Far East Cynic

Christmastime in the city………

The city of Tokyo that is: xmasby bbqkarubi Mitsukoshi department store has put up its annual Christmas tree. I’ve been to that store several times and its impressive. Should be part of any one’s Christmas trek-as well as Ebisu Gardens and Takshimaya Times square and Sakuragicho in Yokohama.

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Odds and ends…………..

I fell asleep early last night-not sure it is was from exhaustion or sheer depression. As I got to work yesterday morning I looked at my watch and realized that on the opposite side of the planet, people were just starting the climb up the hill here: Oh, I do

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So much for that cushy job in Washington…..

If McCain wins the election. Thomas P.M. Barnett, Author of The Pentagon’s New Map has bitten the hand that fed him: Obama’s task is the great unwinding of the Bush debacle, which Bush himself started these past two years, but which is likely to go four more. If Obama spends

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Editorial options…….

There is room at the top in the Japan Air Self Defense Force: General Toshio Tamogami, the head off Japan’s Air Self- Defense Force, has been sacked after writing an essay that downplayed Japan’s occupations of China/Korea and stated that Japan was not an “aggressor” in the war: In the

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