wanderlust said...

wanderlust at 09:36 AM JST - 19th October

Great drive from Button, and support from the team. Honda must be really regretting letting the team go...

Posted in Button clinches Formula 1 title in Brazil at 09:36 AM JST - 19th October
wanderlust at 03:58 PM JST - 12th October

So the long-awaited "Toyobaru" will hit the streets. As a former owner of an AE-86 and a Leone Turbo, and a current "Scoobie" driver, I hope the 'boxer engine' will put some spark into the maker of some of the most boring cars in the world.

Posted in Toyota to show green sportscar with Subaru engine at 03:58 PM JST - 12th October
wanderlust at 12:13 PM JST - 12th October

Can't people read here?

The Institute was owned by a lawyer, not for lawyers....

Posted in 4-year-old boy dies after being bitten by 2 dogs at 12:13 PM JST - 12th October
wanderlust at 11:01 PM JST - 24th September

martyman .... You have to wonder in this accident if the use of seat belts may have effected the outcome of the children living or dying.

When you look at the picture of the car on the Japanese site, and see the guardrail protruding out of the back of the…

Posted in Two children die after car crashes into guardrail in Okayama at 11:01 PM JST - 24th September
wanderlust at 09:08 PM JST - 24th September

There were a series of cases a few years ago of cyclists losing their legs from impact with badly-designed guard rails. Many (but not all?) of them were then modified to have soft bumpers.

buddhismtech - the highway guardrail was erected too close to the road. Must be something…

Posted in Two children die after car crashes into guardrail in Okayama at 09:08 PM JST - 24th September
wanderlust at 07:09 PM JST - 16th September

Someone in Marketing/ PR at Hitachi deserves a b0mb under the chair for letting that slip!

Posted in Haneda airport tests new bomb detector at 07:09 PM JST - 16th September
wanderlust at 07:01 PM JST - 16th September

Their love handles and stomach stick out more than anything else on their bodies

Wow two, you can tell all of that from the tiny 2-dimensional picture posted on on this thread...

Posted in Michibata sisters to spice up Bistro SMAP at 07:01 PM JST - 16th September
wanderlust at 03:21 PM JST - 15th September

Osaka government tried the same tactic 12 years ago with a foreign drug company research centre, claimed that they had polluted the land. Turned out it was the Imperial Japanese Army, forerunner of the JSDF, with identical arsenic, lead and other pollutants described here...

Posted in DPJ wants U.S. forces to clean up pollution at 03:21 PM JST - 15th September
wanderlust at 01:26 PM JST - 15th September

Reminds me of the line in 'Max Headroom' when they ask what serious crime the condemned prisoner is to be executed for? Murder? Rape? Arson?

Credit card fraud!

Such are the times we now live in....

Posted in Ex-consultancy head given 15 years for defrauding Lehman Brothers at 01:26 PM JST - 15th September
wanderlust at 01:15 PM JST - 15th September

Yes, it is the basis of team Medical Dragon.

It's a procedure only performed in Japan nowadays, because of the restrictions with heart transplant laws, and in Brazil for socio-economic reasons. Due to the actual surgical method involved, it can cause a number of post-operative complications which can lead to…

Posted in Yu Yamada slips into nurse uniform for 'Team Batista' at 01:15 PM JST - 15th September