telecasterplayer said...

telecasterplayer at 01:59 PM JST - 21st May

to be called "Tokyu Fingers"

Posted in Tokyu Hands to open 20 smaller outlets over 3 years at 01:59 PM JST - 21st May
telecasterplayer at 11:45 PM JST - 18th May

GrouchyGaijin,

Pyromaniacal fires?

Quite a few seem to always involve older houses.. ones that could be torn down and replaced with a larger modern unit that would be more profitable and easier to sell. This subset way too often involves the deaths of elderly people.

Posted in 3 die in house fire in Chiba at 11:45 PM JST - 18th May
telecasterplayer at 11:29 PM JST - 18th May

That bomb was buried very close to some train tracks.. so it didn't explode when it was dropped, and it didn't explode over they years and years and years it was rattled by thousands of passing trains. Maybe it's stuffed with 1-ton of leaflets?

Posted in 16,000 evacuated as WWII dud bomb disposed of in western Tokyo at 11:29 PM JST - 18th May
telecasterplayer at 01:15 AM JST - 18th May

makes you wonder what constitutes a "credible" threat.. scrawled in purple crayon in katakana? how about hold the festival and if some dipstick shows up, all of the dads get up and kick the living crap out of him?

seriously! the teenage twerp who ran amock in shinagawa slashing at…

Posted in Fukui school cancels sports festival after threat against children at 01:15 AM JST - 18th May
telecasterplayer at 01:08 AM JST - 18th May

Ex-Morning Musume member Ai Kago regrets cutting wrists

you're not going to find a lot of people who say, "best thing I've ever done!"

Posted in Ex-Morning Musume member Ai Kago regrets cutting wrists at 01:08 AM JST - 18th May
telecasterplayer at 01:23 PM JST - 16th May

Accident my ***. I'm guessing we'll be hearing about a confession in a week.

Posted in 2-yr-old boy who survived 9th floor fall in March dies after choking himself with backpack strap at 01:23 PM JST - 16th May
telecasterplayer at 01:26 PM JST - 15th May

Middle-Aged Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Posted in Cyndi Lauper sings at Shin Maru Building in Tokyo at 01:26 PM JST - 15th May
telecasterplayer at 01:16 PM JST - 15th May

Her father sure makes a great poster than 99% of the people don't fully understand.

Posted in Che Guevara's daughter offers flowers at A-bomb monument in Hiroshima at 01:16 PM JST - 15th May
telecasterplayer at 09:56 AM JST - 15th May

slightly below the 26.4% of NTV’s new drama “Gokusen” which started on April 19.

Let me guess: Yankumi goes to ANOTHER high school populated by brooding young males from Johnny's talent agency, gets them through the term and eats Kuma's noodles. Interpret that last one any way you want, the…

Posted in Drama with Kimutaku as PM trails 'Gokusen' in ratings battle at 09:56 AM JST - 15th May
telecasterplayer at 08:14 AM JST - 15th May

He DID win the election, good for him. I remember stories about Bianchi's candidacy but never saw a follow-up. Inuyama is a neat little town, too, right in between Gifu and Nagoya. GREAT original castle, if you're close-by and have the time to visit.

Posted in New Yorker, now councilman in Japan, aims to inspire American high schoolers at 08:14 AM JST - 15th May