cleo said...

cleo at 08:36 PM JST - 25th June

The J-police are pulling out all the stops for the summit. Hokkaido of course and also Tokyo are very, very jumpy. Don't believe anyone who tells you they're 'targetting foreigners'. Anyone who sticks out even the tiniest bit is likely to get stopped. Looking perfectly unremarkable is also a good…

Posted in Debito Arudo protests police questioning targeting foreigners at 08:36 PM JST - 25th June
cleo at 06:09 PM JST - 25th June

Sounds like the News of the World on steroids.

Sad that people want to read this rubbish.

Posted in Mainichi's English site shuts down one column criticized for being 'too vulgar' at 06:09 PM JST - 25th June
cleo at 01:17 PM JST - 25th June

Sarge -

I stand corrected. Poor Tokyoites....

Still looks like a waste of a lot o'lectrick, though.

Suggestion - ban all private vehicles from the capital, ditto smoke-belching factories, wait a coupla years and you might be able to see the stars!

:-)

Posted in Tanabata at 01:17 PM JST - 25th June
cleo at 10:47 AM JST - 25th June

No, no, no, NO!

Tanabata is about looking at the stars, not about not being able to see them because of the glare from 5,000 LED lights.

Turn the damn lights off, so that Orihime and Hikoboshi can see the Milky Way!

Posted in Tanabata at 10:47 AM JST - 25th June
cleo at 10:40 AM JST - 25th June

spudman -

You think only Japanese can read Japanese? dear o dear.

Yours truely can read Japanese. If I saw the name of a Japanese college scribbled on a World Heritage site, I would probably point it out to someone in charge at the site. I don't think I…

Posted in Japanese student scrawled on world heritage cathedral in Italy at 10:40 AM JST - 25th June
cleo at 10:04 AM JST - 25th June

I understand Mrs Jenkins has an income from her job as a nurse in an old people's home. That, and the small grant I think she gets from the government, is probably enough to keep her and her husband in luxury compared to their life in NK.

Giving Jenkins PR…

Posted in Jenkins applies for permanent residency at 10:04 AM JST - 25th June
cleo at 09:45 AM JST - 25th June

when one of theirs do it, oh, well it's just a name on a little piece of the wall

Where do you get that from, then? It was probably Japanese tourists who spotted the graffiti and reported it to the college. (Who else would know where or how to contact…

Posted in Japanese student scrawled on world heritage cathedral in Italy at 09:45 AM JST - 25th June
cleo at 09:38 AM JST - 25th June

She objects to being photographed going into a conbini, but she's quite happy to pose for the cameras with a dead body draped across her shoulders??

Topsy-turvy values.

Still, the press should leave off the kid.

Posted in Singer Namie Amuro sues women's magazine over photos at 09:38 AM JST - 25th June
cleo at 08:51 PM JST - 23rd June

A dog that big often walks you!

Not if it's properly trained, it don't.

I wouldn't touch an abused tosa with a baguette at ten feet..

The problem being of course that the kind of person who wants a big fierce dog in the first place because it's a big…

Posted in Town official killed by his dog at 08:51 PM JST - 23rd June
cleo at 07:37 PM JST - 23rd June

From the NishiNippon Shimbun - *The dog, a male named Nobunaga weighing 50 kilos, was kept in a steel cage measuring 4.5m x 3.5 m. The cage was in a corner of the grounds of the Naganuma home. Neighbours say the dogs (there were 2, in separate cages) barked a…

Posted in Town official killed by his dog at 07:37 PM JST - 23rd June