Category: Japan Living

Trying to convince the S.O. to do something. It does not appear to be working from this self portrait: Speaking of portraits I have uploaded some more pix from the Japan trip. A visit to Neko town. Out to Chiba. ( Where the S.O. used to live). Harajuku for girl

By Yukio Hatoyama who resigned yesterday-one year after winning election by a huge electoral majority. The S.O. has been grabbing every chance to watch the news coverage. It is kind of nice to see it in the original so to speak-not so filtered by American perceptions and biases. However in the

Ah, this is the life. Jack Daniels in the glass, and hot water shootin’ up your ass! –from the beginning of the movie, Middle Age Crazy. While I am not normally in the habit of carrying a drink into the restroom-the S.O. and I did have a chance to experience the

That`s what you say when you return home in Japan-coming in the door to let the S.O. know that you are home. So I`m letting Japan know I`m back even if it is just for a week. Trip over was OK. We flew out to LAX,  then the next day

And stuck with a really lousy deal in the process. You think Obama has problems? Try being the current Prime Minister of Japan: The Hatoyama government is neither radical nor anti-U.S.; nor is the man himself. But they seem determined to prove the old proverb that the road to hell

Because they would have probably gotten the bejesus sued out of them: Back on April 14th, Washington Post columnist Al Kamen wrote the following about the nuclear summit held in Washington: By far the biggest loser of the extravaganza was the hapless and (in the opinion of some Obama administration

It appears fleeing to Japan and teaching English may be off the table. geos fail Uploaded by techmanimoto. – Discover more webcam videos and video blogs. [after Joel’s Princeton interview] Lana: So, how’re we doin’? Joel Goodson: Looks like University of Illinois!

Heading west tomorrow for a circuitous trip around the corners of the country ( sort of).  Back to the desktop in about a week. Laptops and electronics galore with me-but there is work also-so posting is as it is. There is a new movie in Japan that opened this weekend-“My darling

A couple of years ago I posted a video similar to this one about the TV show Adomachi. They do a “Top 30” countdown of things to do in various neighborhoods. And in between showing you where to go and where to eat-they show you the girls! Ah,  memories. This

Another thing I probably should not try to buy on E-bay!