Cos said...

Cos at 07:35 PM JST - 28th March

What a stupid question ! A not a date made for having sex ?

I mean when I want to play tennis with a man, I tell him : "Let's have a tennis match." and not "Let's have a date.". I don't do the reverse either.

Well some people are…

Posted in Sex on the first date: Good idea or not? at 07:35 PM JST - 28th March
Cos at 12:49 PM JST - 6th March

Doctor Lady, I think you don't understand what "hikikomori" and "NEETs" are. People with agoraphobia and social anxiety also exist in Japan, but that's a different problem. It's possible that a few hikikomori also have anxiety, but not the majority of them.

They are more like monks without a religion.…

Posted in Exploring the mind of a 'hikikomori' at 12:49 PM JST - 6th March
Cos at 08:46 PM JST - 3rd March

Dragomonkey, you have not traveled to Japan recently.

This article is talking about tourists, not foreign residents with re-entry permits

We wait in the same line, so wait the same time. We give our fingerprint and our photo. And we see a poster saying "anti-terrorist checking" in front of us…

Posted in Gov't seeks faster entry procedures for foreigners at airports at 08:46 PM JST - 3rd March
Cos at 01:53 PM JST - 23rd February

Faderkinta,

** it is nice to hear something outside of the English teaching world.**

Learn Japanese.

It is not like there are so many foreigners in Japan anyway.

In Osaka, I see thousands of foreign residents, very few of them teach English. They are not going home because of a…

Posted in Where have all our drinking buddies gone? at 01:53 PM JST - 23rd February
Cos at 06:43 PM JST - 21st February

people are leaving the country in droves ...

Droves ? Come on ! Maybe they were all Terrie's drinking buddies, but that's really a small group of a few hundred of persons (counting spouses and children). Even if all of them left Japan, and 5 ritzy gaijin bars had to…

Posted in Where have all our drinking buddies gone? at 06:43 PM JST - 21st February
Cos at 12:35 PM JST - 14th February

Tmarie, I would do exactly like her. I mean, if we are in love, for me it's enough, we make privates arrangements for our common life, we don't need the marriage big show.

But getting a marriage contract is necessary to give a convenient legal status to the kid in…

Posted in Rie Miyazawa announces she is pregnant and will get married at 12:35 PM JST - 14th February
Cos at 04:41 AM JST - 8th February

It seems the rest of Asia has already got the DVD release. So if you don't need a Japanese subtitle or dubbing...

Posted in Stars bring 'Red Cliff Part 2' to Tokyo at 04:41 AM JST - 8th February
Cos at 12:17 PM JST - 6th February

That's funny. I am not encouraging anybody to smoke pot, I even thinks that makes idiots people even sillier as they were. But surely the practice doesn't do worse for public health than Kellogs' breakfast sugaring-fattening of generations of obeses.

Posted in USA Swimming suspends Phelps for 3 months; Kellogg drops him at 12:17 PM JST - 6th February
Cos at 12:37 PM JST - 17th December

That's always the same problem : Have enough doctors and nurses in the country. So a part of them will go be able to go patients' house or at least answer the phone for consulting, at any hour, in case the baby or a the grand-ma has "a cold or…

Posted in What is the best way to discourage people from calling ambulances and using hospital outpatient services when they are not in need of urgent treatment? at 12:37 PM JST - 17th December
Cos at 05:05 PM JST - 30th November

Welcome to the club of the "no card for you".

***if you join a private gym. ***

Thak made nothing for me, except nice muscles. 4 different gyms, they said : "self-employed" = card application rejected, sports club application accepted (they take the money directly on my account). I have…

Posted in Try to get a credit card in Japan at 05:05 PM JST - 30th November