cleo said...

cleo at 12:43 PM JST - 9th November

When leaving Japan with your dual-citizen child, do you need both passports? Or will just the foreign passport suffice?

I've always been under the impression that the foreign nationality is ignored and the child is expected to leave and enter Japan on his Japanese passport. Though I suppose if an…

Posted in Czech man takes son out of Japan in suspected child abduction at 12:43 PM JST - 9th November
cleo at 09:29 AM JST - 9th November

For the US Military Air Bases like Kadena, the quiet hours are from 10:00pm to 6:00am, no flying. If there is to be a flight, the US has to pay a $10,000 fine. Only emergency or previously coordinated fights are allowed during these times, even then, the US pays the…

Posted in Locals protest Futenma transfer within Okinawa at 09:29 AM JST - 9th November
cleo at 03:57 PM JST - 8th November

I just have to applaud this guy for his actions. About time japan was on the receiving end.

Japan isn't 'on the receiving end' of anything. A 5-year-old boy is 'on the receiving end'.

Posted in Czech man takes son out of Japan in suspected child abduction at 03:57 PM JST - 8th November
cleo at 11:23 AM JST - 8th November

I hate to admit it, but kwatt is likely right : "International" marriages in Japan just don't work in the long run

Lemmee see, 30 years next April and counting, two kids grown and doing well.... gosh, I hope we work out in the long run.

Whatever the pros and…

Posted in Czech man takes son out of Japan in suspected child abduction at 11:23 AM JST - 8th November
cleo at 11:15 AM JST - 8th November

Call my daughter or son-in-law.

Posted in If you saw someone you thought was murder suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi on the street, in a restaurant or on a train, for example, realistically speaking, what would you do? at 11:15 AM JST - 8th November
cleo at 12:17 AM JST - 8th November

They mentioned on the news this evening that her father identified her. That poor man will be having nightmares for the rest of his life.

Absolutely horrendous.

Posted in Woman's head found on Hiroshima mountain that of missing student at 12:17 AM JST - 8th November
cleo at 10:53 AM JST - 7th November

They will be over thrown though.

Wrong tense, bobba. They lost the last election.

You're right about the dinosaurs, though.

Posted in LDP drops plan to ban 'hereditary' candidates for open recruitment at 10:53 AM JST - 7th November
cleo at 10:27 AM JST - 6th November

The only gals I see in my neck of the woods wearing kimonos are at least sixty years old. Where do these kimono wearing model types hang out?

Wait till New Year, there'll be a good number strolling round the big shrines and temples. (Not as many as in past…

Posted in Embracing the Japanese aesthetic at 10:27 AM JST - 6th November
cleo at 10:19 AM JST - 6th November

Cosmetic surgery isn't covered by the national health insurance, so he wouldn't need to produce a hokensho.

The police should issue versions of the photo with glasses, facial hair, different hairstyles etc.

Imagine paying out all that money and ending up looking like that.....(and apparently not being able to afford…

Posted in Police release photo of Ichihashi's new look at 10:19 AM JST - 6th November
cleo at 04:21 PM JST - 5th November

Cosmetic surgery isn't necessarily all that expensive these days. This morning on the telly they showed what a certain well-known clinic that advertises extensively on the box said they could to to Ishihashi for just a couple of hundred thousand yen.

Granted they didn't have much to start with, but…

Posted in Ichihashi also tried to get cosmetic surgery in Fukuoka at 04:21 PM JST - 5th November