Ah_so said...

Ah_so at 08:33 PM JST - 22nd April

Miwa Asao alone justifies the existence of youtube.

Posted in at 08:33 PM JST - 22nd April
Ah_so at 08:29 PM JST - 22nd April

Of course, Japanese mindsets will also have to change. When buying a house, you are effectively buying a plot of land. The house on it will be demolished, as no one wants a second-hand house. This stigma will live on, so even if you build a quality house at extra…

Posted in 200-year rabbit hutches at 08:29 PM JST - 22nd April
Ah_so at 11:21 PM JST - 1st April

I am pretty sure the piper is Japanese. The headshape, the little feet and the bum bag convince (apologies to any Scots out there of Asian origin - I know they exist, I dated one).

Posted in Bagpipe at 11:21 PM JST - 1st April
Ah_so at 11:16 PM JST - 1st April

There is nothing like the publicity of quasi-censorship by some murky figures in the back-ground to help get numbers up - the fuss will ensure that eventually it does open in Tokyo and in the meantime interest will be stimulated in the provinces.

Whatever the reasons were for the cinemas…

Posted in Tokyo theaters under fire for deciding not to show 'Yasukuni' documentary at 11:16 PM JST - 1st April
Ah_so at 05:04 PM JST - 31st March

What if the ring had been somewhere even more private....?

Posted in Woman forced to remove nipple ring at Texas airport at 05:04 PM JST - 31st March
Ah_so at 05:00 PM JST - 31st March

"having multiple wives, up to four in most places, you basically always have a Muslim family being four times the size of any other."

Are you suggesting that the Muslim population produces 4 times as many females as it does males? As far as I know, Muslims are still likely…

Posted in Muslims outnumber Catholics in 2006 for 1st time ever at 05:00 PM JST - 31st March
Ah_so at 06:11 PM JST - 28th March

"Play is not just play. Play is the time that kids learn their own interests, learn to find their own direction and motivations. Without this discovery time you will raise nothing but a cog in the system."

Well put. Unstructured play is a essential part of our development into adults…

Posted in Education for children starts earlier than ever at 06:11 PM JST - 28th March
Ah_so at 10:08 PM JST - 27th March

"“The” metabolic syndrome? WTF is up with that?!?"

Couldn't agree more - it upsets me to see the English language under attack from such garbage. It is PC really - "obese" is one of the last perjoritive terms still in common use, unlike "cripple" for example and they are trying…

Posted in Businesses cash in on metabolic syndrome at 10:08 PM JST - 27th March
Ah_so at 01:54 AM JST - 27th March

In imperial, that equates to less than 34 inch waste. Unless you are a giant in Japan, that certainly makes you a little overweight, but hardly obese.

Note that Lennox Lewis, the former world boxing champion, fought with a 34in waist and is over 6'5ft tall (195cm), which I understand…

Posted in I'm worried that the overweight will be shunned in the workplace and these new rules will make no one want to hire them. at 01:54 AM JST - 27th March
Ah_so at 01:35 AM JST - 27th March

How do you do quotations, bold and italics when writing a post?

The function before where you could select some text and click the quote button was very useful.

Posted in What do you think of the new Japan Today design? at 01:35 AM JST - 27th March