Case in point, those people that hoard garbage into their homes and properties are considered to be folks with severe case of OCD (Obsessional Compulsive Disorders), while in Japan....can't figure out why the sufferers still can't get their act together and still end up hoarding garbage again..... ...
okay.. let me repfrase.. whats is the most god damned mf'ing cheapest school in tokyo that will hook me up w/ a student visa? "Sponsorship" was the bigger problem for me than the student visa. $50 a month to a hungry-but-respectable Judo dojo will get you a student/cultural visa. Make f&a...
HOLY schmolly!! will they give me a student visa?! and can I work on a student visa? Hell no. You have to get a student visa to study some bunka-baka thing like underwater senko sniffing that's cho cheap. You'll learn plenty of Japanese in the process and you can sign up for nearly-free Ward classe...
For all you budding FG, let me relate how I survived my typical super-dooper toporific Japanese death-by-PowerPoint meeting this morning... Once the Butt- bucho started droning on about software accountablity. This was followed by pissed and moaned about their meaningless computer thingie and . . . ...
Fading innovation prowess adds to Japan's burden "As if bust banks, entrenched deflation and 12 years of economic stagnation were not bad enough, Japan is having to face another unpalatable truth: the famed capacity of its companies for innovation is fading. ``When normal growth resumes, the m...
We had JCOM forced upon us in our apartment... JCOM can be curse or blessing. If your building's "pipe" to the Net is fat, it's real bargain for both TV* and Internet access since its cost buried in the condo's maintenance fees. In one new building I was in, cable/Net access "cost&qu...
Intercultural relationships are no light matter. I'd like to see statistics of how many Japanese/Western marriages end in divorce. I've seen reports of a 60% divorce rate, but the numbers are impossible to nail down since the marriages cross borders. That is, there's a Japanese marriage and divorce...
At my pool/gym, Japanese girls often offer to take a couple keitai photos for me of a particularly striking* woman in the women's locker room if I speculate on what she 'really' looks like. :o Seriously? Plenty of Japanese women think taking a couple keitai dressing room shots as a harmless if sill...
wouldnt be so bad if they knew what insulation was....all the dwellings arejust concrete shells. :? Insulation would confuse the jika-tabe /construction boys since they haven't the foggest about vapor barriors . My favorite time-killer in a boring Japanese meetings is to count the UBC building code...
Supersize snow job Huge cartoon characters highlight Sapporo's Snow Festival. ...feeling of a snowbound county fair. Except for the gobs of fatigues-uniformed soldiers and drab-green military versions of the Hughes 500 helicopter circling overhead. The extra troops are on hand to ensure that al-Qai...
Sect: Dead toddler cloned Note this "interview" was last Friday (24 Jan) but the claims of full details to be available, " on Clonaid's Web site in the next day" never came true. :? Clonaid claims third baby, but no proof Ms. Boisselier said the Japanese newborn was cloned from ...
This isn`t their usual style. The Yaks generally try not to involve civilians. I wonder if these guys were Chinese gangs? The TV shows went out of the way with interviews saying that the people shot were futsu regular folk and not crime related (may it was 100% per day "loan*" related). R...
Hey, how about a dip? http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/swimsuits/images/post10_photo.jpg CAPTION: "Japanese Sunscreen" Her pale skin protected by a parasol, a Japanese woman and her friend are the picture of modesty. Photograph by Kiyoshi Sakamato, 1928-- From NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC's...
Mongolia 1, Hawaii 1, Japan 0 :wink: Champion Asashoryu wins on final day of New Year sumo Asashoryu [of Mongolia] assured himself of promotion to grand champion, said Kitanoumi, head of the Japan Sumo Association. His promotion to yokozuna will result in two foreign-born wrestlers occupying sumo's...
If it's not on this list, please post it and give us a little background. PLATFORM PIZZA is the most traditional art here in Japan. http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Jan/20031267248309667130906.jpg Also check out the Puke Pika-Chu. Here's a rando FG shot of the day...the J-pizza vs FG whi...
DRIVE-BY SHOOT OUT: It's all the buzz in the Sunday morning TV news...three of the people gunned down were unrelated bystanders. Gunmen Kill Four, Wound Two in Tokyo Bar Two helmeted gunmen opened fire in a bar near Tokyo, killing four people and seriously wounding two others, police said Sunday. Po...
http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/tokyo/uguisudani/pix/ramen-interior-lg.jpg Hmmm.... am I the only one who automatically stereotypes solo eaters as strange people? It's normative male Japanese behavior to snort noodles, hoover up donburi , or paw through sushi all alone .... since nobody likes ...
"THE shanghai knight" wrote: Whats the most god damned cheapest school for international students in tokyo? i mean cheap. Tada hodo takaimono ha nai! * The cheapest is free. You should check out their local Ward office for free classes. You should ask for the "General Education Couns...
Hey, how about a dip? It's sink or swim for polluted beach Tokyo metropolitan government was forced to declare Odaiba Seaside Beach Park off-limits for swimmers, and to warn against even seemingly innocent wading. The water, iffy at the best of times, had become so contaminated with fecal matter th...
I had to have that done to my cat before he went to Australia...didn't seem to hurt too much... Speaking of killer cats, I gotta make one of these... Ultimate cat door Boris Tsikanovsky had a problem. His cats were dragging dead animals into his Seattle-area home. So, with a little ingenuity, Tsika...
Isn't this an FG opportunity? ? Tokyo women warming up to 'a table for one' Tokyo -Your friend has cancelled a dinner date at a restaurant you have been wanting to try for a long time, do you keep the reservation and dine solo or go home hungry? More and more single Japanese women are not afraid of...
This is one messed up company.... Holy two-faced, Batman! http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/sony.html "Sony Sytle, not substance (tm) " They're got the poorest durablity on the market. To quote Ando-shacho in a recent engineering planning/strategy meeting, "Damn it, that's too...
so this mormon church you speak of ?? :P i wanna hear bout this one. you mean a mormon church in jap or in america? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints aka the LDS Church requires Mormon guys to be missionaries when they're 19. If you are assigned to go to Japan--- the send you to Langu...
Imagine though what people would do with an holographic cell phone.. :D At my pool/gym, Japanese girls often offer to take a couple keitai photos for me of a particularly striking* woman in the women's locker room if I speculate on what she 'really' looks like. I've even seen signs saying, "No...
OK, ok, "you" have to be a bank, but still it is a negative interest rate, first in history. Japan interest rates fall below zero :!: BANK-TO-BANK interest rates in Japan went below zero for the first time today. The Bank of Japan flooded money markets with cash to try to stimulate the ail...
What they need is to change from the 2D to the 3D, virtual reality type stuff, and start gearing the games to older generations. Imagine holographic, 3D mahjong, igo, etc... [AI] Everyday I see video games losing market share to cell phone games. There are combination cell phone/hand held video gam...