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shugotokumaru at 07:46 PM JST - 4th July

What a weak Chad Vader rip-off.

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shugotokumaru at 09:00 AM JST - 3rd July

Usually, Japan's so-called "measures against global warming" are harmlessly ineffective and largely symbolic, but this one scares me. It threatens to actually interfere with people's lives, while still maintaining the gold standard of not making any real difference.

Posted in Japan divided over 24-hour convenience store operations at 09:00 AM JST - 3rd July
shugotokumaru at 08:31 AM JST - 2nd July

What an absolutely stupid concept cheerleading is.

Posted in Cheerleader revs up boring business offices at 08:31 AM JST - 2nd July
shugotokumaru at 05:15 PM JST - 1st July

I would live at a murder scene if it were cheap. If humans avoided ever living where someone had died, we'd run out of space pretty quickly. Plus, if they really do decide to haunt me, I might learn something interesting. Hell, I might learn some new Japanese.

Posted in What happens to apartments where murders occur? at 05:15 PM JST - 1st July
shugotokumaru at 11:01 AM JST - 1st July

You fill out a registration form available most anywhere tobacco is sold, including on the fronts of a lot of vending machines. Of course, there is a verification of age performed somewhere along the way.

Posted in 'Taspo' tobacco card introduced nationwide at 11:01 AM JST - 1st July
shugotokumaru at 09:40 AM JST - 1st July

I imagine the artist/vandal who did this couldn't be happier that they actually delayed the train because of the graffiti. If they had just run the train and painted it over when they had a chance, only people in the stations where it stopped would have known, but now here…

Posted in English graffiti 'Hack' grounds bullet train at 09:40 AM JST - 1st July
shugotokumaru at 03:36 PM JST - 30th June

Lamentably, Igawa is bad at baseball.

Posted in Yankees option Igawa, hopeful of swift recovery for Matsui at 03:36 PM JST - 30th June
shugotokumaru at 12:39 PM JST - 30th June

I have had food with soy sauce and eaten with chopsticks at Chinese restaurants everywhere.

I wonder, then, when Japan graciously introduced those items to China...

Posted in No soy sauce! Japanese athletes forced to adapt to Olympic menus at 12:39 PM JST - 30th June
shugotokumaru at 09:35 AM JST - 30th June

I don't know about all of the above, but I think I speak for hairy-backed men all over Japan when I say I really want to see Kotooshu as a Yokozuna.

Posted in Ozeki Kotooshu gunning for promotion at Nagoya meet at 09:35 AM JST - 30th June
shugotokumaru at 08:44 AM JST - 27th June

But what an apt title for a J-pop album: "Vanilla"

Posted in Leah Dizon hands out ice cream, new CD to fans at 08:44 AM JST - 27th June