Far East Cynic

Never, never, never……..

Bring a camera to party. A JAL stewardess found out why the hard way: “Yes, I’m the one in the photos,” Miss A admits to Shukan Post (6/8). “But they weren’t taken by some man who had picked me up.”I know where they were taken and who took them,” she

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Simple tasks-Part 1

With guilty pleasures………… Speaking of being made to feel guilty, did you call your Mom? No blogging yesterday as my body revolted against continued consciousness about 9pm last night. I’m not sure why as : a) I did not drink any beer yesterday and b) all I really did was

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Just another day………

Dealing with “domestic tranquility”. Counseling note to the S.O. : Its called make-up / gratitude sex. Its good for you, I know it would be good for me. (Help me recover and produce a positive mental state-all that) It stops being about you when I buy you all of the

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The little Gaijin……….

This video will strike a chord with any foreigner who has lived for a while in Japan. Lord knows I love it here and would not trade it for anything in the world-but life in Japan is not for the faint of heart. It takes stamina to live here-particulalry in

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Talk about bad timing

Looks like a guy on the Yamanote line picked the wrong day to cop a feel: TOKYO \ A man was arrested last week for groping a woman who happened to be a police officer, police revealed Thursday. The incident happened on JR’s Yamanote Line on April 6, they said.

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Just a walk in the park…….

For Ishihara-san today-he won the Tokyo Governor’s election! And it was a nice stroll in the garden for the S.O.and I yesterday, getting our last chance to look at the Cherry Blossoms amid the beauty that is Sankeien (???). Click on the images to see them much better! Sankeien is

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That's his story and he is sticking to it!

This is going to be a novel line of defense: Top-secret data on Aegis destroyers obtained by a Maritime Self-Defense Force petty officer 2nd class were found to have been obtained after he copied obscene images to his hard disk from a colleague’s computer, without knowing the information contained the

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That’s his story and he is sticking to it!

This is going to be a novel line of defense: Top-secret data on Aegis destroyers obtained by a Maritime Self-Defense Force petty officer 2nd class were found to have been obtained after he copied obscene images to his hard disk from a colleague’s computer, without knowing the information contained the

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The hardest working man in Japanese TV……

This is Monta Mino, the man with probably the most weekly on screen time of any Japanese Reporter, Actor, or Actress. I mean the guy is on TV all the time. He was the host of the Japanese version of Millionaire (Due to Japanese prize-money regulations, the top prize is

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Oops!

According to Japundit, the US owes a few bucks in rent to Japan………….. Subscribe in a reader

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