mojibake said...

mojibake at 11:22 AM JST - 2nd January

The solution is obvious: immigration inspectors need to take each foreigner by the hand and check carefully for tape on the fingers!

Posted in Deported S Korean woman fools fingerprinting system at airport at 11:22 AM JST - 2nd January
mojibake at 11:19 AM JST - 2nd January

See, this is why seals can get residency permits while the rest of us have a harder time. How many of you can do kanji by mouth??

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mojibake at 09:32 AM JST - 17th December

FIA got what they've wanted all these years. Instead of a World Rally Championship, it's a EuroCar Rally Championship!

Next year I hear they're going to require all entrants run on diesel.

Posted in Subaru pulls out of World Rally Championship at 09:32 AM JST - 17th December
mojibake at 09:30 AM JST - 17th December

"aroids and carrots"? What the heck is an aroid?

Posted in Box-lunch day becoming popular at schools at 09:30 AM JST - 17th December
mojibake at 10:24 AM JST - 16th December

Get a sex change and become a woman, because that's what you'll have to do if you're a guy and interested in taking cooking classes in Japan. Oh, except for the "men over 60 and learning to bake bread" they once tried to sell me on. Give me a break.

Posted in What is the best way to get good at cooking? at 10:24 AM JST - 16th December
mojibake at 01:20 PM JST - 8th December

Man, that's too bad.

Posted in Man stabs girlfriend over break-up; survives jump off hotel roof at 01:20 PM JST - 8th December
mojibake at 09:23 AM JST - 5th December

Kudos to the NZ rescue squad for working around the weather. Instructions even included in Japanese? Wow.

Posted in 1 Japanese climber rescued from NZ mountain; 2nd one dies at 09:23 AM JST - 5th December
mojibake at 05:12 PM JST - 4th December

I dunno, rather than disparaging the older lady who's working at McD's, we should be praising her. Because unlike the throbbing masses of other seniors who feel it is their unalienable right to enjoy their golden years without consideration for future generations, she's actually contributing economically. And even McD's deserves…

Posted in Senior citizens being wooed back into workforce at 05:12 PM JST - 4th December
mojibake at 03:27 PM JST - 3rd December

Oh snap! Guess who makes Ebisu beer?

Posted in Sapporo to offer tasting of space beer at 03:27 PM JST - 3rd December
mojibake at 01:59 PM JST - 27th November

"2004 Swedish study which found that there was a 240% higher likelihood of acoustic neuroma ... on the side of the head where they would hold their phone cell—thus indicating a direct link between cell phones and certain types of brain cancers"

That doesn't sound like a "direct link"…

Posted in Cell phones and cancer: What's the link? at 01:59 PM JST - 27th November