Being A Broad appears to be a decent enough magazine. Unfortunately the Weekender is one of the worst examples of 'closed-circle expatriate/ put our main sponsors families in the news all of the time' publications I have ever come across. Does Ms Pover not realise that the vast majority reading…
If you don't understand the importance of this news article today, then don't bother picking little arguments out of it. The Great Hanshin quake unravelled a whole catalogue of construction shortcuts and weaknesses in buildings. I would have thought that public school buildings being used by schoolchildren today should have…
What happened to the Earthquake laws that came into place after the Great Hanshin quake ? I would have thought that public school buildings would be covered by that ?
Hamaguchi is an allright bloke, despite his annoying chanting at the wrestle meets. Brought up in almost poverty by his older brother because of their alcoholic father, he rarely touches alcohol and has raised his own children to be successful champion wrestlers.
Expats in Tokyo seem to believe that Japanese culture has few redeeming qualities.
Let's see now. Hot spring resorts, no petty crime, summer festivals and girls in yukata, the best fireworks in the world, ski resorts an hour and a half out of Tokyo, ice cold beer in the summer,…
So now that Yinling has found the 'Japanese' man of her dreams, does that mean that I'll no longer see her with the rest of us at the Immigration Centre in Shinagawa..?
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong or something, but why are those two young kids standing right behind that crocodile with only the presenter of Reptile Wild there to protect them ? I'm pretty sure a bite from that 'baby' croc would take their fingers off. But maybe I'm just…
northlondon at 04:05 PM JST - 18th June
Being A Broad appears to be a decent enough magazine. Unfortunately the Weekender is one of the worst examples of 'closed-circle expatriate/ put our main sponsors families in the news all of the time' publications I have ever come across. Does Ms Pover not realise that the vast majority reading…
Posted in Waiting for the Weekender at 04:05 PM JST - 18th June
northlondon at 02:41 PM JST - 18th June
If you don't understand the importance of this news article today, then don't bother picking little arguments out of it. The Great Hanshin quake unravelled a whole catalogue of construction shortcuts and weaknesses in buildings. I would have thought that public school buildings being used by schoolchildren today should have…
Posted in Fukuda visits quake-hit area to encourage evacuees at 02:41 PM JST - 18th June
northlondon at 02:21 PM JST - 18th June
Maybe it could go something like' 'velkom to Kalifonia, vere even non-English speakers wiz no klu about politiks can become Koverner'.
Posted in Schwarzenegger to appear in TV ad to promote California in Japan at 02:21 PM JST - 18th June
northlondon at 02:16 PM JST - 18th June
What happened to the Earthquake laws that came into place after the Great Hanshin quake ? I would have thought that public school buildings would be covered by that ?
Posted in Fukuda visits quake-hit area to encourage evacuees at 02:16 PM JST - 18th June
northlondon at 12:42 PM JST - 18th June
Table tennis and oden. Ping pong anyone ?
Posted in at 12:42 PM JST - 18th June
northlondon at 10:54 AM JST - 17th June
Gera, gera, gera !
Hamaguchi is an allright bloke, despite his annoying chanting at the wrestle meets. Brought up in almost poverty by his older brother because of their alcoholic father, he rarely touches alcohol and has raised his own children to be successful champion wrestlers.
Posted in Animal Hamaguchi promotes Coca-Cola's new energy drink at 10:54 AM JST - 17th June
northlondon at 05:01 PM JST - 16th June
Let's see now. Hot spring resorts, no petty crime, summer festivals and girls in yukata, the best fireworks in the world, ski resorts an hour and a half out of Tokyo, ice cold beer in the summer,…
Posted in Stereotypes ’R’ Us at 05:01 PM JST - 16th June
northlondon at 04:57 PM JST - 16th June
Sarge,
I agree and I take it all back. Double-decker buses have never done any harm to me to justify my insult to them.
Posted in Comedian Nahomi Matsushima to marry at 04:57 PM JST - 16th June
northlondon at 04:30 PM JST - 16th June
So now that Yinling has found the 'Japanese' man of her dreams, does that mean that I'll no longer see her with the rest of us at the Immigration Centre in Shinagawa..?
Posted in at 04:30 PM JST - 16th June
northlondon at 02:44 PM JST - 16th June
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong or something, but why are those two young kids standing right behind that crocodile with only the presenter of Reptile Wild there to protect them ? I'm pretty sure a bite from that 'baby' croc would take their fingers off. But maybe I'm just…
Posted in at 02:44 PM JST - 16th June