imacat said...

imacat at 12:57 AM JST - 6th May

I for one would love to see a high-speed national network of trains criss-crossing the USA (and I'm not even an American). It would put the fun and romance back into travel around the states. Imagine those fantastic trains sweeping majestically through all America's amazing landscapes. Who gives a damn…

Posted in U.S. transportation secretary eager to test ride Japan's bullet train at 12:57 AM JST - 6th May
imacat at 12:53 AM JST - 6th May

In any case in Japan where the presumed victims start claiming "foreign accents" or "blonde haired assailants" etc, then it's time to start looking closely at the victims themselves... there's a fair chance that they are actually the perpetrators of the crime.

Posted in More details emerge in Aichi double murder, including cat's death, mysterious assailant at 12:53 AM JST - 6th May
imacat at 11:41 PM JST - 25th April

I'm glad to know it's not just us Brits who get arrested and pilloried on TV for naked public frolicking in Tokyo.

Posted in SMAP's Kusanagi apologizes to fans at press conference; admits drinking problem at 11:41 PM JST - 25th April
imacat at 02:32 PM JST - 20th April

I'll never become a Mac user because I'd hate to turn into the kind of person who posts about how much better Mac is than Windows... in the end they're all just boring old computers!

Posted in Behind the scenes with Windows 7 at 02:32 PM JST - 20th April
imacat at 06:45 PM JST - 14th April

If we all lived on three sho of rice a day then none of this would matter.

Posted in Supermarket investigator exposes slipshod quality management at 06:45 PM JST - 14th April
imacat at 01:00 AM JST - 14th April

I think Saudi Arabia's attitude towards Christianity is absolutely shocking in its intolerance.

As I understand it, Christianity is effectively banned in Saudi Arabia. What's that all about?!

But on the other hand Saudi Arabia feels it is quite entitled to fund the building of mosques and other religious centers…

Posted in Can Islam and the Western world coexist peacefully? at 01:00 AM JST - 14th April
imacat at 08:31 PM JST - 13th April

Imacat, you should have ordered it special. Never eat the stuff off the conveyor belt. Too old and dry or made to look fresh with a recycling. Whale blubber is great. And bacon is fabulous.

Other items from the conveyor belt were fine. It was just the whale meat was…

Posted in Japan's whale catch falls below target due to Sea Shepherd protest at 08:31 PM JST - 13th April
imacat at 05:09 PM JST - 13th April

I went to a large kaiten-zushi place last night (part of a big chain) and they had some whale sushi plates going round on the conveyor belt and, as far as I could make out, they just kept going round all evening. No seemed to want to touch them.

In…

Posted in Japan's whale catch falls below target due to Sea Shepherd protest at 05:09 PM JST - 13th April
imacat at 02:10 PM JST - 9th April

He gave himself up a bit quickly, didn't he? If people behaved like this in dramas they'd be over before the first commercial break. He could at least have tried to plant the sleeping powder in another students bag... maybe in the bag of the kenkyuushitsu geek who nobody likes.

Posted in Kyoto Univ Hospital doctor arrested for lacing student's tea with sleeping powder at 02:10 PM JST - 9th April
imacat at 10:40 AM JST - 9th April

Koizumi has made some good points and a good example from Magpie.

However, I do think for some or many of these middle class one-kid families money is in fact a big issue. Their finances are precariously balanced with just one kid so they feel another kid will send things…

Posted in Support for 'freeters' needed to halt Japan's declining birthrate at 10:40 AM JST - 9th April