Beelzebub said...

Beelzebub at 06:36 PM JST - 11th November

People who buy super-sized soft drinks, especially hot Starbucks Coffee, and carry them on board along with all their duty-free shop goods and carry-on bags, swaying as they waddle down the aisle and threatening to spill it on your lap. Drives me friggin crazy.

Posted in What behavior or habits by passengers on planes bother you the most? at 06:36 PM JST - 11th November
Beelzebub at 06:31 PM JST - 11th November

To get a death penalty conviction they'll have to prove premeditation. But they can pile up all kinds of multiple charges in addition to homicide, like that wonderful "abandonment of a corpse" and other things like applying for a passport under a false name and who knows what else. If…

Posted in Ichihashi stays silent as police begin questioning him on Hawker murder at 06:31 PM JST - 11th November
Beelzebub at 05:46 PM JST - 11th November

These remarkable "finds" are usually reported in the most spectacular way, full of wishful thinking, but then when they turn out to be false afterwards the media never retract the initial speculative report. I refused to be convinced it was actually her palace unless archeologists turn up a customized rusted…

Posted in Remains of what appears to be Queen Himiko's palace found in Nara at 05:46 PM JST - 11th November
Beelzebub at 01:26 PM JST - 11th November

Too bad disposable chopsticks can't be replanted...

Posted in No. of volunteers trying to preserve Japan's forests on the rise at 01:26 PM JST - 11th November
Beelzebub at 01:25 PM JST - 11th November

HA! At this rate the "advisers" in Japan will outnumber the refugees.

Posted in Justice Ministry to double number of advisers on refugees at 01:25 PM JST - 11th November
Beelzebub at 12:36 PM JST - 11th November

I find Japanese attitudes toward nudity to be somewhat inscrutable...

Posted in Photographer Shinoyama's office, home raided over nude photo shoot at 12:36 PM JST - 11th November
Beelzebub at 10:00 AM JST - 11th November

Ozawa is a "happo-bijin* politician who will say whatever it takes to please the audience he is facing. This is a typical example of the "foot in mouth disease" that seems to manifest itself every time a microphone is thrust in the face of a senior politician. I think it's…

Posted in DPJ's Ozawa calls Christianity 'self-righteous' at 10:00 AM JST - 11th November
Beelzebub at 05:22 PM JST - 10th November

The sad fact is that all airlines that fly into Japan airports are contributors to the remuneration of over 1,000 retired bureaucrats who have made themselves indispensable in every nook and cranny of the aviation industry, from food kitchens to parking lots. Passengers share part of the burden with higher…

Posted in ANA calls on gov't support for whole airline industry, not just JAL at 05:22 PM JST - 10th November
Beelzebub at 08:23 AM JST - 10th November

Actually once in Sakai City I asked an extremely noisy yakuza to quiet down. (Had I known he was a yakuza I would have just used earplugs.) He was high as a kite on speed at the time. I managed to fend him off by dashing behind a locked door…

Posted in Ex-gangster held after beating customer to death in Thai restaurant in Tokyo at 08:23 AM JST - 10th November
Beelzebub at 03:54 PM JST - 9th November

This story deserves a Pulitzer for incompleteness. Fingerprints don't just pop up and yell "boo!" What led the investigators to look there in the first place?

Posted in Ichihashi's fingerprints found in Osaka construction company dorm at 03:54 PM JST - 9th November