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stipend at 11:02 PM JST - 20th February

I've seen hemp fabrics in the past and I have been impressed. It's lightweight bouncy and indestructible. The US producer I got it from it in some really fantastic colours. At the time I think that was the hard part getting the colour in. Watch the cotton industry tho, they…

Posted in Hokkaido city grows hemp to promote economic development at 11:02 PM JST - 20th February
stipend at 10:40 PM JST - 20th February

all this negative energy from Japan is dragging down the rest of the world

Really? It doesn't take an economist, man. Just check the business pages. Toyota, Panasonic, Sony, Nippon Steel shutting blast furnaces etc. That's reality. There is more ahead and a lot has yet to filter down. 60%…

Posted in Japan stocks fall to near 4-month low at 10:40 PM JST - 20th February
stipend at 03:14 PM JST - 20th February

Everyone is familiar with riding here and that's excellent. When I'm going somewhere and I find myself having to leap frogging buses there's never a problem. Cars, people, bikes, it all works and there is a particular flow it. And it's different here than from other places.

I cringe most…

Posted in Bicycle use grows in popularity amid recession at 03:14 PM JST - 20th February
stipend at 03:55 PM JST - 19th February

Impounding bicycles if I remember correct was pushed by the Japan Bicycle Association in Sakai and they started with Osaka. The idea was to recycle the "abandoned" bikes left a stations which were getting out of hand. Probably that's what they did in the beginning until people started showing interest…

Posted in Bicycle use grows in popularity amid recession at 03:55 PM JST - 19th February
stipend at 01:27 AM JST - 18th February

As a kid has anyone had the pleasure of rolling large stones off of high cliffs and watching them fall? Nakagawa's performance today was just like that. There is some perverse pleasure in seeing big rocks fall.

Sometimes a rock will get momentum and even before it reaches the edge…

Posted in Japan stocks fall to near 4-month low at 01:27 AM JST - 18th February
stipend at 11:48 PM JST - 15th February

Quick, quick, give me the money while I can still trade it for a shiny 1/10oz gold coin maybe a cup of coffee and a paper. Until then, and after, I don't care.

Posted in Aso's cash handout plan on the line after Koizumi's remarks at 11:48 PM JST - 15th February
stipend at 02:28 AM JST - 14th February

they should wire his eyelids up to a generator at the moment he finds out he lost. he could power tokyo for days

Gee I'm glad I don't live in Tokyo that I'd have to see him on tv every day :-)

Posted in Tokyo aiming to woo 2016 Olympics with vow to use 'green energy' at 02:28 AM JST - 14th February
stipend at 02:15 AM JST - 14th February

Costly, very costly...

Right, Vancouver citizens alone are on the hook for the $800m athletes' village. But it should be a great games!

Ahh.. Lotus Land.. 6 shootings in the past 7 days this week. Seems some can't wait for the official celebrations.

And don't get yourself lost at that…

Posted in 1-year countdown to Vancouver Games begins in Tokyo at 02:15 AM JST - 14th February
stipend at 01:45 PM JST - 11th February

Concrete and steel will do it

Ando Tadao will be the man of the hour.

-but I wonder what they'll think of him in 200 years.. not much is my bet.

Posted in Law to promote 200-year housing to go into effect June 4 at 01:45 PM JST - 11th February
stipend at 01:08 AM JST - 10th February

Very sad. I've been there in winter and have done just that, walked home after midnight. Anyone there on the street at that hour is an easy target. UB is a Soviet era city which at 2am means just vast desolate streets and sprawling buildings. My friend and I had…

Posted in Japanese woman found dead on street in Mongolian capital Ulan Bator at 01:08 AM JST - 10th February