 Bank is going to start offering insurance for pensioners who lose or are conned out of their savings account passbooks.....
i know what my job options are if i get fvckin work visa.. but i need a BA first..:( many English teacher folks have, in fact, graduated from the highly esteemed UNIVERSITY OF XEROX with a major in mass media copy technology. YES! ALL HAIL THE COLOR LASER PRINTER! Refer to the classic threads.. Get...
... since returning to the States, I'm glad to report that Japan does not have a monopoly in mindless meetings. My co-workers at Maybe-the-biggest-electronics-company-in-Japan Inc. swear that DILBERT is Japanese. http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:oFATS_2JGI4C:www.ascii.co.jp/english/company/inf...
On average, each Japanese tosses out 2.5 pounds of garbage a day -- a little more than their American counterparts. A quick question. How common are waste disposers (there's another word for them but I can't think of it right now... insinkerators?) in the sinks of America. I've yet to sight one in ...
Robots on street may find road to recovery It's a wonder no one thought of it before. Fukuoka, a city of 5m people in western Japan, believes it has come up with the perfect way to reactivate the country's lifeless economy - let robots loose on the streets. ...ready to test his company's Tmsuk 04 r...
i know what my job options are if i get fvckin work visa.. but i need a BA first..:( Nope. You don't actually need a BA: it's Japanese Case-by-case depending on your special skill/talent. Italian chefs, construction demo experts, models, and most importantly, entertainers don't need them. If you wa...
2 Killed in Gang Attack in Mie Prefecture http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20030128wo23.htm First-aid workers treated a young man with a head wound at the scene, but he ran away before police could question him, the police said. :rofl: Fuckin' whaaa ha, ha.. Keystone cops, at it again!.. DOH 8O "...
whats the difference between sponsorship and a visa? i thought you needed a sponsor to get a visa... or is that for a work visa? how can i get this $50/month student/cultural visa? and i can work up to 20hrs/ week with it? anywhere? does this work for americans? Saaaaa ... read something, dude. Lik...
I thought the Japan's "secret diplomatic funds" were banned... :o Cash readied for stranded woman The Foreign Ministry prepared nearly 10 million yen in ransom earlier this month to win the freedom of a Japanese woman stranded in China after fleeing North Korea. The money, sought by two So...
Gotta love spineless media! I'm sure it was a question of "privacy" (in Katakana). Survivor vents anger over gang shooting Yomiuri Shimbun 28 Jan ... Kunio Goto, 55, the former gang member targeted by the gunmen, entered the bar at about 11 p.m. The employee knew Goto as he was a regular ...