timorborder said...

timorborder at 03:41 PM JST - 26th May

Got a friend whose father used to coordinate Search & Rescue operations in Australian waters. This guy hates such "adventurers" because looking for them wastes important resources.

Posted in Man rescued as trans-Pacific solo rowboat trip fails again at 03:41 PM JST - 26th May
timorborder at 03:36 PM JST - 26th May

There is only one Everest team, however, that really matters: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay. Just out of interest, I would like to know what Miura has done for the locals over the years, probably somewhat less than Sir Ed...

Posted in Miura scales Everest at 75, but cedes oldest record to Nepali at 03:36 PM JST - 26th May
timorborder at 03:34 PM JST - 26th May

Seems that nobody picked up on my suggestion of list of Japanese TV announcers who have topped themselves. I am sure this is not the first one....

Posted in TV announcer Ako Kawada found dead in car in apparent suicide at 03:34 PM JST - 26th May
timorborder at 03:32 PM JST - 26th May

Good decision here. Over the years, the right wing (gansters and nationalists) have sought to intimidate those whose ideas differ from their own delusional beliefs. I can think of the shooting of at least one mayor (Nagasaki?) back in the early '90s who had the guts to place blame for…

Posted in Gangster sentenced to death for killing Nagasaki mayor at 03:32 PM JST - 26th May
timorborder at 01:08 PM JST - 26th May

Scraping the bottom of the barrel, aren't we?

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timorborder at 01:06 PM JST - 26th May

Something in the back of my mind tells me that she isnt the first announcer to take her own life. Anybody remember other examples?

Posted in TV announcer Ako Kawada found dead in car in apparent suicide at 01:06 PM JST - 26th May
timorborder at 11:17 AM JST - 26th May

Now if the Scots could just learn to speak the Queen's English instead of sounding like Jim McTaggart, there would be real progress :)

Posted in Nakamura factor sparks Japanese language interest in Scotland at 11:17 AM JST - 26th May
timorborder at 11:15 AM JST - 26th May

Two doors down! I remember when this case broke last month, this guy was all over the different TV news programs playing the part of the "concerned neighbor." I also remember the police taking a number of days to check all the different rooms in the apartment complex, despite there…

Posted in Man held for trespassing confesses to killing missing woman, chopping up body at 11:15 AM JST - 26th May
timorborder at 11:05 AM JST - 26th May

Reminds of how Sundays used to be in Harajuku (10 or 15 years ago). You had the rockabilities, heavy metal, and other music genres playing wall to wall.

Posted in Yoyogi at 11:05 AM JST - 26th May
timorborder at 02:55 PM JST - 23rd May

Thanks for that Cleo. I think you are right. I think the location was Shibuya, somewhere along Dogenzaka. Although Go Hiromi didn't get arrested, I think the company that organized it got a verbal tongue-lashing from the guys in blue. Isn't it amazing what these "has beens" will do for…

Posted in Singer Hideki Saijo's impromptu event in Shibuya broken up by police at 02:55 PM JST - 23rd May